Dear Erik Ribsskog,
Thank you for your email.
Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com> wrote:
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> ——– Original Message ——–
> Subject: Fwd: Problems with censorship and threats at the Norwegian
> Wikipedia.
> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:03:44 +0100
> From: Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>
> References: <98e9940e0806281919r684968cxd2b6032b0a57aa4e@mail.gmail.com>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I can't see that I've recieved any reply to this e-mail, so I'm trying
> to send it again.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Erik Ribsskog
>
> ———- Forwarded message ———-
> From: *Erik Ribsskog* <eribsskog@gmail.com <mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com>>
> Date: Jun 29, 2008 3:19 AM
> Subject: Problems with censorship and threats at the Norwegian Wikipedia.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been in contact with some admins on the Wikipedia irc-channel,
> regarding how to report problems,
> on the Norwegian, and the English Wikpedia.
>
> The problems on the Norwegian Wikipedia are:
>
> – A big Norwegian company, named Orkla, tryed to censor what was written
> on Wikipedia, according
> to a Norwegian Wikipedia admin.
>
> – A wikipedia admin, used my nick, on the internet, to contact me, on my
> discussion-page, even if
> I only had used an ip-address, as a signature, at this date/time, since
> I was new on Wikipedia.
>
> So I must have been 'tracked', by this admin, I reckon, which I think is
> serious, and indicate, that
> something is very wrong, with this admin, or the Norwegian Wikipedia.
>
> – On the English Wikipedia, I was the subject to a harassment/Street
> theater operation, probably
> organised by some government/mob, that didn't like what I was writing
> about the Norwegian
> 'Grandiosa'-pizza's, on the 'Pizza Grandiosa'-page, since I found
> something about the contence
> of these pizza's, that seemed like it was something wrong with the
> content, of the food, so I
> tried to add the facts regarding this, and then I was banned from the
> English Wikipedia, so
> I suspect that someone with an agenda must have been involved, since I'm
> used to chatting
> on irc, and being on the internet, for many years, without being banned,
> almost at all, so
> the term 'netiquette', isn't new to me at all, so I think that it is
> probably something wrong here,
> to cover up about the contence of the pizza's probably/possibly.
>
> The username I have been using on both the Norwegian and English
> Wikipedia, is Johncons.
>
> I'll it should be more about the incidents mentioned on the two
> different Wikipedia discussion-
> pages.
>
> I'll also see if I can find, a link, to where the Norwegian Wikipedia
> admin, claims that Orkla
> wanted to censor Wikipedia.
>
> It was later claimed, by other Wiki-admins, no irc, that this was a
> joke, but it seemed sincere,
> to me, so I don't really think it was a joke, it wasn't in a cheerful
> tone, or anything like this.
>
> Hope that you have the time to have a look at this!
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Erik Ribsskog
>
> PS.
>
> Here is more about the censorship incident, even if it is Norwegian,
> unfortunatly, but I'm adding
> it anyway:
>
> 'Det er ikke ønskelig fra Orkla Food (Stabburets eier) at du bidrar på
> artiklene om Pizza Grandiosa. [[Bruker:Flums|Flums]] 20. mar 2008 kl.
> 00:24 (CET)'.
>
> http://no.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brukerdiskusjon:Johncons&diff=3498327&oldid=3498315
>
>
> <http://no.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brukerdiskusjon:Johncons&diff=3498327&oldid=3498315>
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