[WikiEN-l] Reithy

Fri Nov 5 21:52:39 UTC 2004

Sadly, Rhobite is, for the most part, right about Reithy; though I agree
with Jimbo that threatening to write to a record label regarding album
art hardly rises to the level of a "legal threat."

Reithy joined us three weeks ago and has made over 500 edits.

The edits have been to roughly a dozen articles, most of them related to
[[United States Libertarian Party]], to talk pages of these articles and
those who oppose his edits, and to RFC/RFA related pages where he has
answered (after a fashion) various complaints about his behavior.

There really is no reason we should have to go through the slow,
deliberate [[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution]] process with someone who
has never been a good-faith contributor to the project.  The safeguards
present therein are intended to provide a means of cooling off for
Wikipedians who have contributed in the past and are likely to do so in
the future.

The present arbitration framework is serving to do nothing but give this
joker another soapbox.  Rhobite is being subject to undue scrutiny as a
result of his conflict with Reithy, and I imagine that the AC will, in
an effort to be evenhanded and "fair" find a bone to pick with one or
another of his comments or edit summaries.

If Reithy is banned, as seems likely to occur at some point, I imagine
he'll return with an army of sockpuppets, and those admins who seek out
fairness to accused sockpuppets will revert any attempts to block them.

This isn't some obscure corner of the 'pedia, folks, like [[Iridology]]
or [[Instructional capital]].

This is about the article on one of the largest minor political parties
in U.S. politics, on the 300th largest web site in the world.

Is it time to do something about bad-faith users yet?

UninvitedCompany