Online Encyclopedia Is A Gathering For Internet Predators (pedophiles at Wikipedia)

POE-News & Official Wire ^ | December 14, 2005

[lqclamar]

WikiPedia.org: you can find links to it everywhere. Online forums, scholarly journals, blogs, high school research papers. WikiPedia is an "open source" encyclopedia with the philosophy of democratic contribution. This encyclopedia differs from other more established encyclopedias by its editors; WikiPedia is composed of anonymous people contributing, deleting, and voting on various aspects of articles. WikiPedia is the frontier of online information distribution, with over 830,000 articles in the English language. It does have many criticisms, but there is one very important question that goes ignored by the mainstream media and wikifans alike.

Who, exactly, edits WikiPedia?

It has come to the attention of the Parents for the Online Safety of Children (POSC) that there is a underground cabal of pedophiles who edit WikiPedia, trying to make WikiPedia a distribution center for pedophile propaganda.

One user, who goes by the name of Zanthalon, writes on his profile, "Many of you have commented that the majority of my edits are on pedophilia-related articles. This is an area of interest for me since I am myself a pedophile, a girllover to be specific." He then goes on to add the standard disclaimer that is echoed by many convicted child molestors, "I would stress, however, that, I am not a child molester, having never broken the law or engaged in any intimate physical activities with any persons under the statutory age of consent".

Zanthalon is a frequent editor of the Pedophilia article, ensuring it is written from a pro-pedophile standpoint. It seems that WikiPedia's administration supports what he is doing.

One WikiPedia Admin, by the name of Ta bu shi da yu, who is a self-described liberal marxist, goes on to commend Zanthalon's contributions.

[Killborn]

Our options:

1) Regime change - remove the scum running Wiki (hostile takeover, elections, or sth)
2) Overwhelming force - Edit so much that they can't spin or keep up with their lies
3) Increase supply - create a better website where objective MEANS objective
4) Nuclear strike - self-explanatory.

I'll have to think this over, but Wiki and the people who run it WILL NOT get away with this.

[luvbach1]

Many of the Wikpedia articles are of merit. And one is free to edit them and discuss/debate the edits, which some obviously find stimulating. I and others were instrumental in changing the slant of Wikipedia's article on patriotism, which was written from the British and Eurowimp point of view and treated it as synonymous with jingoism. I was not aware of the articles dealing with pedophilia and would never defend them. I limited myself to the subjects of interest to me.

[AntiGuv]

Baby raping sounds fine to me, and I actually hardly ever use the term "pedophilia" - but rather child molestation. I detest child molestation and child molesters and think most of them are irredeemable and should be put away for life or very close to it. That may get obscured once in a while by the mild, neutral way I attempt to use in all my discussions.

We can agree to disagree on the conflation of homosexuality and child molestation. I've seen the arguments; I don't find them persuasive, and I'm not much interested into getting dragged into another debate over it.

Whether or not homosexuals are somewhat more likely to molest children, the vast majority of child molestation victims are victims of heterosexual assault.

[ndt]

"Remember the source though. "

Actually I did a bit more digging and even found a few pics (all soft by my definition). Take a look at the wayback machine.

[Killborn]

I don't want to debate this too. I don't have the book with me and am too tired to try. At least we agree that the proper cure for "pedophilia" is an injection of .45 grain right behind the subject's right ear.

[Borges]

I vote 3. If you don't like a site stop visiting there.

[Killborn]

That's number 5, ignore it and hope it won't influence the minds of sheeple.

[toddlintown]

I don't know how any real researcher or scholar can take Wikipedia with any seriousness.

[AntiGuv]

Yes, putting them down is the most humane, effective, and just solution for everyone involved, IMHO..

[lqclamar]

Compare http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pedophilia&limit=500&action=history

with

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_administrators

to see just how many wikipedia admins are also active editors on pedophilia topics and you get the picture of how bad it's gotten. It appears that one of the most active editors maintaining that page is actually a Wikipedia administrator named Willmcw and other administrators appear to have lots of edits there - Ta_bu_shi_da_yu, Everyking, RoyBoy

[ichabod1]

one of its highest level administrators is a disgraced ex-lawyer who got disbarred by a state supreme court for soliciting prostitutes.

And goes by the name of CLinton by any chance?

[lqclamar]

And goes by the name of CLinton by any chance?

Close, but no cigar (pun intended).

See the defendent here http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=co&vol=1999sc%5Csc0125a&invol=1

[x5452]

Then why not start wikirepublic. there's plenty of wiki clones using their software with different entries.

[little jeremiah]

later read/miserable pingout.

[Dave Elias]

"Anyone who has the time or inclination to edit a pedophilia article should immediately be distrusted."

Not really. I envisage such articles would be written by criminal psychologists and pediatritians.

[minus_273]

this is the guys real name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Ashford

[x5452]

I havent found anything on iki that isn't verifyiable elsewhere if harder to locate since many encyclopedias online charge, but i haven't looked into any social or sexual topics on wiki either.

[visualops]

Some argue they already have, with "Birth" (Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright)



Actress Nicole Kidman ... as a fragile young widow who believes a 10-year-old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband in ... “Birth.”
The disturbing film by up-and-coming director Jonathan Glazer has already stirred up controversy with provocative scenes of Kidman and the boy naked in a bathtub together.
In another shot, Kidman’s character Anna tenderly kisses the young Sean after being convinced that he is indeed her long lost husband."