A SlimVirgin Close Encounter, ...of the first kind Options

[guy]

Indeed. Anyone noticed the relative low contribution level of SlimVirgin?

I had written it off to Yom Kippur.

That would cause a 25 hour break from sunset on Sunday to nightfall on Monday.

[EuroSceptic]

She's back

[Somey]

Apparently Bhouston is still at it, too! Here, SlimVirgin erases a note left by him on her talk page, saying he's going to report her and JayJG for "tag-teaming" to get around the 3RR rule:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&oldid=79337036

But JayJG, ever the gentleman, actually responds:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&oldid=78521813

So anyway... Apparently, a few weeks ago she "forked" her NAS article off into "New anti-Semitism (term)," probably just to increase everyone's confusion and frustration levels, and so that she could do more consecutive reverting without JayJG's assistance (i.e., with two articles, you can do six reverts, not just three - simple economics, really). So, when Bhouston started to give her some static about it, suggesting that the two articles be merged, she moved the discussion over to the new article's talk page, where presumably fewer people will see it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...&oldid=79317327

But it didn't work, because Bhouston (how is it he hasn't been banned yet?) decided not to give up. Anyway, it's now over here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:New_anti...tism_%28term%29

[The Adversary]

I think you are a bit mistaken here? It was Bhouston that started the New anti-Semitism (term) article, and Slim who called it a POV fork.

[EuroSceptic]

SlimVirgin is now dismantling it as planned.

[Somey]

I think you are a bit mistaken here? It was Bhouston that started the New anti-Semitism (term) article, and Slim who called it a POV fork.

Oops, you're right. Sorry, I totally missed that... Damned confusing, these edit wars!

It makes more sense now, actually. IMO that wasn't an especially smart thing for Bhouston to do, unless he just wanted to draw more attention to the whole situation... It's not like Slimmy was ever going to let him actually have his own article on that subject, and if it's merged into "History of anti-Semitism," she'll just gain further ownership control over that too.

Whole thing's starting to look a bit silly, isn't it?

[IronDuke]

Finally, her poodle looks very sad to have ended up with such a mean owner.

Nah, that's because she won't feed it meat. A less pathetic dog would rip out her throat in her sleep.

[Somey]

Nah, that's because she won't feed it meat. A less pathetic dog would rip out her throat in her sleep.

Come on, now - that's just mean! To the dog, that is.

[Selina]

lolol vegetarian dog... how sad.

[TabulaRasa]

Everybody see the changes she's making to the blocking policy?

This looks like the Wikipedia equivalent of one country amassing troops on its neighbor's borders. I'd warn any active WP editors here to get their defenses in place.

[Somey]

Pardon me for suggesting this, but why are they even bothering? This is delusional thinking at it's most obvious. Presumably they know that the law (of what country?) doesn't protect their anonymity. Conventional morality isn't on their side either, given that they're basically providing a huge, open platform for anyone to offend and libel real, non-anonymous people without consequence for doing it. So what do they have left? Blocks? What are blocks on some anonymous interweb site going to do against this level of unwanted personal exposure?

It's the online equivalent to sticking pins in a voodoo doll!

And to think that in this case, at least, they could probably end the whole thing, right now, by simply deleting a few completely marginal articles and putting one or two humane and society-friendly policies in place. Think of how much nicer things would be over there if they did that... But noooo, anyone who complains about what they do, or criticizes them, or questions their motives, must by necessity be an "evil troll" who wants to "destroy the project."

We're trying to help the stupid project, actually. We're trying to save it from the reactionary idiots who run it.

[Daniel Brandt]

My domains came off the Wikipedia spam blacklist yesterday, for the first time in months. That's because I'm no longer redirecting to wikipediareview.com. One interesting side effect of this is that immediately I started seeing referrals in my logs from Wikipedia Talk pages that were linking to specific searches within my IRC logs. You can construct a search to show how nasty certain Wikipedians are toward other Wikipedians on IRC chat, and paste the URL of that search right into a Talk page. Very effective, and you're not even "publishing" IRC logs.

How long will it take SlimVirgin to add yet another paragraph to that block-policy page? If that happens, you can probably find the same IRC chat pages on Google by now, so SlimVirgin should be sure to make it clear in her next blocking-policy paragraph that Google is off-limits too.

