Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Israelbeach

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• Israelbeach (talk · contribs · logs)

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Description

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Israelbeach (talk · contribs), has stated that he is Joel Leyden, a self-confessed Search Engine Optimizer [1]. I suspect that Leyden is attempting to use Wikipedia as a tool for his PR firm [2].

He has performed the following actions:

• Created articles (some via sockpuppets) about himself, his privately held business, his employees and former employees and giving as "evidence" of notability references to his own news agency. Has written articles about other non-notables - possibly clients of his PR firm?
• Created sockpuppets to support himself, to defend his articles on AfD, and to circumvent 3RR (see: Wikipedia:Requests for CheckUser#Israelbeach aka Joel Leyden for a list of the suspected sockpuppets)
• Deleted (via one of his sockpuppets) comments of another user who opposed him on a talk page
• Repeatedly adding this paragraph to the article Ra'anana, despite objections on talk page. Presumably to promote a cause with which he is personally involved, a lobby for divorced fathers' rights.
• Disregarded opinions of other editors, consistently dismissing them in edit summaries and talk comments as vandalism, personal attacks or censorship, and reverting all edits opposed to his views.
• Circumvented 3RR by means of sockpuppets
• Falsified votes on AfD by means of sockpuppets
• Threatened other users with legal action
• Harrassed other users
• General lack of civility or respect for other users, threatening tone

Evidence of disputed behavior

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1. adding AfD tag to another user's page
2. Israelbeach announcing his intention to delete a comment by another user. The offending comment was later indeed deleted from Talk:Ra'anana by Bonnieisrael (talk · contribs), a suspected sockpuppet
3. threat of legal action (under an IP, later altered to his sig);claim to having filed a criminal complaint against another editor
4. edit history showing multiple reverts: about 8 reverts of the same paragraph by Israelbeach, and 4 more by sockpuppets (circumventing 3RR)
5. accusation of censorship
6. Joel Leyden's own report on his discovery of Wikipedia, and his effort to get articles about himself and his news agency past AfD.
7. The following item of evidence is in Hebrew! An article from a leading news portal in Israel about a service offered by Joel Leyden's PR company: promising to boost clients' rankings on internet search engines [3]
8. another user claiming to be afraid of Israelbeach's vindictiveness in real life.
9. Suspected sockpuppets:

• Nancetlv (talk · contribs) voted against deletion of Israelbeach's articles[4], [5]
• Achlasaba (talk · contribs) voted against deletion of Israelbeach's articles [6], [7]
• Davidstone (talk · contribs)
• Bonnieisrael (talk · contribs)

Applicable policies and guidelines

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1. Wikipedia:No legal threats
2. Wikipedia:Sock puppetry
3. Wikipedia:Three-revert rule
4. Wikipedia:Civility
5. Wikipedia:Harassment
6. Wikipedia is not a Search engine optimization tool

Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute

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1. [8]
2. Talk:Ra'anana
3. [User talk:Rasmus Faber#Talk:Rasmus Faber]
4. [9]
5. [10]

Users certifying the basis for this dispute

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1. --Woggly 11:11, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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