Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Tatsuma

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Statement of the dispute
Tatsuma jumped into the middle of a content dispute about criticism in the Ars Technica article and began reverting the article during a mediation request to force his POV against any consensus. He continued the reverts after mediation ended.

Description
Editor continuously reinserts disputed criticism into the Ars Technica article without discussion and with no sign of willingness to compromise. He has never contributed anything to Wiki except to revert this one article. (See here.) He has been asked multiple times to please join the discussion on the Talk page, but refuses to respond. He has never once contributed to a Wiki article or to the discussion about the disputed content. Since it is a content dispute our hands have been tied about how exactly to deal with Tatsuma, so I posted this RfC.

To be clear, the disputed content he is reverting back begins around on line 33 of the diffs. He is removing an HTML comment to ask people to please discuss any additions to Criticism before adding them. Then, on line 39 he adds back four lines of contested content to the article. The other changes you see him removing are minor additions to the article that he has reverted out in an attempt to add back the contested criticism.

Evidence of disputed behavior
For context, see Talk:Ars Technica.
 * Reversion on August 29:
 * Reversion on August 28:
 * Reversion on August 25:
 * Reversion on August 25:
 * Reversion on August 21:
 * Reversion on August 14:
 * Reversion on August 5:
 * Reversion on August 2:
 * Reversion on August 1:

Applicable policies and guidelines
{list the policies and guidelines that apply to the disputed conduct}
 * WP:CONSENSUS
 * WP:POINT

Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute
See User talk:Tatsuma
 * Tsetna trying twice to coax Tatsuma to cease reverts and discuss the criticism beginning August 2, 2006:
 * Me warning Tatsuma to discuss potentially controversial edits first on August 28, 2006:
 * Me giving a final warning on August 29, 2006 to cease:
 * The reverts have also been discussed on Talk: Ars Technica under suspicion of meat/sock puppetry.
 * Both internal and outside mediation was sought to try to deal with the criticism, and during that time everyone was encouraged to discuss criticism without removing it (during the internal mediation) or adding it back (during the outside mediation) (see Talk: Ars Technica).
 * The Criticism section of the page also contains a hidden HTML comment asking editors to discuss criticism first before changing that is visible when editing the page.

Users certifying the basis for this dispute
{Users who tried and failed to resolve the dispute}


 * Debuskjt 01:10, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Tsetna 16:09, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Other users who endorse this summary

 * Durova 14:26, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Response
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Outside view concerning the username
Via private email, the person whose personal details were originally posted as being Tatsuma's own has confirmed that this is not him, and that there's an impersonation attempt going on. It would be great if we could get this user moved to a different username and then blocked so that the "real" Tatsuma could assume his rightful name... but that may be a pipe dream. I am unfamiliar with which noticeboard anything related to this should be posted to; other editors here may know better. Captainktainer * Talk 03:44, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Users who endorse this summary:
 * 1) Captainktainer * Talk 03:45, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Discussion
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