Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User conduct/Archive

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This page is for archiving user conduct disputes listed on Wikipedia:Requests for comment. Archived disputes should not be added to. Disputes should be archived under any of the following circumstances:

  1. If no additional complaints are registered for an extended period of time, and the dispute appears to have stopped.
  2. The parties to the dispute agree.
  3. The dispute proceeds to another method of dispute resolution, such as mediation or arbitration.

If the dispute is handled in mediation or arbitration, please make a note of where the dispute resolution process continued.

[edit] Archived disputes

Newer entries towards the top


Name Date Description First two certifiers Notes
Seabhcan 18 Nov 2006 Incivility Tom Harrison, Tbeatty Arbitration
RPJ 7 Nov 2006 User:RPJ continues to violate WP:NPOV, WP:NPA, WP:OR, WP:CIVIL and WP:V. Gamaliel, Ramsquire Arbitration
PMA 26 Nov 2006 Misuse of blocking power Thatcher131, Sarah Ewart Resigned sysop position
JR Pietri 13 Aug 06
Ferick 6 Aug 06
Snake Liquid 1 Aug 06
Insert-Belltower 21 Aug 06
UCRGrad 21 Jul 06
Francespeabody 20 Jul 06
Darwinek 18 Jul 06
Wiarthurhu 16 Jul 06
Sheynhertz-Unbayg 11 Jul 06
Telex
(Telex)		 11 Jul 06
JD UK 2 Jul 06
Teemu Ruskeepää 29 Jun 06
Gundagai editor 26 Jul 06 Gone to arbitration
Irpen 23 Jun 06
Michaellovesnyc 23 Jun 06
Brya 22 Jun 06 Gone to arbitration
Imacomp 22 Jun 06
Michael D. Wolok 21 Jun 06
Frater FiatLux 21 Jun 06
Mines45 21 Jun 06
Maddyfan 15 Jun 06
Dr1819 11 Jun 06
Swainstonation 11 Jun 06
Rick Norwood 7 Jun 06
SNIyer12 22 May 06
Alastor Moody 16 Sep 2006 User has a history of useless and/or irrelevant edits to talk pages (particularly on WikiProject Tropical cyclones), in violation of WP:NOT (a chat room). Coredesat, Hello32020 Withdrawn when the disputed conduct did not recur
CrazyInSane 7 Aug 2006 WP:AGF, WP:CIVIL WP:SOCK, WP:NOR and WP:NPOV issues. JoshuaZ, LtPowers Agreement to close
WikiRoo 10 July 2006 POV pushing, personal attacks Garywill, User:AbsolutDan Indef banned by community
Block of Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 27 July 2006 Concerns regarding the block of User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ). Note: unlike most RFCs, there is no concern about abuse but rather a concern about broader issues of process drift and precedent. UninvitedCompany Stale
Nescio 14 July 2006 Nescio has frequently engaged in violations of WP:POINT to the detrement of the articles he edits. Zer0faults, Rangeley Stale; Nescio has left Wikipedia
