In 2008, Shankbone uploaded a number of photographs to the Wikimedia servers that were either offensive, or outright pornography--some were homosexual in nature, a few were taken on the set of a Michael Lucas porn video production. Said photos were deleted by Jimmy Wales himself or other Wikipedia admins after more than a year of controversy and dispute. Some were included in Wikimedia's "Bad Images List".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Bad_image_list
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Film_set_of_Michael_Lucas,_Apr_2008
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=Jimbo+Wales
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=22973
A few of Shankbone's offensive photos are still visible on Wikimedia servers (Warning: extremely offensive images):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Taint_by_David_Shankbone.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Glans_Penis_by_David_Shankbone.jpg
Despite the Wikipedia proscription against "sockpuppets", or anonymous accounts used for subterfuge, Shankbone is known to have operated sockpuppet accounts on-wiki. The following are believed to be inactive Shankbone socks. There may be others which have not been discovered yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Johanbach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WatchingWhales
Despite the Wikipedia proscription against personal attacks, Shankbone has pursued personal vendettas against people with whom he had disputes, on-wiki or off. Examples follow.
Shankbone clashed with Ted Frank (Wikipedia user THF) and other Wikipedia conservatives over the Wikipedia articles about Michael Moore and his documentary "Sicko".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive290#Official_that_www.MichaelMoore.com_is_an_attack_website.3F__Because_it_is_being_removed_again_by_the_Anti-Moore_patrol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive288#Michael_Moore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive289#Dear_Mr._Moore.2C_doesn.27t_Wikipedia_look_stupid.3F
Shankbone supposedly used one of his "sockpuppet" accounts to defame Mr. Frank, via Frank's Wikipedia biography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Frank&limit=500&action=history
Shankbone has pursued a personal grudge against Paul Wehage (Wikipedia Review user The FieryAngel, who edited Wikipedia under the name Musikfabrik). The original reason for this grudge is not known, though it appears to have evolved from an argument with Wehage on WR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive465#Stalking_by_Folantin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Arbitration_enforcement/Archive25#Jean-Thierry_Boisseau
http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Utilisateur:David_Shankbone&diff=prev&oldid=29848858
http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discussion_utilisateur:Hellokittybangbang&diff=prev&oldid=29614807
http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Utilisateur:Musikfabrik&diff=prev&oldid=29614790
There was a recent dispute with Wikipedia critic and noted Guardian writer Seth Finkelstein.
http://blog.shankbone.org/2009/04/20/seth-finkelstein-the-guardian-and-wikipedia/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Seth_Finkelstein#Reporting_on_Wikipedia_and_Your_Conflict-of-Interest
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=23767
Plus, Shankbone has repeatedly claimed that members of Wikipedia Review are "stalking" himself and others. These claims were made after Shankbone was banned from Wikipedia Review for his abusive behavior.
http://blog.shankbone.org/2008/12/02/ikipedia-arbitrtation-committee-cool-hand-luke-and-the-wikipedia-review/
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ADavid_Shankbone&diff=285711879&oldid=285709190
Shankbone has a section on his user page in which he lists a number of IP addresses that a "stalker" has allegedly used to harass him. Oddly enough, they are located in Paterson, New Jersey, where many of his family and friends live.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Shankbone/72.76
Example of such threat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Alison&diff=prev&oldid=235825966
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive472#Banned_.22Gay_Pornography_Vandal.22_is_back
A woman named "Samantha Niclas" has attempted to friend known Shankbone opponents on Facebook. She is a NYC-area attorney, her IP address is in the same range as the "stalker" Shankbone alleged above, and she comments on Shankbone's blog frequently.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Samantha-Niclas/569586244
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/7/119/776
Shankbone has worked closely with notorious Wikipedia former administrator SlimVirgin, herself often accused of violating NPOV and COI when editing articles related to Israel and the Middle East.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SlimVirgin&diff=194737593&oldid=194708717
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SlimVirgin&diff=180503584&oldid=180503429
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SlimVirgin&diff=240808152&oldid=240654465
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SlimVirgin&diff=261151350&oldid=260925434
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:David_Shankbone&diff=284977308&oldid=284934605
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SlimVirgin&diff=177067669&oldid=177067090
He has also brown-nosed the elite of Wikipedia administration:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Shankbone/Hall_of_The_Greats
Despite its famous hostility to Wikipedia, Shankbone has several accounts on the satirical wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica. (He once had a post on his blog called "Why I Love Encyclopedia Dramatica", which was recently deleted.) Note that Shankbone is using the name "the fieryangel" on ED, which is the name used by one of his critics (Paul Wehage) on Wikipedia Review. Shankbone has used ED articles to attack people who he regards as "enemies", such as Wikipedia Review user Greg Kohs. The current MyWikiBiz article on ED, which has been protected and contains defamatory statements about Kohs and his family, was written by the Shankbone sock account at the bottom of the following list.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/User:The_fieryangel
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/User:Shankbone
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/User:Cookie
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/User:Beaver_Van_Jynington
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Shankbone part 1
In the annals of abusive and irrational Wikipedia editors, few have created as much tension and outright fear as "David Shankbone".
