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Evidence presented by John J. Bulten

 * Preliminaries, introduction, Itsmejudith's introduction, stipulations.

Ryoung122 repeated indeffable violations

 * Reference.
 * Harassment
 * Incivility: charging irrationality, self-delusion, unbrilliance, idiocy, self-deification, ridiculousness, ravaging, inconsideration, egotism, falsity, potty-mouth, inflammation, bad faith, fundamentalism.
 * Comparing opponents to witch-hunters, public dangers, Jesus's accusers, Goliath.
 * Attack: charging subversion, manipulation, canvassing/recruiting,  bullying,   lies,  intimidation,  cabal (misstyling all names), forum-shopping, sockpuppetry, warring, machination, attacks, Wikilawyering, dividing and conquering, 4-party stalking, annihilation, holocaust.
 * Presumptiveness: claiming to know my POV,   my political party,  my links to AlterNet (it's WorldNetDaily).


 * Disruption
 * Talkpages: Manhandling chaotically, maladjusting other users' talk, commenting lengthily in wrong place,  interrupting, hiding comments and signature offscreen. Defended previously.
 * Threatening: user (24-hour block), Wikimedia Foundation, general legal.
 * Threading: Often confusingly indenting first graf threaded, but later grafs flush.
 * Mass reversion.
 * Wikilawyering, misrepresenting, claiming prior 2007 ArbCom case. Caught.
 * Out-of-turn voting.
 * Novel policy interpretation: WP:SPS.


 * POV-pushing
 * Alerting others to all-caps "FACTS".
 * Baldly asserting fringiness,  consensus.
 * Comparing self to referee/Jesus.


 * Unverifiability
 * Continued thesis-citing, found unreliable for purpose. Self-promotion.
 * Unsourced/unexplained edits, tag removal.
 * Trumping source with self-citing.


 * Socking
 * After block.
 * Appearance of double-voting, consensus. 76.17.118.157 is Ryoung122.

Ryoung122 broke restoration conditions

 * Reference.
 * Unsourceability
 * Within 100 days.


 * Ownership
 * (Nonlongevity) list-presentation control, edit-warring.


 * COI
 * Self-identification.
 * Editing about GRG and Young.


 * Canvassing
 * Stealth. Defended.

Miscellaneous Ryoung122

 * Reference.

Editors had COI

 * 12.144.5.2, Bart Versieck, Longevitydude, NealIRC, Plyjacks, Sbharris, StanPrimmer, TML.
 * Petervermaelen COI is per NickOrnstein.
 * Cjeales COI is per NealIRC.
 * Kletetschka found as sock or meatpuppet.

Editors were unduly influenced

 * Unquestioningly advocating for Ryoung122
 * Bart Versieck.
 * Bduke.
 * Brendanology (I "ignore"d IAR!).
 * Cam46136.
 * Canada Jack, openly.
 * Cjeales.
 * Kitia.
 * Longevitydude.
 * NealIRC: extreme WP:WOP misbegetting.
 * NickOrnstein.
 * ResidentAnthropologist.
 * Sbharris.
 * StanPrimmer.
 * 12.144.5.2.
 * 62.235.160.79, 94.227.30.79.
 * 82.157.94.3.


 * Unquestioningly supporting COI sources
 * Bart Versieck.
 * Brendanology, 220.191.3.207.
 * 218.109.119.140 (OldestInBritain.webs.com); DerbyCountyinNZ, 79.86.229.132, 94.158.230.50.
 * DerbyCountyinNZ.
 * DHanson317.
 * Longevitydude.
 * NealIRC.
 * NickOrnstein.
 * Petervermaelen.
 * ResidentAnthropologist. Following Ryoung122.
 * Sbharris.

Editors duplicated Ryoung122's violations

 * Harassment
 * Bart Versieck: Charging irrationality.
 * Canada Jack: Incivility, charging threats.
 * Kitia: Charging stupidity.
 * ResidentAnthropologist: Charging forum-shopping.
 * Sbharris: Charging admin abuse, attack, canvassing.


 * Disruption
 * Bart Versieck: Threatening, adjusting other users' talk, disruptive tagging.
 * Brendanology: Wikilawyering, policy violation, charging threats, ageism.
 * Canada Jack: Commenting in wrong place.
 * Kitia: Noncommunication.
 * Sbharris: Talk diatribes/dilatoriness, strawman, novel policy interpretation ('meatpuppetry not blockable' ).


 * POV
 * 12.144.5.2: "myths" (contradicting WP:RNPOV).
 * DerbyCountyinNZ: synthesis.


 * Unverifiability
 * 218.109.119.140, DerbyCountyinNZ, 79.86.229.132, 94.158.230.50.
 * Brendanology, 220.191.3.207.
 * DHanson317.
 * NickOrnstein.
 * Petervermaelen.


 * Socking
 * Brendanology: double-voting.
 * Kitia : double-voting.
 * Mike Young: double-voting.


 * Unsourceability
 * Beawitness.
 * 94.227.28.208.


