[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee Seeking Comment

Sun Jun 19 11:03:18 UTC 2005

Wikipedia editors do not have to meekly wait until those who are  
disrupting Wikipedia to "get bored." The dispute resolution process  
is available to them.

Fred

On Jun 19, 2005, at 4:11 AM, geni wrote:

> On 6/19/05, JAY JG <jayjg at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net>
>>> Besides doing a lot of good editing (by repute, as I have only  
>>> looked  at
>>> his edit wars involving [[common era]] notation) Jguk believes   
>>> that the
>>> notation AD - BC is vastly superior to the common era  notation  
>>> CE - BCE
>>> (which he believes is incomprehensible to our  users). Based on  
>>> that belief
>>> he has changed the notation in a number  of articles, most of  
>>> which he does
>>> not ordinarily edit, and if  reverted, engages in edit wars.
>>>
>>
>> Just to make it clear, for the past 9 months he has been on a  
>> campaign to
>> remove all BCE/CE notation from Wikipedia, and has made over 1,000  
>> article
>> edits solely to support that campaign.
>>
>> Jay.
>>
>
> So? There has been a few people campaining the other ways as well.
> They will probably get bored in the end.
>
> -- 
> geni
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