[WikiEN-l] A cry to save the Asperger's Syndrome page

[Ryan Norton]

Hi,

This was an otherwise great article that as of late (the past 3 days)  
has seen excessive edit warring and POV entries injected into it. Now  
it has been (predictably) set up for removal as a featured article.

All of this is due to a single user, Tern, who continually injects this  
passage

"These things illustrate how AS appears to correlate with child  
authorship, hence a number of aspie communities have a concerned  
awareness of the terrible injustice an aspie child can suffer when the  
[http://www.phad-fife.org.uk/recognition.html chance to achieve child  
authorship] is unfairly wrecked by high-handed [[school]] pressures."

and links to a very controversial site which nearly everyone else  
describes as a "hate site", which other editors are editing anonymously  
to avoid being listed on.

The link above in question is merely the rantings of a 14-year-old  
person with Asperger's Syndrome who could not get a scifi book  
published (and some other editors also claim that Tern is the person  
referenced there)- so initially users (before I came in the debate)  
just reverted the passage and noted on the talk page that it needed to  
be reworded to be less POV and needed a better reference.  However, as  
evidenced by the history page
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/ 
index.php?title=Asperger%27s_syndrome&curid=37556&action=history
Tern continued to revert back to his version many, many times against  
MANY other editors who reached their 3 revert limit VERY quickly  
(reverts often happen within 10 minutes!). So, out of desperation the  
other users attempted to reword the passage in order to be less pov and  
accurate, including myself - however, this was not enough and Tern  
continued to revert back to his version.

Some of his edit summaries have been very hurtful and involve personal  
attacks, such as
"sysops look how this rv of haters' vandalism gives new consensual  
edits to both items"
"the last attack made here, the public can see is blatant personally  
malicious bullying against wikpedia's rules and illegal in intending to  
suppress prevention of child cruelty"
"creatively revert the llast absurdity, cos it's obviously just an  
irresponsible personal insult and not verified"

Tern has also accused other editors of "hurting children" on the talk  
page.

Tern has violated 3RR at least 3 times, and depending on how you want  
to do the math many more times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/ 
3RR#User:Tern

I'm just a participant in the war and have reached my 3RR limit twice  
already, and I've filed the 3RR against Tern.  I WANT to work with the  
user, but the user needs to calm down and discuss with more sense about  
what he wants to do with the page, not just revert other good faith  
editors. I've tried notifying two admins without response on the issue  
also - and one admin - Zscout370 - simply voted to remove the article  
from FA status and not get in the debate with the user.

I'm the one who brought the Autism article to its Featured Article  
status and used this article as a reference more or less on how to do  
it, so its really a pity to see this happen - I'd hate to see it lose  
its status because of a war with one user.

Thanks,
RN