People have been banned before for breaking rules as a way of demonstrating that they need to be changed rather than discussing change directly. Most recently VeryVerily.
As to proceeding, if the charge is true, please get together the material that would demonstrate that to laypeople and follow the dispute resolution procedure (although it might be accepted, with strong proof, as is, for arbitration).
Fred
From: Cool Hand Luke failure.to.communicate@gmail.com Reply-To: Cool Hand Luke failure.to.communicate@gmail.com, English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 03:20:46 -0700 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Complicity in hoaxing - how to proceed?
That's very peculiar because ExplorerCDT encourages deleting things he sees as insignificant, to the point of encouraging "statement VfDs" (ie Jean-Luc Picard, nominated by another user at his suggestion). He's also made and many, many deletion replies in VfDs like [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Anya Schiffrin]]. Yet this anticruft crusader recently nominated [[Festivus]] for FAC. All of this is completely baffling to me.
But we can't ban someone for making "bad votes", even if they _are_ misleading editors, right?
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:31:09 -0000, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
The current listing at VfD of [[Cayley-Newbirth operation matrix]] has flushed out User:ExplorerCDT, who at the very least knew this was a hoax page, and posted comments at VfD designed to obfuscate and mislead.
User:ExplorerCDT is apparently otherwise in good standing as a Wikipedian. How to proceed in such a case?
Context is that there have been a number of attempts to place hoax pages in mathematics in the English Wikipedia. This example is evidently written with at least a well-informed graduate student knowledge (as with the recent vandalism attack by [[User:Slim Jim]], with plausibe disinformative tweaking). The page was been around for eight months, since it has the look-and-feel of a piece of obscure, dull abstract mathematics quite accurately.
For myself I would like to see User:ExplorerCDT banned, for bad faith editing.
Charles
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