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'''I was completely uninvolved when I compiled this evidence; I had no history, to my knowledge, with any of the involved editors.''' Because of my help with getting the RfC going, GoRight initially assumed that I was part of the cabal. However, my comments in the RfC were generally supported by neutral editors, please see the full evidence page, and GoRight came around quickly. '''I was completely uninvolved when I compiled this evidence; I had no history, to my knowledge, with any of the involved editors.''' Because of my help with getting the RfC going, GoRight initially assumed that I was part of the cabal. However, my comments in the RfC were generally supported by neutral editors, please see the full evidence page, and GoRight came around quickly.


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After analysis of involvement, there is a very different consensus revealed than existed based simply on total !votes, and it can be seen that there is a strong polarization, with few editors crossing lines to support the statements from the "other side," and, as well, reputable editors supported the view that I expressed in the RfC. We will see these same names show up in other analyses. After analysis of involvement, there is a very different consensus revealed than existed based simply on total !votes, and it can be seen that there is a strong polarization, with few editors crossing lines to support the statements from the "other side," and, as well, reputable editors supported the view that I expressed in the RfC. We will see these same names show up in other analyses.


'''No claim is made that these editors are engaging in meat puppetry, colluding, or that they were incorrect to !vote as they did,''' nor is it claimed that they are consciously "cabal members." No editor should be sanctioned simply based on "membership", even if proven. Not every editor above is necessarily visible in later analyses. After all, we are talking about majority POV. This is collected here solely for the purpose of explaining the background to the ban, as well as the confirmation of the ban at ], and other related discussions where a false consensus appeared, as will be shown. WMC's actions must be seen and understood in this broader context, or the extent of the damage will not be understood. '''No claim is made that these editors are engaging in meat puppetry, colluding, or that they were incorrect to !vote as they did,''' nor is it claimed that they are consciously "cabal members." No editor should be sanctioned simply based on "membership", even if proven. Not every editor above is necessarily visible in later analyses. After all, we are talking about majority POV. This is collected here solely for the purpose of explaining the background to the ban, as well as the confirmation of the ban at ], and other related discussions where a false consensus appeared, as will be shown. WMC's actions must be seen and understood in this broader context, or the extent of the damage will not be understood.

;Another encounter

When, in January, 2009, I noticed the edits of ] that ultimately led to ], and I filed ], and laid out the evidence of admin action while involved, the following editors called for or supported calls for me to be banned. Editors whose names also appeared above are bolded. Again, '''inclusion in this list, by itself, does not identify an editor as a person of interest for this RfC,''' and specific conclusions will be stated before this is finished so that if anyone believes an editor should be notified, that can be done. This section is under construction.

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===Original evidence=== ===Original evidence===

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Evidence presented by Abd

WMC is User:William M. Connolley.

As expected from prior history, to some extent this RfAr is becoming a coatrack for complaints about me. The clerks have worked to avoid expansion, but it still pours in. I will not respond to misrepresentation of my behavior except by reference; that is, I will answer every charge, if I have time -- it could take weeks and, more than walls, entire towns of text -- but I will not make this prominent. I will focus on the background to my ban from Cold fusion, the ban itself and the issues raised, unless it becomes clear that ArbComm wishes to examine other issues. As an example, my alleged "meat puppetry" for JedRothwell or others is irrelevant to the ban and to WMC's actions, hence responses on that will be limited or buried in hypertext.

This evidence will morph as the needs of the case require, and unnecessary text removed, with reference if appropriate. Thus if someone wishes to refer to a comment here, be sure to point to the section in history or to diffs.

I'd recommend that arbitrators not review the evidence until there is some reasonable completion of it. Premature examination of evidence can color later impressions. On the other side, some editors have been quite intemperate, and this could also cloud and cover possible realities behind their comments. I seek clear and deep guidance from ArbComm, not some specific decision. As with all my work, my goal is expanded consensus, which includes whatever is possible that could satisfy my critics. Sometimes that takes a lot of process, but it is not necessary for those who complete or ratify it, that is, neutral editors, administrators, and arbitrators, to participate in the early stages. It is often necessary, in addressing tenacious content or behavioral problems, to discuss far more intensively and in far more depth than is normal; in the end, though, if the process is allowed to complete, article content will be far more stable and consensus on NPOV far more broad, and this is an aspect of the original Misplaced Pages vision.

