I apologize if this is the wrong place to go with this. The user Reithy is becoming a real problem in terms of edit warring, locking articles, and harassing users on talk pages. He pores through my edits looking for ways to nitpick, his latest act was a veiled legal threat on a fair use image I uploaded: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Image_talk:Doughty_Rockity_Roll.j...
The image is a low-res album cover, clearly fair use, but he said "I will send an email to the record company, if you like to ask whether they agree with you." I take this as a legal threat.
He is of course the user who repeatedly vandalized libertarian-related articles a couple weeks ago. He has since become more stealthy about flagrant violations, but continues to harass me on my talk page. He has a current open request for arbitration. No offense, but I'd like to get things moving here. He's a troll. Everything he does is acting in bad faith. He has even removed charges from his own RFAr, and removed links from his evidence page. In my opinion, he should be long gone.
Thank you,
Paul (User:Rhobite)
I agree. As someone who has the [[United States Libertarian Party]] article on my watchlist, I can attest Reithy has been trying to push his POV for the past few weeks, albeit becoming more stealthy since the RFC and RFAr. In the most recent example, he placed the results for Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian candidate for US President, in the lead section, noting that he did "poorly". Such an addition biases the article by emphasising the party's weaknesses from the start, and was completely irrelevant in the lead in the first place (does the Republican party's article have Bush's results for the election in the lead section?). Reithy's been extremely rude to anyone who disagrees with his ideas about the Libertarians, and has publicly accused Wikipedia of pushing Libertarian POV.
John Lee ([[User:Johnleemk]])
Rhobite wrote:
I apologize if this is the wrong place to go with this. The user Reithy is becoming a real problem in terms of edit warring, locking articles, and harassing users on talk pages. He pores through my edits looking for ways to nitpick, his latest act was a veiled legal threat on a fair use image I uploaded: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Image_talk:Doughty_Rockity_Roll.j...
The image is a low-res album cover, clearly fair use, but he said "I will send an email to the record company, if you like to ask whether they agree with you." I take this as a legal threat.
He is of course the user who repeatedly vandalized libertarian-related articles a couple weeks ago. He has since become more stealthy about flagrant violations, but continues to harass me on my talk page. He has a current open request for arbitration. No offense, but I'd like to get things moving here. He's a troll. Everything he does is acting in bad faith. He has even removed charges from his own RFAr, and removed links from his evidence page. In my opinion, he should be long gone.
Thank you,
Paul (User:Rhobite) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Rhobite wrote:
The image is a low-res album cover, clearly fair use, but he said "I will send an email to the record company, if you like to ask whether they agree with you." I take this as a legal threat.
I don't think of it as a legal threat, but it is a fairly silly remark. For fair use, the whole point is that it doesn't matter if the record company agrees or not: their copyright rights do not extend so far as to prevent this kind of reuse.
As to the rest, I haven't looked into it, so I offer no opinion, but if your report is correct, then I agree with you completely.
We've got a longstanding disease of putting up with more nonsense than we should.
--Jimbo