Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/12 December 2005/Wikipedia:Naming conventions (subnational entities)

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (subnational entities)

 * Request made by (please sign below):
 * William Allen Simpson 02:44, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Status: New request


 * Where is the issue taking place?
 * Naming conventions (subnational entities)
 * Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (subnational entities)


 * Who's involved?
 * User:Tobias_Conradi
 * User:Golbez, User:WilliamAllenSimpson


 * What's going on?
 * (Mr/Ms) Conradi has been Vandalizing the page by changing the names of proposals, "Nasty editting", massively modifying others' entries in successive steps numbering in the dozens, and reverting and moving the pages. Administrator action has made 8 deleted edits to correct this problem (so far).


 * In addition, on the Project talk page, Conradi has engaged in personal attacks, name calling, comparing to "genocid", etc. I've posted the levels of WP:VIP warning on her/his talk page, and presumably Golbez has done the same, but it's quickly deleted there.


 * ''What would you like to change about that?
 * Folks would like to make substantive contributions on a Proposed Guideline page. The easiest solution would be for this disruptor to be banned for life, as apparently s/he has engaged in similar behaviour elsewhere -- but for now, just leaving folks alone in this one place would be helpful in the short run.


 * I brought it here first, as there might be a serious language impediment or cultural difference. There have been obvious lapses in Conradi's English language skills (probably en-1, unlikely en-2, certainly not the self-reported en-3). William Allen Simpson


 * On a hunch, I checked against de.wiki as that's listed on Conradi's user page as a native language. It may not be a language problem.  Possible personality disorder.  S/he's got deleted pages there, too &mdash; although not as many as the 271 to date here. William Allen Simpson 12:45, 12 December 2005 (UTC)


 * If you'd prefer we work discreetly, how can we reach you?
 * Oh, it's too late to be discrete, Project talk page is fine (but Google is your friend)....

Mediator response

 * I'll give a check on this and start an rfc. karmafist 16:46, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * RfC here