His user page is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Shankbone
He has been editing under this name since June 2006, and became an active contributor in 2007. His primary area of contribution has been in gifting his own personal photos to the Wikimedia Foundation. Some 3000 of them, at last count--many of celebrities, taken in New York in recent years. For that reason alone, Wikipedia administrators have given him a wide berth. Example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive371#Does_Wikipedia_want_David_Shankbone_or_should_we_just_tell_him_to_leave.3F
He is also a "journalist" for Wikinews, the Wikimedia attempt to offer unmediated original news reporting using unpaid volunteers.
http://www.cjr.org/on_the_job/the_wikinews_ace.php
His personal blog is here:
http://blog.shankbone.org/
Openly gay. Real name is David C. Miller, DOB 9 July 1974. A voter registration exists in this name, giving an address near Tompkins Square Park, NYC. Dropout from law school (Fordham U.) and former paralegal. The name "Shankbone" was allegedly taken from the "z'roah" used in Passover seder.
http://fora.tv/speaker/4934/David_Shankbone
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/04/books/david-shankbone-with-colleen-asper
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/06/express/nobodys-safe-in-cyber-space
Despite being a "lapsed Catholic" according to some accounts, Shankbone has become a fan of all things Jewish, not to mention things relating to Israel. This apparently relates to Shankbone's very close relationship with Michael Lucas, a Russian Jewish producer of gay pornography and a dedicated fan of Israel and Zionism. Lucas has a blog (warning, extremely offensive pornographic images):
http://www.lucasblog.com/index.html
Lucas is a determined self-promoter, and not above bizarre public behaviour. For example, there is the publicity stunt he perpetrated at the 2009 GayVN awards in San Francisco, in which he was nominated for an award. Lucas claimed that the actual winner, Brent Corrigan, did not deserve the award. After the award ceremony, Lucas claimed that Corrigan's boyfriend threatened to "throw acid in my face and kill me"--a claim that Corrigan said was false.
http://www.queerty.com/michael-lucas-vs-brent-corrigan-20090330/
Lucas is fond of using such antics to promote his gay porn videos. For example:
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-179034835.html
The ultimate testimony to Lucas' talent for self-promotion would be the reaction to his 2008 videos, named "Piss!" and "Farts!". Both were seized at the border by Canadian customs, producing a public-relations bonanza for Lucas and his company.
http://business.avn.com/company-news/31059.html
On the Wikimedia server is an audio interview that Shankbone conducted with his friend Lucas, about the Iraq war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Lucas_to_David_Shankbone_on_the_Iraq_War.ogg
Further proof of their relationship is visible in Shankbone's Flickr set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shankbone/sets/72157607074517385/
Despite the Wikipedia proscription against editing articles one has a personal interest in (COI, NPOV) Shankbone monitors the Wikipedia biography of Mr. Lucas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Lucas_(director)&limit=500&action=history
He also added info about the Canadian video seizures to the Wikipedia articles about the Canadian Border Service, and to the Lucas biography.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canada_Border_Services_Agency&diff=278271864&oldid=276334248
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Lucas_%28director%29&diff=278269196&oldid=278084556
Apparently, Shankbone may have learned to self-promote by observing Lucas' activities.
