Besides doing a lot of good editing (by repute, as I have only looked at his edit wars involving [[common era]] notation) Jguk believes that the notation AD - BC is vastly superior to the common era notation CE - BCE (which he believes is incomprehensible to our users). Based on that belief he has changed the notation in a number of articles, most of which he does not ordinarily edit, and if reverted, engages in edit wars.
The proposed decision in the arbitration case is under consideration with no remedy proposed having majority support, see:
[[Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Jguk/Proposed_decision]]
Fred
On Jun 18, 2005, at 5:31 AM, David Gerard wrote:
Jimmy Wales (jwales@wikia.com) [050613 10:38]:
Sean Barrett wrote:
I am very worried that we are seriously discussing the formation of a committee empowered to prohibit unpopular content from Wikipedia and to ban those that feel that it is important to record it.
I don't think that's what we are discussing.
jguk has already left Wikipedia over the present content-related AC case, feling he was being railroaded. I don't think that counts as a win for Wikipedia - we're talking about a good contributor, not some obnoxious nutter we're better without.
It's a larger version of exasperating one's opponents off the wiki, only this time using the AC as a hammer. So far I'm only seeing taking on content-related cases as setting up a disaster.
- d.
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