People have been banned before for breaking rules as a way of demonstrating
that they need to be changed rather than discussing change directly. Most
recently VeryVerily.
As to proceeding, if the charge is true, please get together the material
that would demonstrate that to laypeople and follow the dispute resolution
procedure (although it might be accepted, with strong proof, as is, for
arbitration).
Fred
From: Cool Hand Luke
<failure.to.communicate(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Cool Hand Luke <failure.to.communicate(a)gmail.com>om>, English Wikipedia
<wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 03:20:46 -0700
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Complicity in hoaxing - how to proceed?
That's very peculiar because ExplorerCDT encourages deleting things he
sees as insignificant, to the point of encouraging "statement VfDs"
(ie Jean-Luc Picard, nominated by another user at his suggestion).
He's also made and many, many deletion replies in VfDs like
[[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Anya Schiffrin]]. Yet this anticruft
crusader recently nominated [[Festivus]] for FAC. All of this is
completely baffling to me.
But we can't ban someone for making "bad votes", even if they _are_
misleading editors, right?
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:31:09 -0000, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
The current listing at VfD of [[Cayley-Newbirth
operation matrix]] has
flushed out User:ExplorerCDT, who at the very least knew this was a hoax
page, and posted comments at VfD designed to obfuscate and mislead.
User:ExplorerCDT is apparently otherwise in good standing as a Wikipedian.
How to proceed in such a case?
Context is that there have been a number of attempts to place hoax pages in
mathematics in the English Wikipedia. This example is evidently written with
at least a well-informed graduate student knowledge (as with the recent
vandalism attack by [[User:Slim Jim]], with plausibe disinformative
tweaking). The page was been around for eight months, since it has the
look-and-feel of a piece of obscure, dull abstract mathematics quite
accurately.
For myself I would like to see User:ExplorerCDT banned, for bad faith
editing.
Charles
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