Shankbone also personally knows hedge-fund manager and pro-Isaeli activist David Borowich, and has created and monitors a Wikipedia biography for Borowich.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Borowich
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Borowich&action=history
Borowich is married to Sivan Achor, a realtor, and founder of Jewish Heart for Africa (JHA), a nonprofit that claims to donate Israeli-developed solar-power equipment to African villages. JHA and Achor have direct ties to the Israeli government.
http://jewess.canonist.com/?p=846
"All of these experiences have informed Sivan’s founding of Jewish Heart For Africa, with the help of her classmate Sarit Birzon and Edoe Cohen from the Israeli foreign ministry in Jerusalem."
A result of Shankbone's connection to Achor would appear to be the recent generation of a number of Wikipedia articles relating to the solar-energy industry in Israel. He has created Wikipedia articles about it and related topics. Examine the histories of these articles. Please note that Shankbone has no education in solar energy or engineering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Gurion_National_Solar_Energy_Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Faiman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Cleantech_Ventures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Solar_energy_companies_of_Israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_Solar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arava_Power_Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Zvi_Tabor
Admission of ignorance of these subjects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:David_Shankbone&diff=260468790&oldid=260468634
Another result of his familiarity with Achor: he has been angling for a trip to Africa, at the expense of the JHA or the Israeli government. Discussed on his blog.
http://blog.shankbone.org/2009/02/24/western-bias-in-stock-photography-and-images/
It is believed that one of these Zionists introduced Shankbone to Israeli Consul for Media And Public Affairs and former IDF officer, David Saranga.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Shankbone_and_David_Saranga.jpg
Shankbone wrote the Wikipedia biography about Saranga, both under his regular name and using a "sockpuppet" account.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Saranga
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Saranga&limit=500&action=history
Saranga has worked to encourage gay/lesbian tourism in Israel:
http://www.glbtjews.org/article.php3?id_article=361
and openly admits using Shankbone to "help Israel boost its image":
http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a15107/News/New_York.html
http://www.icjs-online.org/index.php?article=1862
One result of Shankbone's connection to Saranga was his expenses-paid trip to Israel in December 2007, leading to an interview with Shimon Peres. As noted in links above, Shankbone returned to Israel in March 2009, again at Israeli government expense.
http://www.cjr.org/on_the_job/the_wikinews_ace.php
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/937991.html
Note the quote from Shankbone: "It means only one thing: Israelis should be more active on Wikipedia. Instead of blaming it, they should go on the site much more, and try and change it."
His user page is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Shankbone
He has been editing under this name since June 2006, and became an active contributor in 2007. His primary area of contribution has been in gifting his own personal photos to the Wikimedia Foundation. Some 3000 of them, at last count--many of celebrities, taken in New York in recent years. For that reason alone, Wikipedia administrators have given him a wide berth. Example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive371#Does_Wikipedia_want_David_Shankbone_or_should_we_just_tell_him_to_leave.3F
He is also a "journalist" for Wikinews, the Wikimedia attempt to offer unmediated original news reporting using unpaid volunteers.
http://www.cjr.org/on_the_job/the_wikinews_ace.php
His personal blog is here:
http://blog.shankbone.org/
Openly gay. Real name is David C. Miller, DOB 9 July 1974. A voter registration exists in this name, giving an address near Tompkins Square Park, NYC. Dropout from law school (Fordham U.) and former paralegal. The name "Shankbone" was allegedly taken from the "z'roah" used in Passover seder.
http://fora.tv/speaker/4934/David_Shankbone
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/04/books/david-shankbone-with-colleen-asper
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/06/express/nobodys-safe-in-cyber-space
Despite being a "lapsed Catholic" according to some accounts, Shankbone has become a fan of all things Jewish, not to mention things relating to Israel. This apparently relates to Shankbone's very close relationship with Michael Lucas, a Russian Jewish producer of gay pornography and a dedicated fan of Israel and Zionism. Lucas has a blog (warning, extremely offensive pornographic images):
http://www.lucasblog.com/index.html
Lucas is a determined self-promoter, and not above bizarre public behaviour. For example, there is the publicity stunt he perpetrated at the 2009 GayVN awards in San Francisco, in which he was nominated for an award. Lucas claimed that the actual winner, Brent Corrigan, did not deserve the award. After the award ceremony, Lucas claimed that Corrigan's boyfriend threatened to "throw acid in my face and kill me"--a claim that Corrigan said was false.
