Conservapedia:Sysops/Ed Poor

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Hello, my name is Ed Poor. Have I told you about my years of experience at Wikipedia? I'm not gay and Aschlafly isn't either.

Ed "Don't be a dick" Poor (rhymes with "spoor") was a Wikipedia sysop and bureaucrat before coming over to Conservapedia. Although a long-standing member of the Wikipedia community, "Uncle Ed" (as he styles himself in his sigs) has been a member of the Unification Church since August 1977 and often decidedly conservative in his contributions. Despite that, for the most part he was a well-respected and highly valued contributor at WP, with much good work under his belt, until 2006 or so, when he started letting the power go to his head. After several incidents led to RfCs and eventually to Arbcom, Ed lost almost all of his privileges above basic editing.

For some reason in his lengthy history on Wikipedia he didn't learn how to write even a halfway encyclopedic article (even on topics he is not biased on).

1 Ed the Conservapedian
2 Wikipedia
3 Wikiversity
4 Ed's job
5 Ed-isms
6 Awards
7 Footnotes

[edit] Ed the Conservapedian

He is now a ~~respected~~ sysop at Conservapedia, where his biases and power games are welcomed and allowed to run rampant. He has created vast amounts of absurdly short stubs, usually consisting of a single, vague quote (possibly inspired by Conservative). His relics include the "Communism and feminism" article [1], the "Platypus jokes" section [2] and the fabled "Two meters". For some reason he thinks this is worth reporting to his master, who then feels he must compliment Ed (the same way a parent compliments his child when s/he makes horrible drawings).

He also manages Conservapedia's slave labor through the use of writing assignments. According to Ed refusing an assignment is a valid reason for teh blockie. Others disagree.

ClearIdeas made these 2 contributions and got an Infinite block for them. Now is that reasonable?

He has reverted critical edits to, and subsequently locked, the articles about the Unification Church and Rev. Moon, blocked the editors who made these critical contributions and is now deleting all articles about Unification Church-affiliated organizations/"fronts". In August 2006, it was noted at dailykos.com, by someone commenting under the handle "lotlizard":

"A timely warning that includes the netroots too"
We mustn't let our guard down here either. Web communities and media projects are just as susceptible to this kind of manipulation. Consider the editing of the Sun Myung Moon article on Wikipedia. The article's content has been heavily influenced, if not controlled outright, by a self-appointed gatekeeper known by the userid "Ed Poor" (comments are signed using an alias "Uncle Ed"). According to his own declaration, "Uncle Ed" has been a follower of the Unification Church since 1977."

Nah, I put half of them back. I just objected to their plagiaristic nature. Take a look at 'em now! --Uncle Ed ^{bug me} 22:28, 29 May 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Wikipedia

Among one of the earliest editors on WP he was raised to almost Jimbo Wales height. His POV pushing and controversial editing administrative manner has resulted in him being reduced to editor. An interesting article started by him on WP is: "writing for the enemy" in which he lauds the "try to 'walk a mile in their' shoes instead of judging them" attitude towards dispute resolution. Sadly he has not carried this through to CP.

Check out Ed's contributions to Wikipedia. There's always a laugh to be had somewhere in there.

[edit] Wikiversity

He recently (July 19 2008) became (active at Wikiversity (he joined in March 2006) and asks "Should I apply for adminship here?" (in the edit comment). He's raising the spectre of those evilutionists again, complaining about being outnumbered on Wikipedia.

[edit] Ed's job

It has been suggested that Ed is a full time employee of the Moony 'church' as his prolific web contributions would seem to leave him little time for anything else

That was part-time for 8 weeks while I helped upgrade http://www.upf.org to Joomla.

Ed also runs a Moonie "Family Fellowship Church Development" team (read "missionary") in Manhattan.

That team disbanded.

Ed was a prolific contributor to the New World Encyclopedia, (where he was Bureaucrated in May 2007) but apparently stopped in October 2007.

I only contributed one article - my help was technical, behind the scenes stuff.

