Strelnikov finishes that MONGO post.....

[Strelnikov]

Right here.

Sweet Soviet Jesus, that article had a ton of links.

[ericbarbour]

Looks good. You could have made it unreadably long, the many links will do the job in a better way. No one (and I mean no one, not even WO) wants to talk about MONGO anymore. I guess he's "ancient history" now.

Funny how, in all those pre-2008 WR threads where they complained about MONGO, very few of them pointed out something obvious: he was permitted to be a WP conservative because he was pro-Israel and anti-Muslim. His chasing of 9/11 conspiracy types made him "untouchable" for a while, despite being a worthless administrator. The innumerable pro-Israel abuses by insiders like SV and Jayjg and outboard freaks like Zeq and Isarig are fading into insignificance already. (Speaking of which, it would be great to have Huldra/Adversary on this forum. She was the only WP critic I ever found who was watching the Israel/Palestine squabbling closely and keeping track of things therein.)

But even MONGO was an "old line" Wikipedian. He actually wrote some useful content when he wasn't banning people and getting things oversighted. Most of the current admin crowd couldn't write a usable paragraph about a videogame, much less a whole article.

[Flip Flopped]

That's a very readable post. Very helpful to get a quick picture of the power MONGO wielded.

I'd missed a couple of your blog posts. Thanks for putting the link to this on here.

[sashi]

Oddly, I just watched Blazing Saddles for the first time the other day. Since reading excerpts from Eric's book I've wondered why Bishonen alleges she is so tight with MONGO.

[Mutineer]

"You know what, I think I will now delete the history of those IP's just so you stay curious," says the Wikipedia administrator Mongo. Great one for the book, Strel, which deserves another hidden backup.

[Strelnikov]

Nobody got the Martin Bormann joke, which was right out of the Gene Wilder Willy Wonka movie.