Thank you for linking to Tony's article. I'm glad to see this scumbag's past dredged up again.
I can offer some possibly interesting perspective on this incident. I was the Wikipedia editor who first created the Bruce McMahan page several years ago. I used the original Broward/Palm Beach New Times articles as my main source and was even nice enough to not call him out on his mail-order PhD.
Once the article entered Google and became a first-page hit for "Bruce McMahan", Bruce's hired gun from the law firm of Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor LLP (www.linerlaw.com) emailed me proposing changes to the article. What a fuck up! The idiot didn't even know he could edit the article himself. I ignored him.
Bruce's PR firm wised up, and vandals began blanking the page. I kept restoring it, and we went back and forth. His PR firm soon figured out that they could actually re-write the pages instead of vandalize them. A resume was posted over the article. When I and several editors pushed back, several new but deeply concerned editors began inserting outright lies then tried to weaken the language of the daughter-fucking incident and bury it under mounds of glowing hagiography. They accused me and a handful of editors as being members of a conspiracy to destroy Bruce. One of his daughters even jumped in with a ridiculously long apologia in the discussion page. The volume of edits and sock puppets knocked the fight out of me, but a handful of other editors kept up and actually expanded the article to cover far more of the daughter-fucking incident than my original stub.
Eventually, Bruce contacted Jimbo Wales, who directly intervened and had an admin settle the debate in favor of scrubbing ALL references to Bruce's daughter fucking from the article. For the next couple of years, the article became a paean to Bruce's charity work with the National Cristina Foundation and other bullshit. Bruce won. It stood this way for a long time until someone noticed that there was a random fluff piece floating around Wikipedia and proposed to delete it. Fuck it, I decided, and I voted to kill it.
Reddit, I implore you: vote this link up. Get it to the front page. Make Bruce McMahan and other rich people realize that when they try to suppress information with the tools of coercion and deception, free-speech-loving individuals will turn around and blow it up to the stratosphere.

Delete If the Powers That Be continue to be determined to whitewash the whole "He fucked his daughter" thing, there's no reason to have this article. Props to your PR/legal company, bro. Chris Croy (talk) 21:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

(This article needs citations. At the moment it's not even clear if David Bruce McMahan exists.)

Is there any indication that McMahan and fellow Floridian Jimbo had any shared history prior to this episode?

UPDATE: Wikipedia's reason for not wanting a McMahan page? According to one of their minions, I'm a "hack."

The last time, while they were under constant attack by McMahan's lawyers, they pulled down references to our articles because, they said, The Village Voice was not a legitimate source of information for biographies of living people.

Say what? I tracked down the Wikipedia minion who had written that, who turned out to be an electrical engineer in England. He sent me some long explanations about the nature of journalism and what information is reliable. But eventually, I got him to admit that Wikipedia was wiping the McMahan page simply through fear. They were afraid of being sued by McMahan, but it was easier to say that the Voice wasn't a legitimate source. You can imagine that my respect for Wikipedia took a nosedive at that point.

This time, we get a Wikipedia minion saying that McMahan isn't "notable" and that I'm a hack. You can almost smell the fear, can't you?

Not notable? Well, OK, Wikipedia, how's this for notable. It turns out that moneybags McMahan put on a show earlier this year with his new $3 million race car, and unveiled it with the help of 2010's Playmate of the year, Hope Dworacyk. Notable enough for you?

I don't know. Hedge fund kabillionaire, noted "philanthropist," race car dreamer, Westchester County bigwig, and...oh, he married his own daughter in Westminster Abbey. Is that really not notable enough?

UPDATE 2: And now it's down. Well, we learn once again that Wikipedia is afraid of McMahan (which is fine, we don't expect others to take on these kinds of stories), but that they will continue to slime the Voice as their reason for taking down information about him.

