PEOPLE!

I'm sort of furious. I cannot hide it. Only ONE person... Michael Verdi has
responded,, voted, cited any reason for patrik needing to be banned or
otherwise rebuked for his abuse of the delete button on the wikipedia
vlogging article.

http://tinyurl.com/2le5bn

This is just typical B.S. and I cannot hide my frustration any longer.

I mine as well have not even bothered to waste my time posting this vote.

It will be OVER in less than 24 hours... not because there's some deadline
but because only one of you has bothered to respond.

What's more you're GIVING PAT AMMO! AND giving him a history to which he can
refer when he continues to delete all your future contributions!!

"it's OK... see because the admins said soo!"

That's is to paraphrase exactly what he's said in this email!

1) Patrick has painted this as a personal dispute between he and I. He's
cited some edits from way back when by me that probably weren't worthy of
the article to the ignorance of ALL ELSE THAT HAS COME BEFORE AND SINCE!

This isn't about the worthiness of my edits I'm sticking up for everyone's
edits!

The issue is he deleted EVERYONE's contributions automatically with little
regard, and has continued to do so over the last two years.

2) As soon as there's any attention to the article or Patrick's poor conduct
and abuse of the delete button he  pretends to be all nice again, and makes
a few contributions to pretend like he's not just deleting... then he goes
right back to his same old pattern of automatically deleting all
contributions.

3) That he's recieving these votes from admins is because they can't see his
long history and NOONE save Michael Verdi is fucking standing up. Now I've
made the pledge to go back in and total up all the empiracal evidence on the
number of times he's revereted and deleted contributions vs. the number of
contributions.

But you need to get the fuck in there like Michael verdi did, vote one way
or the other, and start citing some good damn references on things that were
deleted and how quickly they were deleted by Pat.

There were over 100 emails bitching and moaning about this issue in the last
24 - 48 hours... and I worked my ass off to give you a forum on wikipedia to
express your thoughts and opinions to the admin and only ONE of you
bothered.

I've put my ass on the line and it's hanging in the wind... so yes I'm going
to speak up.

I don't care how you vote, yah, nay, indifferent, cite a reference... ask if
there's some alternative... but to NOT EVEN BOTHER... that's unconscionable.

If this is a reflection of the level of interest in the videoblogging
article then fuck it... let pat continue to go around thinking he's the
gatekeeper of the damn article and all edits need his approval.

Sorry, I am going to use fuck alot...  because this is quite nearly it for
me on this issue and I think you all need a good kick in the pants to
actually take an action.

The amount of bitching is amazing, and the complete lack of action is
absolutely baffling.

We haven't had this much chatter since Cindy Shehan or MyHeavy started using
all your content to raise funding...  or 49 bloggers guy told Chuck Olsen
and his Blogumentary to fuck off.

I keep wracking my brain... why? Is it because the process of voting is to
complex?  Is it because I'm to wordy of a mofo and have failed to make the
issue clear... is it because people are burnt out on the moral outrage...
Why?

Wikipedia is NOT that hard to edit... it takes about 5 minutes to go post
yay or nay and why!

If this ends up being a case that is a landslide victory for pdelongchamp
because none of you cared then I will be FINISHED with this article... and
severly disselusioned with this community.

I know have more respect then ever for Richard BF, Michael Verdi and others
who've gone through this all before.

I can't believe noone will raise a finger.

Go there... http://tinyurl.com/2le5bn

Scroll  down to the section on Pdelongchamp... click edit and leave your
opinion... ANY opinion... if you think I'm wrong leave an opinion.

VOTE dammit!

And I'm sorry... I have to say this... I've spoken to four people directly
on the issue... I've spoken to Andreas, Jan, Michael Verdi and Jay...  All
these people have spend significant time discussing this issue. That only
one of them, Michael Verdi, took spent a tiny fraction of the time they
spent talking about this issue here... to go and illustrate their point for
the wikipedia admins is baffling to me.

Andreas flat out said he wouldn't vote... that he's "staying out of it"....
I love andreas... but I think it's B.S. Andreas... I don't care if you hate
wikipedia and everything it stands for... I understand it... but you're in
it up to your eyeballs. How many comments and blog posts have you made over
this issue over the years... you condemn wikipedia as the problem of not
protecting against trolls, but you have failed to ever step up to the plate
and defend wikipedia from trolls... this is your chance... to not do so now
is a simple balk.

Jan said she needed time to sift through the evidence... fine... Jan I
respect you tremendously... but the reality is if you take another 24 - 48
hours... then it will be over and pat will be emboldened in his deletes and
you'll never be rid of him. Jan also said this was a case between two people
she cared about and didn't want to take sides... again jan, it's not about
sides... you don't have to vote yeah or nay... vote on the evidence...
present your own evidence from the previous contributions... I cannot give
you all the evidence you need... and I shouldn't have to.

Jay... I know you want to be the piece keeper... and that you don't think
pat's a bad guy, but you also know that no matter what pat's intentions he's
doing tremendous damage to the community by being a self appointed
gatekeeper of the community.  He's not only alienated the entire community
from wikipedia... but the videoblogging article is our chance to present a
case of what videoblogging is to the world... and for much of the past year
that has consisted of less than 500 words because noone else has been
willing or able to stand up to pdelongchamp and his abuse of the delete
button.

