It's headed for trouble, but how would you characterize what RK does in terms of Wikipedia policies? What Wikipedia principles does he violate? And if that search proves difficult, what policies need to be made?
Fred
From: "J.F. de Wolff" jfdwolff@doctors.org.uk Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 03:41:52 +0100 To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org, daniwo59@aol.com Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Please stop Danny from harassing me
The Maimonides issue has spun completely out of control, like many other pages where RK decides to take over. He deposits a lot of research, most of which is only of marginal relevance to the issue, and causes long and heated debates on talk pages whether these insertions are justified. Often, vital POVs are not represented, because RK favours particular sources for his research and (?conveniently) forgets to mention that these POVs exist.
I do not argue with Robert over pages that don't have my interest, but we recently had a major flurry over [[Artscroll]], a Jewish publisher of religious texts. Robert wanted to insert allegations expressed on mailing lists concerning the historicity and factuality of the content of many of these books. While some of these allegations came from respectable sources, some others were simple paranoid mumblings by mailinglist contributors.
And so it carries on. RK moves his focus to a different page, annoys a few vested contributors, and spins off another discussion. This has been the stuff of various mediation and arbitration requests, including a pending one, and I'm seriously wondering where this is heading.
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