i'LL BE DAMNED -- an honest report about the Neelix scandal

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i'LL BE DAMNED -- an honest report about the Neelix scandal

Post by ericbarbour » Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:15 am

And they quoted Greg Kohs. Unthinkable....this happened back in 2015 but was barely noticed outside WP world.

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/boo ... itty-trial

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Post by SkepticalHistorian » Sat Sep 04, 2021 4:24 pm

Neelix was extremely prolific. Yesterday I was looking to see if xaragma (in Greek) redirected to the Mark of the Beast and sure enough it did, created by Neelix. How did he ever know how to do that, key words in the definition/ etymology?

I wonder what edits he made immediately before and after that redirect but am not smart enough to search his edit history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... on=history

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Re: i'LL BE DAMNED -- an honest report about the Neelix scandal

Post by ericbarbour » Sat Sep 04, 2021 7:31 pm

SkepticalHistorian wrote:
Sat Sep 04, 2021 4:24 pm
Neelix was extremely prolific. Yesterday I was looking to see if xaragma (in Greek) redirected to the Mark of the Beast and sure enough it did, created by Neelix. How did he ever know how to do that, key words in the definition/ etymology?
Go to "Edit Summary Search" at the bottom of the page and punch in the search string. I tried "Mark Of The Beast" and got this. Then you can go to that day in the history and see what he was grinding.
20:50, 31 August 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+50) . . Χάραγμα ([[WP:AES|←]]Redirected page to [[Number of the Beast#Mark of the Beast]])
20:49, 31 August 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+50) . . Charagma ([[WP:AES|←]]Redirected page to [[Number of the Beast#Mark of the Beast]])
20:49, 31 August 2012 (diff | hist) . . (+94) . . Number of the beast (/* Mark of the Beast */ Added lead)
21:53, 22 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . Mark of the Beast (disambiguation) ([[WP:AES|←]]Redirected page to [[Number of the Beast#Mark of the Beast]])
21:52, 22 June 2011 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . Mark of the beast ([[WP:AES|←]]Redirected page to [[Number of the Beast#Mark of the Beast]])
Since he was eternabanned by Beeblebrox in June, does anyone wanna see his book notes? The Canadian news media thought he was WONDERFUL....back in 2012/13.
https://web.archive.org/web/20121203055 ... -articles/

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Post by SkepticalHistorian » Sat Sep 04, 2021 7:54 pm

Figured it out, thanks to you!

Amazing (“wonderful”) how he bounces from one subject to another:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ta ... tributions

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Post by ericbarbour » Sun Sep 05, 2021 3:27 am

SkepticalHistorian wrote:
Sat Sep 04, 2021 7:54 pm
Amazing (“wonderful”) how he bounces from one subject to another:
The crazier and more mechanical they are, the better the insiders like 'em. Whether the WikiCult admits it or not, they have a good supply of William Chester Minors in their ranks....yes, some of them have cut off their own penises.....

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Post by wexter » Fri Aug 05, 2022 2:42 am

Got on Milk?

I was looking into "Fram" today - he is still typing away on Wikipedia like a Rabid Raccoon in heat;

Learned that Kumioko went full blown sock puppet on Wikipedia's ass.. epic.. placing him on Wikipedia's most wanted list.
I guess Kumioko was not an administrator so he could not lactate with impunity all over Wikipedia...

And then I hit the goldmine..
I took a trip down mammary lane!


Milking Wikipedia for Dozens,Thousands upon thousands of unnecessary redirects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... _redirects

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... t=20151107

https://r.nf/r/HobbyDrama/comments/dk17 ... ges_about/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Neelix

Booby cancer
Booby milk
Booby cyst
Titty cancer
Titty milk
Shrinkages of the titties
Atrophy of the titties
Inflames titties
Tumorous boobies
Suckling of the titties
Segmentally remove titties
Titty constructor
Boobie Builder
Titty banged
Boobie feeding
tit fucking
mammary intercourse

They scrubbed his breasts clean when it comes to him being their ideal online ambassador;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... ply/Neelix

There is nothing that builds credibility for Wikipedia more than an administrator mashing the melons for all that they are worth.

Who me?

