Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Baboon43

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Baboon43 (talk · contribs · logs)

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Statement of the dispute

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Cause of concern

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User:Baboon43 has consistently displayed long-term uncivil behavior with other editors. While he has made numerous helpful and positive contributions to Wikipedia, he has also edit warred just to make a point, even after receiving a "final warning" for edit warring.

Past infractions - multiple accounts, edit warring

Baboon43 was blocked for the first time for edit warring and abusing multiple accounts in March 2012. Then in April that same year, Baboon43 reported two other editors at the noticeboard; it boomeranged back onto him and HE was blocked, along with one of the editors he reported. Finally, Baboon43 attempted to once again report another user on the 3RR noticeboard here this March (just three months ago) which resulted in another boomerang with a final warning for Baboon43 and the others involved.

Prejudice/bigoted remarks

Back in February, Baboon43 opposed inclusion of Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding as a source in Wahhabi movement because a Saudi prince donated to it. According to Baboon43, the prince is a wahhabi merely because, as it appears, he's Saudi. When I expressed my shock at such comments, Baboon43 accused me of being either a Wahhabi or misinformed.

Recently, Baboon43 attempted to claim Wahhabism (a Saudi Arabian movement) and Deobandism (an Indian movement) are one and the same, using the actual expression "they are guilty by association." Baboon43 has expressed many times his belief that all Wahhabi people are inherently violent, which in and of itself is a generalization. Now he's saying that these two movements are one and the same based on guilt by association, so he's basically implicating the millions of followers of not one but two religious movements with violence.

Aggressive/rude edit summaries

When I edited an article to better reflect what was in the given source back in January, Baboon43 reacted by reverting my edit without explanation and against the source and accusing me of hounding him. When I explained to him on his talk page that such language is unacceptable as is edit warring against what's available in the given source, he erased my comment saying "take your own advice." It's his right to erase what he wants on his talk page but the comment shows that Baboon43 was absolutely unwilling to work things out.

Uncivil tone when discussing editing disputes

Starting again in January, Baboon43 attempted to use what we later realized was a Wikipedia fork to prove a point (which was ultimately found to be contrary to the actual reliable sources). That's alright, but in the course of discussion his responses began including battle ground-type remarks such as "your whole argument has been debunked...regardless of what you think" and accusing me of belonging to some relgious reform movement in India because I disagreed with him that the movement (Deobandi) are all "wahhabis" as he describes them.

Seeming to try and provoke others

Most recently, Baboon43 appears to be trying to provoke me into some sort of a flame war on Talk:Barelvi. After making some edits, explaining my rationale preemptively and requesting community feedback, he expressed a difference of opinion in a polite manner; I was delighted, actually. As the discussion progressed, Baboon43 made the aforementioned bigoted comment regarding two religious movements and I expressed my confusion; aside from being a bad thing to say, he didn't seem to be making any suggestions about editing the article and I reminded him that talk pages aren't for chatting. With no escalation, he attacked me personally, accusing me of false rambling and POV pushing without stating why. This upset me because he's harassed me and others like this before, so I told him point blank: if he doesn't either support his accusations or take them back, I would go to ANI. His reaction was to simply accuse me of POV pushing again without proof and that I should "halt the ignorance." I then surmised that a user banned with sockpuppetry who was close with Baboon43 but is now topic banned from commenting on the article's talk space may have asked him to "monitor" my edits; paranoid, but I believe the admin and other users involved can testify that my paranoia is at least partially justified. Baboon43 then accused me of spreading misinformation in a seemingly pointless comment as it didn't relate to article content, at which point I very directly asked him for diffs to prove my misinformation and POV pushing before we come to ANI. Once again, he just accused me of POV pushing without any actual evidence.

Upon bringing the issue to ANI, I was informed that I was at the wrong place; I didn't realize that RFCs could be for users as well as articles, so on the recommendation of multiple editors I have now brought the issue here.

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Desired outcome

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The goal of all this is that Baboon43:

Considers how others will react to his comments in edit summaries and on talk pages before posting them (think about others).
Responds to feedback regarding his comments and conduct, and be willing to empathize with how others might feel about his remarks.
Understands that if there is content in an article with which he disagrees, discussing matters on the relevant talk page and building community consensus will help him to achieve his goals far more than edit warring will.

Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute

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Attempts by User:Wifione

23:12, 17 July 2012

Attempts by User:MezzoMezzo

Attempts by User:FutureTrillionaire

17:08, 25 March 2013

Attempts by User:Darkness Shines

Attempts by User:GorgeCustersSabre

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Outside view by User:Forward Unto Dawn

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I'm not involved with this dispute, but I was invited to share the experience I had with this user a year ago here. According to my user contributions, following a discussion on the Syrian civil war talk page, I was personally attacked by this user on my talk page. After cautioning the user and giving the user a chance to revert the edit, he deleted my warning and I removed his edit from my talk page. That was the end of my experience with this user.--Forward Unto Dawn 10:28, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Users who endorse this summary:

View by involved User:Lukeno94

I don't think I've interacted too often with Baboon43, but obviously I've interacted very frequently with MezzoMezzo, so I consider myself involved. My initial impressions of Baboon43 were pretty positive; but after Msoamu was topic-banned, it seemed to me like Baboon43 has somewhat taken their place - editing tendentiously and firing lots of attacks against MezzoMezzo. Given the above, however, it looks like this is a much longer-term problem, and a much greater cause for concern. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 13:08, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Outside view by Dusti

I've been watching this RFC/U for awhile, and I'm extremely bothered by the fact that the user this is in relation to refuses to participate. This endorses the concerns that are being presented here. Wikipedia is nothing without editors who are willing to collaborate with each other in a civil manner. By trying to push a certain point of view, you're in essence attempting to own the article. This is inappropriate, and highly disrespectful. Making comments in regards to a person's race or religion in a disrespectful manner is also highly inappropriate. I feel that if User:Baboon43 refuses to give his side of the story, he might as well be endorsing all of the views above, as he's certainly not attempting to say they're not true. I believe it's time for this to be taken to AN/I for discussion of a community ban.

Users who endorse this summary:

Dusti^*poke* 21:00, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
MezzoMezzo (talk) 05:12, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 08:57, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
— Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 23:29, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
smileguy91^talk 01:13, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Fai zan 09:43, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
--Forward Unto Dawn 09:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed solutions

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1) Intent to Propose a Community Ban

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2) Intent to Propose a Topic ban for an indefinite amount of time. Topic ban can be revisited at a later date as determined by consensus at AN/I

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3) Intent to Propose an Indefinite Block. Block can be discontinued after a successful appeal where the editor acknowledges the concerns of the community and understands editing habits are inappropriate and/or offensive.

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I throw my full support behind this solution...as of now, at least (I can't rule out the possibility that someone will make a convincing argument for another solution). One major issue here has been the subject's refusal to even participate in this RFC/U. He has been informed of this discussion three times; once he said he doesn't care, once he said he doesn't have the time (though he has found the time to continue an edit war while this is going on) and the last time he simply blanked part of his talk page. Additionally, I'm concerned about a topic ban because this combative behavior doesn't seem restricted to certain topics; it follows this user no matter what sort of article he's editing. An indefinite ban which could be appealed by acknowledgement of the problem seems like the best way, as it would force the user for sure to finally admit that there is a problem and take positive steps toward improving interactions with other editors. MezzoMezzo (talk) 05:49, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Support The same strong support here... at least untill he acknowlegdes his inappropriate/offensive editing attitude. Edit-warning by the editor while an RFC/U is in progress provides oil to the fire. Agreed with Mezzo's concerns on a topic ban. His combative editng seems to be on a wide range of topics. He ought to participate in the discussion here, but he has found 1.) enough time for edit-warning. 2.)Enough care for an edit-war ..... Awful. Fai zan 06:13, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
If I should be sat in the above section, feel free to move me, but this is the one I support the most. I don't need to say anything new; my comments on the talk page and elsewhere in this RfC/U should be enough. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 08:20, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I have seldom felt so strongly about the consistent misbehavior of a fellow editor. George Custer's Sabre (talk) 19:10, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I wish something less drastic could be effective, but this user seems completely unwilling to discuss his behaviour or acknowledge any concerns regarding same. — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 21:29, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Rather than put this on the talk page as I have before, I'll post a comment here. An RFC does not have the remit to impose community sanctions on another editor. Solutions can be proposed and the editor in question may accept or decline the proposals as they see fit. In the case of sanctions, these can be tabled and a proposal put together for placing on WP:AN. This proposed solution should be reworded as Intent of proposing an indefinite block of Baboon43 on the administrator noticeboards or something along those lines. This may seem a bit pedantic, but the closing admin will bring this up. Blackmane (talk) 13:25, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've amended it to reflect the fact that what we're discussing here, then, is merely the intent to propose sanctions in the near future, at which point they are not guaranteed to succeed or fail. Is this way more correct in terms of RFC/U functionality? MezzoMezzo (talk) 04:50, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support Dusti^{*Let's talk!*} 19:02, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to write a draft proposal on the talk page. MezzoMezzo (talk) 06:40, 17 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Summary

This discussion continued at WP:AN, and was closed with the decision to indefinitely block Baboon43. As an uninvolved admin, I'm closing this discussion according to a request on my talk page. --BDD (talk) 16:22, 27 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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