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Gamergate / Quinnspiracy Wiki

Gamergate article deletion

At 02:50 September 6 new user Nocturne25 added 9kb of contributions to a stub article on GamerGate. [1]The page was deleted at 11:18 September 6 by RHaworth for "G10: Attack page or negative unsourced BLP"[2] who then restored the page at 17:33 after requests by Kencf0618 and Sandstein.[3]
Nocturne25's edits have been deleted by a Wikipedia administrator.[1]

GameJournoPros article deletion file17.gif

The Wikipedia page for the GameJournoPros mailing list was deleted on November 4, 2014 after a finding that it was not notable outside of the Gamergate controversy.

Hostile users

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At 03:07 - 3:29 6 September 2014, 77.97.151.145 reappeared on Wikipedia after a 4-week suspension [4]to remove about 4kb of text from the Gamergate article for original research and use of what Wikipedia considers unreliable sources.[1] 77.97.151.145 then left a message on Nocturne25's user talk to lecture Nocturne25 on being "encyclopaedic" and predicting that "someone will just come along and afd (delete it) the page."
This user's past "encyclopaedic" edits include:
  • Reverting the "vandalism" of a user describing the Israeli prime minister's spokesman as "chief spokesman" rather than 77.97.151.145's preferred encyclopedic terms "international spin-doctor" and "Chief Propagandist"
  • Adding "government shill" to the biography of Adrian Lamo

Statement by 77.97.151.145 

 

I was happy for him to write the article, but the article in the state it was, was a piece of shit :) I'm not pro or anti gamer gate, I just thing the whole thing is dumb. o/

 

Acroterion

Wikipedia administrator.[5]
Acroterion supported Dreadstar's permanent ban of Visitantehumanoide and claimed that Zoe Quinn"has been extensively harassed, primarily for being female in a male-dominated culture." [6]
At 22:32, 26 October 2014 (UTC), in ArmyLine's ANI discussion on sanctioning Tarc, Tarc describeddescribed Agent Chieftan, who has been an editor since 2007, as "an example of the type of new user that is plaguing the article" and called for an administrator to "take necessary actions" against Agent Chieftain. At 01:17, 27 October 2014 (UTC), Acroterion indefinitely blocked Agent Chieftain for calling Tarc and Ryulong mentally challenged. Chieftain's post was deleted by an administrator. After discussion, Acroterion reduced the suspension to a 90-day topic ban.
At 00:23 27 October 2014 (UTC), Acroterion topic-banned ArmyLine for one year for "inappropriate behavior at ANI" that consisted of reporting Tarc for abusive behavior and requesting sanctions against TaraInDC for describing Eron Gjoni's accusation of Zoe Quinn cheating on him, for which Gjoni provided chat logs as evidence, as "unfounded claims of ethical violations" and "unfounded gossip based on a melodramatic screed by a bitter ex."

Artw 

Said "describing the allegations against Quinn as anything other than false is a WP:BLP violation so please stop beating that dead horse."

Anthonyhcole

Anthonyhcole called for a site-wide ban of Tutelary, Titanium Dragon, and PseudoSomething for "trying to smear the defamation of Quinn" by trying to discuss issues other than harassment of Zoe Quinn in the talk pages for Quinn and GamerGate.

Bilby

Wikipedia administrator.[5]
At 11:22 31 August 2014‎, Bilby deleted a comment in Talk:Depression Quest by Retartist that had accused Zoe Quinn of sleeping with reviewers of her game. Bilby allowed Retartist to make a second comment accusing Quinn of a conflict of interest. [7]
At 00:38 2 September 2014, Bilby deleted a long list of topics for research and discussion from the talk page for Zoe Quinn. The reason given was "no."
At 13:22 2 September 2014, Bilby deleted a discussion of the dominant narratives of the story as "an unsourced accusation against a living person" for having claimed that "Zoe Quinn and her supporters have harassed many people who only were peripherally involved in reporting about it, and the censorship of the issue is well-documented ..."
At 06:53 6 September 2014, Bilby nominated the Gamergate page for deletion for "RD2: Violations of the biographies of living persons policy." [2] At that time, the page said:

 

The controversy began in August 2014 when video game developer Zoe Quinn's ex-boyfriend released details purportedly about her personal life and relationships with a video game journalist from Kotaku and game developers, leading to accusations of violations of journalistic ethics and counter-accusations of misogyny and slut-shaming ...

 

Black Kite 

Wikipedia administrator.[5]
Black Kite called for the banning of Tutelary, citing "the extremely convincing evidence posted elsewhere" without producing any evidence.
Tarc, Black Kite, and TheRedPenOfDoom removed all mention of the Escapist forum DDOS from the Gamergate page.
Black Kite supported Future Perfect's topic ban of Titanium Dragon and closed the discussion.

