Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Lapsed Pacifist 2/Evidence

OK, someone should get started, I guess. I've gone through LP's contributions, and looked at their [http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pages/index.php?name=Lapsed+Pacifist&namespace=0&getall=1 article creations], and they seem to be skewed. Article creations such as Touch Fuck All policy, Protest camp, Maura Harrington, Lock-on, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=prev&oldid=240951485 IRMS (at creation)] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corrib_gas_controversy&diff=189322204&oldid=189318287 Corrib gas controversy (at creation)] and Fight the Pipe, as well as many more, and redirects such as No-arrest policy (one of many, but I'll leave more for others) suggests that this user has an "anti-Shell POV. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=upload&user=Lapsed+Pacifist&page=&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=&hide_patrol_log=1 Their uploads] suggest they either have direct contact with members of the Shell to Sea campaign, and they have indeed stated they are involved in the campaign.

He also appears to have a POV in other areas, such as Israeli articles, where it seems he has a negative POV (See [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irgun&diff=prev&oldid=307760403 this edit], and these redirects [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Resistance_of_the_Palestinians&redirect=no][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Israeli_soldier&redirect=no][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Second_Israeli_war_on_Lebanon&redirect=no][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Israel%27s_weapons_of_mass_destruction&redirect=no].)

There's a lot more, and I'll elaborate later, but I'll allow for others to contribute here. I'll add more at Workshop.

While having a conflict of interest, when handled well by the editor in question, is not normally a problem, Lapsed Pacifist has failed to do so, in multiple areas, such as heavy POV pushing [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Public_Order_Unit&diff=prev&oldid=244403763][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Statoil&diff=prev&oldid=262436294][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rossport&diff=307359621&oldid=306423898][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cuban_Five&diff=prev&oldid=295958570][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irgun&diff=prev&oldid=307760403][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran&diff=prev&oldid=297362323][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Public_Order_Unit&diff=prev&oldid=283386759][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=prev&oldid=286474107], adding uncited material [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Willie_Corduff&diff=prev&oldid=286679655][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Willie_Corduff&curid=13901552&diff=307726684&oldid=307214727], edit warring [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Joe_Higgins&action=history][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_Exploration_and_Production_Ireland&action=history][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray_Burke&diff=prev&oldid=288921125][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glengad&action=history], original research [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=prev&oldid=280007183][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AIntegrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=287302385&oldid=287302242], adding undue weight to articles [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=L%C3%89_Aoife_(P22)&diff=prev&oldid=261611799][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Water_Unit&diff=prev&oldid=278099445][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=County_Mayo&diff=prev&oldid=281313506][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=StatoilHydro&diff=prev&oldid=307904773][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glengad&diff=prev&oldid=307904569], personal attacks on other editors [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=283201969&oldid=282773895][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Falcon9x5&diff=prev&oldid=278591048] and soapboxing [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glengad&diff=prev&oldid=262373326] (Copied all of these from the main RFAR page, but may not have been reviewed by the arbs.) They have often edit warred to keep in changes they want in, using edit summaries such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=279636982&oldid=279592385 So?], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=308380907&oldid=308028343 I disagree], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh&diff=314332856&oldid=314174293 I strongly disagree], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=StatoilHydro&diff=307904773&oldid=307730858 Undo whitewashing (when an editor removed material of undue weight], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glengad&diff=prev&oldid=307725174 Undo whitewashing (again)], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Israeli_West_Bank_barrier&diff=prev&oldid=307760936 So? (again, when an editor removed content that wasn't backed up by sources], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reagan_Doctrine&diff=prev&oldid=293093965 Nonsense (when an editor undid an edit they believed to be POV)] and so on.

I might have exceeded my limit, but I hope my evidence, and the evidence that other editors will present, will demonstrate a long term pattern of problematic editing, one that needs resolution. I'll post some suggestions on /Workshop soon, after I've seen others present evidence. Steve Crossin ^{The clock is ticking....} 11:00, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Declared only after being challenged. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Garda_Síochána#Extrajudicial_punishment] & investigated at COIN. Evidenced by uploads as their own work, many different camera types used suggesting copyvios. Images appearing on wikipedia. Eg. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2008_0909maura_hunger_strike0018.jpg] & [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iollan%27s_%22arrest%22.jpg]appear on S2S website [http://www.corribsos.com/index.php?id=1984] & Indymedia: [http://www.indymedia.ie/article/91493]. Disregard COI concerns as interpretation of Policy:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Integrated_Risk_Management_Services]. Here too: [http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89026]

has this file

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solitaire.jpg]. Many articles edited by LP read and look like Campaign pieces with multiple negative images against WP:MOS, eg. Maura Harrington & Shell to Sea. Huge amount of articles affected by S2S, some tangentially with Undue material. Eg, Garda Articles Garda Public Order Unit, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=L%C3%89_Aoife_(P22)&diff=prev&oldid=308380709], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glengad&diff=prev&oldid=307904569].

