Subject: [arbcom-l] Fwd: Wikipedia e-mail: Follow up (A Nobody/Jack Merridew)
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From: Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 04:54
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I've received a series of e-mails from User:A Nobody concerning Jack Merridew, alleging wikistalking/hounding/harassment despite JM's probationary (or whatever it is) status. I've urged A Nobody to practice avoidance but he says the problem is continuing. As I'll have minimal activity for another week or so could someone please look into this and address as appropriate, as a priority item. I think FloNight had previously looked at some related issues so the volunteering arb might want to get her views.

Newyorkbrad

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From: A Nobody <wikipedianobody@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:34 AM
Subject: Wikipedia e-mail: Follow up
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Dear Brad,

He is not really letting up and even getting involved in the non-fictional stuff too.

1a. I template an article for rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334814344
1b. Jack then says to delete it: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334817042

2a. An editor asks a question citing a diff of one of my edits: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334689549
2b. Jack replies: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334827008

You would think after even when arbcom lifted the mentorship NewYorkBrad saying he should not give the appearance of following anyone around he wouldn't keep showing up in discussions like the above, but he does and the more he can get away with it, the more emboldened he becomes. And seriously now, "crap magnet" is a helpful contribution in a discussion?

It is now going beyond fiction articles so that he can't make the excuse of it just being similar areas of interest.

1a. I mention suspicions of sockpuppetry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334438085 and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334456320
1b. He shows up in the SPI: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334584667

2a. I argue three times to keep an article in two discussions: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=315739784 and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=322815432
2b. His SOLE AfD "contribution" for the day is to say to delete it in the fourth discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334591035
Aside from watching my edits, its unlikely he would have happened upon these by accident. And the same for the instances of reverting me on the Medal of Honor articles and so on.

As for the fiction ones…

1a. Here‘s when I strongly argued to keep: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=303333404

1b. And yes, he has renominated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...2nd_nomination)

Yes, a concept that gets hits in 44 BOOKS: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&q=FTL+Battlestar

1a. At 20:13 I template an article for rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334593089
1b. At 20:21 Jack says to delete it: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334593372

How much more obvious does he have to be? How much more obvious does he have to be? And yes, this one is also verifiable through published books: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&source...F-8&sa=N&tab=wp

It is really getting out of hand now. I don't know if feels emboldened because arbcom did not ban him from me as several editors suggested on the talk page or what, but he is now going around reverting my edits, insulting me, and once again showing up in merge and AfDs after me in an antagonistic fashion:

Please, please this has to stop already.

1. Reverts me: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=333831407
2. Reverts me: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=333831423
3. Comments after me in a discussion with an opposing argument and mockingly uses my "Sincerely,": http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=333831627
4. Show up in an AfD for this article that I have been working on for quite some time with a [[WP:ITSCRUFT]] "argument" while using an ad hominen declaration of me as "disruptive": http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=333832209
5a. I reported this on ANI (Ikip archived it) and Jack kept retitling it despite being reverted and warned by multiple editors: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=333844994
5b. A second warning and revert: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=333852277
6. Again edits after me: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334001724
7. Again reverts me: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334001987
8. Hounds Casliber in the AfD with another [[WP:ITSCRUFT]] style of non-argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334018162
9. Again reverts me: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334019452
10. Replies directly to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334023121
11. More antagonistic wording with "fanish wankage," "shite," etc.: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334044866
12a. As you can see at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=333597638 and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=333598427 I have made a bunch of expansions to these Mercenary character articles as well. He has now started editing these pages and commenting in their AfDs too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=333833992
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334063313
12b. "Usual suspects"?! http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334061843
13. Another WP:ITSCRUFT followed by calling people liars: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334063119
14. And on top of all of that, he is now bent on having all images from Medal of Honor and Mercenaries deleted, including some edit warring with Richard Arthur Norton: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=...&year=&month=-1
15. And needlessly antagonistic edit summaries: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=334053625

The past week, the bulk of his edits have consisted of attacking specific articles I have been working on with bad faith accusations, baiting, etc. How on Earth is this still going on?

He has already received a final warning from Fram: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=314696288 ("How about you don't ever comment on A Nobody again or get indefinitely blocked again? With your past, you have absolutely zero authority to suggest that someone else is "extremely disruptive" and "primarily responsible for creating the polarized I/D schism". You have been warned before to stay away from A Nobody. Consider this a last warning.")

And more recently NewYorkBrad said at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=331466151 "I would also emphasize that Jack Merridew should make a concerted effort to avoid unnecessary interaction with other editors with whom he has been in repeated conflict, not only White Cat, and should avoid any actions that could give a reasonable appearance of wikihounding such editors, whether or not that is his intent."

Again, Franamax proposed he avoid me at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_tal...e#Move_to_close and so did Hobit at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_tal...eep_it_simple...

I don't believe I have ever before on Wikipedia seen so many people warn someone to avoid someone else and for that editor to keep after him anyway and to do so in such an aggressive manner.

No matter what I say or do, no matter how many warnings he gets, he will not stop and it is not right for someone to have such a fixation.

Please help!

Sincerely,


A Nobody

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From: Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 15:39
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Has anyone yet had time to look into this situation. I forwarded prior e-mails in this sequence earlier this week.

Thanks,
Newyorkbrad

Dear Brad

He is now going after images I uploaded:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=337219276

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=337868445

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=337868455

Sincerely,

A Nobody


“What one man can do, another can do.”
-Charles Morse in The Edge by David Marnet

--- On Mon, 1/11/10, Private Private <wikipedianobody@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Private Private <wikipedianobody@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Wikipedia e-mail: Follow up
To: "Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)" <newyorkbrad@gmail.com>
Date: Monday, January 11, 2010, 5:28 PM


Dear Brad,

1a. I report suspected sock puppetry at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Soc...19:50_.28UTC.29
1b. He refers to one of the reported IP’s edits in which the IP calls another editor a swear word as a “good faith edit”: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=336672425
1c. He next messages the sockmaster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=336739638
1d. Notice in the above that he uses the same over the top sock puppet signature that was discussed and condemned with threat of a block at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=329131574

Sincerely,

A Nobody


“What one man can do, another can do.”
-Charles Morse in The Edge by David Marnet

--- On Wed, 12/30/09, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Wikipedia e-mail: Follow up
To: "A Nobody" <wikipedianobody@yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 11:22 AM

Thanks for your e-mails. Unfortunately, I am on vacation this week
with limited online time and access, and won't have the ability to
research diffs etc. until after I get home. If you like, I can forward
your messages to the Arbcom mailing list and ask that someone else
take a look (as you know, we have nine new members). Otherwise, I will
get back to you after I get home and catch up on things.

Best regards,
Newyorkbrad




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From: Roger Davies <roger.davies.wiki@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 16:05
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So far, I've been in touch with Sydney/FloNight about it and looked at some of the diffs.

It seems very similar to the White Cat conduct that got him banned before but Sydney cautions that JM tends to go in for tit-for-tat behaviour if he believes he's being targetted so it needs further investigation as it may be Kettle and Pot.


Roger


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From: Peter Casey <vassyana@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 16:27
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This largely seems to be people with two strongly opposed wikiphilosophies that have similar areas of interest. They both could use a warning about edit warring and the civility bar, along with an exhortation to act like adults and talk it out or get someone else to settle the matter ([[WP:DR]]). Otherwise, this is largely just a complaint that someone strongly disagrees with him as far as I'm concerned. Part of the reason for that is that this is contained to the actual points of disagreement. As far as I can tell, this is not becoming wikihounding where someone is followed around to different areas and conversations unrelated to the points of disagreement.

If they both keep it up, prohibit them from interacting with each other on a blanket basis.

