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[–]Vari4 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I found a lot of useful information on his wikipedia "talk" page (a page used by wikipedia editors to talk about the article they are editing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aimee_Challenor#Unprovoked_bans_on_Reddit

This lead to his own user page on wikipedia (where he is an editor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AimeeSunflower

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wow, that first link is a good example of why I gave up on Wikipedia. One of the editors says straight out that he doesn't care if something is true, only that it comes from a "reliable" news source. So even though Aimee & reddit itself have said Aimee is a recently-hired administrator, the wiki editors won't take that as fact. It's only factual if it's been reported by a news organization.

Moreover, these wiki guys seem to have no idea that what the UK Spectator is or how many hundreds of years it's been in operation. Yes, it's conservative and it runs lots of opinion pieces. But it's very well-regarded and reliable. The reporting that it's done on trans issues over the past several years by excellent journalists like James Kirkup is top-notch.

Finally, the wiki guys seem to have no idea that the Aimee Challenor story was covered in the UK press in real time and widely discussed on Mumsnet and documented by all sorts of people doing independent journalism. Such as Sonia Poulton.

The Wiki guys further don't seem to know that the Green Party hired the independent investigation company Verita to do a full investigation of the debacle of Aimee and the Greens, and Verita published an extensive official report that was damning of the Greens and of Aimee alike. Veritas concluded not just that Aimee didn't have a clue about safeguarding; they said Aimee is incapable of understanding the concept.

Full Verita report: https://www.iicsa.org.uk/key-documents/9910/view/GNP001003.pdf

Executive summary of Verita report: https://www.verita.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/green-party-report-web-publication.pdf

Some news coverage:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/12/green-party-failed-to-properly-investigate-child-abuser-report

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-46838540

Statements from Verita regarding Green Party's response to its report:

https://www.verita.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Publication-of-our-report-following-an-independent-investigation-into-the-Green-Party.pdf

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

ooooh, great sleuthing.