I just found out today that there was a formal arbitration case against me, yet I had no idea such a case was going on. It is grossly improper to do this without me being part of it. The arbitrator of this case against me, Raul654, refuses to read any of the Talk sections of the articles in question, and is accepting without question charges against me made by Zero, Simonides and a handful of others. Raul654 was unaware that Simonides was himself nearly banned for his non-stop damage of several Wikipedia articles. Simonides launched into abusive polemics against nearly everyone on the [[Philosophy]] and [[Anti-Semitism]] articles. (Many people are upset with the way that Simonides's kept hurling ad homenim attacks at so many people, so many times.) Since I was one of the many people who did not allow him to unilaterally rewrite all of our articles to match his own peculiar POV, he tried to ban me. When I merely asked the arbitator, Raul654, to check on this, he refused to do so, and shockingly accused me of making an ad homenim attack. That is just too much. It seemed a clear indication that the facts do not matter to him, the history of the people in question do not matter, and that he is just going to try and get me banned regardless. That alone is reason to recuse him from his role. The case with Zero is both puzzling and disappointing. We rarely have any conflict. Zero does have a great deal of anger, and I am sure that he is a sockpuppet for another user. So what did I do? Fight? No. Argue? No. I instead did the following: * I requested that in the one area we have a significant difference, we mediate (i.e. the [[Israel Shahak]] article.) For whatever reason, nothing occured. For this I should be banned? * I've thanked Zero a number of times for good suggestions he has made. * As for many other articles that we could have had disagreements on (relating to the Arab-Israeli wars), I unilaterally removed nearly all of those articles from my Watchlist! I let him have his way on over a dozen articles, no matter how I may disagree. I did this of my own accord; if this is not a sign of compromise and good faith, then nothing is. What was Raul654's response to learning this? He accused me of making ad homenim attacks! Such a response is indicative of imparital hostility to me. Raul654 makes it clear, further, that Jimbo is supporting these efforts to ban me, which is news to me! (Simonides is claiming that Jimbo is on his side, which Raul654 unquestioningly accepts.) At this point, I have to formally make a request for arbitration against Raul654, Zero and Simonides. Given the way that I am being harassed and threatened, I don't see much option. But isn't this a huge waste of time? For the good of Wikipedia, and to save everybody's time so we can actually work on articles, please stop this nonsense. It is hard to move forward when two people get an arbitator to bring progress to a halt based on their personal animosity. In distress at this time-wasting nonsense, Robert (RK _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

I just found out today that there was a formal arbitration case against me, yet I had no idea such a case was going on. It is grossly improper to do this without me being part of it.