In order to make clear what occurred in this case, I must first declare that -- please avert your eyes -- the emperor has no clothes. This means:

There is a cabal

In most reference to this, I have referred to a "faction" or "virtual cabal." The latter term refers to the appearance of a cabal; the implication is that the collective actions of a group of editors, identifiable in round outline if not always with specific precision, have the effect of a cabal. "Cabal" is a negative term, implying something other than normal and positive collaboration, and I use this advisedly. Here, it means that this faction of editors weights Misplaced Pages, because of their numbers and strong collective motivation and activity, toward certain POVs; and, because FPOV (Fringe POV pushing), by definition, cannot muster sufficient support to manage this except transiently, it is always Majority POV-pushing. "Majority" here does not refer to "majority of editors," overall, but rather to the POV. A majority of informed Misplaced Pages editors are firmly on the side of true NPOV, and recognize that this involves giving fair consideration and representation of minority views, according to the weight found in reliable sources, as per RfAr/Fringe science.

First encounter

After I facilitated the opening of Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/GoRight, which was in danger of being wikilawyered away, I read it and was horrified. I collected evidence and presented it, and part of what I did was to analyze the !voters in the RfC according to prior dispute. Thus I saw, over many articles, patterns of activity that I subsequently saw many times. GoRight was largely an SPA concerned with global warming, and it became clear to me that he was, from the beginning, welcomed with incivility, reverted with bald reverts that did not seek consensus, but assumed he was acting contrary to consensus, and, as often happens, he responded in kind; i.e., he became uncivil and edit warred. GoRight, unlike many editors, though, learned to moderate his own behavior, but then he was labeled a civil POV-pusher, a problematic category.

I was completely uninvolved when I compiled this evidence; I had no history, to my knowledge, with any of the involved editors. Because of my help with getting the RfC going, GoRight initially assumed that I was part of the cabal. However, my comments in the RfC were generally supported by neutral editors, please see the full evidence page, and GoRight came around quickly.

The full evidence page, and the analysis of !votes. The following editors both revert warred with GoRight, or, in one case, blocked him without revert warring (bold but not italic), and commented negatively about him in the RfC. Names which do not recur later, my present impression which may be revised as I compile this, are in smalltext.

After analysis of involvement, there is a very different consensus revealed than existed based simply on total !votes, and it can be seen that there is a strong polarization, with few editors crossing lines to support the statements from the "other side," and, as well, reputable editors supported the view that I expressed in the RfC. We will see these same names show up in other analyses.

No claim is made that these editors are engaging in meat puppetry, colluding, or that they were incorrect to !vote as they did, nor is it claimed that they are consciously "cabal members." No editor should be sanctioned simply based on "membership", even if proven. Not every editor above is necessarily visible in later analyses. After all, we are talking about majority POV. This is collected here solely for the purpose of explaining the background to the ban, as well as the confirmation of the ban at WP:AN/I, and other related discussions where a false consensus appeared, as will be shown. WMC's actions must be seen and understood in this broader context, or the extent of the damage will not be understood.

Another encounter

When, in January, 2009, I noticed the edits of JzG that ultimately led to RfAr/Abd and Jzg, and I filed RfC/JzG 3, and laid out the evidence of admin action while involved, the following editors called for or supported calls for me to be banned. Editors whose names also appeared above are bolded. Again, inclusion in this list, by itself, does not identify an editor as a person of interest for this RfC, and specific conclusions will be stated before this is finished so that if anyone believes an editor should be notified, that can be done. This section is under construction.

and then the AN/I discussion of my topic ban

The following editors supported, at AN/I (permanent link), WMC's page ban of me from Cold fusion:User:Jayron32

Original evidence

Original evidence presented with the RfAr is below; this will be refactored as appropriate here for maximum clarity:

Summary
  • WMC was involved in immediate content dispute and long-term behavioral dispute with me.
  • He edited Cold fusion while protected, in expectation of controversy over it, and contrary to an expressed consensus.
  • Then he declared me banned from the article and its Talk.
  • Later, he blocked me for making a self-reverted harmless edit, contrary to his expressed prior opinion about harmless edits under ban.
  • In spite of charges of involvement, he insists that he remains the enforcer of an expired community ban, asserting it as indef.
History of prior dispute, mostly over use of tools while involved

Stored at:

The present dispute;

Stored at: .

