I am one of those who believes that SlimVirgin is actually multiple people. I base that on scatter graphs I've created of her edit times, which demonstrate a total disregard for human sleep/wake cycles.

Back in April, however, that appears to have changed. Dramatically.

Look at this graph (which I would embed in this post but seem not to be able to do so), paying attention to the stark difference between what was seen before and after the middle of April.

I glanced at what was going on at that time, and found that on the 13th and 14th she was asking for clarification of, and tinkering with, policy on checkuser abuse. Here's an example.

I apologize for being a bit out of the loop on this topic, but could Slim's apparent adoption of diurnality (which I actually interpret as the account being used by just one person) be related to this?

Jimbo doesn't seem to sleep, either. He's either several people (employs a secretary) or else is a vampire.

I've noted the same about Slim. If it's changed, possibly she's kicked somebody else off of her account.

Perhaps somebody far enough away as to edit generally when she sleeps? Like New Zealand or London? Perhaps she let "John Nevard" use her password for admin activies. But "Nevard" has always been diurnal, so if so, it didn't work the other way.

Here is the graph mentioned above:



It's still the edit history of someone who doesn't have a day job.

This is an interesting chart - the first four months show the editor going to sleep about an hour later every night, so her sleep hours smoothly traversed one day per month. This person didn't have a regular job during these months.

I remember doing this as a teenager, but never for more than a week or two. I can't imagine an adult doing it for months on end.

Well, my guess would be that it was this comment on her talk page, also on the 13th, that finally provided the breaking point. She didn't respond, of course, but just about any exposure to that guy would be enough to drive most people away from a website.

Obviously, she lives on some other planet, with 25-hour days.

I dunno, that sounds just a wee bit implausible to me...

My next guess would be that mid-April was the point at which she finally broke down and bought herself a TiVo.

Or perhaps it's because he's made less than 4000 edits over seven years while trotting the globe. SlimVirgin used to do 4000 edits every couple months, churching out substantial content, and at all times of the day and night.

These two aren't even remotely comparable.

Speaking as someone with fairly erratic sleep cycles, I don't see this as any kind of real evidence that SV is multiple people. Since I am capable of functioning without a particularly consistent sleep cycle even while working a full time job, I have no difficulty imagining that someone who is long-term unemployed could live like that.

In temporal isolation experiments, they find a lot of people with 25-hour intermal clocks. If I simply went to sleep, when sleepy, without regard to external clues, I might end up doing the same.

Yes, but True Blood (T-H-L-K-D) is only on one hour per week. How do you account for the rest?

That would be Mars ;-)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1185...s-on-earth.html

Now, seriously. Experiments with people living in mines and other daylight deprived places showed that our natural clock is 25 h. We only adjust to 24 h days thanks to the daylight. That's why it's easier to adjust to jet lag when traveling west.
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/07...bioclock24.html

SV was simply living with curtains drawn shut and ordering pizzas by phone while frantically typing on her keyboard. The 25h days is a natural side effect of this lifestyle.

I thought men were from Mars and women from Venus?

But we all (in America at least) get a 25th hour tonight when we Fall Back from daylight saving time. Other countries may vary.

The world gets an extra second every once in a while due to the slowing of the Earth's rotation, requiring leap seconds to be inserted.

Hey, I think I've got it... Slim is actually Sarah Palin! In this article, Palin claims that "she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by 'attacks' from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama." In other words, attacks from her to others are a reasonable exercise of her First Amendment rights, while attacks from others to her are unfair violations of her rights... somebody with this set of opinions would be right at home supporting Wikipedia's BADSITES pseudo-policy, as long as it were enforced on the "right" people.

Anyway, it all fits... Slim signs herself "Sarah", and up in Alaska the day-night cycle may be sufficiently weird in the Arctic Circle region to allow for strange waking patterns.

Ditto that. I worked for eight months in a 100% telecommuting job with limited supervision; during that time my sleep cycle rotated around the clock on about a weekly cycle. There's an xkcd on this.

Upon reflection, I no longer believe it possible that Nevard is Slim, or that they share an account. My Exceptionally Well-Honed Psychoanalytic Skillsâ„¢ suggest to me that Slim has too much ego-identification with her capacity for fussily proper and clear syntax, and she would shun any association with the sort of downright incoherence into which Nevard frequently lapses. I accept Piperdown's diagnosis of Nevard as a starf*cker.

but gary's being johnny b good lately on the NSS & etc. Such impressive neutrality and restraint!

Well, I'd have to assume she has NFL Sunday Ticket (T-H-L-K-D), though she would have gotten it before the big 4-month's-free promotion that started in September, I believe. In fact, in April 2008, True Blood hadn't even been announced as an upcoming HBO series, though at least there was no risk at that point of their renewing the dreadful John From Cincinnati (T-H-L-K-D) for a second season.

Besides, at this point she'd have to get one of those really expensive "Ultimate," or all-premium-packages deals, so that she could get Dexter (TV series) (T-H-L-K-D) and Inside the NFL (T-H-L-K-D) on Showtime, and now Crash (2008 TV series) (T-H-L-K-D) on Starz, though I suspect that one probably won't have much staying power...

