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Case Opened on 06:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Case Closed on 18:15, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Please do not edit this page directly unless you wish to become a participant in this request. (All participants are subject to Arbitration Committee decisions, and the ArbCom will consider each participant's role in the dispute.) Comments are very welcome on the Talk page, and will be read, in full. Evidence, no matter who can provide it, is very welcome at /Evidence. Evidence is more useful than comments.
Arbitrators will be working on evidence and suggesting proposed decisions at /Workshop and voting on proposed decisions at /Proposed decision.
FeloniousMonk ( talk · contribs), Jim62sch ( talk · contribs), Duncharris ( talk · contribs) and others say that Agapetos angel has been editing Jonathan Sarfati disruptively without disclosing a close personal relationship with Sarfati. She, supported to some extent by Kim Bruning and Tony Sidaway, claim that their conduct amounts to harassment. summary prepared by Tony Sidaway [1] and added here by FeloniousMonk 17:58, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Agapetos angel ( talk · contribs), supported to some extent by Kim Bruning and Tony Sidaway, allege that FeloniousMonk ( talk · contribs), Jim62sch ( talk · contribs), and Duncharris ( talk · contribs) have violated wikipedia policies and guidelines to the extent of harassment. summary prepared by Agapetos angel (see history of this page just prior to my adding this) and added here by WAS 4.250 15:48, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
(NB, the timeline of these steps will be shuffled due to the ongoing nature of the overall harassment.)
These people are spamming personal information across the dispute resolution [& talk, as well as other places] pages. [correction agapetos_angel 02:28, 23 February 2006 (UTC)]
(provide diffs and links)
Jim62sch 00:03, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
To prevent the request for injunction becoming more disruptive than the wheel war it was meant to prevent, I am dropping the request for injunction.
What remains is that Agapetos Angel feels harrassed by the gentlemen listed above, while at the same time, the right honourable gentlemen feel that Agapetos Angel has been misbehaving, and that they had little other choice.
In any case we now have much more time to dive into the diverse things going on.
Due to my personal history with Feloniousmonk, it might be interesting to attract an external advocate who is not me :-)
Technically this is a new claim, but since everyone has basically already somehow magically assumed that that's what was going to happen anyway (oh dear), we're all set anyway.
What can I say? Please do this quick. I've deleted a section on WP:AN/I that purports to associate this user with a real person. I can't guarantee that somebody won't decide I was "censoring" Wikipedia and just roll it all back. We need an injunction. -- Tony Sidaway 04:16, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
I cannot provide supporting links to all the points in my statement because some of the support is located within the sections that had to be (re)moved because of the nature of the complaint. Wikipedia:Harassment gives a specific, if incomplete, list of types of harassment [37] which include wikistalking (for the purposes of disruption), targeted personal attacks (repeated personal attacks on a particular editor), and posting another person's personal information (which would logically by extension include associating my user name with an offline name and email address). The reported harassment on the WP:AN/I was the most recent violation in a series of personal attacks for which I have been attempting to resolve by many different avenues. I contacted the persons in question via their talk page to no avail, tried to reason with them in the article talk page, and tried several times to bring the article’s talk page back to discussion of the content and the other attempts listed above. Admittedly frustrated with being unable to find the correct and conclusive way to resolve this ongoing problem, I closed off my participation in the WP:AN/I and decided to ignore the attacks. Instead, I readdressed a neutral issue in the talk attempting to once again bring the discussion back away from personalities to content. This failed in that the next post by User:FeloniousMonk below mine was another personal attack. SlimVirgin had offered informal moderation in the form of a separate talk/dispute page. [38] which I initially questioned/resisted participation for reasons of disillusionment, but after a peptalk from FloNight and a nice email from another editor, I began the process as requested. In just a couple of days, and in an all-over reasonable tone, the participating editors have nearly reached complete consensus on every point [39] I had been raising for weeks to no avail. Ironically, most of the consensus has been very close to my original (and repeated) suggestions (with minor compromises). This illustrates with compromise from all parties, and no personal attacks directed at me, we would have resolved the disputes in