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[edit] Statement of the dispute

WikiUser has persistently and willfully engaged in a pattern of personal attacks and other deliberately disruptive behavior, including repeated reversions of articles, refusal to abide by Wikipedia policies and Wikiquette, and making strongly POV edits. He consistently refuses to compromise and refuses to enter into civilized dialogue with other editors with whom he disagrees. He also constantly accuses others of making personal attacks, including that they are "Nazis", "racists", "stalkers" and "fascists" and are guilty of "discrimination" against him. He spends most of his time complaining about his supposed wrongful treatment or attacking editors in often crude personal terms. He has repeatedly made legal threats against users and the "Wikipedia Foundation" (sic) and has made several frivolous attempts to invoke mediation and arbitration procedures against users who have questioned his conduct. He has been temporarily banned on several occasions and his conduct criticised by many editors and administrators, including Jimbo himself, but his conduct does not appear to have been improved in the process.

[edit] Description

WikiUser first appeared on Wikipedia on 18 June 2004 to make a number of contentious edits on England. His first edits set the pattern for what was to follow - the introduction of unsupported, highly contentious POV statements without debate, repeated reversions of the article and the posting of personal attacks on the related Talk page. This included claims that other editors were Nazis and that he was being discriminated against, viz.:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEAR THIS SCUM OF WIKIPEDIA I HAVE A RIGHT TO USE THIS SITE IN MY OWN CUNRY AND TO BE A BRITISH JEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUI ARE BREAKING THE DATA PROTECTION ACT AND THE RACE RELATIONS ACT BY USING TGHE TRASH WIKIPEDIA SITE TO RACIALL Y HARRASS ME ON THE GROUNDS THAT I DON@@T HAVE THE RIGHT TO BR BRITISH AND JEWISH!!!!!!!!!!!! GOT ITT ME FINE WKIK TEENY GODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After being reverted by a number of editors, including myself, he declared his intention of going to arbitration within 4 days of his acquiring a Wikipedia account (is this a record?). He eventually posted a frivolous request for arbitration against User:Fred Bauder on 4 August 2004, asking that Fred and User:Guanaco be banned. He also made legal threats to sue "The Wikipedia and any ISP or server owner that carries it" (sic). The request was dismissed but as the record will show, he has continued to abuse Wikipedia procedures to start frivolous proceedings against other users.

During a period which he largely spent campaigning for and (mostly) against candidates in the Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2004, he came into conflict with User:Neutrality, who banned him for 24 hours for "editing in bad faith, personal attacks". In response, WikiUser posted a bizarre rant to the WikiEN-l mailing list, asking "to have the viscious abuser "Neutrality" booted off The Wikipedia permanently; for mis-using his position, and the $50,000 donated, and therefore (officially acting as The Wikipedia Foundation's agent) breaking a Federal law due to his corruptly mis-using these funds." [1] Needless to say, this got short shrift from other contributors ("Can someone please block this delusional nutjob from posting to WikiEN-l?").

Jimbo was also not impressed, commenting that a "user [who] has a long history of calling people Nazi, and accusing people of being "racist against the English" for the flimsiest of reasons and so on" was "taking advantage of our boundless good will." In response, WikiUser posted a personal attack to Jimbo's user talk page, accusing him of corruptly misusing "the $50,000 recently donated".

At the end of 2004, WikiUser took a step forward - creating new articles for the first time - but immediately took two steps back, attacking editors for editing and "sabotaging" "his" articles. Ironically, although he frequently attacks people for "putting in spelling and grammar mistakes", very often people are correcting WikiUser's own errors. After he broke the 3RR in two separate instances, he was asked by User:Violetriga, and myself, User:ChrisO, to follow the rules and not break the 3RR. We both chose not to ban him even though we had an argument for doing so, prefering to give him a warning. In response, he posted rants to the talk pages of Violetriga and myself. WikiUser also posted a rant to the talk page of User:Evil Monkey, who pointed out that his edits did not comply with the Wikipedia manual of style and apparently offended WikiUser by editing one of "his" articles. In each case, he has accused editors of "TARGETTING ME FOR ABUSE" and threatening them with pursuing "all the complaint actions possible on the wikipedia against yer".

WikiUser has since posted a frivolous request for mediation against Violetriga, without going through a request for comment as required by the dispute procedure, and despite being advised that his complaint of "discrimination" is not appropriate for mediation. There is simply no factual dispute here: WikiUser is, in effect, complaining that an administrator has asked him to abide by the 3RR.

WikiUser appears to believe that he is being "stalked" by other editors, when in fact this is a case of editors correcting his articles and asking him to desist from his disruptive behaviour. He also claims that he is suffering "discrimination" on the grounds that he is English/Jewish/disabled (delete as applicable). He posts crude personal abuse against other editors, including that they are "Nazis", "racists", "stalkers", "vandles" (sic) and "fascists", refuses to post any corroboration of these assertions and refuses to retract them when challenged. He also appears to believe that his status as an English/Jewish/disabled person means that he is free to disregard extant Wikipedia policies to which his attention has repeatedly been drawn, as listed in "Applicable policies" below. He claims that he is treated differently from everyone else, but has offered no explanation of why he should be given an exemption from policies that everyone else is obliged to follow.

