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Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:29 am**

Calton, a longtime and regular Wikipedia editor and the subject of much discussion on WR, has been given a long block.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:11 am**

I'm confused about something. According to their block log, they were blocked at 13:33 on March 7th by GiantSnowman, then unblocked at 22:08 by Kim Dent-Brown, then re-blocked at 10:38 on March 8th by BrownHairedGirl. Calton's last edit was made at 21:51 on March 7th, so they don't appear to have made any edits between the time when they were unblocked and when they were re-blocked. Was BrownHairedGirl's re-block a case of wheel warring?

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:18 am**

* * Thanks for whitesplaining that to the community. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward)(talk) 8:58 am, 7 March 2013, last Thursday (5 days ago) (UTC−8)
* * * What the "fuck" are you talking about?!?!? Jesus.... Carrite (talk)

*wipes tears from his eyes*
Oh my.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:31 am**

Lol . . . buckwheat. It is nice to know that there is a serious competitor with "cracker" for lamest racial slur ever. Getting indeffed for using that "insult" must be quite embarrassing.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:50 am**

The Devil's Advocate wrote:Lol . . . buckwheat. It is nice to know that there is a serious competitor with "cracker" for lamest racial slur ever. Getting indeffed for using that "insult" must be quite embarrassing.

Now ... you know... son, I've lived in the South. Born in the South, even. Down yondah, you bump into the nicest, most genteel white person a little too hard, and you will discover they were as a child given extensive readings from The Big Book of Ten Thousand Racist Epithets.
I was once chastised as a child for 'hanging out with them Brillo Pads.'

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:57 am**

Calton's still mucking about in there? Is this Block-The-Vintage-Troll week?

Ha ha, his old blog is still there. Last update still 2004.
I've long wondered what the Japanese thought of him.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 10:54 am**

Sad how a 51-year-old man acts like a 20-year-old idiot on Wikipedia.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:47 pm**

EricBarbour wrote:I've long wondered what the Japanese thought of him.

He probably speaks Japanese better than me. I don't know if he ever goes to any of the Japanese WP meet-ups, if they have any.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 4:06 pm**

thekohser wrote:Sad how a 51-year-old man acts like a 20-year-old idiot on Wikipedia.

I trust that's directed at me.

I will not allow nimrods to paint me into the corner of racism. I made a valid point, the Young White Male Hipster PC Sorts tried to play the race card on me, and I gave them the finger "No Personal Attacks" style.

Sorry if it offended your "mature" sensibilities...

RfB

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 4:23 pm**

Randy from Boise wrote:
thekohser wrote:Sad how a 51-year-old man acts like a 20-year-old idiot on Wikipedia.
I trust that's directed at me.

I will not allow nimrods to paint me into the corner of racism. I made a valid point, the Young White Male Hipster PC Sorts tried to play the race card on me, and I gave them the finger "No Personal Attacks" style.

Sorry if it offended your "mature" sensibilities...

RfB

No, I was talking about Calton Bolick. Are you 51, too?

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:03 pm**

thekohser wrote:Sad how a 51-year-old man acts like a 20-year-old idiot on Wikipedia.

Why a 20 year old? I suspect a 51 year old idiot isn't that different from a 20 year old one.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:12 pm**

Outsider wrote:
thekohser wrote:Sad how a 51-year-old man acts like a 20-year-old idiot on Wikipedia.
Why a 20 year old? I suspect a 51 year old idiot isn't that different from a 20 year old one.

Nonsense, we're much better at it.
It's all the practice, you see.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:26 pm**

Calton is a textbook example of incivility on Wikipedia. He should have been blocked years ago, many years ago. What a pest. It's frustrating that he survived this long, considering he abuses other users in virtually all his interactions. He's probably had friends protecting him, although I can't see why anyone would befriend such a mean-spirited person.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 10:42 pm**

Although hilarious, 'whitesplaining' is also a racial slam. Not the best thing to put in a thread where being indeffed for 'buckwheat' is an outcome.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:28 pm**

Does anyone think I should write him up for the book wiki? He's a pretty minor character otherwise.

Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:33 pm**

EricBarbour wrote:Does anyone think I should write him up for the book wiki? He's a pretty minor character otherwise.

He's a good example of the "vested contributor" problem WP has. Even though he is really rude and nasty with his fellow editors, which would have gotten him banned if he was a newbie, because he has been around so long no one is willing to finally vote him off the island.

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2013 12:19 am**

Cla68 wrote:
EricBarbour wrote:Does anyone think I should write him up for the book wiki? He's a pretty minor character otherwise.
He's a good example of the "vested contributor" problem WP has. Even though he is really rude and nasty with his fellow editors, which would have gotten him banned if he was a newbie, because he has been around so long no one is willing to finally vote him off the island.

I'm not sure that's what it is. He was a dick when he was new, too. I think it's because he has tended to direct his vitriol toward "out of favor" contributors, like some pit bull of orthodoxy.

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2013 1:28 am**

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2013 1:32 am**

HEADSHOT!

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2013 1:52 am**

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Calton -- dating from 2007, was posted on his userpage repeatedly.....

PS: he's yet another "insider" who went to UC Berkeley.

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:24 am**

thekohser wrote:
Randy from Boise wrote:
thekohser wrote:Sad how a 51-year-old man acts like a 20-year-old idiot on Wikipedia.
I trust that's directed at me.

I will not allow nimrods to paint me into the corner of racism. I made a valid point, the Young White Male Hipster PC Sorts tried to play the race card on me, and I gave them the finger "No Personal Attacks" style.

Sorry if it offended your "mature" sensibilities...

RfB
No, I was talking about Calton Bolick. Are you 51, too?

Yes.

RfB

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2013 5:48 am**

He's been unblocked, on the condition that he not abuse other users in edit summaries. I think it would have been more sensible to require that he not abuse other users anywhere.

Posted: **Sat Mar 16, 2013 8:17 pm**

everyking wrote:He's been unblocked, on the condition that he not abuse other users in edit summaries. I think it would have been more sensible to require that he not abuse other users anywhere.

This is Wikipedia, not somewhere sensible. I'm inclined to say that in a sensible place he would never have been unblocked.

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2022 3:09 am**

I hadn't seen this mentioned elsewhere here, but apparently Calton (T-C-L) died back in February.

(I think it's fitting that his final edit to Wikipedia was a personal attack on someone's talk page).

Posted: **Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:31 pm**

The Garbage Scow wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 03, 2022 3:09 am
I hadn't seen this mentioned elsewhere here, but apparently Calton (T-C-L) died back in February.

(I think it's fitting that his final edit to Wikipedia was a personal attack on someone's talk page).

From someone on his Facebook page (25 February 2022):

I regret to inform everyone that Cal passed away Friday evening, Japan time. Maybe it was around 7pm.
He had been in the hospital since midnight Wednesday, and intubated since mid-day Thursday for breathing difficulty due to non-Covid pneumonia. While still unconscious, he went into cardiac arrest, was revived once, then passed away a little later.

He became ill with influenza at the end of January, finally going to see a doctor at a local clinic on Jan 31, as he posted. When he passed, he had been feeling weak for weeks, despite one course of medication, and being declared negative for Covid-19.

The bad fall he mentions in this post happened because he lost consciousness as he was pedaling his bicycle home from Musashi Nakahara Station Doutour coffee shop, where he had been resting after taking care of some necessary business locally. A nearby convenience store camera recorded his fall and triggered the call to 119 (Japan's 911 service).
The police told Scott, Kenji, and me at the hospital last night that he may have injured his heart in the way fell onto his handlebars, and they are investigating the cause of death.

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