the original talk. This supports that these admin, whose participation in the alternate talk page has been limited (and civil), were causing an insurmountable disruption that resulted in a hostile enviornment. Additionally, while the alternate talk page was approximately 12 hours into discussion, compromise, and consensus, the above editors filed a (now deleted) RfC against me. [40] I believe this illustrates yet another attempt to cause disruption rather than resolve, especially given that most of them have participated at least once in the alternate page. Given that official looking message boxes were added (and reverted back after the first removal) to three different articles, [41] [42] [43] [44] and continuation of harassment beyond the attempts to move discussion to resolve, WP:AGF does not apply in that there is no indication that this behaviour will stop. I support the request for injunction to stop these (and any other editors/admin) from continuing this harassment as outlined above. I also strongly disagree with their previously attempted defence of public availablity as the (dubious) source in question does not draw the conclusions that the admin/editors purport. This WP:V violation would not be allowed in an article, and should be even less allowable against a contributor, especially as used as personal attack/harassment. That defence would open a wide hole allowing speculations based on other sources, such as white/yellow page listings which are also 'public knowledge' on the Internet, to be used in like manner. Thank you. agapetos_angel 14:12, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
(Specific to injunction)
If the harassment is deemed a separate issue, then my statement above may be used for that purpose. However, I entreaty the Committee to hear the injunction request, particular to the issue of conclusive presumption of privacy on Wikipedia, and its subsequent violation by the aforementioned administrators.
The conclusive presumption of privacy is based, in part, on:
Thank you agapetos_angel 01:08, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Wikimedia's privacy policy doesn't explicitly deal with privacy issues between users, but it's an issue that has come up quite a lot over the years. Usually there is quite a clear "bad guy" putting out private information, and they are quickly banned and the information removed. In this case there are well meaning contributors worried about the influence a user is having on an article they believe she is intimately connected to. Usually identity outing of this type is used to bully and intimidate. I don't think that is the intention here, but I do think it is the effect. Most of us who chose not to disclose our real names could be outed in this way, it's hard to keep private information off-line, but that doesn't mean it is OK to go looking for it. We rely on the courtesy and civility that Wikipedians are supposed to show each other to keep our privacy. Those posting this information feel that it is justified in this case, because of the alleged connection between the user and the article she is editing. I would say that this is not relevant, what is important is the edits, not the editor. If Agapetos angel is making bad or biased edits, then we need to tackle that, and not the side issue of her identity. I am not convinced that those involved in this will ever agree with this, and past attempts to look at the situation have been marred by further postings of the information (see the deleted RfC). I think an arbitration ruling would be very helpful in this case, and a quick one is needed before it becomes impossible to reverse the damage.
I find Kim's actions (not informing the subjects of the RFAr until he was caught) to be underhanded and shows a remarkable lack of good faith. As for the rest of it, I'll be damned if I care. Guettarda 18:58, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
First, I agree with Guettarda. This "emergency request" was undertaken in an underhanded manner and apparently without any attempt to see both sides of the issue. Is there a reason it took 19 hours to inform the parties of an "emergency" request? It seems that the notification was taken only after I had left Kim a note on his user page [51], and after I and others had contacted User:Zocky regarding the knee-jerk deletion of part or all of related pages [52], who used the following nebulous reasoning "deleting what seems to be a lot of private info disclosure until I read it. please do not undelete without first reading it yourself" in his edit summary. Initially, the RfC had been deleted by User:Physchim62, who restored it after being contacted by Guettarda. In any case, Kim was even notified early on by User:Hinotori that he was likely incorrect in filing this RfA for the reasons specified
Disputem maiorum: Now, let me dispose of the following: this claim is NOT factual, "certain key information elements can only have been obtained through private correspondence, specifically email address". Anyone Googling the user's alias can find the info on e-mail address. The same holds true for identity info. Note: do not delete this statement under the guise of privacy violation as it is relevant to a "defense" regarding Kim's assertions.