Dave Dial 

Dave Dial called for ArmyLine to be topic-banned for reporting Tarc and described Armyline as a "4chan/8chan/ reddit/MRA agenda driven SPA."

Dreadstar

Wikipedia administrator.[5]
Dreadstar imposed a permanent ban on new user Visitantehumanoide for commenting on the talk page for Zoe Quinn that ‎"The article doesn't present any of the acusations against Zoe" and "Question about Kotaku article reliability".
Dreadstar filed a request to delete a drawing of Gamergate mascot Vivian James on the grounds that it would not significantly increase a reader's understanding of the article. When another editor pointed out that the article gave conflicting descriptions of what Vivian James looked like and a picture was therefore appropriate, Dreadstar then described Vivian James "an attack on a BLP" to justify deleting the image.
On 10 October 2014, Dreadstar issued a permanent block on user Snakebyte42 for complaining about the behavior of Ryulong and NorthBySouthBaranof, citing for an excuse the "egregious WP:BLP violation" of having said in Talk that "A journalist failed to disclose a close relationship with someone he was writing about and giving positive coverage to."

Drmies 

Wikipedia administrator.[5]
At 03:50, 24 September 2014, Drmies blocked The Devil's Advocate for one day for arguing that Gamaliel is not a neutral party on the subject of Gamergate.

EvergreenFir 

On October 29, EvergreenFir defended Ryulong as "not making personal attacks."

Future Perfect At Sunrise 

Wikipedia administrator.[5]
Future Perfect At Sunrise topic-banned Titanium Dragon at the request of NorthBySouthBaranof for saying that Wikipedia should wait until there is evidence of who threatened Brianna Wu and Anita Sarkeesian before blaming anyone for sending the threats. Future Perfect then deleted Titanium Dragon's response to the complaint.

Butter and Cream incident file17.gifEdit

On 18 October 2014, Butter and Cream reported Ryulong for edit warring on the Gamergate Talk page. Future Perfect responded by indefinitely blocking Butter and Cream "for acting as a tendentious single-purpose account trying to stir the shit on Gamergate controversy." NorthBySouthBaranof then said"Ryulong should be commended for acting to prevent this account from disrupting the encyclopedia any further and this matter should be closed."
Butter and Cream responded at that user's own talk page, saying:

 

Future_Perfect_at_Sunrise seems like a fairly corrupt admin. Is he friends with Ryulong or NorthBySouthBaranof? ... Admin shows up from nowhere, only attacks me. He didn't even know what had been going on. The admin board notices are left untouched. Someone had told him that I was the culprit.

 

Butter and Cream responded to the block by saying it was "Because the particular administrator didn't like my point ... the administrator also blocked another editor from having access to the talk page, and this editor simply agreed with me."
Beginning seven minutes after Future Perfect threatened Butter and Cream by saying "you're quite likely to have your access to this talkpage blocked pretty soon," somebody using Butter and Cream's accountdeleted the discussion disparaging Future Perfect from Butter and Cream's talk page and started spamming the talk page with the definitions of "larva", "newt", and "embryo". Phil Knight subsequently blocked Butter and Cream's talk page access.

Gamaliel 

Wikipedia administrator.[5]
On 21 September 2014, Gamaliel banned Titanium Dragon from discussing Gamergate on any page on Wikipedia. The ban on Titanium Dragon was later dismissed by Callanecc on formal grounds.
On 30 September 2014, Gamaliel imposed a 24-hour block on TabascoMan77
On 10 October 2014, Gamaliel supported Dreadstar's permanent block of Snakebyte42 for complaining about the behavior of Ryulong and NorthBySouthBaranof as "an obvious call". Gamaliel described Snakebyte42 as a single-purpose account even though Snakebyte42 had been active on another topic in September 2014.
At 03:53, 10 November 2014, Gamaliel called for The Devil's Advocate to be blocked from the admin boards for requesting an ArbCom review of user and administrator misconduct surrounding the Gamergate Controversy article.

HJ Mitchell

Wikipedia administrator.[5]
In the discussion of Tutelary and Titanium Dragon being doxxed, HJ Mitchell called for "a siteban for Tutelary per NOTHERE" and "a page/topic ban for Titanium Dragon."

Ironholds 

An employee of Wikimedia Foundation, Oliver Keyes, known as Ironholds and Okeyes (WMF). Despite a history of making misogynistic threats in IRC chatrooms, Keyes closely monitors the Wikipedia GamerGate article, along with his friend Brandon Harris, aka Jorm.

Johnuniq 

On 10 October 2014, Johnuniq called for Tutelary to be indefinitely topic-banned for questioning Dreadstar's decision to block Snakebyte42.

Jorm 

Brandon Harris, aka Jorm, is a former employee of the Wikimedia Foundation and closely monitors the GamerGate article.