Kelly Martin2 8 Aug 2006 Forming a new policy in order to close off ongoing discussion pertaining to an issue Johntex, Mecu Kelly Martin has left Wikipedia, also similar issues were raised in an unrelated arbitration case.
Vivaldi 20 May 2006 POV editing, ignoring consensus Arbustoo, FeloniousMonk Arbitration
Sceptre 2 Aug 2006 Blocking of ed g2s Sceptre, Johntex Sceptre is no longer an admin
MONGO 24 June 2006 Misuse of blocking power Pokipsy76, CBD Arbitration for similar issues
BenH 26 June 2006 Poor or unverifiable contributions, does not respond on talk pages CFIF, CoolKatt number 99999 Indef banned by community
Der alte Hexenmeister 19 June 2006 POV pushing, uncivil behavior, vandalism ems57fcva,Chris Hillman User is no longer active in Wikipedia
Hatto 9 June 2006 Extremely uncooperative user; vandalism, reverts, copywrite problems, non-communication, disruption, edit warring, NPOV, disregard for policy, more. freshgavin, Geo.plrd, "Numorous sic other users listing complains sic on Hatto's talk pages", Mackan Stale
Lupo 13 May 2006 Abuse of admin rules in ruling and POV of Soviet pre-1973 images Kuban kazak, Grafikm fr Stale
Ed Poor (2) 31 May 2006 Imposing his own POV FeloniousMonk, Ladlergo Arbitration
Pat8722 27 April 2006 Revert war at Libertarianism Rhobite, Cadr Arbitration
Ericsaindon2 5 June 2006 POV pushing and original research Will Beback, Adambiswanger1 Sent to arbitration
Brian G. Crawford 18 May 2006 Bad faith nomintions at AfD, personal attacks, template misuse, assuming bad faith, and incivility Backburner001, Apyule Community ban
CoolKatt number 99999 17 May 2006 Incivility Kafziel,CFIF Sent to arbitration
Gene Nygaard 10 May 2006 Persistently imposes his own style preferences on scientific articles Worldtraveller, Sadi Carnot Stale
Xino 5 May 2006 Abrasiveness Golbez, Waka
Hamsacharya dan 30 April 2006 POV pushing Hanuman Das, Computerjoe
TheKingOfDixie 29 April 2006 Refusing to accept consensus Threeafterthree, Shenme
Kurt Leyman 26 April 2006 Adding unverifiable information SuperDeng, Grafikm fr
Adam Carr 23 April 2006 Personal attacks Zleitzen, BruceHallman
Israelbeach 23 April 2006 Using Wikipedia to promote his own interests. Woggly, Jpgordon Banned for posting personal information [1]
Fadix 22 April 2006 Lack of civility Cool Cat, Grandmaster
86.10.231.219 22 April 2006 Trolling Midgley, Jfdwolff
Whaleto 13 April 2006 Adding links to his own alternative medicine web site to medical topics in violation of WP:V and WP:RS Midgley, Tearlach
Merecat 13 April 2006 POV pushing Nescio, Kevin Baas Banned as a reincarnation of Rex071404
Mccready 4 April 2006 POV pushing on chiropractic articles Ombudsman, R. Koot
Ombudsman 2 November 2005 POV pushing on vaccine topics Jfdwolff, Geni

