Our staff member Hersch normally handles these duties, but it is well into January without a word, so I thought I would kick off the initial nominating process for our annual awards pageant.

For those unfamiliar with our awards, here are links to some previous year's winners:

The 2007 WP:DICK of Distinction Awards
Poll: The 2008 WP:DICK of Distinction® Awards Pageant
Poll: The 2010 Wikipedia Review "WP:DICK of Distinction"

Traditionally, our categories have been:

For the bad guys ...

WP:DICK of Distinction -- for all-around rottenness by an admin

The Tag-Team Event -- for group evil-doing, usually in support of some bias

Miss Incongeniality -- for the worst (non-gender-specific) biter of gentler Wiki souls

Most Vexatious Litigant -- a new award in 2011, honoring DICKs who run too often or loudly to the various "enforcement" schemes that Wikipedia offers, or those within those schemes who encourage them through bombastic and/or hubris.

and for the good guys...

The Straight Shooter -- an award for honest admins

The Cojones de latón -- for the non-admin who has distinguished himself (or herself) in combat with the cabal


There have also been new award categories proposed, including

The TL;DR Award -- self-descriptive. This was also suggested as the Impotent ArbCom Logorrheaic or Tedious Windbag award, but we determined that this would sway it too narrowly toward one individual.

Let the games begin!

Ashley Van "Fae" for Vexatious.

Sanger for Cojones.

Is there any point in nominating our good friend Ottava? Or has he already won it?

Don't even mention Ottava. When you "reward" him, it enables him.

I second Greg's nomination. Except that I'd like to put Mr. Van Haeften up for DICK. Because he has one, and has posted photos of it on Commons many times......

I'd have to add Willbeback for vexatious litigant for what he did to Cla by adding content to LaRouche that cla was topic banned from, trying to get him retroactively in trouble for it.

OK, seriously can I nominate Cool Hand Luke for straight shooter. He's really cool.

Thanks, Gomi -- I've been a bit preoccupied, and we do need to get this underway or the lesser-known contests like the Oscars and Emmies may overshadow ours.




Actually, I should think that that stunt would catapult Mr. Beback into full DICK status. He's never won the main honors, although he has been a front runner (so to speak.)

Snort. You must be joking.

OK. I shall not canvass you to vote for him.

What has he done lately? It's a serious question.

And wasn't there supposed to be some kind of "Weasel Supreme" award?

Also, I don't know if he's quite up to the DICK level, but User:Timotheus Canens should be ripe for ... something.

Can we include Commons in this year's pageant? Pleasepleaseplease!!

WP:DICK of Distinction -- Fae



Miss Incongeniality -- Ottava Rima

Most Vexatious Litigant -- Ottava Rima
and for the good guys...

The Straight Shooter -- Alison

The Cojones de latón -- Cla68

I would think so, given the ever-present porn fiascos. I would hold the line at shenanigans at WikiNews or Simpleton Wiki or whatever.



I second that snort. CHL is a NewYorkBrad wannabe. At best, officious and ineffective, and at worst, as much of a Jimmy Wales sycophant as anyone.

All good calls, but with the exception of Fae, re-runs of previous pageants. Of course, if the shoe fits, I don't believe in term limits.

What awards can we give to non-admins? I think that Off2riorob's use of someone's comments about their serious health condition in order to score a gaming victory is worth some form of recognition.

He and I used to be a fairly good terms until he had a snitfit over something I said on Wikipedia Review that he somehow felt put him in a bad light. That, combined with his neocon politics, ended our relationship. In any case, I wasn't aware that he was doing anything at all related to Wikipedia anymore; I was fairly certain that his life had been completely consumed by the combination of being a young law associate and a newlywed, and also that he may have realized that continued association with Wikipedia might not be in his long term interest toward his fairly obvious quest to become a partner. In any case, not really a candidate for any of the usual categories.

major DICK.

WP:DICK of Distinction -- Will Beback

The Tag-Team Event -- Ryulong and anyone who gives in to his wishes

Miss Incongeniality -- TreasuryTag

Most Vexatious Litigant -- Will Beback

The Straight Shooter -- SB Johnny

The Cojones de latón --

The TL;DR Award -- Ottava (sadly)

Surely each and every category should have Ottava in them, because, as we all know to well, it is all about him.

Nothing personal, but that is one of the dumbest statements I've ever seen in my life!

WP:DICK of Distinction -- Risker (who continues her long reign as the stupidest person on Wikipedia)

The Tag-Team Event -- The Article Rescue Squadron (those lovable Keystone Kops are still racing about to save stuff that no one in the real world cares about)

Miss Incongeniality -- Baseball Bugs (who serves absolutely no purpose on WP except to stir up AN mischief)

Most Vexatious Litigant -- Titptoety (Wikipedia's would-be police officer)

The Straight Shooter -- Alison (though, to borrow an old line, what's a nice girl like her doing in a place like that?)

