User:GoRight/Arbitration/Abd-William M. Connolley/Evidence

Evidence presented by GoRight
As stated in the request for arbitration, I do not intend to take a stand either way as to whether User:William M. Connolley's actions were appropriate, or not. I prefer to simply provide a raw chronology of relevant events with diffs and to defer to the arbiter's judgment on whether this evidence suggests an abuse of administrative privileges, or not.

A Basic Chronology of Relevant Events
The following table provides a basic chronology of events which, in my subjective opinion, are relevant to this case. They have been collapsed to conserve screen space in a way that also leaves the information easily accessible.

From my personal perspective the following events are relevant to a proper weighing of the charges being made in this case:

Prior Interactions Among Participating Parties
NOTE: ''This section is currently incomplete. I intend to provide further evidence. When my editing is complete I will remove this notice.''

Since the topic of there being a "virtual cabal" has been raised and to demonstrate any prior history between relevant participants in this case, I provide the following diffs for your consideration:

Raul vs. Scibaby
Raul appears to have become an unwitting tool of Scibaby. He allows his ego to override good judgment and thus allows himself to be manipulated into wreaking havoc on this project, all in the name of stamping out Scibaby. The sections below highlight some of the impacts of Raul's myopic pursuit of of this single puppet master.

Full Protection of Global Warming Pages
As a "protective" measure Raul fully protected at least 10 global warming related pages. See and. Fully protecting highly edited pages prevents anyone other than Administrators from making improvements and is clearly detrimental to the project. As Oren0 noted in the first link, "In response to the following two user accounts which are allegedly two more sockpuppets (here and here, whose edits aren't even disruptive), User:Raul654 took the step of fully protecting all pages global warming. He intends for this full protection to last 'until we know he's lost interest,' which seems to indicate an indefinite duration."  Taking such a huge step without any community discussion what so ever demonstrates a clear lack of sound judgment on Raul's part, at least where Scibaby is involved.

Scibaby IP Range Blocks
A community discussion of this issue can be found at.

As an example of the damage to the project that Raul is causing in his single-minded pursuit of Scibaby, consider the following list of IP range blocks from Raul's block log. Note that this table only includes the IP range blocks, these are not ALL of the Scibaby related blocks. You can decide for yourself if this is going to disrupt other editors and administrators, or not.

Edit war leading up to Scibaby's indefinite block.
The following table provides the detailed diffs of the edit warring that preceded User:William M. Connolley's indefinite block of Scibaby.

Note that this is a very common scenario to play out on global warming pages. Note also the familiar set of names which commonly appear in such discussions (bold indicates the names that also appear in Abd's list of Cabal members and their associates. Finally note that User:Raymond arritt = User:Short Brigade Harvester Boris.

Raul's personal grudges and the disruption they create
For easy reference, here is the opening statement from WP:NOTBATTLEGROUND:
 * "Wikipedia is not a place to hold grudges, import personal conflicts, or nurture hatred or fear. Making personal battles out of Wikipedia discussions goes directly against our policies and goals."

Canvassing to disrupt these proceedings
See edits by Raul here and here. The ensuing discussion occurs here. To WMC's credit, he declines to participate in Raul's plan.

Note that Raul may be planning further disruption at ArbCom if his efforts to pursue of me in this case (see here, here, here, and to a lesser extent here) are unsuccessful. See this which states "I think [GoRight]'s headed for arbitration regardless of the outcome of the Abd case."

I assert that Raul is disrupting these proceedings, at the very least, by keeping me tied up playing whack-a-mole with him rather than spending my time gathering the raw evidence that I want to which actually is pertinent to the case at hand.

Evidence of needless on-going community disruption
A brief history of his disruption in the pursuit of myself can be found here. Raul's latest attempts to have me banned or sanctioned can be found here and here.

I do not claim to have a spotless record, nor do I claim to be a model editor, but it would be impossible to confront the "Cabal", as Abd calls them, without having some mud thrown at you and having some of that mud stick. However, time and again Raul's attempts have been rebuffed by the community at large leading, no doubt, to an increasing bruised ego and desire to pursue me. His efforts have become increasingly desperate and without substance owing primarily to the simple fact that I actually AM improving my editing behavior over time, based on community feedback, to try and avoid the same pitfalls I had in the past.

Raul's behavior constitutes clear WP:HARASSMENT which is unbecoming of such a highly placed user. This harassment is bad enough but to disrupt the community in an attempt to silence me simply because he disagrees with my personal POV seems highly inappropriate and he should be sanctioned accordingly. His harassment of myself (and others?) should not be allowed to continue. I trust that the Arbiters will take note of this and render an appropriate judgment, or not, as they see fit.