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I will copy and paste the results of this draft page into a new RFCU page when it is ready to go. I have protected the page and request that no one edit it unless they intend to be a certifier (please incidate so below). All non-admin certifiers should request contributions to be added on this talk page, and anyone is welcome to discuss any related topic here. Please do not certify or add endorsements or responses until the page goes live; the purpose is to draft the "Statement of the dispute" section. Thank you. BOZ (talk) 18:16, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Statement of the dispute

This is a summary written by users who dispute this user's conduct. Users signing other sections ("Response" or "Outside views") should not edit the "Statement of the dispute" section.

WP:OWN and WP:CONSENSUS.

Per Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Asgardian-Tenebrae#Asgardian restricted, for one year from December 2007, Asgardian was "limited to one revert per page per week (excepting obvious vandalism), and is required to discuss any content reversions on the page's talk page. Should he exceed this limit or fail to discuss a content reversion, he may be blocked for the duration specified in the enforcement ruling below." I'd like to clarify what the current situation would be with regards this sanction? I accept that the sanction has now expired, but if I feel it should be re-instated I'd like to clarify the process for re-instating it. Is another arbitration case the only way, or is it possible to have the case amended? I'm concerned about gaming of the system here, namely that a user sits tight for a year, and then once the sanction ends, returns to behaviour deemed unacceptable.

Asgardian tends to revert rather than to discuss, and doesn;t tend to accept pother points of view. The user appears to have a very literal take on policies and guidelines. The user's comments have also led many to believe Asgardian has acted disruptively.

Desired outcome

This is a summary written by users who have initiated the request for comment. It should spell out exactly what the changes they'd like to see in the user, or what questions of behavior should be the focus.

Let's discuss, in very specific terms, what we are trying to accomplish with an RFCU. BOZ (talk) 18:16, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • I guess we're looking for input on how to deal with the situation. My preferred outcome would be a probation similar to the arbitration outcome. We need a way of ensuring that gaming of the system isn't occurring. I'm interested in what happens with the page ban experiment, to be honest. I want to see what pattern of behaviour we see once it expires on the two pages. If problems arise, I think it might be worthwhile investigating further page bans for longer periods. Hiding T 08:48, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I believe Hiding makes perfect sense. He espouses a temperate approach that adds a single step to the year-long probation on reverts that was the result of last year's Asgardian Arbitration. Probation on reverts plus bans on selected, long-problematic pages is not draconian, and it signals two things: One, that we see hope and potential in Asgardian and are genuinely trying to work with him to encourage the better angels of his nature. While I grow increasingly despairing that this approach will ultimately work, it's certainly a show of good faith. And number two, it makes clear that his return to contentious, non-consensus, time-consuming bad behavior, after a year-long probation, will be met with the same response plus a little additional. This signals a second chance without undermining the seriousness of this effort. --Tenebrae (talk) 22:09, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Additionally, here he circumvents the mediation process by declaring an RfC null and void and, rather than going to next stage of mediation, reinserts his contentious, disputed edit and unilaterally declares this personal version to be something he dubs "Wiki-correct"! -- Tenebrae (talk) 18:57, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How about this for desired outcome?

