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
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Tiptoety (Tyler Van Wormer) vandalizes Wikipedia while logged out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/63.105.27.175). His e-mail is tiptoety@gmail.com, and he uses a Galls DutyPro Universal Radio Holder(Item NP322) and a police Double ID Case wallet (Item BC276) from Galls.
ReplyDeleteThis should have been revealed, but isn't it hypocritical for you to reveal all these names, and then hide behind a screen name and a Google account? Who are you (and I mean a real name) and what relation do you have to Wikipedia Review? Why would you care about Gomi and Herschelkrustofsky otherwise?
ReplyDeleteJonas D. Rand
jonasrand at hushmail.com