At the risk of stating the obvious, he could just as easily be referring to Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping, or even Netanyahu with this "example." And just as obviously, he doesn't even consider that the best or most sensible answer might be "require pre-publication review," or "disallow anonymous editing," or even "nothing — since those other two options are impossible to achieve."The Signpost is for all Wikipedia editors and can deal with bigger questions like "there's this guy who tells lots of fibs, had his finger on the nuclear button for 4 years, who encouraged an insurrection against the US government, and his organization edits Wikipedia. What do we do?"
Why anyone listens to this guy at all is utterly beyond me, despite my being somewhat aligned with him politics-wise. But I guess they're stuck with him on WP, because for them, to actually insist on rational approaches to "problems" from someone in his position would simply be unthinkable.
It struck me that this might explain his choice of username — he's like a really tenacious little dog who gets his jaws around the smallest bones he can find, some so small nobody else even realizes they're bones, and never lets go.Giraffe Stapler wrote:It should be pointed out that Mmartinnyc (T-C-L) hasn't edited since 2013 (and is also dead). Trumpgirl (T-C-L) hasn't edited since 2017. Smallbones did not approach the COI noticeboard or ArbCom, but has instead made up imaginary reasons why they would not deal with this example of COI editing. The truth is there's just nothing there worth bothering with at this point.
