Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 December 29

Ed O'Loughlin (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (restore|cache|AfD)

Undelete_Not satisfied with conduct of achieving "consensus" errors in counting of involved editors 124.191.88.235 (talk) 14:51, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

The deleting editor assumed wrongly (in both cases) that the dissenters were sock-puppets or single-topic contributors.

There was no announcement of the time of deciding on deletion. It was arbitrary, like alot of what goes on at Wikipedia - arbitrary and unprofessional.

The timing co-incided with the forced exclusion of the chief dissenter, on a trumped-up accusation of vandalism - when he was merely attempting to reverse the relegation of those wishing to retain the Article onto a subpage. The extremely poor formatting tools provided by Wikipedia resulted in unpredicted distortions on the text formatting and placement.

The responses of the Administrative Editors were wholly and manifestly unsatisfactory. None of the concerns expressed by the complainant (myself) were addressed. This was obvious because I was blocked within minutes of submitting serious questions about the Wikipedia mechanism of deletion and the behaviour of the editor driving the whole process for deletion of the article: "Eleland" when a proper and dignified response would have taken some time and space to fully elucidate.

There is something very rotten in the procedures of Wikipedia if these matters are not addressed. Claims that this is truly an encyclopedia must be challenged if arbitrary actions of a clique or cabal go without any proper accountability.

The suggestion by Admin editor that this contributor is unable to accept an opinion that does not agree with his own is insulting as it is untrue. It has nothing what ever to do with the questions leveled at the deletion discussion. The editor Eleland has a long history which is indubitable of taking a partisan approach on middle-east issues. In such a case he must not exercise deletion and or blocking rights over his opponents. Moreover such an individual must be seen to be extremely scrupulous with his facts. Unfortunately that was not the case in the Ed O'Loughlin article. Eleland made several errors. (1) A claim that I wrote a section of the article that did misrepresented the source reference was false. The section was written by Admin editor Fluri, as an exemplar to me as to how the section should be written. (2) Eleland has no record of ever interceding on the side of a pro-Israel exponent to deflect criticism from them, until 26th of December 2007 when he deleted a criticism in the biography of Isabel Kershner, in a futile attempt to achieve balance against hundreds of anti-Israel posts by himself evidence of which is littered all over Wikipedia. (3) Repeated assertions that the critics of O'Loughlin were solely Jewish pressure groups or belonged to some nebulous "Pro-Israel lobby" (when they have not a scintilla of evidence of this lobby). This had to be removed from the article when Eleland was confronted with valid criticisms of O'Loughlin by Lebanese Christian groups. (4) False allegations of sock puppetry to manipulate a vote concensus.

If this Wikipedia publication does not wish to be brought into disrepute as supporting individuals who are exhibiting unfair, foul, and possible racist proclivities in their attempts to overturn a properly referenced submission to a scholarly article about widely acknowledged controversial journalist in the Australian scene - it had better restore the article until it can supply a justification of the apparent arbitrary actions of its agents. 124.191.88.235 (talk) 15:43, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy close this bad faith nomination. See AfD subpage. --lifebaka (Talk - Contribs) 16:29, 29 December 2007 (UTC)