Asgardian is an editor who is knowledgeable in his primary field of focus, comic books, and has shown an ability to research and work hard to write and improve articles. In that sense, he is valuable to the Comics Wikiproject and Wikipedia as a whole. However, a number of editors have found it difficult and frustrating to work with him on the articles he chooses to volunteer his time at, for a variety of reasons detailed below. The editors of the Comics Wikiproject, and editors who work on comic book related articles, feel that certain aspects of Asgardian's approach are disruptive and would like to see Asgardian work with a more collaborative and less controlling spirit. If that does not happen, then perhaps mediation may be in order; if that does not work, then editors may need to seek sanctions through arbitration. As Tenebrae puts things, "we see hope and potential in Asgardian and are genuinely trying to work with him to encourage the better angels of his nature". BOZ (talk) 16:26, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The problem from my perspective is that we have given him a long long range of chances to turn more trustworthy, and all he really does is turn more sophisticated in doing the same things. And I don't appear to be the only one of this mindset (the threads had been archived, so I'll switch to the correct links below): [1] [2] [3] And given his propensity to try to get other users banned for thousands of times lesser offenses, and has proven himself so thoroughly honourless and untrustworthy that he even uses sockpuppets, and finds any notions of outrage over his manipulations funny, why exactly should he be given completely free leeway to continue doing the same thing over and over year in and year out? User:Tcaudilllg stated that Asgardian's general tactics correspond to those of a troll, and I have seriously begun to consider this point. Dave (talk) 16:53, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The problem then becomes, responding to him in that manner is outside the bounds of an RFC or even mediation, and requires an ArbCom case. That takes quite a bit of work, more than I am willing to invest at this time, but if you feel there is a case you may want to invest the time into filing a case for Arbitration. BOZ (talk) 17:26, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
There are limits to how much work even I may want to spend on Asgardian, and given my condition I do have my limits. I have virtually no mental filters do censor what I really think, so it would likely turn into half emotional half matter of fact, and more importantly extremely incoherent, since that's the way I think (add, Asperger and schizophrenia in combination), and would have a hard time finding the right ways to do the research or present the case in boxed/patterned manner. It's one of the reasons Asgardian feels that he can continually mess with me any way he sees fit. Someone else would have to structure it. I did spend some time on an attempt to help out below though, and don't really see why what we already have isn't more than enough to get him banned/finally out of my hair, since he's proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that his word cannot be trusted/that any non-permanent solution won't ever put a stop to him? Dave (talk) 19:51, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Description

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Add anything here which you think is appropriate to the below subsections, and if deemed so it will be added to the RFCU draft page. We also need a tight, concise, but thorough explanation of the issues involved. BOZ (talk) 18:16, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I've looked everything over, and would like to propose a rough draft for your perusal. It still needs some work, but I will post it to the front page when I've got a workable version. The idea is, I want to lay out the "charges" one by one, so that Asgardian and the community can clearly see what other editors think of his behavior, so that he and they can respond clearly to each point as needed. I've tried to word everything as neutrally as possible while still being factual and getting the point across to leave the judgment up to (hopefully) mostly uninvolved editors. I'll try to examine the diffs posted below one by one, and if you have more feel free to add. Note that here I'm focusing on the behavior; not what you disagree with him on, but how he reacts in response to that disagreement (you can always add the nature of the disagreement as part of an "involved view" of your own once the RFC/U goes live). If you have any comments on anything that should be added, altered, reduced, or eliminated, please add below. BOZ (talk) 16:38, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Disclaimer: Much of the behavior described below is accompanied by similar behaviors from other editors, in "it takes two to tango" situations. Often enough, Asgardian is not the "bad guy" while the other editor is not the "good guy" – in fact, those roles can easily enough be reversed. However, given the sheer number of disputes that Asgardian has been involved in over the years with multiple editors, it is very concerning that he seems to be at the center of things so often.

Asgardian has been accused of taking ownership of certain articles. That is, it seems that once he begins to clean up an article in a manner he finds satisfactory, he tends to only "allow" changes that he agrees with. Asgardian denies this, however, feeling that the version he promotes is the "correct" (sometimes posited as "wiki-correct") version. He has made statements such as "this article is almost complete", which could be read as him being the one to judge whether something is complete or not, rather than one collaborator amongst the whole. He has recently been page banned from two articles for a month period.

Asgardian is often involved in what has been described as edit-warring with other editors. As seen in the evidence below, he will undo someone else's changes when he disagrees with changes that have been made, which is acceptable under the provisions of WP:BRD. Asgardian feels that he is not edit-warring, because either it is not a true revert (mostly reverting to his prior version, but making other changes along the way), or because he feels the other person was wrong in the first place. While neither of these actions are wrong per se, they will often occur multiple times in succession on the same article.

Asgardian often uses incomplete or inaccurate edit summaries to describe his changes. That is, he will use a brief edit summary that describes only a small portion of the changes he is making, while the rest of his edit will make significant changes to the article – often reverting parts of the text that other editor(s) have made. Asgardian often makes comments, sometimes condescending, about other editors in his edit summaries.