Further considerations and issues to be arbitrated

Stored at .

Evidence presented by GoRight

As stated in the request for arbitration, I do not intend to take a stand either way as to whether User:William M. Connolley's actions were appropriate, or not. I prefer to simply provide a raw chronology of relevant events with diffs and to defer to the arbiter's judgment on whether this evidence suggests an abuse of administrative privileges, or not.

A Basic Chronology of Relevant Events

NOTE: This chronology is currently incomplete. I intend to provide further evidence. When my editing is complete I will remove this notice.

From my personal perspective the following events are relevant to a proper weighing of the charges being made in this case:

Evidence presented by Coppertwig

Administrators normally do not have the authority to create bans by themselves

WP:Banning policy#Decision to ban lists 5 procedures for banning. None of them is a ban simply declared by an individual administrator without specific delegation from the arbitration committee.

WMC simply declared that there was a ban

As far as I'm aware, WMC didn't refer to any specific part of the banning policy or name any other specific procedure for banning. WMC referred to a userbox which cited Misplaced Pages:Trifecta; a ban reason which seems to me to be at odds with WMC's blocking of Abd for a harmless and self-reverted edit.

Declaring bans without proper process creates disruption

We can't expect all Wikipedians to agree on whether a given person should be banned or not, but I agree with MastCell that there's a problem if we can't even agree on whether someone has been banned or not.

WMC muddied the waters by declaring a ban without following any of the standard processes, thus creating a situation where it wasn't clear whether there was a ban or not. This created disruption in the sense of multiple discussions using up editors' time.

Allowing admins to declare bans at will would harm the project

The banning policy does not say that an admin can create a ban at any time by declaring it, and for good reason. NPOV is best achieved by discussion and consensus among large numbers of editors with various POVs. If admins could declare bans at will, they would have too much individual control over article content, for example being able to ban all editors on one side of a content dispute.

WMC was involved in page content and in dispute with Abd

WMC edited the cold fusion page with edit summary "Lets wind everyone up", at a time when there were two polls active on the talk page showing some support for other versions of the page. Abd then criticized that edit. WMC subsequently declared that Abd (along with Hipocrite) was banned from the page.

Cold fusion is not pseudoscience

Investigation of the Fleischmann-Pons effect is science: controversial science, fringe science, but not pseudoscience. Science by its nature investigates the unknown, and scientific method is being applied in making observations, publishing peer-reviewed articles, discussing proposed explanations, etc., whether or not anything much eventually comes of it.

Talk page comments by Abd

Abd has ADHD, of a type which makes it extremely difficult for Abd to shorten his comments. . People can ask me to provide summaries of Abd's comments.

Evidence presented by Stephan Schulz

Pseudocience is under ArbCom discretionary sanctions

ArbCom has put "all articles relating to pseudoscience, broadly interpreted" under discretionary sanctions. Such sanctions can be invoked by any uninvolved admin and include "bans from editing any page or set of pages within the area of conflict; bans on any editing related to the topic or its closely related topics".

Dro(w)ning out any discussion

Communication with Abd is extremely frustrating. His "wall of text" is rambling and without focus. Here he essentially explains that he can't be bothered to write concise texts. I like reading - I own thousands of books and have read many more. But Abd's output is unmanagable. One example of the effect of this non-stop no-control text machine is impressively illustrated in Enric Naval's image: File:Discussion in cold fusion with comments of one editor highlighted.jpg

Evidence presented by Bilby

Progress to find consensus on a prefered version

Abd was involved in the second edit war which resulted in Causa sui protecting the article prior to WMC's actions. While Abd did not revert, the trigger was Abd re-adding (modified) content which had been central to the earlier edit war. Abd claimed consensus from talk for this, and there was discussion, but it isn't clear that consensus had been reached as many editors (most notably Hipocrite) hadn't engaged by that time, and the core issue (the reliablity of the primary source) was still unsettled.

