User:Hullaballoo Wolfowitz/AE evidence draft

On July 29, 2016, administrator Bethnaught placed Holanthony under discretionary sanctions regarding BLP editing, after an ANI complaint brought by Holanthony boomeranged severely. DS notice [1]. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive930#User Hullaballoo Wolfowitz, where other editors made comments like "the easiest and most efficient way to resolve this is to topic ban Holanthony from all biographies as they clearly lack a basic understanding of a number of polices (not limited to just BLP)" and "I find it completely understandable if Hullaballoo Wolfowitz is losing patience with you occasionally, since the briefest glance at your history shows you clearly either don't understand Wikipedia's basic policies, or are aware but are deliberately ignoring them". The admin comments accompanying the ANI closure included "Holanthony is warned that further edits posing BLP problems are likely to lead to sanctions".

Holanthony has denied that any formal action was taken, posting to my talk page: "There were no 'warnings' issued as a result of the ANI post. Please get you facts straight and stop lying".[2]

Unfortunately, Holanthony is still ignoring the warnings he has received (deleting the DS notice and many related comments from other editors from his talk page). Many of his edits raise the same kind of BLP problems as discussed in the ANI, and his responses when his edits are challenged show the same failure to understand and conform to important fundamental policies.

I therefore request that, under the authorized discretionary sanctions, Holanthony be topic banned from all pages concerning biographies of living persons. The following is a partial list of BLP-problematic edits. Some of them are relatively minor, but show a pattern of inappropriate editing. Others are quite egregious.

August 6, 2016 [3] - adds unsourced category regarding ethnicity to BLP
September 28, 2016 [4] - adds reference to BLP based on comments posted to message board (avclub source)
September 28, 2016 [5] - adds content to BLP based on youtube video interviews posted by apparently unreliable source
September 29, 2016 [6] - adds back message board-sourced reference with edit summary You are not to remove until the matter's been resolved in full on the BLP board; after content is again removed, he restores it with comment Resolution first - act later
September 30, 2016 [7] - Adds back content which is not supported by reliable sources with the greatly uncivil edit summary Seriously now? So we've resorted to lying when in lack of arguments? It's right there on IMDb! Read your sources. (The cited imdb page changed which this dispute was going on, but neither version supported the claim at issue. The article original cited an unreliable source, and my pertinent edit summary accurately described the original claim as uncorroborated).
September 30, 2016 [8] - Holanthony posts to BLPN: The problem is that this guy [HW]] also a bald-faced liar. In lack of tangible arguments, he invents his own "reality", such as the Ryan's Hope appearances being "uncorroborated" through IMDb. You know what? I actually took the trouble to look through FULL cast list from Ryan's Hope on IMDb, and guess what? Spears' name IS RIGHT THERE, appearing in five episodes in 1989 as -you guessed it- a BARTENDER! [14] Corroborating every word he said in the interview and more so! If we assume good faith, we must deduce that the guy can't read, or assumes facts without checking the source, the alternative explanation is that he is willfully attempting to mislead fellow editors by lying in the hope that no one will check the source. As noted above, the IMDB page was altered during the dispute. The older version did not list the Ryan's Hope role; the later version listed a five-episode role. Neither version supported Holanthony's claim that the subject had a one-year role.
October 1, 2016 [9] - Holanthony complains to an administrator that I have been vandalizing the Charles Laughton page. The admin imposes a 3-day "boomerang block" on Holanthony.[10]. Holanthony appeals the block twice and two different admins deny his appeals.[11] This is not a BLP matter, but the underlying dispute demonstrates Holanthony's failure to understand policies concerning reliable source requirements in general.
October 12, 2016 [12] - Holanthony adds a porn performer's purported "birth name"/"real name" to a BLP. None of the cited sources characterize the name as anything other than the name the subject was credited under in a small number of nonpornographic films -- apparently an alternative stage name.
October 25, 2016 [13] - Holanthony adds National Enquirer-sourced sensationalism, including claims involving multiple living people, to a BLP. After removal, he adds it back with the assertion that the Enquirer is a reliable source.[14]
November 20, 2016 [15] - Holanthony adds a claim regarding the article subject's medical condition, sourced only to the operator of a self-published podcast. (Note that while the podcast purports to present an interview with the article subject, the statement at issue is made in introductory material by the site operator, not by or even to the interview subject.

December 3, 2016 [16] = Holanthony adds claims drawn from a self-published mystery novel to a BLP. Even worse, it's not even presented in the novel as factual information, but as something a gullible character believes she read in Variety. And the narrator describes it as part of "one of the craziest ideas I'd ever heard".[17]

December 7, 2016 [18] Holanthony adds a citation to a user comment at a porn performer database to a BLP and claims it is a reliable source. Even worse, it is apparently his own comment. (Note: the article in question has since been deleted, so the edit cannot be directly cited.)

December 23, 2016 [19] - Holanthony restores claims that two performers married in 2004 and divorced in 2006, citing a 2004 book. When I remove the claim, pointing out that a book cannot document an event after its publication date, he reinstates it and insists the book was published in 2009, the date the ebook edition was issued, saying Umm hello?? The book is from 2009! You're trying to act ignorant on purpose? Hardly indicative of good faith. The same book is cited or discussed in multiple other WP articles as a 2004 publication. For example, Sunrise Adams#Adult film career states "On August 2, 2004, Adams appeared with Savanna Samson on Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor, to promote their book How to Have a XXX Sex Life".

December 31, 2016 [20] = Holanthony adds an "early life" section to a BLP based entirely on the text accompanying pictorials in porn magazines and a "fan club" website. (The text also identifies the article as a state championship-class swimmer in high school specializing in the breast stroke, which just screams kayfabe in this context.

January 5, 2017 [21] - Holanthony adds this text to Tory Lane, sourced only to IMDB: Lane appeared as a musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on January 28, 2016. Now IMDB does list Lane, a porn actress, as the credited musical guest.[22] But it also, more prominently and more credibly, identifies the musical guest as "Canadian rapper Tory Lanez". It's fairly easy to find video showing the Canadian rapper, not the American porn performer, appearing on Kimmel. BLP policy requires careful editing; when faced with contradiction among or within sources, an editor is not free to blindly select the less plausible choice.

January 4-8, 2017 at Talk:Tianna. The discussion here is lengthy and detailed, but Holanthony clearly shows a failure to understand reliable sourcing principles, particularly in the BLP context. His argument that unreliable sources may be used in BLPs so long as the source is identified in the text is particularly concerning.

Also, not discovered until after the ANI discussion was a particularly disturbing BLP violation committed some time ago by Holanthony. It demonstrates that the problems with Holanthony's editing goes back further than previously noted. At Ona Zee, eighteen months of edit history had to be suppressed because Holanthony had added grossly inappropriate content. It was essentially the same content that was suppressed in 2009 (which was deleted and recreated in 2009, under an older suppression process. There was no dispute that the content required suppression, and Holanthony's adding it back, for whatever reasons, demonstrates a longstanding failure to comply with basic BLP principles. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by administrators since 2006. (talk) 05:37, 10 January 2017 (UTC)