User:JWSchmidt/Sadi

I think the main issue here is how the Wikipedia community deals with POV pushers and scam artists. A fundamental problem is that Wikipedia is a magnet for people who want to push their pseudoscientific ideas and personal websites such as those that market bogus medical treatments. This problem was anticipated from the start of Wikipedia, but Wikipedia has a problem attracting and retaining experts who can recognize editing by scam artists. Worse, even when a scam artist is recognized, there is an army of fellow scam artists and the just-plain-clueless editors (including administrators) who jump to the defense of scam artists in community discussions. Wikipedia has to find a way to better utilize editors with expertise for the identification of disruptive editors and making sure that disruptive editors are banned from Wikimedia projects once they are identified.

24 May 2005, w:User:209.86.97.41 ("Libb Thims [B.S. Chemical Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Biochemistry - M.D. Neuroscience (in progress)]") created Human thermodynamics and it was discussed at w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Human thermodynamics and deleted 25 May 2005.

From that article:

"The bond type inherent within human relationships is the Photon Bond, the second strongest of the 4 fundamental forces, which functions via the exchange of field particles called photons [γ]. Stable bonds occur when attraction (owing to field particle exhange) outweights repulsion. Stable human marriage bonds are characterized by a 5:1 ratio of attraction to repulsion. Above this ratio, divorce ensues [the di-humanide molecule de-bonds]. The reaction central to human life is the formation of the marriage bond wherein a male human molecule [Mx] bonds to a female human molecule [Fy] to yield a di-humanide molecule [MxFy] and a new baby-child human molecule [Bc]; 85% of people will enter into and be transformed through this reaction: Mx + Fy --> MxFy + Bc"


 * Do you really have so many editors and administrators who don't recognize this as utter BS?198.228.228.175 (discuss) 23:50, 8 July 2014 (UTC)Collin237

The "Human thermodynamics" article cited several fringe websites, in particular the one by Libb Thims (which is a website all about pseudoscientific "Human thermodynamics").

The w:User:Wavesmikey started editing 8 June 2005 and sometimes signed talk page edits as "Libb Thims". 16 June 2005 re-created Human thermodynamics. 20 June 2005 editing at w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Human thermodynamics 2. Article deleted again, 30 June 2005.

From the second version of the Human thermodynamics article.

"Human chemical reactions occur when old bonds are broken and new bonds are formed. The reaction mechanism central to human life is the process wherein a man M meets or collides in time with a woman W over the substrate surface called ‘earth’ to form a bonded relationship: M + W --> M-W"

8 August 2005 w:User:Wavesmikey starts editing existing articles such as Exergonic, Physical chemistry, Thermodynamics and sometimes inserting spam links to the Libb Thims "Human thermodynamics" website. 20 September 2005 starts editing some "psychology-related" articles such as Evil and inserting the same spam.

24 September 2005 w:User:Wavesmikey started creating articles such as Equilibrium thermodynamics‎ and Biological thermodynamics.

25 November 2005 w:User:Wavesmikey created Thermodynamic evolution which was not noticed until he got greedy and put a link to it from a real article. Put up for deletion 14 December 2005 and deleted 22 December 2005.

The w:User:Sadi Carnot account was created on 26 December 2005 and it started editing "pop psychology"-related articles. Puts on new user page that he started articles such as "equilibrium thermodynamics" and "biological thermodynamics". 24 January 2006 w:User:Sadi Carnot starts Human bonding.

I first noticed "Sadi Carnot"/"Wavesmikey"/"Libb Thims" on 22 June 2007 when I happened to notice that the Bioenergetics article had been hijacked by a fringe psychology POV pusher. "Sadi Carnot"/"Wavesmikey" was passing off "biological thermodynamics" and bioenergetics. w:User:Arcadian had noticed this problem on 23 March 2007. I was busy at Wikiversity, so I just posted a warning at Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology/Help with the hope that somebody would have the time to look into it.