Kaldari

Kaldari is an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation and the creator of Wikiproject Feminism and Wikipedians Against Censorship.
On 20 October 2014, Kaldari described Wikipedia's critics as a "horde of pro-gamergate SPAs ... here to push a POV and continue their 'culture war'" and linked approvingly to an article describing critics of corruption in video game journalism as "sexist thugs."
Ryan's interesting history should be noted.

Montanabw 

Montanabw said that a drawing of Gamergate mascot Vivian James was "an attack on an individual and by association, similarly situated individuals, and hence it is a BLP violation"

NorthBySouthBaranof 

NorthBySouthBaranof described the harassment of Zoe Quinn as "By far the most notable part of this, as discussed in a wide variety of reliable sources." [8], removed "victim playing" as a subject of the controversy,[8], and engaged in edit warring on the GamerGate Talk page. [9]
After NorthBySouthBaranof repeatedly deleted sourced commentary from the talk page, Titanium Dragonthreatened NorthBySouthBaranov with a ban. In response, NorthBySouthBaranof accused Titanium Dragon of "a singleminded obsession with depicting Zoe Quinn negatively through the use of fringe sources, promotion of scurrilous rumormongering and repeated insertion of material previously rev-deleted by administrators..." At that time, Titanium Dragon had made no edits to the GamerGate page but had been saying on the talk page that:

 

This was sparked by Zoe Quinn's ex's blog post. We need to note what is salient here and not go into the lurid details excessively ... Seeing as this is what set the whole thing off, it needs to be noted, and it is impossible to cover this incident without noting what set it off.

 

NorthBySouthBaranof described Gamergate as "a facade to justify harassment of Zoe Quinn and other females in gaming."
On October 18, 2014, NorthBySouthBaranof reported Titanium Dragon for requesting confirmation that death threats received by Anita Sarkeesian and Brianna Wu came from the Gamergate campaign:

 

We really need to be careful about this death threat stuff; no one has been charged with anything as far as I know, there are concerns about their authenticity and seriousness, and in the past people have made threats against themselves for various messed up reasons.

 

Future Perfect At Sunrise immediately topic-banned Titanium Dragon and deleted that user's response. Black Kite supported Future Perfect's ban of Titanium Dragon and closed the discussion.

PhilKnight 

Wikipedia administrator.[5]
PhilKnight placed an indefinite ban on TabascoMan77 for posting a message to Tarc's talk page:

 

Tarc, I understand that you have a predilection for being snarky. I, myself, can be the same way. However, I didn't appreciate your condescending tone (eg: "more than 24 hours, bro"). I'm not your "bro". I am an editor here, off and on. I meant my edit in WP:GOODFAITH. I understand why it was redacted and I support that. Try some WP:CIVILITY. Thank you.

 

Tarc replied:

 

civility reminders from an angry gamer is like a compassion lesson from the Unabomber

 

PhilKnight did not block Tarc.

Protonk

Wikipedia administrator.[5]
On October 5, Protonk described the entire controversy as "a campaign of sexism and harassment."
On 11 October 2014, Protonk called Snakebyte42 "an editor who exclusively and problematically edits in a single topic area" even though Snakebyte42 had recently made edits to another topic area and had participated in one discussion thread on the Gamergate Talk page.

Ramba Ral 

At 10:06 6 September 2014‎, Ramba Ral blanked the GamerGate page and nominated it for speedy deletion as an attack page. [10] At that time, the page said:

 

The basis of the controversy was the initial release of sensitive private and personal information of video game developer Zoe Quinn and her perceived relationship with video game journalists ...

 

Ronhjones

Wikipedia administrator.[5]
At 22:08, 28 September 2014, Ronhjones deleted a public domain image of Gamergate mascot Vivian James on the grounds that it "Violates non-free use policy"

Ryūlóng

At 29 September 2014, Ryulong called for user Loganmac to be banned for talking offsite about the politics on the Gamergate talk page.
Ryulong forbid using Breitbart as a secondary source for reporting on the GameJournoPros list, a story which Breitbart broke, because of "BLP violations inherent in its original involvement", which translated to English means that any citation to any Breitbart article on any subject would be legal grounds for Zoe Quinn to sue Wikipedia.
At 04:49, 27 October 2014, Tutelary reported Ryulong for making 15 reverts to Talk:Gamergate Controversy. Dreadstar closed the report as "Stale" at 19:13, 27 October 2014, less than a day later.
At 04:00, 28 October 2014, Ryulong asked Nandesuka to place sanctions on DungeonSiegeAddict510. Nandesuka saw no cause to take action.
Ryulong reverted an edit by Fyrius which had added a reference to Gamergate.me as an example of what "those supporting the hashtag state."

Ryulong and Loganmac

At 08:34, 3 October 2014, LoganMac reported Ryulong for harassment on Wikipedia and offsite.

