User talk:Jimbo Wales/CASBJSF

Cumbey and SqueakBox Javier Solana feud

Cumbey threats

These threats were received by email. User:Cumbey claims SqueakBox is hacking into the wiki database. She is going to demand the hard discs from you so she can get me put down for a long time because of my alleged hacking. She accuses me of having a stash of janja (sic) she means ganja, in my possession, and that she is going to tell the Honduran police about it. She is going to write to you demanding you reinstate her version of Javier Solana. She is very unhappy with the new contributors. She thinks they work for me and I work for Solana.--SqueakBox 14:46, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

I think both of you have violated the Wikipedia:No legal threats policy. Dtobias 12:33, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

That may be the case but she started it by accusing me of being high on drugs. I cannot tolerate such a baseless claim, and live in a country where drug possession is a serious crime. All I have threatened her with is libel if she continues to impute my good name. What choice do I have? (I am not planning to do so). --SqueakBox 17:14, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

Cumbey reply to 'SqueakBox' Allegations

As you, a person with a thriving business career, and likewise me with a busy law practice, sometimes it is difficult to find rebuttal time for those who have nothing to do but stalk. That has been the case here. For openers, I told SqueakBox in a private email, that if he persisted in what was an obvious extraordinary internet stalking of myself that I would, if he did not retract his repeated slurs that I was 'vandalizing,' 'trolling' and was a 'fanatic,' I would attempt to as a last resort contact you, if I couldn't find you otherwise on line, I would communicate by certified mail and request retractions. The bit about demanding 'hard drives' is pure SqueakBox and PURE FICTION!

Next, it is unfortunately obvious that either SqueakBox may have well hacked into a Wiki process database (Wiki Global Elite), or at least he clearly intimated he had done so. My basis for saying is that everytime pages on the board disappeared, it was called on Wikipedia itself to my attention by SqueakBox. He tauntingly challenged me to go look. On the very Wikipedia boards he would note that all pages dealing with my work and Maisy's work had disappeared -- and so they had! I could not log on for a few days and had to re-establish my account and password there. The page has since been locked there by Maisy for vandalism and it is locked in my format -- not SqueakBox's, which should reveal what their investigation showed about current events on that site.

SqueakBox or his alias then posted messages to me claiming names such as 'David' with spelling, syntax, and punctuation identical to that used by SqueakBox (when writing as SqueakBox -- a still different newspaper name (not as Squeakbox) he writes under has complex sentences, punctuation, and spelling) -- obviously both came from the same pen. I suspect he either knows the process or gained user privileges there using a different name. Everytime it happened, SqueakBox left a taunting message for me on both talk pages and public pages on Wikipedia, as well as to private email. I tried being very civil with SqueakBox, even going so far as to furnish a home phone number in case he wanted to talk. He vandalized, insulted, going so far as to call me "a vandal and a troll" for trying to protect a wonderfully written article with supporting external references which SqueakBox removed, claiming this would give people reason to suspect Javier Solana was 'accumulating powers' and was 'the beast.' As far as saying this is what Solana is -- again, this is SqueakBox's extropolation and not mine. I have always told people that their guess as to this particular prophesied character's identity "is as good as mine." I confess to having said, however, that "Solana might be an educated guess."

As regards the 'ganja' references, SqueakBox brought this on himself. After countless baseless publicly posted (and with a sniveling and whiny tone at that)SqueakBox messages publicly and insultingly calling me a religious fanatic, he sent me a profound email professing deep belief in Haile Selassie as his Rastafarian messiah -- God returned in the flesh and we had missed him! I went as any good researcher to the appropriate Wikipedia page and learned that the very publicized Rastafarian sacrament of marijuana usage was called ganja. (I confess I did misread it as "janja" and evidently SqueakBox did know enough about it to know the difference.) I suggested IN A PRIVATE EMAIL that SqueakBox might be either smoking something or consuming too much 'ganja'. SqueakBox went on to make this private correspondence very public! He did the publication in the legal sense, not me! As far as the 'threat' to notify the consulate (NEVER ANY THREAT TO A FAMILY -- DON'T EVEN KNOW IF HE HAS ONE APART FROM HIS DOGS), this was merely a humorous comeback to the numerous SqueakBox - Weiss threats to me in email to "have me sitting in a Caribbean republic jail" for "criminal offense of libel." SqueakBox's behavior which has been both publicly and privately abusive frankly reminds me of a little kid who kicks another kid in the shins, and then in turn runs home crying to his mommy when the kicked kid says, "for that, I'm going to get you."

SqueakBox's newly revised page says he proved Haile Selassie was God and Solana was not the devil. As I see things, he did a lousy job of both!

I consider Wikipedia a tremendous service. I have written professionally (starting as a speechwriter for the Democratic caucus of the Michigan House of Representatives) since 1969. I have tried to make meaningful Wikipedia contributions. It is too bad that people like SqueakBox can reduce it to a three ring circus, and the level of scholastic achievement to junior encyclopedias and below.

