User:Ryan Postlethwaite/Arb

ChildofMidnight
Initiated by   Ryan Postlethwaite See the mess I've created or let's have banter at 20:11, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Involved parties

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 * Confirmation that all parties are aware of the request


 * Diff. 1
 * Diff. 2


 * Confirmation that other steps in dispute resolution have been tried
 * Requests for arbitration/Obama articles
 * Requests for comment/ChildofMidnight

Statement by Ryan Postlethwaite
I wish to bring to the attention of the Arbitration Committee the conduct of as I believe we have issues which need the involvement of the committee. ChildofMidnight injects himself into just about every single high drama discussion on Wikipedia. Instead of helping to resolve the dispute, he flings personal attack and cries of admin abuse left right and centre. His recent RfC documents this quite well with a long list of unsourced accusations against other editors and general defamation of other contributors. The RfC showed extremely strong support towards the filer with a large number of contributors helping to certify the RfC and few people commenting in support of ChildofMidnight - this shows that his behaviour is viewed as unacceptable by a large proportion of the community. Since his RfC, he has continued his battleground mentality in the global warming topic (and that is clearly one which needs calm minds rather than a "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality). This has led to a long thread currently on the administrators' noticeboard (see here for the discussion) which was started because ChildofMidnight was blocked. Whilst the block for a specific incident was widely viewed as poor and he was swiftly unblocked, the long thread that has ensued shows that ChildofMidnight has continued to display his problematic behaviour despite his recent RfC.

It should be pointed out that ChildofMidnight was subjected to two remedies in Requests for arbitration/Obama articles - He was topic banned from Obama articles and admonished and restriced. Putting this together with his problematic conduct in the global warming field, this is clearly an editor who is disruptive in a number of high drama areas and I believe the Arbitration Committee are the best people to look over his conduct and decide on appropriate remedies.  Ryan Postlethwaite See the mess I've created or let's have banter 20:30, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

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