Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Xed
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The request and responses to it in this matter are mingled with no descrete response by Xed. Below find the original request with responses by Xed:
[edit] Xed
Xed has been a problem user of various intensities for some time. His edits in general show a tendency towards an uncompromising advancement of a particular and idiosyncratic view of the NPOV policy that Jimbo has indirectly indicated is erroneous,
- What idiosyncratic view of the NPOV? And where did Jimbo has indirectly indicate it was erroneous? - XED.talk 00:49, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
and his advocacy of this view has been excessive and deliberately inflammatory.
Far worse than his questionable grasp of NPOV, however, are his tendency towards personal attacks and other statements designed to make editing WIkipedia less comfortable for people. He has, as has been documented by User:Slrubenstein on the listserv, engaged in particularly vicious personal attacks via private e-mail to Wikipedia contributors, seemingly designed to intimidate them on Wikipedia. Upon being blocked for telling Slrubenstein to "fuck off" and calling him a "little shit,"
- Quite right. After he viciously attacked me, calling me a moron etc.- XED.talk 00:51, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
and subsequently being unblocked, Xed posted "Love and kisses all around" to the Administrator's Noticeboard where this discussion had taken place.
I believe, in this case, that mediation would be fruitless because of a combination of the damaging effects of such comments as "fuck off you little shit" and his e-mail to Slrubenstein and the increasingly large disruption that he has taken to causing. Snowspinner 18:18, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
- Here is part of what Snowspinner is aluding to, an exchange on my talk page: [1] (all the remarks are dated).
Does Neutrality want me to provide the date of or text from Xed's e-mail to me? Slrubenstein | Talk 20:43, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I thought Rfa was the last step... Essentially I'm being examined in a pretend-court on the internet by people who regard themselves as arbitrators. My crime appears to be "being idiosyncratic". Prof Rubensteins complaint renders me slightly hypnagogic. His problem seems to be an issue of cultural relativism brought on by blinkered academia, though a proper anthropological analysis of his way of life would be needed to confirm this. Essentially a comic figure, Rubenstein is perhaps the archetypal academic - where an enlarged belief in his own importance leaves no room for humour, or even the differences in transatlantic dispositions. - XED.talk 21:58, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I'll call that evidence too, if I may. And, to clarify, I'm asking for arbitration regarding "uncompromising advancement," being "deliberately inflammatory," and "vicious personal attacks." Snowspinner 22:01, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Evidences
Slrubenstein offers a link to the small mind exchange. His "Love and kisses" post can be found at [2]. This is from the last few days.
In late December he had a hostile and accusatory exchange with Jimbo in which he cryptically demanded that he wanted "justice" and generally accused Jimbo of forcing SecretLondon out, a false accusation. This was at [3].
[4] in which he calls someone a pompous wanker on February 4th.
On December 12 he removed a NPOV tag at [5], and did so again on the 13th at [6].
On February 12 he was needlessly hostile and inflammatory in discussing why a piece of news was not include on the In the News template, attributing straw men positions to those who disagreed with him and making vague accusations that the page was "controlled" by a certain kind of person: [7]. Snowspinner 21:35, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