Pete



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From: Roger Davies <roger.davies.wiki@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 16:33
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Slightly disagree, in that some of JM's counter-edits are very pointy indeed, but the underlying principle works for me.

Roger




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From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 21:06
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JM's counter-edits may be pointy, but A Nobody (and others) are so
fixated on this that they need to be reigned in as well. Agree with
Pete about what to do here.

I should say, that as this is fiction-related areas, I should really
be recused (not that I've edited in the ficton areas for years anyway,
but I do want to be able to go back to those areas without really
having been involved - as you can see, people editing on
fiction-related topics can, um, become fixated on each other if they
have opposing philosophies).

I'm still slightly surprised that the fiction-related areas haven't
thrown up another case yet.

Carcharoth

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From: Roger Davies <roger.davies.wiki@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:14
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Can't argue with that. Perhaps the best way forward now is:

1. draw up a list of misbehaving editors
2. draft a "cease and desist" message to them
3. prepare a backup motion if needs be?

Will anyone volunteer for this? If you wish to stay in the background, Chris, you could do the leg work and some one else could do the front-of-house stuff.

Roger

PS: Peeve of the month. It's not "reign in" but "rein in" (an equestrian metaphor, horses, reins etc). It's not just you, Chris, everyone's at it around here

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From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 13:14
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I haven't been following things closely enough to know who the current
miscreants are, unfortunately. And really, sending a "cease and
desist" notes to inclusionists and deletionists and fanboys and
de-fancrufters? Like that will work. The real difficulty is telling
the difference between people making it personal and people just
sticking to their principles. I always try and take the arguments back
to the sources, but people then disagree on that, so things go round
and round again. I'm really not the best person to get involved with
this at all.

Carcharoth

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From: David Yellope <dyellope.wiki@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 17:18
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I would be willing to at least consider supporting a "Not to interact" prohibition flowing both ways amongst both sides here.

David/Foz

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From: Peter Casey <vassyana@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 00:20
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If people are not aware of any of the following, they should take note of them:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bur...iew_of_decision
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...n_review_motion
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...rridew-A_Nobody
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...sult:_no_vio.29
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...omment/A_Nobody
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions/Jack_Merridew_one_year_unban_review/mentors_page
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...g_Jack_Merridew (and the section following it)
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...ptive_signature
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adm...r:Jack_Merridew

People should also note that A Nobody was Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles and Jack Merridew was Davenbelle for further context.

Pete

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From: Fritz Poll <fritzpollwiki@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 04:33
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I don't think an interaction ban is going to be sufficient here. A Nobody is taking cues from Ikip, who is wikilawyer extraordinaire. JM is also not averse to this. All we'll do is move the argument from the subjective of stalking, pointyness etc. to a more specific, but always inadequately defined notion of what constitutes "interaction", particularly if they want to work in the same areas. Imagine A Nobody makes an edit to every single fiction-related article: would JM now be banned from touching those articles? I think this scenario is a little far-fetched, but would not be utterly surprised by it.

Topic bans might be the better way forward. Warn both sides that if the poor conduct persists (as it is on both sides) then we shall blanket ban both of them from fiction for some to-be-determined period. That'll wake them up a bit.

Fred



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From: Roger Davies <roger.davies.wiki@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 08:55
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Fritz Poll wrote:
<snip>

Seems sensible. Unless anyone objects, I'll write to Merridew and A Nobody accordingly.

Roger


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From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:38
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Roger Davies
Agreed. Worth including anyone else as well?

Carcharoth

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From: Peter Casey <vassyana@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:25
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You are probably correct that a topic ban would be an more effective tool in this instance. This can be an increasing scale.

1. Topic ban from all fiction-related topics, broadly construed.
2. /Additional/ topic ban from all XfD and merge discussions, as well as discussing or editing articles up for such discussion, broadly construed.
3. /Additional/ topic ban from all notability and deletion discussions and related actions.

I believe both editors would chafe at any restriction. However, please note that this is not entirely even-sided. Even the least restrictive of this scale is likely to be far more impinging for A Nobody than Jack Merridew. This is not an unfortunate or unwanted side effect of such sanctions. On the contrary, it is a perfectly desirable and expected result that topic bans more harshly impinge on more narrowly focused and less responsive editors.

Explaining: JM has shown an interest and ability to edit other areas of the wiki and involve himself in other matters. JM has also shown an ability to refrain from topics, if only under duress/sanction, and an interest in working productively on other topics and at other WMF projects. A Nobody has a decided more focused scope of contribution and has generally responded poorly to attempts to restrict his editing. He is not at all helped by the enabling of Ikip specifically and a number of Article Rescue Squadron* members secondarily. (* This is not to malign all participants, but there are a core group of editors there that scream bloody murder against deletionists and immediatists and defend each other on that basis. It's like a mirror image of the deletionist ra-ra crowd that surrounded TTN during the older conflicts.) On that note, if we go forward, we need to keep an eye out for proxying and disruptive enabling.

As a note, A Nobody has never given much credence to his user conduct RfC. It may be helpful in any communication to him to specifically point to it, with a warning that rejecting such community feedback and refusing to adjust his behavior may lead to /more/ than a topic ban.

Pete

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From: Peter Casey <vassyana@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:28
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Not at the moment. However, we should keep an eye out on Ikip and some of the other ARS members. If they encourage A Nobody to reject his restrictions, claim it is a cockup from some vast deletionist conspiracy, or otherwise enable A Nobody's disruptive conduct or worsen the situation, we should step in with a warning then.

Pete

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From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:36
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You do know that I am a member of the Article Rescue Squadron? :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...quadron/Members

Admittedly, so is A Nobody and Jack Merridew.

And I signed up to the ARS (in the wake of the Mzoli's Meat article
kurfuffle, I think) and then promptly forgot about and ignored it.

I very, very rarely participate at AfD, but I did recently:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Art...tre_de_Tassigny

Maybe you see why I try and stay away from there...

At least it wasn't related to fiction!

Carcharoth

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From: Peter Casey <vassyana@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:58
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Actually, I forgot. :-P In my other mail I mentioned "This is not to malign all participants, but there are a core group of editors there..." I think that much is fairly self-apparent.

This did spur a further train of thought:

I think people the people turning the matter into a battlefield are the most disruptive. Despite some vigorous disagreements, it doesn't need to get ugly. I've had some rather interesting discussions with people of opposing wikiphilosophy and walked away with mutual respect and appreciation for the substance of the discussion. We can't fix it all as ArbCom, nor should we, but we can set the tone and make examples if necessary. The inclusionism/deletionism divide is nowhere near as severe and the conflict nowhere near as ugly and wide-spanning as they were a few years ago. However, combined with recent BLP stirrings, this could easily spiral out of control with a return to the likes of such days as those of TTN and Badlydrawnjeff.

Pete

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From: Fritz Poll <fritzpollwiki@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:03
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So, can we go ahead and contact those two with something that essentially amounts to a threat of a topic ban? Or are we just going to skip the step of a threat and go for it straight off?

I favour the former

Fred

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From: Fritz Poll <fritzpollwiki@googlemail.com>
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Fred

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From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:09
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I probably shouldn't say this, but *some* people have been far less
inclined to argue with me since I became an arbitrator. I don't like
that sort of effect myself, actually, but it is noticeable, and at
times I just let it slide, rather than telling people they absolutely
*should* disagree with me if I'm getting something wrong. I just tell
myself that my clear and solid reasoning is the reason why some people
agree with what I say... and that this is all counter-balanced by
those who *like* to pick fights with arbitrators. :-)

Carcharoth

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From: Peter Casey <vassyana@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:16
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Yes. Contacting them to warn them that they've both crossed over the line and are face topic bans is a good idea. Jack Merridew should be reminded specifically about personalizing disputes and POINT violations. A Nobody should be warned about forum shopping/drama hunting and to heed the feedback received in the RfC.

