User:THF/Wikidea

Repeated unrepentant incivility and personal attacks; refusal to edit collaboratively; harassing users with baseless complaints.

Statement of the dispute
''This is a summary written by users who are concerned by this user's conduct. Users signing other sections ("Response" or "Outside views") should not edit the "Statement of the dispute" section.''

Desired outcome
Ideally, I would like to see Wikidea recognize the unproductiveness of his approach to discussions and editing pages and resolve to change. Barring that, some community consensus on how to ensure that his incivility and personal attacks and page-ownership are moderated. A mainspace topic ban on pages dealing with American law may well be needed if he cannot agree to recognize points of view other than his own.

Personal attacks

 * The following diffs show unambiguous personal attacks against multiple users:

Before block:


 * attack on SandyGeorgia for voting against Featured Article status and again
 * ["You need to have a look at some law books"
 * dirty, ugly troll
 * [Vision Thing is a real jerk]
 * he is a disruptive, disingenuous pest
 * you're a moron
 * "I wrote it you moron"
 * vandalized a userpage
 * "Double Chin"

Since block:


 * "What would you know?" and "Sorry, but you're not qualified to comment." to User:Padillah.
 * "You're a group of disruptive right wing thugs, posing as thought police. You're probably working in the industry, your life isn't worth very much, and you think you might be doing something important by trying to censor others. You're not. Go away" to User:Jbowersox.
 * to THF: "You're a right wing hack... why do you have to come here? Why can you not just crawl into a hole somewhere, disappear and take your shallow, bigotted view of humanity with you?", "a lobbyist who wants to trash Wikipedia articles", "a professional lobbyist"

In addition, the following diff from an IP address is very likely from Wikidea:
 * "And you're a fat right wing cunt", followed by Wikidea immediately archiving the insult. The IP resolves to London, where Wikidea is from; note his use of fat and "right wing" as insults in other PAs.

COIN trolling

 * 14 Dec: Wikidea, well aware of THF's identity, writes, "why not just replace the parts you feel are inadequate"
 * 3 Jan: Wikidea, well aware of THF's identity, repeats the invitation to edit the tort reform article:
 * As an American tort reform professional I'm sure you have plenty of ideas. Here's your chance. I suggest that you change something. Wikidea 13:23, 2 January 2009 (UTC) and even templates THF on his talk page telling him to "be bold" and edit the article.


 * 13-25 Jan THF does so, editing civilly and collaboratively. THF stops editing on 25 Jan when User:Questionic indicates he'll be editing.


 * 9 Feb: Without notifying THF, Wikidea runs to COIN and alleges a COI violation because THF responded to Wikidea's multiple requests to edit. "He does not appear to be fit to participate in any constructive dialogue."


 * 9-10 Feb: Even after every editor and admin to look at the situation marvels at the meritlessness of the accusation, Wikidea makes twelve more edits to the COIN page, not with any new evidence, but instead increasingly shrill demands that THF be barred, to the point that an editor opposed to THF politically asks for Wikidea to be "block[ed" "so that people can get back to work on the article"].

Edit warring

 * 9 Feb 20:55 Reverts 44 edits made by six different editors
 * 10 Feb 01:03 Reverts tags added by Luke, with misleading summary
 * 10 Feb 10:33 Reverts tags added by Luke, with personal attack on two editors
 * 10 Feb 10:34 Reverts deletion of irrelevant material done by Luke, without edit summary

WP:OWN

 * History of economic thought, calls legitimate suggestion to reduce length of article "vandalism" and tells editor to "get lost"


 * Criminal law, Reverts 53 edits made by eleven different editors, against talk-page consensus that Wikidea preferred version of article a mess; tells Drtillberg "You need to have a look at some law books"


 * Tort reform, Reverts 44 edits made by six different editors, against talk-page consensus that Wikidea preferred version of article a mess


 * Britvic_Soft_Drinks_Ltd_v_Messer_UK_Ltd, [Removes AFD tag with the threat "If you block me, you can explain it to an arbitration committee", part of an admitted edit war, and telling editor "Sorry, but you're not qualified to comment."

Applicable policies and guidelines

 * WP:NPA
 * WP:CIVIL
 * WP:OWN
 * WP:NOT

Evidence of trying to resolve the dispute
Warnings from Will Beback, Cool Hand Luke, Cool Hand Luke, Cool Hand Luke, Cool Hand Luke, Jpgordon, Jpgordon, and RayAYang.


 * Formal request from THF.


 * Warned about OWN by Bwilkins.


 * Blocked by Gutza

Pre-block warnings at at Wikiquette_alerts/archive49 and from 84user, Cool Hand Luke, [ProtonK, ProtonK.

Evidence of failing to resolve the dispute

 * Deletes request as "not relevant"
 * Responds with insult and refusal to cooperate.

See also the several personal insults above.

Users certifying the basis for this dispute

 * I have tried to work with Wikidea for two years on three different articles, and he refuses to acknowledge any of my suggestions, and invariably reverts my edits. I have seen him do this to multiple other editors on multiple pages. -- THF