User:Dicklyon/Recognizability poll

Evidence presented by Dicklyon
Late rebuttal of Born2cycle's late evidence

Born2cycle caused a big problem, but blames others
Edit wars on policy pages should never happen, and I am not proud to have been involved in one. But policy should also not be changed in one's favor during an ongoing argument, which is what B2C did here to start the mess -- with a mistaken reference to "original meaning" (see the actual history at User:Dicklyon/Whither Recognizability?).

Normally, if a policy change is objected to, especially under such circumstances, the changer will back off; but B2C refused to do so, and with support from Kotniski (who orignally wrote the phrase in question) and from JCScaliger (sock of Pmanderson who has a long-standing dislike of several of us involved), repeatedly re-changed policy to favor his position several more times that day and later: claiming "no substantive objection" already,  Kotniski: "well established and essential", etc.

Those of us opposed to such behavior reverted him an equal number of times, while asking and trying to get a discussion going about it: Tony1, me, Noetica.

Born2cycle compounds problems by being dismissive of the positions of others
On that very same first day, B2C started to "hat" or "hide" as "non-substantive" the reasons that Tony and I had given for our objection. And after I complained, he hatted even more. I noted that "it takes balls" to do as he does, but he continued to defend the practice of hiding our comments.

Every attempt at discussion was being thwarted by B2C and JCScaliger (not even allowing tags to point to the attempts at discussion). I opened an RFC, but B2C immediately hijacked it and turned it into a vote on two wordings instead of a discussion, and then stacked it with votes imputed from others (including the signatures of others, as if they had answered the RFC). After reasoning with B2C became clearly impossible, Noetica abandoned the RFC.

B2C's idea that the opinions of others can be simply discounted as "non-substantive" was something I had seen from B2C in my first encounter with him, where he did a non-admin close of a very divided Requested Move involving en-dash and MOS, by simply dismissing the points that he didn't agree with (with closing comments "mostly hokum" and "no reason for Wikipedia to sweat over it" and "no consensus to follow the ndash guidance", which he used to conclude that there was a consensus to move!). I prevailed in my revert there, but he keeps after me and the others involved.

B2C dominated the "discussion", with 56 talk edits in the first two days, more than me, Tony1, and Noetica combined when we were very actively posting. The same over-dominance is found if measured for the month of Dec. or Jan., or the year of 2011.

Born2cycle relies on his claim of consensus when there is none
In his evidence, he claims "All editors that made substantive comments favored Kotniski version." That just dismisses all the other expressions there as non-substative. He repeatedly appealed to admins to see his consensus (like in this mega wall-of-text), but none did, since I, Noetica, Tony1, Kwamikagami, Mike Cline, Ohconfucius, DGG, Ohms law, Fuhghettaboutit, Milkunderwood, Blueboard, and others had spoken out against what he was trying to do with precipitously changed and confusing language during a fight.

In the end, B2C rejects the apparent consensus about how the wording he added, supported by others, is to be interpreted. I attempted, via my poll Wikipedia talk:Article titles, and via another talk section Wikipedia talk:Article titles, to find out if anybody at all would support the interpretation that he asserts in his victory speech. Nobody can be found to support him, yet he claims there, with respect to that statement representing his interpretation, that...

Recent post-unlock discussion at Wikipedia talk:Article titles shows there is still considerable desire to figure out why (or whether) we want the language that B2C has added. It's not just a few of us.

Born2cycle teamed up with JCScaliger, sock of banned user Pmanderson, to further exacerbate the problem
Kotniski had accepted that it was "under discussion", but on Christmas, B2C claimed consensus to put it back, and Noetica took it back out with a sensible edit summary, which Kotniski called "silly" when he put it back again. Noetica restrained himself from further reverting, but added an underdiscussion tag, which sock JCScaliger removed and objected to. B2C also removed discussion tags.

On 30 Dec. Noetica restored the longstanding version, which seemed OK from the discussion to that point. B2C reverted and threatened him; after another cycle of that, uninvolved admin Kwamikagami came in and restored the pre-dispute version, and Kotniski followed by putting in a discussion tag. For 12 days things were stable, but then Kotniski put the change in again. Noetica reverted for obvious reasons. Next it was JCScaliger who put back the change, followed by Noetica, Born2cycle, Noetica, where the page got locked by Kwamikagami. 10 days later, JCScaliger put back "Greg's wording" and more in a new section, followed by Noetica, JCScaliger, Kwamikagami, Greg L reversals, followed by more B2C change reverted by Ohconfucius, followed by more Noetica, JCScaliger, B2C, Noetica, B2C, PBS, Dicklyon reversals and another lock by Kwamikagami, followed by protection being taken over by Elen per B2C's request since Kwami seemed somewhat involved.

Edit counts on Wikipedia_talk:Article_titles during the dispute show that B2C completely dominated the discussion, until Greg L came in to support him. I was his main opponent there, but he prefers to think of me as teamed up with Noetica and Tony1, from when we all encountered each other in the en-dash fiasco, I presume, which is also what got Pmanderson committed to harassing us, even with his sockpuppet JCScaliger.

Born2cycle's pattern of disruption continues
See previous AN/I complaints about B2C:


 * this one during the current dispute: Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive230, where he said he would try to act better after driving GTBacchus away.
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive730 (need to unhide it to read)
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive643
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive516
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive541
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive646
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive658
 * Administrators' noticeboard/Archive227
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive543
 * Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive112
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive640;
 * and an RFC/U Requests for comment/Born2cycle for "a pattern of disruptive editing, specifically wikilawyering and tendentious editing"

and by B2C, who says: "I favor sanctioning anyone who files a frivolous ANI":


 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive638 – resolved as "frivolous complaint"
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive612 – closed as "Has been discussed sufficiently, both here and elsewhere"
 * Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive176 – about the edit war that he started and tag-teamed with Kotniski and JCScaliger
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive667
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive662
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive716 – close as "nothing here"
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive663
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive666 (where SarekOfVulcan probably regrets having struck out a good idea) (and where B2C quotes and cites non-admin RM close rules that he later claimed to be unfamiliar with)
 * Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive670 – "Please use normal avenues of dispute resolution rather than creating drama."