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Re:A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campa... by pydry on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:36AM (#26789216)
He's more prolific than any person would be. There's no indication he's a person and every indication that his persona is run by an institution that doesn't like anti war campaigners.

Craig Murray graphed his contributions here:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/05/the-philip-c...

In fairness his views do seem to match up with Jimbo Wales (who is, as a good friend of Tony Blair/Gordon Brown, not exactly anti war). He might be an institutional construct but there's plenty of institutions other than the CIA he could be fronting.

It's also possible he's basically a sockpuppet for Jimmy Wales, judging by the way he lashes out on Twitter at people questioning who Philip Cross really is.

So he clearly is pretty influential.

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Re:A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campa... by throwaway81523 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:46AM (#26790122)
The Craig Murray graph is completely misleading. It was not generated by Murray, it was generated by Wikipedia, and Murray apparently saw it, misunderstood it, flipped out, and put it on his own site. It is discussed rather thoroughly in the Wikipedia proceedings. It doesn't mean anything like what it looks like. Of course generating the misleading graph is Wikipedia's fault, but it was intended for something else altogether.
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Re:A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campa... by pydry on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:45AM (#26790479)
Is there a link to this discussion somewhere that disproves the notion that the account is a 9-5 editing machine?
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Re:A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campa... by Kim_Bruning on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @10:16AM (#26792430)
It was actually technically findable with links presented in this HN discussion, but I've dug down to the relevant bit to save you some time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...

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Re:A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campa... by pydry on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @12:35PM (#26876991)
Somebody is definitely downplaying him here. Im not seeing any data to support that though.
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Re:A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campa... by throwaway81523 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @02:11AM (#26803522)
Disproves? It's a stupid premise to begin with. But yes, you can look at the account's editing history. There is a timestamp on every edit. It is nothing like how Murray imagined.
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