For the benefit of Wikipedia editors, who still may not understand this situation, the Voice is doing things the old-fashioned way here. We are reporting what court documents revealed about a relationship between a very notable super-rich old guy who abused his grown daughter for years. Those facts are contained in court documents which are available here and elsewhere. Normally, that is the bedrock of what Wikipedia considers legitimate sourcing. In this case, however, McMahan's money talks.

Tony Ortega is the editor-in-chief of The Village Voice.

I'll just leave this right here, if you don't mind.

Court records show, for example, that in Sargent Schutt's lawsuit against McMahan, his attorney had a "rabbit" vibrator Schutt found in Linda's luggage tested for DNA. According to the test results, skin cells from Linda and sperm cells from her father were found on the device and its black cover.

Delete If the Powers That Be continue to be determined to whitewash the whole "He fucked his daughter" thing, there's no reason to have this article. Props to your PR/legal company, bro. Chris Croy (talk) 21:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

So you're telling me you're a neutral contributor with no ties to Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif LLP who just happened to blank the page for the third time after it was restored? It's disingenuous (very lawyer-like!) to accuse me of being someone with an axe to grind with McMahan; I frequently edit Wikipedia, have no agenda other than improving this project and protecting it from private interests, and I have the advantage of not being a sock puppet and lawyer hired by Mr. McMahan to protect his image.
Oh, and the funny thing about the subjects of tabloid stories--they're notable. What's true and notable about their lives would make it into a good Wikipedia article about them. Exeunt 22:49, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Newyorkbrad convenes.

The point of all this is not that McMahan had sex with his daughter, married her, and broke a long list of laws. The point is not that he used his wealth and lawyers to cover it all up -- The point is, Jimbo helped with the cover-up. He knew. So did.. Guy Chapman. So did David Gerard. They lied.

I have deleted this wretched and unacceptable article, along with its talkpage. They should not be restored. Newyorkbrad (talk) 02:14, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

I deleted a version of this article last night that was entirely about the personal allegations against this individual, with no mention of anything independently notable that he ever did, and sourced to a blog and an original court document. If serious contributors to Wikipedia Review have ever previously contended that this sort of content belongs on Wikipedia, I've never heard of it. And for the record, before last night I'd never heard of the subject of the article, either, so please spare me any conjectures about my motives for deleting it.

I deleted a version of this article last night that was entirely about the personal allegations against this individual, with no mention of anything independently notable that he ever did, and sourced to a blog and an original court document. If serious contributors to Wikipedia Review have ever previously contended that this sort of content belongs on Wikipedia, I've never heard of it. And for the record, before last night I'd never heard of the subject of the article, either, so please spare me any conjectures about my motives for deleting it.

Addendum: For anyone thinking we could use this article, see my note to Hobit on my talk.

Hey NYB, while you're in the mood for deleting howabout the illustrated page on Cock and ball torture ?

UPDATE: Wikipedia's reason for not wanting a McMahan page? According to one of their minions, I'm a "hack."

The last time, while they were under constant attack by McMahan's lawyers, they pulled down references to our articles because, they said, The Village Voice was not a legitimate source of information for biographies of living people.

Say what? I tracked down the Wikipedia minion who had written that, who turned out to be an electrical engineer in England. He sent me some long explanations about the nature of journalism and what information is reliable. But eventually, I got him to admit that Wikipedia was wiping the McMahan page simply through fear. They were afraid of being sued by McMahan, but it was easier to say that the Voice wasn't a legitimate source. You can imagine that my respect for Wikipedia took a nosedive at that point.

This time, we get a Wikipedia minion saying that McMahan isn't "notable" and that I'm a hack. You can almost smell the fear, can't you?

Not notable? Well, OK, Wikipedia, how's this for notable. It turns out that moneybags McMahan put on a show earlier this year with his new $3 million race car, and unveiled it with the help of 2010's Playmate of the year, Hope Dworacyk. Notable enough for you?

I don't know. Hedge fund kabillionaire, noted "philanthropist," race car dreamer, Westchester County bigwig, and...oh, he married his own daughter in Westminster Abbey. Is that really not notable enough?

