Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Cberlet and Sam Spade

=Chip's opening comments=

I requested mediation because I have had repeated confrontations with Sam Spade on several pages, especially Fascism, Fascism and religion, and Political correctness.

Here is the text of the letter I posted on the English Wikipedia List WikiEn-l

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I really need a mediator to deal with the editing disagreements between me and Sam Spade. I requested mediation some time ago. Here is Sam Spade's latest:

"First your spurious accusation of plagiarism, and now you accuse me of vandalism. This, combined with dozens of other ugly statements on your part seem to be leading up to a rather damining arbcom case. I suggest you chill the fuck out. Sam Spade 15:34, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)" After I pointed out an obvious case of plagiarism by him on the Political Correctness page he seemed to start following me around Wiki provoking confrontations. His most recent effort was pasting a entire old contested section back into the Fascism article--complete with duplicate sentences and much duplicated material. When this was pointed out, he suggested it was the job of the other editors to find the duplicate material and delete it. This is vandalism. Please help. I know some people value Sam Spade as an editor, but my experience is that when he does not get his way, he becomes a bully, promoting a very POV right-wing bias. I am on the political left, but do try to edit here on Wiki in an NPOV way. A centrist mediator would be best to divide out what is political disagreement and what is personal antagonism. So I am resorting to this list in an effort to find an unbiased mediator.

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I think the problem is that Sam loses his temper and makes mistakes and acts in an aggressive manner, and then he tries to mask this conduct. I confess that I have lost my temper with Sam during more than one incident. I hope that a mediator can monitor the pages I have listed to help us both behave in a more consructive way. If this is not the proper format, please point me to instructions. Thanks.--Cberlet 22:36, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

=Sam Spade=

My assessment of Chip Berlet is best encapsuled in his article. He is a POV warrior from alt journalism, and brings many skills and detriments to the wiki accordingly. Because I have contradicted his far-leftist Politically correct POV one time too many, he has assumed bad faith on my part, made a number of false accusations and personal attacks, and generally behaved as one would expect from a journalist of his caliber.

What is the answer? He should know that false accusations are not to be tolerated, and that NPOV involves inclusion of all verifiable POV's, and a neutral narrative. There are other wikis for other POV's, the anarchopedia comes to mind. We'd be lucky to have a person like Chip, assuming he is dedicated to our Foundation issues. If not, having someone so well versed in writing editorials, rather than editing an encyclopedia... Frankly it is difficult, particularly given his cheering squad of fellow partisans.

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As a footnote, I would mention that while I have largely backed off from editing the articles in question:


 * Political Correctness


 * Fascism


 * Neofascism and religion


 * Christian Right

largely has not.