James is not his real name, nor is Watson, nor is B part of his real name. As he says on his current user page since at least 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =634695508
I feel sorry for anyone in the world who really is named James Watson - the one with the pseudonym does not try to make himself popular with people whose toes he treads on with impunity and there must be hundreds of deranged and embittered people out there who would like a word with James some day. He seems to spend hours and hours and hours every day deleting, reverting and blocking, deleting, reverting and blocking, deleting, reverting and blocking. His rationale is good in a specious kind of way:I now regret having chosen that username, because it gives the impression of being a real name, so I feel I am deceiving people, albeit unintentionally, whereas if I had chosen an obviously fictitious name, such as "Mountain Jumper", nobody would think it was my real name, so there would be no deception. I have considered changing my username, but I have been so active under this one that changing might cause unnecessary confusion.
He admits to wasting too much time at WP and he once linked his user page to [[Wikipedia: It is not the end of the world]]:Unfortunately, in an encyclopaedia which anyone can edit, a lot of the editing is not of a good quality. Wikipedia's success therefore depends to a great extent on a large number of volunteers who give up a considerable amount of their own time to clean things up, improve the quality of what is there, and remove what is not so good. Some Wikipedians choose not to spend time on that, but to concentrate only on writing new content. That is absolutely fine, but sometimes those who make that choice disparage and vilify the work of others who make a different choice, and that is not absolutely fine. Writing content and cleaning up what is there are both essential and constructive parts of building the encyclopaedia. Some people make balanced contributions to both areas, others choose to concentrate on one area or the other. Whichever choice we make we can all respect others who contribute in different ways.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... _the_World), which closes with this sage advice: Wikipedia can be used to escape from the real life. But real life can also be used to escape from Wikipedia. Don't hesitate to do so. He doesn't link to it anymore.
James was instrumental in blocking me forever but I am not after revenge. I am thankful to him for bashing me to my senses. The best thing that can happen to James, in my opinion (and Plato's) is for him to be blocked too. I don't think there is any other way for him to recover his sanity or redeem his true nature. Any man willing to donate so much time to public service must have a truly good side. But after years as an anonymous gaoler and bruiser for the Wikipedia rehabilitation system, counteracting villains and fixing other people's problems all day every day, as an enforcer for established gangs, his character must be truly spotted and twisted by now.
This thread is not just for James but for any other cases of apparently good people enslaved to a bad cause. They are the real victims of Wikipedia.