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.