Neelix (Wikipedia editor)

Neelix is an American former editor of English Wikipedia and an administrator. In 2015, he had his adminship privileges revoked after he created thousands of pages related to breasts.

Neelix – who named his account after the Star Trek character – joined Wikipedia in around 2006, and received administrator privileges in around 2011. He had over 180,000 edits, and created over 5,000 articles, which placed him as tenth for article creations on Wikipedia.^[1] He had created absurd pages – such as the page "anti-trousers" – for years before being noticed.^[2] In 2013, he created the article for beauty pageant winner Tara Teng; the entry was more than 5,600 words long and contained excessive details about her, with the entry being described as "the story of a beauty queen told by her stalker".^[1]

In 2015, Neelix created approximately 80,000 of redirect pages regarding breasts. Such redirects included:

• "Pumping boobies" and "tittypumpers", as redirects to breast pump;^[2]
• "Titty constructor" and "boobie builder", as redirects to breast reconstruction;^[2]
• "Boob sex" and "titty fucking", as redirects to mammary intercourse,^[2] as well as;
• "A trip down mammary lane", "Frenchfucking", and "titty waist hip measurement".^[2]

Since he had administrator privileges, the redirects were automatically verified.^[1] He was reported by an anonymous Wikipedia user in the evening of November 5. His account was originally thought to had been hacked, as the redirect creations followed an incident in which the account of a different administrator was hacked. Neelix denied this and claimed responsibility. He then denied using a bot, saying he typed fast. After receiving backlash for creating the redirects, he apologized for doing so, and stated "I will not object to the redirects being deleted and I will not attempt to create more redirects in this vein, but I do think them valid".^[1][2]

During the discussion, a fellow administrator defending Neelix stated that the deletion of the redirects would be censorship. Other editors disagreed on the basis that it wasn't about censorship, with a user saying that Wikipedia was not the Urban Dictionary. On November 11, Neelix resigned as admin and retired from Wikipedia. To delete the redirects, the "Neelix X1 criterion" was created. It took until April 2018 before all the redirects were deleted.^[1][2]