Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/G.-M. Cupertino/Evidence

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G.-M. Cupertino edits with little regard for the work of other editors
On several occasions, the user has replaced tabled filmographies for actors and actresses with direct copy-pastes from IMDB, including DVD extra features and specific episodes of television shows. 1 2 3 4 5

this is just a selected list, and only one from each page. He has repeatedly reverted to his edits when multiple editors have tried to make constructive edits.

G.-M. Cupertino is openly hostile and unwilling to work with other editors
Since my very first interaction with him, G.-M. Cupertino has been largely hostile and unwilling to reach a common consensus. I have tried to work with him to get this issue resolved, but he has been extremely resistant to my attempts. He has also deleted all of my postings on his talk page, so here are the revision histories that make up the most complete versions: 1 2 3 4 5

G.-M. Cupertino has a nasty habit of responding to even constructive criticism with hostility and misplaced anger. Here are just a few samples from other people's talk pages exemplifying this.

Cupertino on my talk page
In addition to being openly hostile toward me, he has continually removed his postings from my talk page as well. Here is the most recent revision of that, in case he removes it again:  

After my continual insistence that he stop deleting content from my talk page, he chose instead to vandalize it twice under an IP:

 

Cupertino on Dismas' talk page
    

Likewise, Dismas came forward after the request for arbitration had begun and showed me one of his userpages under which he has been building a case against Cupertino for some time, recording many of his editing actions with others:

Cupertino on Kww's talk page
This is after several reverts of Cupertino's removal of content from Kww's talk page, having broken the 3RR rule (1, 2, 3, Warning)

 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kww&diff=261456168&oldid=261455845

Conclusion
G.-M. Cupertino has shown time and time again that he is unwilling to edit in a collaborative and helpful manner. He is standoffish and hostile, and the evidence presented here is only a fraction of what is surely out there, and there is even more at the original request. He was recently banned once for sockpuppeting, conditionally unblocked to contribute to this case, then re-blocked for breaking those conditions:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

G.-M. Cupertino has operated abusive sockpuppet accounts for a protracted period of time
Requests for checkuser/Case/G.-M. Cupertino

WP:OVERLINK
Take this diff of the Danielle Savre article for instance where Cupertino wikilinked every hobby the person has including links for both "baking" and "cookies". The article is about an actress and has nothing to do with baking or cookies and both are common English words. The links add nothing to the article just as in the "Supply and Demand" example from WP:OVERLINK where linking of "potatoes" doesn't add anything to the S&D article.

I cited WP:OVERLINK in my edit summary and Cupertino replaced those links

Yet another example which is two days after the previous incident.

WP:NPA
Secondly, Cupertino has at least twice violated WP:NPA. The first as evidenced here at the bottom of the page. And the second time on my own talk page here. Another example from an edit summary.

And a third!

WP:MOS
Cupertino ignores other editors when guidelines are pointed out such as WP:MOS. This edit shows where it was pointed out that episode titles are to be in double quotes and film/television show titles are to be in italics. Another example where the pertinent guidelines are pointed out in the edit summary and this edit was later undone

WP:LOW
As part of an informal third opinion type situation, I posted my thoughts about WP:LOW on the talk page of the Rachelle Lefèvre article. Two other editors agreed with me that the "Year in X" type links should be removed from the article. Yet, Cupertino, who keeps the name of an "Admin for emergencies" handy, took the words of that admin and ran with it.

After pointing out that filmographies should be in reverse chronological order, Cupertino has continued to go against this guideline. A second editor has even pointed this out to them.

Summary
I believe that Cupertino's linking of non-notable films/television shows/etc. as well as linking of unrelated common English words are related. They make the article messy and difficult to read.

Cupertino consistently ignores other editors when guidelines and policies are pointed out.

Cupertino is argumentative and while they've made several good edits, fights anyone who makes changes to articles which Cupertino disagrees with.

Disrupting my talk page
The disruption on my talk page got mentioned above, but I will expand the timeline for easier examination:


 * An old argument was deleted by, later confirmed as a sock of GMC.
 * Restored by . No idea why he was monitoring the situation so carefully.
 * IP removes it again
 * Restored by, again kind of spookily quickly.
 * removed again
 * Quickly reverted by
 * Removed by GMC, who has now logged in, and pretends that the IP wasn't him. Other editors leave it alone.
 * I wake up, and restore the comments. I rarely permit things to be removed from my talk page, even vandalism.
 * GMC has the gall to revert my edits to my own talk page.
 * I restore it
 * I make it clear to GMC that I don't want him deleting things from my talk page
 * As usual, GMC gets angry, and deletes it again.
 * I restore my talk page
 * 3RR warning for GMC, because I can see that this isn't going to stop until GMC is blocked, and I don't need a report rejected on a technicality.
 * GMC tells me to go fuck myself
 * Reverted by
 * I restore the comment. No one can accuse me of inconsistency.
 * GMC violates the term of his unblock to yell some more
 * GMC then decides to threaten me

I'm pretty sure he was trying to make it less likely that people would notice the personal attacks contained in the comments, but has succeeded only in drawing a lot of extra attention to them.

&mdash;Kww(talk) 04:27, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

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