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• Pmanderson (talk · contribs · logs)

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Statement of the dispute

Pmanderson is repeatedly attacking people and generally assumes bad faith. This makes constructive debate with him impossible.

Desired outcome

The best outcome is that Pmanderson stops making personal attacks and stop accusing other editors of bad faith. The second best outcome would be a block or ban for making attacks.

Description

Pmanderson is making many personal attacks. These are often completely unprovoked, in at least one case his first interaction with a user was calling him a vandal. He also often state or imply that those who disagree with him have hidden motives or aren't interested in making a better encyclopedia.

Evidence of disputed behavior

Evidence by Involved Mark Nutley

User:Pmanderson has thus far called me.

• a liar and ignorant.

• A Vandal and a liar

• A Liar

• A sockpuppet

• A Vandal again and removes an AFD tag while doing it.

• Personal attack in edit summary. I had Hat Habbed other PA`s which he reverted with this edit comment

• He may be the nicest semi-literate ignoramus on Misplaced Pages (although that seems doubtful).

Applicable policies and guidelines

1. WP:NPA
2. WP:UNCIVIL
3. WP:AGF

Evidence of trying to resolve the dispute

User:Shell_Kinneys attempts

Shell_Kinney blocked Pmanderson for "violating a topic ban on style guidelines and personal attacks", discussing the issue of his behavior on the talk page:

"Perhaps it's worth considering that if you changed your method of interacting on policy/guideline/style pages to avoid letting your frustration show, or considered coming back to things later when you can make a less acerbic comment, you wouldn't have to be concerned about what kind of guideline a particular page is. I'm going to go ahead and unblock you, but please think about the fact that it's less the pages you're editing than the way you're interacting that's at issue here."

User:OpenFutures attempts

1. 29 June 2010: Warned of personal attacks:
2. 9 July 2010: I made a Misplaced Pages:Wikiquette_alerts#User:Pmanderson, diff: . It had no effect and got no admin answer. Was recommended by other user to go to ANI.
3. 14 July 2010: Created ANI. Diff: . Was recommended to go to Mediation, which was obviously wrong.
4. 18 July 2010: Went to mediation anyway, but this was closed because it was evidently not an issue for MedCab. I was also (after starting the MedCab issue) recommended to make an RFC, so here it is.

User:Marknutleys attempts

Mark Nutley has asked him to stop, added to the earlier ANI's and notified administrators of the issue, to no avail.

Other attempts

There have been more ANIs about Pmandersons incivility, but nothing ever happens, they typically end up simply going stale:

Evidence of failing to resolve the dispute

Most attacks above has been made after attempts of dispute resolution. Most recently these attacks happened after the AN/I of July 14.

Users certifying the basis for this dispute

{Users who tried and failed to resolve the dispute}

1. --OpenFuture (talk) 20:59, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
2. --mark nutley (talk) 21:13, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Other users who endorse this summary

1. Greg L (talk) 03:59, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
2. Weaponbb7 (talk) 05:25, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
3.  HWV258.  11:30, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Response

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This is the complaint of two editors whose only contributions to List of wars between democracies are to remove entries with which they disagree. Their fundamental complaint is that I have regarded persistent reversion of sourced material as vandalism;I am not alone.

Removals of sourced material by OpenFuture:

• 16:43 18 June,
• 17:21,
• 17:43,
• 21 June 04:13,
• 09:14,
• 10:18,
• 23 June 16:23,
• 24 June 07:42,
• 27 June 05:42,
• 28 June 04:23.. and so on.

Removals of sourced material by mark nutley:

• 21:17 14 July,
• 21:19,
• 21:21,
• 21:36

At this point the page was protected. Mark Nutley then put the article up for AfD; where it was kept. After the protection lapsed, he continued to remove sourced material, citing no contrary source whatever, merely his own somewhat idiosyncratic understanding of the subject: Greeks had no democracys and that the United States had no elections before 1789.

• 09:28 17 July
• 12;27
• 12:29
• 12:30
• 21:11

Since I had only seen them collaborating, and since they share not only an ideology and a favorite website, but several peculiarities in their English, I had suspected them to be sockpuppets; but it has been pointed out that these are the only articles they collaborate on, so they probably aren't. So be it.

Addendum: I see they quote Shell Kinney. What they do not bother to say is that he posted that more two months ago, about a completely different subject, while he unblocked me.

This is typical of their methods, both about Misplaced Pages and about the real world. So are the missing apostrophes; in my country, truth is a defense. Were I defending my English, I would type more carefully. Similarly, this list of rough language by OpenFuture is more savage than anything I have said to either of them. Similarly, mark nutley has attempted to delete a page full of evidence for the ArbCom case in which he is currently involved.

