User talk:GeeJayK

Bongolian (talk) 21:06, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Break
I’ll be taking a bit of a break from editing partially because I’ve broken the rules with the categories and also because I don’t feel like I have any more pages to make for now. I feel I’ve been spending too much time here, so I’ll be taking a step back. I won’t be gone for long though, I’ll return soon. I’ll also be on the discord, so you can talk to me there for now. Rational Dude (talk) 19:54, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
 * That's fine. Taking a Wiki break is good once in a while. GeeJayKWhere all evil dwells Where every lie is true 17:09, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Why are you sabotaging the article on Prensa Latina?!
I see that you have demoted the article about Prensa Latina to Draft status. Why?

What is your reason for sabotaging the Categories part of the article?
 * That's not sabotage. Drafts are never categorized. Spud (talk) 11:20, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm not trying to sabotage your article, I moved it to the draft space because it's not ready for the main space yet. Some people would have deleted it on sight, it's even possible to argue that I saved it from being deleted. The subject is missional, go ahead with the article. GeeJayKWhere all evil dwells Where every lie is true 13:05, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry to have bothered you. Forget about it.  Good bye.  Joreberg (talk) 19:14, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Sorry to hear about your grandpa dude
Best wishes. Also always willing to talk if that’s ever something you want. 21:12, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
 * thanks a lot for the message, man. The doctor thinks he'll make it this time, but we don't know how he'll be. He will probably end up on a wheelchair and with a ventilator machine. I honestly don't think he'll last for very long. But such is life. I'm glad he was part of my life for over 30 years. GeeJayKWhere all evil dwells Where every lie is true 12:51, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * That's awful. My grandpa died last year from lung cancer, so I have an idea of how you're feeling. Just know it gets better. 17:28, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Greetings
I’ve returned. I’d like to give my condolences to you and your family, and I hope for the safety of all of you. May your grandfather recover quickly and live long and happily. Rational Dude (talk) 20:37, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, man. And welcome back. I just visited my grandfather. He's recovering every day, he'll definitely make it for now. GeeJayKWhere all evil dwells Where every lie is true 21:02, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I lost my grandma a couple years ago. I'm glad to hear your grandpa's doing well. Carthage (talk) 21:06, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks you for the message. As I said before, I think I am privileged to have all my grandparents alive. Losing someine I love is a very new situation to me, and I hope it won't happen right now. GeeJayKWhere all evil dwells Where every lie is true 21:17, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * you’re welcome, and thank you. I’m glad to hear your grandfather is doing better now. I know what it’s like to lose loved ones, I lost my grandparents a couple years back. Rational Dude (talk) 21:40, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Smith, Kirkegaard, etc.
This is the real Jonathan Kane, Emily Willoughby's coauthor. I've been following the discussion about the recent City Journal article, and I thought you'd find it useful if I were to provide some further details about what's being discussed there.

First, the guy who was posting under my name on the talk page of the Emily Willoughby article was an imposter. I also want to provide some more detail about the low-level trolling that's been going on, both here and at Wikipedia, of which the Richard Haier article was one example.

In April of 2020, while Wikipedia's "NightHeron" user was rewriting that site's race and intelligence article to make it conform to an "antiracist" perspective, I received an email from Emil Kirkegaard asking me to help him rewrite it, and offering to share the WP account's login details with me. But I was unwilling to help Kirkegaard turn that article into a parody, and he and I argued for more than a week about whether his doing that was a useful strategy. Kirkegaard and I have actively avoided one another ever since then.

Smith seems to watch Kirkegaard's every move, so he probably noticed that Kirkegaard and I removed one another as friends on Facebook around that time. Now he (and the rest of you) can know the reason that happened. I still think Kirkegaard is capable of doing useful research, but whatever ability he has is eclipsed by his impulsivity, his habit of deliberate provoking people, and his determination to prove he's right in pointless dramas.

A few months ago I forwarded some of Kirkegaard's past correspondence with me, which made it clear he's evaded his ban from Wikipedia using the NightHeron account, to Wikipedia's arbitration committee. They acknowledged having received my message, but did nothing else. I know that Emily Willoughby also contacted them about the same thing in September 2022. They told her in response that this issue could only be addressed in a public arbitration request, but in the same message one of the arbitrators advised her against making such a request, because "I think the committee has the committee has very little patience for this matter". One other person at Wikipedia who I know was aware of this issue is the late admin and former arbitrator DGG, who made this amendment request partly for that reason. However, DGG told me and Emily that he felt it would be improper for him to take action about Kirkegaard's ban evasion directly, because he considered himself an involved administrator.

It's a mystery why Smith states in his article about Willoughby that she "collaborated with and defended Kirkegaard on Wikipedia", or that the two of them "edited the same race and IQ related articles with overlapping edits as a sort of 'tag-team' with the same point of view", even though Smith has made it clear elsewhere that he's aware most of Emily's recent involvement in those Wikipedia articles has been to oppose Kirkegaard's attempt to turn them into parodies. (As the Cancel Watch article mentions, that's the only interaction on Wikipedia pages she and Kirkegaard have ever had.) It's also a mystery why Smith is being allowed to use RationalWiki in this way while he's banned. He created his article about Willoughby in August 2022, when he'd already been banned from this site for the past two years. --Tetrapteryx (talk) 20:43, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Tetrapteryx has confirmed to me by email that he is indeed the Jonathan Kane that he says he is. Bongolian (talk) 20:46, 12 July 2023 (UTC)