Folks, we currently have an edit-war between Anthere and the world over the Gaia theory article.
But not over the content. This has nothing to do with content, or with POV. Rather, it has to do with his bizarre obsession with creating his own names that NO ONE ELSE in science uses, and urging the creating of multiplw articles with nearly the same name, and almost the same content.
I can understand when someone gets into a flame-war or edit-war when someone rewrites their contributions. But this is happening when I am NOT rewriting his contributions, but am merely moving biological scientific studies out of a social-science discussion, into the science-section of an article. I think he is threatened by science maybe? I dunno...
Anthere has created, or supported the creation of:
[[Gaia hypothesis]] [[Gaia theory]] (lower case t) [[Gaia Theory]] (upper case T) [[Gaia theory (biology]] [[Gaia theory (homeostais)]] (And a few more!)
And ALL OF THESE are on the same topic. The content is or was nearly identical!
Being a scientist, I happen to know that no one uses Anthere's bizarre terminology. All of these articles refer to the same set of Gaia theories. But Anthere keeps refusing any consolidation. That's just odd.
Problem 1: The discussion consensus so far has been clear: Others are also confused about this bizarre naming system, and want a better naming system. Anthere's fractionated current system only misdirects anyone trying to learn about the topic.
Problem 2: It is a violation of our naming conventions to have nearly identical content, with nearly identical titles, differentiated by only a lower-case versus upper-case letter!
Problem 3: Anthere has effectively claimed ownership of the article, and currently won't let me add anything. Yet (bizarrely!) he claims that he is being censored. I find this claim outrageous, as I don't care what he writes. He can write anything he likes, and I am NOT deleting it. He is just being paranoid.
Problem 4: Someone has accused me of "SCIENTISM" (whatever that is supposed to be) for saying that the articles on this scientific topic should have more science! They also are asking me to stop preventing them from discussing religious and mythological views of the topic...but I am not doing this. I can't stop doing something that I simply was not doing to begin with!
With concerns,
Robert (RK)
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