QUOTE(Pumpkin Muffins @ Thu 25th September 2008, 1:20am)
QUOTE(Cla68 @ Wed 24th September 2008, 4:59pm)
I think Wikipedia is getting wise to Shankbone's issues, in part, at least, because of this forum's exposure of them. As for why it hasn't been dealt with decisively already is one of those irritating idiosyncracies of Wikipedia culture. If this was occurring on Citizendium, Shankbone would already have been sent to detention.
Shankbone has created a lot of content for which he gets a lot of passes.
There are certain things that he has earned a bit of leeway for (tolerating the generally harmless self-promotion in return for what most Wikipedians consider useful content), but there are certain things that nothing should earn you leeway for.
Wikipedia is slowly learning the lesson that giving people leeway on the basis of work done is corrupting. So, as it dawns on Wikipedia that turning a blind eye to Guy eventually generated a bigger problem than they were solving, ditto Slim, and, dare I say it, it was the logic that allowed PoetGuy to earn reprieve by doing good things. It is the logic that gets them into trouble for partiality by wanting to ban Giano. I'd have more sympathy, if they felt that they could not work with Giano's prickly outbursts if they treated DS's uncontrolled bile in the same way.
In the continuing review of how Wikipedia fails to recognise the lessons of the real world; in the real world if you let someone get away with criminal behaviour because they do something useful, it is known as corruption. If Wikipedia understood ethics, it would understand that it should not tolerate this behaviour. DS has learnt the lesson that he has a hold over Wikipedia and is therefore above the law. It is unsurprising that his use of Wikipedia as a revenge platform is getting worse.