My two cents on that.

Pete

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From: Fritz Poll <fritzpollwiki@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 19:22
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(bump)

Can someone better than I handle the sending of the e-mails. This seems to have been swept up in recent events

Fred

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From: Private Private <wikipedianobody@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 19:58
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Dear Arbitration Committee,

I received a note that Jack Merridew is still fixating on me both on and off Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dream_Focus#caution (in this discussion, Merridew apparently is watching my interactions with Dream Focus on Wikia and giving Dream Focus grief about it)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=371454428

In the above diff, Jack Merridew trash talks not only me, but also discusses White Cat.

Please note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...ng_restrictions

specifically: "User:Jack Merridew agrees to completely avoid White Cat on Wikipedia English pages. No editing the same pages, no comments about White Cat by name or innuendo. No harassment of White Cat in other venues. This restriction will be interpreted in the broadest way with no allowance for any attempt to skirt the restriction in any manner."

What part of "no comments about White Cat by name or unnuendo" does commenting about White Cat allow? And yet there he is once again bringing up me and White Cat while getting into yet another dispute in which he is stalking yet another editor... How many editors does he get to stalk? How many arbcom things does he get to ignore?
Not to mention all the admin warnings he not comment on me either, such as:

He has already received a final warning from Fram:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=314696288 ("How about you don't ever comment on A Nobody again or get indefinitely blocked again? With your past, you have absolutely zero authority to suggest that someone else is "extremely disruptive" and "primarily responsible for creating the polarized I/D schism". You have been warned before to stay away from A Nobody. Consider this a last warning.")


And more recently NewYorkBrad said at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=331466151 "I would also emphasize that Jack Merridew should make a concerted effort to avoid unnecessary interaction with other editors with whom he has been in repeated conflict, not only White Cat, and should avoid any actions that could give a reasonable appearance of wikihounding such editors, whether or not that is his intent."



Again, Franamax proposed he avoid me at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_tal...e#Move_to_close and so did Hobit at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_tal...eep_it_simple...



I don't believe I have ever before on Wikipedia seen so many people warn someone to avoid someone else and for that editor to keep after him anyway and to do so in such an aggressive manner.


Dream Focus has it right, his and his enablers' harassment both on and off wiki is what drove me off of Wikipedia. That he has the audacity to still trash talk me and harangue those who work with me elsewhere despite the above warnings is appalling. That despite being banned from even mentioning White Cat, he is doing so anyway, and now that he is hounding someone new without being blocked is downright disgraceful.

Indeed, looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=367373109 please consider such comments from neutral editors as

"Wildhartlivie cannot edit anywhere without Jack following behind trying to dehumanize and demean her for whatever personal grudge he has on her. His spitefulness has been noted many times, even by administrators... but nothing ever happens and he's free to follow WHL to the next page and rinse and repeat the same bullshit. Sickening."

"Seriously, I'll be the first to say I tend to like Jack, but these two have a seriously unhealthy focus on one another."

"Jack you know you've been following Wildhartlivie around. You showed up at many articles and conversations that you could have only gone to at the same time as WHL by using her contributions. The behaviors of Jack at WP:ACTOR shows the type of treatment he gives. He knows exactly what buttons to push on WHL to get her to respond in kind, and unfortunately she takes the bait way too often."

And you can see more of the disruption at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fen...d.23Filmography

I am beyon baffled that:

1. Despite being thoroughly warned to leave me alone and without me even editing Wikipedia anymore, he is not only still throwing in digs about me, but giving my friends a hard time while revealing he is watching me elsewhere.

2. Despite being banned from even mentioning White Cat following years of harassment, he still is mentioning him by name and in a slamming way.

3. Despite several neutral editors noting that Jack is indeed following Wildhartlivie around and that his doing so is "sickening" among other things, he is still doing just that.

How on Earth can Wikipedia tolerate this any longer? Three editors he has stalked with dozens of warnings to leave each of us alone, and yet it just keeps going on and on.

And he still makes a joke about being a sockpuppet in his signature: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=371318014 (there were a few ANI threads saying if he does that again, he'll be blocked. Not sure how being a sockpuppet account created to evade a ban and used to harass someone is 'funny').

Why would anyone even protect him at this time with such immature edit summaries: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=370768798

Sincerely,

A Nobody

“What one man can do, another can do.”
-Charles Morse in The Edge by David Marnet


From: Private Private <wikipedianobody@yahoo.com>
To: arbcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 1:48:15 PM
Subject: Re: Wikipedia and off site issues


To whom it may concern,



I have temporarily reactivated my email (apparently Yahoo lets you do that) and am sending the following evidence to any interested parties as for the past month or so, I have been practically non-stop harassed across multiple wikis and have been playing whack a mole trying to stop whoever is behind it. As my Wikipedia accounts are blocked with their passwords scrambled and as ANI is protected from Ips, I am unable to bring this to light on Wikipedia. I am therefore sending it to whoever’s email addresses I have so that the community is aware of the truth of what has been going on. As you will see in the below diffs, the attacks range from vandalizing articles on wikis I edit to commentary about killing my dogs!



A host of accounts have been attacking me at [

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=26622].


Below are some specific IP and sockpuppet account harassment of me on at least three wikis:



*From AniMate: [http://annex.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:A_Nobody&diff=270635&oldid=269265], [http://annex.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:A_Nobody&diff=270636&oldid=270635]



*From

A nobody doesn't like me: [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=60946&oldid=60672], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:A_nobody_doesn%27t_like_me&diff=60956&oldid=60937], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:A_nobody_doesn%27t_like_me&diff=60957&oldid=60956], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:A_nobody_doesn%27t_like_me&diff=60958&oldid=60957], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:A_nobody_doesn%27t_like_me&diff=60940&oldid=60938], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:A_nobody_doesn%27t_like_me&diff=60941&oldid=60940], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:A_nobody_doesn%27t_like_me&diff=60962&oldid=60941], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:A_nobody_doesn%27t_like_me&diff=60963&oldid=60962], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:A_nobody_doesn%27t_like_me&diff=60964&oldid=60963], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Blocked_for_no_reason&diff=prev&oldid=60936], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Blocked_for_no_reason&diff=60939&oldid=60936], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_blog_comment:A_nobody_doesn%27t_like_me/this_is_the_dumbest_wiki_I_have_ever_seen/A_nobody_doesn%27t_like_me-20100413070153&diff=prev&oldid=60950], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_blog:A_nobody_doesn%27t_like_me/this_is_the_dumbest_wiki_I_have_ever_seen&diff=prev&oldid=60948], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=Cuisine_and_Restaurant_Types&diff=60942&oldid=8299], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=Cooking_Fats_and_Oils&diff=60943&oldid=8259], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=Beautiful,_Attractive,_or_Well-Formed&diff=60944&oldid=7863], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=Instruments,_Viol_or_Violin&diff=60945&oldid=8881], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=Religious_Attire&diff=60947&oldid=10348], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=Actresses_who_played_Catwoman&diff=60951&oldid=50310], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=Actresses_who_played_Catwoman&diff=60952&oldid=60951], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=Actresses_who_played_Catwoman&diff=60953&oldid=60952], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=List_of_non-existent_countries&diff=60954&oldid=45715], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=List_of_non-existent_countries&diff=60955&oldid=60954], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=Football_Plays_and_Calls&diff=60959&oldid=8587], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=List_of_hospitals_in_Indonesia&diff=60960&oldid=39360], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=List_of_hospitals_in_Indonesia&diff=60961&oldid=60960], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=List_of_giant_animals_in_fiction&diff=60965&oldid=46856]


*From

Bannedwpuser: [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:Bannedwpuser&diff=prev&oldid=66618], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Bannedwpuser&diff=66620&oldid=66619]


