Brutal Warrior of the Week: Borock

Yesterday Borock nominated the article about the Hawaii Free Press for deletion. At first he was a little crude at his canvassing efforts, but now he's gotten more sophisticated, targetting users who will likely vote the way he wants them to without appearing to suggest how they should vote. I believe that at this time Borock has no sockpuppets. But he sure has the makings of one of Wikipedia's top ten most brutal warriors in the future.

Can't give the specifics of the first Wikipedia-related murder

When the first Wikipedia-related murder happens, the police better not look to me for clues. I only deal in what is publically visible from the website. Given that most of Wikipedia's logs are falsified on a daily basis, I could easily be wrong when I say such and such user is a sockpuppet of another. Indeed, most CheckUser requests yield laughably wrong information. But what is the real information? That is lost due to so much falsification. So when the first Wikipedia-related murder happens, I won't know anything more about it than can be seen on the user pages of the involved users.

Brutal Warrior of the Week: Savidan

Sorry I'm late this week. This week's brutal warrior is Savidan. The violent nature of his wikiwar is quite apparent from his userpage, which features a violent painting. Potential socks include Sky Attacker (notice the motif of violence), TexasAndroid, Niteshift36, ChildofMidnight, etc. I seriously doubt Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (I think I typed that right) is a sock of Savidan, but I could be wrong.

Someone suggested I nominate Jimbo Wales as a brutal warrior of the week. The idea is so ridiculous I had to mention it. That would be like giving a gladiator's trophy to the owner of a gladiatorial arena.

How do you deal with Wikipedia's most vicious bastards?

I was recently asked: "How do you deal with Wikipedia's most vicious bastards?" My answer is that I don't. After just a few edits, I quit trying. But I do have respect and admiration for those who continue to try to get facts into Wikipedia despite the most vicious bastards of the ruling class, composed almost entirely of brutal wikiwarriors and their sockpuppets. It is thanks to those people who add facts regardless of what Wikipedia's ruling class thinks that Wikipedia is not completely made up of lies and inane half-truths.

Warrior of the Week: Xymmax

Xymmax latest victory occurred last month, and it pertained to the topic of contraception. He couldn't have achieved it without the help of his many sockpuppets, some of which include Phil Sandifer, Drawn Some, Llewdor, Colonel Warden, Bearian and Eusebeus. Eusebeus in particular stands out as a definite sockpuppet: he edits with such blind ignorance and stupidity that he's surely one of Xymmax's socks. Eusebeus has been blocked twice, each time for a few minutes, while Xymmax has been blocked only once. Quite suspiciously, the block lasted barely a minute.

Arrogantly signing as "Xymmax let it be written let it be done," he proudly points people to his main account's talk page and his contributions listing. But he hardly contributes anything. Most of his contributions involve page protection and deletion. He himself admits on his talk page: "I've gotten involved pretty deeply in AfD work." How noble. Please.

Brutal Warrior of the Month: Ctjf83

This month's brutal warrior of the month is Ctjf83. Why not Charles Matthews, who after all, managed to get on ArbCom? Well, that would have been the easy choice. Besides, how can you know Ctjf83 doesn't have sockpuppets on ArbCom, even if not as many as Charles Matthews? In any case, Ctjf83's reprehensible tactic of pretending to be gay online puts him far above Charles Matthews in brutality and viciousness. Simply disgusting. I have family and friends who are gay. It is an insult to them when others pretend.

Wikipedia-related murder still on the horizon

Someday, a brutal warrior will find out the true location of one of his enemies and show up in person to kill him. The brutal warriors take Wikipedia that seriously. The only reason it hasn't happened yet is actually a positive side effect of the ridiculously idiotic sockpuppet witch-hunt: Warrior A wants to kill warrior B. However, warrior C has falsified the IP address and edit time stamps of warrior B in order to have warrior B declared a sockpuppet of one of warrior C's sockpuppets, so now warrior A doesn't have reliable information from which to figure out the location of warrior B. Hopefully warrior A won't kill anyone if he arrives at the wrong location and fails to find warrior B. Either way, warrior B's life is saved because he's been declared a sockpuppet of warrior C's sockpuppet (which was created specifically for the purpose of being a sockmaster of real users).