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by fizzyfizz 4085 days ago
Yup. Ever since then, Gregory Kohs has been on a scarily obsessive mission to not just criticize Wikipedia, but harass individual Wikipedians. He's been banned from almost all the Wikipedia projects, and in the days when Yahoo Answers was a thing, he got banned from there for using it as a way to SEO-associate hateful words with various Wikipedians and Wikimedia staff. As far as I can tell he still devotes many hours a week to his anti-Wikipedia mission -- pretty much every article anyone writes about Wikipedia, he jumps into the comment threads with ludicrously tendential assertions and distortions, often with multiple sockpuppets.

People don't like to talk about him because it feeds the troll, but after five years of solid effort the guy is now scoring mainstream press hits.

Wikipedia's (lack of) resistance to hoaxes is an issue for concern, and the WMF needs criticism, but Kohs is deranged.