Scott Nestle

[Funt Solo]

This *hronch* hat doesn't taste too *gulp* bad, y'know.

(This still seems to defy total coincidence - but then, the universe does that sometimes.)

[Jim_Campbell]

"It's nothing like scojo"

Hell of a fucking coincidence, then!

Cheers

Jim

[Dudley]

Not that who it is really matters, but it seems to be someone with a reasonable familiarity with the way that Wikipedia works, so probably someone who's been editing there already.  They're
probably a long-standing member of the 2000AD fan community (hence the name), and have an interest in Aeon Flux and Octavia Butler, among other things.  Probably they have some connection with the small press, and maybe a reason to be irritated with Futurequake and related publications (otherwise surely The End Is Nigh and Solar Wind would also be up).  Maybe it's someone who's been very vocal on the subject of small press spamming on this board?  Someone who's recently used the pseudonym "Scott Nestel" in another context?

But who could that be?

[Eric Plumrose]

Scojo used to get a tad irate if you misspellled his surname as the Milky Bar confectioners.

Well, one of him did, at least.

[longmanshort]

I dunno who it is (and not that I give a shit, because I didn't create it in the first place) but they've removed the page about me and just linked it through to the The End is Nigh! page.

[Emperor]

~sigh~

He has also done the same with Paul Scott's - the sum total of their Wikipedia edits these days must invovle sticking it to the small press.

[House of Usher]

Isn't it a relatively simple matter to 'revert' articles to previous versions? Users and their IP addresses can be temporarily banned for vandalism.

[Funt Solo]

+WARNING+OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE+

Whilst having a nosy at Nestel 2.0's shenanigans (aka personal vendetta due to long thick cooked slice of largest potato in the world on shoulder), I found this little gem:

If some cunt's (and a cunt in his TWENTIES at that) entry about "Transformer Fest 2004" makes the cut I REALLY don't see what you're moaning about. I'll bet good old English pounds to your vicously devalued American dollar that twenty years down the line (assuming the inevitableresource/race-wars haven't destroyed the internet/western society by then) that there will be more Awaggers than "Botcon" attendees, if only because a significant proportion of our lot have had sex with something other than our own hands and are likely to actually have some progeny. "Botcon" is a ridiculoous word, for fuck's sake - it sounds like a festival of anal adventure. AWAG is at least as "real" at least as "meaningful" and a milion times more significant than some bleach-faced Finnish Nazi sympathisers getting together with like-minded potential serial killers to spray their salty jizz over who has Galvatron in the most original original packaging. Get a grip you suppurating CUNTSTACKS!.

[Emperor]

Yep I've reverted the redirects and dropped notes in the talk pages. Getting them banned is trickier - it does border on vanadalism now (or at least some carrying on their own personal grievances on Wikipedia - they stated on the deletion page that they don't think any small press publication is notable enough for inclusion) but they have largely worked within the rules so it might be tricky making a case against them. At least before they have removed most of the mentions over there (including collateral damage like Adrian Bamforth).

From what you say above it would have been easier if it had been your Scott Nestel - they don't smart enough to work the system to their own ends and it is easy enough to stop people from scrawling "poopy head" on pages.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:ScottNestle#Hi" target="_blank">Questions questions questions

[I, Cosh]

Now that's funny.

[Dudley]

Not as funny as it just got.

[Art]

Yup, I fubbed that up.
Yes I am ScottNestle, yes I nominated a bunch of your those pages for deletion.

Why not use my regular id? Because I wanted too make lewss fuss, rather than more TBH. Though I beleive those page have no place in Wikipedia I new there wasn't a hope in hell their creators wouldn't take it personally, and quite frasnkly I didn't want to linked back to that. On reflection the user name was probably a poor choice.

[Bolt-01]

Art: You are just showing yourself up as a bit of a tit there. To the best of my knowledge the folks who did the comic didn't do the wiki pages. I'm not even signed up for them and had to ask my wife what it was all about.

If you want to delete your own stuff, then fine go ahead, but trying to get other folks work removed, when it is all well meaning and positive just makes you look really bad.

I was tempted to just post telling you to 'F' off, but you always seemed like a decent sort to me.

Bolt-01- dissappointed.

[Banners]

Art - a few unnecessary bytes on a server somewhere is surely far preferable than the risk of annoying your peers? I don't understand your motivation.

M@

[Emperor]

I new there wasn't a hope in hell their creators wouldn't take it personally

As a creator/contributor to most of those entries I can sa I'm not taking it personally (and you are possibly right about some of them) but I think the whole thing is awfully odd. We've talked on Wikipedia about various entries (and to be honest, with hindsight, I feel a little silly for not connecting Artw with your good self) and sometimes we've agreed and sometimes we've disagreed but we work out a way to move things forward. Signing up a sock puppet to put in place half a dozen deletion proposals and a couple of redirects to take out a good portion of the British small press articles just strikes me as a very odd waying of going about things.