*From Fram: [http://homeandaway.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:A_Nobody/Deletion_discussions&diff=5241&oldid=5240]



*From

24.233.122.222: [http://annex.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:A_Nobody&diff=270639&oldid=270636]


*From

70.232.42.89: [http://annex.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:A_Nobody&diff=269263&oldid=230623]


*From

76.170.244.178: [http://annex.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:A_Nobody&diff=276909&oldid=274460], [http://annex.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:A_Nobody&diff=276911&oldid=276909], [http://annex.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:A_Nobody/Inclusion_guidelines&diff=286242&oldid=267963], [http://list.wikia.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=67954&oldid=67859], [http://pinball.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:A_Nobody&diff=6851&oldid=5348], [http://pinball.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:A_Nobody&diff=6852&oldid=6851]


*From

78.34.232.74: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Protonk&diff=362875955&oldid=362807154]


*From

84.44.254.108: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Rlevse&diff=1976183&oldid=1976176], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Protonk&diff=362784314&oldid=352008728], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Protonk&diff=362792437&oldid=362785650], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Protonk&diff=362805771&oldid=362799090], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Bsadowski1&diff=prev&oldid=362781682]


*From

87.79.142.126: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Rlevse&diff=1977587&oldid=1977564], [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Rlevse&diff=1977594&oldid=1977587]


*From

87.79.177.195: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:A_Nobody&oldid=1976448]


You will note that by contrast, I have not been using Ips or bogus accounts to harass whoever is behind these on Wikipedia, Wikipedia Review, etc. Moreover, you can see that these attacks span Wikipedia, Wikia, the Meta Wiki and Wikipedia Review. The above is what those who have been “criticizing” me on Wikipedia have been doing in the meanwhile elsewhere. The above is why I would not denigrate myself to engage with such immature and vicious people in arbcom, because again, you won’t find me threatening to kill other people’s pets as they have done to me, just as you won’t find me vandalizing Wikipedia articles as they have been doing to articles on wikis I still edit. Please seriously compare what the above accounts and Ips have been done with the six edits I made last month and the three to only one AfD for which someone explicitly requested my participation. Hopefully, you will understand, why then I have no interest in subjecting myself to anything from these people on Wikipedia. Considering the viciousness of these individuals and there willingness to follow me around to Wikia, the Meta Wiki, Wikipedia Review, you can hopefully understand and appreciate why I am not comfortable continuing on Wikipedia as any of my past accounts. I wish I still had some of the swear word laden emails they sent as well, because the above is just the surface of what these people have really been up to...



Sincerely,



A Nobody



P.S. You have my permission to post the above diffs wherever relevant on Wikipedia.


“What one man can do, another can do.”
-Charles Morse in The Edge by David Marnet


From: Private Private <wikipedianobody@yahoo.com>
To: arbcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Sun, April 4, 2010 12:33:05 AM
Subject: Wikipedia and off site issues

Dear arbitration committee,

I recently made one edit to Wikipedia in defense of the editor who has been most supportive of me: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=353799220

The above is the ONLY edit I have made since retiring from editing Wikipedia last March and as I state explicitly within that post, it is a one time post as I do not intend to make follow up posts. I am not unretiring, I am not "back." It is a final thank you to someone who helped me on many occasions. I have sent emails to various members of the committee today acknowledging as much, although I have not yet received any replies, which I suppose shouldn't be a surprise given the holiday.

As I indicate in the emails, my health has indeed been improving and something that I have actually found to be rather therapeutic these past weeks is transwikiying articles to the Annex Wiki on which I am an admin. While I have retired from editing Wikipedia, I do take a leisurely few minutes a day to add some content to Wikia.

I just blocked an IP on that Wiki that posted an antagonistic screed on my talk page that I have deleted: http://annex.wikia.com/index.php?title=Spe...%3A70.232.42.89

The post read: "I'm just so thankful that despite your dire illness that you still were able to edit here. I can't imagine why people thought you were lying about it over on Wikipedia. Some foolhardy folks don't understand why you are able to edit here when you're too sick to edit wikipedia. Surely you're not a bad person too afraid to accept criticism. Surely you have enough morals to stand behind the edits you made and not hide behind an imaginary sickness. To the people who think that, I must point out that there are illnesses that <i>only</i> affect editing wikipedia. Clearly you're a good person and should be proud and the type of morality and character that you're displaying."

Number one, I stopped editing Wikipedia for a variety of reasons, not any one specific reason, and as for being sick I even posted an image confirming that I do indeed have diverticulitis (an admin since deleted it). While I have had various hospitals visits in March, I have fortunately been able to avoid being admitted for any extended period while I recovered quite rapidly these past few weeks. But despite this recovery, I still am not comfortable returning to Wikipedia and have just been more productive and happy in my real life without worrying about it. And there is a big difference between transwikiying some articles and going back in forth in Wikipedia related discussions.

Now, I bring the above to your attention, because one of the secondary reasons for my leaving Wikipedia was due to harassment/hounding by certain specific other accounts on Wikipedia. And sure enough the above listed IP's comments off site follow this comment from Bali ultimate on site: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=353799588

"Hey a nobody: I'm glad that all that editing on wikia reduced the kidney mass down enough to bring you back to the big leagues! I can stop lighting candles now! Praises be to god!"

I indeed stopped editing Wikipedia, because 1) the stress was not helping me and 2) I have no interest in dealing with accounts like Bali ultimate who would actually follow me off site even. Now, Bali ultimate who was blocked a few months back for incivility is back at it today and blowing off any admin warnings that he restrain himself.

Recent warnings to Bali ultimate:



1. From Black Kite: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=353791618



2. From Okip:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=353233595


3. From Gladys j cortez:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=353802703


Bali responded to the above admin warnings by saying “f u”: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=353819758



And similarly ignoring of them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=353843034


Or even responding with even more attacks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=353792165


And rewriting other editors’ comments: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=353843466


If that is not bad enough, I also seem to be being attacked on Wikipedia by Jack Merridew once again who is also following me on the Annex based on his commentary, a site that he mockingly refers to as a "non-encyclopedia": http://annex.wikia.com/index.php?title=Mai...ev&oldid=268121

He has already received a final warning from Fram:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=314696288 ("How about you don't ever comment on A Nobody again or get indefinitely blocked again? With your past, you have absolutely zero authority to suggest that someone else is "extremely disruptive" and "primarily responsible for creating the polarized I/D schism". You have been warned before to stay away from A Nobody. Consider this a last warning.")


And more recently NewYorkBrad said at

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=331466151 "I would also emphasize that Jack Merridew should make a concerted effort to avoid unnecessary interaction with other editors with whom he has been in repeated conflict, not only White Cat, and should avoid any actions that could give a reasonable appearance of wikihounding such editors, whether or not that is his intent."


Again, Franamax proposed he avoid me at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_tal...e#Move_to_close and so did Hobit at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_tal...eep_it_simple...

How can I or anyone possibly feel comfortable editing on Wikipedia when those antagonizing me are actually ignoring multiple admin warnings to both leave me alone and act civil and then show up on Wikia and Wikipedia Review alike attacking me? See also http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=26622



These two accounts (and a few others, notably Reyk, Tarc, Kww, etc.) have been badgering me for months now and it seems are trying to now even take it off site. I realize the committe cannot do anything about the off site stuff, but I do want you to be aware of what is going on and why I have retired and made only one final edit in support of a friendly editor. And I think some of their behavior even on site is indeed becoming increasingly actionable and just further revealing and confirming how intense their fixation on me actually is. They don't want to just screw with me on Wikipedia, but on Wikipedia Review and even Wikia if possible. It is not enough to force me to retire on Wikipedia not just because of my health, but out of disgust with some of these accounts, they want to make sure they can follow me whereever I go and all the while immaturely tossing around insults at me and any admin who would even challenge them.