The Cojones de latón -- Malleus F. (the winner and still champ)

The TL;DR Award - Newyorkbrad (have you ever tried reading his "explanations"?)

It is not my place to tell you your job. However, are you not the Returning Officer for this election? If so, is it not inconsistent with your position to express strong criticism of a nominated candidate?

As for being a Jimmy fondler, that is not a good thing to say about a man so recently married. Anyway, I thought Jimmy preferred females.

Our policy as been to accept all nominations and let the voters sort them out. Of course, derisive comments are also welcome.



Our policy has been that to be nominated as a tag-team, the members must be specified.

See above.

Here's what we have so far:

WP:DICK of Distinction --
Fæ (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Risker (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Timotheus Canens (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Will Beback (T-C-L-K-R-D)

The Tag-Team Event --

Miss Incongeniality --
Baseball Bugs (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Ottava Rima (T-C-L-K-R-D)
TreasuryTag (T-C-L-K-R-D)

Most Vexatious Litigant --
Ottava Rima (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Tiptoety (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Will Beback (T-C-L-K-R-D)

The Straight Shooter --
Alison (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Cool Hand Luke (T-C-L-K-R-D)
SB Johnny (T-C-L-K-R-D)

The Cojones de latón --
Cla68 (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Larry Sanger (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Malleus Fatuorum (T-C-L-K-R-D)

The TL;DR Award --
Ottava Rima (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Newyorkbrad (T-C-L-K-R-D)

MaliceAforethought had cojones de latón.

True, but we don't know his Wikipedia ID.

You want vexatious litigation? This wins it for Willbeback, hands down.

We are suppposed to be the Wikipedia Review, but I won't object to the idea. I therefore nominate Jmabel, admin on both Wikipedia and Commons, for straight shooter. And if you've never heard of him, it's not too surprising. He's a gentleman and a smooth back-room fixer who's helped any number of people on the quiet.

I concur. I would also offer this discussion on the BLP noticeboard where Will maintained that he was going to add disputed information back to a BLP, but consistently refused to do so when asked. I think this went on for a full two weeks before someone closed it. Thus far, it has not been added back (which is fine by me, but I suspect if Will reads this he will make the edit of out spite).

Let's face it, Scott. Will knows that you are a ringleader in the League of Anti-Defamation Editors and you must be stopped.

Second this.

WP:DICK of Distinction -- Ottava Rimjob

The Tag-Team Event -- Wotsisface Herbert

Miss Incongeniality -- Nobody Ent (Gerardw as was)

Most Vexatious Litigant -- Ottava Rimjob

The Straight Shooter -- Nev1

The Cojones de latón --Malleus Fatuorum

The TL;DR Award -- Ottava Rimjob

WP:DICK of Distinction -- Will Beback for his sheer consistency throughout the year

Miss Incongeniality - Malleus Fatuorum

Most Vexatious Litigant - Fae, primarily for his recent antics on Commons

The Straight Shooter - Scott MacDonald for being spot on regards Malleus and his trolling.

The TL;DR Award - Ottava Rima

For now:

Miss Incongeniality award:

Off2riorob for Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/WebHamster/Archive using Hamster's serious health problem in evidence against him.

TL;DR award:

Michael Netzer


More to come as the spirit takes me.

Although it may mean letting an opportunity to be witty pass by, I would request that nominators spell the name of the nominee correctly so that I can figure out who it is and link to it. We like our voters to be able to make informed decisions, which means looking at the creature's edit history and record of snarky comments on talkpages and notice boards.

Also, allow me to repeat my reminder that a tag team must have more than one person.

The Tag-Team Event -- Jimbo Wales and WMF

If we're expanding the scope to include commons, Herbythyme is a no-brainer for the straight shooter award. He doesn't come up here much (and isn't, as far as I know, a participant here), but he's definitely on the white-hat side of the equation, and has been for a long time.

Some of these names keep popping up over and over. I'm sure they deserve it. But wouldn't it be better if there was some kind of "Hall of Fame" for certain folks (we can have an official induction ceremony, complete with personalized invites) and keep the space available for the up and coming dicks, cojones, tag-teamers and the rest?

I don't see where that is a requirement.

Last year, for this very reason, we awarded the 2011 WP:DICK of A Lifetime™ Achievement Award to SlimVirgin (T-C-L-K-R-D) and Jayjg (T-C-L-K-R-D) , as well as the Lifetime Underachievement Award to Will Beback (T-C-L-K-R-D) . I will point out that Ottava also received an award last year.