 

User Ryuolong has been constanly uncivil to new editors and people he calls "Gaters", he told me on social media to "learn to fucking read"https://twitter.com/Ryulong/status/516651395512950785 Since then I've seen his twitter account (since he mentioned me, I had no interest in looking up his name as he did with me), where he has called GamerGate supporters

 


"gamergate douche" https://twitter.com/Ryulong/status/515077120431628288 "gamergate fags" https://twitter.com/Ryulong/status/515077648251224066, "toxic people"https://twitter.com/Ryulong/status/516529858176761856 "shitnuggets"https://twitter.com/Ryulong/status/517046919063814144 "priviliged white guys"https://twitter.com/Ryulong/status/516814925444825088 "fucking middle class straight white men" https://twitter.com/Ryulong/status/516811560560234496 He calls the Vivian James (the GamerGate "mascot" of sorts) drawing "nice shit avatar"https://twitter.com/Ryulong/status/516528138159792128 And countless other examples
... Also, as you can see above after I posted a screencap criticizing Wikipedia as a site, he looked up my twitter and reddit. He posted on ANI for this in an attempt to get me topic banned, yet knowing this was ONLY offsite behaviour, he tried to state I'm a SPA He then posted on the GamerGate talk page "so basically it's time we showed LoganMac the door"
It's worth noting, this is a person who already got desysopped for "inappropriate off-wiki behavior" and whose uncivil behaviour has been remarked by several other users

 

 