But he persists with the attacks in the talk pages (most of this has been archived) and in his edit summaries. Please help. Nrets 04:33, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Jeffrey O. Gustafson - regarding attitude towards new contributors unfamiliar with Wikipedia. Talrias (t | e | c) 20:22, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Terryeo: This user has repeatedly come into conflict with a wide range of other users. He has engaged in a persistent and wilful pattern of personal attacks, accusations of bad faith, making strongly POV edits, refusing to abide by consensus, misrepresenting Wikipedia policies to support his POV edits, making legal accusations that at the very least violate the spirit of WP:NLT, removing sources with which he doesn't agree and declining to cite sources for his own edits. He has spent much of the last two months fighting edit wars with around a dozen other users in a range of articles and one template, all concerning Scientology. A mediation attempt has failed. The matter has now been submitted to the Arbitration Committee. -- ChrisO 18:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Mel_Ettis : Has leveled personal attacks against another editor in spite of repeated requests to stop. Mademoiselle Sabina 12:34, 17 March 2006 (UTC) Withdrawn by complaintants, who insist on their initial claims, but recognize, that RfC was an improper way to resolve the case. Cmapm 02:25, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Jason Gastrich: Various policies including WP:SOCK, WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA, WP:NPOV and WP:VAIN. - Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 11:26, 22 January 2006 (UTC) Taken to ArbCom - Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Jason Gastrich - and user blocked for one year. --kingboyk 09:18, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Elerner – User had taken a break, but has now returned under an anonymous username and is continuing to promote the same activities including personal attacks and thwarting Wikipedia policy involving content disputes. --ScienceApologist
  • NoseNuggets: Refuses to abide by long-standing rules of current-events pages at Current sports events. -- 03:58, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Theodore7: revert warring against consensus at Astrology and Astronomy, personal attacks. 19:33, 13 January 2006 (UTC).
  • Anittas (second RfC) – has made anti-gay statements as well as anti-Jewish and anti-Russian ones. Refuses to apologise. Ronline ✉ 22:11, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Haizum Repeated personal attacks, refusal to change course
  • Chisinau – suspected sockpuppet of User:Bonaparte. Created on March 1st and dived headlong into vandalizing of Moldova-related articles, the favorite target of Bonaparte, with accusing everyone else in anti-Romanian discrimination annd with curious knowledge of wikipedia policies and places. Permanent ban requested. 20:48, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comandante Constantly revert wars without discussing changes on talk. CJK 17:05, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Robertjkoenig Using wikipedia as a blog to air dissatifaction with a company. Movementarian 19:52, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Allabout2006 and socks Spamming, incivility, refusal to accept consensus, 3rr, and more on Alkyl nitrites --Heah talk 04:15, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Rbj Conducting a hate campaign against users.
  • 70.182.219.158 Repeatedly makes vicious personal attacks, makes unsubstantiated (and libelous) accusations of illegal behavior, vandalizes articles, and engages in edit wars. In short, a menace to the wikipedia community.
  • Monicasdude 2 Gaming the system (WP:POINT), assuming bad faith(WP:AGF), incivil behavior (WP:CIVIL), harassment (WP:STALK), ignores consensus (WP:CON), and engages in personal attacks (WP:NPA).
  • Larvatus Legal threats, incivil behavior, etc. relating to pushing unverified and potentially libelous allegations that Min Zhu committed sex crimes with his daughter, and then conspired with his company to cover it up.
  • Huaiwei - User is engaged in heated discussion on the Kung hei fat choi page. User is currently under probation for China/Taiwan related infractions. Article ends up protected.
  • Randallrobinstine - User continues to post irrelevent entries into articles (He recently lised a Toledo, Ohio station under stations in Kansas City) and creates articles with little or no content. All articles in question pertain to radio stations in the Midwest. He's been warned and banned for vandalism in the past and probably needs some mentoring... and grammar lessons. 04:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Canaen. User has violated numerous Wikipedia policies in an effort to keep legitimate criticism of veganism out of the Veganism and Environmental vegetarianism articles.19:12, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Tobias Conradi. WP:3RR, WP:CIVIL, WP:CON, WP:NPA, WP:POINT. Besides the edit war, massive disruption of place names, thousands of moves and edits per day, immediate concern. Already tried 3rd party. William Allen Simpson 03:10, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Molobo – strongly biased contributions that lead to strong personal discussions. Alx-pl D 20:01, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Dominick – repeated POV deletion of perfectly relevant links to a site he doesn't like, coupled with accusations of "linkspamming."" Deceptive editing, accusations of "coordinating attacks" from third party sites, general harrassment of me, User:Used2BAnonymous. Used2BAnonymous 05:21, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Used2BAnonymous – NPoV twisting, coordinating attacks on wikipedia PoV from third party site, link spamming fisheaters.com site written by Used2BAnonymous. 