 * Ownership
 * Edit-warring: 218.109.112.0x12, Brendanology, DerbyCountyinNZ, DHanson317 (bold-warring), 218.109.119.140, DerbyCountyinNZ, 79.86.229.132, 94.158.230.50.
 * Antipolicy bolding: TFBCT1, Brendanology, DHanson317, DerbyCountyinNZ, Ryoung122.
 * Single-article: NickOrnstein.


 * COI
 * 12.144.5.2 editing GRG.


 * Canvassing
 * Kitia.
 * Longevitydude.
 * NealIRC Wikilawyers canvassing avoidance.

Editors created walled garden

 * Per FTN.
 * NealIRC attempts importing antipolicy community.
 * Anti-WP group purposes: NealIRC, Ryoung122 (POV-based purpose).
 * Bold-warring symptomatic.

BLP violations endangered the project

 * Premature and/or unreliably-sourced death reports: Beawitness,  DHanson317, NickOrnstein,  Petervermaelen, 94.227.28.208, 220.191.3.207.
 * Premature reporters challenged: 218.109.119.140, DerbyCountyinNZ, 79.86.229.132, 94.158.230.50.
 * Defending report disputed by self-identified family: Ryoung122, blaming off-Wiki identity.

LongevityDude made bad-faith/stalking edits.
I hope this is a correct place to put this information; in any case, it does seem relevant to any discussion about LongevityDude. Copied from recent ANI that was archived: A while ago, User:Longevitydude stated that it was good advice to take the opposing side for any of my AfDs. It seems that this has been happening recently, and also note some inappropriate edit comments. It's fine that people can have differing opinions at AfD, but this is a clear case of a user intentionally voting the opposite of me, just because of who I am. (I explained to the user when it was suggested he would take this course of action, that I would report it, and here I am.) An example is this AfD, which has only one non-delete vote (the author of the page) and then the LongevityDude comment, who says the AfD is "in bad faith and makes no sense". Based on other votes of that page, clearly the LongevityDude comment is about spite of the nominator (me), not article content. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 16:05, 22 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Not at all true, and this can be seen by viewing my edits over a long period of time. There's no question this was intentional on your part, as you seem to have no history at all of voting on AfDs outside the narrow scope of World's Oldest People. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 13:30, 24 November 2010 (UTC)


 * LongevityDude claims this is untrue, because he voted on an AfD 8 months ago. I stand by my claim that his two recent edits are absolutely intentional, and my evidence shows this. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 01:51, 25 November 2010 (UTC)


 * And now he's voting in my favor, as if to show some sort of atonement. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 01:19, 2 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Recently: more unwanted messages on my talk page. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 14:03, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * More recently, the user continues to stalk my edits. It is not random that he's commenting on my AfDs, which are otherwise not in this user's general field of interest. Appears to be obvious WP:POINT. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 14:06, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Timneu22 assumes bad faith accusing me and other members
I was a part of the Elizabeth Kucinich afd, thats out side of the project. Longevitydude (talk) 21:05, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

this diff is proff that im not voting because of who he is Longevitydude (talk) 20:15, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Theres no appeasing this guy, even when I acknowledge he does something right he thinks im trying to atone, this isnt about atonement, its about expressing my views on something. Longevitydude (talk) 15:10, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Whenever one of your decisions made sense I acknowledged that, its you who make a bigger deal out of this than needs to be made out of it, and yes, 23 minutes in hell is something that interests me, and how would you know what interests me or not, I can be interested in whatever I want thank you very much. Longevitydude (talk) 15:46, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * My advice is you dont know what im interested in, and if I couldnt comment on your section then you cant comment on mine. I know what im interested in, and you would save a lot of time just not worrying about coincidental stuff.


 * Look everybody, im loyal to the GRG/WOP and ill do just about anything they want me to do, Robert young has more brain and experience in the subject of Gerontology than any of us put together, and hes actually a nice guy once you get to know him, and with all due respect, its not Ryoung122 that got a warning for incivility, he was just being frank.

Leave Sumbuddi out of this
I will admit some of the arguements are understandable, I mean some of my edits are wierd, but other than 23 minutes in hell, none of those articles are in my public interests, you didnt know that until I admitted that, but other than that one afd I would say timneu22 has a valid point in his accusations, ban me however long, i deserve it, but Robert young and the grg/wop will NEVER be silenced, we have science on our side. Longevitydude (talk) 20:53, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

WOP WikiProject's peculiar view of its role, and the role of the GRG Yahoo group
My view of the relationship among WP, the GRG Yahoo group, the World's Oldest People WikiProject, RYoung and his colleagues on both the GRG Yahoo Group and WOP WikiProject can be found here in responses to LongevityDude in an AfD discussion.

LongevityDude's response reflects the problem well.

Here's LongevityDude's honest, if misguided, view of how other editors should work with GRG/WOP. Here's Griswaldo's apt response. But, somehow, LongevityDude digs in deeper.

My summation at the closing of the JV AfD helps summarizes the whole WOP/GRG problem. David in DC (talk) 14:58, 26 November 2010 (UTC)


 * The WOP Wikiproject uses two "sources" routinely. One is the GRG tables. Enough electrons have already been expended on that. It's obscured an even worser source.


