[WikiEN-l] Adam [name omitted for privacy reasons] (a.k.a. Lir)

Wed Jan 14 13:07:03 UTC 2004

Adam [name omitted for privacy reasons] (user:Lir) is once again listed on the Conflicts between
users page (in addition to be listed under some eight pages currently or
recently protected on Protected pages). 

For those of you who comparative newcomers to the list, since his joining
Wikipedia (Fall 2002) Adam has been the source of an endless amount of
grief, as can be seen by perusing the mailing list archives:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l. He was banned in November
2002, and resurfaced under various accounts (Vera Cruz, Susan Mason,
Dietary Fiber, Pizza Puzzle). The same problems Adam is causing now were
being debated ad nauseum by Orotolan88 and others already a year ago this
month. 

After a protracted negotiation with Jimbo, Adam was readmitted to the
community in September (see
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-September/006362.html). 
By all appearances, Adam was given the benefit of the doubt and allowed to
start over with a clean slate. Despite the very generous reprieve, Adam
has fallen back into his old habits.

No one denies that Adam is capable of being a useful contributor, but it
appears he is constitutionally incapable of resisting the temptation to
create mischief and get involved in silly edit-wars. If other users
disagree with his contributions, Adam appears unwilling or incapable of
engaging in rational dialog on the Talk pages to resolve the issues. I
expended considerable energy (as did 172) explaining on the Talk page why
a paragraph Adam wanted to add to the introduction of [[New Imperialism]]
was unsuitable (other users also questioned its utility). For all my
efforts, I was rewarded with a sneer: If you don't like it, tough. That
page is now *again* protected.

In the final reckoning, Adam does more harm than good to Wikipedia and
time devoted to dealing with him is time taken away from more constructive
activities. Isn't it time for Adam to be banned *yet again*?

V.