<What is your specific objection to user:Michael?
<If he's just sloppy with facts, then keep following him <around and <quietly fixing his errors. Eventually, he'll either <decide to be more <careful or just get tired.
<Is he reverting your fixes, even when you've documented <that your fixes <are accurate?
He has reverted at least some changes, at [[Crass]]. I'm not sure that's really the point though. Why should I (or anyone) else have to spend time double-checking his facts? While everybody makes mistakes, he has such a huge proportion of mistakes in easily verifiable facts like release dates for albums, refuses to discuss anything with anybody, blanks talk pages that offer suggestions, demands that others not question his actions -- if this isn't bannable, what is?
I have better things to do with my time, on Wikipedia and in general, than to double-check his facts and fix his atrocious spelling, grammar, punctuation and style, in articles about crappy albums by bands I don't like.
While I can see some value in allowing Michael to grow into a valued contributor, I A: doubt it's possible B: doubt it's worth it even if it is possible -- and until it has happened, he needs someone to look over his shoulder at every edit, or else the music section of the Wikipedia will be full of badly-written and barely intelligible facts straight from Michael's imagination. I'm not willing to be his editor -- I'd be perfectly happy to help him understand some of the mistakes he's making (I gather English isn't his first language, as he makes highly unusual but complex-rule-based errors), but he has shown no desire to listen, understand or apply any of the advice I or others have given him (see [[User talk:64.175.250.115]] for some advice I gave him awhile ago, but in which there has been absolutely not a shred of improvement).
I'm sure we all have better things to do than shout at a brick wall that, on a good day, does no harm to the Wikipedia.
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