Mass ban request

Ryulong issued a call for Wikipedia administrators to "Nip Gamergate in the bud" by mass-deleting several "brand new accounts and long dormant accounts arriving who have done nothing on the English Wikipedia except contribute solely to the article, its talk page, and several related articles and talk pages." These accounts included:
  • AnyyVen: New account as of October 17. Mostly edits to Gamergate Talk. Edited Revenge porn in October.
  • ArmyLine: Editing since 2012. Including articles like David Horowitz, Laboratory animal sources, and University of Toronot Students Center.
  • Artman40: Editing since 2006. Wide variety of edits, including a lot of science articles and gaming articles. Edited Kepler (spacecraft), Plasmodium. Medusa, Binary star, etc in October.
  • Bosstopher: Editing since 2011. Edits include various biographical pages and talk pages on historical events and biographies. Edited Kaarle Krohn in October. Saints Cyril and Methodius, Gregorian mission and others in September.
  • Butter and Cream: New account, claims to be an experienced IP address editor. Was blocked for disagreeing with Ryulong.
  • Cs california: Editing since 2006. Edits include botanical articles, gaming articles, and food/cooking articles. Edited Passiflora antioquiensis in October, Pol Pot, Micropenis, Arisaema sazensoo and Arisaema yamatense in August. Is administrator of two offsite Wikia wikis.
  • DavidHOzAu: Editing since February 2006. Edits include many gaming topics, android software development and engineering. Edited Engineering in October.
  • Derpen: New account as of September 12, only edits to Gamergate Talk and related. Wrote a neutral account of Gamergate on Urban Dictionary.
  • DownWIthSJWs: New account as of October 22, only edits to Talk:Gamergate. Had a comment deleted by Tarc for saying that Know Your Meme and Encyclopedia Dramatica have superior articles on the subject and "certain editors (you know who, I won't mention names) are determined to fill the article with opinion and yellow journalism, instead of just listing the facts chronologically."
  • east718: Wikipedia administrator. Described by Ryulong as an example of "zombie accounts that have become SPAs" for describing Ryulong's complaint as "a transparent attempt by Ryulong to get people who disagree with him blocked/topic banned."
  • Exefisher: New account as of October 5, only edits to Gamergate Talk. First action was posting a question about Gamergate to the BLP Noticeboard.
  • Ginnygog: Editing since October 2014. Only one edit on the *talk page* of Gamergate. Not controversial.
  • Halfhat: Editing since April 2014. Edits include Phil mason, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and lots of user talk pages. Edited Kooper, Goomba, and Net (device) in October.
  • Iamaom: Editing since 2009. Edits include lots of user pages and lingustics pages. Has only made three contributions to the Gamergate talk page, and isn't very controversial.
  • Ironlion45: Editing since 2005. Edited Mising White Women Syndrome in July 2014 and Talk:Fertilization in March 2014. Described by Ryulong as another example of "editors like yourself who have come to the English Wikipedia push an agenda" for describing Ryulong's complaint as "blacklisting people simply because you disagree with them."
  • Javier2005: Editing since February 2014. Edits include Jack White, Fermatta Music Academy, Foxit Reader, clickbait, Anita Sarkeesian and others. Edited Clickbait in October and Fermatta Music Academy in August.
  • Kau-12: Editing since 2006. Edits about a game called Exteel.
  • Lasati: Editing since 2007. Edits on video game design and Gerhard Klopher.
  • Loganmac: Editing since 2008. Edits include a bunch of band stuff like As I Lay Dying and a TV show called My Life as Liz. On the talk page for Edge of Tomorrow in September, as well as the "Wikipedia: Non-free content review" page.
  • Muscat Hoe: Editing since September 2014. Edits include Left 4 Dead 2, the Keratin 5 protein, the page on the Birdman film, and others. Edited Valerie Arem, Birdman(film), Inferno (Dan Brown novel) and others in October.
  • Nathan905RB: New account as of October 16. Only edits to Gamergate Talk and related. First action was to request protection of the Brianna Wu article for being "heavily biased towards supporters of Gamergate."
  • Pepsiwithcoke: Editing since 2012. Edits include WWE, Madison Rising, Classic Game Room, Spencer Gifts, New York Knicks, and others.
  • Racuce: New account as of October 9. Admitted to have joined to focus on the subject.
  • Ranze: Editing since 2012. Including articles like ThunderCats (1985 TV series), Tokimeki High School, Roman Polanski, The Jim Henson Company, and others. Edited David Benoit, Insert key, List of fallacies, Formal fallacy, Dora the Explorer, etc in October.
  • Retartist: Editing since 2013. Edits include various tech and political articles.
  • Skeeveo: New account as of October 9. Edits only discuss the POV of the Gamergate page.
  • Skrelk: Editing since 2006. Edits are widespread. Edited Competition between Airbus and Boeing and Nuclear weapon in October.
  • SmoledMan: Editing since 2012. Edits include articles on Windows 8, Microsoft, energy, the Chicago Transit Authority, and others. Only has three posts on Gamergate, all in the talk page.
  • Snakebyte42 Editing since 2012. Lots of comic edits. Edited Tales of Zestiria, Moon Knight and The Dark Knight (film) in September.
  • Tabascoman77: Editing since 2007. Edits include various films, etc.
  • Theawesome67: Editing since 2013. Mostly talk page edits, only one of which is on the GamerGate talk page. On the talk page for Lego Ninjago and edited "Wikipedia:Sandbox" in October.
  • Thronedrei: Edited Misaki Momose and Mayu Watanabe in September.
  • Torga: Editing since 2008. Edits include topics like Prostitution in Europe, Suikoden, and the film Idiocracy. Edited Alexander Dale Oen, Øygarden, John Alvheim, Stoltenberg, Idiocracy and Suikoden in September.
  • Tupin: Editing since 2008. Only two edits on the Gamergate page. Other edits include GLaDOS and Galactic Empire.
  • Thronedrei: Editing since December 2008. Edits include a whole bunch of Gundam stuff.
  • Uncle Crimbo: New user as of October 16. First and only action repeated The Red Pen Of Doom's insult of that user's opponents back at that user. Was permanently banned by HJ Mitchell. No action was taken against The Red Pen Of Doom.
  • Will McRoy: Editing since 2013. Edits include Council on Foreign Relations, Boreal forest of Canada, Are Your Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Sri Chinmoy, Anita Sarkeesian, and others.
  • Willhesucceed: Edited Mediabistro/Mecklermedia/TV Newser in October. Made edits about NHK in October. Edited Mariah Carey in October.
  • YellowSandals: New account as of October 19. Only edits to Gamergate Talk.
EvergreenFir agreed that fifteen of these were single-purpose accounts. Obsidi called for twelve of these accounts to be topic-banned for a month and for Ryulong to be topic-banned for two days. Future Perfect closed the discussion 18 hours after it was opened. Tutelary removed the closure notice. NorthBySouthBaranof readded it.
Ryulong described a copy of his mass ban request in Retartist's userspace as a copyright violation.

Sarah Stierch

Former Wikimedia Foundation employee Sarah Stierch, now renamed "Missvain", was fired for paid editing, yet retains her sysop bit in order to utilize the legal services paid for by your donations.

TaraInDC

ArmyLine noted that the first sentence of Wikipedia's article on the Gamergate controversy "claims that the ex-boyfriend lied about Zoe's unethical actions" and suggested that Wikipedia "ban whoever added it" as a BLP violation. TaraInDC described this as "posting unfounded claims of ethical violations by a BLP subject left, right and center today" and requested that ArmyLine be banned. TaraInDC further described Eron Gjoni's accusation of Zoe Quinn cheating on him, for which Gjoni provided chat logs as evidence, as "unfounded claims of ethical violations" and "unfounded gossip based on a melodramatic screed by a bitter ex." After ArmyLine requested boomerang sanctions against TaraInDC for insulting him and for BLP violations againstEron Gjoni, Acroterion topic-banned Armyline.

