Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lapsed Pacifist/Evidence

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First assertion
Place argument and diffs which support your assertion, for example, your first assertion might be "Jimmy Wales engages in edit warring". Here you would show specific edits to specific articles which show Jimmy Wales engaging in edit warring

Second assertion
Place argument and diffs which support the second assertion, for example, your second assertion might be "Jimmy Wales makes personal attacks". Here you would show specific edits where Jimmy Wales made personal attacks.

First assertion
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Second assertion
Place argument and diffs which support the second assertion, for example, your second assertion might be "Jimmy Wales makes personal attacks". Here you would list specific edits where Jimmy Wales made personal attacks.

First assertion
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Second assertion
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First assertion
LP regularly adds in POV additions, subtle word changes and POV language pushing political agendas to Irish articles, ignoring appeals to stop, demands from multiple users to stop, bans for breaching 3RR. In Northern Ireland, elements of both communities use POV terminology both to push their own political agenda and to send a "fuck you" message to the other. LP is one of the worst offenders on WP. For example, because elements of both communities use their own POV language to describe the place (Unionists use 'Ulster', Republicans 'The Six Counties' etc) WP follows a strict policy of only using the legal name, Northern Ireland and no POV alternative. LP has spent months deleting references to Northern Ireland and slotting in his own political agenda-pushing replacements, for example, , , , He deliberately changes Loyalist (fringe working class Unionists associated with violence) to Unionist (the mainstream community rarely linked to violence) to provoke and offend Unionist Wikipedians, adds in unsourced wild claims , adds in propaganda for one party into articles or heavy POV editorialising ,  miscategorises other people's edits as 'blanking' in edit summaries. Other examples of his edits include, , ,. (Even while I was writing this, he produced this POV edit.) Various articles have become bogged down in edit wars caused by his POVing., ,

Second assertion
Lapsed Pacifist engages in constant edit warring across many pages. A review of just one period of his edits is revealing.


 * 1) (cur) (last) 22:39, 27 July 2005 Djegan m (revert vandalism)
 * 2) (cur) (last) 22:32, 27 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv)
 * 3) (cur) (last) 10:00, 27 July 2005 Djegan m (revert)
 * 4) (cur) (last) 06:59, 27 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv; please write accurate edit summaries)
 * 5) (cur) (last) 22:30, 26 July 2005 Djegan m (revert sectanism and vandalism of LP)
 * 6) (cur) (last) 22:28, 26 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv NPOV)
 * 7) (cur) (last) 10:15, 26 July 2005 Demiurge m (rv POV term "six counties")
 * 8) (cur) (last) 08:22, 26 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv NPOV)
 * 9) (cur) (last) 09:53, 25 July 2005 Demiurge m (rv POV term "six counties")
 * 10) (cur) (last) 06:59, 25 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv needlessly simplistic edit)
 * 11) (cur) (last) 21:48, 24 July 2005 JW1805 m (rvt (corrected needlessly complex sentence structure))
 * 12) (cur) (last) 21:39, 24 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv needlessly simplistic edit)
 * 13) (cur) (last) 15:37, 24 July 2005 JW1805 m (corrected needlessly complex sentence structure)
 * 14) (cur) (last) 15:34, 24 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv; Restore context)
 * 15) (cur) (last) 04:57, 24 July 2005 JW1805 m (simplify sentence)
 * 16) (cur) (last) 04:08, 24 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv NPOV)
 * 17) (cur) (last) 00:00, 23 July 2005 Demiurge m (rv POV)
 * 18) (cur) (last) 23:48, 22 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (Revert edits by Djegan to last version by JavaJive)
 * 19) (cur) (last) 20:27, 22 July 2005 Djegan (revert sectanism and vandalism)
 * 20) (cur) (last) 20:20, 22 July 2005 JavaJive m (wikify date)
 * 21) (cur) (last) 19:06, 22 July 2005 Demiurge m (rv POV)
 * 22) (cur) (last) 17:37, 22 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv)
 * 23) (cur) (last) 10:14, 22 July 2005 Demiurge m (rv POV)
 * 24) (cur) (last) 05:18, 22 July 2005 Lapsed Pacifist (rv)

His notivation for such edit warring can be seen in the following provocative edit summaries: "rv, for the hell of it" "Inserting outrageous POV".

This edit warring and POV pushing has now gone on for a year. In most cases it is him against all other users, Irish and non-Irish alike. He ignores NPOV, balance, source requirements, civility and the 3RR rule to push his agenda, and in the process offends users and turns articles into POV polemics. Or even worse he sneaks in carefully phrased changes that to the outsider seem innocent but which to those who know the factual background deliberately mislead the reader and create a deliberately misleading impression of the evidence. After a year of this farce Irish users have run out of patience with his behaviour and taken the ultimate step of asking the arbcom to intervene to stop what has been going on.

One final point I have noticed. Lapsed Pacifist has waged edit wars despite warnings, blockings, repeat blockings, etc. Users have noticed a distinct political agenda to the his edits. Having ignored all warnings and blocks, the moment he was informed about a RfA he suddenly, dramatically, and in an unprecedented manner, disappeared from WP and has not edited since. Given that fact, one cannot help but wonder if the person in question was in fact an employee or close associate of a political party or politican and that their remarkable and sudden disappearance was caused by a fear that an arbcom examination might draw attention to that association. In other words, a fear of being rumbled, and of drawing criticism to their party, led to the sudden flight from WP. (The political party their edits leaned to has a history in Ireland of having plants in organisations to try to influence the organisation to support that party or be at least less hostile to it. Wikipedia itself has been the target of organised attempts by outside organisations to influence its content.) LP's sudden disappearance the moment an investigation started is highly suspicious to say the least, every bit as suspicious as his edits. FearÉIREANN \(caint) 01:34, 18 February 2006 (UTC)