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In February, the admin OrangeMike used
Wikipedia to instigate a war against Haters Magazine by deleting our
Wikipedia Account. Either he mistook HM for a fansite, probably hoping
to incite a fan-feud, or was incensed at articles on HM criticizing the
IWW, of which he is a member. He also owed nerd fealties to WP IrishGuy
for making him an Admin, and IrishGuy has a grudge against us. A Professional Fan (SF Groupie/ Trekker) Mike can pontificate for long hours on the difference between SF and Sci-Fi; probably for as long as KRS-One can lecture on the Dichotomy of Rap vs Hip Hop. OrangeMike publishes Vojo de Vivo fanzine on orange paper, and wears an orange death row jumpsuit to conventions and joins unions, groups and clubs everywhere, coordinating colors like as if the Great Pumpkin had joined DeMolay. OrangeMike is an Esperanto enthusiast (See: Arnold Rimmer) with a long career in U Wisconsin-Milwaukee's multiculturalism program. As Rodney Leighton, a guy nobody ever heard of, said in OrangeMike's own magazine, Vojo de Vivo: "this guy acts fannish as hell. [...]) can't recall ever hearing of the guy." HM certainly hadn't heard of him until he told us we couldn't choose our own username on Wikipedia, since that was his unique gimmick. This prompted us to investigate his zine which is an autobiography of being a professional fan, and his ongoing battle with cellulitis, which to the novice might seem to mean acutely inflamed obesity, but really means fungal skin infections. You can obtain these gripping autobiographies for $5 per issue. Caveat emptor: stories might not reference fans or fiction. Born in 1953, OrangeMike ran (lost) for a state General Assembly in 1974 and can be found as Michael J. Lowery on "The Political Graveyard." Mysteriously, the same list and the store, Renaissance Books, where he works, appear on Wikipedia in violation of conflict of interest rules. On the Online Role Playing Game, Wikipedia, he is listed as a "Native American Politician." The article is edited by OrangeMike's Chicago SF fan-friend Steven Silver and squatted by Power Rangers enthusiasts. He also owns the entry on Renaissance Books, where HM speculates that he works as a defacto chief of the (swollen) Red Foot Tribe under the name Stands-With-A-Chickenfist.An unintended (by Wikipedia) consequence
of the deletion of our account (User: contextflexed) has been a
wholesale expose' of the admins responsible and a mass outing of all
anonymous WP users on HM. The "anonymous outing" list has
garnered 6,000 reads since it was first posted on April 1st, and
several Wikipedians have inadvertently outed themselves by IP logging.
IrishGuy has feigned a resignation in light of the steadfast heat we have brought him, but we have taken our case to The Wikipedia Review, and received no small help from Daniel Brandt of Hivemind, and also from Judd Bagley from Overstock.com.
Due to recent activities by Daniel
Brandt, one of Wikipedia's arbitrators (NewYorkBrad) aka the lawyer Ira
Brad Metetsky withered in the public light and resigned from Wikipedia.
He left one of those "please don't discuss the circumstances of my
leaving" messages that causes a black hole in collectives into which
many other comrades crush themselves to self-censor and censor the act
of censorship. Even if we never receive justice, we will laugh at the dramaz. In the meantime, the anonymous editor outing list grows at: |
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