Having thus disposed of the major premise, I shall tackle the other issues in due time, but certainly no later than tonight. Jim62sch 21:16, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Asserions by AA:
I commend Kim on his decision to drop the request for injunction, however, I believe that this RfAr should be closed and an RfC pursued first (I believe that to be the proper Wiki path, but if I am wrong, let me know). My basis for this request is that AA's assertions differ in content from those of the original RfAr, thus a different path is needed. Jim62sch 12:30, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
In all honesty, that AA still believes that people are out to harass her bothers me deeply. If we look through the evidence we will see that harassment was not part of the issue: NPOV and honesty were. As for myself, were harassment really my goal, would I have retracted two statements I made in good faith that I later realized were incorrect? I think not. In fact, to borrow a line from Cool Hand Luke, "what we have here is a failure to communicate." Nothing more, nothing less. Jim62sch 00:26, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
[Comment removed. Flames, meet petrol. James F. (talk) 20:04, 17 February 2006 (UTC)]
The facts of the ongoing issue of Agapetos angel's behavior that led up to this are already described at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agapetos_angel, so I'll just direct readers there and add my own brief summary of how I believe Agapetos angel caused this event to escalate herself through misrepresentation and insisting on disrupting an article in which there is strong evidence that she has a personal stake. Agapetos angel has a history of being disruptive at Jonathan Sarfati, including 4 3RR violations, resulting in being blocked 3 times. She has also been editing heavily the article of Sarfati's employer Answers in Genesis, and the article of a colleague of Sarfati, Ken Ham.
Public information, found on the web through google and available to anyone indicates Agapetos_angel is intimately related to Jonathan Sarfati. <Details deleted> This information reinforced additional information found on Wikipedia implying a connection. <Details deleted>
When her apparent involvement was brought to her attention in a neutral and non-revealing way [54], she misrepresented herself repeatedly by implying that she did not have a personal relationship to Jonathan Sarfati: [55] [56] [57] [58] [59]
All efforts to get Agapetos angel to cease edit warring and violating 3RR without revealing her personal connection to Jonathan Sarfati failed. Her response has been neither outright confirmation nor denial of whether she has a relationship to Sarfati but instead to continue the edit warring and personal attack disruption and to misrepresent our efforts get her to abide by policy as "harassment". [60] [61] If Agapetos angel does not respect the community enough to state whether or not she's an involved party at Jonathan Sarfati when asked directly, [62] [63], she has no standing on which to object to others who have reservations about whether the participation of an involved party is indeed appropriate. The easy way for her to settle this matter and spare the community further disruption would be to just speak up as to whether she is indeed related to Sarfati. Instead, Agapetos angel has chosen to play coy, which naturally raises suspicions that Agapetos angel is relying on intentional ambiguity in the hope that she can continue a POV campaign and relying of false charges of harassment against those who may stumble upon the truth. Agapetos angel has yet tell the community that truth, despite numerous requests and occasions where doing so would be appropriate and helpful. If indeed she is not an involved party, setting the record straight would have little risk to herself and only bolster her credibility while earning her an apology from me and settling this matter for good for the community. FeloniousMonk 19:13, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
(opened new section, is that right? Kim Bruning 11:15, 18 February 2006 (UTC) See new statement above)
All numbering based on /Proposed decision (vote counts and comments are there as well)
1) Edit wars or revert wars are usually considered harmful, because they cause ill-will between users and negatively destabilize articles. Editors are encourage to explore alternate methods of dispute resolution. When disagreements arise, users are expected to adhere to the three-revert rule and discuss their differences rationally rather than reverting.
2) Editors should avoid contributing to articles about themselves or subjects in which they are personally involved, as it is difficult to maintain a neutral point of view while doing so. See Wikipedia:Autobiography.
3) Users who disrupt the editing of articles by engaging in sustained tendentious editing may be banned from the affected articles. In extreme cases they may be banned from the site.
4) Wikipedia is not to be used for advocacy or self-promotion. See Wikipedia is not a soapbox.
5) The recruitment of new editors to Wikipedia for the purpose of influencing a survey, perform reverts, or otherwise attempting to give the appearance of consensus is strongly discouraged. A new user who engages in the same behavior as another user in the same context, and who appears to be editing Wikipedia solely for that purpose, shall be subject to the remedies applied to the user whose behavior they are joining.
