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by Jake Is A Sellout » Tue May 11, 2021 11:07 am
Gerard is still an Admistrator. He'd sail onto ArbCom, if he thought there was any strategic point or pressing need for him being there.
He was recently topic banned from one tiny little bit of the encyclopedia, and that was only because he was found guilty of basic and obvious BLP violations. Stuff that looked like it could become a PR problem, because it really was so blatant. Gerard backed down from his usual wikilawyer the fuck out of it stance, because in the end, he saw it wasn't worth fighting about, and that if he had, it would risk his primary mission, for which he of course needs to be an Administrator.
If you had to list the five Admins who are never ever going to get desysopped, because they're not just crucial to the current mission of Wikipedia, they are the current mission of Wikipedia (which is ultimately how you tell the difference between him now and Slim at her peak), he'd be on it.
Gerard is literally rewriting the entire encyclopedia, single handedly. He is performing a FAIT ACCOMPLI. This is contrary to the holy scripture of the robed ones.
The pussies of ArbCom are no threat to someone like that. Nor are Wikipediocracy.
Jimmy is no threat either, in large part because he cares so little about what goes on at Wikipedia, that the dumb fuck genuinely thinks Gerard will be stopping well before the number of links to the Mail hits zero. Literally zero.
The Foundation don't care, their purpose on this Earth has little or nothing to do with deciding what is and is not a reliable source on Wikipedia. Sometimes that annoys the Wikipedians, who would appreciate their support in their fight against the Mail and the right wing in general, but mostly they are happy with it, because if the Foundation said what the Wikishits have been saying about the Mail, they could of course be sued for defamation, and it would cost them a good chunk of their endowment, with no guarantee they would even win.
Gerard wants to get this done as fast as possible, with as few people noticing as possible.
It is beyond lucky for him that the Mail, in their wisdom, have decided he really doesn't matter. That his completion of his messianic mission, can only serve their interests, if the world then looks at Wikipedia and sees that their ban of their newspaper is about one thing, and one thing only - the Wikishits dislike of the Mail's political opinions.
Gerard reads The Guardian. Jimmy Wales was on the board of The Guardian. Wikipediocracy member Micheal Cockram is the person who initiated the Mail ban, and tipped off the Guardian to get their presses ready.
The Guardian report of the ban is now the prime source in Wikipedia's article for the Daily Mail supporting this defamatory claim that they have been "widely criticised" for unreliability, even thought that makes no sense at all, it being a basic and obvious violation of Wikipedia policy to present an act of Wikishits, as the opinion of a reliable source merely reporting that act.
The Guardian has certainly never printed this claim as if it were a fact, or any words to that effect. They haven't even printed it as their opinion, which tells you something.
It cannot be challenged or removed, because Wikipedia is inherently biased, and because David Gerard and Guy Chapman are Wikipedia Administrators whose primary mission is to step in whenever it might look like the natural bias of the community might not be enough to prevent real world facts fact from replacing their fiction.
The very nature of power and corruption on Wikipedia, has most definitely changed since Slim was a player. These fuckers don't need socks. They literally do it in plain sight.
The only socks involved here, are the cowards who call me crazy on Wikipediocracy as if they're serious Wikipedia critics, and then with their undisclosed Wikipedia accounts, work to frustrate those who read my words on Wikipediocracy, and seek to act on them through editing Wikipedia to remove unverified text.
And I seriously doubt Slim EVER had everyone from Stewards to ArbCom members to filter managers to the Wikipediocracy site Admin all being prepared to lend them a helping hand in their daily acts of corruption.
It's getting to the point where you really would need the help of a state actor to seriously put a dent in any of this. And they're just surely going to turn around and say to any request for help, well, sure, we could do it that way, but wouldn't it just be easier if David Gerard one day just didn't wake up? If they even consider it worth their time, which they wouldn't.
I think this is what lies behind Guy Macon's fake cardiac arrest. I think he genuinely wants people to think he's important enough for someone to want to take him out. He wishes he was a Gerard or a Chapman.
And I have certainly not seen any new power players join this fray in over a decade. Sometimes an ambitious Admin will get involved, in support for the already established direction of corruption, as part of a transparent attempt to further climb the ladder, but it's pretty obvious the ambitions of those sorts of people are not so lofty that they seek to supplant the likes of Gerard or Chapman.
And I would lay good money that there hasn't been a single successful request for Adminship in the last decade where the candidate had ever said a stupid thing like, well, yeah, if you showed me evidence that David Gerad and Guy Chapman are deliberately violating Wikipedia policy in furtherance of a smear campaign against the Daily Mail or even a wider push to sustain Wikipedia as a tool of the left, I would block them.
Nobody who has ever expressed such a thought, much less shown an inclination that this is how they would wield power on Wikipedia, has ever been so much as granted a sliver of it.
This is the Wikipedia communty and realpolitik that has quietly evolved over the last decade, their survival strategy, with the help of Wikipediocracy being the sort of pace that prefers to hear the opinions of those who thinks that's a really good thing, rather than a realy bad thing.