tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267552702011-12-14T22:06:09.048-05:00Gilbert Wesley Purdyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612678869556343487noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26755270.post-58911695268245712572009-05-31T19:00:00.006-04:002009-06-17T12:56:02.864-04:00

by Gilbert Wesley PurdyA post dated May 28, 2009, on the site called “Ruhama Canellis” begins as follows:Today I will marry Alberto Cutié The small and private ceremony will happen early Thursday afternoon at Trinity Cathedral,…The post is unsigned. No mention of the wedding ceremony is posted at any later date. Another longer version of the post, in Spanish, with the headline “Esta tarde

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by Gilbert Wesley Purdy.In September of 2006, David.Monniaux, "a [system operator] on the English-speaking Wikipedia and a member of the board of Wikimédia France," deleted the English Wikipedia user page of User:Rookiee (a.k.a. Rookie Revolyob) and blocked it from further changes. Monniaux's reasons were amplified in a page now archived under the header User:Hermitan. The user/editor had used

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While Eye Online's research into "pedophile trolling" in the pages of Wikipedia grinds along, the following Google search-engine links might help you to check out a bit of raw data yourselves:Key words:site:en.wikipedia.org/ pedophile (1050 listings at present);site:en.wikipedia.org/ pedophilia (1310 listings at present);site:en.wikipedia.org/ pedophile activism (133 listings at present);site:

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On March 4, 2007, Eye Online posted the article Man-Boy Love Advocate Accused of Using Wikipedia to Troll for Interested Parties. Eye Online has just discovered that, since the article appeared, Wikipedia Administrators have bypassed the entire Wikipedia editing/discussion system and have begun deleting/removing a large number of the online encyclopedia's User and Discussion pages containing

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Wikipedia Mulls Proof Of CredentialsBy Thomas ClaburnInformationWeek March 8, 2007"The point is to make sure that people are being honest with us and with the general public," says Wales on his Wikipedia User Talk page. "If you don't care to tell us that you are a PhD (or that you are not), then that's fine: your editing stands or falls on its own merit. But if you do care to represent yourself

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Return to Witness Statements Index >>>Jason Scott's The Great Failure of Wikipedia (the "Transcription of a presentation/speech given at Notacon 3, April 8, 2006") has recently appeared in the web and garnered considerable attention. Jason can hardly be called anything but a disinterested witness. The quote, here, is only a portion of a piece ("Wikipedia: J. S. on Essajay") with many wide ranging

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Bogus Wikipedia Prof. was blessed then promotedby Andrew OrlowskiMar 2, 2007The Register, UKWikipedia's Maximum Leader Jimmy Wales, it transpires, has blessed an identity fraudster who bamboozled journalists last year, by rewarding him with a full-time job and promotion to Wikipedia's politburo. Wales said he had no qualms with the deception. His comments follow an apology issued by The New

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While you are looking around for a solution to your computer's malware problem it is important to remember that Windows and Internet Explorer have their own standard management tools that can help you get your situation under control. They may even be able to help you remove your computer's infection.Windows comes with a System Configuration Utility installed. This utility can be used to disable

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Return to Witness Statements Index >>>According to User:Kosebamse the following is from a Wikipedian IRC thread:Raul654: oh, and snowspinner, I've come to a conclusionRaul654: making policy on wikipedia is hardRaul654: because there are people who oppose any common sense measuresJamesF: Raul> Indeed.Snowspinner: Yes. I came to that conclusion as well.Raul654: I have decided that it's better to

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The information in Virtual Grub Street's computer postings is the result of thousands of web searches. It can not, however, possibly be complete. The subject is vast and constantly changing. Moreover, vendor uninstall tools and other freeware removal tools do not necessarily remove all of an infection from your computer. Vendor uninstall tools, for instance, may silently leave cookies or other

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I have not been to the Mirar Toolbar Uninstall Pages for quite some time and cannot say when exactly its purveyor, NetNucleus, changed its uninstallation format. If the pages are not a direct reply to Sunbelt Software's letter of January 31, 2007, they certainy address most of the uninstall issues cited in the letter.As of February 16, 2007, there are two uninstall pages for Mirar Toolbar (a.k.a.