Prejudice shown towards subjects LP edits on [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AIntegrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=287302385&oldid=287302242]. Pattern of heavy POV shown in many areas. Tactic normally entails inserting text into article in breach of any number of WP:Undue [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=County_Mayo&diff=prev&oldid=281313506], Wp:Soap [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rossport&diff=prev&oldid=308383340,] WP:V[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Willie_Corduff&diff=286496014&oldid=286478525] , WP:OR [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Integrated_Risk_Management_Services#Original_research], WP:RS [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Statoil&diff=prev&oldid=262436294], WP:Weasel [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Public_Order_Unit&diff=prev&oldid=283386759] and more [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Policing_of_the_Corrib_gas_protests&diff=prev&oldid=308492540], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Willie_Corduff&diff=285660107&oldid=166913240] then edit wars to keep it in place eg: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&limit=500&action=history] Revision history of Integrated Risk Management Services 23rd - 27th March 2009. The police force of the ROI is Garda Siochana however LP frequently refers to them as police [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=prev&oldid=307365829], not too bad on a talk page but perjorative in an article [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Policing_of_the_Corrib_gas_protests&diff=308698643&oldid=308499588] ( A similar tactic was used in the NI articles and is still being used in Israel articles, replacing settlements with colonnies). Discussion pages are used to frustrate attempts to reach concensus, arguing on small points to detriment of main point such as this thread on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Integrated_Risk_Management_Services#Original_research|IRMS] talk page. Continues to push POV with subtle language changes of settlements to colonies in Israel related articles [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Likud&diff=prev&oldid=309987238] despite having being warned about this about a year ago by an admin [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lapsed_Pacifist&diff=223469397&oldid=222984272]. More failure to maintain NPOV here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Preparedness_Day_Bombing&diff=prev&oldid=289447464] where LP suggests the United States "celebrates" entering WW1. Is continuing with Anti Israel/US POV [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Israel_Defense_Forces&diff=next&oldid=312824744], this diff may be true but it is certainly not phrased in an NPOV manner.

LP engages in edit warring constantly.

• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corrib_gas_controversy&limit=500&action=history] Revision History Corrib Gas Controversy see Sept- OCtober 08
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Joe_Higgins&action=history] Joe higgins talk page
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rossport&action=history] Rossport Revision history
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_Exploration_and_Production_Ireland&action=history] Shell Exploration Ireland history
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Public_Order_Unit&action=history] Garda POU March-April '09
• [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&limit=500&action=history] I-RMS March & April 2009

Personal attacks are common: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray_Burke&diff=prev&oldid=288921125], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glengad&diff=prev&oldid=307193993] ,[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard&diff=next&oldid=288054684#Mary_Devins], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.phptitle=Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=next&oldid=279563867], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Falcon9x5&diff=prev&oldid=278101849], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rossport&diff=307359621&oldid=306423898] & [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:GainLine&diff=278346288&oldid=278341298]. Even as this RFAR is ongoing, attacks continue. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Policing_of_the_Corrib_gas_protests&curid=22049916&diff=308874601&oldid=308711751].

It sometimes seems as as LP seeks out conflict, edtiting on contentious issues. Ignores warnings on behaviour as a matter of course. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lapsed_Pacifist/Archive_2#Soapboxing], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shell_to_Sea#Citation_requests]. Failed to engage on second COIN, coupled with lukewarm response to last Medcab case. Here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Kevin+Moore+%28An+Bord+Plean%C3%A1la%29] LP moved a page that had been PROD'ed to remove the tag. No change in content although edit summary said it was to give article "more scope". Page was susequently deleted after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/An Bord Pleanála and the Corrib gas project.

:: I feel like I'm only scratching the surface here, I'd be happy to provide more diffs to back up any claims, Theres an AWFUL lot of history here. GainLine ♠ _♥ 15:03, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

A lot of this has probably been covered by Steve and Gainline, but I might aswell go through it again.