Mass ban request 

TaraInDC said that "something more than the sanctions does need to be done" about users Annyven, Dungeonsiegeaddict510, Filthylaugh, Galexander, Halfhat, Loganmac, Muscat Hoe, Strongjam, Swim Jonse, Willhesucceed, TuxedoMonkey, and YellowSandals.

Tarc 

On September 16, 2014, Tarc told Zoe Quinn that "Some of us have been trying to keep the shenanigans out of your Wikipedia bio, seems like the lunacy there is receding."
Tarc began the censorship of MyMoloboaccount's then-unedited sandbox copy of the Gamergate page under the false pretense of it being a "POV fork", linking to a definition that allows for POV forks in the user namespace:

 

New drafts should be written in the "user:" or "talk:" namespace and not in the main namespace; however, accidents happen and those who think they have found a POV fork, in turn, should check to see whether the article title indicates a temporary subpage and whether the talk page of the main article indicates that this is a place to work on consensus rather than to dodge it.

 

Tarc, Black Kite, and TheRedPenOfDoom removed all mention of the Escapist forum DDOS from the Gamergate page.
At 16:24, 10 November 2014, Tarc filed a deletion request against a page in Retartist's user space that collected evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Tarc and other editors in preparation for a proposed ArbCom case.

TheRedPenOfDoom

Gave Gamaliel a "Barnstar of Civility" after Gamaliel banned Titanium Dragon.
Tarc, Black Kite, and TheRedPenOfDoom removed all mention of the Escapist forum DDOS from the Gamergate page.
TRPoD describes Gamergate as:

 

If you insist, yes, there is a progameragate "side", the one covered by reliable sources is the side that sends death threats to women.

 


No true gamergater is going to be a wuss and talk about "ethics" when we can drive women from their homes. In an amorphous and chaotic movement with no defined leaders, goals, or even principles, you cannot simply choose a particular subset of the voices that you wish and claim that they are the representatives of some sort of "pro" "side". The media has reviewed and rejected, multiple times, the vague, wide-ranging, contradictory and false content of gamergate tweets and what is left as a coherent piece is misogynistic terrorism.

 

 

Tivanir2

Tivanir2 called for an indefinite block of Tabascoman77 for saying that he would write a news article critical of Wikipedia administrators' actions regarding Gamergate. The discussion was closed by Euryalus and Black Kite with the decision to take no action. PhilKnight banned Tabascoman77 shortly after the decision was made to take no action against that user.

Woodroar

Woodroar described an unedited copy of Wikipedia's locked Gamergate page in a user's sandbox as "a rather outrageous BLP violation." [11]
Woodroar filed a complaint against Titanium Dragon, demanding sanctions on that user for:
  • saying that someone was "questioned" instead of spoken to by an employer
  • saying that an investigation "found no evidence of wrongdoing" rather than that the allegations were shown to be false.
  • saying that Zoe Quinn was "the target of social media outrage" because of "her involvement with The Fine Young Capitalists, her own attacks on people online via social media (and just regular old media), the censorship campaign, ect."
The complaint was closed by Callanecc who threatened everyone involved with sanctions for insulting each other.

Troll accounts

A few accounts have harassed editors who are hostile to claims of corruption in journalism.
  • 173.153.2.179 - First contribution November 1. Claimed to be an experienced editor. AccusedRyulong of "harassment" for posting a generic welcome template to the user's talk page.
  • Harris_Beckford - Account created November 1. Spammed fruit-related content and harassed Dwaipayanc, NorthBySouthBaranof, and Ryulong.

Doxxing of Titanium Dragon

Nathalie Collida doxxed Titanium Dragon in retaliation for his contributions to the Talk discussions on Wikipedia. [12] Titanium Dragon identified Collida's accomplices as tarantino, James P. Persica, and Eric Barbour.

Alleged Chinese spy ring

Wikipediocracy describes itself as:

 

by Nathalie Collida and Andreas Kolbe With research contributions from Delicious carbuncle and Eric Barbour.

 

On June 19, 2008, Wikipedia user Oaklybuns accused Delicious carbuncle of being a Chinese spy.

 

Information reaching me today, 19th june, 2008 indicated that an Editor of the English language Wikipedia who edits with the name "Delicious Carbuncle" was on june 8th, 2008 commissioned by a Chinese secret service agent named "Xing", to lead a group of Editors and Administrators to remove all records about the Nigerian Poet, Chidi Anthony Opara from the English language Wikipedia because of one of the Poet's works titled "Ruins Of Freedom" published on some websites, which is highly critical of China's Administration in Tibet. My information further stated that the removal of the records started on 11th june, 2008 and was concluded yesterday, 18th june, 2008. Please conduct further thorough investigations on this, for the sake of Wikipedia's credibility.

