As some of you know there is an endless debate on this article's talk page. Sometimes, there is actually constructive discussion. I am in a conflict with CheeseDreams that is under mediation. But I turn to all of you for hopefully immediate aid on another issue.

As the talk page gets too long, CheeseDreams summarizes the discussion. She claims to do this to save space as "some editors are verbose." There are two problems with this. First, it is CheeseDreams who does the summarizing, so in effect she has taken it upon herself to represent all parties in any dispute. Second, the summaries themselves take up a huge amount of space. John Kenney has already questioned this practice (which I don't think is common). I just archived a huge amount of material and asked CheeseDreams to stop summarizing. But she is currently summarizing. She is summarizing the last two days worth of discussion. This is ridiculous -- we should archive old material, but keep new material -- material that is still under discussion -- available. CheeseDreams' method of summarizing doesn't really save a lot of space, but it does rewrite in CheeseDreams' words what other people are saying.

I know CheeseDreams is not intending to vandalize the page, and I can't call this vandalism. But it is wrong, horribly wrong.

I am not calling for her to be banned or blocked. I am a party to a dispute under mediation and can't do anything. But I ask someone to do something about this obsessive "summarizing." Please. Someone. Help.

Steven L. Rubenstein Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bentley Annex Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701