LP has a direct conflict of interest with the Corrib gas controversy, as they [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2009-05-06/Corrib_Gas&diff=289860149&oldid=288775176 are involved] in the main protest group that wishes to see an end to construction of a refinery. Despite acknowledging this COI [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lapsed_Pacifist&diff=260789763&oldid=260786928 several] times, LP believes they do not [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Falcon9x5&diff=240397553&oldid=240165152 "slant"] edits and that the COI [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=287483909&oldid=287355947 is not an issue (second paragraph] - despite edits like [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=286648824&oldid=286648542 this] just prior) and may believe that it helps in their editing ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2009-05-06/Corrib_Gas&diff=289860149&oldid=288775176 implication here of no longer having bias]).

Following on from this, the majority (if not all) of content edits LP makes to articles related to Corrib gas are distinctly anti-Shell, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=279564539&oldid=279564015 anti]-government, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Public_Order_Unit&diff=240401609&oldid=239779897 anti]-police, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=287484717&oldid=287385210 pro/sympathetic]-Shell to Sea. Despite this, LP [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Falcon9x5&diff=262415644&oldid=261899742 believes they are editing] with WP:NPOV and that edits to combat their own [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=244404537&oldid=244402822 are] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=279564539&oldid=279564015 invalid]. As an example of how blind they are to WP:NPOV, LP claimed [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=240953457&oldid=240948872 this edit] was actually to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Shell_to_Sea&diff=240954959&oldid=240949261 fix neutrality issues].

Their POV editing extending to other areas too, most notable topics related to the US, Israel/Palestine and socialism (LP is anti-US, anti-Israel, pro-Palestine, pro-socialism). The most obvious example of this part of LP's POV editing (which I've already noted in my opening statement) is [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cuban_Five&diff=prev&oldid=295958570 this edit] to a Cuban spy group article, where the word "murdered" was changed to "killed" combined with [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irgun&diff=prev&oldid=307760403 this edit] to a Jewish/Israeli paramilitary group where the word "killed" was changed to "blown up". Others are present though, such as referring to Israeli settlements as [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Likud&diff=prev&oldid=308695522 "occupation" and changing "settle" to "colonize"], moving a page involving the IDF to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006_shelling_of_Beit_Hanoun&diff=215748877&oldid=215748492 include the word "massacre"] and moving a page about an IRA bomb to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Remembrance_Day_bombing&diff=37545172&oldid=37545090 remove the word "massacre"] (the IRA edit is very old, just prior to the previous RfA). LP also made a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iraq_War&diff=311674589&oldid=311672995 blatant POV addition] to the Iraq War article more recently, on September 3, along with [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gulf_War&diff=prev&oldid=311676047 this] POV edit to the Gulf War article, which contained WP:OR and WP:WEASEL ("many", "some", "sources", "may have").

They also made a POV change of language to the Drone attacks in Pakistan article - changing of "claimed" to "asserted" when referencing a UNHRC report and changing "provided assurances" to "claimed" when referencing an American diplomat, in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan&diff=prev&oldid=309797130 same edit]. Same tactic ("claimed" to "asserted") in [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=War_on_Terrorism&diff=prev&oldid=309798760 other] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Willie_Corduff&diff=307726684&oldid=307214727 articles] too.

LP has created multiple articles that (do or did) exist solely to soapbox and push pro-Shell to Sea POV. These include Shell to Sea Fleet (AfD'd), Mary Devins (AfD'd), An Bord Pleanála and the Corrib gas project (AfD'd), Integrated Risk Management Services, Maura Harrington, Pobal Chill Chomáin, Glengad and Policing of the Corrib gas protests.

Twice indirectly [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=287301318&oldid=287300699 compared editors] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Shell_to_Sea&diff=261146552&oldid=261142770 to Nazis]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=279564416&oldid=279563867 Many] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corrib_gas_project&diff=281929007&oldid=280001999 many] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Water_Unit&diff=307725334&oldid=307196140 antagonistic], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=StatoilHydro&curid=11866976&diff=309086436&oldid=308883066 sarcastic], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Controversies_surrounding_Royal_Dutch_Shell&diff=307768578&oldid=307768216 deliberately] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Likud&diff=prev&oldid=308695522 misleading] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Public_Order_Unit&diff=278292688&oldid=278168540 totally] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Public_Order_Unit&diff=278573541&oldid=278570571 obtuse] edit summaries. Some [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Shell_to_Sea&diff=194645760&oldid=194641511 fairly nasty] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Policing_of_the_Corrib_gas_protests&curid=22049916&diff=308874601&oldid=308711751 blatant] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Falcon9x5&diff=278584511&oldid=278580591 attacks].

