User:Rogue 9/Sandbox/RfC

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 * (Tony Sidaway | talk | contributions)

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Description
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Tony Sidaway is currently engaged in what seems to be an active crusade against userboxes, and is going about it in a singular manner: He waits until a userbox is nominated for deletion by someone else, then vandalizes it (through page moves as well as more mundane means) so that it appears to violate policy, in a blatant attempt to manipulate the ongoing Template for Deletion process by making the template appear to violate policy where the version originally nominated for deletion did not. This is an obvious attempt to cause people who see the altered version to vote delete based on policies that the template did not violate at the time of nomination.

He will also engage in edit wars with other users when others attempt to restore the template to its as-nominated format and content. This behavior has been exhibited on several template pages, described in the Evidence section. In addition, he will use speedy deletion frivolously on templates that are currently undergoing the TfD process, in clear attempts to circumvent consensus before it can be reached.

''The subject of this RfC is not the substance of the userboxes, but rather Tony Sidaway's edits to them. Tony should have left the userboxes as they were when nominated, in order to let the TfD process proceed unabated.''

Evidence of disputed behavior
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Edits to Template:User freedom:  (Jan 27),  (Jan 27),  (Jan 28),  (Jan 28), during that template's TfD, which took place from January 22 to 31.

Edits to Template:User pacifist3:, (both Jan 31), during that template's TfD, which began on January 31 and seems to have vanished after the template suffered yet another out-of-process speedy deletion.

Exhibited much the same behavior at Template:User allow fairuse, which has since been deleted.

Has stated his position on userboxes to be that "they all go, ultimately," a fairly clear indicator that his edits against userboxes are not taken in good faith, but rather out of his zeal to see them destroyed.

Applicable policies
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 * WP:POINT
 * WP:3RR
 * WP:VAND

Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute
After the first mass deletion, he was questioned on his talk page why he did it. His reply: 'what the community thinks isn't important. what's good for the wikipedia is important.' Later, he repeated the action. 

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