Iryna Harpy
Iryna Harpy
Iryna Harpy is a retired tutor and Wikipedian who claims to be a descendant of Zaporozhian Cossacks and is currently residing in Australia.
[3]Harpy has been accused on Reddit of editing Russian related Wikipedia articles to give them a non-neutral, anti-Russian bias .
[3] [0]She has also been thought to be part of a cabal, which is led by the Wikipedian Volunteer Marek (also known as Radek Szulga) that have been pushing their biased point of view since 2004.
Harpy has also been accused of bullying, editing in bad faith [1]and gaming the system of Wikipedia.
[2] Wikispooks has compiled a table below grading the level of gaming of users within the cabal, where "Level" is a 1 to 5 score where 1=slight/subtle and 5=outright/blatant.
Harpy was awarded a Level 4 out of 5:
| Account | Level | |
|---|---|---|
| Volunteer Marek (Radek Szulga) | Russia, Ukraine | 5 |
| Sayerslle | Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Bellingcat (blocked for 2mths in Feb 2015) | 4 |
| Iryna Harpy | Russia, Ukraine | 4 |
| Bdell555 | Ukraine, Fracking | 4 |
| Kudzu1 | Russia, Ukraine, Syria | 4 |
| Geogene | Russia, Ukraine | 3 |
| Stickee | Russia, Ukraine | 3 |
| Jtydog | Glyphosate | 3 |
| Supreme Deliciousness | Syria | 3 |
| My Very Best Wishes | Russia, Ukraine | 2 |
| Martinevans123 | MH17 | 1 [2] |
The list of allegedly anti-Russian articles biased by Harpy's cabal includes:
Ukraine
2014 Ukrainian revolution
Euromaidan
Timeline of the Euromaidan
1 December 2013 Euromaidan riots
11 December 2013 Euromaidan assault
2014 Euromaidan regional state administration occupations
International reactions to the Euromaidan § Solidarity demonstrations and protests (later deleted)
International reactions to the Euromaidan
Domestic responses to the Euromaidan
Anti-Maidan
List of people killed during Euromaidan (repeatedly nominated for deletion, unsuccessfully)
2014 Crimean crisis (merged into "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation")
International reactions to the 2014 Crimean crisis
International reactions to the 2014 Crimean crisis
2014 Ukrainian Regional State Administration occupations (merged into below)
2014 Euromaidan regional state administration occupations
2014 Odessa clashes
Timeline of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
List of individuals sanctioned during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine (later renamed "List of individuals sanctioned during the Ukrainian crisis")
Donetsk insurgency (later deleted)
Donetsk People's Republic
Siege of Sloviansk
Kramatorsk standoff
Mariupol standoff (later renamed "Battle of Mariupol (May–June 2014)")
Donetsk status referendum, 2014
Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
Svoboda (political party)
Ukrainian presidential election, 2010
Timeline of the war in Donbass (later chopped into eight different articles; all exploded in length)
Denial of the Holodomor
Plus related biographies and other materials. [0]