So, FergusM1970 (T-C-L) and TheNorlo (T-C-L), both deeply involved with the vaping scene (and possibly paid to perform advocacy), had been trying to add references to Electronic cigarette (T-H-L). And Heilman, who like many doctors wants to outlaw or regulate e-cigarettes (and that's a whole ugly little situation of its own), is fighting with them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... _Doc_James
Heilman responds.....by "outing" one of them via Twitter posts. (As always, "outing" editors is NOTPERMITTED, unless it's a Wikipedia insider doing it.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... ig_editors
Which links to this charming little essay. It explains why Heilman is on the warpath.
http://vapemestoopid.co.uk/asshats-antz ... lls-oh-my/
FloNight gets involved.
Then SandyGeorgia and other "Wikipedia Medical Foundation" supporters show up, and start tossing around accusations against FergusM. And it's getting remarkably ugly. Once again, a Wikipedia editor is "outed", this time by Dirk Beetstra:Yesterday, when I followed the link in the talk page conversation where FergusM1970 was insulting User:Doc James, I was led to FergusM1970's twitter account where he advertises that he is a paid e-cig shill. To quote: "Veteran, vaper, writer and paid e-cigarette industry shill." And he links to where you can contact him to write. I followed the link and saw mention of Wikipedia work. I wrote to him by email to ask him about the situation and to give me a list of all of his Wikipedia accounts and all the articles that created or edited for hire. He gave me an initial list and then revised it a few times. FergusM1970 denied to me by email that he is paid to edit the e-cig article. And he changed the twitter profile to add "And yes, I know, some of you really ARE too fucking stupid to recognise sarcasm. Tough.Deal with it." after the bit that says he is a e-cig shill.
Since FergusM1970 is a tendentious editor on the topic of e-cigs, and I answered a RFC on that article talk page last month, I decided to pass the information to @ User:Nuclear Warfare (who has dealt with him in the past) for evaluation and further action. I've not heard back from him yet.
I woke up to see that this discussion was now on AN/I, and also I see that FergusM1970 is trying to remember all the articles that he wrote and list them on his user page. A good number of them were deleted for lack of notability which kind of shows the problem with doing this type of work. I regret to say that I don't think that FergusM1970 is the type of editor that fits in well on Wikipedia. He has been block numerous times for not understanding or following basic rules. Yet, he is soliciting work to edit Wikipedia articles. For that reason, I support a ban from editing Wikipedia entirely. And if is to return ever, I support a permanent ban from editing in all areas related to tobacco including e-cigs. Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥♥ 16:12, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Get out your vaporizers and take a long, deep hit before examining this.I hope you don't mind adding to your header, User:SandyGeorgia. I came across this request on Elance, where "Wade" is looking for "... Someone with knowledge of the E cigs industry to write content for us for SEO purposes. ...". An assignment awarded to Fergus Mason. Adding this as evidence for both the abovementioned case, and for the suggested ban. --Dirk Beetstra T C 18:08, 22 December 2014 (UTC)