[WikiEN-l] RK's paranoia

[J.F. de Wolff]

In one day, I've been called dishonest, a fundamentalist and a censor by 
Robert, and dishonest and a censor by an antisemitic vandal who decided to 
change my userpage. For some reason I've stuck my arm in the crate with 
velociraptors, haven't I?

I have stated my real concern with Robert's "critical historical" quotes in 
my original post to this list. However, Robert is in fact turning my views 
inside out. I do *not* want to eliminate or suppress historical 
interpretations, but I'm annoyed that Robert doens't research the 
traditional (or Haredi, if you want) take on things. I cannot stand by idly 
to see him overwhelm Judaism-related articles with critical-historical 
material without making serious mention of the traditional interpretations 
(which are not all too hard to find in English-language literature). On 
[[Talk:Maimonides]] I asked Robert to reproduce a particular quotation from 
the scholar Ibn Tibbon, something that Robert refused to do despite having 
photocopies of the article from which the quote could be taken. This would 
have immediately settled the argument from my point-of-view; it was the 
hinge around which the debate was raging with [[User:Jayjg]], 
[[User:Danny]], RK and myself.
I truly regret not being able to offer alternatives whenever Robert gives 
his treatment to a page. Frankly, my time is limited, and I prefer to work 
on medical articles, especially when every attempt to work on Judaism 
articles leads to edit wars with Robert.

My rant on [[Talk:Artscroll]] on Jewish unity was aimed at Robert's 
persistent attempts to insert the most base of allegations about an 
(Ultra-)Orthodox Jewish publisher into Wikipedia. Robert may not like their 
religious publications, but this random repeating of conspiracy theories 
from internet mailing lists is not conducive to any Wikipedia article.

I regret Robert fails to get my point. As he mentions, we have worked very 
constructively in the past, and it is my solemn intention to keep doing 
this. Sometimes, however, the discussion reaches boiling point, and the 
postings become nasty.
I call upon Robert to heed Jimbo's posting and end this discussion. The 
mailing list is not the right forum to complain about other users. For this 
purpose we have RfC, RfM and RFAr. Robert must also be aware of Danny's 
hard work on behalf on Wikimedia projects, and the fact that any attack on 
him will likely meet with resistance.


-- Jfdwolff


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