I've driven a motorcycle across Cuba, been a paparazzo in New York, worked at Enron in London, skydived over Italy and camped in the Amazon basin for a week to get over an intense fear of insects; it didn't work. I saw death on that trip. It's not the first time: I found a suicide in the woods on New Year's when I was 13 (a boy my age named Mike Drinkwater). By serendipity I found out why he did it. I live in the East Village y hablo Español. I have a scar on my face and a tattoo on my shoulder.

In an acknowledgement of the importance that the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has in shaping opinion [...]

No such luck. Not Jayjg, either. It's this guy, a professional photographer who also fancies himself to be a journalist.

Who is David Shankbone? The first thing you should know about me is I’m like nobody else you’ve ever met. My blood is the only connection between George Bernard Shaw and Jane Bowles. I'm a silly bastard, true of heart and I want the best for those in my life. I do not compete with friends or family. I've driven a motorcycle across Cuba, been a paparazzo in New York, worked at Enron in London, skydived over Italy and camped in the Amazon basin for a week to get over an intense fear of insects; it didn't work. I saw death on that trip. It's not the first time: I found a suicide in the woods on New Year's when I was 13 (a boy my age named Mike Drinkwater). By serendipity I found out why he did it. I live in the East Village y hablo Español. I have a scar on my face and a tattoo on my shoulder. David Bowie and The Libertines are all-time faves (I'm always rooting for Pete Doherty to pull through). In the fourth grade the nuns at my Catholic school told my mother in a parent-teacher conference I wanted them dead. I did not. I'm a big guy (6'3), athletic (185#), slim (32W x 34L) and pale (25% Irish/25% Dutch/50% German). I'm glad I'm getting older (wiser) and I disdain youth. I wear a suit to the office where I manage the assets of two of the founding families of New York City. I've moved 33 times amongst 3 countries (US, GB and ES), 6 states (NJ, GA, CO, TX, PA, NY) and 17 cities. Airline family, not military. Then it was me. Everything before NYC is forgotten. I like to travel off the beaten path. Happy endings never bore me.

What a bizarre story. They seem to be talking about Shankbone as if he was some kind of Wikimedia representative.

EDIT:What's an airline family?

He says he's a financial manager for two of NY's biggest families.

So the WP admin who "investigated" whether people from Overstock were "spamming" WP is in fact himself a hedge fund manager.

Because we all know how neutral and unbiased hedge fund managers (and journalists who rely on them) are when it comes to Patrick M. Byrne, who's muckraking is making their lives a lot less profitable lately.

"where I manage the assets of two of the founding families of New York City"

Any idea who the two families are?

Well, hedge funds aren't the same animal as forwards and futures. (or to be more specific, futures and forwards are tools used by hedge fund managers).

There's nothing innately wrong with hedge funds, nor with forwards nor futures contracts. Futures are forwards are financial instruments, and hedge funds are, well, using them to "hedge" risk.

But they are subject to the same unregulated abuses, so yes.

I just love that David S. brags about being a former Enron employee. Only a true former Enron employee would be so deluded. Though you'd think with Skilling in jail and Lay having conveniently died before his long sentence could be implemented, the guy would be discreet about this sordid former employer. Saying you once worked at Enron is like saying you once worked at the BCCI.

By the way, I suggest you check David S's edit history for futures and forward, etc etc etc edits. I'm guessing there isn't much. Which might imply he split his interests between pleasure edits and edits about his expertise, with two accounts.

In his profile he doesn't say anything about being Jewish but someone has just posted
"So woohoo...going back to your mother land? " on his comments.

This is weird, I can't find any record of anyone with the surname Shankbone apart from this person.

lovely.

he literally shows his ass on WP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Shankbone

Does WP really want the kiddies to see this sort of thing? And when did WP turn into "mygayspace".

Next item for consideration:

Have these "2" users ever voted on the same issue, or tag-team edited the same article?

