On 03/09/06, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
Say you found an editor that was using cites, but inverting them and using them to support their own OR. And they did this repeatedly, several times reverting corrections when their 'error' was pointed out/corrected; to the point where the person they were misquoting actually came on to the wikipedia to complain about it. What exactly would the process be? Should the editor be suspended for bring the wiki into disrepute or something? Who would one talk to about this kind of thing?
[[WP:RFC]] in theory. You need at least one other person who has tried and failed to solve the dispute.
In practice, [[WP:AN]] asking for advice and help, with actual non-hypothetical details, may be helpful in reassuring yourself and others and providing a useful sanity check.
I know that messing around with citations and references, if it reaches the ArbCom, is considered possibly worse than personal attacks - in that personal attacks harm the project, but that sort of thing harms the encyclopedia itself.
- d.