Wikipedia:Requests for comment/jmh649

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jmh649 (talk · contribs · logs)

Statement of the dispute

This is a summary written by users who are concerned by this user's conduct. Only users who certify this request should edit the "Statement of the dispute" section.

The main problem is ownership and the ugly unwikipedian stepsisters that accompany ownership, such as personal attacks and edit warring.

Cause of concern

ownership issues

jmh649 states, "I however will not let this article become completely unbalanced as it was before I arrived". [1]
Contributor Vannin states, "lots of ownership, and very little collaboration".[2]
Contributor Vaoverland states, "I am a administrator and a 5 year editor of this and many other articles, and a strong believer in both collaboration and mutual respect. Both are currently lacking with the current chaos in this article's edit process. One major player is very new to WP although highly-educated and knowledgeable on the subject. The lack of successful Wikipedia collaborative experience is painfully evident. The current "Chop, Delete, and Substitution" actions by this user borders on censorship of content so that opposing views cannot be seen.'' [3]

Edit warring

In jmh649's own words:

I didn't revert it. I improved it. He he he :-)[4]
jmh649 admits to "stripping" two citations, one being the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [5]
jmh649 comments about how edit warring is "fun".[6]

EXAMPLE OF EDIT WAR

A passage and citation is made about the proponents of controversy on the ADHD article and put into the lead. The issue discussed on the talk page was what is the threshold for a true controversy as defined by Wikipedia. It was stated true minority opinion is needed for wiki controversy. [7] [8] [9]

jmh649 did not respond to the 4th post in the thread, which ended with this statement,"for these reasons the sentence must change or be deleted. That will be done shortly. Input is welcome)".[10] [11]

At this point an inline pov tag is added beside the word "clinician". [12].

jmh649 reverts three times within 24 hours.[13][14][15]

The fifth post in the thread states, "Since there are no objections to this line of reasoning I see no reason why the deletion of the sentence should have been reverted. When a POV tag was placed on the sentence I see no reason why it should stripped twice. Would this sort of behaviour not qualify as edit warring"?[16]

jmh649 did not respond to this post.

A 3r warning is put on his page.[17]

jmh649 reverts for the fourth time and I decide further reverts are pointless.[18]

At no time did he seek consensus or compromise with this line of reasoning.

Bad faith

In jmh649's own words:

"Somehow I do not think we will ever agree". [19]
"They only way things can really continue is if he gets banded from editing these pages". [20]
"You do not seem to have any true desire to discuss the issues at hand or work together...You are trying to control the content and POV of the article". [21]

Personal attack

In jmh649's own words:

"they must have druged you good". [22]
"My fellow editor just doesn't recognize evidence". [23]

Contributor not the content

In med cab jmh649 commits to a "content not contributor", pledge that administrator Xavexgoem asks us all to sign. [24]
One day later jmh649 gets personal again: "but Scuro seems to demand much more evidence for points he disagrees with then one he agrees with. This is a guy who make references to power point site, drug company websites, and people personal web sites. So there would be a lot of silly tags that would need to be added".[25]

not answering questions

In jmh649's own words:

Previously James had stated,"...they are more then fringe as they are backed up by lots of published data including the most recent article by the National Institute of Health". James was asked to provide a link from the NIH showing fringe theory acceptance. James replies, "Dear Scuro it is not another editors job to answer every silly WP:LAME question brought up by another editor". [26]

False accusations

In jmh649's own words:

"Now to be serious I would be happy to work together in good faith. I however think good faith is lacking and there are two editors trying to control the page".[27]
"Warning to all editors Scuro is very disruptive. He made editing here very difficult as he has his own ideas about what constitutes evidence and does not come around to reason". [28]
"The village pump actually said that the references I added were better then the references you had there". (The references he added at the VP were bogus)...You do not format your references even after saying you would. You have LIED. You miss represent other peoples comments. You no longer deserve good faith. I now see that you are only intent on pushing your own point of view and keeping this article bad". [29]

Taunting

In jmh649's own words:

"They I answered one for you. But will you understand the answer? That is another question". [30]
"I accept your apologies for you being a difficult editor". [31]

Note: in examining this diff, you need to read Scuro's post first.

Attempts to find a resolution

An olive branch extended by Vaoverland. [32]
An olive branch extended by Scuro. [33]
Mediation cabal initiated by Scuro.[34]
Xavexgoem inviting Jmh649 to the med cab. [35]
An olive branch extended by Scuro and invite to the mediation cabal. [36]
Scuro offers to mediate any dispute.[37]
Vannin offers to mediate any dispute.[38]
Xavexgoem's motion to close med cab which was seconded.[39]

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Desired outcome

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That jmh649 earnestly commit to the wiki guidelines of etiquette, especially the tenants of good faith and consensus building.

