I suspect The Recycling Troll is a troll -- that is, a person who
craves attention and who finds it entertaining to annoy and provoke
others. His username looks like an announcement that he is, the first
step towand getting attention, and there is no reason not to believe
him. A non-troll is unlikely to choose that as a username.
That said, "being a troll" is not a violation of our policies. Our
policies are formulated in terms of behaviours, and we shouldn't be
banning people who comply with the policies and norms of the project
because we don't like the motivation behind their behaviour. If a
troll finds away to get attention and to be provocative without
violating our policies, then we should reconsider our policies. We
shouldn't be banning people simply because they are thought to be
trolls.
Concerning, RT's behaviours in this instance, what is wrong with them.
In fact, members of Wikipedia are routinely monitored by
administrators and other members. There is nothing wrong with it.
If A is working on an article and notices that B's edits are
questionable (by A's lights), it seems fine with me if A checks other
articles that B has worked on, or is working on, to see if he is
propagating his supposed errors into other articles. I don't see
anything wrong with that, although no doubt B might find it quite
annoying to have someone following him around. As long as A's edits
are within policy, I don't see that there is any Wikipedia policy that
is being violated. Indeed, if B is indeed a "POV-warrior", then A's
behaviour might well be hailed as a service to the community. Who
decides who can monitor whom? Are administrators immune from being
monitored?
Presuming that RT is a troll, he has noticed that RickK is a bit
excitable, and that he doesn't have the full support of all other
administrators, and he has decided to get attention by targetting him.
He is doing it in a way that is entirely within policy. The
solution is not to make up rules in order to ban him, or to allow him
to provoke a reaction from the administrators that will bring
discredit upon them rather than him.
The solution, as with all trolls is "Do not feed the trolls". In
other words, ignore him. An administrator, above all, must be able to
do this, because trolls will try to provoke administrators as a
favorite target, knowing that provoking an over-reaction from an
administrator is the best way to cause dissension and get attention.
So, I repeat: ignore him. If he can't get a reaction by being
annoying within the the rules of the site, he will either get bored or
he will be compelled to break an actual policy of the project, and
then he can be blocked without doing violence to the principles
underpinning the project.