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Wikipedia’s Lipstick War: Mantanmoreland banned

For some then now, the ongoing debates over failures to over and over naked short selling have played out in the cyberpages of Wikipedia.

I can’t extraordinarily claim to have stayed on top of this, because the development I’m about to statement is nearly a month old, but … it’s meriting of some mention. A longtime Wikipedia woman who most frequently used the name “Mantanmoreland” has been banned from making further contributions to that extricate online resource … indefinitely.

For purposes of pellucidity, I might best say here that I know of what I speak in part because I’ve participated in Wikipedia myself, always using the name Christofurio. I can’t truly claim to have stayed au courant though.

But it is uncontroversial at the very least to check out that the cluster of Wikipedia articles, dealing exactly or indirectly with hedge funds that are assumed to engage in naked shorting, and with the war against it, have collectively been the scene for at least two years now of an deep edits war.

Furthermore, it seems that MM’s name is often coupled with the name of a former senior editor who called himself WordBomb – coupled in the same way that the names of Athens and Sparta are often coupled. Or Rome and Carthage. I’ll mind wiki practice in this blog access and engage in no speculation as to who is who in the real existence. As they say, no ‘outing.’ I’ll just now call them by the short form of their most common conceal names, MM and WB. They have been paired in many minds as the facing poles of a tiny but intense world. MM believed that the anti-nakedness jehad is nonsense, and dangerous nonsense at that, a jihad that benefits chiefly incompetent managers and give someone the third degree pump dry/dump fraudsters. WB, on the contrary, was himself enthusiastically committed to that holy war. He was its encyclopedic face. All this would have been well and good – they might be arguing in the Talk pages and cancelling out each others edits in the articles unique to this day – but for the wiki attitude toward ‘sock puppetry.’

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