So, theory out the way. Let's see what Beeblebrox is in practice, and more importantly, what that says about the low moral standards and high level corruption that defines the toxic Wikipedia community.
On any given day, Beeblebrox can be found being an absolute scumbag, breaking every principle, rule and behavioural code that he is theoretically not just bound by himself, but is expected to enforce in Wikipedia's hundreds of thousands of editors.
A typical day these days, now that he has inexplicably decided to become an integral part of the Wikipediocracy forum (to even the embarrassment of his own ArbCom peers, some of whom are also members, but all of whom have at least tried to maintain a dignified air when posting), starts as follows.....Beeblebrox joins a thread on the Wikipediocracy forum about a Commons user called Fae.
https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewto ... 23&t=12109
Fae is a valued volunteer of the Wikimedia movement, having made hundreds of thousands of edits to Commons in particular. Fae had floated a idea on Commons that users might somehow display a "tip jar" on their user pages, and thus directly benefit from donations.
It's a little out there, but harmless, and indeed in certain circumstances, potentially useful. Not circumstances that affect Beeblebrox, only in cases where a user has shown a true commitment to the mission of Commons, which necessarily takes time and expense. You can be a committed Wikipedia editor without ever leaving your mom's basement, but to be truly useful to Commons, can involve lots of travelling and of course, expensive equipment. The same was true of Wikinews, which is perhaps why Traditional English Wikipedia people like Beeblebrox worked so hard to kill it. They're not so much trying to kill Commons, as perform a slow takeover, replacing Commons people with their own and thus making their culture the same as Wikipedia, which would be tantamount to killing it.
Enter Beeblebrox then. The thread on Wikipediocracy was started by the clueless twat Giraffe Stapler, whose cluelessness is so high he somehow cast this as Fae trying to obtain funds from the WMF. At least I think that's what he meant. As is normal for Wikipediocracy, a topic was posted but the poster offered no context or analysis except the title, "Fae wants a taste of that sweet, sweet WMF money", and one throwaway line, "Are you tired of volunteering and getting nothing in return?".
To an outsider, it might not even be obvious why the thread was started. They might be particularly confused since the idea that it might somehow be possible to find some way to compensate editors for their efforts (on Wikipedia, naturally) is often floated on Wikipediocracy as a potential reform. People like Wikipedia Administrator No Ledge whine incessantly on there about how they're expected to work for free, while the WMF staff get rich off their backs. Naturally, there's nobody on that forum brave enough or indeed intelligent enough to tell that English Wikipedia Administrator that he's not working a job, he's engaged in a voluntary effort, and he can fuck off any time he likes. You need people around who aren't addicts, to tell addicts that they're addicts.
To us, well, we know that Wikipediocracy is not much more than a social club for English Wikipedia editors like No Ledge. What they hate, Wikipediocracy hates. And they truly hate Commons, because they dare to be an independent project not subject to the insane bureaucracy and toxic power games of the English Wikipedia community. English Wikipedia editors see Commons as nothing more than a photo album for English Wikipedia. As usual, this is a view that flies in the face of WMF bylaws, and is rather insulting to all the other language Wikipedia's too, all of whom make use of the multi language central hosted media repository.
One image hosted in Commons can be displayed on all the Wikipedias. Fuck that shit, is the usual response of the notoriously racist, toxic and insular English Wikipedia volunteers. People like the ironically Italian born Giano, who greedily want their images hosted locally on English Wikipedia, largely because they're copyright morons and react with incandescent rage even when their images are deleted on Commons for entirely legitimate means. If Beeblebrox were doing his job, that toxic asshole would have been binned off long ago. He survives because of the widely known and uniquely English Wikipedia problem of the Vested Contributor (edits equal immunity).
Unsurprisingly, a famous example of that is English Wikipedia Administrator(!) Ritchie333, who responded to one such valid deletion not by doing what the rules say he should do, not per the good conduct standard theoretically set out and ensured by Beeblebrox and his peers, but by running straight to Wikipediocracy to viciously attack individuals and the community, up to and including floating the idea of a mass attack as revenge. Classy eh? I would have to check to see if Beeblebrox was around back then, but in all honesty, if I just lied and said he was, and that he either did nothing, or even enthusiastically joined in, you would believe me, right? If the cap fits.....
Because of course, Beeblebrox gladly shares all these rabidly hostile but usually entirely unfair views of Commons, because to accept Commons as a truly independent project means he would have to accept that he isn't as powerful as he thinks he is. This is perhaps a big reason why he is so attracted to the Wikipediocracy community, who happily fellate him. Odd behaviour, for alleged Wikipedia critics. But they are nothing if not odd.
For broadly similar reasons, Fae in particular is hated by Wikipediocracy. That forum is a haven for the sort of bullying racist homophobic bastards that are slowly, far too slowly, being squeezed out of the still all too white straight male English Wikipedia community, a demographic Beeblebrox of course fits to a tee.