Telling an admin to f herself: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=353843034



Commenting on other editors' genitals: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=344500918

and



http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=347431371



Calling whole groups of editors "slackjawed retards": http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showt...63&#entry216863



Etc. All speak for themselves. The above is what "criticizes" me on Wikipedia and their fanaticism is appalling on Wikipedia alone. That they start to take it to Wikia, Wikipedia Review, is how it starts and why I want no part of it. Why I would never participate in any Rfc or Arbcom about me and why I am not comfortable returning.



Thank you for your time and understanding. Happy Easter to any of you who celebrate it!



Sincerely,



A Nobody



“What one man can do, another can do.”
-Charles Morse in The Edge by David Marnet




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Date: Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 02:51
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He doesn't want to deal with his own behavior here, but report others. I suggest we silently drop this message in the bit bucket.

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From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 06:24
To: English Arbitration Committee mailing list <arbcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org>


If we could stop some other people from reporting (or even mentioning)
others, that would improve things a lot! I haven't looked at the
diffs, but I do think that now he is banned, people really shouldn't
be mentioning A Nobody on-wiki any more (and certainly there should be
no need to mention wikia any more). Are any of those diffs current? If
so, I would suggest a private word telling them that their comments
are being watched and if they want A Nobody to disengage, they should
stop mentioning him (I will have to try not to mention him either!).

But have you actually *read* the thread we were pointed to?
Jack comes across there as creepy: "Choose your own path, as we all do."

And read the diff here:
He does mention White Cat and A Nobody (and Amorrow for some strange
reason). I can't remember exactly whether all restrictions were
lifted, and the White Cat mention is less concerning that the approach
to Dream Focus.

If you need someone else to report this, rather than a banned user,
I'm happy to do so.

It should also be clear if people actually follow this closely, that
Jack is on a campaign to clear out what *he* perceives as "toxic
elements" from Wikipedia. Recall what FloNight said when the motion at
the end of the one-year unban was discussed:

"The current conflict involving JM center around contentious areas of
Wikipedia and are best resolved in a comprehensive case with all
editors on equal footing. I propose amending the sanctions as above.
FloNight ♥♥♥♥ 14:37, 10 December 2009 (UTC) "

There was no such case, and instead things have turned around
completely, with several of Jack's "opponents" (on content matters)
shooting themselves in the foot and getting banned or leaving, so no
such case with "all editors on equal footing" is possible.

Carcharoth

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From: Carcharoth <carcharothwp@googlemail.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 08:27
To: English Arbitration Committee mailing list <arbcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org>


Given this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Joh...ruling_question

Would anyone object if I pointed John at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dream_Focus#caution

And asked him to talk to Jack about that?

Carcharoth

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From: Steve Smith <stevethearbitrator@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:28
To: English Arbitration Committee mailing list <arbcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org>


No, that seems like the right course of action to me. A Nobody's
opponents have (effectively) won; they could stand to be somewhat more
gracious in victory.

Subject: [arbcom-l] Fwd: attempt to hack my account?
------------------------

From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 19:58
To: Arbitration Committee mailing list <arbcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org>


Below, A Nobody informed me that he had received a password reset, so
I did a quick checkuser not recognising the IP and on the basis that
Jpgordon had checked it just before the account password reset with
reasons 'unblockreq' and 'Possible returning nuisance'

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w...ch=71.205.28.17

It is Jack Merridew. 100% confirmed. I'm recused on this, and don't
want to look deeper.

(note to new arbs: if you check this IP you will also find edits by
Josette & Lar; this has been disclosed on functionaries-en, last year
iirc)

2011-02-25

* (diff) (hist) . . N User:Jack Merridew . . 23:57:00 . . Gold Hat
(talk | contribs | block) (This user's current account is;
{{softredirect|User:Gold Hat}} )
IP: 71.205.28.17 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac
OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4
* (diff) (hist) . . User talk:Jack Merridew . . 23:54:14 . . Gold
Hat (talk | contribs | block)
(http://az.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C4%B0stifad%C9%99%C3%A7i_m%C3%BCzakir%C9%99si%3ADavenbelle&action=historysubmit&diff=1091356&oldid=772494)
IP: 71.205.28.17 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac
OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4
* (Logs) . . 17:29:51 . . 71.205.28.17 (talk | block) reset
password for user "Jack Merridew"
IP: 71.205.28.17 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac
OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4
* (Logs) . . 17:29:03 . . 71.205.28.17 (talk | block) reset
password for user "A Nobody"
IP: 71.205.28.17 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac
OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Private Private <wikipedianobody@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:43 AM
Subject: attempt to hack my account?
To: jayvdb@gmail.com


Dear John,

I have retired from using accounts on Wikipedia, but I just received
the below email. I am not that IP and I do not know who it is, but it
appears that someone is trying to get A Nobody's password. I have not
requested the password from anyone as I have no intention of using
that account again (even if I ever did come back down the road, it
would be as something new, but again, that is pretty unlikely as I
just do not have time to regularly edit anymore). In any event,
please note that any attempt at edits from A Nobody is absolutely not
me and nor will I make any requests to have access to that account
again. I am bringing it to your attention so that the community is
not going to be had by those who have harrassed me. I am indeed aware
that some long term sock masters has already been blocked after a
checkuser confirmed he was impersonating me. Anyway, whoever is from
that IP below has made an unwanted and unwelcome effort to access my
account and password and someone should be aware of it should my old
account be compromised.

Sincerely,

AN

“What one man can do, another can do.”
-Charles Morse in The Edge by David Marnet

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: MediaWiki Mail <wiki@wikimedia.org>
To: A Nobody <wikipedianobody@yahoo.com>
Sent: Fri, February 25, 2011 12:29:03 PM
Subject: New temporary password for Wikipedia

Someone from the IP address 71.205.28.17 requested that we send you a
new login password for the English Wikipedia.

The new password for the user account "A Nobody" is "PrtNR0Z". You can
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From: Cas Liber <casliber01@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 18:36
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I am recused but really - this is (1) a user with a history of hounding other
editors attempting to hack an account of someone he is in conflict with, and (2)
why are he, Josette and Lar sharing IPs? I don't recall any posts on this.
Cas

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I'll hold off on responding to th bigger picture here and let newer folks know that JM is currently renting premises from Lar and his wife Josette. This was reported to Arbcom some time ago.

Risker/Anne
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Jack is allegedly in the process of abandoning all his wikiprojects. Shall I just ask him what the hell he thinks he's playing at?


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From: Jonathan Clemens <clem4609@pacificu.edu>
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Really? He's been actively participating as Gold Hat, including corresponding with me on my talk page.

Jonathan

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From: David Fuchs <dfuchs.wiki@gmail.com>
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Yeah, I'd seen the Gold Hat account at the AC/N fracas and was wondering who that new face was... either way it doesn't look like he's in a hurry to leave.

My memory on the WP:FICT and inclusion wars are pretty spotty... IIRC Jack was badgering him then (or I'm ascribing a diff. account to A Nobody.)
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From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com>
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Your memory is correct; it was A Nobody.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w...r:Jack_Merridew

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The Gold Hat account seems to have become a heckuva lot more active as late.

If we're going to keep the restrictions in place, is someone going to enforce them?

If not, why are we maintaining them? Because he thumbed his nose at us?

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From sydney.poore at gmail.com Sun Nov 29 18:10:24 2009
From: sydney.poore at gmail.com (FloNight)
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:10:24 -0500
Subject: [arbcom-l] CONFIDENTIAL: Fw: Re: Wikipedia e-mail: still more
harassment by Jack Merridew
In-Reply-To: <4B12B47D.7010106@gmail.com>
References: <309948.82749.qm@web59402.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
<4B12B47D.7010106@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <16032ea0911291010y40134efes957aebc44c410f5e@mail.gmail.com>

For the past year, A Noboday has tried to use the one year block enforcement
from the motion to ban JM because he dislikes JM and wants him gone from the
site.

