I previously commented on Andrew Gray's call for the parties involved in this current debacle to take a break. The main feature of the discussion on the mailing list has been Jayjg's persistent attempts to pretend that this request is not directed at him. Andrew followed up in an effort to make it undeniably clear for Jay. Jay's response is to pretend that he has no past involvement. Jay's strategy here is simple: Jay's main evidence of involvement is to be found in the oversight logs, which are secret. Very few people have access to them, and the people who do are under orders not to reveal them. Very clever, Jay.
On top of that, Jay forwarded a truly odious email from ArmedBlowfish that seeks to compare SlimVirgin to a rape victim. What happened to SlimVirgin is she was sloppy and made edits she regretted, and asked her friend and buddy to make them go away. Her own carelessness led to her being outed. This isn't a raping. At best, it's comparable to having your car stolen because you left the keys in it. For Jay to endorse ArmedBlowfish's blatant troll by forwarding it to the mailing list (ArmedBlowfish is apparently moderated on wikien-l, probably for good reason) is simply odious. It is hard for me to express how angry I feel about this, especially as a rape victim myself.
Jay, I now explicitly join Andrew's call: Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
On top of that, Jay forwarded a truly odious email from ArmedBlowfish that seeks to compare SlimVirgin to a rape victim. What happened to SlimVirgin is she was sloppy and made edits she regretted, and asked her friend and buddy to make them go away. Her own carelessness led to her being outed. This isn't a raping. At best, it's comparable to having your car stolen because you left the keys in it. For Jay to endorse ArmedBlowfish's blatant troll by forwarding it to the mailing list (ArmedBlowfish is apparently moderated on wikien-l, probably for good reason) is simply odious. It is hard for me to express how angry I feel about this, especially as a rape victim myself.
Jay, I now explicitly join Andrew's call: Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
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Good coverage of the scandal!
You might be interested to view Wikipedia Review's comprehensive coverage of the scandal, all set up nice so it can be transposed in to a wiki:
http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20070802/comprehensive-coverage-of-the-slimvirgin-scandal/
I second. Anonymously.
The escalating rhetoric is pretty alarming. It was bad enough that attempting to ascertain the identity of an admin was claimed to be stalking - a comparison I reject out of hand. (It is a victim's best defense against online predators.)
But the claim that outing is the equivalent of rape is unpleasantly innovative. I hope this meme has a very short life span.
Jayjg's aloof replies to obvious core questions curiously seem
limited to a series of Talmudist
"Watchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?"
...middle management my ass, he is whistling through the boneyard right now...what's the reason? Perhaps my friends from Kiryas Joel can smoke him out.
Jay would of course get a thorough booting in any forum in which he wasn't empowered. He's a bit intellectually underpowered for serious discussion, but makes up for it by having admin powers and a willingness to use them, and by being generally cherished by the mostly likeminded power structure. But I don't think he should leave just because he fucked around a bit with Slim's contribs. He's fantastic for wikidrama and he'd be sorely missed from the RPG if he did go.
Jayjg should be stripped of any authority he has because he does not support Wikipedia except to the extent that it is useful to do so to promote his pro-Israel, permit no criticism of the Jews, agenda. Does anyone think his latest round of spamming Wikipedia with "Allegations of XXX-ian Apartheid" is helpful to the encyclopedia in any way? Jayjg came to Wikipedia with a mission, and it wasn't to make the encyclopedia more accurate.
this scumbag should be strung up by his balls - that is if he has any.
i agree, this person should be manhandled.
This character, Jayjg, very clearly has a mission, as you can see by reading any Talk page for any "controversial" subject that involves US politics, Israel, Palestine, Jews, terrorism, etc. His involvement (he seems to have complete authority and practices extreme censorship) in almost every such subject makes it apparent that this is a full-time job, not merely a hobby of his.
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