Re: Philip Cross
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 10:31 pm
There's been a summary posted on the ArbCom noticeboard of a whole host of mostly innocuous edits. §. This led me to second-guess a bit, so I had a look at some of the more central complaints.
Mr. Cross is responsible for 34.8% of the characters on the Socialist Worker's Party § . NHSavage is #2 with 16.7%
on George Galloway: 60.4% §
Piers Robinson. This article has been cut from 8.2K to 2.2K since Philip Cross' last add, but he still remains the #2 editor (31%) behind Philafrenzy (52%): §
Earlier, Piers, or someone impersonating him, had come in and tried to delete some one-sided text. NeilN soft-blocked the account on the grounds that it was named for a famous person: §. A few days later Drmies came and cut out almost all of the text the account had objected to.
On the Tim Hayward entry, there was an exceptionally long editwar (both sides at >8RR, I believe), which NeilN ended by summarily blocking the person trying to add a reference to Jonathan Cook's article, "The Authoritarians who Silence Syria Questions" §. Philip Cross? Despite making no BLP / NPOV claim, just deleting the article over and over and over, no action was taken by NeilN, (because Counterpunch is not a symmemological / canonical source for any claims, not even the most straightforward ones, like the name of the "working group" Hayward & Robinson are part of, I guess.)
Even old Roland Dumas has been telling anyone who will listen that regime change has *long* been on the British agenda. But that sort of basic knowledge doesn't belong in English Wikipedia. There will be no Counterpunch, no Meyssan articles from VoltaireNet (§) noting that Assad had returned his légion d'honneur (Chirac pinning it on), that Germany had roundly stated the recent attacks were illegal, that the Russians were effective at jamming French technology, that... no, no, no. McWiki doesn't serve spicy dal. Give me seconds of that soft-serve Puffington Host, please. Slurp...
Cross likewise dismissed the Cook article from Piers Robinson's entry: §.
Mr. Cross is responsible for 34.8% of the characters on the Socialist Worker's Party § . NHSavage is #2 with 16.7%
on George Galloway: 60.4% §
Piers Robinson. This article has been cut from 8.2K to 2.2K since Philip Cross' last add, but he still remains the #2 editor (31%) behind Philafrenzy (52%): §
Earlier, Piers, or someone impersonating him, had come in and tried to delete some one-sided text. NeilN soft-blocked the account on the grounds that it was named for a famous person: §. A few days later Drmies came and cut out almost all of the text the account had objected to.
On the Tim Hayward entry, there was an exceptionally long editwar (both sides at >8RR, I believe), which NeilN ended by summarily blocking the person trying to add a reference to Jonathan Cook's article, "The Authoritarians who Silence Syria Questions" §. Philip Cross? Despite making no BLP / NPOV claim, just deleting the article over and over and over, no action was taken by NeilN, (because Counterpunch is not a symmemological / canonical source for any claims, not even the most straightforward ones, like the name of the "working group" Hayward & Robinson are part of, I guess.)
Even old Roland Dumas has been telling anyone who will listen that regime change has *long* been on the British agenda. But that sort of basic knowledge doesn't belong in English Wikipedia. There will be no Counterpunch, no Meyssan articles from VoltaireNet (§) noting that Assad had returned his légion d'honneur (Chirac pinning it on), that Germany had roundly stated the recent attacks were illegal, that the Russians were effective at jamming French technology, that... no, no, no. McWiki doesn't serve spicy dal. Give me seconds of that soft-serve Puffington Host, please. Slurp...
Cross likewise dismissed the Cook article from Piers Robinson's entry: §.