 

Carbuncle responded by jokingly adopting a banner announcing "This user may be under the control of a Chinese secret service agent named Xing", remarking "Isn't the internet fun?"

Origins of Zoe Quinn's Bio Page

On May 28, 2014, Shaun Edmonds attended a presentation[13] by University of Maryland alum Anastasia Salter about Zoe Quinn's game Depression Quest. Salter uses Twine in her courses[14] and touts it in seminars[15]. Salter studied with the creator of Twine, Chris Klimas, at the University of Baltimore.
On May 30, 2014, Shaun Edmonds created a WikiPedia account, at the encouragement of WikiPedia administrator Sarah Stierch[16]. Edmonds created Zoe Quinn's page on that same date, adding mentions to Twine. An editor nominated it for speedy deletion. Sarah Stierch removed the speedy deletion tag.[17]
After this, Shaun Edmonds added Zoe Quinn's page to the University of Maryland's Women’s Studies Summer Technology Institute's Edit-a-Thon, which was assisted by Sarah Stierch.[18]
Sarah Stierch was fired from the Wikimedia Foundation in January 2014 for allegedly receiving payment in exchange for editing articles.[19] However, she remains an administrator, under the username MissVain.

Indie Task Force

Wikipedia's Indie Task Force uses Polytron's Fez character as its mascot. An accusation of racketeering involving Polytron was one of the major incidents of the Gamergate controversy.
Participants:
  • Mishae
  • H3llkn0wz
  • Reach Out to the Truth
  • PresN
  • Masem
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Contemporary controversies 

JaysonSunshine block

On 29 April 2011, JaysonSunshine posted a six-paragraph essay on his user page alleging the existence of a cultural taboo against discussing pedophilia in a "rational" and "scientific" manner, citing the Rind et al controversy. On 27 August 2014‎, RHaworth deleted the essay from JaysonSunshine's user page. After failing to resolve the dispute in talk, JaysonSunshine took RHaworth to arbitration where other editors sided with RHaworth.
At 05:06, 28 August 2014, Worm_That_Turned indefinitely blocked JaysonSunshine for having "carried on with the subject of Rind et al" in private email.

Maup Caransa edit war

On 8 September 2014, Viriditas accused Wikipedia administrator Drmies of edit warring to keep "highly problematic wording, bordering on unintentional antisemitic stereotypes and language" in the Maup Caransa page, showing four unexplained reverts in just over 24 hours. Wikipedia administrator John closed the report because the four reverts were not within 24 hours. After Viriditas overturned John's decision on account of John being an interested party, Wikipedia administrator Spartaz blocked Viriditas for three days.

John Barrowman edit war

On 26 January 2014, Wikipedia administrator John removed tabloid sources from the page for actor John Barrowman and threatened to block editor Viriditas for having reverted the change on account of the sources being reliable for the information referenced. Viriditas justified the inclusion of the sources.
On 17-23 September 2014, Wikipedia administrators John, Spartaz, and Drmies conducted an edit war on the John Barrowman page by repeatedly deleting a section sourced to a Mirror interview of John Barrowman. On September 18, John blocked Viriditas for reverting the edit. The block was lifted the same day by PhilKnight.

Ryulong and Nanshu

Nashu and Ryulong feuded in early 2014, which resulted in Atama giving Nanshu a warning in February and a one-day block in April after insulting Ryulong.
After Ryulong deleted several of Nanshu's edits to the pages for several minor East Asian languages in early October 2014, Nanshu filed a complaint and sought to have Rylong banned from Wikipedia.
Sturmgewehr88 accused Nanshu of having "literally made up his own grouping of the Ryūkyūan languages based off of a non-mainstream source..." and noted that "Ryulong has made significant contributions to all of the Ryūkyūan language articles and to Ryūkyūan subjects in general. It is obvious that he has a strong understanding of this subject..."

CSDarrow block

On 3 September 2014, Dreadstar issued a permanent block on CSDarrow for calling Roger Whitcomb, Wikipedia's source for a claim that the Men's Rights Movement supports the decriminalization of martial rape, "a lone, well known radical nutcase who has not been active in over a decade." Dreadstar justified the block as a "biography of a living person" (BLP) rule violation and refused to lift the block after being informed that Whitcomb had been dead for years. The block was lifted by PhilKnight.
On 10 September 2014, HJ Mitchell issued a one-year blockon CSDarrow for removing the reference to Roger Whitcomb "without a clear consensus" while the article was under protection. CSDarrow claimed to have a clear consensus for the edit. Bbb23 had protected the article to prevent this specific edit due to the lack of a consensus. The block was supported unanimously by several editors citing CSDarrow's history of edit warring on the same article, lack of contributions to other articles, and the fact that CSDarrow had presented a defense. Of these editors, only Blackmane addressed the question of whether or not CSDarrow had a clear consensus.

