Cranks
On Wikipedia-l in 2002 [1], Michael R. Irwin wrote: "I have not seen him attempt to initiate lynching efforts by titling threads such as: internet kook, etc. I've referred to certain newcomers as "crackpots", not "kooks", based solely on what they have written in articles, talk pages & meta. Perhaps it's offensive that I've judged them and labelled them as such, but it's based on their actions and that alone. If their behaviour changes, so will my opinion of them."
Nevertheless, Wikipedia would be far smaller and less detailed if not for certain cranks. This subject overlaps with items discussed in Mentally ill.
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[edit] Helga
See: Helga Jonat
- Jimmy Wales Sep 3 14:11:20 UTC 2002 "Stephen Gilbert wrote: " "Ed Poor wrote: *sigh* if only Larry were still here." "Larry's not a magic bullet. I respect Larry, and I think he deserves a lot of the credit for getting this project off the ground. He has, however, been less than diplomatic in certain past situations." Yeah, actually Larry was less "appreciative" of bullshit than I am. He'd have called Helga a troll and banned her a long time ago. So, maybe we *should* wish Larry was still here, but only because he was Schwartzkopf to my Powell." (sic)
[edit] Hopiatkuta
A very strange situation, posted here for lack of a better place. Per Tarc on Wikipediocracy: "A recent example is Hopiakuta, subject of a discussion at AN. Creates bizarre redirects, article additions, etc... responses to concerns are near-unintelligible, so they block him. Others are objecting and asking for the users' disabilities to be taken into consideration. I think it will be quite a downward spiral if problematic users are given this sort of trapdoor to avoid responsibility for their negative contributions to the Wikipedia."
[edit] WTC 9/11
Nice August 2012 thread on WO [2] where Devil's Advocate turns out to be a conspiracy theorist. AE enforcement [3]. Murphy says "Create a culture where it's seen as acceptable to ask people questions about their background and location, and a little dodgy to refuse to address things."
[edit] "Lunatic" editors responsible for two major articles in 2014
WO thread: [4]
- "According to VentureBeat the most edited Wikipedia pages were:"
- 1. Deaths in 2014 (19,324)
- 2. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (10,166)
- 3. Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period (8,101)
- 4. Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa (7,644)
- 5. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (7,312)
- 6. 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict (6,485)
- 7. Shooting of Michael Brown (5,419)
- 8. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (5,147)
- 9. 2014 Pacific typhoon season (4,954)
- 10. List of works by Eugène Guillaume (4,229)
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