After Causa sui protected the page, Abd started a vote for which version to revert the article to. Unfortunately he used an unusual methodology for wikipedia (weighted votes), changed one of the proposed versions after someone had voted for it, (moving their vote as part of this), refactored a vote to "unstrike" it against the wishes of the editor, moved proposals to a collapse box if he felt they weren't getting support, and as User:Noren said, the constant changes to the poll made it appear that Abd felt he owned the process. The result was that many of the main editors boycotted the poll, and Hipocrite started a new one. This also garnered little support, although less outright hostility.

In the end, Abd's claimed consensus for which version to revert to came only because Abd had placed votes for people, based on where they voted in the second poll, without their permission and by assigning weights to their votes which they had not agreed to. When WMC reverted to a version prior to the edit warring, there was no reason to presume that consensus was going to be found in the foreseeable future. - Bilby (talk) 05:59, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

{Write your assertion here}

Place argument and diffs which support the second assertion; for example, your second assertion might be "So-and-so makes personal attacks", which should be the title of this section. Here you would show specific edits where So-and-so made personal attacks.


Evidence presented by William M. Connolley

But you can call me WMC.

Yet another unreliable chronology of events

Short version, for those not interested in the fine detail: CF and t:CF was a mess. I sorted that out. One person whinged but reasonable people ignored him.

In more detail:

  • A moon or more ago my attention was drawn to CF. It was a mess. It usually is - see the protection log, for example . I protected for a week the then-current version, as it happened that of H .
  • The prot expired, edit warring resumed, CS stepped in and protected the page again .
  • Much tedious discussion ensued, and I think this is where the battlin' polls came in.
  • GoRight proposed a different version to be reverted to. He produced cogent arguments in its favour and for that and the amusement of agreeing with someone I've frequently disagreed with before and who often argues strongly against me, I reverted to his proposed version .
  • But I don't like page protection, so I looked for something better, and decided that the chief offenders were H and A (though in my heart I though A mostly to blame). So I banned them both, for an indeterminate period of approximately a month, from CF and t:CF .
  • The people rejoiced .
  • Abd broke the ban, and disputed the ban from t:CF . I deleted his commented and warned him that any further violation would result in a block.
  • H was good.
  • A asserted that the ban didn't exist. I told him that it did .
  • Later, I blocked A after he broke the ban by editing CF
  • A often seemed confused about the terms of the ban (links to endless discussion suppressed in the interests of sanity). At one point I had to remind him .
  • H asked to be unbanned, and I agreed . Contrary to assertions elsewhere, the unblock was unconditional, though it came with strong advice to be good and to observe WP:1RR. Not editing CF was definitely not a condition of unblock.
  • I reviewed A's ban . Since the ratio of useful edits to wikilawyering in the interim was well below 1%, I kept the ban in place.

Other stuff

  • Someone somewhere asserted that I invoked IAR for the ban. That is incorrect, and I've finally found the diff where I say so: .

Evidence presented by Enric Naval

WORK IN PROGRESS. I'll finish in Sunday. Sorry for delay. --Enric Naval (talk) 13:00, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

I refuse to go to mediation with Abd unless he agrees beforehand to abide by the result

Because I fear that he dismisses any adverse result by claiming lack of neutrality, due to prior experience

Abd has received many good faith advice, warnings and complaints about his behaviour over two years

(since October 2007)