You don't HAVE to vote YAY or NAY people... you can vote... "NEEDS MORE TIME
FOR RESEARCH" (Jan. please at least say this much).... or "IS THEIR SOME
ALTERNATIVE TO A BAN" .... or present evidence from the contributions
history... or say "BAN, recommend 1 month"  or two weeks... or even 1 day...
1 day would be a largely symbolic move... but even this would be a HUGE
victory... it would simply say to pat... we like you... when you're
contributing but don't use the delete so much.

Or how about "IS THERE ANYWAY TO BAN A USER FROM USING THE REVERSION/DELETE
FEATURE"?

This is just an initial rebuke, people... this isn't "IT" it's you deciding
wether you're actually going to stand up for yourselves or simply not.

Anyway,

Other than compiling empiraical data on the number of edits and deletes by
Pat, which I could use some help on from some, I'm pretty much done.

I wanted to give you all the space to react and make you're opinions known
on wikipedia, but by the time you're done... you will have given exactly
this (the email that started this thread) sort of AMMO to Pat... he thinks
his actions are not only condone-able but good... so good that he sends out
these sort of emails saying "see I told you so".

The only thing this shows is an unwilliness for this community to stand up
for itself on wikipedia. I have no idea why... perhaps wikipedia is to
beuracratic or technical... I just don't get it.

Just don't be fooled that this large moral outrage will change anything in
three months from now when the wikipedia article is again a stub and noone
is contributing because Pat auto-deletes their posts.

GO VOTE! -- http://tinyurl.com/2le5bn

Or so help me god I will go away and never come back. :)

Hrmmpf.

-Mike
mmeiser.com/blog

On 5/3/07, David Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I apologize for the formatting.
>
> Allow me to post this here as well rather than just in an email to
> Patrick Delongchamp.
>
> Patrick. Quit fucking emailing me you nutjob.
>
>
> David Howell
> to Patrick
>
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>          12:36 pm (3 minutes ago)
> You fucking nutcase. I did not try to vote on whatever CN page you are
> talking about.
>
> Quit emailing me.
>
>
>
> On 5/3/07, Patrick Delongchamp < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>     I noticed you tried to vote on the CN page.
>
>     a) the discussion is closed
>     b) you didn't show in any way that MichaelVerdi isn't a meatpuppet
>     which he clearly is.  Read the policy she was quoting.
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MEAT#Meatpuppets
>     c) It's also clear that Mmeiser was violating the policy as well by
>     advertising and soliciting meatpuppets.
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MEAT#Advertising_and_soliciting_meatpuppets
>
>     Calilil was trying to be considerate and you pretty much yelled at
>     him. (CAPS = SHOUTING)  Wikipedia isn't a game.  I don't come to your
>     house and smash your camera for no reason so don't try to come to
>     Wikipedia and ban me for no reason.
>
>     I tried to be friendly but you clearly enjoy getting a rise out of
>     people.  For example, your only comment to the Ban Request results was
>     to accuse me of spamming.  That's a pretty sad rebuttle.  You might as
>     well have just said "You forgot Poland."
>
>     pd
>
>
>
>     On 5/3/07, Patrick Delongchamp < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>     > Hey Dave,
>     >
>     > Sorry about that.  I didn't realize it would affect much to
> change the
>     > subject of the message.  I'll keep it in mind next time.
>     >
>     > I would encourage you to visit the Video blog article though and
> read
>     > some of the history and discussions going on. It's interesting
> to see
>     > the article finally begin to grow.  You'll get a better idea of the
>     > difference between editors like Bullemhead and Ruperthowe and myself
>     > compared to editors like Mmeiser.  It's a collaborative atmosphere
>     > when people don't resort to personal attacks.
>     >
>     > pd
>     >
>
>
>
>
> --
> David Howell
> http://www.davidhowellstudios.com
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], "Patrick Delongchamp"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hey Mike,
> >
> > I didn't mean for it to seam like you were threatening me.  Sorry.
> >
> > It was just meant as a lighthearted reflection of the topics
> currently being
> > discussed in the group.
> >
> > pd
> >
> > On 5/3/07, Michael Verdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >   On 5/3/07, pdelongchamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<pdelongchamp%40gmail.com>>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > and now ladies and gentlemen, ...your moment of zen. (please
> accept this
> > > > as humour with only a tinge of bitterness)
> > > >
> > > > "This user - Pdelongchamp - constantly fucks with the entry.
> [...] It's
> > > > pathetic. I can't believe Meiser still has the patience to try
> work on
> > > > the article as his changes usually get deleted within hours."
> > > > -Michael Verdi
> > > >
> > >
> > > Well Patrick,
> > > I don't understand your subject line.
> > > What you've quoted there is obviously not a threat. It's just my
> > > observation of your assholeness which I stand by 100% whether there
> > > are wikipedia editors that agree with you or not.
> > > Please fuck off,
> > > Verdi
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://michaelverdi.com
> > > http://spinxpress.com
> > > http://freevlog.org
> > > Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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> >
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