 * The Louis Epstein Oldest Human Being (OHB) list carries an introductory disclaimer that makes it abundently clear that it is not a reliable source as we define reliability here on WP. It's hosted here. C'mon. How does one argue, in good faith, for sourcing things on Wikipedia to here David in DC (talk) 20:44, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

SPA's, puppets and drones. Oh, my!
Here's some fairly typical WOP/GRG sock- or meat-puppetry.David in DC (talk) 14:58, 26 November 2010 (UTC)


 * And here's an SPA whose edits, and guidance to LD (and clerks) suggest that at least one party may not be quite as unavailable as we've been told. The focus on death dates, the interest in helping LD present his case, and the additional contacts with the clerks about oversighting two edits on the intitial request page for this case may well be coincidence. My wholly inadmissible spider sense says otherwise. David in DC (talk) 20:55, 29 November 2010 (UTC)


 * SPA used over two days, with only one topic of edits: Contesting AfD nominations of centenarian bios. It could be sheer coincidence. But I wouldn't bet my pennies, marbles or pet froggie that it is. David in DC (talk) 20:31, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Incivility and name-calling
The same AfD features fine samples of RYoung's unique approach to collaboration.

And this edit summarizes my experiences with RY. Over time he's accused me of being a homophobic, anti-porn cabalist.

Here's the result of junior members of WOP adopting more senior members' editing style. David in DC (talk) 14:58, 26 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Here's some brand-spanking new incivility, and an indication of what "unavailable until after December 15th" means. David in DC (talk) 21:06, 3 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Still more name-calling while unavailable. David in DC (talk) 21:21, 3 December 2010 (UTC)


 * And still more. David in DC (talk) 21:50, 3 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Here I reply to a reiteration of previously imputed callousness. I grant that the castigation factor has been ramped down to "callous". Historically, the castigator has demonstated a far more robust repertoire of invective. But it keeps happening while he's putatively unavailable. It's kinda galling. David in DC (talk) 20:06, 8 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Still more invective although not directed at me. David in DC (talk) 18:23, 9 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Additional invective: This one's an archetypal RYoung122 screed.


 * "DavidinDC has been JJBulten's #2 man..." is untrue. I am #2 to no one. Well, maybe to my wife, if I know what's good for me. But seriously, as I've said before, I've never interacted with JJB except in the open, on-wiki. I'm a part of no cabal or conspiracy. If our respective edits are reviewed, this will be obvious. I'm genuinely hurt and insulted with every re-iteration of this unfounded calumny.


 * "He should have recused himself as this was seeking THIRD-party input, not biased input." There's nothing unusual about a participant in an AfD also participating in a review of that deletion. I'm hard-pressed to think of a reason why there should be. Poisoning the well by calling my input "biased" is yet another example of the lack of civility that undergirds everything else about this case. David in DC (talk) 18:38, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Brendanology misrepresents sources, including one that mirrors his blog
Here's my response when Brendanology told me to review the sources on a page.

And here he says there are sources in external links on the same article's page. There are none. David in DC (talk) 19:27, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Update: There's one now, inserted by someone else. David in DC (talk) 21:42, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

12.144.5.2 intentionally disregards WP:NOR, WP:RS, and WP:V
This approach, elucidated on my talk page and signed L.E., is startling. David in DC (talk) 18:14, 15 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Additional comment: Even the edit summary is startling. Here 'tis, cut-and-pasted, verbatim: (→Gerontology Research Group and Guinness World Records:


 * Original research is the gold standard,anything else is second best.)


 * David in DC (talk) 18:34, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

A jaw-dropping policy proposal re WP:NOR, WP:RS, and WP:V on the World's Oldest Person Wikiproject
This essay on the WOP Wikiproject talk page, explains a great deal about why the project's approach and goals are at odds with those of en.wikipedia. David in DC (talk) 18:21, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

RYoung carries an off-wiki controversy to the center of on-wiki deliberations
Today's edit by RY on this page confirms that there's a fundamental disconnect between WP policies, guidelines and norms and the agenda of the newsgroup whose chatter he reproduces here. In the face of apparantly incorrigable, chronic disruption of the project, some form of remediation is mandatory. I don't envy the decision-makers who must fashion such a remedy. WP:AGF must be observed, even when an editor stretches that assumption beyond all reason. But WP:AGF is not the memorialization of a suicide pact. And the WP:BATTLEGROUND mentality manifest in the posts RY has cut-and-pasted (rather imperfectly) here, poses significant danger to our collaborative, open-source, online encyclopedia project. David in DC (talk) 23:32, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Some notes concerning List of African supercentenarians
I am not a party to this case, but I have noticed that an AFD I closed, Articles for deletion/List of African supercentenarians has been brought up, and that an IP mentioned it on the main case page. December 4, 2010 at 06:58 (This edit appears to be misplaced in the section for User:Itsmejudith, and I believe a clerk may want to move it to a separate section or talkpage.) Sjakkalle (Check!)  11:23, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
 * 10 November 2010 04:58, 05:27 List of African supercentenarians and List of South American supercentenarians nominated for deletion by John J. Bulten.
 * 25 November 2010, 11:57 I closed the AFD as "delete" with a rationale where I cited the reliability of the GRG website.
 * 25 November 2010, 14:33 JJB requests that I delete a second article (South American supercentenarians) which was also nominated in the aforementioned AFD. I complied with that request.
 * 3 December 2008, 20:24 Ryoung122 requests that I overturn the decision and delete, citing the reliability of GRG, the political WDN background of JJB, and the notability of the article. I declined this request.