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Safe Mode uses a minimal set of system files and device drivers to start Windows. Corrupt or missing program files which may prevent a proper Normal Mode start-up may not be called upon to deploy during a Safe Mode start-up thereby allowing repairs to damaged computer software. Most adware/malware files will not automatically deploy during a Safe Mode start-up. Thus, a file (or toggling file pair

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The following is a detail page of Virtual Grub Street's Adware & Malware Indentifier Index:The information in the Adware & Malware Indentifier Index is the result of thousands of web searches. It can not, however, possibly be complete. The subject is vast and constantly changing. Moreover, vendor uninstall tools and other removal tools do not necessarily remove all of an infection from your

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I've been the target of a number of direct attacks against my computer over the last several months. I'm providing the relevant Norton logs below, including the "remote address" (the IP of the attacker). My own IP is x'd out for obvious reasons.8/6/2006 @ 6:13:42 PM: Rule "Default Block NetBus Trojan horse" blocked (207.12.157.2, NetBus(12345)).Inbound TCP connection.Local address, service is (

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Well, it has certainly been a strange trip. A little over a week ago VGS's blog pages gradually started indexing again. At about the same time one of my reviews at a new venue disappeared from the search engines and subsequent reviews there have failed to appear altogether. I will provide more detail on this subject in a seperate post.With the majority of my blog pages, and more than a few of my

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I thought it might be interesting to review some of the events of my days since I began Wiki Watchdog, on April 22, 2006, and strongly advised readers not to donate to Wikipedia until it institutes key changes to reduce the effects of Wikibullying, Wikiwolfpacking, Wikimobbing, Wikistalking, Wikietcetera. (see: Is Wikipedia Handing Out Your Browsing Information to Thousands?):My Palm Beaches

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Return to Witness Statements Index >>>Phil Sandifer (a.k.a. Snowspinner) is a Wikipedia Administrator who has all but grown famous for this quote from his user page, listed under the heading "I'm not a goddamned inclusionist":All we are saying is give jackbooted fascism a chance.If this seems like an inappropriate philosophy for a Florida-registered non-profit organization it will apparently have

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The following witness statements are presently posted at Wiki Watchdog:"Honor Killings", "Circumcision", "Dog Shows", "Child Soldiers", "Abortion" by Jason Scott;"...it's better to shoot first and ask questions later..." Mark Pellegrini (a.k.a. Raul654);"All we are saying is give jackbooted fascism a chance." Phil Sandifer (a.k.a. Snowspinner);'...the "democratic" people's MAFIA...' Steve Rubel &

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Return to Witness Statements Index >>>Steve Rubel, at Micro Persuasion, upset more than a few Wikipedians and self-professed apathetic-types, when he wrote an article declaring Wikipedia to be King Disruptor III (after Microsoft and Google):History is about to repeat itself. A successor to Google's throne is waiting in the wings - it's Wikipedia, King Disruptor III. Like its predecessors,

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I thought it might be interesting to review some of the events of my days since I posted "Since I Began the Wiki Watchdog," and strongly advised readers not to donate to Wikipedia until it institutes key changes to reduce the effects of Wikibullying, Wikiwolfpacking, Wikimobbing, Wikistalking, Wikietcetera. (see: Is Wikipedia Handing Out Your Browsing Information to Thousands?):The Google cache

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Return to Witness Statements Index >>>Daniel Brandt's battles with Wikipedia are well known. The end of his tenure as an editor seems to have been entirely occupied with attempting to have his Wikipedia bio page removed. The following is an excerpt from his recent letter to Wikimedia's legal counsel, Bradford A. Patrick. The letter appears on Brandt's Wikipedia Watch site: April 23, 2006Bradford

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Return to Witness Statements Index >>>According to his Wikipedia bio, "Warren Boroson (born January 22, 1935) is an American author, journalist with the Daily Record, and syndicated financial columnist. He has written over 20 books, including Keys to Investing in Mutual Funds and How to Buy a House for Nothing (or Little) Down. His most recent book is The Reverse Mortgage Advantage : The Tax-Free