User:Hu12
User:David Shankbone (formerly DavidShankBone)

I'm not sure about that- the edits don't seem to coincide particularly. But as DL said he doesn't seem to have edited anything on Law or Finance so he may have separate accounts for the purpose.

There are NO Shankbones in Whitepages .

Lots of people don't even have fixed lines anymore - just a cell, which wouldn't show up in the white pages either.

What does that prove? Lots of people get described as Jewish when they're not - me, for one.

I think I read something about being Jewish in his WP bio, though I can't be bothered to look. Besides the fact that Shankbone is likely a Jewish name.

I am telling you the surname Shankbone does not exist. No one has it except this person indicating it is not his birth name.

In ANY country? If so, then he posts to social networking groups under a fake name. It sounds like a real name to me.

Events leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq: Ahmed Chalabi and ...
1998: Ahmed Chalabi Speaks of Restoring Iraqi Oil Pipeline to Israel ... [Source: Public domain/ David Shankbone]Ahmed Chalabi meets Scott Ritter, ...
www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?specific_cases_and_issues=chalabi&timeline=complete_timeline..

Shankbone is zeroa (shankbone), one of the components of the seder plate.

Even if its a fake name.

Who cares?

I'd guess it is real, since he's so keen on hobnobbing with celebrities and getting his name in the paper, etc - attribution for pictures.

Shankbone doesn't sound like that weird of a name.

This observation seems to have gone by unnoticed, so let me elaborate.

On the Jewish holiday of Passover (Feast of the Paschal Lamb), there is a symbolic food symbolizing each part of the Passover Story. The Paschal Lamb is symbolized by a shankbone on the Seder Plate.

This is one of the few places in culture where the term 'shankbone' has any symbolic meaning.

there is neither here nor there, but per antisocialmedia.net sleuthing, weiss used to go by "pascallamb" or "pascalamb" for an aol account on "usenet".

So did Shankbone adopt this surname as a meatspace name as well? If there's no record of it ever being used a real-world surname, it wouldn't be the first case of a flamboyant self-promoter taking on a stage name in the real world.

It would also give new meaning to the word, "meatpuppet"


I thought that Gary Weiss was older, though.

possibly concealing the fact that they are Jewish (they specifically lay out their ancestry as 1/4 Dutch, 1/4 Irish, and 1/2 German mentioning nothing about being Jewish).

i dunno where you get the idea i was trying to tie those 2 together. i thought "neither here nor there" was clear enough.

What a bizarre coincidence. Both he and Weiss seem to have a connection to Fordham University. I can't find any record of a David Shankbone being linked to anything before he created his Wikipedia account in 2006.

But he's a Wikinews reporter, and his getting picked seems kind of normal, especially for a media mad self-promoter.

A Foreign Ministry of a country pays a guy to come to their country to show him the "reality", and then promotes this in the leading national newspaper and talks about "shaping" public opinion. But then it turns out this guy is in fact using a false name. Of course that matters.

any chance that a moroccan or turkish govt will hire a islam POV WP warrior to come on over and report the wikitruth? ;-)

any chance that a moroccan or turkish govt will hire a islam POV WP warrior to come on over and report the wikitruth? ;-)

weiss has no connection with fordham whatsoever. that was part of his essjay attempt to try and pretend he is something he's not in order to gain higher ground of neutrality or expertise in controversial matters.

he was trying to appear neutral on judaical topics on wp by posing as a catholic. he ain't. he's also not in/from New Mexico as his Lastexit "alternate account" claims either.

Do you know where Weiss studied? Anyway, he clearly has a strong interest in Fordham for whatever reason due to his edits, so maybe Mr."Pascalamb" is a friend of Mr. "Shankbone"?

"On the Jewish holiday of Passover (Feast of the Paschal Lamb), there is a symbolic food symbolizing each part of the Passover Story. The Paschal Lamb is symbolized by a shankbone on the Seder Plate."

This article had no edits for a long time, then 2 posts within minutes http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=116670435 - one from a Northwestern University IP.....