Wikipedia:List of cabals

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Composite image of a cabalist, based on witness accounts. Please note the evil moustache.

This is a list of the cabals which dominate Wikipedia, ruthlessly abusing its content for their own evil purposes. All of these cabals control the encyclopedia, and dictate its content, although it is unclear how all the different cabals can each control Wikipedia at once. It is likely that there is One True Cabal which secretly controls all the other cabals, but no one yet knows which cabal is this master-cabal.

Many brave martyrs have risked their editing careers, nay, their very lives to expose these cabals. If you are aware of any other cabals, please add them to this list.

Administrator cabal
By far the best known of all the cabals, this special cabal (a) totally exists, (b) totally opposes all reasoned arguments consisting of 88-paragraph flames justifying the use of swear words QUITE PROPERLY used to describe the WHOLLY OUT OF LINE editor who just shredded MY EXCELLENT AND THOUGHTFUL piece extolling the virtues of insert your band/album/fave group here and (c) totally should be banned. Anyone thinking otherwise will be auto-deleted by the said cabal. This cabal typically surfaces on musical group pages but can also be encountered in political zones and defending so-called (by non-Cabalites) administrator vanity pages which of course do not exist, at least according to the administrator cabal. All communications with this cabal usually end with the cabal claiming that Jimbo Wales approved our viewpoint. [1]
Adminitis cabal
Members of this cabal suffer from Wikipedia:Adminitis, and deserve our pity. They only 'think' they control things.
Anti-Red Faction cabal
This "self-congratulatory" cabal, formed to destroy User:Lir, is now the mortal enemy of "the children of Lir". [2]
ArbCabal
This group controls the ArbCom. Cunningly, the "Arb" stands for both arbitration and arbitrary. [3]
Australian cabal
Strewth! Led by Ta bu shi da yu Alphax fuddlemark Mark and Alphax (jointly), these bleeding "Ossies" aim to take over Wikimedia, "and hence all international commerce, and politics." It is rumored that Sarah may be secretly commanding the group. Reports indicate Sarah's prowess in the art of Vandal Whacking, especially against rogue elements of the Canadian cabal, making the Australian cabal one of the most feared but respected groups on the wiki. [4][5]
Barbeques cabal
This group wants to see all vandals roasted. Or skewered and turned on a spit. Failing that, at least, can wikimeetups be held at places that have good BBQ? And no, no member has ever said "Put another shrimp on the barbie". You're thinking of the Australian Cabal. [6]
Catholic cabal
Operatives of this cabal remove all reference to its existence; the WikiPope is elected in pectore by those who have received the rouge hat. Glory be the the Founder, and to the Admins, and to the Holy NPOV, Wikipedia without end. Amen. [7]
"CENSOROUS POV BIGOT" cabal
This cabal was apparently opposed to editors who liked to write IN CAPITAL LETTERS often. The cabal went underground after Jimbo announced that all ABUSIVE POWER GRABS were scheduled for June, not April. [8][9]
CIA cabal
"Staffers of the Wikipedia online 'encyclopedia' - now one of the most dominant media websites in the entire world - show signs of being CIA-type operatives, directly engaged in US-funded propaganda operations against US citizens." [10]
Christian cabal
Underground cabal that uses parody and poker games to invite unsuspecting users into their lair for conversion and Lithuanian chit-chat. If encountered, smile and nod your head, but decline any offers of cool, refreshing Kool-Aid. [11]
communist admin cabal
The rougest of the rouge, this cabal of admins exists to protect the pedophilic cabal (see below). [12]
deletionist cabal
This cabal infringes on the right of all Wikipedians to add completely unverified and speculatory material to articles. Down with deletionism! [13]
developer cabal
This cabal was first mentioned by Jimbo as a possible check on the power of the sysop cabal (see below). There is no confirmation that it exists, but of course it does, even though it does not exist. [14]
Esperanza Cabal
A Wikipedia domination project based on friendliness (they make you offers so gently that you can't refuse). Has gone into hiding after exposure. [15][16]
FARAWAY
F*d*r*l Ag*nts R*nn*ng All W*k*s And Y*h** -- protecting National Security by controlling Website content, though some "C" a plot behind it all. [17]
Featured Article Cabal
This sinister group is dedicated to the disruption of other Wikimedia sites. Their modus operandi is to promote frivolous and trivial articles to featured article status, thereby sending vandals to create more trivial articles at Wiktionary. Somehow. [18]
gay cabal
This cabal keeps a queer eye on Lou franklin [19][20]
groupthinking cabal
This cabal also enjoys "juvenile insults", "power-tripping" and long walks on the beach. [21]
inquisitorial cabal
This rather vague and non-specific cabal heinously forces users to be accountable for their edits. [22]
interwiki cabal
This cabal is run by en: admins who use their evil power to control other language wikis. [23]
Indian IRC Goons' cabal
Led by the sekrit Canadian killer nurse Samir and his faithful crony Nearly Headless Nick [24][25]
"IRC fairy" cabal
When they're not chatting about random nonsense on IRC, they're secretly plotting the downfall of those unwilling to join them. They have their IRC friends vote them into adminship, and occasionally for the sake of appearance do a little reverting and admining. And of course, they have wings and sparkly tights. [26]
ivory tower cabal
A brotherhood of historians who slavishly follow historical orthdoxy. [27]
Knights of NPOV Cabal
This cabal appears to have the declared aim of ridding Wikipedia of all that which is percieved by community concensus to be POV, or that might possibly appear to do so at any point, past, present or future, as a possible result of which it can appear to be what may seem to some users to be vague. It does not yet appear to be apparent to most users whether or not the cabal has done anything towards its stated aim.
Mafia-style hostage-taking cabal
After assassins failed to eliminate the GodKing, this cabal was formed to take the database hostage for ONE MILLION DOLLARS. Brion has been repeatedly approached to join this cabal, but has always refused to join. [28]
master cabal
This shadowy group limits the influence of its enemies by locking the database from editing. [29]
Mediation cabal
This cabal sneaks in and ruins perfectly good flamewars. [30]
MexiCabal
Furthering the Mexican agenda on Wikipedia [31]

