On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:32:36PM +0100, elian wrote:
Rather I'd suggest a temporary ban of RK because of repeated NPOV abuses, if that didn't entail accusations of Anti-Semitism on Wikipedia.
My earlier statements requesting clarification of Wikipedia policy came from my observing the way RK on the one hand, ignores it, and on the other hand accuses others of ignoring it.
I too would support a temporary ban of RK. He is always biasing things.
RK may be a Jew, but banning him for his persistent and long-standing disrespect for the NPOV policy does NOT constitute anti-Semitism.
Seeing RK receive some consequences for his behavior would go a long way toward reassuring me that it is safe to stick to the NPOV approach without fear of people like him instantly reverting my edits and calling me an "anti-Semitic vandal".
RK has recently branched out from attacking the Jehovah's Witness articles and started biasing the articles on Mormonism and drove away some Mormon contributors who were contributing NPOV material based on their firsthand experience.
Also, I have caught RK making some edits to the JW articles that show he clearly is pulling information out of his ass. One item in particular: he wrote "Book X published by the JW's claims Y about changes in their doctrines." In fact, that book makes the opposite case. It is part of a long-standing pattern of abuse where RK has shown his only interest is to dig up muck on a group, and not to provide a neutral, balanced view.
URL here:
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Doctrines_of_Jehovah%27s_Witness...
A lot of RK's bias consists of emotionally loaded terms. Everything is "alleged" or "claimed" or "mysteriously". Or he will say "All scholars disagree" and other similar absolute statements. Worse than his edits are his attacks on people who try to neutralize his emotionally laden verbage to something more suitable to the Wikipedia.
Jonathan