The proudly different Fae, who has never been afraid to stand up to bullies, was banned by Wikipedia long before these slow and creeping reforms. Only recently, one of English Wikipedia's most valued and experienced editors, Guy Macon, was in receipt of a veritable wrist slap of a two day block, for having been a transphobic troll in the way he responded to Fae drafting an attempted appeal. This is what passes as a tough stance on intolerance, under the moral leadership of Beeblebrox.
So naturally, when Beeblebrox saw a thread about Fae on Wikipediocracy, he of course couldn't suppress his instinct to pile on. Like a massive loser, ticking all the boxes for the stereotype of a Wikinerd, he was the first responder, adding only a lame Star Trek meme.
Suitably alerted by Wikipediocracy lighting up Fae to an inherently biased audience, which contrary to his denials is of course exactly what CANVASSING is meant to prevent, Beeblebrox then duly headed over to Commons to place the following comment.....
It is what it is. Inflammatory. Trollish. Unconstructive. Unhelpful. Mean.We could call it "OnlyFae" it'll be great. Nothing ould possibly go wrong with this rock-solid idea to panhandle on Commons! Beeblebrox (talk) 21:04, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
Of course one of the main issues with the English Wikipedia community, is that the higher up the food chain you get, the less likely you are to be sanctioned for such things. Behaviour like this from established and entrenched users, is truly normalised on English Wikipedia. And the fish rots from the head down. It probably no longer even occurs to Beeblebrox that even this one little comment, breaks multiple user behaviour policies he is theoretically meant to be enforcing and emulating as a leadership figure, which, unsurprisingly in their written form, still present the theoretical model of user participation on Wikipedia - be kind, be respectful, be constructive, be nice, don't be a bully, don't be a dick, don't waste other people's time and precious Admin resources by needless starting fires and pursing personal feuds that have to be put out.
To put it even more simply, don't be a dick suffices. Beeblebrox had a choice. If he felt like he needed to oppose this proposal, he could have simply said it was a bad idea, add a non personal reason why, and be done with it.
As you can probably pick up, there was more to this than his mere disapproval of the idea. This was about Beeblebrox hating Fae, and being presented with an opportunity by his scuzzy hate filled mates at Wikipediocracy, to express it. We can't know why, but it seems reasonable to assume that the lady doth protest too much, and he is indeed, homophobic.
The thread on Wikipediocracy meanwhile rumbled on in their patented way, and eventually Beeblebrox couldn't restrain himself, and jumped right in, two footed. Not with specific or helpful commentary of course. That would be far too close to the alleged Wikipediocracy mission of informing the media and the public. No, he participated in close alignment with Wikipediocracy's true mission, being an extension of the toxic elements of the Wikipedia community.
It's so bad, it bears quoting in full.
What a nasty little turd, eh? A blatant and severe personal attack in the very first line, and it only went downhill from there.In their mind they are the most beloved user Commons ever had, after all they have made so very many contributions! I forget who told me about that, again and again and again.
The fact that they can't get elected as an admin or get on the volunteer response team is only because of homophobia, it can't possibly because nobody trusts them.
He wasn't done. The next morning, he had more.....
Take a moment to pause and reflect on what Wikipediocracy's alleged mission is. And take another moment to consider what Beeblebrox's position and role in the Wikimedia movement is. Are you experiencing a little vomit in your throat? Good. That means you're normal. You might make a good Wikipedia critic.Aaaand now Fae has decided to make a new thread complaining about this thread and claiming they are frightened of me. Apparently my comments, which he clearly reads regularly, are super scary and commons should somehow get me fired from the oversight team on en.wp. Good luck with that Fae, enjoy your continued lurking here. Just so we're clear, we all already know you lurk here, you've made that exceedingly obvious many times, so this isn't the "gotcha" you imagine it is.
If you're thinking you might want to make a trip to Alaska solely to find out where Beeblebrox lives, knock on his door, and bury an axe in his skull, well, you might not be normal, but at least you're unbalanced in the right direction. The world truly needs psycho killers who make it their just mission to kill homophobic bullies, especially those who rest so comfortably in closeted positions of power in movements that on paper, profess their inclusive credentials as a means to extract monies from gullible fools.
That aspect of this affair is just one of the many things that of course could have been raised on Wikipediocracy as a useful data point to educate the public as to the broad brush problems with the Wikimedia movement, but funnily enough, it entirely escaped their notice. The price of preferring to have members like Giraffe Stapler and Vigilant, rather than serious Wikipedia critics.
The price of wanting to be a forum that is a willing English Wikipedia ally in the interminable one sided war against all the other projects that defines the Wikimedia family of sister projects, rather than being an observer looking upon events from on high. From 50,000 feet, one might say. Maybe occasionally prodding at weaknesses here and there, but only to produce experimental results that can then be analysed and documented for the benefit of humanity.
Anyway, I've said too much. I don't want to confuse Wikipediocracy with matters of high level critical strategy, I know how such things hurt their tiny brains, not being critics at all.
Back to the analysis.

Fae had indeed, quite reasonably, raised Beeblebrox's behaviour as an issue to debate on the Commons Administrator noticeboard.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.p ... Beeblebrox
Broadly summarised, because Fae did rather get lost in the weeds of specifics, it's unacceptable for a Commons editor to be trolling other Commons editors in this way. The unconstructive, inflammatory, insulting nature of the posts, is unsurprisingly, against Commons policy.