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Michael Jackson Cabal
A group of radical worshipers of Michael Jackson, whose edits often hurt the article. [33][34]
musicabal
Though not usually recognized as dominant, this treblesome group supports each other for adminship and featured article status. Will horn in on any situation, drum up support, and back up their position with violins if necessary. (Or worse, violas.) [35]
name-censoring cabal
This cabal bans users because of their usernames. The reason why they do this, according to [name censored], is because they have failed to read every single message ever posted to the mailing list. [36]
neo-Maoist Great Proletarian cabal
This "cyber-inquisition" is at the heart of the "techno-cult of ignorance", which aims to suppress completely legitimate branches of science such as Aetherometry. [37]
open and friendly cabal
This cabal welcomes anyone who can "write some articles, act reasonably, don't be *too* self centered and sarcastic, [and] join the mailing list." Obviously it is some kind of sinister trap. [38]
pagan cabal
This group kills off articles one at a time by ritually sacrificing NPOV, presumably in some kind of unholy ceremony. [39]
pedophile cabal
When you delve into exactly who the users are editing the "Internet's Encyclopedia" you find a vast pedophile cabal seeking to undermine it.[40]
Penguin Cabal
This group is for obsessed penguin fanatics, and encourages spamming people's user pages with a penguin. [41]
Polish cabal
This group of Polish editors pushes pro-Polish POV, with the ultimate aim of turning English Wikipedia into a Polish Wikipedia. [42]
RfA cabal
These admins control RfA, so that only their friends are made admins. They also issue "some kind of certificate you hang on your wall, much like a diploma." [43]
Rouge admin cabal
These rouge admins, based on the flimisiest of grounds - policy and consensus - require not The Truth(TM) but what is verifiable. Do not confuse them with the Sysop Cabal. [44]
Saddam Hussein embarrassment cabal
This group of users aims to make Saddam Hussein look silly by calling him by his name. Apparently he should instead be referred to by his offiical presidential title. [45]
Sean Whitton cabal
The Sean Whitton cabal intends to add subliminal messages to articles in order to make the world love Sean Whitton. AdventureQuest users are the most demographically susceptible to the promotion of Sean Whitton. The cabal's influence is unknown, and no one knows to what extent it has polluted young fertile minds. It has been suggested that Xyrael promotes the cabal by existing. Possibly a wannabe-cabal. [46][47]
secret cabal
The members of this cabal issue "sealed proclamations" declaring that certain users are banned. Obviously members of the cabal, and admins who enforce the bans can read the proclamations, while other people cannot. Perhaps they are written in some kind of invisible ink, and cabal members are issued with special glasses to be able to read them. [48]
secret-mailing-list cabal
These people communicate exclusively by means of secret mailing lists to which only they have access. Nothing more is known about them, because no-one else can read their emails. It is highly likely that they talk about very interesting things. [49]
sysop cabal
These rouge sysops are the enemies of the developer cabal who attempt to destroy them. [50]
Team Peerage
This group of users exercise control over Wikipedia's naming conventions in a nefarious effort to ensure the proper presentation of nobles and nobility in articles. Unlike most cabals, Team Peerage operates openly from their headquarters at WP:PEER. [51]
Texan Cabal
This cabal has its evil lair somewhere in Texas. The Texan Cabal claims to be dedicated to social bonding through nefarious and nonsensical activities, but due to the size of Texas its true intentions and activities are hard to track. [52]
Wales/Essjay Cabal
This "wiki-age-ist" cabal deceives innocent users into believing Wikipedia is an "encyclopedia," and violently represses the right of new Wikipedians to add useful information to Wikipedia by deleting it as "unencyclopedic." [53] In March 2007, this cabal staged an elaborate ruse as part of a "disinformation" campaign to present itself as divided; one of its founders went underground, supposedly censured by the other.
white-collar American cabal
This cabal, comprising all white male American editors, is particularly opposed to communism. They edit all articles related to communism in order to push their POV. It is unclear how this cabal and the communist cabals can dominate the same articles at the same time, but clearly they do. Unlike the other cabals mentioned here, this one does actually exist. Proof can be found in the ceaseless attempts to correct British English spellings into US ones, a source of much humour humor to the English. [54]
Wikipedian Greek Chauvinist Junta
