User:Ashill/HarryAlffa

User:HarryAlffa
This is a draft of a query that I may submit to WP:Wikiquette alerts.

User:HarryAlffa has been involved in an edit conflict at Solar System since 2008 July 30 (first edit diff). His edits are clearly based in good faith, primarily focusing on trying to make the wording of the lead clearer for novice readers. However, a number of other editors (including myself, User:Serendipodous, and User:Ckatz) have voiced opposition to many of his edits. He has explained his reasoning at the Talk:Solar System, but is not terribly respectful of other editors' differing opinions. For example, he has asserted that: "My original solution to a problem only I spotted is easier to maintain as it enumerates the dwarfs once, and I think wiki convention allows my version precedence when it comes to matters of taste." (diff)

Furthermore, what I perceive as his disrespect has extended to borderline insults and otherwise uncivil behavior. He created Category:May contain nuts, and added the Solar System article to the category. He may have been making a legitimate criticism (see the corresponding essay, WP:May contain nuts), but the title seemed to me like it may be calling the page's editors "nuts". Lately, he has accused editors of lying in edit summaries. He has also taken to calling User:Serendipodous "sod" and said that I "show a lack of cognitive ability".

I don't know if these incidents are individually insults or not (and I would surely brush aside any one or two or three of them), but taken together, it makes Harry an extremely difficult editor to work with, compounding his disregard for consensus.

Am I being hypersensitive to see a pattern of insults in HarryAlffa's behavior? Any suggestions on how to best move forward with constructive, respectful collaboration would be very much appreciated.