User:Cullen328/Sandbox/HM

At WP:AN/EW, you asked me, "Are you familiar with the definition of forum shopping?"

It's described in general this way: "Raising the same issue repeatedly on different pages or with different wording is confusing and disruptive. It doesn't help to seek out a forum where you get the answer you want, or to play with the wording to try and trick different editors into agreeing with you, since sooner or later someone will notice all of the different threads."

In the current context, I would put forward this hypothetical: Let's say, for the sake of discussion that a group of three to five editors, sharing a strong POV on a controversial topic, takes a dislike to an editor with an opposing POV. Let's also say, for the sake of discussion, that this other editor is a member of several minority groups that have often been harassed and bullied for many hundreds of years in Western civilization. Let's say that some members of this particular group of editors have histories of edit warring, sock puppeteering, outright lying, misrepresentation and Wikistalking in the the service of their cause. Let's say that at least one member of this group posts information that reveals their opponent's real life identity. Let's say that the other editor has pleaded for an interaction ban with at least one member of that group. Let's say that members of that little group post a series of complaints about their opponent at the administrator's noticeboard, the Wikiquette noticeboard and the edit war noticeboard. Let's say that uninvolved editors determine that their complaints are unjustified. Then I think that reasonable editors would be correct in concluding that this entire pattern of conduct is "forum shopping", if not a whole lot worse.

This is my request for you to leave Roscelese alone. Please do so.