Ryoung122 uses Wikipedia as a battleground during this RFAR
On 3 December 2010, after the start of these proceedings, Ryoung122 wrote at Articles for deletion/Asa Takii:
 * "Aside from the fact that the "zero sources" assertion is a lie, both JJBulten and DavidinDC have previously collaborated in an anti-supercentenarian cabal (...)".

Casting such aspersions without evidence is inappropriate; and such comments violate WP:BATTLE and WP:NPA.  Sandstein  09:12, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject World's Oldest People was/is fundamentally flawed
I don't have a huge amount of evidence to give, save my involvement in fairly recent discussions. My involvement began with the Jan Goossenaerts AfD, in which I voted to delete and commented on the vitriolic responses from some of the "keep" voters; my comment is here (which I had slightly refactored after realizing that hounding could be misinterpreted as WP:HOUND). I have an extremely high threshold for invective- I have PDD-NOS, and in real-life I can be rather abrasive at times- and due to my real-life interest in history I'm capable of cutting through such invective to the heart of an issue, so I'm not normally one to worry about people's tempers flaring; however, I could tell that things there were getting out of hand, and that people coming to this AfD without a lot of experience dealing with screeds of angry text would have a hard time separating out the real arguments from the ranting (in my opinion, Timneu22 made quite a valiant effort, and should be commended for it). A couple of days later, I happened across a thread on the WikiProject World's Oldest People talkpage (how I got there I don't remember), and I realized that the users belonging to it were the source of most of the ranting at the Jan Goossenaerts AfD. My comments are still there, specifically in the End COI section, which I stand by. My primary involvement there was to provide a fresh voice, as I saw evidence of a huge walled garden that wouldn't be fixed without outside voices. Thanks to the efforts of editors like Itsmejudith, the situation there is definitely getting better; however, the fact that this wikiproject was able to maintain this huge walled garden for such a long time is somewhat disconcerting.


 * Note: Brendanology's presentation of evidence is indicative of the behavior I noticed from some of the WikiProject World's Oldest People members at the Jan Goossenaerts AfD. While he has valid points to make, the way he presents them (especially some of the headers) serves to poison the well. Instead of aiming to come to a consensus, his presentation is inflammatory and divisive; it causes people to form opinions before even reading his actual arguments.  This is extraordinarily unhelpful in an already heated situation, and is a problem that pervades this area.  The Blade of the Northern Lights  ( 話して下さい ) 18:42, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
 * This is another example of what I've been referring to; besides being a rather appalling failure to assume good faith, it is casting aspersions without evidence, which Sandstein above me has linked to, as well as a rather vicious personal attack. The ad hominem invective, as I said before, does nothing but inflame an already heated situation further. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 05:43, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * And here is another great comment, directed at me. Besides being a direct attack on me (telling me to "get a life"), it is also yet another symptom of what I'm talking about; some of those over at WikiProject World's Oldest People (including the person who made that comment) are unwilling or unable (I don't know which) to accept that Wikipedia is not the GRG's news feed.  The Blade of the Northern Lights  ( 話して下さい ) 06:42, 14 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Another Note: The committee may take some interest in the enormous reams of text posted on my talkpage this afternoon. It definitely contains some interesting information, although I'm not sure how much weight you want to give it.  I do think that the sword-wielding skeletons theory holds some weight here, and like Itsmejudith I'm not endorsing John J. Bulten's point of view (quite apart from my personal religious views, I think that it clearly violates WP:V and WP:UNDUE); however, there are some issues, such as the chronic invective, that go unaddressed in this post.  I can understand the frustration, but the way the messages are being communicated has a serious chilling effect.  I also think that Ryoung122 is taking this far too personally; he made a comment about Asa Takii being treated harshly at the article's Afd.  This is where WikiProject World's Oldest People seems to have a problem with being far too attached to its own articles, another concern that was not addressed in the post on my talkpage.  I love Japanese history as much as anyone (I'm going to grad school to study it, and I'm building my own shamisen), but I also know that there are some things that, no matter how much I love, just aren't suitable for Wikipedia.  It is this distinction that the people at WikiProject World's Oldest People seem unable or unwilling to make, and along with the conflict between their and John J. Bulten's views is the crux of the issue here.  The Blade of the Northern Lights  ( 話して下さい ) 23:02, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Ryoung122 misrepresents the arguments of people who disagree with him
When this issue was brought to ANI, a couple of users had made claims that this was an attempt to sabotage an expert in the field. To rebut this claim, I stated that experts were welcome, but that they had to adhere to policies like WP:N and WP:V like everyone else. To demonstrate my point, I repeated an analogy I had initially made at the WikiProject World's Oldest People talkpage here (with a slight addition in my next edit here); we don't and wouldn't allow Moonies to take total control over articles on the Unification Church, nor should we allow gerontology experts to take total control over articles relating to their field. His response, "Comparing material on supercentenarians to articles on Moonies is like Bishop Eddie Long claiming to be David, when he is in fact Goliath", was a complete misrepresentation of what I had said. I responded with this, where I pointed out that in fact I was not comparing the content of the two types of articles, but trying to point out why experts don't have the last word on notability or verifiability within their field.
 * This ongoing (as of the timestamp) AfD may also be of interest; I have a bad feeling that if it keeps going the way it's started, it may descend into the Jan Goossaenarts fiasco again. It's also the same general problem; someone's arguments (in this case David in DC) are being totally misconstrued, and if no one is able/willing to read carefully and point this out somewhere, it can completely derail a conversation.  Not to mention that the last line of Ryoung122's comment comes extremely close to becoming a legal threat; even borderline threats have a serious chilling effect on discussion, which is the last thing this area needs. The Blade of the Northern Lights  ( 話して下さい ) 05:55, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Timneu22's assertions about Longevitydude are correct
This will be extremely brief; however, I would just like to say that Timneu22 has a valid point about Longevitydude's new-found interest in Timneu22's AfDs. Timneu22 and I are both New Page Patrollers, so we communicate on a fairly regular basis, and I've noticed much of what he's said in his section. There was a brief AN thread that fizzled out, which I'm surprised and disappointed didn't garner more attention then, and I think that Longevitydude's behavior warrants further scrutiny. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 04:24, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Longevitydude's rather bizarre response to this has only bolstered my view. The Blade of the Northern Lights  ( 話して下さい ) 21:20, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Brendanology was uncivil
Matchups 15:15, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * This edit reverted the addition of a person supported by a reliable source with the edit summary "What is this trash?"
 * This edit removed some possibly useful, if somewhat awkwardly phrased, information with the edit summary "What trash is this?"
 * This edit, similar to the previous, with edit summary "Removed trashy, unconstructive edits."
 * A large percentage of his (infrequent) edit summaries are in all caps. See here for example.
 * Further discussion of this here on my talk page.Matchups 11:29, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