6) Wikipedia users are expected to behave reasonably and calmly in their dealings with other users. Insulting and intimidating other users harms the community by creating a hostile environment. All users are instructed to refrain from this activity. Admins are instructed to use good judgment while enforcing this policy. Personal attacks are not acceptable.
1) This dispute is centered on Jonathan Sarfati and associated articles such as Answers in Genesis and Ken Ham. Jonathan Sarfati is a creationist who was trained as a scientist. Agapetos angel and several anonymous editors are suspected to be either him or associated with him.
2) Agapetos angel and User:Dennis Fuller, User:Phloxophilos, User:220.245.180.133, User:220.245.180.134, User:220.245.180.130, User:58.162.252.236, User:58.162.255.242 and User:58.162.251.204 have engaged in tendentious editing of Jonathan Sarfati and associated articles.
3) There has been significant tendentious editing to these articles by others who oppose the creationist point of view. Other edit warriors besides Agapetos angel include Duncharris, Guettarda, Jim62sch, and FeloniousMonk ( see evidence).
Note: All remedies that refer to a period of time, for example to a ban of X months or a revert parole of Y months, are to run concurrently unless otherwise stated.
1) Agapetos angel and User:Dennis Fuller, User:Phloxophilos, User:220.245.180.133, User:220.245.180.134, User:220.245.180.130, User:58.162.252.236, User:58.162.255.242 and User:58.162.251.204 are banned from editing of Jonathan Sarfati and associated articles. This list is not exclusive and the remedy applies to any user, registered or not, who engages in the same type of tendentious editing as has been done by Agapetos angel.
2) Duncharris, Guettarda, Jim62sch, and FeloniousMonk are reminded of Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. They are instructed to seek dispute resolution rather than edit warring when involved with content disputes. The banning of Agapetos angel and her meat and sock puppets should not be interpreted as a license to make a hatchet job of the affected articles.
0) Should any user subject to a restriction in this case violate that restriction, that user may be blocked, initially for up to one month, and then with blocks increasing in duration to a maximum of one year.
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Case Opened on 06:34, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Case Closed on 18:15, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Please do not edit this page directly unless you wish to become a participant in this request. (All participants are subject to Arbitration Committee decisions, and the ArbCom will consider each participant's role in the dispute.) Comments are very welcome on the Talk page, and will be read, in full. Evidence, no matter who can provide it, is very welcome at /Evidence. Evidence is more useful than comments.
Arbitrators will be working on evidence and suggesting proposed decisions at /Workshop and voting on proposed decisions at /Proposed decision.
FeloniousMonk ( talk · contribs), Jim62sch ( talk · contribs), Duncharris ( talk · contribs) and others say that Agapetos angel has been editing Jonathan Sarfati disruptively without disclosing a close personal relationship with Sarfati. She, supported to some extent by Kim Bruning and Tony Sidaway, claim that their conduct amounts to harassment. summary prepared by Tony Sidaway [1] and added here by FeloniousMonk 17:58, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Agapetos angel ( talk · contribs), supported to some extent by Kim Bruning and Tony Sidaway, allege that FeloniousMonk ( talk · contribs), Jim62sch ( talk · contribs), and Duncharris ( talk · contribs) have violated wikipedia policies and guidelines to the extent of harassment. summary prepared by Agapetos angel (see history of this page just prior to my adding this) and added here by WAS 4.250 15:48, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
(NB, the timeline of these steps will be shuffled due to the ongoing nature of the overall harassment.)
These people are spamming personal information across the dispute resolution [& talk, as well as other places] pages. [correction agapetos_angel 02:28, 23 February 2006 (UTC)]
(provide diffs and links)
Jim62sch 00:03, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
To prevent the request for injunction becoming more disruptive than the wheel war it was meant to prevent, I am dropping the request for injunction.
What remains is that Agapetos Angel feels harrassed by the gentlemen listed above, while at the same time, the right honourable gentlemen feel that Agapetos Angel has been misbehaving, and that they had little other choice.
In any case we now have much more time to dive into the diverse things going on.
