2008/10/22 Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name:
It's right here in the BADSITE:
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=20784
Merkey says he's planning on suing the Wikimedia Foundation, the individual members of ArbCom, and possibly other admins or editors.
Did he say a couple of months ago on this list that he was already doing so? He made similar threats repeatedly, I don't think anyone has received a summons yet.
He's claiming that he has some kind of agreement (with the Foundation? with Jimbo? it's unclear) that prevents anybody connected with Wikipedia from banning him, so that his banning was a contractual violation; he also claims that banning him from Wikipedia was an act of stalking or harassment.
Is there the slightest bit of truth to his claims of the existence of a "settlement agreement" between him and Wikimedia, or is this just entirely a pile of manure?
If memory serves, I asked Jimbo on this list to explicitly say it was all nonsense and he did so. That's good enough for me. (That might have been over a different matter, I'll check the archives.)