[edit] Ed-isms

[edit] Ed and young women

First inklings of Ed's shame with his lurid fascination for slutty teens and ~~schoolgirls panties~~ schoolgirls panties?
Talking of which, 6 years is a long time to bear a grudge just because you didn't get to pop that "slutty heathen's" cherry.
Too much pretty girl on view!
One girl with a camera is enough!
Get those pants off ladies!
He wants teens to enjoy Conjugal Love. Someone else pointed out that contraceptives help against pregnancy, also that teenage marriages may become unhappy later. Ed reverted it and warned the contributer. Does he prefer it if teenagers marry young and are unhappy later? If he lives in a Moonie community he may not know very much about how men and their wives manage in normal homes.
He really respects his wife

[edit] Ed the Great Wikimaster

Does anyone know how to work the "gallery" feature?
Two metres (merged from the original).

[edit] Ed the Moony

Er, didn't the Moonies already do this?
Poppa Moon never said that! It was merely unofficial notes by an audience member... published on one of the Moonies' official sites...
Ed defends linking to teh Moony Encyclopedia on WP (& is subsequently pwned).

[edit] Ed and furriners

Who is welcome? Not uppity ragheads, that's for sure!
Temporarily sworn off the kiddies-and-sex crusade, you just know Ed's gotta have a dabble with the "Nigger"
Ed's type always "start with the Jews" - what do those kike faggots expect?
Letting a Moonie edit about Judaism is akin to letting bin Laden edit about America
And don't forget, Jewish boy scouts eat babies, too

[edit] Ed and the queers

Homosexuality is a mental disorder.
Statistical objection to gay kissing.
Homosexuals must refrain from sexual activity.
Or be locked up in insane asylums and prisons. Not literally!
A torrent of homophobic nonsense.

[edit] Ed the mathematician and educator

Math teacher Ed can't describe a bell curve, but he knows it has something to do with those stoopid lawn jockeys, right Ed?
Come on now, be honest: do you actually mean that you help your kids with their homework Ed? As opposed to formally teaching "SAT math prep"?

[edit] Ed and others look after Jesus

SandraD who had already been warned replaced Conservapedia’s Jesus article with RationalWiki’s Jesus. Chungpennac noticed something and added his own touch. Ed poor reverted back to RationalWiki version. TK made a minor revision leaving RationalWiki’s article roughly as it was. It took 4 revisions before Eddie noticed what was wrong and reverted RationalWiki’s article. It’s now protected till Nov 25th. There are plenty of other Conservapedia articles where RationalWiki articles would look nice (hint hint!).

[edit] Naughty Ed

It seems he edited someone else's comment deceitfully. Then he felt guilty or guessed he'd get found out. So he punished himself.^[1] But he carried on doing it anyway.

Uncyclopedia knows how to punish such behaviour.

[edit] Other

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"Don't taze, me bro!"
Ed on being non-judgemental
This dig was lost on Ed, who probably thought it was praise
Ed has been gently invited to play nicely many times, but somehow can't grasp the concept
A candid insight, and perhaps the source/sauce of Ed's ills *glug glug*
If only Ed could be trusted to keep his word... page!
He couldn't keep his word after all, and is caught dabbling with incest, which he assures us is something that "happens"
Oh really? We never noticed
Can I hear a "Zieg heil!"? Ed polishes the jackboots with some of that "Divine Principle" wax
What you talkin bout Derek?? In Ed's atlas, the whole continent is simply labelled "Here Be Coons"
Freudian slip or cosmic truth? I LOLd when I read this: meet Ed, get blocked
Are you sure this isn't a misspelling of block and revert, Ed?
Its not Hate speech - its just Ed's "love mumbles". No offence.
Let's get this down to a size where we can brush it under the carpet, or make it wear big sun glasses for a few days, right, Ed? Besides, she asked for it. Bitch.
Too late, Edzilla
Some ho' asks for cooperation and maturity... Ed gives it his best shot... but has already been spotted leaving the 7/11 with a brown paper bag
If `this is how he treats his favourite users, lor' ha' mercy 'pon the rest of you!
Of course not, Wilbur! Why, bless him, Ed thinks every white man should own one. And thanks for asking.
I'm surprised that anyone would question my philosophical expertise; those who feel entitled to do so ought to review Conservapedia:Avoid personal remarks.[3]
"No one here has rights."
Ed on Conservapedia's tolerance: "But senior staff have been amazingly tolerant of opposing ideas here so far and I reason to hope they will continue to do {sic} so." (From his user page 01 Dec 08)
(That's enough Ed. Ed)^[2]