Image

How is he employable?

https://www.facebook.com/davidmarkpurdy

“Pornhub... makes hundreds of millions of dollars through ad revenue, data collection, and premium subscriptions, and is blatantly enabling and profiting from rape, sexual abuse, and child sex trafficking.” Shut it down." David Mark Purdy

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/davidmarkpur ... l_referer=

Looks like he is thumping the bible while looking to give porn a mastectomy in the process. You have to turn the other tit to grock his motivation.
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Re: i'LL BE DAMNED -- an honest report about the Neelix scandal

Post by badmachine » Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:26 am

one of the posts in that wpo thread gives a charitable explanation, that he hoped to replace porn in the google results for these terms with the wikipedia entry. being Mormon or whatever, that sounds probably correct to me (even if it is misguided)

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Re: i'LL BE DAMNED -- an honest report about the Neelix scandal

Post by ericbarbour » Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:08 am

badmachine wrote:
Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:26 am
being Mormon or whatever, that sounds probably correct to me (even if it is misguided)
Salvation Army, in fact. I might as well repost the book article.
Part 1:
David Purdy

Neelix (T-C-F-R-B) has become infamous as a thoughtless, robotic "gnome". At first he wrote almost no content, offered no added value to Wikipedia content, and had no ideas and nothing else to say. His username came from a Star Trek character, and he has often gnomed Star Trek articles as part of his "work". When he "came forward" as a "great Wikipedian" in 2012, Canadian news media outlets started doing human-interest stories on him -- in which he cheerfully parroted the standard Wiki-Luv propaganda. Also an enthusiastic member of GLAM. By 2013 he was generating absurdly long articles about very obscure subjects, possibly for pay. And blocking anyone who touched his "work". This ended abruptly in 2015 with a bizarre scandal.

background

From Halifax, Nova Scotia, Purdy was a student at Dalhousie University, then at Acadia University. "He now teaches the history of science and technology tutorial at the University of King’s College in Halifax."

Purdy is a member of the Salvation Army, which explains his interest in human trafficking and prostitution. [1][2]

He was the subject of a November 2012 article. Which was first titled "Meet the man who edited 130,000 Wikipedia articles", which is absurd. He was thence interviewed by the CBC in December 2012, and thereafter in the Truro Daily News, as a result of his involvement in the promotion of a documentary film about sex slavery. Being a "Wikipedia ambassador" made him "newsworthy", and none of the journalists asked what Purdy had actually been doing on Wikipedia.

WP history

He showed up in March 2006, and started gnoming trivial changes. Over and over, often 40-50 per day, for years, almost unnoticed. He finally made himself popular enough to apply for "Online Ambassador" in February 2011, and got the job, despite the poor attendance by other Wikipedians.

Thereafter he put himself up for adminship in March 2011, and squeaked in, despite a number of complaints about his near-total lack of content work and tendency to vote on AFDs. Interestingly, as of 2013 his #1 article for number of edits was She Has A Name, a play about sex slavery.

Also see Tara Teng for more on Purdy's "content work".

As stated on WO:

"Adds almost no content, of course. Ignores the rest of Wikipedia, unless they harass him, of course. The perfect Wiki-Slave. He was attacked in his RFA for "not doing enough patrolling" and "not participating on noticeboards enough". Got the mop anyway. They love their slaves."
"From a brief scan of his editing patterns, he seems more to be self-medicating a form of ADHD through Wikipedia editing, rather than contributing to the "sum of all human knowledge" in any meaningful fashion. The vast majority of "articles" that he has "created" appear to be disambiguation pages".
"That is the exact opposite of diligent, careful, writing and research (while it's possible he does a lot of drafting and revising offline, I would bet large amounts of money against it). And yet he was consistently praised as a "content contributor" in his RFA. You only have to scratch the surface to find the deep, institutional incompetence. It's everywhere."

Shortly after the CBC story above, he was accused by Jeffrey Peters of plagiarism, specifically of the article Carabane, as well as other articles he spent considerable time on.

His fondness for the insipid Christian dating book When God Writes Your Love Story is baffling. Purdy was accused of writing the article for pay, which was not denied. See Conflict of interest.

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Post by ericbarbour » Fri Aug 05, 2022 7:11 am

Part 2
His fixation on "human trafficking"

Purdy created a poor-quality article for Hiram College administrator and human-trafficking activist Roger Cram. Which was deleted in April 2014, after Purdy and crackpot Article Rescue Squadron members such as Green Cardamom (T-C-F-R-B) tried to "save" it. Every area that could conceivably deal with human trafficking and prostitution received obsessive attention from Purdy, even articles about "hypersexuality" and "pantlessness", which Purdy created.