It has been suggested that Asgardian is gaming the system at times. For example, Asgardian does sometimes enter into a discussion with the aggrieved editors he is engaged with, but even after discussion he will sometimes resume with the prior behavior on at least part of the article when it appears the disagreeable editor may have lost interest in continuing the debate. Sometimes he interprets policies and guidelines in his own way and acts upon them, and does not seem to listen to input from other editors. Sometimes he is warned to disengage from a certain activity and will try to find a way around that.

When a consensus seems to have been built about a certain approach towards a style guideline, editing practice, etc, or perhaps what is to be done in a specific case on one article, Asgardian has been said to act against that. That is, if, say, a few editors on an article's talk page have agreed that this article should contain "Foo", Asgardian has been observed to remove "Foo" regardless.

Sometimes Asgardian will edit anonymously, making the same sort of edits he does to the same articles he has been observed to work on, and continuing the same behaviors as described above. When questioned about this, Asgardian states that this anonymous editing is not intentional, and that his computer timed out and logged him out. He has used at least one known alternate account, User:Obsidianblackboard, to continue editing when he was temporarily blocked.

Asgardian has removed maintenance templates, claiming that they are not needed and giving a rationale why he feels this way. When another editor places the templates back on, he will often remove them again, sometimes along with a significant edit to the rest of the article and often with an incomplete edit summary.

BOZ (talk) 16:38, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a remarkably neutral, even-handed description of the situation. It accomplishes the considerable feat of being both comprehensive and succinct. Bravo. I would add at the end something to this effect, perhaps worded better: "In sum, these many various amount to a continued, deliberate disruption of Wikipedia, one which, after years of attempted mediation and arbitration, appears will continue indefinitely unless strong action is finally taken."-- Tenebrae (talk) 04:11, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That may serve to significantly deneutralize it. ;) I'll think about adding a "closing statement", but that may be redundant with the "desired outcome" section (see above). BOZ (talk) 04:52, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence of disputed behavior

(Provide diffs. Links to entire articles aren't helpful unless the editor created the entire article. Edit histories also aren't helpful as they change as new edits are performed.)

  • In light of this pointer to WP:BRD, at Abomination (comics) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Rhino (comics) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Asgardian engaged in revert warring with another user: a diff between Asgardian and Dr Bat here. Notice the many differences, mainly consisting of mentions of individual issues, for example, Solo Avengers #12 and Marvel Super-Heroes vol. 3, #6 - 8. Now we can see a diff here, which covers twelve edits to the page over the course of two days, four made by DrBat and five by Asgardian, the other edits from anonymous or uninvolved editors. The diff is from an Asgardian edit to an Asgardian edit. Note, no posts were made by Asgardian to the talk page of either article during this revert war.
  • Ownership issues: Please see this diff. I am concerned at the claim made by Asgardian that the "article is almost complete". It's an assertion Asgardian has made repeatedly in this dispute, see here: "It took hours to complete Abomination, and Rhino was in fact almost finished" and here: "one article as finished and supported by others and the other was one session from being completed". To me these comments completely cut across the idea that Wikipedia is a collaboration and that decisions are made through consensus. Hiding T 17:46, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