John J. Bulten behaved inappropriately
He went around intimidating and attempting to convert editors:; he also went around threatening editors with blocks without prior attempts to seek consensus. The dispute was on whether or not some words were to be bolded. The article originally came WITH those bolded words; JJB elected to change them and attempted to pass it off almost immediately as new consensus, which was extremely rude and inconsiderate; etiquette dictates that the opposition should take the matter to talk and propose the new change there, not the defendant. Reading off from the timestamp of the warning, only one prior attempt by John J. Bulten was attempted to propose change to that article, to which no replies had yet been made. 
 * Following a failed ArbCom request, I would like to present evidence that Bulten has behaved inappropriately on multiple longevity-related articles; I will name them below.

John J. Bulten abused multiple Wikipedia policies related to AfDs
JJB did the following: (1) submitting batches of biographies on long-lived people for deletion under near-identical criteria; (2) spamming the same AfD message with minimal differences, [see beginning of each AfD listed for (1)], (3) broken multiple AfD contributing policies (such as not voting on your own AfD,[see beginning of each AfD listed for (1)],  and (4) attempts, using spammed messages more than once to the same editor, and often to several different editors as well, to scare off editors who voted "keep" on articles he nominated for deletion..

John J. Bulten displayed hypocritical behaviour
In this diff Bulten attacks User:Petervermaelen for making identical comments on five AfDs when he has also spammed identical messages (see above). This has led to confusion and misconceptions about his aims owing to his hypocrisy.

JJBulten displays poor conduct and malformed understanding of notablility guidelines on AfDs
Several things are telling from his diatribe :

- Pointing out that User:DHanson317 replied on six AfDs (User:Jc iindyysgvxc at least three AfDs) seems to be a suggestion by him that DHanson317 and jc had contributed to "too many" AfDs and ought to 'stop'.

- JJB's line, "While further consensus is still sought at the discussion link in the nom, I believe it established that there is no consensus for biography-level notability inhering in single-source cases on such broad criteria", is saying one thing and then another.

He admits that consensus was still sought with regards to biography-level notability, and then presents completely unevidenced belief that makes his own sentences seem self-important when there is actually no real meaning or vaild point made from that argument.

- Highlighting my previous statement, JJB also mentioned that Yukichi Chuganji, Margaret Skeete, and who knows else were in an average of seven Wikipedia lists under different criteria (likely 100 oldest men ever, list of Japanese supercentenarians, etc.), and deemed their appearance in those lists to "already be excessive" and proceeded to declare this as one of his supporting reasons for getting rid of Chuganji's and Skeete's articles, among others; JJB labours under the delusion that he creates policies on Wikipedia and that they are supposed to be followed blindly. Since it is argued that since outside sources choose to grant coverage of "world's oldest persons", it is only proper that Wikipedia articles be created and/or considered for them as long as enough information has been established, among other reasons. John J. Bulten believes that as they were all supercentenarians, it is thus appropriate for their articles to be deleted as batches, rather than as individual entities considered separately. As stated, in the batch of articles mass-nominated for deletion shown above, JJB attacked other users for submitting identical comments to each of those AfDs, whereas, as stated, he himself submitted identical comments to each of those AfDs with minimal changes to suit the article in a "one-size-fits-all" style, and voted on his own AfDs in a similar "one-size-fits-all" style.

