cprompt wrote:
Instead, I was told that Susan Mason is lying and only pretends to cooperate, and that I was well-meaning but naive.
How to put this .... yup, that's about it. or rather, you're well-meaning but you've not experienced Adam for yourself yet.
Adam [name omitted for privacy reasons], to give Susan Mason his real name, does a very good job of sounding amiable and cooperative. Most of us here have fallen for it -- including me.
After the "amiable cooperative" phase, there'll be a minor difference of opinion, which you, in your good faith, will put down to a misunderstanding. You'll then try and clear it up, and that's when the fun starts.
as far as I'm concerned, he's on auto-revert: I am likely to revert his edits, be they article or talk pages without even bothering to read them first. We've lost too much time, had too much stress over this one single poisonous individual.