Why I don t edit often anymore Back in the day I used to edit wikipedia on a fairly regular basis One of the pages I edited was the eXile One detractor of the eXile Peter Ekman was so pathologically obsessed with discrediting the periodical that he would devote weeks at a time to blanking and otherwise vandalizing the eXile article while launching reckless accusations at everyone who defended the eXile Although many editors did our best to contain Mr Ekman eventually he wore me down It just wasn t worth it spending my free time containing the vendetta of some aggrieved middle aged jerk As a parting bow in my too long Ekman drama I wanted to post here a summary about Mr Ekman s character and the original wiki text that prompted Mr Ekman s crusade About Peter Ekman Peter Ekman is the aforementioned hack journalist who crusaded against the eXile But once upon a time Ekman actually had an impressive sounding job working as an editor for the Moscow Times and dispensing right wing platitudes in the heart of the former communist empire Moscow in the 90s was a place where failures didn t fail And for a long time Ekman didn t fail despite his total lack of social graces and limited intelligence Eventually his columns attracted the ire of the fellow Moscow publication the eXile Originally the eXile was planning only on criticizing Ekman s written work but Ekman s response was righteous menacing and hinted at violence So the eXile s added a personal detail they included the account of a female employee who had been subjected to unwelcome sexual advances by Mr Ekman Mr Ekman had groped the employee while inviting her to a weekend get away while his Russian Bride was out of town Ekman responded with the same witless ape shit animosity that I have since personally witnessed many times on wikipedia Ekman attempted to get the eXile banned from Johnson s Reading List by declaring the eXile was a fascist neo nazi periodical Ekman s evidence for such nazi sympathies was a spoof fashion piece entitled The eXile s Third Reich Uniform of the Week in which a fictional gay fashion designer breathlessly reviewed the 1938 version of the Nazi Field Bishop uniform Eventually Ekman lost his position at the Moscow Times Since then he s occasionally surfaced as a professor of finance at various 3rd rate universities and of course here on Wikipedia The following is an excerpt from the Wikipedia Article on the eXile that prompted Mr Ekman s crusade Peter Ekman Johnson s Russia List and an Unsubtantiated Groping Allegation In November 2000 in Issue 23 of The eXile Matt Taibbi published a press review entitled Peter Ekman Groped Me The article ridiculed Ekman then newly appointed editor of The Moscow Times for his approach to the economic and political development of Russia Taibbi characterized this approach as high handed condescending and arrogant and went on to mock Ekman personally as a pompous hypocrite Ekman has only one idea Russia has a lot to learn from America which he tries endlessly to sell and resell as a varied package of ribald wit and insight The article also ridiculed Ekman for describing himself as a financial educator and described him as having a head seemingly worn bald from improper use As a finishing touch Taibbi recounted an as yet unverified account of sexual advances made by Ekman to an eXile employee made at late at night at the Garazh nightclub in Moscow during a visit from Ekman s mother in law Ekman responded by writing in to Johnson s Russia List to claim that the eXile is fascist and racist that every eXile issue contains unverifiable stories that smear someone s reputation that The eXile is associated with the fascist party of Eduard Limonov The accusations of fascism were discounted by many in part because of the eXile s Jewish roots Ames along with the eXile s publisher deputy editor and several contributors are all Jews and because of the paper s satirical editorial bent It remains unclear as to whether Ekman did in fact make advances toward an eXile employee or who that employee may have been Old Stuff