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This article is about a current event - it is being filled right now. Please do contribute. Toitoine (talk) 06:47, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Refs etc
Appears he had an account (now 'blocked') http://mediaelites.com/2010/03/05/j-patrick-bedell-on-wikipedia/
See User:JPatrickBedell --220.101.28.25 (talk) 11:14, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/jpbedell (copy of data below)
. Patrick BedellMSEE Student
San Francisco Bay Area Contact J. Patrick Bedell Add J. Patrick Bedell to your network
Education San Jose State University University of California, Santa Cruz Connections 25 connections Industry Consumer Electronics Websites My Website http://infoeng.sourceforge.net/
J. Patrick Bedell’s Education San Jose State University none , Biochemistry , 1995 — 1996
University of California, Santa Cruz B.S. , Physics , 1992 — 1994
Additional Information
J. Patrick Bedell’s Websites:
My Website
J. Patrick Bedell’s Groups:
Telecom Professionals Electrical/Electronics and Computer Development Engineers Group Analog Mixed-Signal and RF (AMS/RF) IC Design and Development Group Semiconductor Professional's Group StepBeyond Electronic Industry Network Wireless Telecommunications Worldwide ASIC & FPGA Engineers ASIC CONSULTANTS NETWORK FPGA/CPLD Design Group Fabless Global - ASIC/FPGA/IP (5000+ members) HVL (SystemC/C++/Verilog /Vera/Specman) Experts Southern California Electronics Northern California Electronics HackerDojo Members
J. Patrick Bedell’s Contact Settings Interested In: consulting offers new ventures expertise requests reference requests getting back in touch
AMAZON http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1S137X4WZFNZO
--220.101.28.25 (talk) 11:45, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
http://en DOT metapedia DOT org/wiki/John_Patrick_Bedell --220.101.28.25 (talk) 11:55, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
LRC and LvMI
gee, wikipedia being used to smear LRC and LvMI with guilt by association? you don't say. and in the only factoid on the page that have no citation, during the article's first few hours of life, no less. 128.128.98.71 (talk) 16:04, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Good point, I have removed unreferenced assertions. The article will probably be moved to something like 2010 Pentagon shooting anyway due to WP:ONEEVENT. Copana2002 (talk) 16:41, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, a name change would probably be the way to go. If it isn't deleted first! --220.101.28.25 (talk) 16:49, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
User Page
Question: Should a "See Also" with referene to his user page be added? Also, should a redirect be created for "JPatrickBedell"?--v/r - TP 17:38, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Well the user page was deleted (though talk and contribs still exist) and self-references in themselves aren't permitted. I'd say a JPatrickBedell redirect (in the article space, obviously not userspace) would be warranted, considering that is a plausible search term with the media coverage of his online activities. Joshdboz (talk) 18:45, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Sabow beliefs at center of attack
How best to address the conspiracy theories at the center? This was published a couple of days ago[1] And additionally, the Christian Science Monitor is also explicitly covering the angle here:[2] Interestingly Congress has even enacted legislation[3](Pages: 6, 66, & 102) ordering a formal "Reinvestigation of Death of Col. Sabow". Personally I don't have the desire to write these articles, but there are some quite notable mentions to be found there. Also, some reports indicate they were next door neighbors, but I'm unable to ref that.99.151.172.170 (talk) 17:57, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Oh, there was also a trove of information and references here at Wikipedia under the shooter's user account. Much of it, including his user page and extensive work on a Col. James E. Sabow article was deleted this morning. Don't expect to find much useful stuff there - from what little hints remain it looks quite ranty and OR. Probably not unexpected given the quite unbalanced actions alleged. Here's the User page[4], and what remains of the Ed's contrib's:[5] Almost everything Sabow related has been scrubbed. 99.151.172.170 (talk) 18:14, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Actually it would be useful, it looks like his user page may have been his suicide note and gives his reasons for attacking the Pentagon - specifically to bring "Justice" as he has put it elsewhere to a Col. Sabow. How exactly though would we ref a Wiki user page?99.151.172.170 (talk) 18:21, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- It's too well scrubbed to find - along with the deleted pages each and every record even of any edit he ever did to his user page, or Sabow has vanished. No way of telling what else may have been hidden.99.151.172.170 (talk) 18:26, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Actually it would be useful, it looks like his user page may have been his suicide note and gives his reasons for attacking the Pentagon - specifically to bring "Justice" as he has put it elsewhere to a Col. Sabow. How exactly though would we ref a Wiki user page?99.151.172.170 (talk) 18:21, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
