Take this post for instance:

<Jul-02-09>

<Ed Trice: All copies from the bookstore are sold. I made no deal with them, at all. In fact, I bought the last two copies.>

<July-25-09>

<Ed Trice: I don't "push" the book. I have at least one copy with me wherever I go. Ask anybody that knows me in chess circles that actually is with me when I play.>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:J...

As an aside, the "block user" link won't work unless you're a Wiki admin. Anyway, it's a non-issue; Trice hasn't used any of his accounts to edit the Wikipedia since January 31.

Trice: I know you read these postings, even if you pretend not to. I haven't forgotten about your actions at the Wikipedia, and should you ever try to go back there to add more BS to articles, I will undo your edits and humiliate you in front of the Wikipedia community. Just like you were humiliated in January.

I have proof of your lies because of some of your Wikipedia edits. I know you want people to forget the temper tantrum you had because we found out your Gothic Chess patent had expired, lying through your teeth that the patent had not expired, threatening everyone with lawsuits. Well, sorry Trice but it won't be forgotten:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php...

I really did cure cancer. I really did single-handedly fake the moon landing. The Berlin Wall? Yeah, I took that down. They wouldn't even acknowledge my work on taking down the ice queen in narnia. The nerve.

People doing POV-pushing is farily common in the Wikipedia. It's usually about political issues or topics where a small outspoken minority (White supremacists, people with radical religious beliefs, etc.) are advocates for their cause.

You also get a lot of vandals on the Wikipedia. Vandalism is pretty easy to spot, but with over a million pages to watch, we don't always catch subtle vandalism.

There are people like Trice who try and use the Wiki to stroke their ego, but they are fairly rare. Usually, the issue is people trying to advertise their blog, product, company, or service; the issue is almost always people trying to link to their website from the Wikipedia.

Another thing quite common is people putting up pages about their garage band.

Arguments are quite common, and petty little edit wars where both editors are too proud to compromise are quite common. Deletion discussion ("Is this notable enough for the Wikipedia?") can become quite heated. Some of these discussions are over the most funny trivial things; we even have a list of some of the more humorous petty edit wars:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe...

If you any other questions about the Wiki and our culture, let us know. We can use more editors who know a lot about Chess:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe...

Yet when FIscher died, this was prominently mentioned in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KQ8DMAfZC...

I showed all of the documentation to the reporter who interviewed me and gathered material for the person who wrote the article. They contacted the bank to verify the information.

The $15,000,000 was in that account. No matter how many times you lie about it after the fact, you can't change history.

Proving false the claims that the funds were there DOES NOT prove M61MG is an unauthorized hoax.

By the same token, if <Ed Trice> manages somehow to establish that such a fund existed, that in no way increases the likihood of authenticity of ANY ASPECT of M61MG, imo.

The $15M continues to be brought up here as if this page is dedicated to frying <Ed Trice> for past sins. I don't think that's the purpose of this page.

There are enough flaws in the claims on the M61MG book itself (and inside it), and by past sellers, and by past promoters (various real and fake accounts), and by past reviewers (up to this point, no concensus because of a lack of reviewers) that I don't see a need to thin out that acid bath, with all these other pollutants.

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And Susan Polgar believes him.

You know the $15 million did not exist. I know it did not exist. There is no point in us trying to discuss the matter.

I am not going to even pretend that $15 million was remotely plausible. No, you never had $15 million of funding for the Fischer-Karpov tournament that never happened. No, you never had thousands of people going to Gothic Chess tournaments. Yes, the Gothic Chess patent expired, and no, you never paid the patent renewal fees.

Until you're willing to admit that you've been loose with the truth, there is no point in me trying to directly engage you. You're not going to get better until you're willing to be a man about your mistakes and admit that you sometimes exaggerate the truth a little.

If you can't swallow your pride and do this, you will continue to not have any respect here.

I hope you get better, but it's ultimately your decision. I know you're a talented programmer; your Gothic Vortex program is excellent and you did make some contributions to weakly solving checkers. I just wish you would direct your talents more towards endeavors where you could better benefit yourself and the world.

Take care

I understand you want to be fair to Trice and feel maybe we're being unfair to him. Believe me: I really want him to get better, but until he owns up to his present and past mistakes, I, and a lot of other people here, are going to continue to have no respect for him.

The fraud has been brought to light, the culprits exposed....Why don't we just declare victory and move on, instead of feeding Trice's narcissism and desire for more infamy?

Asking him to apologize and come clean is a waste of time....To some people, "there's no such thing as bad publicity" (as the saying goes)....As long as they get it.

Just another parasite trying to make his reputation off the coattails of those more talented and accomplished....It's what Fischer had to deal with his entire life, and it's the burden of geniuses and accomplished people everywhere.

So now that the mission has been accomplished regarding this book, I respectfully suggest we put Trice back into the den of obscurity that he fears the most.

For example, here's a Wikipedia edit without a reference:

Mount Wazdoo in Peru has a height of 4210 meters at its summit.

And the same edit with a reference:

Mount Wazdoo in Pero has a height of 4210 meters at its summit <ref>John Smith. Mountains in Peru. pp. 178-179. Published 1994 by Peru press. ISBN 123456789-0.</ref>

Sometimes the <ref> tag doesn't work, at which point you need to add a reference list to the article:

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

Anyway, this is a distraction; Mr. Trice hasn't admitted the number of falsifications he has made and I am, at this point, going to ignore him until he becomes man enough to admit his errors.

It looks to me like <Ed Trice> became unhorsed, his truck bounced off its carriage, his front door jumped its hinges, the petals fell off his flowers, and the bats took up residence in his belfry after his escapade involving <Rob Mitchell>.

I wonder if <RM> recognized any of these things (bat dung DOES emit a strong odor) when he was dealing with <Ed Trice>, or if this all became apparent sometime later.

I simply can't imagine anyone apparently this bonkers being able to write cogent analytical chess pieces.

Hmm-mm-mm....you don't suppose....maybe sowing doubt is the point of all this?