please review Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Comics/Archive_38#Stand_up_and_take_notice.21, Talk:Abomination (comics)#Who's in change?, Talk:Red Hulk#Dates while describing the plot, Talk:Abomination (comics)#Who's in change? and Talk:Abomination (comics)#Recent edits. Hiding T 18:44, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(NOTE: Emperor's post below copied from WT:COMICS) - BOZ (talk) 18:15, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
There is also the recurring idea that there is one "wiki correct" way of doing things and Asgardian seems to be the only editor capable of providing this (if we go by the number of editors he has reverted back to his preferred version). I keep stumbling across comics articles and can tell when Asgardian has "wiki corrected" them. So recently I took a swing at Beta Ray Bill and there is a large large slabs of in-universe material jammed into the PH. His idea of "wiki correcting" seems to involve removing the FCB header and jamming the two sections together [10] then there is a modicum of hacking this weird hybrid together into some kind of order but that seems to involve leaving most of the in-universe material while removing important out-of-universe information - in that example the original included the names of various creators and the "wiki correct" version expunged almost all of that. Kieron Gillen had a recent run on the character and has had a few interesting things to say about the character but you wouldn't know that from the article. Only recently as information on the creation of the character added (by me).
Dig through any article he has made "wiki correct" and you'll find a similar pattern combined with not playing well with others, like the "improvement" of Ms. Marvel:
  • I had to revert him a couple of times (under his IP) because it was a mess [11] and [12]. He just put his head down, stayed anonymous and pushed on forward.
  • Reverting and removing much needed maintenance tags [13], [14]. Removal of material claiming crystal balling when it in fact is in line with the guidelines [15], [16]
  • Following the repeated inclusion of a source by another editor [17] he makes inappropriate comments [18], when it was him who was removing it all along [19]. Not the only comment there with such an edit summary [20]. There are also misleading edit summaries [21], the "bot blah" being the reversion of the anon IP version I'd also reverted twice (so he logs in to revert the bots reversions of his edits as an IP, which could mislead the unwary into thinking that one editor was supporting another's edits that he had been inappropriately reverted).
If you want to overhaul and article the best way is to do it in your sandbox and consult with other editors of the article about it or you follow the natural course of evolution an article goes through by focusing on expanding the PH and including material in it until the FCB is redundant. You don't make an unreadable mess of an article that doesn't actually achieve the result you are aiming at (relabeling out-of-universe material doesn't magically make it in-universe, it makes for a confusing hybrid article that pretty much needs a major rewrite). There is no deadline and if an editor isn't capable of rapidly overhauling articles then there is no need to try and force this through. (Emperor (talk) 14:01, 14 October 2009 (UTC))[reply]
  • Under the guise of "some tidying up" at Awesome Android, his changes included a mash-up of real-life and in-universe material, starting with removing the "Fictional character biography" subhead [22]. This and other edits, such as inserting Britishisms, went much beyond "tidying up" [23]. I did a partial rv, trying to main some of his ("rv to Last JGreb, while retaining some of Asgardian's copy and line edits. We've been thorugh this b4: Pls do not make wholesale change eliminating established section without discussion!" [24]. He rv'd this without discussion, reinserting language errors and guideline vios [25] — in a repetition of the same edits that, as I wrote in the edit summary of my subsequent rv [26], "led to Arbitration 2 yrs ago. For 1 thing, real-world PH is not present tense. 'The Android features' is not standard English. Discuss on talk pg)." Asgardian rv'd, again mashing-up real-life and fiction by removing the "FCB" subhead [27]. Now, after nearly two weeks, I felt it was appropriate to get other editors' opinions, and called for an RfC [28]. Asgardian disregarded this, bad-mouthed by efforts at using this mediation tool ("I take requests for WP:RfC's comment with a grain of salt" [!]; "A kneejerk reaction" [after nearly two weeks seems a very slow "kneejerk"] [29] and rv'd the article again. User:Emperor commented in favor of my edits (see end of [30]), but to no avail. Making one last effort, I wrote a detailed list on the talk page of Asgardian's policy/guideline vios and language/punctuation errors [31]. (This is all during the period in which he was banned from editing the Rhino and Abomination articles, which indicates I am only one of multiple editors facing the Asgardian problem.) The amount of time wasted on essentially just back-and-forth rv's of his non-consensus, non-guidelines and non-proper-English edits is unconscionable — all the more so given that these were many of the same edits that helped put him on probation last year. There seems to be a defiant unwillingness to do things other than his own way, no matter what.-- Tenebrae (talk) 22:55, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • He is editing-warring at Juggernaut (comics), continually reverting to a disputed version that does not conform to WPC MOS, even though two editors favor another, more conforming version. See talk page discussion here. He also makes uncivil accusations of sockpuppetry simply to denigrate another editor, as Asgardian does not file a formal sockpuppetry grievance. -- Tenebrae (talk) 03:07, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • One day after the page protection was lifted at Juggernaut (comics), where he was edit-warring, Asgardian here dishonestly gives the simple edit summary "Added 3rd party source" — even though this edit was a complete rewrite that reverted the article to his highly disputed version. --Tenebrae (talk) 06:55, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Disputatiousness and unfounded charge of incivility at Wikiquette Alerts here — where as one respondent told Asgardian, "you did completely change the page and put in a deceptive summary." -- Tenebrae (talk) 17:41, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I also have that one listed under "Incomplete/inaccurate edit summaries" right here; if you have any more diffs for especially those first 5 categories, I especially need more examples. BOZ (talk) 17:55, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    As seen in the list I posted below, Asgardian does tend to use "civility issues" as a defacto defense whenever someone points out what he is doing. Dave (talk) 19:38, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Applicable policies and guidelines

