This week's brutal warrior: Rascal the Peaceful

With a username like that, he couldn't possibly be a brutal warrior, right? Well, you have to be suspicious when the vast majority of his edits are to User and User talk pages. Of his past 300 edits, only 22 have been to articles. And he uses "Friendly" to welcome new users. Yeah, this one really throws you off the scent of wikiwarriors. But the notifications of speedy deletions are what convinces me that what we have here is a bona fide brutal warrior.

Brutal warrior of the week: CRGreathouse

Nothing pisses me off more than brutal warriors who self-martyrize. The great CRGreathouse so selflessly releases all the content he creates on Wikipedia (asterisk) into public domain for all to use in whatever way they see fit! Oh, how noble! Oh, how selfless! Puh-lease. Give me a break.

Debating Wikipedia's accuracy

A lot of people ask on Yahoo Answers whether or not Wikipedia is reliable or accurate. A recently reran Saturday Night Live skit from last season really puts that question into perspective: A straight man (Jason Sudeikis) pretends to be gay so he can be the roommate of a beautiful woman (yes, I think Casey Wilson is beautiful). To explain an erection that she felt, the man creates a Wikipedia article on "boner-plasia." When he's finally forced to admit that not only is he a straight man, he also created the Wikipedia article on "boner-plasia."

Brutal warrior of the week: Warrior4321

Sometimes this blogging gig is just way too easy. Warrior4321. His username says it all. And, surprise surprise, he's a rollbacker. He does edit articles a little bit more often than your typical wikiwarrior, but still, he's a warrior. And a damn crafty one at that.

Wikipedia Warrior of the Week: Cimon Avaro

This white dude could've chosen to give himself the identity of a Latina girl. But he knew better, and just left it at Latino. And in an extreme stroke of arrogance, Cimon Avaro has declared himself a "Grognard Extraordinary," which to the common man means... exactly nothing. Just another brutal butcher.

Overlapping edits mean nothing

On Blogger, I can schedule blog posts for future publication. I can also back-date blog posts. Theoretically, if I had another Blogger account, I could have them making blog posts at the same time. But what would be the point of that? There could be some deceptive value to post back-dating: when the first incident of Wikipedia-related homicide occurs, I could write up some blog post with some sketchy approximation of what actually happened and back-date to say, a month prior. Then my blog post would seem prophetic.

On Wikipedia, as far as I know, there is no way to schedule edits nor back-date edits. At least I can say such tools are not available to the average Wikipedia user. But that doesn't mean that Wikipedia's most brutal warriors don't find ways to both schedule edits and back-date them. Scheduling is probably easy, as computers offer us plenty of ways to command them to do something at a specific time in the future. Back-dating edits would certainly be more work, in part because it requires access to the server itself. But Wikipedia's most vicious warriors definitely have such access.

Although those brutal bastards can have many sock accounts and give the appearance of independent users by having overlapping edits, that means nothing. They can just as easily declare a bunch of you to be operated by single sockmaster.

Brutal warrior of the month: Dpbsmith

If there is a brutal warrior who's best learnt the lessons of Emperor Palpatine and Machiavelli's Prince, my money would be on Dpbsmith. Enough said.