User:Hans Adler/rfc

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This page is intended to become the draft of an RfC on $USER, an editor that I do not want to mention here. However, depending on further developments, it may also morph into something else, such as a content RfC or documentation for an Arbcom.

I invite every editor who finds this page and understands what it is about to collaborate here in the usual way. But please do not name the editor in question: Some of the draft statements may not be accurate. In that case, "$USER is a convicted criminal", while still bad enough, is at least better than the same sentence with "$USER" expanded to its intended meaning. Let's use this page for organising the material collaboratively, and the talk page for discussing it.

Given that $USER was involved in an Arbcom case in 2007, it seems reasonable to use 1 January 2008 as a cut-off date for behavioural problems, apart from citing the Arbcom case as far as appropriate.

Hans

$USER's most relevant talk page archives:
 * December 2007 – June 2008
 * June 2008 – December 2008
 * December 2008 – June 2009
 * May 2009 – January 2010
 * January 2010 – present

General background
$USER joined Wikipedia in December 2005 and has made more than 25,000 edits since then. Judging from raw editing statistics, $USER maintains a healthy mixture of edits in the various name spaces. He has a very active user talk page. His next most frequently edited pages fall almost exclusively into the area of alternative medicine and criticism of such. In April 2009 he changed his user name.

Pseudoscience (2006)
This case is mostly unreleated to $USER, but is a relevant part of the background. (He does have a brief appearance on the Evidence page.) Here is the case description by the Wikipedia Signpost:

Barrett v. Rosenthal (2007)
In 2007, $USER was involved in an Arbcom case that was summarized by the Wikipedia Signpost as follows:

The findings include:

He was cautioned:

(The case was amended in early 2009. The amendment only concerned the correction of a misleading heading and did not affect the text as reproduced above. )

Martinphi – ScienceApologist (2007)
This case is mostly unrelated to $USER, although Martinphi mentions him in two places. Case description by the Wikipedia Signpost:

John Gohde 2 (2008)
In this case $USER again does not play a significant role, except: From the point of view of John Gohde himself it was primarily $USER who he was in conflict with. The Wikipedia Signpost described the case as follows:

Cold fusion (2008)
Here $USER commented on the workshop page. The Wikipedia Signpost described the case as follows:

Fringe science (2009)
In 2009, $USER was active on the workshop page of an Arbcom case that was summarized by the Wikipedia Signpost as follows:

Example (extracted from a thread):

Upon being reminded of his own earlier Arbcom case:

$User on pseudo-skepticism. 

Administrators' noticeboard

 * $USER connects a new user with a vanished realname user, incorrectly.
 * Fyslee vs. Hans Adler on homeopathy talk page
 * Sense About Science banner; Ramaanand overreaction

Random ideas

 * Interpretation of pseudoscience Arbcom case and of Quackwatch reliability amendment: $USER tends to argue in a black/white fashion. If something is not beyond the bright line drawn by Arbcom, then it is required.
 * We should focus on recent behaviour, but also make it clear that it reaches far back and has been occurring continuously (or not).
 * Organise the material in several complexes (some by time, some by behavioural pattern, some by subject?), each including the attempts at resolution.
 * Persistent denial that there is a legitimate dispute. Persistent claims that everything has already been settled in $USER's preferred way.
 * Battlefield mentality
 * Tendentious editing
 * Violations of WP:UNDUE
 * Sockpuppet paranoia