So I think, at a very minimum, we should elevate Will "Beback" McWhinney (Jr.) to the "DICK of A Lifetime" award, and remove him from consideration elsewhere.

Also, the Notable editors forum is a de facto Hall of Shame of years gone by.

Yes, I'd concur with that..well at least he tries to be. He seems to have the unfortunate ability to land in the shit pile through absolutely no fault of his own.



It does need updating somewhat.

Georgewilliamherbert and everyone's sycophant off2riorob (or whatever he's called now).

Jayen466 for latones. Remember all the grief he took for initiating the Cirt RfC. In response, Jayen was called a Nazi, a liar (by Raul654), and then shrilly hectored in an extremely personal way by Will Beback. In the end, the RfC was a slam dunk. Cirt was not only removed from the Scientology topic, he was also desysopped. In addition to that, Jayen has stood up for people being persecuted via their WP BLPs, such as Tahir Abbas. You'll notice in that deletion discussion that a couple of jackasses personally attack Jayen for trying to stop what they were doing with that article.

Seconded.

Seconded, thirded, whatever.

I guess I haven't followed Off2riorob's career closely. I thought of him as a good-guy type, challenging BLP defamers, but he seems to have pissed many people off for unrelated reasons. I note that Malleus is also widely loved and hated.

Here's what we have so far:

WP:DICK of Distinction --
Fæ (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Risker (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Timotheus Canens (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Will Beback (T-C-L-K-R-D)

The Tag-Team Event --
Georgewilliamherber (T-C-L-K-R-D) t and Off2riorob (T-C-L-K-R-D)

Miss Incongeniality --
Baseball Bugs (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Malleus Fatuorum (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Nobody Ent (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Off2riorob (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Ottava Rima (T-C-L-K-R-D)
TreasuryTag (T-C-L-K-R-D)

Most Vexatious Litigant --
Fæ (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Ottava Rima (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Tiptoety (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Will Beback (T-C-L-K-R-D)

The Straight Shooter --
Alison (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Cool Hand Luke (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Herbythyme (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Jmabel (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Nev1 (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Scott MacDonald (T-C-L-K-R-D)
SB Johnny (T-C-L-K-R-D)

The Cojones de latón --
Cla68 (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Jayen466 (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Larry Sanger (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Malleus Fatuorum (T-C-L-K-R-D)

The TL;DR Award --
Ottava Rima (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Michael Netzer (T-C-L-K-R-D)
Newyorkbrad (T-C-L-K-R-D)




I sympathize, but I would hate to deprive Will of an opportunity to win the top honors by a popular vote. The closest he ever came was to win the tag-team title with SlimVirgin, and he may have ridden her coat-tails to victory on that one.

For Miss Incongeniality, I am surprised that Web "I am a self-proclaimed Aspie so my near-Tourett level of cussing and atrocious behavior is okay" Hamster hasn't been listed. WebHamster and Fred the Oyster among many other names.



Straight-shooter, I would like to nominate SandyGeorgia and Moni3. Both have quite properly told off people spouting nonsense regarding both Malleus and FAC issues (practically the same issue) without crossing the line but also not backing down. Sandy could be nominated for the Cajones because she is not an admin (even though she has near admin status for being a FAC director).


By the way, could PeterDamian be added for Cajones for the whole WMUK stuff? After all, using his real name (?) and challenging the whole group over legal concerns takes quite a bit of guts.

Sounds good to me. Anyone who has already gotten an award perhaps should be ineligible for future awards.
You can call uncaring crazy people DICKs only so many times, before it ceases to have any meaning.

As if ANY of this had any meaning, of course. Some WPers watch WR like hawks, mostly for amusement,
sometimes for people posting bad articles so they can rush over and "fix" the bad, for a quick and
easy brownie point. (I don't post bad things anymore, 'cause I be savin' 'em. WR is just a database of past
abuses, at this point. A resource to be mined.)

(yawn) time to vote (yawn)

It's interesting that there hasn't been many nominations for tag-team candidates so far. I guess most of the more notorious tag-teams, such as the pro-Israel team, have faded away? I remember there was a team pushing a pro-Chavez POV in the Venezuela articles. I don't know if they are still active. I have encountered a small cabal in the SeaWorld articles, which I think I've mentioned before. Any other single-topic cabals out there? How about the PowerRanger/PocketMonster articles?

What about TCO and the FAC mess? Or something from the Malleus case? They seem to be spots that tag teams could be identified. It is hard to identify the tag teams because the historic ones have mostly been broken up over time after spending a lot of effort in identifying so many problems that they have been slowly addressed. I'm sure that there are still some of the old ones around but they lack the same power.