  • WP:DEADHORSE
  • WP:NOTBUREAUCRACY
  • making experiments in democracy. In delegable proxy:. In the last poll (diffs here)
  • Misplaced Pages is just an encyclopedia
  • Meatpuppeting for banned editors. for User:Jed Rothwell in April 2009: warning, Abd arguments that Jed is not banned and that he can post that content, clarification by warner, another editor clarifies more, I also warn him, I'm told to go away and more arguments, another editors also clarifies. For unspecified banned editor in March 2008
  • Staying in the path of a train, in reference to starting JzG's arb case
  • making shorter comments , , , (last paragraph), , . From the RfAs: ,
  • not starting JzG's arb case
  • not understanding how consensus works in RFCs
  • dismissing opposing opinions as disruptive when forming consensus
  • not trying to force an apology from JzG
  • formal warning to stop wasting time with long posts
  • stop trying to get the ban lifted and go work at mediation (for the third time)
  • editing articles instead of trying to change policy
  • not treating people like friends and foes
  • " everyone else's behavior as tendentious "
  • judging people's behaviour incorrectly and chastising people using that misjudgement
  • already back in October 2007, in his first RfA, not understanding wikipedia policies and making long diatribes, he took special note of that !vote
  • back in February 2008, in his second RfA, the opposers mention stalking behaviour (scuro, Miamomimi), obsesssing and not letting go of issues (scuro) too long posts with some saying that they got headaches (Ronnotel, Miamomimi, Keeper76, Dorftrottel, JayHenry, PookeyMaster, Jameson, Hmwith, TravisTX) , wear down other editors (scuro, Miamomimi), "intends to use WP as an study case for decision-making systems" (DGG), citing his personal knowledge instead of sources (DGG, DCary, Dlohcierekim), not assuming good faith including "turn people off from future editing of Misplaced Pages through his continual judgement of motives and good faith edits" and jumping to conclusions (Tom Ruen, Miamomimi, RRichie), overhelming talk pages (Miamomimi), lack of people skills (Fabrictramp), all of the above (NHRHS2010, Ouro, PookeyMaster) "His response to conflict seems to be overly zealous, and that turns a lot of people off. it comes across as biting and antagonistic" (Dlohcierekim)

Abd had ample warning that he was going to get himself a topic ban

, many editors endorsed the topic ban statement in JzG3 list

Abd believes that he knows better than other users

Sorry, but this affects his behavior by reinforcing his belief that he is not wrong, and it has to be stated.

  • feels more qualified than other editors, because of 20 years of on-line experience, starting as a moderator in W.E.L.L. and 40 years with "group decision process", first mention in December 2007, latest in April 2009.
  • feels more expert in physics that PhDs in Physics because he had Richard Feynman as teacher (will find diff)

Abd has made...

Abd accuses and harasses admins that warn him

  • To Raul654, claims involvement and " cannot be trusted to present evidence neutrally" , veiled threaths "I'd suggest you get out of the habit of bullying users, and fast. It is damaging the project, and, sooner or later, the truth about this will out. Never depend on the community remaining asleep."
  • To MastCell, blocking Jed just for the purpose of supporting JzG "(...) not based on a discussion where opposing points of view were considered and a decision made by a neutral administrator, but rather by one administrator backing up another without such review, and possibly offering to take action without due consideration"
  • To JzG
  • To Jehochman, in March 2008, threatening with process , reply

Abd reacts very badly to corrections

  • Raul654 his understanding of policy, and Abd replied with disparagement (first sentence) and wikilawyers about policy (rest of the post).
  • I gave him a graphic example of how his comments filled and overhelmed the talk page (this one, linked in Stephan Schultz's evidence), Abd derised and disparaged my work, said that this meant that he made a lot of work, and banned me from his talk page.
  • When told to make shorter comments

Abd has been warned that he was headed for a full ban

Abd makes good points, but they get lost in seas of verbiage

Abd stops discussions dead in its tracks by overhelming them

Abd's insistance in already rejected points has brought many editors to irritated frustration with him

Abd's indefinite ban had plenty of community support

See ANI thread on poll where multiple editors shout for an indefinite topic ban. My ban review just made it official in order to stop the complaints by Abd that there hadn't been a formal discussion with a closing.

Abd states ideas that are out of touch with reality

As in unrealistic, or as in showing lack of knowledge of how wikipedia actually works.