LP often edit wars to ensure their viewpoint is the one that's maintained in Wikipedia (I've been involved on the opposing side in some of these)

There's loads more, basically edit wars on every page I've encountered their Corrib gas-related edits.

(Whoops, I've just read that we're not supposed to link directly to page histories - not sure how else to show edit warring though)

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Joe_Higgins&action=history Over inclusion of an anon ip's talk page comments]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Public_Order_Unit&action=history Over the police using "violence" instead of "force"]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh&diff=291067054&oldid=290406702 Over] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh&diff=291161178&oldid=291075754 whether] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh&diff=291166740&oldid=291162441 Rush] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh&diff=292249431&oldid=291814805 Limbaugh's] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh&diff=293064212&oldid=292865938 nationality] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh&diff=294780262&oldid=294138792 is] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh&diff=307774137&oldid=307634621 "United States"] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh&diff=308373606&oldid=307808688 or] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh&diff=308692001&oldid=308375990 "American"], despite it being explained thoroughly on their talk page

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Water_Unit&action=history Over the inclusion of references to the Corrib gas controversy] (the Water unit is just an example here, edit wars occurred on most, if not all, Corrib-gas articles)

LP's style of discussion on talk pages is often characterised by focusing on [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Shell_to_Sea&diff=243646649&oldid=243630783 minor details], while ignoring larger issues. They often bring up [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Rossport&diff=308496420&oldid=308484336 tangetially related comparisons] in order to push their WP:POV. Often assumes people disagreeing with their edits [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Falcon9x5&diff=279803159&oldid=279801507 have] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Falcon9x5&diff=240402134&oldid=240397553 ulterior] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=287483909&oldid=287355947 motives (second paragraph again)]. Often reverts wholesale changes [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=240400987&oldid=239774660 by focusing on minor] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_Exploration_and_Production_Ireland&diff=307200599&oldid=307198451 areas (that a POV image wasn't moved along with text content)]. Reverts large edits based on issues with [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=239555905&oldid=239535069 single words]. Implies that editors with [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Policing_of_the_Corrib_gas_protests&diff=prev&oldid=309073937 less knowledge in a subject] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2009-01-07/Shell_to_Sea&diff=278106619&oldid=278103179 should not edit] that subject's articles. Requests users to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Likud&diff=309081015&oldid=309014362 discuss changes on talk page], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Likud&diff=308852377&oldid=308695522 after being asked] by an opposing editor to do so.

Addition of content unsupported by accompanying source, despite [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=279225812&oldid=279184390 acknowledging the source] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Israeli_West_Bank_barrier&diff=prev&oldid=307760936 doesn't back up the content]. Has a habit of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Falcon9x5&diff=278721208&oldid=278635222 restoring] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Falcon9x5&diff=279804685&oldid=279803517 sections] users [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Falcon9x5&diff=prev&oldid=278618534 have] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Falcon9x5&diff=279803517&oldid=279803251 deleted] from their (user's) own talk (or user) page. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:GainLine&diff=307187415&oldid=307139393 Continued] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:GainLine&diff=306409253&oldid=300067714 to do it] despite [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lapsed_Pacifist&diff=278571041&oldid=278312595 being] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lapsed_Pacifist&diff=278638598&oldid=278618286 warned] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lapsed_Pacifist&diff=278723713&oldid=278638760 multiple] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lapsed_Pacifist&diff=279231320&oldid=278724752 times], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lapsed_Pacifist&diff=279806548&oldid=279803488 templated] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lapsed_Pacifist&diff=279808350&oldid=279806548 warned again].

There's lots more evidence, but I've tried to just stick to the main issues. I can provide more if necessary, of course. Thanks! Fin©™ 13:19, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

I am an uninvolved editor, who has never edited or even previously read any of the pages cited here (that I know of). I have never communicated with or edited with or against any of the involved editors. I came here because I have run across a couple of Lapsed Pacifist (LP)'s edits in the past, and thought they were careful, well-researched and contributed to WP, so I was very surprised when I saw he was being considered for sanctions. I have done some research based solely on the links provided by those making charges against LP. Hopefully LP will answer these charges directly since I'm sure he can do a better job than I.