All right. The web is being scrubbed of all traces of this guy (his facebook account has been deleted, for example), but references to his beliefs should be kept here. For a screen capture of his facebook page: http://mediaelites.com/2010/03/05/j-patrick-bedell-on-wikipedia/ showing, among other things, his association with the LvMI (see also his postings on the mises institute website: http://blog.mises.org/?p=006071). Wikipedia is not the internet archive, but we do not have to follow the "scrubbers" in deleting valuable information. Toitoine (talk) 19:41, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Renaming this page
We generally don't name these sorts of things after the person, but rather after the incident, e.g. Joe Stack is a redirect to 2010 Austin plane crash, Russell Eugene Weston Jr. redirects to United States Capitol shooting incident (1998), and so on. Unless there are better suggestions, 2010 Pentagon shooting would IMO be the most fitting choice. Tarc (talk) 19:58, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Be Bold WP:Bold. Llamabr (talk) 20:18, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Go for It,
and while you're at it can someone please restore the "shooting" section?NB Iwroteentered and formatted a lot of this article, I know I don't WP:OWN it but its' disheartening to be literally up all night fighting off crap to make a decent article and now some registered editors seem to be edit warring a little. Another IP 99.151.172.170 who had been reverting a real vandal has been accused of vandalism themself. Silly! Whinge OVER!This is what is missing DIFF Please?--220.101.28.25 (talk) 20:33, 5 March 2010 (UTC)- Restored by Toitoin, thanks! --220.101.28.25 (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Go for It,
- Renamed as such. NW (Talk) 00:06, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Picture
The current picture (arrest file) is crappy to say the least - and its copyright status is not very clear either (police? Bedell?). His facebook picture is much better:
. What should be the copyright status of a facebook picture of a dead person? Should we restore this picture?
Toitoine (talk) 20:10, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- The AOL News photo is much better. I'm not sure who has the rights to it; presumably Bedell's heirs. Tisane (talk) 00:19, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Apparently that picture is from the Washoe county jail - I am not familiar with copyright laws, but isn't it supposed to be public domain if it comes from the government? Toitoine (talk) 00:50, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
openinsurgent project?
Bedell created this project, hosted on google code: http://code.google.com/p/openinsurgent/ It went nowhere, but does contain some valuable information about his beliefs and associations. I think a short blurb would belong in the article. Thoughts? Toitoine (talk) 20:24, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- It was in there, I think even before I started expanding the article about 10+ hours ago! and was removed!. No, it wasn't YOU started this article! (I just noticed, sorry!) It was going fine until the edit warring started! Hope you have slept I havent! MAybe YOU couls restore the "Shooting" section An remove all that blog crap!? --220.101.28.25 (talk) 20:42, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- The shooting section has been restored - as for the blog links and facebook profile, we could probably improve it, but I feel it belongs here. His long rambling drivels serve as evidence that he, shall I say, wasn't playing with a full deck.
Toitoine (talk) 20:55, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks, message on your talk. Thing is the Facebook will go, and remember WP:RS too! --220.101.28.25 (talk) 21:14, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Bedell created another google code project: http://code.google.com/p/rothbardix/ Rothbardix Linux is a distribution of which Bedell was the sole contributor. It is also the name of one of his blogs. "Rothbardix Linux realizes the ideas of Murray Rothbard in easy-to-use systems for secure financial cooperation." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.167.50.6 (talk) 21:26, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Beliefs
Under the "Educational Philosophy" section of JPatrickBedell's Wikiversity page, http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:JPatrickBedell/Educational_philosophy, he states "My goal in this development is to implement in free software new economic mechanisms that will validate the truth of scholars such as Murray Rothbard or Ludwig von Mises." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.167.50.6 (talk) 21:11, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Why was his Wikipedia page taken down?