Respectfully,, Constance E. Cumbey Wikipedia User 'Cumbey'

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SqueakBox Response

I told Cumbey what was going on at wikielite because I was watching it myself. That is why I told her to take a look; she also has the internet. I was not making anything happen; it is cranky to make the logical deduction from this that I was hacking into anything, as well as libellous. to say I have done so. To say i am User:David is again very cranky, and clearly not the case. His contributiuons are very different and he operates out of a different country. We are both english; presumably it is our similar english style that has led Cumbey to deduce we are the same person. Again very cranky, very libellous stuff. I did not mention on numerous occasions getting her in a caribbean jail, merely that do not like to be libelled as someone who breaks the law, and that livbel is a criminal offence here. She is being completely over the top, and does not back up anything she says. [1] makes a joke of Cumbey's pretended having nothing to do with solana as the beast thesis which was a POV spín and not a wonderful article at all. Cumbey got blocked for edit warring trying to reimpose her outdated POV, disorganised version. I went in detail on the Talk page about my edits, to which she has never responded in any way. So what is she complaining about my edits of Solana here. She lies saying she didn't know I had a partner, and about the hard disc threat to prove her belief that I have been hacking in. Cumbey vandalised my home page here and there is a record of her insults elsewhere. When I tried to get a serious conversation about what I considered her Nazi apologism comparing Solana to Hitler she went about occultism. I am not the one obsessed with religion, nor do I want beliefs about Solana infecting the solana article. It is now just like any other political article. It has had a lot of recent input from various contributors, none of whom feel drawn to readding Cumbey's hidden beast evidences and overt anti-EU pro-US as the single geopolitical superpower rant. I don't know why Cumbey doesn't let things be; the new version is now accepted, and I am innocent of any of the charges. I consider her threats in email to have been litle more than religious harrassment; believing someone is God, especially when lots of other people believe it too, is not a reason to ring the police trying falsely and without the slightest evidence that they are committing a serious crime. And then she says i brought it on myself. i.e. according to Cumbey I have no right to express my religious beliefs withoutt being persecuted by her. And, according to her, I deserve it. I am, after all, a Rasta. So I don't like Cumbey, and want her to leave me alone, and stop libelling my character with her ridiculous allegations. Special:Contribution/ SqueakBox shows don't spend my time here stalking. Cumbey abuses me greatly every chance she gets, because I trashed her original Solana POV thesis. Her accusations always lack substance. Cumbey operates mostly anonymously, using a large number of IP addresses, but nevver edits anything that is not to do with Javier Solana. Whereas i edit a lot of political articles about Spanish speakers, of whom Solana is one. As a european I don't buy into her politics, but what I object to is the way she hijacked the article for her Christian evangelising purposes. --SqueakBox 06:14, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

Cumbey quotes in email

Tomorrow I am sending Jimbo a certified letter, return receipt requested printing out the hard copy -- I am demanding that you immediately retract ALL your libelous and slanderous Sock Puppet allegations forthwith; I am demanding a WRITTEN APOLOGY circulated as far on the web as you circulated your slanders and I demand that everything be put back in the Solana article that had external references.

Furthermore, Wikipedia policy is to attach external references. You removed them--I see with some glee that others are now catching on to your idiocy in such things as denying the importance of the Barcelona Process. Javier Solana himself wrote a brand new article about it published in today's London Financial Times. Why don't you go over there and hack it as well.

But on the other hand, maybe I should exercise Christian charity and blame all your misdeeds on the machete wielder.

Earlier that day she accused me of working here for javier Solana, which I resent as I am a volunteer.

Hope Solana is paying you well for all your internet mayhem and destruction. May the Lord have mercy on your poor miserable soul'

You are a hacker and a liar! You are locked out of Wiki Global Elite!

NEVER EMAIL ME AGAIN! I plan to make you (in)famous in my next book -- here in the USA, Richard Weiss, truth is an absolute defense. You had no reasonable expectation of privacy on your internet sabotage and lies. Don't threaten me with your cruddy little Caribbean jails!

here she promises to put my efforts on wikipedia into her new book. This is clearly a banning offence, were she to actually do so. --SqueakBox 17:49, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

Privacy of emails

It was Cumbey who broke the privacy of our email conversations, by publishing my real name, --SqueakBox 19:10, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)

Haile Selasie

Cumbey has placed a link to my User page in the text of Haile Selassie of Ethiopia here, --SqueakBox 14:57, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

Cumbey's blog

In my opinion the latest posting on Cumbey's blog here is an offsite personal attack on User:One Salient Oversight and myself. i believe I read Juimbo here saying he will not tolerate such behaviour, especially as her attack includes a link here, that she got from what was my user page, which partially identifies me. I am going to read the rules in detail, and if appropriate go to arbcom, --SqueakBox 16:18, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

Jimbo, you are playing a star role in Cumbey's April 15 1.41am blog here. If she decides to delete it i haver it saved onto my hard disc. I won't quote what she says because I don't know about blog copyright, but needless to say I have never invoked your name to justify my work here or claimed that you have blessed any of my edits here at Wikipedia, --SqueakBox 17:43, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

Hacking allegations

(from User talk:Cumbey:

I hope you accept Maisie's explanation here that I did not hack in to Wiki Global Elite, nor did anyone else. Can you please retract your statements to the effect that I did (eg at User talk:Jimbo Wales#Cumbey reply to 'SqueakBox' Allegations and anywhere else, --SqueakBox 03:08, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

I hope this resolves the original hacking allegations against me by Cumbey that caused my writing about the case here, --SqueakBox 23:55, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)