Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/LevelCheck/Evidence

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17 April

 * 21:03, 17 Apr 2005
 * At List of national flags, he added the flag of Palestine by stating in his edit summary "including israeli but not palestinian flag is pov."


 * 21:15, 17 Apr 2005
 * Same page, reinserts the Palestine flag, despite being reverted, and changes the definition of the page from flags of "independent states" to flags of "national groups". The revert, by User:Jayjg, stated "Please don't change the definition of the page so that you can include flags that don't fit the original definition. I don't see Kurdish or Tibetan or Quebequois or .... flags."

18 April

 * 21:29, 18 Apr 2005
 * At the same page, LevelCheck adds Israel to a "Disputed Nations" category he has created, describing his edit as a "compromise edit". . Does this again on 22 April (see below).

22 April

 * 14:49, 22 Apr 2005
 * Same page, created a new category called "Disputed Nations." Decides to list in this category Palestine, the Republic of China and Israel.

Note: After the April 22 edit, he has not made any more edits to the List of national flags page, or contributed to any discussion.

Evidence presented by Meelar
Behavior added in chronological order. Separate incidents of disruption are separated by horizontal bars if they occur on the same day.

April 15

 * User:63.173.114.137 nominates User:SamuraiClinton for adminship; at the time, SamuraiClinton had a request for comment up about him.
 * I warn the anon user not to disrupt Wikipedia to prove a point, assuming they were editing in bad faith, as a nomination was certain to fail and could only provoke people.
 * The anon registers as User:LevelCheck to satisfy the requirement that requests for adminship be made by a logged-in user.
 * When asked why he thought SamuraiClinton would be a good admin, he replied that SamuraiClinton "avoided edit wars and other destructive behavior", neatly dodging the question.
 * The matter is dropped.

April 16

 * LevelCheck nominates Template:User fa-2 for deletion, with the edit summary "Tfd gibberish" . The template in question is to alert people that the user can communicate in Persian, and as such is written in that language; it is linked to by Babel, the project page.
 * User:Knowledge Seeker explains politely that the template is not gibberish, assuming good faith. Again, the matter is dropped as a new user's mistake.


 * LevelCheck requests that User:ClockworkSoul block an anonymous user for violation of the 3RR.
 * ClockworkSoul responds by noting that the anon had a blank talk page, and that LevelCheck had not attempted to communicate with the anon or warn them of the 3RR.

April 18

 * After LevelCheck creates Poking Dogs with sticks as a redirect to animal cruelty, I politely ask for justification.
 * LevelCheck replies, saying that "It seemed like a good idea at the time" . I contend that no reasonable editor would create that redirect in good faith.

April 19

 * LevelCheck creates Worst United States President in history ; within an hour, an anonymous user has edited to include everyone who's ever held the office. LevelCheck engages in a revert war over the contents, eventually breaking the 3RR.
 * User:Postdlf puts the page on Vfd, 1 hour and 22 minutes after its creation ( was the addition of the VFD notice&mdash;this link is obviously now obsolete).
 * The vote on Vfd runs 40-3, but in the process, it does lead to some friction between a number of users. I submit that this was the goal of the entire article--no reasonable editor would submit this page.

April 22-23

 * LevelCheck creates Category:Islamofascists and adds it to Osama bin Laden, Mohammed Omar, Ruhollah Khomeini, Zacarias Moussaoui, Mohammed Atta, and Sayyid Qutb, in a deliberate echo of the debate on whether or not to keep Islamofascism (see Votes for deletion/Islamofascism). I believe that this category was specifically created to inflame and prolong that debate.
 * Category:Islamofascists is listed on Categories for deletion (see Categories for deletion/Log/2005 April 22). It is originally listed on Vfd by User:Commodore Sloat, and LevelCheck is thoughtful enough to move it to the correct location.
 * In his nomination, Commodore Sloat suggests that "this would be similar to creating a category called Category:Islamophobes or Category:Phony Texas warmongers".
 * On User talk:Commodore Sloat, LevelCheck writes: "As per your request...the category Category:Phony Texas warmongers has been created. By the way, categories for deletion should go on WP:CFD, not Vfd. Best wishes, LevelCheck."
 * After this notice, LevelCheck adds Category:Phony Texas warmongers to Tom DeLay and George W. Bush. His edit summary on Bush is "As per request of Commodore Sloat"
 * Both I  and User:SlimVirgin  warn LevelCheck that his behavior is disruptive and ask him to cease.
 * He adds Category:Islamophobes to Daniel Pipes and Christopher Hitchens, again with the summary "As per request of Commodore Sloat"
 * Category:Islamofascists was removed from the articles he had added it to; he added it back in, starting around 20:45 UTC on April 22. Example diff is for Zacarias Moussaoui . Edit summary for all is "Until the CFD vote concludes, this is still a valid category."
 * This behavior is repeated on Tom DeLay; his edit summary is "This category does exist. If you'd like, I'd be open to renaming it 'Alleged phony Texas warmongers'. Otherwise, your remedy is to list it on WP:CFD."
 * I empty and delete Category:Islamophobes and Category:Phony Texas warmongers.
 * I notify LevelCheck that I have filed a request for comment against him.
 * LevelCheck endorses my summary on the rfc..


