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Responding to months old comments on talk pages

Doing so is fairly useless and will not be seen by anyone. If you wish to bring up a new issue, start a new section. —Centrx→talk • 18:36, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

NPA ("No Personal Attack") concerns, indeed... (moved from Talk:Noah's Ark by User:KillerChihuahua)

1. With this edit, User:Orange Marlin referred to me as "some highly POV editor" without exactly knowing what my private views are, because I had restored the statement detailing what religions the belief in Noah's Ark is found in.
2. With this edit, User:Filll wrote: If an obscure minority extremist religion like the "Mormons" venerates the Ark story and declares it to be "true", this proves nothing, and some might take it as a very serious strike against its veracity, given the Mormon track record on many other issues. (Underscoring mine.) This is a reportable violation of Misplaced Pages policy, and betrays open hostility.
3. With this edit, User Filll wrote: :It is too bad that you are incomprehensible. Oh well. I guess I did not expect much else. This is also an ad hominem personal attack. In the same edit he added: gallons and gallons of blood have been spilt by people with your kind of viewpoint. Without even exactly knowing what religion I belong to, if any, he feels confident enough to spread accusatory, reportable slander against my person, in default of any kind of logical argument.
4. He continued the blatant ad hominem with this edit where he stated: Hmm...And I guess that assuming you subscribe to a religion is some sort of terrible slander against you, equivalent to spitting on you. In such case, it is best that I leave you alone in your reveries and fantasies.
5. Not to be outdone, User:Orange Marlin, in denying that User:Filll had made apersonal attack against me, then referred to me as "pathetic" in this edit:
6. Orange Marlin then made this very strange edit, stating: It's amusing that their faith is so weak that any challenge to their view of the universe, obviously means their faith has no meaning. Well, obviously their faith was weak to begin with. This is very strange, because as I have never revealed whether I have any faith and if so, that would be strictly private and none of your business, just as whatever faith you choose is none of my business. But the remarks clearly reveal some kind of innate hostility against those in the world who do profess some sort of faith, or an express desire to weaken or deride that faith.
7. I, Til Eulenspiegel, having noted all of these and also several other comments of theirs, fairly made the observation at WP:LDS that these editors do not hide their hostility against people of faith. And just for that, you come in as if with authority of judge, jury and executioner all in one, and inform me that I am in violation of NPA. This is truly a sad day in hypocrisy, wikipedians. Til Eulenspiegel 23:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

I have moved this here as article talk pages are not the best place for resolving disputes concerning anything but content of the article itself. Neither is the LDS Wikiproject. I am certain you saw that I admonished the other editors as well (and you may find reassuance in the knowledge that on at least one previous occasion, I removed one of OrangeMarlin's posts, without even moving it anywhere for discussion.) Personal attacks and incivility are best handled through other venues; counter-attacks and escalation serve neither the injured editor nor the project as whole. While I understand your frustration, I suggest you take a little time to consider what your primary goals here are. If you are here to promote a particular point of view, you are in the wrong place. I suggest one of the Christian Wikis instead. If you are here to become mired in flame wars, UseNet will be a more tolerant venue. If you are here to help write an encyclopedia and ensure accuracy and neutrality of the content, you are not going to acheive those goals by sinking into mud-slinging and ad hom wars, nor cries of censorship, suppresion, or complaints of executioners. Please let me know if I can help you in any way here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by KillerChihuahua (talk • contribs).

Formal Complaint

• Yes, there is something I need help with, actually. I would like to press a formal complaint against User:Filll for making this statement in blatant violation of policy: "If an obscure minority extremist religion like the "Mormons" venerates the Ark story and declares it to be "true", this proves nothing, and some might take it as a very serious strike against its veracity, given the Mormon track record on many other issues."