The Federalist and Neil deGrasse Tyson

On October 17, Andyvphil accused Dreadstar of edit warring on the article for The Federalist by removing a well-sourced section which described how Federalist columnist Sean Davis had accused Neil deGrasse Tyson of misquoting George W. Bush. HJ Mitchell and Drmies had previously discussed the issue with Andyvphil. NorthBySouthBaranof described Dreadstar's edits as "Good-faith invocations of BLP." Protonk dismissed Andyvphil's report as "a trumped up version of the admin protected the wrong revision."
On 21 October 2014, Andyvphil reported Gamaliel for making a personal attack and allegedly misusing administrator tools. Deflecting from the issue of Gamaliel's actions, Dave Dial, Drmies, Black Kite, and Ivanvector accused Andyvphil of a "racist" "BLP violation" for having said that Neil deGrasse Tyson had once "washed out" of a postgraduate program and "got special consideration on account of his race" to enter another postgraduate program at Colombia University, which had a racial preference system at the time. UltraExactZZ called for Andyvphil to be topic-banned. This was supported by Tivanir2, Nick, and Dave Dial before anyone presented an example of Andyvphil's conduct. The block was further supported by a dozen other editors. NE2 justified banning Andyvphil on the grounds that "since August 2014 he's edited exclusively at a handful of topics all related to U.S. right-wing politics" and added in a comment that "His problem is that he's too conservative. Get it?" Carrite and Baseball Bugs justified the ban on the grounds of edits that Andyvphil had made in 2008 and already been sanctioned for. John further deleted a long debate between Andyvphil and Viriditas from Andyvphil's talk page, citing BLP, and threatened further sanctions on Andyvphil for asking John to list one single thing from the discussion that was a BLP violation. In opposition, TParis said "The revdel'd diff looked a bit weak to me to call this editor a racist. It amounted to saying that the sources support the fact that NDGT didn't complete his first thesis. And then a question that could be seen as race baiting but could have been a honest question." Wikidemon noted that "nobody has even attempted to make a case for a topic ban" and Gaijin42 noted that Andyvphil's claims about Tyson had been supported by Neil deGrasse Tyson in two interviews. HJ Mitchell noted that "nobody has presented a shred of evidence" against Andyvphil. Beeblebrox imposed a permanent ban on Andyvphil editing articles about living persons.

Journolist page edit skirmish

On October 29, 2014, Sy9045 added a section to Wikipedia's page on JournoList that included excerpts from leaked emails condemning Republican figures. Oshwah deleted the new section on the grounds that "the sources provided do not seem to pertain directly to the quoted content that is being added to this article." Oswah initially described Sys9045's edits as vandalism, then later apologised after reading the sources.
Twitter user GitGudGG had suggested that there might be a "possible link to GJP."

Relationship to Internet Archive

The Internet Archive has excluded the defunct website Wikipedia Watch from the Wayback Machine. The website had hosted a list of complaints about Tarc compiled by Daniel Brandt. [20]

References

  1. ↑ 1.01.11.2GamerGate history, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GamerGate&offset=&limit=500&action=history
  2. ↑ 2.02.1GamerGate deletion log, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page=GamerGate
  3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:RHaworth
  4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:77.97.151.145
  5. ↑ 5.005.015.025.035.045.055.065.075.085.095.10List of administrators/Active,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_administrators/Active
  6. ↑ User talk for Visitantehumanoide, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Visitantehumanoide
  7. ↑ Talk:Depression_Quest history, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Depression_Quest&offset=&limit=500&action=history
  8. ↑ 8.08.1NorthBySouthBaranof edits to Talk:Gamergate, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:GamerGate&action=historysubmit&diff=624391285&oldid=624388045
  9. ↑ Talk:GamerGate history, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:GamerGate&offset=&limit=500&action=history
  10. ↑ Ramba Ral blanks Gamergate, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GamerGate&diff=624398325&oldid=624398300
  11. ↑ Deletion log for MyMoloboaccount's Gamergate sandboxpage,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:MyMoloboaccount/GamerGate
  12. ↑ https://archive.today/o1DYZM
  13. ↑ https://twitter.com/sailorsuzaku/status/471714599348477953
  14. ↑ http://www.dhtraining.org/hilt/course/games-in-the-classroom/
  15. ↑ http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2014/02/03/session-754-lit-misbehaving-responding-to-new-and-changing-modes-of-production/
  16. ↑ https://twitter.com/sailorsuzaku/status/472383278708948994
  17. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zoe_Quinn&diff=prev&oldid=610862526
  18. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Meetup/College_Park/WMST_Summer&diff=prev&oldid=610830167
  19. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/wikipedia-fires-editor-who--enhanced-entries-for-cash-9052308.html
  20. ↑ Daniel Brandt, My complaint to ArbCom, http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=39181

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