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During the 2014 gun control arbcom, North8000 was found, among other things, to ''edit while logged'', ''place undue weight on inappropriate material'', and to ''fail to get the point''. (diffs to follow) During a 2012 ANI discussion about North8000's behavior it was shown that he had a near ''obsession with describing "political correctness" as a pejorative''. (diffs to follow)

*The Faceless Enemy account was created on 23 January 2010.
*The acount was fairly active through July 2010, and then its activity tapered off.
**67 edits in 2011;
**69 edits in 2012 (none in Nov/Dec);
**8 edits in 2013 (editing in only 5 of 7 months);
**2 edits in 2014.
*However, Faceless Enemy has already made 165 edits since January 1. (scroll down to "Month counts")

Faceless Enemy has made a few edits to the Gun show loophole article, including:
* Added the article to the categories American political neologisms and Dysphemisms.
* Added the word "political" to the lead sentence.

And 44 edits to the Gun show loophole talk page since January 25 (the past 7 days), including:
*Even though there were already discussions:
**] (started by {{u|Mudwater}} - 13:57, 27 January 2015);
**] (started at WP:NPOVN by Lightbreather - 23:34, 27 January 2015);
**] (also started by Mudwater - 01:21, 28 January 2015);
*Faceless Enemy - 01:13, 29 January 2015 - to create a new article (which then became a formal ]) and then,
**''only 2 1/2 hours later'' ] - 03:47, 29 January 2015.
* Started new section Category:Dysphemisms
* Made statement: ''"Loophole" is certainly pejorative. For example, a more neutral and strictly factual term would be "private sale exemption." I'm not sure I've ever seen "loophole" used in a non-pejorative way.''
* Replied with links to sources (not about gun shows) that, to Faceless Enemy, shows that "loophole" is a pejorative.

From gun control ArbCom:
*]:
**Editing while logged out seemingly to either avoid sanction and/or to escape scrutiny. (from evidence provided by {{u|Goethean}})
**Soapboxing and battleground conduct by ''placing undue weight on inappropriate material'' in articles and by ''failing to get the point''.
**It was also noted that "North8000 was ], and accepted a ] as his 'article talk page presence is problematic.'"

From ANI/North8000 discussion:
*{{u|FiachraByrne}} The reference is to talk-page discussions at the Political correctness article. Here are some related article and talk-page diffs:
:: (in article subsection headed "In right-wing rhetoric") ''The most common meaning here is a perjorative term to refer to excessive deference to particular political sensibilities at the expense of other considerations.''
:: ... ''With the closest (albeit imperfect) thing to that in the WP article being: "a pejorative term to refer to excessive deference to particular sensibilities at the expense of other considerations"'' ...
:: ''I think that it is clearly a pejorative term referring to particular forms of behavior. Probably one of the few places in the article that actually says it is "The most common usage here is as a pejorative term to refer to excessive deference to particular sensibilities at the expense of other considerations."'' ...
:: Created a new section headed "POV?" with this comment: ''Addressing the edit summary with the recently placed POV tag, "Political Correctness" is a pejorative term, and the characterization of certain behaviors as such.''...
:: ''No strong opinion on the topic at hand, but to repeat one structural note, PC is is essentially an pejorative, promulgated term which posits that, in the discussed cases, the discussed otherwise-acceptable behaviors are, in this case, bad because they taken to an excessive degree.''...

Edit summary search for North8000 and "pejorative" ] (]) 20:33, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

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01 February 2015

– This SPI case is open.

Suspected sockpuppets

During the 2014 gun control arbcom, North8000 was found, among other things, to edit while logged, place undue weight on inappropriate material, and to fail to get the point. (diffs to follow) During a 2012 ANI discussion about North8000's behavior it was shown that he had a near obsession with describing "political correctness" as a pejorative. (diffs to follow)

  • The Faceless Enemy account was created on 23 January 2010.
  • The acount was fairly active through July 2010, and then its activity tapered off.
    • 67 edits in 2011;
    • 69 edits in 2012 (none in Nov/Dec);
    • 8 edits in 2013 (editing in only 5 of 7 months);
    • 2 edits in 2014.
  • However, Faceless Enemy has already made 165 edits since January 1. (scroll down to "Month counts")

Faceless Enemy has made a few edits to the Gun show loophole article, including:

  • 28 January 2015 Added the article to the categories American political neologisms and Dysphemisms.
  • 28 January 2015 Added the word "political" to the lead sentence.

And 44 edits to the Gun show loophole talk page since January 25 (the past 7 days), including:

From gun control ArbCom:

From ANI/North8000 discussion:

18 September 2009 (in article subsection headed "In right-wing rhetoric") The most common meaning here is a perjorative term to refer to excessive deference to particular political sensibilities at the expense of other considerations.
00:07, 20 March 2010 (UTC) ... With the closest (albeit imperfect) thing to that in the WP article being: "a pejorative term to refer to excessive deference to particular sensibilities at the expense of other considerations" ...
16:31, 23 January 2011 I think that it is clearly a pejorative term referring to particular forms of behavior. Probably one of the few places in the article that actually says it is "The most common usage here is as a pejorative term to refer to excessive deference to particular sensibilities at the expense of other considerations." ...
20:40, 12 April 2011 Created a new section headed "POV?" with this comment: Addressing the edit summary with the recently placed POV tag, "Political Correctness" is a pejorative term, and the characterization of certain behaviors as such....
02:01, 23 August 2011 No strong opinion on the topic at hand, but to repeat one structural note, PC is is essentially an pejorative, promulgated term which posits that, in the discussed cases, the discussed otherwise-acceptable behaviors are, in this case, bad because they taken to an excessive degree....

Edit summary search results for North8000 and "pejorative" Lightbreather (talk) 20:33, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

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