00:20, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Braaad and 68.112.201.90. WP:WIN, WP:NPA, WP:3RR, WP:CIVIL, WP:SOCK. Constantly argumentative, enjoys edit warring, refuses to take responsibility for statements made, combative and insulting. -- McNeight 00:06, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Aidan Work NPOV policy, hateful and libellous edits, WP:DICK and (minor) vandalism. --Kiand 15:34, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Talrias - actions over block duration of Marsden (talk • contribs).
  • NicholasTurnbull - Abusive blocks made in violation of Wikipedia:Blocking policy
  • dab - Dieter thinks he is above wiki law, revert wars by pushing unread references, blocks people at whim, makes racist comments towards millions of Indians and nasty towards new wikipedians unfamiliar with WP.
  • Freestylefrappe - Poor behavior in regards to content disputes, intimidates other users with admin status
  • RJII. Personal attacks, POV pushing, refusal to cite sources. Firebug 21:24, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Antidote. WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA, Wikipedia:Sock puppet, using multiple accounts and ip addresses on articles for deletion. Arniep 16:16, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/BB69. WP:NPOV, Wikipedia:Verifiability, and WP:NOR violations. - Taxman Talk 20:30, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Ghirlandajo, incivility, ethnic slurs, constant accusations of bad faith, hysteria, anti-Russian conspiracies, paranoia and bad faith, as well as numerous ad hominem remarks and personal attacks. Halibutt 00:02, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Iopq - Creation of racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic articles in Mainspace, vandalism of userspace, using IPs to avoid a block. Also makes productive edits. Jkelly 03:04, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
  • 80.217.152.161 - refusal to discuss reverts, violated 3RR twice, possibly evaded IP block. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:45, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Roylee, Roy Lee's Junior and 4.241.x.x — The user known as Roylee has carried out a sustained introduction of fringe theories and original research into a large number of articles since December 2004. — mark ✎ 10:15, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
  • WritersCramp. Incivility, personal attacks, and vandalism using multiple sockpuppet accounts. Guanaco 00:19, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Anittas. WP:CIVIL. Anti-Semitic remark. Will not retract. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:49, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Quadell - Unapproved deltions; incivility; revert warring - withdrawn 1 February 2006 by requestor due to cardstacking, overwhelming majority joturner 05:45, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Kelly Martin - Deletion of userbox templates (this is a reformatted version by Phil Welch - the original can be found here), Overwhelming consensus to end, see talk page.CastAStone|(talk)
  • Tony Sidaway 2, October 2005, grew stale.
  • FuelWagon 2, October 2005, moved to arbitration.
  • Mel Etitis, October 2005, grew stale.
  • John Henry and socks DEastman/Long John Silver/Swampp Fox/JimmyCrackedCorn/Honest Abe/etc. –incivility, disruption, harassment, policy violation, revert waring, personal attacks, legal threats, etc.--Gorgonzilla 12:11, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Silverback –incivility, disruption, harassment, revert waring--172 | Talk 19:54, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Zizban – harrasment, vandalism, and policy violation. --Kiand 09:16, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  • 204.113.91.11 – {after returning from 1 week block user is back to vandalizing talk pages}05:04, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Wiki_brah. User's repeated creation of nonsense articles and templates while being warned countless times about his disruption borders on trolling.TheDeletator 05:19, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Copperchair – continues to revert against consensus, vandalising user Talk pages (including his own), violation of NPA, civility, and WP:POINT.
  • Pigsonthewing - Excessively and agressively reverts articles and talk pages, refuses to explain. --Phroziac(talk) 04:01, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Garywbush - user suspected of sockpuppetry; also rude and pushing POV Robdurbar 11:30, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
  • ComCat Abuse of AFD process with short "NN, D" or "UE, D" nominations.
  • Harro5 Constant push for editorial control over Portal:Schools, including removal of content not personally written by him without discussion. 13:51, 13 November 2005 (UTC). Uncertified after 48 hours, delisted.
