One of Wikipedia’s worst SJWs, the anti-GamerGate Ryulong, has been banned indefinitely for his all-too-typical thought-policing:
Ryulong banned
5.3) (Was 4.5) Ryulong (talk · contribs · logs · edit filter log · block log)
is indefinitely banned from the English Language Wikipedia. They may
request reconsideration of the ban twelve months after the enactment of
this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
Support:
- (first choice) As always, banning someone is not something we should want
to do, but sometimes it is the best thing for the project. Ryulong has
acted very poorly in this topic area, and it is clear that previous
sanctions and blocks have failed to have the desired effect of ending
disruptive behavior. A revolving door of speedy topic bans, chasing the
problem from area to another, is not the answer. This is. I sincerely
hope that at some point in the future he will be able to return and be a
productive member of this community again, but for now he needs to go. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:15, 19 January 2015 (UTC)- Will prioritise later if need be, Roger Davies talk 23:38, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Equal first choice, Roger Davies talk 11:31, 21 January 2015 (UTC)- First choice. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk) 23:56, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
- Last Choice I would love to not do this but I don’t think anything else has a snowball’s chance of passing —In actu (Guerillero) | My Talk 01:15, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
- First choice. Salvio Let’s talk about it! 10:46, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
- Last choice of presented options (Right now). I think if we’re
dealing with this on a purely pragmatic level this might be best for the
project, but I do think that it would only be fair to attempt to apply
some of the alternatives first, although I’m a bit concerned as to their
potential efficacy, given the history. NativeForeigner Talk 07:26, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Nonetheless, support. NativeForeigner Talk 19:48, 27 January 2015 (UTC)- T. Canens (talk) 17:12, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
- If the 1RR does not pass, then first choice of what’s left. Still
oppose if the 1RR somehow moves back to passing. The more I look at the
history here, the more I am sure the problems are far wider than just
this single topic, as I see it, Ryulong doesn’t seem able to “hold his
fire”, and not get into edit wars. This also, per his block log, is
independent of topic areas. Without very, very strong measures to stop
them from continuing to edit war throughout the encyclopedia, I don’t
think we have any other choice. Also, even to this morning, I still see
evidence of ongoing battleground mentality. I really, really don’t like
this, but I can’t support their staying on the project without a strict
1RR and a topic ban at this point. And only one of those is going to
pass. Courcelles 22:02, 26 January 2015 (UTC)Oppose:
- My mind is open on the other proposed remedies, but I will certainly not be supporting this. Newyorkbrad (talk) 03:41, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
- Neither will I. Need to contemplate the rest of it, but this is not the solution. Courcelles 03:48, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
Excessive in the circumstances. I’m open to some alternative. DGG ( talk ) 05:33, 20 January 2015 (UTC)- I would like to try something else. —Guerillero | My Talk 07:53, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
- I’ve decided to oppose this, albeit weakly. I’m hoping that the
other remedies regarding Ryulong will end this situation, but I don’t
quite think a siteban is the best course forward here. GorillaWarfare (talk) 02:32, 23 January 2015 (UTC)- — Euryalus (talk) 05:13, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
- Given the circumstances here, I don’t think this is called for. For
clarity’s sake, though, this is very likely the absolute last chance. Seraphimblade Talk to me 01:14, 24 January 2015 (UTC)- LFaraone 18:45, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Abstain:
- I find my view on this changing from day to day, so it would be fairer if I abstained. DGG ( talk ) 20:47, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Comments:
Noting that I skipped this intentionally—still thinking on it and will come back soon. GorillaWarfare (talk) 17:23, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
- @NativeForeigner: I tried to fix the numbering, but clarification of your exact meaning would be useful here. Courcelles 20:01, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Of course, a perusal of the process tends to illustrate why Wikipedia is so hapless when it comes to policing outrageous behavior by its editors. Because it was started by an SJW-sympathetic individual and was rapidly taken over by SJWs of varying rabidity, the site remains hopelessly biased and largely worthless on anything of even moderate political contention.
That being said, it is good to see that Wikipedia is trying to clean up its act, even if it is going about it in a manner that makes Sisyphus look productive. But they simply refuse to see that the way they cherry-pick which sources are deemed reliable and which are not is what produces the intrinsic left-wing bias. The SJW editor who sits on the Wikipedia page about me and tries to publicize as much negative information as possible while minimizing any positive information shows how he evades the point on the Talk page there:
Many of the recent additions to this article seem to be the direct result of Mr. Beale’s recent blog post
in which he commented that Wikipedia is unfairly and dishonestly
excluding material on his views: “Does [the ‘Views section in the
Wikipedia article] describe my views at all? Are the totality of my
views really limited to little more than a feud with John Scalzi and my
expulsion from SFWA? Do I have no opinions on economics, politics,
philosophy, literature, and religion despite having written books on the
former and the latter? It’s telling, too, to observe that if the
so-called feud and the expulsion are the only significant aspects of my
views, there is no mention of the connection between the former and the
latter.”Mr. Beale then gave a brief description of his views on economics — he feels that the Austrian School
is currently the best explanation available, but is ultimately flawed
for various reasons — and stated that “(t)hose are my actual views on
the subject. That is the absolute truth. Post them on Wikipedia and
they’ll be suppressed within 24 hours.”This, I believe, is indicative of a general misunderstanding. Of
course Mr. Beale has a great many more views than are provided in this
article; for instance, he has expressed an appreciation for the writing
of Frank Herbert and a dislike for that of Patrick Rothfuss.
I’m certain he also has food preferences, and opinions on the best way
to teach mathematics to children. He may even have discussed these views
in posts to his blog. But the mere fact that Mr. Beale has a view on a
subject does not indisputably lead to the conclusion that the view
should be included in Wikipedia’s biography of him, not even if he has
made a blog post in which he explicitly states that view. Rather, the
views which are (or should be) included are those which have drawn significant independent external attention. I hope that this explanation will satisfy the readers of Mr. Beale’s blog, and possibly even Mr. Beale himself. DS (talk) 14:42, 8 August 2014
This is the height of absurdity. I misunderstand nothing. Nor do you, my readers. There is FAR MORE significant independent external attention that has been paid to my views on economics, religion, and the history of war than have ever been paid to my views on immigration or race, much less my “Feud with John Scalzi”. I have NEVER done an interview about the latter; Scalzi himself did only one. I did over thirty interviews, some on national radio, about economics subsequent to the release of THE RETURN OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION and more than twenty related to THE IRRATIONAL ATHEIST.
Transcripts and links to some of those interviews are available on my blog. My views are clearly expressed in them – again, on national radio shows, and even in one case, television – and yet every last trace of those views have been methodically scrubbed from Wikipedia by the likes of DragonFlySixtyseven.
Here is just one of many possible examples pulled from my email. There are over 75 similar emails from different media outlets ranging from Fox News to the Saturday Evening Post. But in the impartial eyes of the Wikipedia editors, the cumulative total of that independent external attention is less significant and notable than John Scalzi talking about himself on his blog that gets less than half the traffic of this one.
INTERVIEW CONFIRMATION
NAME: Vox Day
TOPIC: The Irrational Atheist
DATE: Tuesday, October 21, 2008
INTERVIEW TIME: 11:15 – 11:55 am ET
LENGTH OF INTERVIEW: 40 minutes
MEDIA: Christian Radio Network – over 200 stations in 34 states, 19 affiliates and in Canada
I can’t speak to the accuracy of the rest of Wikipedia, but my page is mostly nonsense from start to finish. I mean, it actually says that I was born in Minnesota.