WikiUser has also edited anonymously from the IP address 217.204.65.210. Although he always signs his comments when posting under his own name and takes some trouble to do so (e.g. going back to add his signature when he forgets to do so), he has never signed a single comment posted anonymously. This suggests that he is using the anonymous IP address as a sock puppet account, though he has not denied that he was behind its usage.

In summary, WikiUser is a continually disruptive user who is consistently unwilling to abide by the basic rules of civility or Wikipedia policy. Jimbo referred to the Wikipedia community's "boundless good will" in tolerating WikiUser's conduct for this surprisingly long time, but there comes a point - in my opinion, now - when we have to show that good will towards abusive users does indeed have a limit.

[edit] Evidence of disputed behavior

[edit] Uncategorized personal attacks

  • WikiUser consistently demonstrates a hypersensitive personal hostility towards anyone who edits his articles in ways that he doesn't like, or asks him to abide by policies or style standards. See e.g. [2]. This is one of many, many examples from his edit history. He appears to be incapable of interacting with other users without assuming that they are being hostile towards him.

[edit] Uncategorized false accusations against other users

  • False accusations that Wikipedia is "in the control of corrupt people who use it to internet stalk and racially hassle users that are English and Jewish" [8]
  • False accusations that other users, including User:Evil Monkey, User:MykReeve and User:ChrisO are guilty of "vandalism" and "taking all my articles and sabotaging them by putting in spelling and grammar mistakes" (in this instance, fixing WikiUser's own mistakes and non-conformance with established style): [9], [10], [11]
  • False accusations that other users are personally abusing WikiUser (this appears to be his stock response to requests and polite criticism): [12], [13] and passim
  • False accusations that User:Violetriga is misusing her administrator status in asking WikiUser to abide by policy and standards: [14]
  • False accusations of corrupt misuse of Wikimedia donations (made against Jimbo, of all people, as well as User:Neutrality): [15], [16]
  • False accusations of stalking (see edit summary): [17]
  • False accusations that User:Tagishsimon and User:Violetriga have tried to block him from editing his user talk page (WikiUser apparently doesn't understand why edit conflicts happen): [18], [19]
  • Legal threats: [25]

[edit] Violation of three-revert rule

[edit] Possible sockpuppetry

  • Use of IP address 217.204.65.210 to make hostile and abusive anonymous posts & edits. All comments are unsigned (clearly deliberate, as WikiUser is careful to sign whenever he is logged in). [30] [31] (edit summary)

[edit] Frivolous abuse of Wikipedia procedures

  • Frivolous request for arbitration after only 12 days' editing ("Please don't waste my time with nonsense about earlier steps") and despite being told beforehand that it was inappropriate ([32]) - this was quickly rejected: [33]
  • Frivolous request for mediation after being asked to follow the 3RR: [34]

[edit] POV editing

  • Deletion of supposed "racist" listing of the UK's four nations: [35]
  • Repeated deletion of supposedly "racist" material from England: [36] (one of numerous examples)
  • Various UK-related articles - repeated deletion without discussion of the term "nations" in reference to the UK's constituent elements, even where the article titles refer to "nations" - e.g. [38], [39]

[edit] Applicable policies

  1. Wikipedia:Civility
  2. Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
  3. Wikipedia:No legal threats
  4. Wikipedia:No personal attacks
  5. Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot
  6. Wikipedia:Three revert rule
  7. Wikipedia:Wikiquette

[edit] Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute

A number of different editors have attempted to resolve disputes with WikiUser on article and personal talk pages. These have all, without exceptions, ended in failure as WikiUser takes a consistently hostile and defensive attitude towards even the mildest criticism and requests to abide by the rules. He has responded to administrators' warnings in an even more hostile vein. On more than one occasion, he has simply deleted other users' comments and requests rather than answer them. Very often, WikiUser attempts to sidestep any dispute resolution by making strawman accusations of "discrimination" and bizarre allegations that people are claiming that he has "no right to edit" (actually, he doesn't, it's a privilege not a right - but it's not one that people have tried to take away from him yet). Examples:

  • 19:04, 30 Jan 2005 - Request to conform to style guidelines is rejected: [40]
  • 18:14, 28 Jan 2005 - Request to discuss changes to articles receives a threat to invoke mediation for "claiming I have no right to edit the pages and you do": [41]
  • 15:11, 26 Jan 2005 - Request to abide by MOS guidelines and the 3RR produces angry rants: [42]
  • 13:52, 26 Jan 2005 - Reminder that WikiUser doesn't own articles produces a threat to pursue "all the complaint actions possible on the wikipedia against yer": [43]
  • 13:48, 26 Jan 2005 - Request to "show me where I have made spelling and grammar mistakes" in a number of articles produces accusations of "targetted abuse and trashing articles": [44]
  • 20:17, 6 Aug 2004 - Instruction to desist from posting legal threats is replied to with "Try banning the letters I'll send to sue ythew nazois who OWN wikipedia, |YOU filthy NMazi!!!!!!!!!!Q" [45]
  • 19:14, 5 Aug 2004 - Request to abide by Wikipedia: Wikiquette and Wikipedia:Civility is deleted: "Deleted latest hassle by nazi stalkers"

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