The clarifications on this list of 'WP norms' and 'WP due process' are very welcome.
There is an ongoing problem, as far as I'm concerned, with [[User:Kevin baas]]. As anyone who reads his home page can see, he has a certain research program in mind. As far as I can see, it has no merit; but that's not really the point. Comments such as his (on [[Talk:Real computation]]) "don't you guys have a sense of shame?" cause a deterioration of the atrmosphere. The current [[Real computation]] page seems to me eminently sensible. I don't think this kind of bullying comment should be applied, just because the page content casts doubt on Kevin's research 'proposal'.
A long series of related discussions, going back months, on [[Talk:Hypercomputation]]and [[Talk:Super-Turing computation]] have left the pages in reasonably good order - but the latter is vacuous (it is really 'some people say' about super-Turing computation). Kevin has consistently attacked the good faith of those who clearly know more.
The [[Fractional paradigm]] and [[Fractional probability]] pages are his 'walled garden' pages here. I think they have zero useful content. Fractional electromagnetics, anyone? On [[Talk:Fractional probability]] Michael Hardy has patiently been trying to get some sense out of Kevin, for half a year. [[Fractional calculus]] and [[Talk:Fractional calculus]] are somewhat different cases, snce the topic is real rather than bogus. I'm not convinced that they consist of more than formulae copied out of books, though, without proper understanding. In case of the Weyl fractional derivative formula, I thought it was for periodic functions only. I could be wrong, but I've not got an answer over the course of some months.
At [[Talk:Intermediate treatment of tensors]] there is a backlog of unresolved stuff about another, more prominent page that looks to me like Kevin copying half-understood stuff out of books.
Summary:
Kevin Baas is rather clearly trying to use WP space for his own, non-encyclopedic purposes. I don't find his contributions, apart from the formulary on the fractional calculus pages to be useful; and I find none of it authoritative. Some of it is wildly POV and unreliable, which is quite serious in a maths/computing area.
My conclusions:
Kevin Baas is in mathematical matters a bluffer. When engaged in discussion he resorts to: profanity; invocations of Socrates, Kant and the Pope; accusations of snobbery and so on. He is a timewaster, who makes himself difficult to deal with by retreat into interdisciplinary niches.
Required actions:
Some of the pages he has created ([[Fractional paradigm]] , [[Fractional probability]] and probably [[Super-Turing computation]]) are vanity pages beyond saving - the last of these should be merged into [[Hypercomputation]], against all his protests. His other stuff could be sorted out, absent his hostility.
I think dealing with this kind of elusive pretentitiousness is something that ought to fall within the remit of WP recognised procedures. I realise that this is all on my say-so. I'd be grateful if others would comment on a way ahead. This sort of contribution saps the authoritative standing of WP.
Charles