This Wikipedia admin appears to be very young and got admin powers easily, despite not being on Wikipeda very long. His edit history reveals obsession in law enforcement, especially due to edits of articles about Portland (OR) area police and sheriff agencies. Due to his unpleasant behavior and poor editing skill, he needed to try for administrative powers 3 times before succeeding. By reverting vandalism and befriending "cabal" bureaucrats such as Slimvirgin and Raul654, he eventually succeeded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Tiptoety
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Tiptoety_2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Tiptoety_3
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Tiptoety&diff=134460338&oldid=134438585
Tiptoety spent a great deal of time editing the article about Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.
Searches of the Wiki database to approximately May 2007, when he first started editing under the name "Tiptoety", revealed this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SGGH/Archive5#Multnomah_County_Sheriff.27s_Office_Search_and_Rescue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Disaster_management/Participants
Which showed that in the beginning,
his user ID showed as "T Van Wormer".
Search of the Wikipedia Watch IRC database shows the IP address,
and his first name--Tyler.
http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/cgi-bin/girc.cgi?Na=63.105.27.175
Verified here.
http://www.post1952.com/newsite/gb.htm
Despite his self-admitted youth (high school), Tyler has posed as a policeman on law-enforcement-related forums.
http://www.policelink.com/member/Tiptoety
http://www.galls.com/style.html?assort=general_catalog&style=NP322
Discussed in length on this thread.
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=25464
Sunday, August 2, 2009
'Herschelkrustofsky' of Wikipedia Review
Despite naming himself after Krusty the Clown on the Simpsons, 'Herschel' was banned from Wikipedia for conducting a nasty series of editwars to improve the image of his hero, crank political outsider Lyndon LaRouche. The Wikipedia insiders are quite hostile to LaRouche, due to their friendship with longtime LaRouche critic Chip Berlet.
Unfortunately, much of the history of this 2004-2005 war was purged by the usual corrupt gang of Wikipedia adminns, the so-called Cabal, especially the notorious Slimvirgin. As usual, the winner in a pointless war is able to rewrite history. However, some bits of history remain, usually as backed-up copies on other webservers that were backing up all Wikipedia content.
http://indopedia.org/User_talk:Herschelkrustofsky/threats_and_insults.html
One thing that did survive is this Slimvirgin file, which revealed an IP address -- 64.30.208.48 -- which checkuser had allegedly revealed to be the address that the accounts Weed Harper and Herschelkrustovsky had used to edit-war LaRouche related articles. Despite their well-proven bias against LaRouche, there is no evidence that their assertions about the use of this IP address by Hersch was bogus, so it may be the correct address until 2005, in any case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SlimVirgin/Sock
It was discussed in depth on this thread.
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=6666
Google searches for that IP address, in roughly the time-frame of the editwar, reveal a number of connections to a network engineer named John Covici.
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast-dev/2003-August/000647.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-April/043987.html
http://www.factnet.org/vbforum/showthread.php?t=10265&page=24
http://markmail.org/message/475t6goocqrfcetk
Covici still runs a computer consultation service, and has done some Linux software development.
http://ccs.covici.com/
http://www.counterpunch.org/~blinux/list-archive/blinux-list/2004/msg00093.html
Covici's longtime work for LaRouche is easily proven. It extends back to before the Internet was available to the public. He even ran the LaRouche movement's early mailing list.
http://www.subgenius.com/subg-digest/v0/0088.html
http://www.suslik.org/Humour/Computer/Internet/nl3.html
http://www.subgenius.com/subg-digest/v0/0109.html
http://www.factnet.org/vbforum/archive/index.php/t-10264-p-2.html
http://preposterousuniverse.com/research/aniso/larouche.html
Covici also ran the LaRouche official BBS.
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/archives-article-5532.html
Evidence seems to indicate the Covici originally resided in the Washington, DC. area,
but is now in Santa Monica, CA. area.
(There is another John Covici in New Jersey, with a Facebook and a Myspace. However he appears to be much too young to have operated these LaRouche-oriented online services.)
Unfortunately, much of the history of this 2004-2005 war was purged by the usual corrupt gang of Wikipedia adminns, the so-called Cabal, especially the notorious Slimvirgin. As usual, the winner in a pointless war is able to rewrite history. However, some bits of history remain, usually as backed-up copies on other webservers that were backing up all Wikipedia content.
http://indopedia.org/User_talk:Herschelkrustofsky/threats_and_insults.html
One thing that did survive is this Slimvirgin file, which revealed an IP address -- 64.30.208.48 -- which checkuser had allegedly revealed to be the address that the accounts Weed Harper and Herschelkrustovsky had used to edit-war LaRouche related articles. Despite their well-proven bias against LaRouche, there is no evidence that their assertions about the use of this IP address by Hersch was bogus, so it may be the correct address until 2005, in any case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SlimVirgin/Sock
It was discussed in depth on this thread.
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=6666
Google searches for that IP address, in roughly the time-frame of the editwar, reveal a number of connections to a network engineer named John Covici.
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast-dev/2003-August/000647.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-April/043987.html
http://www.factnet.org/vbforum/showthread.php?t=10265&page=24
http://markmail.org/message/475t6goocqrfcetk
Covici still runs a computer consultation service, and has done some Linux software development.
http://ccs.covici.com/
http://www.counterpunch.org/~blinux/list-archive/blinux-list/2004/msg00093.html
Covici's longtime work for LaRouche is easily proven. It extends back to before the Internet was available to the public. He even ran the LaRouche movement's early mailing list.
http://www.subgenius.com/subg-digest/v0/0088.html
http://www.suslik.org/Humour/Computer/Internet/nl3.html
http://www.subgenius.com/subg-digest/v0/0109.html
http://www.factnet.org/vbforum/archive/index.php/t-10264-p-2.html
http://preposterousuniverse.com/research/aniso/larouche.html
Covici also ran the LaRouche official BBS.
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/archives-article-5532.html
Evidence seems to indicate the Covici originally resided in the Washington, DC. area,
but is now in Santa Monica, CA. area.
(There is another John Covici in New Jersey, with a Facebook and a Myspace. However he appears to be much too young to have operated these LaRouche-oriented online services.)
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