Abd thinks that I risk getting banned for my edits at Cold fusion

, as in he doesn't risk getting banned at all while I have a high risk of getting banned (will find diff)

Abd thinks that NewYorkBrad put a lot at stake for making one comment

(second paragraph)

Abd thinks that he can void WMC's ban by not consenting to it

Abd assumes the existance of bad-faith cabals

  • " His friends are trying to get me banned"
  • discussion I point him to WP:TINC , refuses that he described a cabal while describing a cabal, he clarifies he means "a significant constellation of editors who have an effect similar to that of a cabal" and that he has clearly identified one

Abd makes bad-faith assumptions about me

(second section), in reply to my ban review There are other examples, but this is representative.

Abd thinks that Arbcom backed 100% his position in the last arb case

(diff)

Abd thinks that Arbcom backed 100% his position in the last arb case

(diff)

Abd says that hoaxes should not be deleted, and hoaxers tolerated

here

Abd performs experiments with democracy

See his support in Wikipedia_talk:Delegable_proxy, followed by experimental sock User_talk:The_Community. See the last poll that he made for cold fusion which implements Range voting unlike any other wikipedia poll before.

Abd sees no problem at all with any of his editing, and does not admit having a problem

See my last-last-last good faith attempt to solve the issue, specially me provinding specific examples and Abd seeing no problem in them

Abd thinks that long comments are not a problem because people can simply not read them

Abd sees no problem at all with his very long posts

. Also resisted collapsing of his posts, assumes that I'm trying to prevent people from reading his posts (ante-last paragraph)

Abd says that he can't make shorter comments because he has ADHD

See the userbox in his userpage, Abd has said this himself publicly since before February 2008 .

Abd has also made good work and collaborated effectively

I would like this to be clear, several editors are grateful with Abd's work, he got 24 supports in his second RfA, and I have occasionally collaborated well with him. The problem is into not solving all the issues above even after multiple requests, and still failing to see any problem. Pushing issues past a reasonable point ran him into problems when he accused Fritzpoll of sockpuppeting here, it ran him into problems in Talk:Cold fusion and will keep him running into problems since he is failing to interiorize advice to change his behaviour.

Evidence presented by Mathsci

William M. Connolley has acted properly as an administrator

WMC does not seem to have been involved in editing cold fusion or its talk page. When edit warring broke out, he locked the page at the "wrong version" and then issued page-bans to both Hipocrite and Abd for edit warring. Hipocrite responded cooperatively and the page ban was eventually lifted. Abd contested the page-bans as soon they were issued, with threats of an ArbCom case. The page-bans stopped the impasse created by Abd, whose edits were effectively filibustering on the talk page, almost amounting to WP:OWN. He had created non-standard methods of polling and discussion, which had already driven away editors such as User:Woonpton here.

Abd has made unfounded statements about William M. Connolley

Abd has repeatedly questioned WMC's authority as an administrator. Abd's edits contain innuendos that suggest that WMC is part of some covert off-wiki conspiracy. Since this case began he has written that WMC has been "coddling" me. Writing unsupported remarks of this kind seems to be exploiting a loophole in the civility code on wikipedia to make indirect yet non-sanctionable personal attacks on wikipedia.

Abd appears to bear long-term grudges against various administrators

The administrators include JzG, William M. Connolley and Raul654. It seems Abd views these editors as part of a larger cabal (see his subsequent evidence above).

Abd's escalation of disputes is needless and opportunistic

This was the case already in the Abd & JzG ArbCom case. As with the blacklisting issue, Abd threatened taking the case before ArbCom before going through the normal channels where the community can comment. In this case the community did comment on WP:ANI and multiple administrators and editors, not directly invloved in editing cold fusion or its talk page, endorsed the page-bans. Abd has written that he attempted dispute resolution in this case by trying to involve TenOfAllTrades as a mediator, a misjudged request that was immediately refused . It is unclear why Abd did not then seek another neutral and experienced administrator, eg Moonriddengirl. See also . His timing of this request might be opportunistic: Abd's edits show awareness that WMC has made recent blocks which have been repeatedly criticized by a small group of editors, some under sanction from previous ArbCom cases.

