The TimidGuy case, aye, there's the rub Options

[Herschelkrustofsky]

TimidGuy is appealing his ban, which was executed by Jimbo in a GodKingly fashion at the request of Will Beback, who sent Jimbo a private email in which he alleged that TG was a paid advocate for the Transcendental Meditators. This situation raises numerous questions.

1. TG and WB have been going at if for a while as WP:ADVOCATES on opposing sides of the Transcendental Meditation issue. For argument's sake, let's assume that Will's allegations are correct, and TG is a paid advocate for TM. Does that make his editing more disruptive than that of Will, acting as an unpaid advocate against TM? Will's fanaticism on the topic is well known, and that fact that he is presumably doing it without compensation makes him possibly the more disruptive of the two, because he is so consumed with zeal to expose and discredit the meditators (misusing Wikipedia as a soapbox for that purpose), that he does it for free.

2. If Will has in fact acquired private information about TG's pay stubs and what not, is that not WP:WIKIHOUNDING?

3. How does WP:COI come into play when allegations are made based on evidence that is not in the public domain? Doesn't such an allegation axiomatically violate WP:OUTING?

The Arbs are already neck-deep in conundra over this. It should be interesting to see how it plays out. My personal take on it causes me to ask this: why is Will Beback still allowed to be editor, let alone an admin?

[lilburne]

Yep Admin bit gone. Meanwhile teetering on TM ban, site ban climbing.

This post has been edited by lilburne: Tue 21st February 2012, 6:33pm

[Vigilant]

Yep Admin bit gone. Meanwhile teetering on TM ban, site ban climbing.

It's so funny how Catholic-esque(medieval) wikipedia is.
The self flagellation, the kissing of the ring, the confession, the scourging, etc.

WP:ANI is the starting point and the I stands for Inquisition rather than Incidents.
WP:AnotherNastyInquisition

The choir boys are sent home from confessional with 10 Hail Marys, the "currently-out-of-favor" are excommunicated and flogged while the "not-of-the-body" are crucified.

The whole thing is The Children's Crusade done online.

[EricBarbour]

It's so funny how Catholic-esque(medieval) wikipedia is.
The self flagellation, the kissing of the ring, the confession, the scourging, etc.

And all of it long after the actual sins were committed.....
the hellstorm happens, and Arbcom sits on their hands, until years later.

3) The community is encouraged to open a Request for comment on the "Conflicts of Interest" guideline with a view to reconciling some of the apparent contradictions discussed in the applicable finding of fact above.

Oh yeah, that's a great idea.

He would, of course, be welcomed here as a member.

Of course, although I think the likelihood of that happening is on a par with the chances of the sun exploding in the next 5 minutes.

He is, unquestionably, one of Wikipedia's most intractable, evil content-controllers. His history needs to be preserved so others can see what being a manipulative, obsessed maniac actually accomplishes.

Now I have to go and update his wiki article.

(You folks do realize he's just going to go back to the same old thing, pwning the same articles, once this blows over?
He's still fucking around on the Lyndon LaRouche talkpage. He needs to be locked up, not "topic-banned".)

This post has been edited by EricBarbour: Tue 21st February 2012, 10:06pm