Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/DreamGuy/Evidence

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10 February

 * , Connecting therianthropy to clinical lycanthropy, a mental illness:


 * In cases where someone actually believes to personally change into an animal form, or to possess supernatural animal traits, the term clinical lycanthropy is often used. This is a form of mental illness.

30 July

 * , Statement of POV:


 * If I was really pushing my side the Otherkin article would start out something like "A bunch of raving lunatics who need psychiatric help claim to have animals and other species inside of them based upon their need to be highly dramatic and self-important because they can't get any self-worth in their pathetic, miserable lives any other way..."

21 August

 * , Otherkin are stated to be "highly delusional".

23 August

 * , Adding a See also link to therianthropy from clinical lycanthropy.

Evidence presented by User:SqueakBox
August 22 he assumed I was the sockpuppet of a very inexperienced user in order to engage in edit warring because he did not believe in my good faith but instead assumed my bad faith (sockpuppetry, etc) on my part. Frankly, from the speedy delete tag being applied for no genuine reason I assumed it must have been this girlvinyl person trying to get rid of the RfC improperly.
 * <18:50, August 22, 2005>

September 16

<22:07, September 16, 2005>

he accuses me of just turnming up to an atrticle because he was making the comment.  I get that feeling that you and xxxx just showed up because you two have a history of false complaints against me.

There is no history of false complaint against him, and this is an article I had been watching since Deeceevoice came under attack from WareWare.

<15:47, September 16, 2005>  Slightly earlier he also engages in a bad faith attack against the same Deeceevoice.

5 October

 * Possibly uncivil edit on Talk:Otherkin, the first thing he's said to Gabriel/Gavin/Gimmiet since his return.

<7> 
rudely removing valid things without discussion. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lycanthropy&diff=prev&oldid=25008986

look ath the comment in invisible quotes, and then look at the rudeness in what else he tried to place in the n4ext edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Otherkin&diff=next&oldid=25010380

this is typical, and shows no sign of stopping.

15 October

 * and False claims of having consensus on his side are things DreamGuy makes a lot, and these are but two examples of reverts he made without discussion based on this "consensus" (an examination of the case would quickly reveal that he is  pretty much alone on the matter).


 * A personal attack on myself and User:Llywrch (calling us "stubborn"), as well as another claim that myths being "believed to be true" is the most important part of the definition, despite not appearing in any dictionary I have consulted. DreamGuy consistently refuses to cite sources for such claims.


 * Claim to be restoring a balanced opening to an article, when in fact giving precedence to his rare definition and blatantly misinterpretting the one I advocated and its origins, as well as an assumption of bad faith on my part.


 * More assumptions of bad faith, and a claim to want to compromise despite later refusing to allow me to include my consensus-acknowledging edits.


 * Continued refusal to acknowledge obvious facts (which has apparently stopped recently, but could rise again). Notice the lack of specific sources: the only scholars he's mentioned are "classical authors", with no specifics. He also again shows a misunderstanding of my definition of "mythology" as being a collective noun.


 * A few blatant personal attacks against me - including the latest in a string of claims that I am delusional and a reference to me as a "problem user". Also, an assumption that I only edit the Mythology article for revenge against him, and a claim that consensus is against me despite facts.


 * Apparently a blind revert of my overall positive edit just because it was made by me, as it seems unlikely he would not notice all the other changes I made as he later claimed.