User:Zezen/Simon Mol

This used to be a draft area for the English Simon Mol article.

But I give up. PC Wikipedia censorship is too strong. Nec Hercules contra plures.

Read Mol's uncesored story here instead.

The only bit I will still try is to restore his photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Denniss#Simon_Mol is the guy who removes it.

I will only leave this bit:

Archive list of reasons for deletion for Simon Mol article from 2007:

Link to the officially stated reasons for this article deletion given in 2007:

• No living biographies (Counterclaim: he is all over the news and will remain so)
• WP:NOT#NEWS. (No conterclaim yet as the first academic papers started to be written about 2010 about him)
• WP:NOTE, with these arguments:
  • You say "Simon Mol" to someone, they're liable to look at you funny. - Not true by now. Notable worldwide, large number of non-Polish hits and articles, memes created, his face instantly recognizable already in 2007 - used for political demos, etc., leading to related court cases (see the future version of main article)
  • Eistein, Lenin and Mao have numerous books written about them. Simon Mol doesn't. - Not true: two academic papers or dissertations, an in-depth psychological analysis of his poetry published already in 2006 by a PhD, but the editors did not discover it back then, alas
  • Mol's story is not going anywhere outside Poland. - Not true. It was quickly published worldwide, especially back home in African countries.
  • This person is completely non-notable, neither as writer nor as journalist, unless you're going to introduce common criminals and hustlers into Wikipedia - Not true. Major impact on Polish laws and politics and refugee PR.
• "Keep" - repeatedly pleads a very active Wikipedian, the row of decorations on his home page looking like directly taken from Baron Cohen's underwear in one of his weird "dictator" movies.
• Vote for Keep: The reasons for wanting this article deleted are politicaly motivated. - says a Wikipedian active until 2013, editing articles mostly about football and UEFA (nomen omen, as these very topics are by now starting to crop up in the 2014 version of Simon's article and will do so for a while)

Hm. A contentious claim, ain't it. Why should he be saying so? Let's dox the profiles and the type of other contributions of the deleters:

• "Delete" says a bona-fide Wikipedian, very active in Polish topics until now, no POV detected whatsoever. Pass.
• "Delete" says a user who is repeatedly (self) blocked from editing Eastern European topics (read his fascinating pledge!), on pain of a general ban for violating WP policies
• "Delete" - says a "whack a mole" banned sockpuppet who mostly made such type of unsourced POV edits deflecting the blame before being banned forever.
• "Delete" says a user who is mostly passionate about repeated his edits of this, upvotes keeping an article about Jewish Internet Defense Forces, removes published book references this with a note "removed far-right links", etc.
• The Deletes or deep reverts to the Polish version are more much more blunt and open: dead link] see examples here. I omit the swear words of one angry banned sock who blanked it back then "(#$#%^$^ #$#%%$#% STOP TO WRITE ABOUT SIMON MOL !!! It is only promotion of racism !!!)"

Result: due to the preponderancce of such negative downvotes, the article was quickly deleted in 2007, probably alongside with non-Polish English newspaper reports and political analyses published back then. (The doxed versions thereof that I was able to find had all the refs stripped bare)

Here and in the main article I painstakingly recreated them from Google Caches, non-indexed pages etc.

Archive versions of Simon Mol's Talk page