As I stated at the JM Unban review discussion, if the issues related to the
Afds need to be addressed, then we should do it in a separate broad RFArb
where all the parties would be on equal footing.

Sydney

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Roger Davies <
roger.davies.wiki at googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks for your message. What you are asking for is rather sweeping and I
> was wondering whether you have any diffs to support what you say. The reason
> is that I've sampled about a quarter of the AfDs you have both particpated
> in and have seen nothing particularly concerning.
>
>
> Roger Davies
>
>
>
> Private Private wrote:
>
> Dear arbitration committee,
>
> I am deeply concerned about an ongoing disruptive fixation of me by another
> editor with whom I have experienced negative dealings since at least 2008
> and who has used most of his Wikipedia career to go after another editor
> both on and off wiki (at least on a blog). I am writing you privately,
> because the manner in which this editor focused so much time targetting one
> person is of grave concern to me and I am not interested in any further
> interactions with this user. I do not believe anyone can see any value in
> he and I interacting any further and indeed there is only the potential for
> further escalation.
>
> What you would advise? All I want is for him to be restricted from
> following me around any further to prevent further disruption of Wikipedia
> and to diminish the likelihood that he will become as obsessed with me as he
> was with White Cat. Again, please note
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...f_Jack_Merridew
>
> As you can see, I was one of the first to correctly agree with White Cat's
> evidence. So, once Jack was restricted from White Cat, he next sought after
> me who was an early supporter of White Cat's evidence. My suggestion is
> that for that reason Jack be restricted from any mentioning of or replying
> to me (basically the White Cat restrictions with my name where White Cat
> is).
>
> I also strongly urge a topic ban from fiction Afds. Jack's disputes in
> those have already been brought up in two arbcoms: the one cited above as
> well as
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_tal...o_Jack_Merridew and
> thus go back to at least 2007. John acknowledged that a restriction might
> do Jack good. Casliber says a much. And I would have only supported an
> unblock in the first place if such a restriction were imposed.
>
> Thus, I propose the following restrictions:
>
>
> 1. User:Jack Merridew agrees to completely avoid A Nobody on Wikipedia
> English pages. No editing the same pages, no comments about A Nobody by name
> or innuendo. No harassment of A Nobody in such other venues as Wikipedia
> Review or through emails. This restriction will be interpreted in the
> broadest way with no allowance for any attempt to skirt the restriction in
> any manner.
> 2. User:Jack Merridew agrees to avoid editing all fictional
> character and television episode articles and AfDs per
> [[Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Episodes_and_characters#White_Cat.27s_reply_to_Jack_Merridew]],
> [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Episodes_and_characters_2/Evidence#Jack_Merridew_has_performed_multiple_reverts_regarding_notability_tags_on_D.26D_character_articles]]
> and
> [[Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Episodes_and_characters_2/Evidence#Real_identity_of_Jack_Merridew:_Could_it_be_Davenbelle.2FMoby_Dick]].
>
> 3. Should Jack Merridew violate the restrictions imposed upon him in
> this decision, he may be blocked for one year by any uninvolved
> administrator, with any blocks to be logged at Wikipedia:Requests for
> arbitration/Jack Merridew ban review motion#Log of blocks and bans.
>
>
> What is the best route for at least having the first and third proposals
> and hopefully the second come about? I of course agree that I will not
> comment about him on Wikipedia Review nor show up in any non-fiction AfDs
> after him, nor mention him on Wikipedia further. In fact, if the above is
> agreed to, even if he still shows up after me somewhere, I will leave it to
> someone else to notice rather than start an ANI thread or something myself.
>
> To be as plain as possible, I just do not want on a website with 3 million
> articles to be followed around by the kind of person who fixates on someone
> like White Cat for 3 to 5 years using a half dozen odd socks to target him.
> Neither I nor anyone else be compelled to deal with someone who unhealthily
> obsesses in such a manner. I am here to help build an encyclopedia, and
> while I welcome good faith and honest criticism, I do not welcome being
> followed around and belittle by someone both on Wikipedia and on Wikipedia
> Review who has demonstrated that he is indeed fully capable of deceiving the
> community and obsessing over opponents for years. Indeed, his and his
> handful of supporters attempts to defend him look eerily reminiscent to what
> White Cat and I were met with back in Episodes and characters 2 when we
> correctly identified him as what he really was.
>
> PLEASE do not let him fixate on me any further. As John and Tony Sidaway
> said at the unblocking, even the "appeareance" of old habits would be
> unacceptable.
>
> Thank you for your time and efforts.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> A Nobody
>
> ?What one man can do, another can do.?
> -Charles Morse in The Edge by David Marnet
>
> --- On *Sat, 11/28/09, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com><jayvdb at gmail.com>
> * wrote:
>
>
> From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> <jayvdb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Wikipedia e-mail: still more harassment by Jack Merridew
> To: "Private Private" <wikipedianobody at yahoo.com><wikipedianobody at yahoo.com>
> Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 6:39 PM
>
> To contact ArbCom, address your email to
>
> arbcom-l at wikimedia.org<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=arbcom-l at wikimedia.org>
>
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Private Private <
> wikipedianobody at yahoo.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wikipedianobody at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
>
>> Dear John,
>>
>> How do I contact ArbCom? I am concerned that if I say anything else on
>> wiki, it will result in further antagonism from Jack. I am disgusted
>> already to the point that I nearly posted the following:
>>
>> "I have had to put up with being followed around by this user for months
>> now and even after I unilaterally avoided him, he still shows up to support
>> in only one RfA this month (the one I most strongly oppose), to say to
>> delete in only one AfD this month (the one I most strongly argue to keep),
>> and we see him on Pablomismo's talk page after me (even editing my post!)
>> and whether these seem minor to some or are excused because some just don't
>> like me (yeah, come on now, out of dozens of AfDs and RfAs, he only happens
>> to care about these ones?), they follow after a half dozen or so editors and
>> admins have warned him to leave me alone or be blocked even after a year's
>> worth of such hounding or whatever we're calling it (apparently any attempt
>> to call it something else results in getting [
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...28314765sweared] at). But with him calling me by my old name on
>> Wikipedia Review even after DGG confirmed that I changed usernames due to
>> legitimate reasons, this is just not someone I am interested in dealing
>> with. And anyone who tries to deny that he is following me around
>> maliciously given the above is either blind or a liar. I am not here to
>> play games. I am not interested in having ANY kind of relationship with the
>> kind of person who so obsessed about someone else that he spent THREE
>> FRICKEN YEARS using socks to antagonize him while Machiavellian style
>> writing about it on a blog. Those who support him who have been duped by
>> him and paint these roseate image of him because he helped a few allies with
>> their userpages or made a slew of stubs amidst his various conflicts do not
>> present his real character. No one can deny that we have seen some
>> problematic editing while UNDER RESTRICTIONS. What will happen when he
>> feels unleashed? Good editor! Someone here to improve Wikipedia! Are you
>> kidding!? What kind of person fixates on someone else for the MAJORITY of
>> his time on Wikipedia? For YEARS!!! What kind of person uses multiple sock
>> accounts to deceive the community for years just so that he antagonize a
>> specific person? What kind of person was under restriction to reveal all
>> sockpuppets only reveals another one a couple days ago? What kind of person
>> notes off-site about having a meatpuppet account that he never acknowledges
>> on site (and yes this account, Gavin.collins still shows up after Jack in
>> such AfDs as Jack's sole AfD this month...)? What kind of person is
>> restricted from commenting on White Cat, but not only mentions him by name
>> but follows it up with a daring link to his block log? Do Lar and
>> company not get it? Who in their right mind could possibly expect me or
>> anyone else to want to work with such a person who if you cross at worst
>> will show up swearing at you a la Dream Focus, but has the potential to
>> despise you so intently as to devote three years of his life using socks to
>> harangue you and writing about it deviously in a blog? This is NOT a good
>> guy. This is NOT even, to be blunt, a mentally healthy person as mentally
>> healthy people to not devote three or so years to going after someone else.
>> This is NOT even a mature person, because mature people do not find it funny
>> leaving a "barnstar" on somebody's page with a monster vomiting a pile of
>> crap. This is NOT the kind of person I nor anyone should be forced into
>> dealing with on Wikipedia. That ANYONE would tolerate or excuse such
>> behavior is disgraceful. That this unblock request was a) passed in the
>> first place and b) not enforced is a travesty and tragedy for Wikipedia.
>> Who can possibly not see some of his edits in especially that last few days
>> as not disruptive with the "sneer quotes," "swearing," etc. (one of the
>> restrictions)? Who cannot say that he did not wait until now to disclose
>> yet another sock account (another of the restrictions)? Who cannot say that
>> he has not mentioned White Cat by name (yet another of the restrictions)?
>> Please re-read what John Vandenberg and Tony Sidaway said at the unblock
>> discussion about not giving Jack the benefit of the doubt and even the
>> "appearance" of bad behavior not be tolerated. That by now maybe even a
>> dozen or more admins and editors have warned or reverted Jack cannot
>> possibly be denied as reflecting at worst the "appearance" of bad behavior.
>> After all, would these editors warn someone and revert constructive edits?
>> I know some here hate me and probably wish I were gone to (overwhelmingly
>> these are editors who nominated something for deletion that I rescued), but
>> to the point that they will actually pretend that someone who deceived the
>> community and harassed someone for three years and who unquestionably still
>> insults, swears at, (just look at his posts to Dream Focus on his talk
>> page...), etc. those he dislikes is some kind of stand up character we want
>> around here? If some editors want to be duped by him further, that is their
>> choice. But not me. I am not going to pretend than a proven liar and
>> fixater on others who finds toilet humor relevant on an encyclopedia is the
>> kind of person I want having ANY interest in me. And I will NOT stand for
>> any further allowance of a such a person to continue his fixation on me. I
>> do not care who I all have to appeal to here. NO honest nor reasonable
>> editor will reply to me defending his "right" to interact with me. In no
>> normal setting would anyone be compelled to associate with someone with such
>> a history and on a website with litterally millions of articles, there is no
>> reason/need for him to be around me. Only someone either totally blinded or
>> over the top dishonest will reply to this post attacking me rather than
>> acknowledging that the only acceptable way forward is that he be permanetly