http://www.queerty.com/michael-lucas-vs-brent-corrigan-20090330/
Lucas is fond of using such antics to promote his gay porn videos. For example:
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-179034835.html
The ultimate testimony to Lucas' talent for self-promotion would be the reaction to his 2008 videos, named "Piss!" and "Farts!". Both were seized at the border by Canadian customs, producing a public-relations bonanza for Lucas and his company.
http://business.avn.com/company-news/31059.html
On the Wikimedia server is an audio interview that Shankbone conducted with his friend Lucas, about the Iraq war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Lucas_to_David_Shankbone_on_the_Iraq_War.ogg
Further proof of their relationship is visible in Shankbone's Flickr set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shankbone/sets/72157607074517385/
Despite the Wikipedia proscription against editing articles one has a personal interest in (COI, NPOV) Shankbone monitors the Wikipedia biography of Mr. Lucas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Lucas_(director)&limit=500&action=history
He also added info about the Canadian video seizures to the Wikipedia articles about the Canadian Border Service, and to the Lucas biography.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canada_Border_Services_Agency&diff=278271864&oldid=276334248
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Lucas_%28director%29&diff=278269196&oldid=278084556
Apparently, Shankbone may have learned to self-promote by observing Lucas' activities.
Shankbone also personally knows hedge-fund manager and pro-Isaeli activist David Borowich, and has created and monitors a Wikipedia biography for Borowich.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Borowich
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Borowich&action=history
Borowich is married to Sivan Achor, a realtor, and founder of Jewish Heart for Africa (JHA), a nonprofit that claims to donate Israeli-developed solar-power equipment to African villages. JHA and Achor have direct ties to the Israeli government.
http://jewess.canonist.com/?p=846
"All of these experiences have informed Sivan’s founding of Jewish Heart For Africa, with the help of her classmate Sarit Birzon and Edoe Cohen from the Israeli foreign ministry in Jerusalem."
A result of Shankbone's connection to Achor would appear to be the recent generation of a number of Wikipedia articles relating to the solar-energy industry in Israel. He has created Wikipedia articles about it and related topics. Examine the histories of these articles. Please note that Shankbone has no education in solar energy or engineering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Gurion_National_Solar_Energy_Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Faiman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Cleantech_Ventures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Solar_energy_companies_of_Israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_Solar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arava_Power_Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Zvi_Tabor
Admission of ignorance of these subjects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:David_Shankbone&diff=260468790&oldid=260468634
Another result of his familiarity with Achor: he has been angling for a trip to Africa, at the expense of the JHA or the Israeli government. Discussed on his blog.
http://blog.shankbone.org/2009/02/24/western-bias-in-stock-photography-and-images/
It is believed that one of these Zionists introduced Shankbone to Israeli Consul for Media And Public Affairs and former IDF officer, David Saranga.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Shankbone_and_David_Saranga.jpg
Shankbone wrote the Wikipedia biography about Saranga, both under his regular name and using a "sockpuppet" account.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Saranga
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Saranga&limit=500&action=history
Saranga has worked to encourage gay/lesbian tourism in Israel:
http://www.glbtjews.org/article.php3?id_article=361
and openly admits using Shankbone to "help Israel boost its image":
http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a15107/News/New_York.html
http://www.icjs-online.org/index.php?article=1862
One result of Shankbone's connection to Saranga was his expenses-paid trip to Israel in December 2007, leading to an interview with Shimon Peres. As noted in links above, Shankbone returned to Israel in March 2009, again at Israeli government expense.
http://www.cjr.org/on_the_job/the_wikinews_ace.php
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/937991.html
Note the quote from Shankbone: "It means only one thing: Israelis should be more active on Wikipedia. Instead of blaming it, they should go on the site much more, and try and change it."
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