These editors have made many arguments and many, many links. I do not have the room (or free time) to research and respond to every one of their links so I will combine their arguments to respond. Please note that the links I discuss that they have cited are not the only ones that could be disputed - in fact based on my research all of their arguments could be similarly disputed if one had the time and space required.

These editors have claimed that LP (1) has a "COI"; (2) engages in "soapboxing"; (3) makes "POV pushing" edits; (4) adds "uncited material" and "original research"; (5) engages in "edit warring"; and (6) makes "personal attacks" on other editors. Because I need to limit the following to 1000 words it will be thinly argued, but I will gladly respond to any questions asking for more details if I have time to respond.

I think this is so obviously true that it is not even worth arguing. I will simply point out that LP apparently freely admitted his involvement with Shell to Sea as soon and as often as he was asked.

Creating multiple articles about related subjects is not against WP policy and is not a sign of SOAPBOX. The list Falcon9x5 gives contains articles about protest groups, judges, notable (due to news coverage) protestors, private police firm, an Irish village, and a controversial corporate action. These are not articles about the same thing disguised as different article - so this allegation is clearly not proven.

I will consider one of the edits that LP made that is apparently so aggregious that Crossin cited it twice to show a "negative POV" and "heavy POV pushing", and Falcon9x5 cited it in both his opening statement and evidence to claim "the most obvious example" of "POV editing". The change is [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Irgun&diff=prev&oldid=307760403 this edit]. So what is included in this edit exactly?

Most of the changes LP made with this edit are what I have seen in the other LP edits I have looked at - they are undeniably to improve grammer, readability, and add links. And these are of course always welcome and encouraged. The remaining changes consist of the following:

"miniscule" -> "smaller": when speaking of quotas in WP's voice. The ones faced with the quota probably considered them "miniscule", but they are not being quoted here - WP's voice is being used, and WP should be NPOV.

"homeland in the land of Israel" -> "homeland in Palestine": at the time being written about (1939) there was a Palestine, but there was no land of Israel, so this is both a correction of fact and an improvement in NPOV.

"police were killed from a hidden mine explosion" -> "police were blown up ... when a hidden mine exploded": this must be the change that has Crossin and Falcon9x5 so worked up. But what is so extraordinary about this change? First there is no disputing that the police who were killed when the mine exploded were killed by being blown up - both ways of saying it are factually correct. And stating that a death occurred by being blown up is not unique to this page in WP: I quickly found a few other examples in other WP pages: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_phase_of_the_Second_Chechen_War_(2005) soldier was blown up by a mine], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federally_Administered_Tribal_Areas Doctor was blown up in his car], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter soldiers got blown up], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles Lord Mountbatten .. was blown up by a bomb]. What exactly is wrong with this change then? If this "heavy" "most obvious example" of POV pushing is nothing of the sort then this allegation is apparently untrue as well.

Crossin asserts LP original research [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=prev&oldid=280007183 here] But in fact LP was correct - the material he wanted to add in a later similar exchange was finally added with a citation to irishtimes.com. The argument of the editors (GainLine and Falcon9x5) opposing LP claimed that a WP:RS stating Shell Security had done something was not sufficient to say that IRMS had done it, even when IRMS was the only security service that Shell had hired, was Kafka-esque and very thin at best. Since LP eventually prevailed in this argument (GainLine finally accepted it after having deleted it many times), how could it be original research?

There are of course two sides to every edit war, and it is of course impossible to prove who was "right" without looking at content. Suffice it to say that GainLine and Falcon9x5 were on the other side of the cited edit wars, so if LP was edit warring then clearly so were they. And in at least the OR example above, LP was ultimately found to be correct in his assertions. It is of course good that GainLine and Falcon9x5 ultimately accepted these edits by LP - but for them to put him through that harassment in the first place (they deleted his changes dozens of times before accepting that he was correct) - and to then file charges here against him is really not good form.