There was (past tense) a wealth of information on Bedell's Wiki page (see Google Cache) to show what his beliefs were. However, it was, for some "unknown" reason, taken down and now we have this page... which lists his beliefs as "Libertarian". 911 Truthers aren't Libertarian.
- The most well-know 911 truther is Alex Jones, a libertarian —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.167.50.6 (talk) 21:47, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
This whole thing (the sudden appearance of this page and the taking down of Bidell's page) shows so vividly how Wikipedia has violated their own ethics and have ground into dust their reason for existing... they have ceased to be facilitators of knowledge and have become purveyors of what THEY want people to see.
Sickening... however, a very good example of why people don't trust Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by IHiJump (talk • contribs) 21:37, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Here is the Google cache, for those who are interested. There is not even a deletion log entry for his page. I guess it was oversighted as an office action. I agree that it would have been better if the Wikimedia Foundation had been more transparent in their decisionmaking on this matter. Tisane (talk) 22:08, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- It should be pointed out that it was not an OFFICE action - Alison ❤ 22:56, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Oh, then what was it? Divine intervention? The tooth fairy? Fatidiot1234 (talk) 23:24, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- The oversight team are discussing the matter right now - Alison ❤ 23:30, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Tooth fairy? Now, now WP:Civil please. --220.101.28.25 (talk) 00:22, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Oh, then what was it? Divine intervention? The tooth fairy? Fatidiot1234 (talk) 23:24, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- It should be pointed out that it was not an OFFICE action - Alison ❤ 22:56, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
http://www.bazpedia.com/en/j/p/a/User~JPatrickBedell_18fb.html http://www.bazpedia.com/en/j/p/a/User_talk~JPatrickBedell_9db3.html FYI 173.13.135.101 (talk) 03:39, 6 March 2010 (UTC) plus don't forget http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/JPatrickBedell ****
Rothbardix
Do we know for sure that Rothbardix was this guy's site? This article says:
“ | In a separate, rambling blog written in 2006 by a "Patrick" that uses the same themes and phrases as the Bedell on Wikipedia, the author echoes 9/11 "truthers" in saying, "like so many murderous governments throughout history, (the U.S. government) would see the sacrifice of thousands of its citizens, in an event such as the September 11 attacks, as a small cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric control." | ” |
The fact that he posted to the Murray Rothbard-affiliated Mises blog and that his Google Code project has Rothbard's Man, Economy and State with Power and Market (a book that appears in our article on anarcho-capitalist literature) as a download suggests that he may have written that blog. Tisane (talk) 00:23, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Removed Wikipedia-related content
I just got into an edit conflict with this content deletion while I was about to post this:
“ | He was a poster on the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki and on Wikipedia. His account on Wikipedia was blocked as per standard procedure after the story broke and, for reasons that have not been announced, his user page was expunged from any form of usual access even by administrators in accordance with Wikipedia's "oversight" procedure.[1] Some of his edits on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki were deleted as 'offtopic' a few hours after the story broke. Since then, editors at the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki have been deleting discussion of him and about the deletions. | ” |
I didn't want to proceed to add my change lest it be perceived as edit warring, so I am posting it here in case else wants to comment or add the content. Tisane (talk) 02:20, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Editor from Wikimedia who removed the original content is removing content here, too
Alison, who is the editor that removed the page on the Meta Wiki is the one who reverted the page here.
