User:TheronJ/disappointment

Note: This is the beginning of an essay about assuming good faith and dispute resolution. I'm not sure where it's going, and hope I'm not offending anyone. If you're offended, let me know, and I'll be happy to consider editing/deleting. TheronJ 19:44, 25 September 2006 (UTC)


 * It's also very out of date. I might update it at some point, but I encourage anyone who looks here not to rely on anything they find.  If you have questions, please feel free to contact me.  TheronJ 13:39, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I've always been a strong believer in assuming good faith.

Still, recent experiences are tempering my inclination to act on that belief.
 * 1) Hipocrite-History21
 * 2) WikiWoo
 * 3) ChrisO-Terryeo
 * Summary: Terryeo is a primarily single purpose account devoted to defending the pro-Scientology POV on wikipedia. After an arbcomm ban forbade him from editing the pages directly, he started a campaign on the talk pages to clean up the cites in the scientology project.  IMHO, about half his criticisms were right, and the rest were at least arguable, and I took the position that since he was explicitly allowed to comment on talk pages, we should at least consider his criticisms on their merits.
 * Result - it now looks very likely that Terryeo has been evading his ban throughout this period. ,

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