Due to my personal history with Feloniousmonk, it might be interesting to attract an external advocate who is not me :-)
Technically this is a new claim, but since everyone has basically already somehow magically assumed that that's what was going to happen anyway (oh dear), we're all set anyway.
What can I say? Please do this quick. I've deleted a section on WP:AN/I that purports to associate this user with a real person. I can't guarantee that somebody won't decide I was "censoring" Wikipedia and just roll it all back. We need an injunction. -- Tony Sidaway 04:16, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
I cannot provide supporting links to all the points in my statement because some of the support is located within the sections that had to be (re)moved because of the nature of the complaint. Wikipedia:Harassment gives a specific, if incomplete, list of types of harassment [37] which include wikistalking (for the purposes of disruption), targeted personal attacks (repeated personal attacks on a particular editor), and posting another person's personal information (which would logically by extension include associating my user name with an offline name and email address). The reported harassment on the WP:AN/I was the most recent violation in a series of personal attacks for which I have been attempting to resolve by many different avenues. I contacted the persons in question via their talk page to no avail, tried to reason with them in the article talk page, and tried several times to bring the article’s talk page back to discussion of the content and the other attempts listed above. Admittedly frustrated with being unable to find the correct and conclusive way to resolve this ongoing problem, I closed off my participation in the WP:AN/I and decided to ignore the attacks. Instead, I readdressed a neutral issue in the talk attempting to once again bring the discussion back away from personalities to content. This failed in that the next post by User:FeloniousMonk below mine was another personal attack. SlimVirgin had offered informal moderation in the form of a separate talk/dispute page. [38] which I initially questioned/resisted participation for reasons of disillusionment, but after a peptalk from FloNight and a nice email from another editor, I began the process as requested. In just a couple of days, and in an all-over reasonable tone, the participating editors have nearly reached complete consensus on every point [39] I had been raising for weeks to no avail. Ironically, most of the consensus has been very close to my original (and repeated) suggestions (with minor compromises). This illustrates with compromise from all parties, and no personal attacks directed at me, we would have resolved the disputes in the original talk. This supports that these admin, whose participation in the alternate talk page has been limited (and civil), were causing an insurmountable disruption that resulted in a hostile enviornment. Additionally, while the alternate talk page was approximately 12 hours into discussion, compromise, and consensus, the above editors filed a (now deleted) RfC against me. [40] I believe this illustrates yet another attempt to cause disruption rather than resolve, especially given that most of them have participated at least once in the alternate page. Given that official looking message boxes were added (and reverted back after the first removal) to three different articles, [41] [42] [43] [44] and continuation of harassment beyond the attempts to move discussion to resolve, WP:AGF does not apply in that there is no indication that this behaviour will stop. I support the request for injunction to stop these (and any other editors/admin) from continuing this harassment as outlined above. I also strongly disagree with their previously attempted defence of public availablity as the (dubious) source in question does not draw the conclusions that the admin/editors purport. This WP:V violation would not be allowed in an article, and should be even less allowable against a contributor, especially as used as personal attack/harassment. That defence would open a wide hole allowing speculations based on other sources, such as white/yellow page listings which are also 'public knowledge' on the Internet, to be used in like manner. Thank you. agapetos_angel 14:12, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
(Specific to injunction)
If the harassment is deemed a separate issue, then my statement above may be used for that purpose. However, I entreaty the Committee to hear the injunction request, particular to the issue of conclusive presumption of privacy on Wikipedia, and its subsequent violation by the aforementioned administrators.
The conclusive presumption of privacy is based, in part, on:
Thank you agapetos_angel 01:08, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Wikimedia's privacy policy doesn't explicitly deal with privacy issues between users, but it's an issue that has come up quite a lot over the years. Usually there is quite a clear "bad guy" putting out private information, and they are quickly banned and the information removed. In this case there are well meaning contributors worried about the influence a user is having on an article they believe she is intimately connected to. Usually identity outing of this type is used to bully and intimidate. I don't think that is the intention here, but I do think it is the effect. Most of us who chose not to disclose our real names could be outed in this way, it's hard to keep private information off-line, but that doesn't mean it is OK to go looking for it. We rely on the courtesy and civility that Wikipedians are supposed to show each other to keep our privacy. Those posting this information feel that it is justified in this case, because of the alleged connection between the user and the article she is editing. I would say that this is not relevant, what is important is the edits, not the editor. If Agapetos angel is making bad or biased edits, then we need to tackle that, and not the side issue of her identity. I am not convinced that those involved in this will ever agree with this, and past attempts to look at the situation have been marred by further postings of the information (see the deleted RfC). I think an arbitration ruling would be very helpful in this case, and a quick one is needed before it becomes impossible to reverse the damage.
