Wikipedia:Requests for comment/RK2

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Statement of the dispute

This user frequently engages in slander, distortion of issues, distortion of history of and reasons for edits, repeated insertion of non-NPOV material, and time wasting edit wars without rational or agreeable discussion.

• Description:

This user has

1) repeatedly called users anti-Semites or accused them of spreading anti-Semitic viewpoints

2) misrepresented user views on Talk pages and maliciously spread libel about users on the Talk pages of various other users

3) engaged in rapid edit wars without adequate discussion

4) all subsequent discussion has consisted mostly of misrepresentation of other user views and of libel

5) made it difficult for users to focus on other work by maligning them and obliging them to respond

6) continued to emphasize opinionated, inaccurate and non-NPOV material in articles and rejected all differing views

7) repasted the same material in several places in the same article

8) when requested for sources, repeated the non-verifiable material as a source and claimed censorship upon removal of latter material.

• Evidence of disputed behavior (provide diffs and links):

1. Anti-Semitism - please see previous versions written by RK
2. Article History: Commenced libel in remarks for edits, frequent reverts
3. Talk:Anti-Semitism_(archive_13), Talk:Anti-Semitism_(archive_9) (Misrepresentation and slander)
4. User talk:Slrubenstein diff (Spreading libel among other users)
   • User talk:David Gerard diff
   • User talk:Delirium diff
   • User talk:Humus sapiens diff
   • User talk:Guanaco diff

• Applicable policies:

These policies have been violated

1. Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
2. Wikipedia:Cite_sources
3. Wikipedia:How_to_revert_a_page_to_an_earlier_version#Revert_wars_considered_harmful
4. Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks
5. Wikipedia:Avoid_blanket_statements
6. Wikipedia:Check_your_facts

• Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute (provide diffs and links):

1. Talk:Anti-Semitism_(archive_9)

• Users certifying the basis for this dispute (sign with ~~~~):

1. Simonides 02:50, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
2. Guanaco 19:34, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
3. Zero 06:09, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• Other users who endorse this summary (sign with ~~~~):

1. The unsurprised —No-One Jones 06:53, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC). This type of behavior seems to be RK's standard operating procedure—see for example the previous request for comment on his behavior.
2. Viajero 19:41, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
3. Fred Bauder 00:21, Jun 27, 2004 (UTC)
4. Danny 17:58, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC) Personally, I find his incessant complaining that everyone is a Nazi to be a cheapening of the Holocaust and the memory of the victims. That smacks of revisionism more than most of what I have seen on Wikipedia.

Response

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Outside view

This is a summary written by users not directly involved with the dispute but who would like to add an outside view of the dispute.

RK can be reactionary at times, but is usually willing to continue discussion on issues until some sort of resolution can be reached. The best solution to the problems outlined here might be for RK to take some time away from the articles toward which he has a strong emotional or personal attachment, the defense of which seem to be causing him to lash out at times. RK probably means well, but could be having trouble maintaining an objective distance from certain issues.

Users who endorse this summary (sign with ~~~~):

1. Wclark 22:32, 2004 Jul 21 (UTC)

Discussion

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