And let's keep it really simple. It is harassment. And Beeblebrox's method of making use of both on and off site venues to do so, and in a way that flaunted the fact they knew who that editor is in real life, is an aggravating factor. For context, in a similar case a few years ago, this alone was considered sufficient for the WMF to immediately and permanently globally ban an English Wikipedia editor from all WMF sites and events, as a clear and present danger to the safety of not just their target, but in all likelihood, all other editors who might meet the profile of editors they hated (in their case, outspoken women looking to change Wikipedia's sexist culture).
This and other actions were clear historical signs that the WMF is perfectly willing to enforce minimal standards over the heads of local governance when necessary (because in their wisdom the local community had chosen to deal with that editor with only an interaction ban, and even that took the full time, effort and further distress of having to have a full Arbitration case). This is why Beeblebrox was reelected to ArbCom after the Framgate controversy, because the English Wikipedia community knows where he stands on that issue. Individual's safety matters little when contrasted against the rights of Vested Contributors and the ability of the English Wikipedia community to protect it's own.
Fae has reasonable grounds to believe the intent of Beeblebrox here was not just to annoy him and make him hate rather than love contributing to Commons, which is itself classified as harassment in both the local English Wikipedia rulebook and the wider global anti-harassment policy, it is to actually upset him, to cause some kind of visceral physical reaction. We can't know if Fae is actually afraid or not, but we can put ourselves in the shoes of someone who is subjected to these attacks, and factor in the fact it is part of an extremely long running campaign of hate, and draw our own conclusions as to what a reasonable person would be feeling.
Put simply, they would be upset. They would be looking for a reason why this is being tolerated.
Which brings us back to Beeblebrox. Does he even have a reason for this latest misconduct? Other than wanting to upset Fae. None that I can see. Beeblebrox makes vague allegations both on Wikipediocracy and on Commons that it is Fae who is harassing him, but he offers no evidence, and without it, it's reasonable to see these as the pathetic excuses of a bully, for whom blaming the victim is a natural and indeed necessary part of their damaged psyche.
Don't take my word for it, Beeblebrox out and out did it on Commons......
What an utter fanny.Yes, it's all my fault. the great and powerful Fae is utterly blameless and has not made a habit of accusing me of bad faith in every single discussion I comment in. What this is really about is me mocking their ridiculous idea that they deserves "tips" for their volunteer work here. Canvassing, by the normally understood definition, canvassing is encouraging a certain group to comment in a specific conversation. Commenting on an off-wiki criticism site is not canvassing if one does not do that, and I have not. Fae clearly keeps abreast of what is said over there, so he can make this same tired accusation every time. Unless commons is intending to ban all users from commenting on any offsite forum, there's not much to do here. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:42, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
If there is one thing worse than a bully, it's a snivelling coward. Rather than hold his hands up and admit that yes, he's trying to bully and upset Fae, and he's been caught bang to rights, he rather hilariously tries to claim Fae made him do it.
Fae is of course not great and powerful. On Commons, where there is no such thing as a Vested Contributor, he is just an ordinary editor like Beeblebrox, subject to the same rules as everyone else. Beeblebrox has way more power, by virtue of his other roles and responsibilities outside of Commons, one of which is indeed the ability to read information that has been suppressed from public view on Wikipedia. He being part of the team whose job it is to suppress it.
To take a not so random example, information like Fae's home address, should a Wikipediocracy poster ever think it would be a fun idea to post that on Wikipedia. Perhaps because they were encouraged to do so by a harassment campaign participated in on that very forum by someone who resides at the very highest levels of English Wikipedia governance. Wikipedia editors know all too well that they inhabit a feudal type society, so if they see that Beeblebrox hates Fae, wants to cause him harm, if not physically then at least emotionally, then for sure, the lesser peons lower down the foodchain, will see an opportunity for advancement here, by assisting Beeblebrox in their hate campaign.
What I found most hilarious was that Beeblebrox openly admitted to having deliberately mocked Fae, as if perhaps that was somehow a lesser crime than harassment. Mocking is of course the screwdriver in the bullies toolbox. The hammer is the personal attack. The power drill is the fact Beeblebrox admits he knew Fae would see his comments on Wikipediocracy, he knew it would upset him, and he knew it would offer him even more opportunities to stick the knife in once Fae had inevitably reacted.
It would have been odd, after all, for Beeblebrox to just randomly drop a statement like "[Fae has] made a habit of accusing me of bad faith in every single discussion I comment in" in some random Commons proposal. That right there is a serious accusation, if not harassment then the lesser but also serious crime of hounding, and under the very rules that Beeblebrox oversees at English Wikipedia, he knows that if you truly feel that way, there is only one permitted way of raising it. You file a complaint at a noticeboard, and you present your evidence.
Beeblebrox hasn't done that. And he has offered no evidence. Probably because he made it up. It is what it looks like, a rather pathetic attempt by a powerful bully to escape scrutiny by throwing mud, and seeing if any of it sticks.
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