I find Kim's actions (not informing the subjects of the RFAr until he was caught) to be underhanded and shows a remarkable lack of good faith. As for the rest of it, I'll be damned if I care. Guettarda 18:58, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
First, I agree with Guettarda. This "emergency request" was undertaken in an underhanded manner and apparently without any attempt to see both sides of the issue. Is there a reason it took 19 hours to inform the parties of an "emergency" request? It seems that the notification was taken only after I had left Kim a note on his user page [51], and after I and others had contacted User:Zocky regarding the knee-jerk deletion of part or all of related pages [52], who used the following nebulous reasoning "deleting what seems to be a lot of private info disclosure until I read it. please do not undelete without first reading it yourself" in his edit summary. Initially, the RfC had been deleted by User:Physchim62, who restored it after being contacted by Guettarda. In any case, Kim was even notified early on by User:Hinotori that he was likely incorrect in filing this RfA for the reasons specified
Disputem maiorum: Now, let me dispose of the following: this claim is NOT factual, "certain key information elements can only have been obtained through private correspondence, specifically email address". Anyone Googling the user's alias can find the info on e-mail address. The same holds true for identity info. Note: do not delete this statement under the guise of privacy violation as it is relevant to a "defense" regarding Kim's assertions.
Having thus disposed of the major premise, I shall tackle the other issues in due time, but certainly no later than tonight. Jim62sch 21:16, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Asserions by AA:
I commend Kim on his decision to drop the request for injunction, however, I believe that this RfAr should be closed and an RfC pursued first (I believe that to be the proper Wiki path, but if I am wrong, let me know). My basis for this request is that AA's assertions differ in content from those of the original RfAr, thus a different path is needed. Jim62sch 12:30, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
In all honesty, that AA still believes that people are out to harass her bothers me deeply. If we look through the evidence we will see that harassment was not part of the issue: NPOV and honesty were. As for myself, were harassment really my goal, would I have retracted two statements I made in good faith that I later realized were incorrect? I think not. In fact, to borrow a line from Cool Hand Luke, "what we have here is a failure to communicate." Nothing more, nothing less. Jim62sch 00:26, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
[Comment removed. Flames, meet petrol. James F. (talk) 20:04, 17 February 2006 (UTC)]
The facts of the ongoing issue of Agapetos angel's behavior that led up to this are already described at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Agapetos_angel, so I'll just direct readers there and add my own brief summary of how I believe Agapetos angel caused this event to escalate herself through misrepresentation and insisting on disrupting an article in which there is strong evidence that she has a personal stake. Agapetos angel has a history of being disruptive at Jonathan Sarfati, including 4 3RR violations, resulting in being blocked 3 times. She has also been editing heavily the article of Sarfati's employer Answers in Genesis, and the article of a colleague of Sarfati, Ken Ham.
