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Evidence presented by User:Jossi

Due to the death of a close and dear friend it may be a few days before being able to prepare and post my evidence. Thanks in advance for your understanding and patience. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 03:49, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you John, but Arbcom cases are lengthy, and there is no need to delay proceedings. I will present mine in a few days. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 14:30, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Evidence presented by User:John Brauns

The death that Jossi refers to has deeply shocked both current and former followers of Rawat, but I am aware that Jossi and his wife were especially close to the deceased. I therefore think it would be appropriate to formerly delay these proceedings until Jossi is ready to present his evidence, and I ask the Arbitration Committee to give serious consideration to this proposal. I don't think the few days Jossi has requested is sufficient. --John Brauns (talk) 11:39, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Evidence presented by user:Andries

(I will not probably not edit Misplaced Pages from 24-27 March)

Brief history of the article

Talk:Prem_Rawat/Archive_28#Brief_history_of_editing_principles_used_for_this_article

After user:Vassyana's failed Good article review a complete condensed re-write had been made by user:Momento and user:Rumiton, supported by Jossi that replaced a longer version that had a degree of consensus. They rejected all my and User:Sylviecyn's objections to their version, both in the draft period and afterwards. 12:51, 13 May 2007 Diff comment by Andries on Momento's and Rumiton's complete rewrite Numerous other re-writes had been made and proposed by other contributors but the version by Rumiton and Momento remained unreverted in spite of my many criticisms. Then I decided that mediation was necessary. When the mediation between Momento and I was rejected. See Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_mediation/Rejected/28#Prem_Rawat_3, I became powerless to prevent the article becoming one-sided. Then the article received well-deserved bad publicity from the register. (I had no prior knowledge of the register article until it appeared.).

This register article brought in some new people in among others Francis Schonken who had little prior involvement in the article. Andries (talk) 09:46, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Andries' behavior

Andries has occasionally made mistake in paraphrasing sources, both in Rawat related articles and in unrelated articles. He attributes these mistakes to his habit of quick but not very accurately reading of sources. Andries (talk) 09:24, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Jossi's has repeatedly been unwilling or unable to assume Andries' good faith regarding his contributions related to Rawat. Andries thinks that Jossi's attitute towards him is partially due to his occasional mistakes in paraphrasing sources in combination with the hypersensitivity of the subject and opposing POVs of Jossi and Andries. Andries hereby admits that he has sometimes focused on providing sources for statements that can be intended as critical, but this grew partially out of the habit of Momento to challenge anything critical. Andries hereby vehemently denies that Jossi's opinion that Andries is a bad faith editor has any basis in reality and hereby states that the fraction and seriousness of the mistakes that he made in Rawat related articles is lower and less serious than the mistakes that he made in in unrelated articles. Andries (talk) 09:56, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Evidence presented by User:Maelefique

I don't know what death it is that we are referring to here, but I certainly think it is acceptable and reasonable to give Jossi a sensible amount of time to deal with it before continuing here. I don't see a problem with a temporary postponement or extension of these proceedings on that basis. I may or may not add to my evidence here in the meantime, but please do not interpret that as a change in attitude towards this statement.

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Evidence presented by user:Francis Schonken

Jimbo Wales' comment

Jimbo Wales' single known edit on the issue (diff) was divisive while it contained straw man argumentation (see discussion at User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 33#break 0). As such the edit was gefundenes fressen for yet another Cade Metz article (see link included in 4th paragraph of 'That's some catch, that catch-22' section at Why you should care that Jimmy Wales ignores reality: 'A great Wikipedian') --Francis Schonken (talk) 06:15, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

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