Some cow crossover regarding
Wu/Flynt's Wikipedia article claiming Flynt has an investigative journalism degree and the Gamergate-obsessing wikispergs who continue to white knight it.
Someone called Runescrape
decided to call out two of the many wikispergs that have so far spent over a year of their life obsessing over Gamergate -
Mark Bernstein and a GamerGhazi
redditor - for being involved with Brianna Wu/Gamergate to the point where they have a Conflict of Interest. If you've seen any of the shitfests revolving around Gamergate on Wikipedia you will know that Mark for sure would have been banned ages ago except that he has a clique of administrators protecting him, notably
Rob "Gamaliel" Fernandez who has now been elected to an even higher position of authority on the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee.
Mark responded to the CoI discussion with his usual paranoid hysteria as the rest of the anti-Gamergate spergs rallied around him before Mark decided to
erase most of the discussion.
A few days later, a
topic was made on KIA about Mark trying to delete this and not long after Mark's buddy Fernandez decided to implement the 500/30 rule (need an account 30+ days old and with 500+ edits to do anything) on the Brianna Wu article. The article had been under full protection since September after someone tried to add a source proving Flynt is Flynt and another admin, HJ Mitchell, threw a hissy fit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Brianna_Wu#500.2F30_restrictions
Some editors questioned why this is necessary and Gamaliel at first says he saw it had a "history of problems" aka people trying to add facts that go against the narrative, and then later says it was because he saw the thread on reddit. One editor - a long-time foe of Fernandez and Bernstein - notes that of the active editors the only one the 500/30 is going to hinder is the one who called out Bernstein.
Runescrape returned to ask Fernandez about Flynt's claim that he finished his degree in investigative journalism.
Mark Bernstein says we have "no reason to doubt it" because Flynt himself said it, and asks "why would anyone want to" refute such a claim.