Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Matt Giwer/Archive

16 March 2012

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Both push a Herodotus heavy POV against any possibility of a historical Israel. TWIIWT attempted to cite Giwer's website here, despite constant explanation of WP:RS.


 * Matt Giwer at History of the Southern Levant and at the talk page for that article.
 * TWIIWT at Judaea (Roman Province), and TWIIWT at Philistines.

In these instances (and thoughout many other contribs, such as TWIIWT's activity on my talkpage or Matt Giwer's on Dougweller's talk page), both accounts insist that history cannot bear any similarities to the Old Testament because the OT cannot be used as evidence, even if completely secular academia finds material that happens to match up with Jewish history. Matt Giwer was outright antisemitic, TWIIWT is just ludicrously antireligious (going as far as to suggest that sources from Oxford should not be used because it used to be a divinity school ages ago, or that sources by William G. Dever, who does not even believe in a god, are "Sunday school sources" because they affirm that there was some group called the Israelites before the fourth century BCE). Ian.thomson (talk) 23:40, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

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 * - Matt Giwer is, plus he's been blocked for quite a few years. Best to act on this account on the disruption rather than any potential socking. T. Canens (talk) 03:37, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * If the disruption continues, then report to WP:ANI as necessary. Otherwise, no action taken at this time. --MuZemike 18:08, 25 March 2012 (UTC)