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And the harassment of pro-JIDF editors continues. The witch hunt is on. I, like anyone who is pro-JIDF on Wikipedia ( |
And the harassment of pro-JIDF editors continues. The witch hunt is on. I, like anyone who is pro-JIDF on Wikipedia (52 editors and counting) am being accused of being a sockpuppet (go figure). Please note, out of 56 "sockpuppet allegations" in the following case, only 4 have been confirmed. WP editors who don't like the work have simply tagged 52 "suspected sockpuppets" without any real proof verifying anything, just because they have tried to defend the JIDF. I believe this is a form of harassment and abuse: |
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Revision as of 18:02, 28 August 2010
And the harassment of pro-JIDF editors continues. The witch hunt is on. I, like anyone who is pro-JIDF on Wikipedia (52 editors and counting) am being accused of being a sockpuppet (go figure). Please note, out of 56 "sockpuppet allegations" in the following case, only 4 have been confirmed. WP editors who don't like the work have simply tagged 52 "suspected sockpuppets" without any real proof verifying anything, just because they have tried to defend the JIDF. I believe this is a form of harassment and abuse:
I'm the founder of the Jewish Internet Defense Force. I'm happy to answer questions about myself and my organization, as there seems to be a lot of false information going around throughout the pages of WP as well as the internet as a whole.
Due to my strong views on a lot of things, the nature of my work, and the aggressiveness in which I take it on, I'm a hated man. Because of this, I receive harassment and death threats all of the time. I have had to register wide-ranging complaints with my local police department, as well as with US Federal authorities.
It is for these reasons, that my privacy and security are of the utmost importance to me. While I'm very open about my feelings on wide-ranging issues, I'm very careful about personal details being revealed about me.
The reason I share this with you is that I would appreciate it if you, and the WP project as a whole, will respect these sensitives. For more information on online anonymity, I find this article at the Electronic Frontier Foundation to be a good source.
As to my purpose on Wikipedia? I've become tired of baseless allegations about me and my organization on this site. Just because there's a handful of pro-JIDF sockpuppets out there, it doesn't mean they are all me, all the time. While I might have had access to some of them upon occasion for an edit here or there, I'm currently working this out with Wikipedia itself, privately, through ArbCom. I'm now here to represent and defend myself, and my organization in order to answer questions, fully adhering to WP's rules and policies to the best of my ability. I believe my mainpage editing will be kept to a minimum, but I think that I could be a valuable contributor to the project on the main pages from time to time as well. If WP wishes to believe that I'm a one-man disruption force or that I directed all the problems that have been happening in the name of, and in defense of the JIDF, and keep my contributions and insight into my work and self, completely off the site, that will be their decision to make. At least now, and in my own name, I will be accountable for my own edits and they will be representative of only me, and I will act as an official representative of the JIDF on Wikipedia. I don't need random anonymous sockpuppets causing trouble for me, my organization, or for Wikipedia.
Anyone is free to contact me through WP's email system (as I have registered it through the site), or through the various ways to contact me on the JIDF website.
Thank you.
David Appletree
Founder
Jewish Internet Defense Force
Leading the Fight