John J. Bulten smears RejRes to push his point
Rejuvenation Research is stated to be a highly and peer-reviewed journal with reliability established; JJB smeared RejRes as "unreliable GRG published" in order to push his point without first validating the reliability of the source.

John J. Bulten establishes inappropriate friends network à la Facebook
As seen here, John J. Bulten establishes a friends network on Wikipedia which is inappropriate and disruptive given the nature of his behaviour. Despite stating "add your name here", he has been known to add names himself. The word "friends" can be taken to mean editors he has corresponded regularly with, but in an Internet-ish sense it can also be taken to mean an ally; Thus his behaviour, in addition associated with his tendency to add names himself, can be considered WP:CANVASSING and I see this to be highly disruptive.

→ Brendan ( talk,  contribs ) 09:54, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

John J. Bulten was uncivil
JJB started negotiations by calling a dispute on Wikipedia over bolding words (touched upon previously above) a "war". That is a violation of WP:CIVIL. → Brendan ( talk,  contribs ) 07:57, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Evidence presented by Ryoung122
First off, I am going to say this: that to categorically report every unfair/incorrect/false assertion made against me and others that believe that Wikipedia policies on notability and verifiability should result in a fair amount of coverage of supercentenarians on Wikipedia, would be extremely difficult, time-consuming, and perhaps detrimental to those who would not care to read a laborious list of misdeeds.

Nonetheless, I intend to fully state my position here by January 15. This section should be construed as "under construction" until that date arrives.

I. Response to JJBulten

It has been clear, from the beginning, that JJBulten's motivations and operations on Wikipedia have been contrary to Wikipedia policy, and have involved POV-pushing, canvassing, scheming, plotting, bullying, intimidation, misuse of the system, wasting people's time, and most of all, editing in a manner which is over-all detrimental to the subject matter on Wikipedia.

Far from attempting to find common ground or assume good faith, JJBulten has attempted to fan the controversy by opening old wounds and pouring salt on them.

From an outside source: (note:InvisionFree is on Wikipedia's blacklist, but it is a mere site host for group blogs, which vary in content and quality).

DHanson317 Posted: Dec 25 2010, 11:18 PM Group: Members Posts: 40 Member No.: 1,043 Joined: 31-October 10 User BrownHairedGirl has decided herself the necessity to remove all flags. Why she's doing this now, I do not know.

JJB Posted: Dec 26 2010, 08:40 AM Report Post Group: Members Posts: 1 Member No.: 1,052 Joined: 12-December 10

I'll tell you what shes doing, by taking away the flags, shes showing that there's no need for articles about supercentenarians in each nation. Shes making the way for me to delete articles on all the supercentenarians who arent the WOP.

John J. Bulten

From the above comments, we have evidence of conspiracy. That's a strong word, and I direct it primarily at the current motivator behind it, JJBulten. Please consider analyzing and digesting the above statement:

"By taking away flags, she's showing that there's no need for articles about supercentenarians in each nation"

FALSE. Notability of an article is not disestablished by editorial decisions to remove flags. However, this is evidence that JJBulten (who brought BHG to this Arbitration Request, even though she was not actively editing these articles for about 3 years now) has attempted to influence other editors to remove material and degrade articles, in preparation for his plan to delete them.

Notability is not established/disestablished by the behavior of editors on Wikipedia; notability is established by outside sources.

Walter Breuning, for example, is not a world's oldest person yet, but he has received substantial continuing coverage well beyond the local and "one event" rationale of a single line-item obituary:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-12-26-oldest-man-christmas_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

Yet I suppose by JJ Bulten's illogical assertion, all we would have to do is to delete an American flag by his name and "voila!", now he's not notable and his article should be deleted.

But the bigger issue is not that Bulten's comment is illogical. The bigger issue is that his editing (involving article degradation and deletion), POV-pushing, anti-scientific agenda (he claims that Biblical ages such as "Noah lived to 950" are literally correct, and thus people living to 114 today are not notable) is detrimental to Wikipedia's fair and efficient operation. BHG herself created the "list of supercentenarians by nation" idea in 2007, as a compromise for articles that were on the cusp of notability. It was also seen as a more-efficient organization scheme (by nation). We see a lot of categorization on Wikipedia by nation for topics outside supercentenarians, whether it be "Canadian actors" or what have you.

Now, we have an editor who has identified past disputed, re-opened them, and attempted to fan the flames of controversy by merging disputes about supercentenarian articles from 2007 with JJBulten's own far-far-right, radical conservative agenda (I note that even Christian apologist Arthur Custance believed that humans once lived hundreds of years, but not in modern times, while JJBulten has stated he believes people can live to 950 today).

Update: On December 25, JJBulten confessed to his mission, to delete all articles on supercentenarians that he can (he's actually deleted articles on World's Oldest Person titleholders too, such as Elizabeth Watkins).

