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[edit] Closing arguments

Freedom skies would have you believe that this is dispute is either personal or about content, because it would shift the focus away from the real issue: Freedom skies' disruptive and tendentious editing.

Had Freedom skies conducted himself civilly refrained from incivility

had he not persistently cited unencyclopedic sources or misrepresented reliable ones

If Freedom skies had conducted himself civilly,

if he had

fs reverts edits he disagrees with as "vandalism"

but apparently if when there is a genuine disagreement about content

gives him carte blanche for incivility, shoddy citations and edit warring

That's why Freedom skies would like you to think that Indian mathematics and all his many other edit wars are unrelated: because he exhibits the same disruptive behavior even when Bodhidharma is not the issue and even when I'm not involved.

But you don't have to take my word for it.

In addition to SebastianHelm's comments below, I strongly encourage the Committee to read the Request for comment at "Indian mathematics", some of which I will quote here.

The Committee should know that neither of the editors I quote has any history with Freedom skies prior to these comments and, therefore, no preconceptions or prejudices for or against him.

DavidCBryant: Freedom_skies consistently pushes his own POV, does not respect guidelines, loses his temper frequently, and vandalizes Wikipedia with some regularity.[1]

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I had never even heard of either of these gentlemen until this morning, about 14½ hours ago.[2]....I formed my opinion by reviewing the available evidence carefully.....I characterized FS' behavior based on the solid hour I spent reading his talk page, reviewing the many times he has recently been blocked from editing, and reading the incredible exchanges recorded on this talk page, above.[3]

David Eppstein: This article is the center of a general pattern that I see in which the genuine accomplishments of ancient Indian mathematicians are artificially inflated so that they can be claimed as having precedence over similar ancient mathematics in Greece, Egypt, Babylon, and China.

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Freedom skies appears to be one of the principal perpetrators of the unencyclopedic exaggeration, adding speculative interpretations of what the ancients might have known, and badly sourcing things by leaving such claims undocumented, providing useless unverifiable documentation, or not taking care to distinguish sources that are accepted scholarly work from speculative popular-press writings.[4]

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To put it bluntly: the purpose of citing sources is to convince your readers that you have thoroughly researched the subject and are fairly presenting it. Your insistance on using sources such as these instead convinces me that you are stretching, that solid sources are not available for what you want to claim and so you are citing flimsy ones instead. It makes me think there is a reason solid sources are unavailable. That is the opposite of what a source should be.[5]

To coin a phrase, "The only consistent feature of all of Freedom skies' dissatisfying relationships is Freedom skies."

Not a content dispute over Bodhidharma.

Not myself, nor my supposed cabal of two.

These pertain to only a fraction of the many articles Freedom skies has disrupted.

Even the unsavory company he keeps does not absolve Freedom skies of sole responsibility for the disruption he has inflicted on Wikipedia.