It may depend on whose ox is gored; or all this may be a device in a content dispute. Only OpenFuture knows for sure. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 21:54, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Users who endorse this summary:

1. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 21:54, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Outside view

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Outside view by The Four Deuces

Both mark nutley and OpenFuture hold strong views on a variety of topics, including global warming and cold war theories on democracy and communism, and have come into conflict with some other editors over sourcing and edits. In fairness these are controversial articles. However I have found no problems with Pmanderson, and believe that content dispute resolution would be more appropriate. OpenFuture himself has made many comments which in my opinion far exceed anything that Pmanderson has written, and can be seen in the WQA archive 88.

Users who endorse this summary:

1. TFD (talk) 23:56, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Outside view by Cynwolfe

I've been aware of Pmanderson's work for a year or two and have participated in many discussions with him. We have disagreed at times. The discussions have always been productive, never crossed the line into pointless hostility, and have served to improve the articles. I've never known him to push a POV or to be motivated by anything other than a commitment to disinterested scholarship. He has the courage of his convictions, but he is not habitually obstructionist. I've seen him simply drop an argument, or admit he's wrong, or even utter the word "sorry." He participates in consensus-building. He grows quickly impatient with the forms of discourse described in the WP:CPUSH essay, especially when other participants seek to block content without demonstrating knowledge of the subject matter and the pertinent scholarship. This is hardly detrimental to producing good-quality articles. His tart language and intense rhetoric can be self-defeating, but should be taken in the context of his contributions as whole, which are many and intelligent. I profoundly dislike the idea that WP:CIV can be used as a tactic to stifle vigorous debate.

Users who endorse this summary:

1. Cynwolfe (talk) 02:15, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Outside view by Haploidavey

I applaud Pmanderson's commitment to accurate, balanced content in the articles he edits. His language is habitually terse, expressive and to the point. He's exceptionally well-informed: that might well have come about because he's prepared to learn – in other words, he's prepared to acknowledge his own error and ignorance – which is not, by the way, a dirty word. He sure ain't oily. His dry, intemperate, sometimes acidic wit can be construed as offensive; maybe it's meant to be, maybe not – why would one be inclined to seek out offense? His edits to a particularly long and complex article I'd worked on (and foolishly cherished as "mine" for over a year) completely disturbed me. They were quite drastic, initially painful, then challenging and at last invaluable. Had I doubted his good faith and refused his changes with insistent re-iterations, suspicions of his motives and demands for sources to which I had personal access, I'd have earned the same kind of responses. Having said that, I think the offended parties here have given as good – sometimes "better" (?) than they've received: "whose bull is being gored?" seems apposite. Please, it's just editing. I suggest the complainants get used to that, down axes, faggots or whatever retribution they have in mind for insults imagined or real and divert their energies to the development of article content – which actually seemed to be going somewhere until this personal injuries business was brought up.

Users who endorse this summary:

1. Haploidavey (talk) 14:17, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Outside view by User talk:Active Banana

Having had a few interminable "discussions" with User:Marknutley, I can see how someone could be brought to the end of their rope and snap (I believe that I did!). However, calling someone "semi-literate ignoramus" is really inappropriate and I would like to see User:Pmanderson make an apology. I have not looked further into Pmanderson's history nor into the interactions that led to that snap to have further opinion.Active Banana (talk) 22:05, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Users who endorse this summary:

1. Active Banana

1. Cynwolfe

Semi-outside view by Weaponbb7

Having been part of WP:3O with the two editors, I feel compelled to make a statement. neither Pmanderson or Mark Nutley have clean hands. I also see that others side that PmAnderson has made valuable contributions as referenced by Haploidavey makes the argument that Pmanderson makes "commitment to accurate, balanced content in the articles he edits." Cynwolfe also makes a similar argument and speaks well of his behavior in other conflicts. I dispute neither their assertions in fact i am glad to hear of it. My only statement is that in the recent disagreement Pmanderson crossed the line or it least stuck his toe over a couple of times. I am sure a simlair RFC on mark nutley would probably show a simliar pattern. I do not think any action is needed here but a good stern warning or Probation period at most. We often forget that just because a user makes a lot of good edits their civility issues should not be overlooked User:Georgewilliamherbert made probably the most important comment in the ANI thread

Users who endorse this summary:

1. Weaponbb7 (talk) 05:42, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
2. mark nutley (talk) 11:39, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
3. OpenFuture (talk) 12:31, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

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