Now, today he confesses why:

II. Message 2

1. What Alexandr said (and quoting Brendanology):

Alexsandr Posted: Dec 17 2010, 10:18 AM Report Post

Supercentenarian

Group: Members Posts: 149 Member No.: 1,021 Joined: 29-July 10 QUOTE (Brendanology @ Dec 17 2010, 10:07 AM) JJB has employed a number of tactics on Wikipedia, including:

-POV pushing -converting editors -use of flowery language to scare editors (like DHanson317) -smoke-and-mirrors tactics to distort facts -and a number of others.

I feel that as long as he presents his arguments in a RATIONAL manner, he can stay. But if he begins trying to convert or recruit members here who are also editors on Wikipedia (such as myself, DHanson317, and NickOrnstein), out he goes. The 110 Club is a place to discuss supercentenarians, and is not a recruiting ground or an extension of his practices on Wikipedia.

If I were him, I'd find it strange to be banned from the 110 Club before I have even made my first post.

It's a free forum; we should let him stay for at least a while. If he causes disruption, criticises, or offends members who edit on Wikipedia, then it's straight to Complaints.

Just my 2 cents.

You right: here be place for the discuss of supercentenarians. but JJb is not beings interested in that. Has anything ever that he do on wikipedia indicate that he has interest like us?

No.

All he do there is try destroy all work for maintain coverage of not-bible supercentenarians. If it be JJB then he not here for right reason.

2. JJB's response:

JJB Posted: Dec 27 2010, 12:15 PM Report Post

Youngster Group: Members Posts: 2 Member No.: 1,052 Joined: 12-December 10 QUOTE (Alexsandr @ Dec 27 2010, 11:43 AM) Read what he posts yesterday. he not here for good. Delete his account I think.

Alexsandr, are you trying to say I should be banned because I disagree with you? I'm standing up for the Bible and you can call me narrow-minded all you want, I am proud of it, by pursecuting me you'll only increase my reward.

From the above message, JJBulten admits that what he THINKS he is doing is "standing up for the Bible" by destroying the scientific standard. Can we allow this kind of agenda-pushing on Wikipedia?

II. Response to Sandstein


 * What part of telling the truth do you have a problem with, Sandstein? The article had more than zero sources, therefore the claim to have had "zero sources" is, at best, an incorrect falsehood. I was actually giving the editors some credit, that perhaps they were intelligent enough to be able to tell the difference between "zero" and "one" or "zero" and "two," etc. I therefore concluded that the falsehoods were deliberate, not mistakes. Ryoung 122 01:41, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

I will have a lot more to say...to be continued. Ryoung 122 01:38, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

III. Response to DavidinDC

Aside from misspelling "apparently" and "incorrigible," DavidinDC's recently-added comments are part of the problem, not part of the solution. Rather than focus on the material, he's adding extraneous commentary about his wife, whatever. That's all irrelevant.

DavidinDC had a conflict of interest and there's clear and convincing evidence that he "teamed" with JJBulten on 9 AFD's on a single day. He has let his ego get in the way of the issues. He makes false or biased comments about the reliability of sources or the availability of sources, falsely stating more than once that articles had zero sources, or just one source, when in fact they had many. As usual, no amount of evidence is enough for David to "see" the sources, even when posted. One can check a myriad of AFD's, such as Asa Takii or Tase Matsunaga. Ryoung 122 15:07, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

{Write your assertion here}
Place argument and diffs which support your assertion; for example, your first assertion might be "So-and-so engages in edit warring", which should be the title of this section. Here you would show specific edits to specific articles which show So-and-so engaging in edit warring.

Evidence presented by Itsmejudith
Presenting evidence chronologically, as this is how I try and make sense of how things got into a mess.

30 March 2008 Now blocked user User:NealRC, in response to enquiries by User: AMK152 explains the link between the WikiProject and the GRG group. 

27 August 2008 Ryoung122 back from break.

6 September 2008 Ryoung122 makes first post-break edit to Longevity myths, adding a source that may be dubious (LexisNexis search gone dead). 

7 September 2008 Ryoung122 refers to his thesis as a “published” source although expresses no opinion as to whether it is RS. 

9 November 2008 On Longevity myths Ryoung122 reverts a cleanup of date and other overlinking. Performs many similar reverts on the article in the same period.

8 December 2008 Ryoung122 incivil to User: Dabomb87 about date linking. Boasts of his degrees. 

23 December 2008 Ryoung122 incivil and shouting in an edit summary. “learn your history! There is PLENTY of evidence, this is incontrovertible fact. Clever removal for someone with a hidden agenda, but I am an historian”. This is on Stone Mountain, and an issue related to Ku Klux Klan, so tempers likely to run high. 

6 January 2009 Accuses another user (not clear who) of persecution. .

6 January 2009 Ryoung122 posts on his talk page that he is being bullied. 

24 January 2009 Ryoung122 posts on talk page of Gerontology Research Group to say that the article is too “stunted”, doesn’t do justice to the group. 

21 February 2009 Canadian Paul raises a “serious accusation” against Ryoung122 on User talk: Carcaroth. Ryoung122 has accused him of recruiting a meatpuppet. Thread carries on till 18 March. Canadian Paul gives diffs of behaviour he sees as unacceptable.

