Bedford
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT AN UGLY FUCK
C. Bedford Crenshaw is a redneck Wikipedia editor who enjoyed special privileges on the wiki for a few months in the year of 2008 before having them stripped away by the hands of none other than Jimbo Wales himself. Bedford is the very epitome of a revisionist historian, he has created tons of articles on national historic sites relevant to the American Civil War which he insist on calling "The War of Northern Aggression"[1]. Bedford claims he is proud to be a bachelor, but he probably doesn't really have a choice in the matter as he is approaching 40-year old virgin status.
Like your typical Wikipedia admin, he is overweight, ugly, short-sighted, nerdy and fast approaching middle age, but still, he's clearly intelligent, as he claims to have an IQ of 137. As with all geniuses, he has a tendency to sometimes get a bit lost in understanding social situations whether OTI or IRL, and he made a major faux-pas when he suggested a new hook for Wikipedia's Did you know... section about a professional wrestling match.
Did you know...
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The Ensuing Drama
This seemingly innocent addition managed to pass its way through Wikipedia's DYK section without anyone giving a shit about its supposedly sexual nature, and indeed made its way to the Main Page, lurking there much more inconspicuously than had it been an act of template vandalism like the ones that frequently hit many wikis. The DYK hook was only brought to the wider Wikipedo community's attention by an administrators' noticeboard post by, surprise surprise, Sceptre, seeking some attention as usual and perhaps looking to bolster his chances at a future RfA at the expense of others by pointing out Bedford's intolerance.
Apparently, several female editors, including SlimVirgin, Krimpet and Sarah had taken to removing it, and their white knight, Will (talk), had to come to their rescue and start an AN/I thread bawwwing about the behavior of Bedford, whilst Sceptre was reveling in the attention he got from female editors who lavished Will with praise for his Noble cause against demeaning content on Wikipedia's front page.
| —Sceptre on Sarah's talk page, kissing ass like the sycophantic little prick that he is |
Meanwhile, Bedford defended his own position, and why he caused an edit war on the main page of the English Wikipedia.
| —Bedford showing that Wikipedia is not censored |
Sceptre went on to retort:
| —Typical behavior coming from Sceptre |
| —Bedford, talking down to a 17-year-old boy |
Bedford then went on to accuse the offended women of being feminazis (quite right too, lawl). He made a MySpace blog post in which he gave these butthurt feminazi women a good verbal dressing down, which just tipped the scales and induced nerd rage in the Wikipedia community. At the end of the TL;DR administrators' noticeboard thread, the God-King Jimbo stepped in and took major action.
Jimbo's Intervention
The Wikipedia Review went crazy with this tidbit of delicious drama, and a huge thread began with all aspects of this exciting story examined in detail. For starters, some women were not in the slightest bit offended by the hook. They saw the actions of Sceptre and his ilk as political correctness gone overboard, which is exactly what it is. On the other hand, retards such as the fieryangel started bawwwwwing about how sexism was parallel to racism and was discrimination of the worst kind. Many were also quick to jump towards the fact that Jimbo has committed far greater atrocities against women than this guy has. The Bomis porn search portal? Russian hookers paid for by Wikimedia Foundation cash? A great feminist thinker he is!
Aside from the debate about the content, various meta-questions were raised about this particular type of case. Was Jimbo's desysopping out of process? Does he have the right just to Ignore All Rules and act as the undisputed, unchallenged Final Boss of TOW whenever he feels like it? What right does Wikipedia have to police its editors' actions on other websites? Last time we all checked, Wikipedia is not the Internet Watch Foundation (although it may well need investigation by them, lawl). Yet more proof that Wikipedia is a cult, that restricts its members' right to free speech, a sense of humor and general joviality that would be found on almost any other website on the internets. It also proves that by making an alliance with the feminazis, Jimbo is proving Conservapedia correct - six times more liberal than the American public, so they say - which brings us onto our next point. Why should Wikipedians be judged by liberal American standards of morality (which are pretty damned anomalous compared to the average morality of the world as a whole)? As usual, Jimbo has no answer, because he can't provide one, and doesn't care as long as the old media or valleywag don't kick up a fuss about it.
There was talk of taking this case to Arbcom, and this has now taken place. The outcome of this is yet to be seen, but undoubtedly, it'll create moar juicy drama, which is always good.
In Conclusion
Bedford, despite his shortcomings, is a pretty cool guy who we believe did it for the lulz. Encyclopedia Dramatica supports his resysopping, which also means that that will never happen. Lol.
Yes, that's right, they gave Adminship to THIS GUY
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