On 09/09/04 23:52, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Yeah, let's try to relax a bit. I'm sure
she's right about the
situation, but we don't have to get all heated up about it.
Nah. But we do need a way to deal with these people. Robert
Brookes is to anti-circumcision as Mr-Natural-Health is to
alternative medicine. He's a strident POV-pusher on a crusade,
given to personal abusiveness, with no intention of stopping
until his mission is accomplished.
(We need a name for this phenomenon. "Abusive crusader"?)
I see our options as follows:
1. Do little or nothing while he wreaks havoc as per MNH. That's
not havoc with the articles, but with the contributors. Remember
that one of MNH's most damaging effects was scaring other editors
off having ANYTHING to do with alternative-medicine-related articles.
2. Deal with this variety of problem child a little faster than MNH.
The arbcom came to a suitable decision the second time (the first
one having proven inadequate because a second was needed, but it
was early days for the arbcom) with MNH; one can hope this style
of abusive editor can be dealt with quicker in future.
3. Come up with a hithertho-unknown method of reforming this sort
of user. This would presumably exclude anything that was tried with
MNH and failed, for the idealists reading this.
I *strongly* suggest option 2. But I could of course be wrong.
So. What will it be?
- d.