Users certifying the basis for this dispute

Users who tried and failed to resolve the dispute.

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*Kat* (talk) 05:17, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Questions

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Q. That jmh649 earnestly commit to the wiki guidelines of etiquette, especially the tenants of good faith and consensus building. - jmh649 has commited to this. Do we need to deal with content issues or can we look for resolution?--scuro (talk) 17:06, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Response

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Response to concerns

What I would recommend is that anyone interested in this dispute look at the all the actual discussion in there proper context. This has gone to a number of other pages already. I would also recommend that people review Scuro's talk page about other editors previous concerns with his behavior. And if editors find themselves interested in ADHD more editors would be helpful on this page.

Doc James (talk) 05:01, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to outline why I have lost my patients with these two editors a number of times. I have dealt with comments saying that NICE guildlines are "nice" but that since they do not agree with the American literature they "prove that the UK is far behind the USA in medical science" and "that the Unversity of British Columbia in not a world leading research center and therefore their research shouldn't be allowed" or "that since a source is 6 - 8 years out one should be able to use it" or "or that only two scientist agree that ADHD is controversial and it is probably even less then that" or "that Timmins since he is a Scientology and an antipschiatrist everything he publishes even in the British Journal of Psychiatry should be discounted" or " or that since Dr. Barkleys is a world leader in ADHD that one should be able to quote his personal web page or power point presentations and then I get attacked when I ask that people quote his published literature" All this has happened with exclamations that I should deal with content rather then editors. A least three other editors have had this problems. I have asked for more eyes many months ago at the WP Med page. I also brought forwards an ANI.

P.S. I have paraphrased the comments. Doc James (talk) 21:05, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a comment from the Village pump Scuro started "I see one person trying to demand good sourcing and good work, and another person suggesting "If I do something wrong, then you can go fix it because that is what community means. As far as the DSM-IV goes, anyone who works professionally in this field is going to take the DSM-IV's wording over whatever stupid theory is purported in those sources you mentioned (of which, only Barkley and UCLA has any real heft, I laugh myself silly at some of the stuff that comes out of LNI), because it's what's been pinned down that most can agree to. I agree the wording between "chronic" and "acute" is tricky and you'll find sourcing on EITHER side to claim it's one way or the other. The Mayo Clinic isn't an unreliable source, nor is it's webpage a wiki, and Doc needs to be a little more careful boldly removing a damaged source On the other hand, Doc made an attempt to clean up the article and improve it. Some of what he removed was not anything close to a reliable source. When I look at series of diffs, I see someone trying to improve the article.-- Logical Premise Ergo? 18:01, 24 September 2008 (UTC)"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_55#WRT_ADHD_Can_one_cite_web_based_information_from_the_Mayo_Clinic.3F--Doc James (talk) 21:13, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From the ANI "NO Scuro, you make up your own rules and rewrite the guidelines to suit yourself then try to enforce what they don't even say as if they were law, you don't seek consensus you just tell people to seek consensus and claim that anyone disagreeing with you isn't doing so, your frequent threatening of anyone who disagrees with you is an obvious example of your lack of assuming good faith and talking of those threats, hell no you can't back many of them up, maybe in your mind you can but not in reality. Why don't you try to follow your own suggestions and work with us rather than trying to force your own views into articles and shouting and threatening when people disagree with you. Or better still, just leave us in peace to try to improve the articles in question, because any and all editors who aren't scuro are welcome to look at the recent history of the ADHD controversies page and it's talk, and judge for themselves exactly who here is trying to improve the article and who is being disruptive. 92.3.127.176 (talk) 12:46, 3 October 2008 (UTC)"--Doc James (talk) 21:28, 20 November 2008 (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive481#The_ADHD_article_and_Scuro[reply]

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Questions

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Q.Does that mean you consider these complaints baseless? --*Kat* (talk) 11:15, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A.Yes some are baseless must however are just lope sided and out of context.Doc James (talk) 22:11, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Outside view

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Outside view by Xavexgoem

Neither James nor Scuro have been communicating with a common goal in mind, and neither have they made any honest effort to do so; or, at any rate, have not made it clear to each other that their objectives are completely different. 2 owners + 1 page = at least 3 attempts at failed DR. It's you twos' prerogative from here on out. Work together; I haven't seen it yet.

Users who endorse this summary:

Xavexgoem (talk) 18:10, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed solutions

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1) The real issue is "IS ADHD CONTROVERSIAL" We need to discuss this in a formal manner. If someone then goes against the conclusion the get banned from editing Psych related articles. Doc James (talk) 07:33, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment by parties: Those threads are open in the discussion area. The last response was mine. Do you still want to deal with the issue? Suggestions to do so are on the talk page.--scuro (talk) 17:09, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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