John Ball has started a revert war on the Islamophobia article. He insists on allowing only one point of view to exist, and he has described all other points of views as "vandalism". He has faked quotes from other sources, describing estimates from Islamic scholars as really coming from American non-Muslims (He's lying do a Googl seacrh and you can chekc for yourself.)
He even has picked his own favorite pro-Muslim group which he has insited must be quoted, in full, without quotes, as NPOV material. Totally disregarding our NPOV policy, he writes:
The statements of the Runnymede Trust should stand as stated by that body and not be altered as they do not then represent that organisation's opinion. The 8 points were the result of a RT multi-faith commission and should be accepted as NPOV.
I did try to work with John. I wrote that no statement by *any* one organization is accepted is NPOV. You must read the article on Wikipedia's NPOV policy. I noted that nowhere in the article were there quote marks. Therefore, that section was plagiarism, and Wikipedia policy demands that all plagiarism automatically be removed.
However, I want to work with others. I told John Ball that we can include quotes from groups, *if* the quotes are explicitly references ad such, and clearly demarcated from the rest of the text with quote marks or some other form of formatting.
I have no problem with including the point of view of this group. However, other points of view exist and they must be included as well. In response, John Ball deleted all points of view other than his own, labeled me a vandal, and started a revert war. He clearly is convinced that the POV of one particular group is "NPOV" and that the article must follow the POV only.
Like Zero and others, John Ball is not acting in good faith. What do we do when someone publicly states that they will refuse to follow our NPOV policy, and simply engages in non-stop revert wars to remove all POVs that they personally do not hold?
Robert (RK)
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