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==Statement of the dispute==

Apteva has been on a ] anti-en-dash (and anti-]) ] since August 2012. Although he has failed to gain ] at every ], ], and ] his theory that the MOS is in error about en dashes, he keeps saying that the edit warring will continue. Several of us have told him that we interpret that as a threat, but he persists. This has been a disruptive 3 months, and shows no sign of letting up.

=== Desired outcome ===

We desire that Apteva stop the anti-en-dash and anti-MOS behaviors; no new RMs to remove en dashes from titles; no new move reviews to review RMs that close against his theories about en dashes; no new proposals at the MOS to challenge or change the consensus about en dashes; limited, as opposed to dominating, comments in RMs that others initiate about dashes, about the applicability of the MOS in styling in titles, and related topics. Generally, Apteva should learn to get the point, respect consensus, and work collaboratively instead of "my way or the highway".

=== Description ===

Since September 24, Apteva has been pushing theories that proper names never have ], e.g. that airport names never have en dashes, that comet names never have en dashes, etc., and that ] is in error encouraging usage of the en dash, e.g. in its examples of ] and ], and further that the MOS has no role in styling article titles.

=== Evidence of disputed behavior ===

He started by dominating the RFC discussion at ] () and at the ] (), especially in his section, in each case posting more times than the next two or three contributors combined. This was exasperating. He finally swore off posting at ] for a while, but this did not last, and he continues to post attempts at rebutting those who disagree with him.

At many points along the way, he would collapse (hide) sections that expressed the views of others, especially when they tried to tell him he was being disruptive. and are examples (in the latter one, he recommended that I file an ] about him, which I'm finally getting to). He changed comments of others, like my complaint about him . It is notable that another tendentious editor was recently blocked for such "censorship by {{tlx|collapse}}" behavior during a similarly singleminded style campaign (against diacritics), at ].


Dicklyon had extensive discussions at Apteva's talk page about Apteva's behavior and theories. Apteva had asserted incivility and toxic and such{{clarify|reason=Huh?}} about some discussions at MOS, but never explained what he meant, which seemed to be that people were not letting him have his way. In the middle of October, he filed complaints at ] about Dicklyon and Neotarf there, and then when they got no traction. He copied one of my notices about his AE complaint to , filing a complaint against himself, essentially, and the followed it up with a complaint about JHunterJ that ended up ] for his own hackish ]. Not all of this was about en dashes, but it was all bound up in his anti-MOS campaign.

On 14 November he made several controversial moves to remove en dashes from article titles; these were in airport names, some of them articles Dicklyon had previously moved to have en dashes in this, per MOS guidance, and where Apteva knew he had no support from other editors: , , , and more.

He has started and lost numerous ] discussions to remove en dashes from titles; after losing, he took them to ] to try to get the closes overturned. See in particular and .

He has pretty much exhausted all possible ], and has found essentially zero support among other editors for his idiosyncratic theories (with the exception of Enric Naval on Comet Hale–Bopp for the ]). Instead of accepting the outcome, he remains defiant about the MOS being in error; see .

After losing the RMs and MRVs, he started a "my way or the highway" section at ], and in that section has continued to assert that the MOS is in error and that edit warring over en dashes in titles will continue until it is "fixed". Several editors have told him that comes across as a threat, yet he re-asserts it .

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=== Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute ===
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==== Attempts by certifier Dicklyon ====

:# Started discussion on Apteva's talk page
:# Started another discussion on Apteva's talk page
:# Started another discussion on Apteva's talk page

==== Attempts by certifier SMcCandlish ====
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:# Raised behavior issues with Apteva's WT:MOS re-re-re-proposal against en dashes
:# Responding to Apteva's post on my talk page about his behavior (discussion since refactored to ])
:# Raised behaviorial issues with Apteva again at WT:MOS in response to his allegations of being "personally attacked" whenever someone disagrees with him

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