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I thought it might be interesting to review some of the events of my days since I began Wiki Watchdog, on April 22, 2006, and strongly advised readers not to donate to Wikipedia until it institutes key changes to reduce the effects of Wikibullying, Wikiwolfpacking, Wikimobbing, Wikistalking, Wikietcetera. (see: Is Wikipedia Handing Out Your Browsing Information to Thousands?):My Palm Beaches

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Return to Witness Statements Index >>>Jason Scott's The Great Failure of Wikipedia (the "Transcription of a presentation/speech given at Notacon 3, April 8, 2006") has recently appeared in the web and garnered considerable attention. Jason can hardly be called anything but a disinterested witness. The quote, here, is only a tiny portion of a long piece with many wide ranging and intelligent

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Return to Witness Statements Index >>>Joel Leyden, owner and editor of the Israel News Agency, and once a registered Wikipedia User, who went by the handle Israelbeach, hasn't much positive to say about the behavior at Wikipedia:One realizes after being inside Wikipedia, behind the many so-called facts and figures, that there are networks within a network. Some good, some bad. A few respond with

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Return to Witness Statements Index >>> Wiki Watchdog has been getting out a bit lately, learning how to get around within Wikipedia and where to go for insight into how others view the behavior of (rogue?) Wikipedians. There is a lot being said out there. The following excerpted from the chat-page Stumble Upon is among the many amusing comments:by jaberwocky6669, Apr 25, [2006], 8:17amWhat it

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Wikipedia Ripe for Political Dirty Tricks By Shannon McCaffreyAssociated Press WriterApr 28, 2006Montgomery AdvertiserPolitical operatives are covertly rewriting - or defacing - candidates' biographical entries to make the boss look good or the opponent look ridiculous.As a result, political campaigns are monitoring the Web site more closely than ever this election year.Revisions made by Capitol

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The following is a detail page of Virtual Grub Street's Adware & Malware Indentifier Index:The information in the Adware & Malware Indentifier Index is the result of thousands of web searches. It can not, however, possibly be complete. The subject is vast and constantly changing. Moreover, vendor uninstall tools and other removal tools do not necessarily remove all of an infection from your

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Return to Witness Statements Index >>>In the below Wikipedia "Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents" chat-thread older and wiser hands try to calm a newer User (the upper-case "U" indicating a registered Wikipedia user) who finds Wikipedia to consist of "pack psychology driven anarchy" (see: "Is Wikipedia Handing Out Your Browsing Information to Thousands?"):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:ANI#

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Political bias and dirty tricks is the current Wikisubject de cachet, it would seem. This from Mark Glaser's "Wales Discusses Political Bias on Wikipedia" (MediaShift, 21 April 2006):Conservative blogger Robert Cox, who writes the National Debate blog, told me he was amazed at the quality of Wikipedia and thought it was a great resource. But there was something about the free online

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Update (1 May 2006, 06:30 UTC): The individual pages of VGS's PBR began to reappear on the Google search-engine later on the day of the original post. I am pleased to think that it came down to nothing more than a massively coincidental, one-and-one-half-day alogorithmic burp.I've added this update (27 April 2006, 04:09 UTC) to the following post:http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=

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As more and more readers become aware of the extremely unfortunate incident of misusing browsing information - described in Wiki Watchdog's earlier piece Is Wikipedia Handing Out Your Browsing Information to Thousands? - they may find themselves asking the question: "What exactly is LinkSpam?" If they had even so much as heard of it before, they probably thought it referred to links inserted by

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One of Virtual Grub Street's several missions is to provide a clearinghouse for information regarding freeware removal tools available on the Internet. For this reason, it attempts to provide a wide range of information to help you identify which malware your computer is infected with. This may include files names, common infection names, associated url's, and explanatory notes, etc.But this does

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By Gilbert Wesley Purdy."Any user, it would appear, is provided access to the browserinformation of anyone who checks onto any editing platform throughout all public Wikipedia pages!"I have been a fan of Wikipedia. I agree that it must be closely watched to prevent inappropriate material being added to its pages. Perhaps that is why it and I have gotten along so well over the past several years.

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