She in engaged in an edit war pattern where discussion of the deletion is itself in turn deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snowhare (talk • contribs)
- Hardly. I removed it once only as it's pretty-much the worst of Wikipedia introspection and largely irrelevant to the article (is it encyclopedic?) - Alison ❤ 02:31, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Given the (inevitably) non-transparent nature of the oversight process, it probably would be better, for appearance's sake, for those admins involved in the situation to leave reversions of the article for others to make. Remember when Jimbo edited his birthdate? It has the potential to cause a similar uproar. Just my opinion. Tisane (talk) 02:35, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Sure, but I didn't oversight anything. All my actions re. this event are visible - Alison ❤ 02:37, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, there is a lot of confusion because people can't tell who is involved in the oversight process (including discussions) and who isn't. Your comment above, about the oversight team considering the matter, created the impression (in my mind, anyway) that you might have some kind of inside knowledge/involvement. So if you remove that type of content from the page, it's more likely to spur concerns about there being a cabal than if Joe Schmoe removes it. Tisane (talk) 02:40, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Indeed, but such is the nature of oversight; dealing with sensitive information needs discretion and privacy. Even the oversight log, if visible, could lead to a release of sensitive information. In this case, I do have 'inside information', but am not directly involved. BTW, I just suppressed an edit a few minutes ago that relates to a serious legal matter and you won't find an inkling of it on here now, nor of its discussion. It's confusing for everyone, I guess ... - Alison ❤ 02:46, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, there is a lot of confusion because people can't tell who is involved in the oversight process (including discussions) and who isn't. Your comment above, about the oversight team considering the matter, created the impression (in my mind, anyway) that you might have some kind of inside knowledge/involvement. So if you remove that type of content from the page, it's more likely to spur concerns about there being a cabal than if Joe Schmoe removes it. Tisane (talk) 02:40, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Sure, but I didn't oversight anything. All my actions re. this event are visible - Alison ❤ 02:37, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Given the (inevitably) non-transparent nature of the oversight process, it probably would be better, for appearance's sake, for those admins involved in the situation to leave reversions of the article for others to make. Remember when Jimbo edited his birthdate? It has the potential to cause a similar uproar. Just my opinion. Tisane (talk) 02:35, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Let's swallow a Chill Pill or two here, and take care with the "OMG coverup!" kinda stuff. I removed the passage as it amounts to original research; we aren't going to be our own detective force here, ferreting out "the truth". Slow down, give the story time to develop and be covered by reliable sources. Tarc (talk) 02:49, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Wouldn't Wikipedia's meta-data (e.g. user pages, logs, talk pages) count as a primary source on what is happening on Wikipedia itself (whereas the content in our article space is usually a tertiary source on various subjects)? Note that Wikipedia_biography_controversy#Notes contains "Log entry of the rewriting of the official biography" as a reference. I think that including the content is not contrary to the spirit of WP:OR. Tisane (talk) 02:58, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm willing to concede that my edit may not belong on the 2010 Pentagon shooting page (and so will not re-revert it), but I am substantially disturbed by the instant removal of my discussion of the original page deletion from the *Talk* pages of the people involved and the subsequent immediate removal here by the *same* person who removed the original page in question on Wiki Meta.
There is a fundamental dishonesty to the behavior. You can't expect people to trust administrators who appear to be making self-serving edits. Benjamin Franz (talk) 03:02, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Oh please! And how is that 'self-serving'? We're all volunteers here, and I've nothing invested in this story. Posting stuff on the dead guy's talk page was irrelevant not to mention crass in the extreme - Alison ❤ 03:06, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Alison, you, personally, deleted a page that would definitely be of interest to anyone wanting to understand the shooter mere hours after the shooting with a offhanded 'offtopic'. But the page had been there for months - it magically became 'offtopic' mere hours after the shooting? Since then you and other editors on Meta Wiki have been actively suppressing any commentary about that deletion. For you to revert the edit *here* about something directly involving yourself with an airy wave of your hand without even acknowledging your own direct involvment is dishonest. Benjamin Franz (talk) 03:18, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Paranoia about criminal conspiracies among government officials
A lot of media accounts (including some quoted in the article) are describing Bedell as having paranoid ideas about a criminal conspiracy to control the government. It should be noted that "mainstream" anarcho-capitalist theory, which Bedell evidently took an interest in, describes taxation as theft and government as an organization of criminals. Note Rothbard's comments that "the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large" and that "the model of government is akin, not to the business firm, but to the criminal organization, and indeed that the State is the organization of robbery systematized and writ large." The idea Bedell set forth of our rulers being criminal conspirators thus should probably be interpreted as a libertarian perspective on the world, rather than Truthism or something along those lines. Tisane (talk) 03:30, 6 March 2010 (UTC)