Calling Wikipedians (esp admins)

[matgb]

sammymorse has had his account suspended for no sane reason and could do with some help getting it back.

I've not even got a Wiki account, let alone admin priviledges, but I know a fair few reading this use the place a lot; I've met him a few times, and can definitely vouch that he is who he says. Suckpuppets are annoying, but this isn't the way to deal with it.

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[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

I've now found my editing privileges (on this computer anyway) blocked for a week after coming to sammymorse's defence. Everything behind this points towards a user called "Hayden5650", who is really a Nazi from New Zealand by the name of Hayden Armstrong, and who has a record as long as your arm for Wikipedia vandalism, notably on such subjects as the Holocaust and homosexuality.

[barnacle.livejournal.com]

Anyone know why Hayden5650's "User talk" page has been, er, decidedly bowdlerized since Google last crawled it? Have a look at the 15 July cached version and the current version, both available from the top link at http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22hayden+armstrong%22+%22deletion+policies%22 at the time of publishing. The current version includes little outside his contretemps with sammymorse.

(I can't link directly to Google's cache, but I've saved a copy here (http://www.jpstacey.info/hayden/search.htm))

I don't know how Wikipedia works, or if this is right, but I've mentioned it to the news address @ El Reg.