Removing material from the talk page for an article is inappropriate. To see what RK did look at:
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Idolatry&diff=809422&am... 808952
As you can see (regardless of its merits) the material RK removed is more or less on-topic.
As I look back through the edits, Dietary Fiber's edits seem just as good as RK's.
The actual issue in dispute is difficult to get at even with prolonged reading, but here's one example of RK's tone:
:That's it. I am tired of your bald-faced lies. I '''never''' wrote any such thing, Dietary Fiber, and you will be reported for fabricating quotes and trolling. This is the second time today you fabricated a quote from me, and attacked me for it. Each time I try to work with you, you respond with personal attacks and fraud. Well, that's the end of your hateful attempts to disrupt our encyclopedia. You are now under watch. [[User:RK|RK]] 00:25 Apr 9, 2003 (UTC)
I think that probably the person that belongs "under watch" is RK.
Fred
Although perhaps RK could point us to a "fabrication of a quote"?
From: Robert rkscience100@yahoo.com Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:36:57 -0700 (PDT) To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Problem with Dietary Fiber on idolatry article
I am having some problems with User:Dietary Fiber, on the Idolatry article. He started off by repeatedly criticising the article for pushing a religious point of view (which it clearly did not do). He then went off-topic in the TALK page for this article, so I moved the off-topic part of this discussion over to his own home page so we could discuss things there; that is Wikipedia protocol. In response, he deleted the discussion and labelled it as SPAM, and went back to attacking me! This is a classic behavior of a troll, if not the very definition of one.
He all of my attempts to dialogue, and fabricated a quote from me, and then attacked the position in this quote. Despite how angry I was at this, I tried again to clarify the issues that he seemed to be confused on. In the end, he responded by creating another fake position, and criticised me for things I never said, and beliefs that I never have had.
His most recent slander is this:
Is it appropriate to refer to all idol "worshipers" as idolators, as RK suggests elsewhere? [[User:Dietary Fiber|Dietary Fiber]]
I never wrote any such thing. In fact, I was the one who contributed material to this article, and to the article on Religious pluralism, on why so many liberal Christians and liberal Jews now have the OPPOSITE beliefs. But Dietary Fiber just doesn't care. He is attacking positions I do not have, claiming that I am pushing these positions in the article, and then criticising me for those beliefs!
I don't know what he is up to, but I smell a troll. I would keep a close watch on him.
In frustration,
Robert (RK)
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