>> restricted from having ANY contact with me and given that his disputes tend
>> to be in AfDs, he really should be banned from those as well. After all,
>> when unblocked I said I would only support an unblock with such a
>> restriction and Casliber similarly acknowledge in his comment Jack's
>> unconstrutive participation in AfDs. This stops. This does NOT close
>> without this guy be permanently banned from ANY contact to or about me any
>> further. Period."
>>
>> I really do not want to beat around the bush here. The facts are that
>> this is the type of person that is entirely capable of fixating on someone
>> to the point of creating over a half dozen sock accounts to antagonize him
>> for at least three years. When White Cat and I called Jack out on it at
>> (and were ultimately proven right), we had to contend with the usual
>> hyperbole attacks on US:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Req...f_Jack_Merridew
>>
>> Look back to that where White Cat and I (again, who were ultimately
>> correct) get ridiculed by Seraphim et al and how Jack plays the victim. I
>> have had to contend with Jack's dishonesty even BEFORE he was unblocked.
>> And now he is trying to play the victim the same way he did back then (while
>> in actuallity he was lying to all of us; as you said a year ago, he has
>> forfeited the benefit of the doubt). This is something I have had to
>> contend with for actually more than just the past year since his unblocking
>> and I no longer want anything to do with such a person. If I can avoid
>> commenting to or about him on Wikipedia for several weeks now, he can surely
>> do the same with regards to me, but it has to be enforceable so that it does
>> not flare up again. Even if I ignore him, I have no ability to prevent
>> others from taking notice and offense. But given his history, I shouldn't
>> have to just ignore him. No editor should be forced to reckon with someone
>> with such a history. All, I am hoping is that his mentors would at least
>> propose and endorse a restriction that he avoids me like he should avoid
>> White Cat.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> A Nobody
>>
>> ?What one man can do, another can do.?
>> -Charles Morse in The Edge by David Marnet
>>
>> --- On *Sat, 11/28/09, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jayvdb at gmail.com>
>> >* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jayvdb at gmail.com>
>> >
>> Subject: Re: Wikipedia e-mail: still more harassment by Jack Merridew
>> To: "Private Private" <wikipedianobody at yahoo.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wikipedianobody at yahoo.com>
>> >
>> Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 8:08 AM
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been reading your emails, and considering them in my summary to
>> arbcom. Now that my statement is up, I can speak freely. I can still alter
>> my summary if there are aspects which you feel are wrong.
>>
>> I do appreciate that you and others may not want to work collaboratively
>> with him; that was asking a lot. The proposal was for voluntary
>> restrictions, and I dont hold it against you that you didnt find it
>> agreeable. My point is that he was willing to accept these restrictions,
>> and walked willingly into the Editor review. by any chance, do you know why
>> there was only Cas at the Editor review?
>>
>> Also my proposal was for both editors to disengage from the AFD system for
>> a while. Then and now it would be a good idea for you to do this, but that
>> is completely up to you.
>>
>> In regards to his restrictions for next year, you should write a summary
>> of your position to arbcom, publicly or privately. I haven't explicitly
>> said what restrictions I think are required, but I have structured my
>> summary to indicate that restrictions would not be undesirable.
>>
>> I will be recusing from the arbcom discussion about this, only answering
>> questions that are directed at me, publicly or privately.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Private Private <
>> wikipedianobody at yahoo.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wikipedianobody at yahoo.com>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Dear John,
>>>
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=328315162
>>>
>>> To be as striaght with you as possibly, I do not want anything to do with
>>> someone who was so obssessed with someone else as with White Cat as to use
>>> multiple accounts to harass him for three years. I am absolutely not
>>> comfortable dealing with such a person who exhibits unhealthy fixations on
>>> others. No one on Wikipedia should ever be forced on a project of 3 million
>>> articles to have to deal with any one specific editor. In fact, I have gone
>>> over a month not showng up in any discussions after him. Avoidance is
>>> absolutely not hard on Wikipedia. There is no legitimate excuse for him not
>>> to be able to avoid me and still contribute to our project. I am not after
>>> all focusing my time on Indonesian articles, for example.
>>>
>>> That HE continued to follow me around after my voluntarily not commenting
>>> to or about him on Wikipedia for a few weeks now cannot go on any further.
>>> That his ONLY Afd delete vote this month out of dozens of afDs is in the one
>>> I most strongly argue to keep. That his ONLY RfA support this month is in
>>> the one I most strongly say to oppose. That he shows up on Pablomismo's
>>> talk page and even edits my post. That he referred to me as "Le Grand" on
>>> Wikipedia Review even after DGG confirmed I changed names due to real world
>>> concerns is all telling of someone who once again feels he must follow
>>> certain people no matter how many editors tell him to stop (DGG, Casliber,
>>> Fram, Ikip, etc.) and no matter if I even unilaterally ignore him.
>>>
>>> To be totally blunt, given his long-term deception, given his ongoing
>>> swearing at editors even now at
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=328314765 this
>>> is not someone I nor anyone else should be expected to have to play games
>>> mediating with. There is no need nor purpose for us to work together. I
>>> want NOTHING to do with someone who has the potential to obsess over others
>>> so as to create sock accounts to target them for three years and then write
>>> about it in a blog at
>>> http://wikijackmerridew.blogspot.com/2008/...-beginning.html or who
>>> even comments about me on Wikipedia Review. I know people. I know how
>>> things start and fester.
>>>
>>> I am thoroughly convinced as I believe DGG even admitted on that talk
>>> page that Jack is NOT a good guy, but someone deliberately disrupting
>>> Wikipedia and who already has hounded at least one user for YEARS, yet
>>> despite his restrictions just now informs us of another sock, provactively
>>> mentions White Cat again with a link to his block immediately after, and so
>>> on. How the comments at
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_tal...n_review_motion where
>>> pretty much everyone but Lar either opposed unblocking or like me said so
>>> only if an AfD ban was also in place or like Tony Sidway said, "Let
>>> Wikipedia be clear: the slightest sign of a return to past form must be the
>>> end of Merridew's career" resulted in a never enforced unblocking with
>>> restrictions is beyond me, but all I am requesting is that it be clear that
>>> this guy not be permitted to fixate on me any further. I have thus far not
>>> commented there and I for my part plan to continue ignoring and avoiding him
>>> on Wikipedia and elsewhere. But even if I ignore him, Fram, Ikip, or
>>> someone will assuredly notice if he shows up after me or commenting on me,
>>> etc. Then it all starts up yet again. The ONLY way forward is for it to be
>>> absolutely clear that he and I are done with each other.
>>>
>>> Please, John, do not allow someone with a known history of fixating on
>>> certain editors be permitted to develop his antagonism toward me any
>>> further. I do not want things to escalate any more. I do not know who or
>>> what else I can appeal to, but enough is enough already. I can kick myself
>>> for having deleted emails from him to my old Yahoo account that would have
>>> proved quite illuminating... No matter how nice he is to you, Lar, etc.,
>>> this is not someone I am comfortable dealing with nor should I or anyone
>>> else be expected to have to deal with given his history. If I have managed
>>> to avoid him for weeks now, there is NO excuse for him to not be able to
>>> avoid me.
>>>
>>> You ask for specific targetted restrictions, please remember what you
>>> said to my email below. Please do not allow him to antagonize me any
>>> further and in the process for his obsession to grow and thereby disrupt our
>>> project. We will all be better off if he is restricted from me.
>>>
>>> Please, help this end.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> A Nobody
>>>
>>> ?What one man can do, another can do.?
>>> -Charles Morse in The Edge by David Marnet
>>>
>>> --- On *Sat, 11/21/09, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jayvdb at gmail.com>
>>> >* wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jayvdb at gmail.com>
>>> >
>>> Subject: Re: Wikipedia e-mail: still more harassment by Jack Merridew
>>> To: "Private Private" <wikipedianobody at yahoo.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wikipedianobody at yahoo.com>
>>> >
>>> Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 2:43 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Private Private <
>>> wikipedianobody at yahoo.com<http://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wikipedianobody at yahoo.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear John,
>>>>
>>>> I have avoided saying anything about him for months now and I am not
>>>> going to jump in again on your talk page or at ArbCom. I do have your talk
>>>> page watchlisted and I am aware that he as Fram points out tends to show up
>>>> only in AfDs I aggresively argue to keep or RfAs in which I strongly
>>>> oppose. As far as I can tell, my saying nothing to or about him, not even
>>>> commenting in the threads Ikip and Fram starts about him, still does not
>>>> deter him. Nor does admins simply warning him to avoid me. I think the
>>>> best possible way to prevent any further following me around, perceived
>>>> stalking, etc. would be to PLEASE request the following restrictions at
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...ew/mentors_page
>>>>
>>>> 1. User:Jack Merridew agrees to completely avoid A Nobody on Wikipedia
>>>> English pages. No editing the same pages, no comments about A Noboy by name
>>>> or innuendo. No harassment of A Nobody in other venues. This restriction
>>>> will be interpreted in the broadest way with no allowance for any attempt to
>>>> skirt the restriction in any manner.
>>>> 2. User:Jack Merridew agrees to a one year mentorship by Casliber
>>>> (talk ? contribs), Jayvdb (talk ? contribs) and Moreschi (talk ? contribs),
>>>> who will closely monitor for any contact with A Nobody.
>>>>
>>>> After all that we have dealt with, it will be unacceptable for him to
>>>> think he has a free ride to go after me. My ignoring him these past few
>>>> months just isn't working and yes, I am aware of him trash talking me on
>>>> Wikipedia Review as well, a site on which I have never commented. Please
>>>> review the most recent posts by Fram and you at
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jayvdb#Jack_Merridew of
>>>> continued following me around this month and of you endorsing an RfC on
>>>> Jack. Only Lar is supporting Jack in this. Unless if Jack is arbcom
>>>> restricted to avoid me if not reblocked altogether, he will continue to
>>>> follow me around. Please, this has to stop already.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for contacting me privately about this.
>>>
>>> The restrictions you have proposed are almost exactly the ones I have in
>>> mind.
>>>
>>> However, wrt "No harassment of A Nobody in other venues", what do you
>>> mean by venues? WR? WS? I dont think it is appropriate for en.wp
>>> decisions to dictate what people say on other sites, however it may be
>>> necessary in extreme cases.
>>>
>>> Could you show me the WR posts which you object to?
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Vandenberg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>

