Thursday, April 30, 2009

Shankbone, part 2

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

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