This nefarious gung (spelling intended) is actually a department of the Greek National Intelligence Service, hell-bent on optimizing the dark side of Greek history.Their uncanny ability at POV pushing is attributed to the ingenious "3-shift system" that allows them to operate 24 hours a day, while they manage to elude administrators using a dark art known only as the "secret e-mail".Rumors of their relation to a half-alien, superweapon-wielding entity known as the "Epsilon Group" remain unfounded. [55]
  1. ^ NPR summary of "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" for November 4 2006
  2. ^ (User:Plato/red faction (Show, Log)
  3. ^ Mailing list post "[WikiEN-l] Arbitration progress report #1 by User:The Cunctator
  4. ^ Mailing list post "[WikiEN-l] Re: How to join the cabal" by User:The bellman
  5. ^ history for Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Ottawaman
  6. ^ Edit by User:Jacoplane on 2006-05-03 to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Lar
  7. ^ Edit by 64.169.0.12 on 2006-06-10 to Talk:Early Christianity
  8. ^ Mailing list post 2004-April/012190 to WikiEN-l
  9. ^ Mailing list post 2004-April/012241 to WikiEN-l
  10. ^ Sachs, Les (2006-04-15). Wikipedia and the CIA - How US Intelligence Can Embed in Wikipedia, Plant Propaganda, Delete Facts, Deceive and Attack US Citizens. Banned in America. Retrieved on 2007-02-21.
  11. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Averykrouse/Christian_Cabal&oldid=42069930
  12. ^ http://news.baou.com/main.php?action=recent&rid=20679
  13. ^ Mailing list post 2003-May/003270 to WikiEN-l
  14. ^ Mailing list post 2003-July/005459 to WikiEN-l
  15. ^ Diff from 23799792 to 23794733 on article Wikipedia%3ARequests_for_adminship%2FRobertG
  16. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ARedwolf24&diff=22579140&oldid=22578302
  17. ^ You do not have high enough clearance to view this document
  18. ^ Diff from 104913385 to 104903003 on article Wikipedia%3AVillage_pump_%28policy%29, with subsequent discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28policy%29&oldid=105498878
  19. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Lou_franklin&oldid=55955327
  20. ^ WP:BU
  21. ^ http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-June/033611.html
  22. ^ http://eng.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Wikipedia
  23. ^ http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014770.html
  24. ^ Diff from prev to 98412183 on article Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Sir_Nicholas_de_Mimsy-Porpington
  25. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Pascal.Tesson&diff=prev&oldid=99319980
  26. ^ Diff from prev to 86712486 on article Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2006/Candidate_statements/Questions_for_Kylu
  27. ^ Mailing list post 2004-June/013197 to WikiEN-l
  28. ^ Mailing list post 2003-July/005461 to WikiEN-l
  29. ^ Mailing list post 2005-January/018328 to WikiEN-l
  30. ^ Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal
  31. ^ Diff from 26988497 to 26988018 on article Wikipedia%3ARequests_for_adminship%2FFireFox
  32. ^ Diff from 29004213 to 28904384 on article User%3ABluebot
  33. ^ [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Jackson&diff=80703693&oldid=80503599 Diff from 80703693 to 80503599 on article Michael_Jackson
  34. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Jackson&diff=83613101&oldid=83504771
  35. ^ Diff from 23765038 to 23763788 on article Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/RobertG
  36. ^ Mailing list post 2003-July/005171 to WikiEN-l
  37. ^ http://www.aetherometry.com/antiwikipedia/Section_III_6.html
  38. ^ http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2002-October/001086.html
  39. ^ Mailing list post 2004-April/012258 to WikiEN-l
  40. ^ Corporate Sex Offenders. Perverted Justice. Retrieved on 2007-03-07.
  41. ^ User:Ryulong/Penguin_Cabal
  42. ^ Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2006-06-07_Polish_Cabal_and_myself_as_its_leader
  43. ^ Mailing list post 2005-June/024945 to WikiEN-l
  44. ^ Wikipedia:Rouge_admin
  45. ^ http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-June/033282.html
  46. ^ Diff from prev to 85238595 on article AdventureQuest
  47. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AdventureQuest&diff=85242078&oldid=85241839
  48. ^ Mailing list post 2004-June/013873 to WikiEN-l
  49. ^ Mailing list post 2003-June/005022 to WikiEN-l
  50. ^ Mailing list post 2003-July/005459 to WikiEN-l
  51. ^ Diff from prev to 2797918 on article Talk:William_Cavendish-Bentinck%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Portland
  52. ^ User:JCarriker/TC
  53. ^ Diff from 71062943 to 70808424 on article User:Raul654/Raul%27s_laws
  54. ^ http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2004/9/19/212133/644/32#32
  55. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Future_Perfect_at_Sunrise/Archive_4&oldid=98491073
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