 * LevelCheck creates Category:Racists, adding it to Theodore G. Bilbo, George Wallace, Adolf Hitler, Bull Connor, and other articles.
 * This category is removed from all the articles it is added to by various users, and deleted.

April 24

 * LevelCheck responds to the Rfc against him, apologizing for what he characterizes as "Socratic" editing and promising to refrain from it in the future.

April 25

 * On April 19, User:Xiong had nominated Templates for deletion on Vfd. The result was a unanimous keep. Then LevelCheck nominated Wikipedia:votes for deletion/Wikipedia:Templates for deletion for deletion itself..
 * LevelCheck asks "How long have you been a fascist?" on User talk:Viriditas.

April 26

 * LevelCheck creates Izziehugger, a page about an obscure neologism for those who support Israel. In the article, he notes that it was invented by a Usenet troll and that it receives 25 google hits. . I believe this to be what he refers to as "Socratic editing", despite his promise to halt.


 * I file a request for arbitration against LevelCheck.
 * LevelCheck, in his statement to the committee, says "No comment".


 * LevelCheck changes Jumbo shrimp's target--instead of redirecting to shrimp, he changes it to a redirect to oxymoron. I revert him.

April 30

 * LevelCheck adds Template:UtterlyRejected to Avoid using meta-templates, a failed policy proposal from User:Netoholic.
 * LevelCheck submits the failed policy proposal to vfd.
 * The vote on vfd is a unanimous keep as of this listing. Several users note that it is not policy to delete failed proposals. User:Klonimus requests that LevelCheck be admonished for bringing inappropriate items to vfd, as this type of thing has happened in the past.

May 9

 * After a 9-day hiatus from editing, LevelCheck reappears and creates List of people who have used the word "Islamofascism" . A further attempt to keep this conflict going. I reiterate my call for a temporary injunction. Meelar (talk) 18:08, May 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * An anonymous user creates Template:Islamofascism-stub and Category:Islamofascism. LevelCheck is involved in both--he adds a picture of the Saudi coat of arms to the template, and puts the template in the category . Is User:209.152.55.51 a sockpuppet for LevelCheck? Meelar (talk) 22:47, May 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * No. LevelCheck 22:48, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

(below all submitted by User:Klonimus)
 * Imho these are both useful stubs, categories and lists. Yes these catagories are "disruptive" but only because of a small cadre of editors who will disrupt wikipedia in reaction to any article that they perceive to be unfavorable to Islam. The creation of these categories is not per se disruptive.


 * I wish to remind the ArbCom that
 * Islamofascism did survive a very contentious VfD as Keep.
 * The Islamofascism VfD saw a good amount of disruption caused by the creation and subsiquent deletion of Judeofascism, Americofascism, and Christofascism by supporters of deleting Islamofascism
 * Islamofascism suffered an enormous amount of bad faith edit wars during VfD which lead to horribly mutilated article that was finally protected.
 * An idea of what the article looked like before the edit wars got out of control can be seen at User:Klonimus/Islamofascism and I think all unbiased people will agree that the pre Jihad article is worthy of inclusion.
 * The same edit warring can now be seen at Jizyah and Mutaween.

Ammended Klonimus 06:15, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

May 13

 * 21:14
 * LevelCheck creates Template:Uglybox, a multicolored box with several parameters. LevelCheck quickly starts using this template as his signature: , . Netoholic lists the template for deletion as disruptive ; I agree.


 * 22:49
 * LevelCheck makes Template:Tfd much bigger, adding a large red "stop hand". This disrupts any page which uses a template for deletion; Template:Tfd is designed to be unobtrusive. I warned LevelCheck that this behavior was disruptive.


 * 22:59
 * LevelCheck recreates Template:Bush-stub, a template which was previously deleted via TfD. LevelCheck's content was "This Bush-related article is a shrub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.".


 * 23:12
 * LevelCheck creates Category:Convicted criminals, even though Category:Criminals already exists. Adds a few murderers to the category, then adds George W. Bush.

Evidence presented by Tony Sidaway

 * All times in UTC


 * Seems to be suffering from a particularly severe case of WP:POINT. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 04:20, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

May 17

 * 00:25
 * Shotz (Hasidic_dynasty): Performs an edit with the summary "rv netoholic"
 * 00:26
 * Templates for deletion/Log/Deleted/May 2005: Performs an edit with the summary "rv netoholic"
 * 00:27
 * Template messages/Stubs/Beliefs: Performs an edit with the summary "rv netoholic"
 * 00:27
 * User talk:Steinsky Performs an edit with the summary "rv netoholic"
 * 00:29
 * User talk:Pcb21: Performs an edit with the summary "rv netoholic"
 * 00:29
 * Template:Guideline: Performs an edit with the summary "rv netoholic"
 * 01:19
 * Wikipedia_Death_Penalty: New policy proposal
 * 02:33
 * WP:AN/I: In response to Netoholic's complaint about his behavior, insists he has "the right to make up to three reverts a day to each article." Taunts Netoholic.

17 May

 * 15:01
 * LevelCheck created Template:Reallytinytotallydisputed, a template very similar to a number of "smaller variations on standard templates" that are going through TfD right now.


 * 15:34
 * LevelCheck created Template:Wdp, a template for the implementation of his Wikipedia Death Penalty policy.