Per journalist Dan Murphy, January 2015:

"Mr. Purdy is currently pushing a dropping of his for "Featured Article." It is about She Has a Name, an extremely minor play by an extremely minor evangelical "abolitionist" from Canada. How minor? Mr. Purdy and Wikipedia have helpfully provided for the little girl in Africa the article "2012 tour of She Has a Name". Mr. Purdy has also written a series of articles about the extremely minor actors who appeared in this extremely minor play.

"The article on the tour is 52,000 bytes long and the article on the play is 84,000 bytes long. Both articles dwarf Wikipedia's treatment of plays ranging from Long Day's Journey into Night (30,000 bytes), Death of a Salesmen (25,000) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (21,000), The Mousetrap (31,000) and Anything Goes (49,000). These are highly influential and culturally relevant English-language plays that have had an impact on academia and the broader culture that reverberate, each for their own reasons, to this day.

"Well, at least Hamlet and Macbeth are deemed more important topics by Mr. Purdy and Wikipedia than this bit of fluff. But, sorry Will, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and King Lear are not.

"(Oh, for Chrissakes: Mr. Purdy has also written a 50,000 byte article called Critical response to She Has a Name. The level of bias and elevation of the trivial to epic lengths in a promotional effort is so great as to make Purdy's "encyclopedia writing" indistinguishable from bad PR work. Would it shock you to learn that the critics have uniformly been moved to raptures by this play, according to Mr. Purdy? Second sentence, particularly delicious since this is supposed to be about a work of art: "She Has a Name, written by Andrew Kooman, has since become tremendously successful, garnering a number of strong endorsements from Canadian abolitionists." Another: "Those who listened to readings of the script at the Scripts At Work workshop are said to have been stunned into silence." He is of course a powerful and valued insider among Jimmy Wales' loving and thoughtful community)."

"This is just from clicking on obscure links about people and things I've never heard of within the Teng article, all written by David Purdy (AKA: Neelix), all within a month of each other last year. All with very poor sourcing, uncritical, and boosterish. All either about evangelical Christianity (many of the articles conceal these links, which is typical for proselytizing groups seeking do-gooder street cred as cover), connected to Teng in some way, or both (some of the below seem solely designed for SEOing Tara Teng's Wikipedia article, i.e. "Riverside Park (Kamloops):"

*Let Me Be a Woman
*Darren Storsley
*Mitch Merrett
*25 Transformational Canadians
*Women of Distinction Awards
*Servants Anonymous Society
*Ron Wear
*Sunny Fong
*David Batstone
*Nicole Dunsdon
*Riverside Park (Kamloops)
*Tania Fiolleau
*Freedom Week
*Buying Sex is Not a Sport
*An Act to amend the Criminal Code (minimum sentence for offences involving trafficking of persons under the age of eighteen years)
*Bangkok Girl
*Natasha Falle
*Ignite the Road to Justice

"And… I give up. There look to be about 15 more."

COI?

"With not too much looking you begin to find clearly "involved" ("involved" is a Wikipedia term for administrators acting with a clear conflict of interest to silence editing opponents) blocks by Mr. Purdy. (This is supposed to be against the rules for their administrators but is generally ignored at leisure).

"For instance Xxxxxf (T-C-F-R-B), blocked for fairly innocuous edits to Purdy's Tara Teng article and to what I can only hope is an article from clients paying for him to surreptitiously create a Wikipedia article for them, Men Are Like Waffles — Women Are Like Spaghetti (it appears to be built around the idea that women struggle to present information in an orderly and concise fashion. Not making this up).

"He also blocked Dicklickerish (T-C-F-R-B) yesterday for the reason that the username was inappropriate (yes) and that it was vandalizing (a lie). Its only edit was to fiddle with some language on one of Purdy's possessions.