13 March 2009 Ryoung122 defends using WOP Yahoo! Group as a reference – doesn’t matter if you have to register, because it’s free. 

24 April 2009 JJBulten arrives at Longevity myths, rewrites the article. Some poor material was in there already, merged in from Longevity in February 2009, unsourced at that time. JJBulten adds a number of Christian theological, primary Bible, and other non-academic sources. References are incomplete. 

9 May 2009 Ryoung122 posts on talk page of Longevity myths that he has found a scientific article using the term “longevity myths”. This is in fact just the English translation of the title of a Japanese language article. 

9 May 2009 Ryoung122 defends his master’s thesis as RS on the basis it is “national award winning research”. . His master’s thesis did in fact win an award.

14 August 2009 User: Longevitydude and User: Kingcouey consecutively !vote the same way in []. Longevitydude protests that he isn’t a sockpuppet of Kingcouey, they just share a computer. Several IPs vote in the same AfD; their votes were deleted. Apparently they live together and Kingcouey lets Longevitydude use the computer when he isn’t using it. Kingcouey indeffed as a sockpuppeteer.

20 October 2009 User: Canadian Paul questions Longevitydude about sockpuppeteering. 

28 November 2009 Ryoung122 edits BLP of L. Stephen Coles, removing sourced info that he is a visiting scholar at UCLA, edit summary shows that the purpose is to foreground GRG work. 

27 January 2010 Discussion on Ryoung122’s talk page about his overlinking of dates. He defends it as necessary for longevity articles. Shouts. [

13 March 2010 Ryoung122 and DerbyCountyinNZ argue on Talk: List of the verified oldest people that validation has to pass through Louis Epstein’s website.

20 March 2010 Longevitydude adds silly comment to his own talk page, purportedly from Canadian Paul. He then blanks the page.

21 May 2010 Ryoung122 announces on Talk: List of verified Supercentenarians who died in 2010 that GRG has new tables online, implying that they can directly be used as sources.

14 October 2010 Bolding war on List of verified oldest people. User: Brendanology shouts in edit summary. Ryoung122 accuses JJBulten of stirring up trouble. DerbycountyinNZ accuses Griswaldo of being part of a tag team.

Ryoung122 pushes for inclusion of material he has authored himself, in response to posts by uninvolved editors. .

Ryoung122 shrugged off a friendly warning by me about conflict of interest.

Ryoung122 reverted edits intended to bring Longevity myths into line with fringe theory article good practice. If the topic is myths (or narratives, stories, legends, claims…), then reference to scientific fact needs to be kept brief. (Cf Virgin birth of Jesus, where after discussion, all material about parthenogenesis was removed as irrelevant.) Ryoung reverted my edits.[ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Longevity_myths&diff=next&oldid=344267464]

Ryoung122 added an unencyclopedic section “List of Extreme Longevity Myths” that, he said in mainspace, could be expanded to an article eventually. .

Ryoung122 shrugged off an accusation that he was using his Yahoo! group to canvass support in a merge discussion. Ryoung says “Is that you Canadian Paul? You should sign in”.

Ryoung122 accuses me of canvassing, in what was a post for support in assisting the Longevity myths article to NPOV. 

Ryoung122 shrugs off the COI issue by saying that an “essay” he wrote (meaning the Wikipedia article Longevity myths, preceded his association with Guinness World Records, so in his view there was no conflict of interest.

Off-wiki canvassing
I have just, by googling, become aware of the extent of off-wiki canvassing in this dispute. This is just one example. The invision free website contains several similar examples. Itsmejudith (talk) 17:40, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * This example is particularly invidious, perhaps including an implied threat of outing? Itsmejudith (talk) 17:51, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

John J. Bulten's disruptive editing in other areas
I hate to have to do this, but since apparently an alternative between a full ban and a mere topic ban is currently on the table for this editor, I think it's worth pointing out here.

JJB has engaged in seriously problematic editing not just in the topic of the present case, but also elsewhere. Both of these cases, I believe, exhibit some of the same problems shown here: a pattern of hostility, opinionatedness and obstinacy. Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:56, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * At History of ancient Israel and Judah, JJB has been conducting a months-long, incredibly persistent pattern of lawyering, filibustering, POV nitpicking, spurious tagging, long-term slow edit-warring and casting personal aspersions, apparently partly motivated by the same agenda of biblical literalism that was also at issue here, and designed to wear down his opponents by the power of sheer obstinacy. The conflict fills two huge archive pages as well as a (still ongoing) Medcab case. I'm sorry I can't condense it into a few diffs, as I'm a total outsider to the conflict, but this section seems illustrative: JJB was seriously insisting on sticking a "recentism" tag on the article, because his opponents' version was giving extended coverage to the most recent academic literature. This thread is also characteristic.
 * In a bizarre long-term conflict over Gadsby (novel), JJB was part of a small group of editors who stubbornly pushed for an unencylopedic approach to the article, according to which the article ought to be written with the same linguistic mannerism as its subject, avoiding the letter "e". For months, JJB annoyed other participants by even writing all his own talkpage contributions in this manner. The situation became so heated that an administrative intervention and block warning was needed