Examples of PA against him by an involved editor:

• Falsely accused of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3APolicing_of_the_Corrib_gas_protests&diff=308500826&oldid=308493099 edit warring] after making a single change to an article and after having made no other changes to it for the preceding five months
• Labelled as [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=prev&oldid=240412096 "vandal lapsed pacifist"] in an edit history for a decidedly non-vandal edit,
• Again falsely accused of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Water_Unit&diff=prev&oldid=240460045 vandalism] in another edit summary
• Falsely accused of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lapsed_Pacifist&diff=prev&oldid=243647028 harassment] when asking a new editor whether he is a sock puppet (who is later indeed proved to be a sock puppet)
• Charged with having a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Greenlightgo&diff=prev&oldid=243646426 history ... of unreasonable and sometimes agressive behavior]

And what about inflated charges of PAs that he supposedly made? As to the most insidious claim that he "compared editors to Nazis", it is only necessary to read the links to see that this charge is inflated hyperbole: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AIntegrated_Risk_Management_Services&diff=287307163&oldid=287297290 HERE] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Shell_to_Sea&diff=261146552&oldid=261142770 HERE], where the latter reference requires one to know about Goering's possibly misattributed quote "when I hear the word culture I reach for my revolver" - LP isn't comparing anyone to Goering - he's just saying it makes him angry when someone blanks his contributions.

Or another of LP's supposedly worst PAs; accusing an editor of "lying" [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Public_Order_Unit&diff=278305178&oldid=278304677 HERE]. But in fact the other editor DID lie to the extent that he describing a hotly contested word change as a "spelling correction" in an edit history [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garda_Public_Order_Unit&diff=278304677&oldid=278292688 HERE] and then denied it [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AGarda_Public_Order_Unit&diff=281937152&oldid=281927223 HERE].

GainLine seems to think it important that LP didn't bring up his COI until he was asked about it. In fact LP never hid his COI after being asked, and has been very forthright about it. In contrast GainLine has a history of creating multiple accounts for himself, and he initially hid this fact, pretending to be a different editor. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AGreenlightgo&diff=243622902&oldid=240535892 This] diff shows that when LP asked him pointblank whether he was the same editor as MustyCrusty, his response was that LP should be kind to him as a newbie and assume good faith [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AGreenlightgo&diff=243646426&oldid=243622902 here] and he falsely accused LP of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lapsed_Pacifist&diff=prev&oldid=243647028 harassment] for asking the question and then removed LP's questions from his newly created account's user page [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Greenlightgo&diff=prev&oldid=243650834 HERE]. Only later after his new account was researched and found to be a sockpuppet "indef blocked for inane edit-warring" [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AGreenlightgo&diff=244419952&oldid=244419808 HERE] did he admit to being the same editor, at which point he created a whole new identify for himself (GainLine) where he this time admitted to his previous identities. The fact that GainLine had two simultaneous accounts begs the question whether there were others? And what name (if any) was he using before the Mustycrusty one?

GainLine's failure to abide by policy while editing under a different name wasn't restricted to hiding his multiple identities - see this particularly obnoxious edit where he added a link to Weightwatchers for an BLP article with a picture of an emaciated woman taking part in a hunger-strike [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maura_Harrington&diff=prev&oldid=238613285 here], and again [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maura_Harrington&diff=prev&oldid=238614520 here].

Or these examples, inserting snide POV and completely fictional, uncited and indefensible original research

[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=prev&oldid=237689018 here] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=prev&oldid=237939064 here]

and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=prev&oldid=237962685 here]. And note that it was LP who was undoing these vandalism edits that GainLine was repeatedly inserting.

Or how about these examples where GainLine even more directly vandalizes pages that LP has created [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Controversies_surrounding_Royal_Dutch_Shell&diff=prev&oldid=237746746 here] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shell_to_Sea&diff=prev&oldid=237747206 here].

It's great that this editor GainLine has apparently now (as of seven months ago) seen the light and is promising to abide by WP policy in his edits. But it should be remembered that he was playing these games through the time that is being reported against LP; and one can hardly expect LP or any editor to AGF in the face of such clear (and admitted) bad-faith editing. For GainLine to seriously think he can now report and seek sanctions against the editor who was trying to keep the articles sane in the face of GainLine's vandalism is frankly ridiculous.

:I will be happy to answer any questions or analyze any particular allegation made against LP, since I think the ones that I have researched that are enumerated by other editors above are essentially worthless. But please be patient since I have limited time and a sometimes very busy real world. Thank you, Jgui (talk) 02:17, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

before using the last evidence template, please make a copy for the next person

Place argument and diffs which support your assertion; for example, your first assertion might be "So-and-so engages in edit warring", which should be the title of this section. Here you would show specific edits to specific articles which show So-and-so engaging in edit warring.

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