The fact that you chose to admonish only me and AllenRoyBoy, but not User:Filll, does not exactly inspire great confidence in your impartiality as an admin -- so I will be seeking another admin who is truly impartial. Your impartiality is especially in question considering that you also removed the Book of Mormon from among the list of Scriptures that Mention the Ark, with your opinion that "The Mormons are a small minority and including their views here violates Undue weight. Gain consensus for desired changes before making them. This is FA, not Cleanup, level article". My only intention from the beginning was to list Book of Mormon among all the other Scriptures where the Ark is specifically mentioned, which it is, not to write a religious tract or preach or push any religion whatsoever on non-believers. But the forces of intolerance have prevailed. Human history has repeatedly demonstrated in spades that whenever intolerant demagogues start spouting such language as "an obscure minority extremist religion like the ___", it would be very wise for that minority in question to leave the country quickly for their own safety. This is the language of intolerance, when what is sorely needed in the world now is tolerance for people who might believe differently or have different beliefs from ourselves. Is this not the fundamental reason that Misplaced Pages even has these basic policies in place, expressly forbidding such verbal attacks in the first place? Yet as admin, you chose not to warn him for this alarming statement, but rather to warn and threaten me, and only for actually daring to notice. So much for your supposed neutrality. I now demand that this incident be investigated by some higher authority than you. Til Eulenspiegel 12:38, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

The first step in dispute resolution is always to attempt to resolve issues with the other party, not to "press a formal complaint" against them. I did not admonish "only me (Til) and AllenRoyBoy", I admonished you specifically, and everyone else collectively. Feel free to seek a second, or even a third opinion, or request uninvolved administrators examine my actions at the Administrator's noticeboard for incidents. That you have utterly failed to gain consensus, or indeed make a coherent case on talk, for your desired changes does not constitute "intolerance" in the least, nor is it an attack. One thing which seems to be a recurring theme with you is your quickness at attacking others who do not agree with you or even those who do not understand your points, accusing them of supression, censorship, hostility to religion, bias, and so on ad nauseam. This is not productive in the least, and I wonder why, after having been informed several times that you are merely coming across as an argumentative, hostile, accusatory self-proclaimed victim that you are not attempting to find an approach likely to meet with more success. Your "demand" that someone with "more authority" than myself is utterly useless - no such person exists except for Jimbo or the Arbcom, and neither will be interested in your complaints. Instructions for opening an Rfc against me are here. And finally, you accuse me of threatening you. Please either provide a dif of where I have done so, or retract this accusation. KillerChihuahua 15:19, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I felt threatened by this where you wrote "Also, please note that Til has combined his concerns for accuracy with an unwarranted and completely unacceptable personal attack, accusing editors who disagree with his desire to include a specific paragraph about the LDS of "hostility to all forms of faith." Til, I remind you again, please comment on the content, not the contributor. If you feel an edit is inappropriate, address the edit, not the editor. Consider this a NPA warning."

The fact that you saw fit to warn only me, when to this date I have not made any personal attack, and wrote "Consider this an NPA warning" seems to indicate that you are ready to block me for the slightest pretext when I haven't done anything wrong. The others were engaging in much personal attacks and ad hominem against me as detailed above, and I was not responding in kind, but trying to address the actual argument. The words of mine in question, "hostility to all forms of faith" were an observation I made on the WP:LDS project, and a fair one, since they had both just broadcast their opinion that "all religion is myth, because it isn't scientific" and many, many similar comments. The conversation on your talk page clearly shows that you hold your buddies whom you yuck it up with and slap on the back, to a much lower standard and look the other way when they call me "pathetic", call Mormons "extremist", etc. but at the same time you hold me to a much higher standard, officially warning me just for complaining on the WP:LDS project as you saw from my contrib list. The double standard suggests that perhaps you know that your friends would never be able to meet the same high standard you hold me to, because they just can't help themselves from being offensive, so it's allowed for them, but not allowed for me to notice or say anything when they do. Since your clear pattern is to benefit and make excuses for your friends who share your opinion, while coming down harshly on those who you even suspect might hold a different opinion, I can only conclude from all this that you seem to be one of the worst and most biased sysops in all of wikipedia, and that disagreeing with you is downright dangerous. Til Eulenspiegel 16:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

One more thing, it is true that while Misplaced Pages does have higher management, they refuse to deal with these simple issues, administrators like myself and Killer are the only people who you really get to deal with in this situation, so relax now. User:Zscout370 15:44, 1 May 2007 (UTC)