"Another recent use of the word "vandalism" by David Mark Purdy to describe edits to one of his articles that he doesn't like. Mr. Purdy then accused his opponent of being a sockpuppet without providing evidence beyond "disagrees with Mr. Purdy, too." The article in question? Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant. It is, in Purdy's version, five times longer than the Wikipedia article on Lutèce, 5x longer than the article on Les Deux Magots and twice as long as ElBulli (I just picked these three out of my own knowledge of reasonably "important" restaurants). Jimmy Wales, David Mark Purdy, and friends, refuse to recognize how much damage they are doing to "knowledge" with a popular reference work that routinely gets every ounce of emphasis wrong. "

As of the beginning of 2015 Purdy had accumulated 173,000 edits. His most edited article: She Has A Name, with 604 edits. Tara Teng was second, with 410 edits.

As a result of the Teng squabble, he "retired" on 7 January. And three of the worst Wikipedians imaginable -- Cirt, Harry Mitchell, and Jonathan Hochman -- start blocking people who are trying to fix the mess Purdy left.

Predictably, he waited a couple of months for the "stink" to blow over. And returned on 4 March, and started grinding useless minor changes just as before, without a word of explanation or apology.

27 March: "An item that was overlooked about Neelix, just stumbled over today: Russian Dolls: Sex Trade This TV show is unknown in the US or Canada, as far as I can tell. Neelix messed with it several times because the show is about sex trafficking -- yet at no time did he bother to repair the article's broken English." Also, "As recently as 23 March, Neelix was grinding on Commons with bots--hundreds of category edits per day. And he is still grinding on en-WP itself. Perhaps someone can explain why he, a guy in Canada, spends so much time working on articles about "theme" restaurants at Disney World, such as 50's Prime Time Café, Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano, and Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant. Is this paid editing, or is he just hopelessly in love with Disney World?"

Weird redirects, and BOOBS

Comical ANI thread [3], November 2015.

"If they think links like Titty constructor, Boobie builder and a dozen variations --> Breast reconstruction and Tiny titties with many variations --> Micromastia and many similar things I strongly suggest they do not have the maturity and judgement we expect in out administrators. JbhTalk 22:10, 5 November 2015 (UTC)‎"

"(edit conflict) FFS I just found Booby cancer, Booby milk, Booby cyst, Titty cancer, Titty milk - it goes on and on and they have been doing this since at least September. Those redirects just seem to be hidden in the hundreds of semi-automated edits they do per day. JbhTalk 22:19, 5 November 2015 (UTC)"

"Additional Comment -- I have now went back months into this editors contributions, and the thousands upon thousands of absolutely puerile and useless redirects is staggering. Literally there are thousands and thousands just in the last several months. Something needs to be done about this, but I am not sure what. The editor also has many useful edits, but this type of behavior needs to be curtailed and/or there needs to be some type of promise made. Dave Dial (talk) 23:05, 5 November 2015 (UTC)"

Much spluttering and hand wringing and righteous indignation at Jimbo's place [4].

And it finally gets to the Arbcom [5]. He resigned his adminship in the middle of the process. Because Purdy was a "prominent Wikipedia ambassador" in Canada, and had received favorable press coverage, the restriction on redirects placed at AN/I was left in force--and any talk about desysopping him was shouted down BEFORE he resigned.

One result was a MEL Magazine article about his hijinks. Another result was that he resorted to running numerous sockpuppets, to continue his human-trafficking "campaign", in between bouts of likely paid editing of biographies, and a fascination with Miss Universe contestants (probably not approved by the Salvation Army). This went on for SIX YEARS, until he was finally eternabanned by Beeblebrox in June 2021.
And in case you're wondering: he is still running sockpuppets today. The SPI was useless--full of "excuses" why they can't undo what he'd been doing. And one of his most asinine creations, She Has A Name, is still 86k bytes long, making it one of the "most important stage plays in history". According to Wikipedia.

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Post by wexter » Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:27 pm

Thanks Eric, it was clear to me, after looking at his Facebook and LinkedIn pages, that he had a religious agenda of some kind. His resume ranges from the Salvation army to librarian at several religious universities. (his resume is splotchy, he goes through jobs like candy)

On LinkedIn, He wears his Wikipedia experience as a medal! On face value alone it is highly embarrassing for Wikipedia, doubly so when you consider the motivation and the sheer scope of his activities.


I just asked him a question on Facebook


David Mark Purdy
University Librarian at Crandall University
Studied at Western University
8:21 AM
You sent
I would like to know your motivation for redirecting entries on Wikipedia? Is this something that has affected your employ-ability or is it considered a credential because it is a form of social justice?
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