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Wikipedia Infiltrated by Intelligence Agents?
An anonymous reader writes "International Humanitarian Law professor Ludwig Braeckeleer thinks so. In an article published yesterday in the Korean newspaper OhMyNews, he reveals a discovery he made while researching a story on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland. It turns out that a Wikipedia administrator named SlimVirgin is actually Linda Mack, a woman who as a young graduate in the 1980s was hired by investigative reporter Pierre Salinger of ABC News to help with the investigation. Salinger later came to believe that Mack was actually working for Britain's MI5 on a mission to investigate the bombing and to infiltrate and monitor the news agency. Shortly after her Wikipedia identity was uncovered, many of her edits to articles related to the bombing were permanently removed from the database in an attempt to conceal her identity. This discovery comes only months after another Wikipedia admin was caught lying about his credentials to the press. What can Wikipedia do about those who would use it for their own purposes?"
I'm sure that, if you all gang up on this Ludwig the way you gang up on me, you can convince him that he's just a conspiracy theorist hiding his own personal failings.
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=fe0aed1f75c 97449f83f7c37d4a85e37&showtopic=10991&view=findpos t&p=39104
I doubt that Linda Mack is currently working directly for any intelligence agencies. They might use her, as needed, but she's too screwy for any reasonable organization to rely on her. Nor is SlimVirgin's real identity an indication of any wrongdoing on Wikipedia. SlimVirgin's wrongdoing on Wikipedia is in her abuse of Admin authority, her thoroughly uncivil behavior, and her use of these transgressions in controlling content. That she is in fact discredited former journalist Linda Mack only adds some background to her misbehavior, as well as dispelling the cloak of anonymity behind which she has operated.
That Jimbo Wales has overlooked the many, many complaints about SlimVirgin and others is probably due to him pursuing his own secret agenda: figuring out how to get some coin out of the contraption that is Wikipedia. Had he really believed in the hippy-ish notions of free information that he so often parrots (notions probably contrary to his self-professed following of Ayn Rand's sophistry), he would likely have been very alarmed at suggestions that his "encyclopedia" was being manipulated to promote outside agendas; instead, he apparently was more worried about collecting receipts somehow after the early idea of selling advertising on Wikipedia was shot down by editors. Sadly, when Wikipedia could have used a principled leader, it instead had a human cash register.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007 -July/078241.html
7 -July/078242.html
Or this?
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/200
Let me see if I can use the same logical form:
A. Superman is weakened by kryptonite.
B. Kryptonite is green.
C. Lex Luther's favorite color is red.
Therefore, it is "highly doubtful" that Lex Luther is responsible for Superman being poisoned by kryptonite.
How did I do?
Lise/Durova is writing on Wikipedia to DENY, DENY, DENY, here:
Durova - Lise Diane Broer - is a Liar
Why does Lise care? Because both Slimvirgin and Durova (Linda Mack and Lise Diane Broer) broke a deal they made with Daniel Brandt. They were to take down his article (that he'd been trying to get down for two years, that Slimvirgin/Linda wrote), and he would hide their names on his site, and wikipediareview.com redacted them. Brandt's site didnt go down, really, and their names went back up. So Slimvirgin and Durova are in this together.
One of Lise's favorite thing to do is to talk about how the U.S. government edited Wikpedia. When she does that, you know she's hiding something.
Durova - Lise is as mean as they come-
Lise is a very nasty person. She has a page up on Encyclopedia Dramatica http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Durova/, which details what kind of abuses shes done. Slim has a page up on Wikitruth.
Lise is a consummate liar, and like one of the other responders on this thread said, she's not a good liar, but she has the cool dispassion down to an art, and it fools a lot of people. Don't let her fool you.
Your denials are pointless now that this story has been proven to be true, and Jimbo has announced a confession that the edits were oversighted: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007 -July/078336.html
Please cease this foolish denial. Denying something when you have plausible deniability is one thing. But you no longer have plausible deniability at all. This story is true. Even Jimbo admits that it is based in truth.