UPDATE 2: And now it's down. Well, we learn once again that Wikipedia is afraid of McMahan (which is fine, we don't expect others to take on these kinds of stories), but that they will continue to slime the Voice as their reason for taking down information about him.

For the benefit of Wikipedia editors, who still may not understand this situation, the Voice is doing things the old-fashioned way here. We are reporting what court documents revealed about a relationship between a very notable super-rich old guy who abused his grown daughter for years. Those facts are contained in court documents which are available here and elsewhere. Normally, that is the bedrock of what Wikipedia considers legitimate sourcing. In this case, however, McMahan's money talks.

Tony Ortega is the editor-in-chief of The Village Voice.

Your link shows a pretty banal exchange regarding the merits of the article. It didn't really look like any shady business, but what do I know? There's also Alison's (apparently a Wiki-admin who helped decide the fate of the page) profile, where she looks like a ghoulish idiot in her photo, so I'm feeling even less convinced that this creepy alleged daughter-fucker's influence played a role in Wikipedia's decision. Again, I don't have any real insight into the inner-workings of this case, but I feel like ascribing any kind of involved conspiracy theory to Wikipedia admins is giving them too much credit.

Look out! The Big Bad Jimbo is making his involvement known now.

Ah, but you see, those penises don't have a big dick attorney firm representing them. Wales appears to exclude any confirmation of whether lawyers have been threatening Wikimedia...

Newyorkbrad may truly believe that he is acting to protect an important educational resource by volunteering to be the point man on this issue, but this is a gross delusion. Wikipedia's only educational value would be as a subject of study, not a resource in aid of study, assuming, of course, that study is of online sociopathy.

The Wikipedia community as a whole doesn't have a shred of decency, fairness, judgment, ethics, academic rigor or maturity. They are great though at thumping their chests in self-righteousness bout how they are making the world a better place, with illustrated creampie articles. Their culture is pathologic.

02:06, 9 October 2010 Newyorkbrad (talk | contribs) deleted "David Bruce McMahan" ‎ (BLP violations; re-creation in violation of multiple AfD results; do not restore)

gore, cannibalism, punk & goth clothing, blood, abortions, protestors, blood, impaling, short skirts, blood, decapitation, boobs, blood, face eating, dismemberment, blood, cemetery sex, thigh-high stockings, a dumpster labeled 'aborted fetuses' and one blow job gone horribly, horribly wrong...and blood!

Now srsly, NewYorkBrad. Does this mean WP has no accepted a new standard of notability? MR. McMahan is a very rich philanthropist who had a affair with his daughter and then married her in Westminster Abbey (or so I heard), and now is being sued by her in a somewhat...um... sordid case (DNA from vibrators -- am I mixed up again?). If he isn't notable enough for a WP BLP, then why is the goalie for every city soccer team in the U.K.? Or the professors at our local university, just by virtue of being professors (even if their teaching sucks and there's nothing else interesting about them).

Where it crosses the line is having personal information.

That's something of a tall order for a culture obsessed with the dressing down of celebrities and reality TV. I wonder if Any Warhol would be horrified.

If we're going to base our decision about this on values, then it seems morally right to me to leave the personally involved to suffer through the grief of this as best they can without all of us here shining a spotlight their way. I realize that others may disagree in perfect good faith, of course, but that's my view of this matter. Best, – OhioStandard (talk) 14:51, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Indeed. Amazing. Makes me proud to be a Wikipedian.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 23:45, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

I think the incontinence of Wikipedia is summed up by the Goalie Test.

... all five lawsuits were settled on undisclosed terms. As part of the settlement, a federal judge in San Diego sealed the files of the California lawsuit and took the rare step of wiping out any record that the lawsuit had ever existed.

Through McMahan's L.A. public relations firm, the parties sent a statement to New Times, describing the matter as a mere "family dispute," and alluded to taking legal action if this newspaper published this article, which is drawn from the information in the court cases that McMahan has gone to such lengths to hide from public view.

I wonder if Any Warhol would be horrified.