28 May 2026 · Frontier Publications

The Varmint Who Deleted Me From Wikipedia

Ric Shreves — Miro Advocacy & PR, secret core team, host of Lamont's "20 Questions" — and the Sep 2005 erasure that scrubbed the Lone Mamber from official Joomla history.

Chief sat on this connection for twenty years. Then the receipts lined up. Ric Shreves — fake journalist on Miro's secret core team — was the same machine that got the cowboy deleted from Wikipedia while Miro's PR stayed cited forever. MIND. BLOWN.

Chief's verdict: Shreves was the varmint. Wikipedia edit signature says Shoffman11 (Sep 4, 2005) — but Shreves on Miro Advocacy & PR, hosting Lamont's counter-narrative, cited in Joomla article, Lone Mamber link removed. Journalism cosplay. Core team in the fine print.

Act I — Shreves hosts Miro's official lie

Aug 21, 2005: Ric Shreves published Lamont's "The Mambo Open Source Controversy — 20 Questions With Miro" on ricshreves.net. That article became Wikipedia canon — still cited as Miro's fork response.

Act II — The Lone Mamber gets deleted (Sep 4, 2005)

"somebody debate the Lone Mamber with me if you want."

— Shoffman11, Talk:Joomla Archive 1 — External Links

Chief's account: Shreves was the one who deleted me from Wikipedia. Edit log shows Shoffman11. Machine shows Shreves — Miro Advocacy & PR, Lamont's host, secret core team.

Act III — Wrobertson tried to save the link

"The Lone Mamber blog is a significant part of the ongoing debate... perhaps the most important link to the controversy part of this article."

Dixen re-added Dec 2005. Mar 2006 — "no longer a current event." Erasure won.

Act IV — Sixteen days later, Chief names the varmint

"That purveyor of so-called journalism... Mr. Shreves... this varmit was secretly a core team member."

— Secret Mambo core team exposed!, Sep 20, 2005

Act V — Shreves wrote the BOOOOOK (July 2006)

Ten months after the Wikipedia erasure, Ric Shreves published the authorized textbook:

Mambo: Your visual blueprint for building and maintaining Web sites with the Mambo Open Source CMS — Visual/Wiley, July 2006, ISBN 0470040564, 334 pages. ThriftBooks listing.

Step-by-step screenshots. Mambots. Modules. 220+ keyed techniques. ThriftBooks reviewers (~2007): "This book easily translates to Joomla!" — yeah pardner, we know. Fork was Aug 2005. He wrote the Mambo blueprint while Wikipedia kept his Lamont interview and deleted the Lone Mamber.

Delete the cowboy. Publish the blueprint. REEEEVEEEEENGE receipt unlocked. BAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHA.

The asymmetry

Kept: Shreves/Lamont 20 Questions. Miro counter-narrative. Founders-only brochure.

Deleted: The Lone Mamber. The controversy link. Twenty years of pretending the cowboy never rode.

Shreves' article in. Lone Mamber out. You don't erase a failed campaign. You erase the one that won.

Timeline

Aug 17 — Fork
Aug 21 — Shreves publishes Lamont's 20 Questions
Sep 4 — LM Wikipedia link deleted (Shoffman11)
Sep 20 — LM exposes Shreves as secret Advocacy & PR core
Dec 2005 — Dixen re-adds LM link briefly
Mar 2006 — Erasure wins permanently
Jul 2006 — Shreves publishes Mambo Visual Blueprint (ISBN 0470040564)
May 2026 — LM.com writes it back

Receipts Wall

The varmint had a byline. The cowboy had Wayback. Guess which one's still standin' in 2026. BAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHA.