User:Scott Burley/Iasson RFAr

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This is a request for arbitration against User:Iasson. I don't intend to submit it myself, as I was not involved early on, particularly when Iasson was casting his "peculiar votes". Feel free to edit it or submit it.

Case opened. Send all comments and evidence there. -- Scott eiπ + 1 = 0 04:01, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User:Iasson and all sockpuppets (including User:Faethon and sockpuppets, and User:Acestorides and sockpuppets)

From December to late January, User:Iasson repeatedly attempted to change Wikipedia policy, and deletion policy in particular, to his own liking, without subjecting it to consensus. Furthermore, he acted on these policies unilaterally, casting "peculiar votes" in VfD (a good example is [1]). He was asked to stop many times, but refused. He made one post in particular threatening to continue until banned, for which he was blocked for 24 hours. An RFC was filed on January 15th. Iasson "left" in late January, but has made occasional edits since then, mostly to his RFC and user page. He was active on meta for a while, until he received a 15-day ban for similar activities.

User:Faethon appeared around the same time Iasson left. Faethon has a similar editing style to Iasson, though Iasson has denied being Faethon. Faethon attempted to create a "public account" by posting his password on his user page. Predictably, the password was soon changed. Undaunted Faethon created User:Faethon2. This too was "robbed". Faethon continued down the number line (Faethon3, Faethon4, etc.), until about 45 accounts had been registered. Most of these were not registered by Faethon, but by other users attempting to stop him.

On February 25th, a public account was created at User:Acestorides, using nearly the same wording as User:Faethon. Rather than using numbers, this account series progresses by using the List of ancient Greeks. It appears to have advanced through at least Adrianus, or about 10 accounts.

All of these accounts have made virtually no significant edits to the main namespace.