Also bear in mind that Canada is behind the US in HDTV conversion, some say by almost two years. They've got some serious catching up to do, and in the meantime, more and more Canadians are going to be turning to digital satellite, so that they won't have to wait any longer to see every single individual hair in Brett Favre's nose, in full 1080p detail. Not to mention the stubble, of course.

i'm still wondering how and what the purpose was of the weird Jajyg Burst-editing thing after he and slimmy came out from the bunker in fall 2007. And I wonder if the NFL sunday ticket is legally available in slimmy's neck of the vast canadian wasteland? I picture her as more of a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan_Roughriders fan anyway.

When I raised exactly this, Somey started a new sub-tar-pit category to prevent it being discussed! (Or so it seems...)

The implication which I think is pretty obvious to everyone except awfully-proud-and-honoured-to-be-part-of-the-team-and-good-luck-to-us WP administrators, is that some of the 'top' Wp adminstrators are not people but 'offices' - they are usernames created to manage the encylopeida idiotica, to 'herd all the cats' as David Goth Gerard put it. He thought the 'cats' were the users, in fact they are the naive WP admins (although-I-personally-do-have-some-jolly-serious-worries-about-some-things) who provide the camoflage for the 24/7 'controllers'...

It wasn't exactly that, though, now was it?

In fact, you wanted people to believe that Slimmy was sharing her account with a male CIA agent whose primary purpose was apparently to prevent positive reviews of your book from appearing online. A book which, by the way, we still don't even know the title of, much less the provenance.

Do I have it wrong?

it's not that David's in that awkward goth phase of being too old to goth (like Capote's awkward post-40 gross old gay dude past his prime celebrity, or Robert Smith's enough already with the Cure tour), or that being goth is/was a bad thing. It's that he just made it tough for all the other goths out there by being such a WP:DICK.

But he'll always have his Usenet Heyday "fame" to hold on to, so the integrity of his WP career just isn't that important.



anyone else think flash=DL? lol.

somey, you've mentioned several times how Gerard negatively affected your life, or your 2nd life or something. Was it by ruining your right to listen to Joy Division and Bauhaus without visions of Gerard in his halloween get-up, fronting them? Did he block the state of Iowa from reading WP? Did he send your town's local chapter of the Rocky Horror Pictureshow Oddfellows, Wikipedia Local 151, over to egg your house?

Flash and DL's manias are apparently incompatible. If you look at Flash's early posts, you'll see where they actually argued with each other. DL was quite patriotic about the United States. She viewed various congressional acts and SV's alleged stalking of her as recent deviations from our historic norms. Flash, according to DL, is an anti-American European who doesn't remember all the good we did the world during the cold war.

SlimVirgin seems to be a common fixation among paranoid delusionals. I think we can add Blissyu2 to this roster.

He only did the first thing. Luckily, I'm more into Britpop and Shoegaze anyway, so no real harm done. (To be honest, I always thought Joy Division was overrated.)

As for the other stuff, Iowans are way too clever to be caught in a mere range-block, and of course, I live in a high-rise. So as long as the Frank-n-Furter wannabes don't figure out which of the Lamborghinis in the parking level are mine, I should be OK.

You're awesome

The theory is much more complicated than that and inolves Daniel Brandt, Continuum books, The British Humanist Association and of course, Slim Virgin.

Please do not mention the title of my book as it is a secret. At the moment hardly anyone knows it and (to avoid paparazzi) I prefer it to stay that way.

My next book, will expose Wikipedia's evil goings on, and 'name names'. Naturally, at that point, I will be prepared to reveal its title, probably via asking Jeff Murky to promote the book.

Wait, is this whole thing an elaborate troll?

I've never doubted your sincerity before, but now I wonder if it's just a put-on.

If not, do you realize how insane your post sounds? Maybe you should talk to some friends about your theories.

i'd like to see Crum375's edits meshed in with this (this, being the post that started this thread about the edits/times of SV's account).

i believe it's quite possible that crum's account has been shared by same goth cougar that uses the SV account as a pity party.

i don't doubt that crum's orginator was a canadian man older than slimmy. but somewhere along the crumline the editing history goes slimwhacky. specifically in mid 2007 when the delete/restore oversight dance began on SV's talk page, and later when crum goes off the rails on the mantan-sami investigation.

SV doth protest too much about CU. It's more likely she wasn't concerned about her IP being leaked to "WR Trolls" than she would be about a CU finding something fishy.

All the trolls already knew her IP range from earlier ASM-WR revelations many moons ago. The protest party tells me she was worried that her IP dancing would get it dots connected by those on WP who don't condone sock/account sharing abuse. She wants to make sure the only CU'ers that peek under her account(s) from now on are on her team. Another SweetBlueWater and its gets untenable.

you just figured out that flash is a troll? lol.

Do not worry, wise ONE, I have already spoken to my friend, who is King of All the Potato People

Real friends or imaginary friends?