{list the policies and guidelines that apply to the disputed conduct}

  1. WP:OWN
  2. WP:CONSENSUS
  3. WP:CIVIL

Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute

(provide diffs and links)

  1. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Asgardian-Tenebrae
  2. [32]
  3. Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Asgardian-Tenebrae#Request for clarification: Asgardian-Tenebrae
  4. Talk:Awesome Android#Reverted Asgardian, and why

Users certifying the basis for this dispute

{Users who tried and failed to resolve the dispute}

Please state here your intention to certify this RFCU (this is not binding at this time):

  1. BOZ (talk) 18:16, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Hiding T 17:47, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Tenebrae (talk) 03:15, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Dave (talk) 11:48, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Dream Focus 08:37, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Nightscream (talk) 08:40, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Previous experience

My previous experience in dealing with RFC/U involves Gavin.collins' 2nd RFC/U (see draft page). If you look at the actual RFC/U page, you'll see that what we had for the Desired outcome was later criticised for being too vague and unenforcable, and the Description for being too long and filled with side issues not needing community input. I think they were both still fairly well-written, but I'd prefer not to make the same mistakes. If we hit on the various policy violations rather than the "but he said something I didn't like, and his feet smell" parts (of which there were plenty in my previous effort), I think this will be successful.

Remember, the point of RFC/U is not to punish someone or get them in trouble or use it as a precursor to ArbCom (in fact, ideally it is an alternative to ArbCom), the idea is to take someone's actions before the community at large, have numerous users comment on it, show the person invovled how others' see them, and hope that this effects a viable change in that person and the people who deal with him. The results of an RFC/U are not something with which you can force a change in a user, but they are a public airing of the grievances against that person, as a record that there is a dispute and that (hopefully) the community has come to a conclusion by which ideally the person involved should seek to abide. BOZ (talk) 18:25, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DrBat

I think we should consider skipping the DrBat evidence. Asgardian exposed him as a sockpuppeteer - which honestly shocked the hell out of me, especially given that User:CyberGhostface (later unblocked) and User:Silvestris, a couple of long-time active accounts, appear to have been blocked alongside of him. BOZ (talk) 02:16, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  • I'm discussing this block with DrBat and arb-com at the moment. DrBat has pointed out that Asgardian is a sockpuppeteer too, although one who was treated more leniently. Hiding T 16:41, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough! :) I imagine we should then add that info to the complaint? And his use of IP editing for reversion purposes, which is much more frequent. BOZ (talk) 18:01, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'd just like to point out that, unlike Asgardian, none of my alternate accounts were ever used to violate restrictions (be they 3RR, or editing an article that I was restricted from editing). --DrBat (talk) 07:31, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

After A Nobody's RfC, I don't think it's a good idea to add socking to an RfC unless it is relevant. I don't know anything about this particular case, though. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 07:52, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It's relevant in the sense that he uses (whether intentionally or not, but it is common) his IP address to maintain reversions that he has done with his account. BOZ (talk) 13:14, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I see. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 17:38, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]


If this is of any assistance

Here is a copy of the list I last posted over at the Juggernaut Talk page of the small part of Asgardian's past offenses that I had the energy to look up when I originally wrote it. I have also asked User:Nightscream to contribute. Feel free to add anything that you may not have known previously:

Asgardian being a proven sockpuppet user, which turns suspicious whenever various anonymous ips have reverted to his edits: [33]

Asgardian's block page for consistent edit-warring, before starting to simply do one revert a day or so to get away with it, regardless if this is in direct violation of consensus, like in the Dormammu case: [34]

Newer conflicts: [35]

User: J Greb noticing that Asgardian has continually written edit-summaries that have little, or nothing to do with what he's actually doing, or even flat-out contradict it, and Asgardian stating that he'll continue to do so as long as he can get away with it: [36] "I've grown very, very tired of edits like this where the editor does multiple things and then puts in a partially truthful edit summary." Response: "As for J Greb's concern, I've made a request to be directed to the relevant rule on Wikipedia."

