User:Scott MacDonald/workshop

Ikip
Initiated by  Scott Mac (Doc) at 14:25, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

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 * Confirmation that other steps in dispute resolution have been tried


 * Requests from multiple editors on his talk page, and on the project pages in question to cease and desist.
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Statement by User:Scott MacDonald
My activities wrt the deletion of unsourced BLPs have not been universally popular, but these have already been examined by the committee. The upside of that whole drama is a productive community discussion at Requests for comment/Biographies of living people. At its best this has been productive and cathartic, with the community examining what the issues are and what can be done about them.

Unfortunately, Ikip/Okip, has been continually disrupting that community discussion with long, personalising, posts - spouting bad faith accusations and making personal attacks unrelated to the community policy discussion.     

Also, blocked for edit warring on the page

He has been asked by various editors to desist, but seems intent to continue.    

I took my eyes of the RfC for some days, and was upset to see numerous posts about me personally, each one selectively misquoting me, and linking my name to shadowy secret mailing lists and some form of conspiracy linked matters concerning MzMcBride that arbcom has already examined, and in which I was never a party. (See the posts above and amazingly his asking Durova if I'm a member of a mailing list, when he's not even raised any questions with me directly

I have indicated to Ikip that the correct way to call my behaviour into question is either to ask me about it (he never has) or to file a user conduct RfC (he declines to do this). I regard his posts as personal attacks, full of unevidenced innuendo, in effect poisoning the well of an important community discussion. His latest post to the RfC offers to "retract" but then repeats the same accusations and bad faith irrelevancies.

His attacks on me, I view as scurrilous (without evidence) and cowardly (he's not willing to confront me directly nor instigate an appropriate community discussion where I get to respond and his "evidence" gets examined). Rather than debate with my consider opinions, he runs about repeating one ill-advised post I retracted, even after I've corrected him on several occasions. But that's not the point. This isn't about my reputation or about personal attacks, it is about one user attempting to derail a community process.

I am asking for a topic ban at least, possibly a namespace restriction, and others may have evidence of more problematic behaviour for arbcom to consider.

Given the policy tensions on the page, I would submit the community will find this hard to deal with, and a speedy resolution would be in the wider interest.

--Scott Mac (Doc) 14:58, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

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