From: Ryan Norton <wxprojects(a)comcast.net> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] A cry to save the Asperger's Syndrome page Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:02:04 -0700 Hi, This was an otherwise great article that as of late (the past 3 days) has seen excessive edit warring and POV entries injected into it. Now it has been (predictably) set up for removal as a featured article. All of this is due to a single user, Tern, who continually injects this passage "These things illustrate how AS appears to correlate with child authorship, hence a number of aspie communities have a concerned awareness of the terrible injustice an aspie child can suffer when the [http://www.phad-fife.org.uk/recognition.html chance to achieve child authorship] is unfairly wrecked by high-handed [[school]] pressures." and links to a very controversial site which nearly everyone else describes as a "hate site", which other editors are editing anonymously to avoid being listed on. The link above in question is merely the rantings of a 14-year-old person with Asperger's Syndrome who could not get a scifi book published (and some other editors also claim that Tern is the person referenced there)- so initially users (before I came in the debate) just reverted the passage and noted on the talk page that it needed to be reworded to be less POV and needed a better reference. However, as evidenced by the history page http://en.wikipedia.org/w/ index.php?title=Asperger%27s_syndrome&curid=37556&action=history Tern continued to revert back to his version many, many times against MANY other editors who reached their 3 revert limit VERY quickly (reverts often happen within 10 minutes!). So, out of desperation the other users attempted to reword the passage in order to be less pov and accurate, including myself - however, this was not enough and Tern continued to revert back to his version. Some of his edit summaries have been very hurtful and involve personal attacks, such as "sysops look how this rv of haters' vandalism gives new consensual edits to both items" "the last attack made here, the public can see is blatant personally malicious bullying against wikpedia's rules and illegal in intending to suppress prevention of child cruelty" "creatively revert the llast absurdity, cos it's obviously just an irresponsible personal insult and not verified" Tern has also accused other editors of "hurting children" on the talk page. Tern has violated 3RR at least 3 times, and depending on how you want to do the math many more times http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/ 3RR#User:Tern I'm just a participant in the war and have reached my 3RR limit twice already, and I've filed the 3RR against Tern. I WANT to work with the user, but the user needs to calm down and discuss with more sense about what he wants to do with the page, not just revert other good faith editors. I've tried notifying two admins without response on the issue also - and one admin - Zscout370 - simply voted to remove the article from FA status and not get in the debate with the user. I'm the one who brought the Autism article to its Featured Article status and used this article as a reference more or less on how to do it, so its really a pity to see this happen - I'd hate to see it lose its status because of a war with one user. Thanks, RN _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l