  • Durin – disruption of mediation process, and incivility.
  • ArmchairVexillologistDon – Makes personal attacks for which he refuses to apologize; uses Talk pages as a chat group, with frequent, long, and irrelevant posts. HistoryBA 22:58, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
  • All members of the Associations of Inclusionist and Deletionist Wikipedians - users constantly disrupting WP:AFD (stale)
  • UninvitedCompany - Abuse of blocking policy
  • Kdbuffalo - POV pushing, original research, inability to reach consensus. Dunc|☺ 13:05, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
  • BigDaddy777 - Highly combative editor who ignores civility and frequently attacks those who disagree with him. --kizzle 19:03, September 11, 2005 (UTC)
    • The lot of these had been listed for over a month and a half and are assumed stale.
  • Researcher99. Researcher99 has been unwilling to resolve disputes with Nereocystis on Talk:Polygamy over many months. He has been asked multiple times over many months to discuss the text of the Polygamy article and stop discussing what he perceives as past abuses and insults. Nereocystis 19:59, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Monicasdude Monicasdude systematically reverts edits by all other editors of the Bob Dylan article; has refused offer by administrator User:Ryan Delaney for informal mediation. See discussion at Talk:Bob Dylan. 00:57, 2005 August 28 (UTC).
  • Peter Lee and Mario Roering. Edit-warring, repeated 3RR violations, POV pushing, incivility, NPA, almost no discussion, use of WP as battleground. 02:17, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Dai Grepher pushing POV, ignoring consensus, vandalizing user pages
  • Bensaccount Defiance of NPOV policy to report views, insisting "Science is not a point of view."
  • Robert McClenon - POV pusher, engages in aggressive personal attacks against others, misuses RfC pages to bully, intimidate and harrass
  • 24.147.97.230 - Anonymous editor using multiple IP adresses in revert war, incivility, disregard for consensus
  • Agiantman - Personal attacks, lack of civility, accusations of sockpuppetry, POV pushing with respect to members of the Kennedy family.
  • NSK Gaming the system, disruption, attempting to promote his http://www.wikinerds.org/ web site under the guise of "contributing" his own, copywrited material and demanding a prominent back link to his web site; plus personal attacks on UninvitedCompany.
  • Silverhorse - Complete disregard for naming standards of British monarchs; was just anon IP, now has registered and is now moving pages around.
  • -Ril- - Continued defiance of all editors who try to work with him, engaged in revenge reverts and filing of RfC, disruption and multiple 3RRs, trolling and stolking. --Noitall 09:52, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • Maoririder - Continued refusal to stop submitting single sentence articles borders on trolling. 18:03, August 9, 2005
  • 12.144.5.2 - Continual defiance of Wikipedia style policies bordering on vandalism. 01:21, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Rainbowwarrior1977 - Engaged in personal attacks, RfA fraud, article vandalism, userpage vandalism, misuse of CSD templates, sockpuppetry, insulting and/or attacking edit summaries, attacks on other users, particularly admins, who correct his actions. 23:33, August 7, 2005
  • Necromancing - VfDing pages to illustrate a point, uploading copyrighted material then claiming fair use without citing source for verification, does not seem to respond to any communications left on talk page. 03:01, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Comcat - Bulk VfDs, of which a large percentage are clearly not VfD material.
  • DotSix - Revert wars, 3RR violations, removing other users' comments, personal attacks. 01:52, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
  • Famekeeper - Lack of civility, using article talk pages as soapbox to extent of interfering with their use
  • Boothy443 - Disrupts Wikipedia to prove a point that "Admins are evil", and engages in frequent personal attacks, showing a general lack of conduct in the Wiki way. Hedley 14:53, 24 July 2005 (UTC) (RfA started 14:53, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Lapsed Pacifist pushing POV, constant RV's to push POV. July 9.).
  • Pastorrussell - Claiming ownership of article, POV pushing, 3RR violations in revert war over NPOV banner
  • Ultramarine - POV warrior, continual reverts and 3RR violations, refusal to work towards any kind of consensus, conflicts with multiple editors, is on a self-proclaimed crusade to purge wikipedia of what he considers improper views
  • Germen - Edit warring on Islamophobia, POV pushing, inappropriate behaviour.
  • Nightscream - POV pushing, Revert-warring, Violation of 3RR, Lack of wikiquette, Not responding to constructive discussion, Ignoring comments.
  • Flowerofchivalry - POV pushing, Revert-warring, Violation of 3RR, Lack of etiquette, Lack of wikiquette, Resorting to personal attacks, Abuse of (nonexistent) power, Not responding to constructive discussion, Ignoring comments and warnings, Utilizing anonymous IP addresses to further revert-war, Inability to procure evidence and support

[edit] Earlier conflicts

(moved here from Conflicts between users)

[edit] Even earlier conflicts

From Wikipedia:Conflicts between users/archive1:

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