Public information, found on the web through google and available to anyone indicates Agapetos_angel is intimately related to Jonathan Sarfati. <Details deleted> This information reinforced additional information found on Wikipedia implying a connection. <Details deleted>
When her apparent involvement was brought to her attention in a neutral and non-revealing way [54], she misrepresented herself repeatedly by implying that she did not have a personal relationship to Jonathan Sarfati: [55] [56] [57] [58] [59]
All efforts to get Agapetos angel to cease edit warring and violating 3RR without revealing her personal connection to Jonathan Sarfati failed. Her response has been neither outright confirmation nor denial of whether she has a relationship to Sarfati but instead to continue the edit warring and personal attack disruption and to misrepresent our efforts get her to abide by policy as "harassment". [60] [61] If Agapetos angel does not respect the community enough to state whether or not she's an involved party at Jonathan Sarfati when asked directly, [62] [63], she has no standing on which to object to others who have reservations about whether the participation of an involved party is indeed appropriate. The easy way for her to settle this matter and spare the community further disruption would be to just speak up as to whether she is indeed related to Sarfati. Instead, Agapetos angel has chosen to play coy, which naturally raises suspicions that Agapetos angel is relying on intentional ambiguity in the hope that she can continue a POV campaign and relying of false charges of harassment against those who may stumble upon the truth. Agapetos angel has yet tell the community that truth, despite numerous requests and occasions where doing so would be appropriate and helpful. If indeed she is not an involved party, setting the record straight would have little risk to herself and only bolster her credibility while earning her an apology from me and settling this matter for good for the community. FeloniousMonk 19:13, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
(opened new section, is that right? Kim Bruning 11:15, 18 February 2006 (UTC) See new statement above)
All numbering based on /Proposed decision (vote counts and comments are there as well)
1) Edit wars or revert wars are usually considered harmful, because they cause ill-will between users and negatively destabilize articles. Editors are encourage to explore alternate methods of dispute resolution. When disagreements arise, users are expected to adhere to the three-revert rule and discuss their differences rationally rather than reverting.
2) Editors should avoid contributing to articles about themselves or subjects in which they are personally involved, as it is difficult to maintain a neutral point of view while doing so. See Wikipedia:Autobiography.
3) Users who disrupt the editing of articles by engaging in sustained tendentious editing may be banned from the affected articles. In extreme cases they may be banned from the site.
4) Wikipedia is not to be used for advocacy or self-promotion. See Wikipedia is not a soapbox.
5) The recruitment of new editors to Wikipedia for the purpose of influencing a survey, perform reverts, or otherwise attempting to give the appearance of consensus is strongly discouraged. A new user who engages in the same behavior as another user in the same context, and who appears to be editing Wikipedia solely for that purpose, shall be subject to the remedies applied to the user whose behavior they are joining.
6) Wikipedia users are expected to behave reasonably and calmly in their dealings with other users. Insulting and intimidating other users harms the community by creating a hostile environment. All users are instructed to refrain from this activity. Admins are instructed to use good judgment while enforcing this policy. Personal attacks are not acceptable.
1) This dispute is centered on Jonathan Sarfati and associated articles such as Answers in Genesis and Ken Ham. Jonathan Sarfati is a creationist who was trained as a scientist. Agapetos angel and several anonymous editors are suspected to be either him or associated with him.
2) Agapetos angel and User:Dennis Fuller, User:Phloxophilos, User:220.245.180.133, User:220.245.180.134, User:220.245.180.130, User:58.162.252.236, User:58.162.255.242 and User:58.162.251.204 have engaged in tendentious editing of Jonathan Sarfati and associated articles.
3) There has been significant tendentious editing to these articles by others who oppose the creationist point of view. Other edit warriors besides Agapetos angel include Duncharris, Guettarda, Jim62sch, and FeloniousMonk ( see evidence).
Note: All remedies that refer to a period of time, for example to a ban of X months or a revert parole of Y months, are to run concurrently unless otherwise stated.
1) Agapetos angel and User:Dennis Fuller, User:Phloxophilos, User:220.245.180.133, User:220.245.180.134, User:220.245.180.130, User:58.162.252.236, User:58.162.255.242 and User:58.162.251.204 are banned from editing of Jonathan Sarfati and associated articles. This list is not exclusive and the remedy applies to any user, registered or not, who engages in the same type of tendentious editing as has been done by Agapetos angel.
2) Duncharris, Guettarda, Jim62sch, and FeloniousMonk are reminded of Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. They are instructed to seek dispute resolution rather than edit warring when involved with content disputes. The banning of Agapetos angel and her meat and sock puppets should not be interpreted as a license to make a hatchet job of the affected articles.
0) Should any user subject to a restriction in this case violate that restriction, that user may be blocked, initially for up to one month, and then with blocks increasing in duration to a maximum of one year.
0) Appeals and modifications
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