No real-world intrusions. No IRC logs. No Google. No Yahoo. No MSN. No nothing. Only SlimVirgin and her poodle, building their own private view of the world.

[Herschelkrustofsky]

I'd suggest that she simply saw the anti-LaRouche POV as a means of winning allies among other agents of the Wikimedia Foundation, especially these two guys Chip Berlet and Adam Carr, both of whom are tenacious arguers if nothing else.

I am taking another look now, based on new evidence, at the possibility that LaRouche's friendship with Salinger made LaRouche a particular target for SV. That doesn't rule out any number of complementary co-factors.

BTW, I am reading a short novel by John le Carré entitled Call for the Dead, in which two of the characters are Adam Scarr and The Virgin. That's a bit unheimlich.

[TabulaRasa]

I'm completely captivated by the discussion around what Slim is plotting right now, but don't want it to derail the original thread relating to her identity in light of Patrick Byrne's new revelations.

Can we move the Slim prediction thread here?

[Herschelkrustofsky]

Ultimately, the people who took that idealized guy away, the terrorists, the Arabs, the haters of Jews, the murderers, became the target of her vendetta, the enemy, those who had to be punished at all costs for what they had done. In the early years, she had the energy to pursue them, to actively and aggressively fight them, both in the media and in academic circles, where she had friends and supporters to help her.

I think that this theory needs to be updated to reflect the latest revelations from Mr. Cooley. It appears that Linda was less interested in uncovering the identity of the Lockerbie bombers than she was in "spinning" the investigation in the direction desired by her handlers.

I think that this reflects also on the debate that erupts now and again about whether SV is pro-Jewish, anti-Jewish, and so forth. I think that she is basically indifferent to Judaism per se, but highly interested in controlling the ground rules for any discussion.

[Selina]

My domains came off the Wikipedia spam blacklist yesterday, for the first time in months. That's because I'm no longer redirecting to wikipediareview.com. One interesting side effect of this is that immediately I started seeing referrals in my logs from Wikipedia Talk pages that were linking to specific searches within my IRC logs. You can construct a search to show how nasty certain Wikipedians are toward other Wikipedians on IRC chat, and paste the URL of that search right into a Talk page. Very effective, and you're not even "publishing" IRC logs.

How long will it take SlimVirgin to add yet another paragraph to that block-policy page? If that happens, you can probably find the same IRC chat pages on Google by now, so SlimVirgin should be sure to make it clear in her next blocking-policy paragraph that Google is off-limits too.

No real-world intrusions. No IRC logs. No Google. No Yahoo. No MSN. No nothing. Only SlimVirgin and her poodle, building their own private view of the world.

I really wish you could find a way to start recording all that stuff again, it'd do a whole world of good..

[AV Roe]

It looks like another RFArbcomm complaint against Slimmy has been summarily dispatched.

[EuroSceptic]

Of course, she gets full protection as the uncrowned Queen of Wikipedia

[Revision]

I don't mean to stir up more controversy with Slimvirgin, but has anyone considered they're chasing the wrong tail?

Those in the Intelligence community are well known to have different names, especially while in operation. The names floating around that are being attributed to Slimvirgin may not be her real name. They're well known to put up front biographies that will pass any scrutiny (especially by even news organizations -- it took CNN's Anderson Cooper to admit he interned for the CIA in college, for example).

No one knows her before her Cambridge days. That the sleuthing stopped there, and SV is operating as usual, is a very good sign whatever her name that was "outted" now, is no concern for her -- it's a dead end.

It's when they become unhinged is when you know you actually got your man/woman (remember the early fallout days of the Cambridge Five? The tipoff was when Phiby and Burgess flew the coop?).

I also wonder why folks claim it's MI5 (FBI), when it sounds more like MI6 (CIA)? It's the MI6 guys that does the foreign intelligence, where the MI5 does the domestic scoops. And the MI6 recruits the weirdos.

[Jonny Cache]

And the MI6 recruits the weirdos.

Darn you !!! Now they'll just go and add "being called a weirdo" to their list of e-vocational hazards.

Jonny