Now I'm reposting a little bit from the poetlister thread because I think it answers something about SlimVirgin's research methods...
First, re: The "poetlister dispute'
The key opening allegation that Slim blocked " Amalekite " with an expiry time of indefinite ?(disruption; posted a list of Wikipedians he believes are Jews on the Stormfront website; posted details of how to edit using proxies and sockpuppets)"
- seems to be backed by no evidence. indeed, Slim's case seems to be based on the earlier claim by 'Formeruser-82'that he was a 'neo-nazi Troll soliciting other trolls off of Stormfront".
(It still seems odd to me that someone who spends so much time infiltrating WP (Guy/Poetlister) should have pointlessly revealed their neo-Nazi interests by posting 'lists of jews'. But then maybe neo-nazis can't stop themselves...)
Secondly, despite Slim's 'love of diffs' few of the links on this poetlister page work - those that do are only to trivial Wikidefinitions... The diffs go nowhere - this can't be by accident. It must be an attempt to make the account look more imposing, and an assumption that readers will either not folow the links or not balme her for their not working. As Slim complains people don't follow links, this looks excellently cunning!
I asked Slim by email if she had any evidence for this, but got no response. No response from Slim is however itself a kind of message.
Second, re. Slim's character and 'modus operandi', Slim explained to my colleague, DMC, why she started two pages, the one Wikigiraffes was banned for editing 'Bagginni' and the one DMC was banned for taggiong as spam, 'Stangroom'. Slim has not started THAT many pages so this is unusual for her.
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I don't know either Jeremy or Julian, by the way -- I created the stub
on Julian only because I read his book, and then on Jeremy, I think
because I learned his name while looking up Julian. I had no prior
knowledge of either of them.
Slim created pages just because she came across their names in a book? 'Poorly researched rubbish' to coin a phrase! The same goes for this account of WR and Poetlister.
But Slim is far too clever to do things in a rubbishy way. "My best guess' (yes, Milton) is that there is a subplot here.