Terima kasih. The barnstar of a "monster vomiting a pile of crap" was for Bish; I sent it via email, and she posted it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=295023259

The email'd sig was '~~~~' so it came out 'Bish' ... she email'd back about that, and so I re-signed it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=303570669

This was *not* about vomit, it was about 'zilla *flaming* a "little shit" (Daedalus;) after teh Jimbo smackdown.

Oh, the 'password reset'... that was not harassment, or hacking (it sent a temp password to *him* not me). It was about seeing if he'd really shutdown his email as he so loudly protested he had. He hadn't see above; no, really read it all. And ya, I visited Michigan ;(


See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Soc...tions/White_Cat

we have a possible White Cat sock...

--Jack (now for a second read; I may have missed something)

moar; What's missing is discussions from during the May 2011 clarification. Any of that would be appreciated. The password reset was twelve seconds after I did a password reset on my Jack account, which I'd just scuttled. This was a check to see make sure I could not get the account back (and I can't). On an impulse, I backed-up and tried the same re A Nobody. He can get his account back any time he deigns to face the music of that case in abeyance and the Comm-Ban... My scuttle was due to Coren's comment, on top of Risker's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=415705845

I was in the midst of scuttling *everything* (a lot of del-tags to stuff not showing..):

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...t=Jack+Merridew

I did keep Gold Hat for another month until a couple of tag-teaming bozos got it blocked... This was moar defiance. They can't stand that.

xeno has it right; they've maintained their restrictions on me due to defiance (Risker's word, that I'm oh-so-intent on now): Xeno: "If we're going to keep the restrictions in place, is someone going to enforce them? If not, why are we maintaining them? Because he thumbed his nose at us?"

--Jack

p.s. User:SilentBlues is RTV'ing; job's done: he tagged most of my accounts

This takes "I'm not socking, it's my room mate" to a higher plane.

I know who SilentBlues/VanishedUser99 is, and he's not White Cat. They live in the same city, but beyond that there is no connection.

b

Sounds like a good set-up for a sitcom.

not even [[WP:MEAT|friends]]? ;>

White Cat-- the other white meat.

Yumm... tastes like chicken{-little; the sky is falling;}


nb: beware the road-side carts in Bali serving [[satay]]; sometimes it's kuching (Indonesian for 'cat')

Not to White Cat.