Dear list,
Please may I ask for your advice and assistance in pouring oil on troubled water with respect to [[User:Harry Potter]].
This user has been starting or contributing to articles relating to pataphysics, which is a movement that parodies things that are pretentiously highbrow (as I understand it, pataphysics is to science and the arts, as Mornington Crescent (the game show) was to chess commentary.) Unfortunately Harry, instead of writing NPOV articles on the subject has been writing articles about pataphysics in the style of a pataphysican. this is to say in a deliberately obscure , obtuse and POV way. Moreover these articles are in fact generally copied from other websites with no sign of permission being sought. Harry has brushed this last problem with a claim that pataphysicans are anti-copyright and so it doesn't matter.
One example is the page [[Anthony_Hancock_Paintings_and_Sculptures:_A_Retrospective_Exhibition]] . NB Anthony Hancock is a character in the film The Rebel played by, perhaps confusingly, Tony Hancock. Knowing that Anthony Hancock is/was not a real person makes it easier to understand why this article is rubbish.
I have tried to engage in a debate with Harry (see Votes For Deletion), but as a relative newbie, I do not how to handle him and persuade to conform to our rules if he wants to contribute to the Wikipedia. For the first time having been on the 'net for years I fear I have been properly trolled.
Pete User:Pcb21