User:Civil.sense/Sandbox

Janus303, who tagged this post, is a paid Mark Udall staffer (Bob Schaffer's opponent in the general election). A watcher posted on The Colorado Index blog.

"It is nice to note that in 2008 Republicans are in the game and watching their Wikipedia entries. That doesn't stop the Democrats from trying to play dirty with them.

"What is amazing is how careless the Democrats are. Janus303 seems to be a lot like me.  Yesterday, I wrote that I used "a watcher" as a screen name several places.  Janus303 does the same thing.   If you go to mikeditto.com, you get Janus Online.  Janus303 has a livejournal profile that identifies him as Michael Ditto, and an Amazon profile.

"Facebook identifies Mike Ditto as Udall for Colorado's Director of Online Communications. You might expect a Director of Online Communications to be familiar with Wikipedia.  Sure enough, there is a Janus303 as a Wikipedia editor.  The Wikipedia Janus303 writes almost exclusively on Colorado issues, most recently on the Mark Udall and Bob Schaffer entries.

"Unsurprisingly, he doesn't want Wikipedia readers to know about the close connection between Maggie Fox, Mark Udall's wife, and the League of Conservation Voters. He has eliminated references to that connection twice.

"I tagged this section as disputed because it's not relevant that LCV does business with an organization that used to be headed by Mark Udall's wife.

"LCV never mentioned Bob Schaffer in the six years he was out of office, but in 2008 he comes up third on their dirty dozen list and LCV's connection with Mark Udall's wife isn't relevant? No one will buy that when they understand that a Mark Udall staffer wrote it while trying to hide his identity.

Mark Udall needs to explain why his paid campaign staff isn't identifying itself as paid staff on Wikipedia when it edits Bob Schaffer's page. Failing to do so is swarmy politics and it makes Wikipedia untrustworthy.

"Anyone who wishes to quote this on Wikipedia has my express permission to do so. Wikipedia rules say that I cannot post it myself."Civil.sense (talk) 14:22, 21 August 2008 (UTC)