Abd's account has regressed to that of single purpose fringe POV-pusher

For the last few months, Abd's edits have been almost exclusively related to cold fusion. In his edits he has revealed that has had off-wiki contacts with Steven B. Krivit and Jed Rothwell, both of them non-scientists who advocate cold fusion. Many times Abd has written that cold fusion is not a fringe topic but an "emerging science". He has, perhaps jokingly, suggested inviting the skeptical science writer Gary Taubes and retired physicist Eric Sheldon to join discussions there. The single most important question to be solved by this ArbCom case seems to be: is there some way Abd can reverse this apparent regression and get back to contributing to wikipedia in a more constructive and less confrontational way?

Abd claims to have scientific expertise

Abd's edits often dismiss editors with formal scientific training, while claiming familiarity with what's going on in research on low energy nuclear reactions and cold fusion from his reading over the last few months. Although possibly unimportant, this does not help discussions. Surely real-life experts, for example in chemistry, know better and are in a better position to evaluate research in a fringe area. Playing around in namespace edits by mentioning discredited topics in theoretical physics like hydrino theory - which will never have its own wikipedia article - is pushing wikipedia to its limits.

Abd's responses to criticism are hostile and evasive

Abd discussed the survey book of Ed Storms, its reception and other recent articles with EdChem, Kirk shanahan and other editors. They have carefully explained how such articles would be evaluated academically, taking into account obvious probelms with fringe topics. Abd has been keen to exploit any positive pronouncement; skeptical expert editors exercise the same caution they would in real life. Abd has had extended discussions on sources with the above two editors, sometimes with impenetrable walls of text which frequently become sidetracked onto unrelated issues; he will abruptly abandon the discussion when his point of view is not accepted, regardless of what the other party was trying to communicate. On the basis of his userspace essay User:Abd/Majority POV-pushing and other edits, Abd apparently groups together all of those who disagree with his fringe POV-pushing. By dismissing critics as an organized group of opponents, the essay seems to be justifying a WP:battleground approach to editing controversial articles on fringe topics.

Abd has tested the limits with banned editors Jed Rothwell and Scibaby

Abd's edits indicate that he is off-wiki contact with the banned editor JedRothwell and discusses the editing of cold fusion; on-wiki Abd has written that this cold fusion advocate is one of the world experts in the area although apparently he and Abd do not always agree. The Scibaby proxy edits have been mentioned by Raul654 on the workshop page. Like Abd's edit-revert tactic on cold fusion after his page-ban, Abd's edits test the limits of WP policy on banned editors; they seem unrelated to building a reliable and authoritative encyclopedia.

Abd appears to be supported by a small tag team

The members seem to be GoRight (talk · contribs) and Coppertwig (talk · contribs). Coppertwig has stated that she/he is willing to act as Abd's interpeter, but this does not seem to have happened in practice since Abd's two page-bans and does not seem a reasonable thing to expect. Jehochman is not a member of this team; he has self-identified as an off-wiki friend of Abd. His written statements during the RfAr appear to have been an attempt to personalize the case and were unhelpful.

Abd has refused to recognize messages from the community or ArbCom

Abd's edits show that he does not recognize that the community upheld his page-ban when Enric Naval opened a discussion on WP:ANI. His edits, including this case itself, also indicate that he has not apparently understood the findings of the Abd & JzG ArbCom case concerning his own actions. After the ArbCom case concluded, a lot of time was wasted discussing whitelisting of articles on lenr-canr.org; this was dealt with in an exemplary way by the two administrators Fritzpoll and Dirk Beetstra at MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist.

My brief involvement on Talk:Cold fusion has been minimal and constructive

Since Abd's edits in RfAr repeatedly suggested some kind of involvement, I will reiterate here that I have made a total of 16 edits to this talk page for about 10 posts all related to the use of secondary sources and in particular the essay-review of retired physicist Eric Sheldon, which I downloaded with my university account and made available as sheldon.pdf on http://mathsci.free.fr, an otherwise empty website. My main edits are mostly in namespace to mainstream articles in the arts and sciences. It's also quite easy to catch me out on talk pages: I am grateful for all the recent helpful guidance from both arbitrators and clerks.

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