User:Sławomir Biały/User:Brad7777

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Statement of the dispute
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Desired outcome
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A reasonable outcome would be that Brad7777 will agree to discontinue using all semi-automated tools to do editing. The most desirable outcome is that he focus on for editing content rather than categorization and templates. For instance, there is no shortage of articles that are already flagged as lacking sources. He could help the project more by adding sources, adding footnotes, etc.

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Many editors at WP:WPM have found the actions of User:Brad7777 disruptive. Specifically Brad7777, a new user with no experience in editing for content, has been using the semi-automated tool HotCat to make massive and controversial changes to the categorization system within mathematics articles. Now Brad7777 is also using Twinkle to do massive drive-by templating of articles (some of which are disruptive) as well as taking things to AfD without performing even the minimal checks (WP:BEFORE). Several discussions at WT:WPM have admonished Brad7777 to discontinue mass changes to categories, and at the very least indicated that his editing pattern is disruptive, but appeared to have little effect. Instead he moved from editing math categories to psychology and sociology categories, but now he seems to have moved back to math categories. Communications with Brad7777, both on his user page and at the project discussion page, are frustrated by Brad's denial that there is a problem (or other evasions), or acknowledgment that there is a problem but failure to do anything about them.

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 * Adding non-existent categories to articles using HotCat:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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 * WP:DE, specifically WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT and WP:POINT

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Attempts by certifier User:Sławomir Biały

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics/Archive/2012/Feb#More_massive_category_changes

Other attempts

 * By User:JohnBlackburne: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics/Archive/2011/Nov#Mass_overcategorization_of_maths_articles
 * By User:Tiphareth: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Brad7777&oldid=479826738#Lots_of_.22category.22_changes_for_mathematics
 * By User:The Anome: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Brad7777&oldid=479826738#Discussion_of_category_changes

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