User: Nightscream noticing Asgardian's tendency for dishonesty, to then accuse anyone who points if out for "incivility", which given that he does what he always does makes it impossible to even respond: [37]

Asgardian recently apparently systematically vandalising page-structures just to make a point, and various other users making a plea to finally shut him down: [38] [39] [40]

Only the most recent situation of distorting profile content and deleting multiple references regardless that the information was entirely correct, and that the entire Talk population disagrees with him, and going by my experience on other pages such as Thanos he will eventually revert everything at a time when everyone else has mostly lost interest, even if he has to wait half a year to do so: [41]

(This proved prophetic, as most recently User:Duae_Quartunciae [warned] him of a ban if he continued to remove valid references, and he left the pages Dormammu alone for a few weeks after this, but then returned and did exactly the same thing all over again, despite that nobody agreed with him, with my main problem being that he essentially replaced referenced exact quotes with personal opinions.)

In addition, there was this old hint that he finds this behavior funny: [42] ""insidious misrepresentation"...heh. How old are you?"

That said, I have been reluctant to view him as a troll, since he does seem to try doing much more useful things than simply being a neverending nuisance for everyone in this "community", myself in particular, despite another editor (User:Tcaudilllg) asking me if I considered him as one given that some of his tactics correspond to those of a sophisticated troll, and have given him chance after chance to find compromises, and he has occasionally made minor attempts in this regard, but generally just completely reverts to the same version over and over. Recently we tried again, with the deal being that I'd keep my temper in check/stay as polite as I can, and give benefit of doubt, and him supposed to prove that he's willing to change, and turn more trustworthy and compromising. I'd be fine with if he simply changed for the better, and stopped deleting references, or reinsert factual errors, and for a little while he seemed to make some effort in other cases such as The Stranger, but reasoning and compromises (i.e. rewrite the sentences for better structure if you wish, but keep valid references and accuracy corrections, and don't reinsert speculation if there are better alternatives available) haven't worked very well so far with (most prominently) either Dormammu, Mjolnir, or even the Juggernaut page, although I don't really have much problem with the last case. Dave (talk) 19:34, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - I did pull a little bit off of that talk page already after you pointed me in that direction. Unfortunately, discussions are less helpful at this point than specific examples, and what we really need are diffs that show the behavior in question. There are sections in the RFC set aside for any and all respondents to go into detail on what they think of the situation, so when the time comes that will be a good place for people to illustrate their concerns as you have above. I need more examples on the order of what you see below (just the diffs):

  1. Edit warring: [43], [44], and [45] at Awesome Android
  2. Incomplete/inaccurate edit summaries: [46] (logs in to revert the bot's reversions of his edits as an IP), [47]
  3. Reverting to "Wiki-correct version": [48], [49]
  4. Removal of maintenance tags as part of a larger edit: [50]
  5. Disparaging remarks in edit summary: [51]

If you could dig out as many as you can find, the more the merrier, that will help a ton. BOZ (talk) 20:27, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid that my energy for Asgardian is long since almost entirely spent (I've had to deal with him for a few years), and I'm completely mentally exhausted in general these days, but his edit war ban list, the cases/articles I mentioned, and the discussions linked to above (including the J.Greb talk which also had people talking about just their general frustration with his behaviour, should provide some concrete examples, if anyone actually finds the energy to check through them.
For a start this one mentions an edit-war on Red Hulk along with the ongoing "incivility defense"; This has J.Greb mention that he has also noticed the misleading edit-summaries, referring to this case: [52], along with Asgardian stating that he wll continue to do so as long as he gets away with it in the following edit; This mentions edit-wars on Abomination and Rhino pages; This mentions the ongoing Dormammu problems; User:Tcaudilllg states that Asgardian's tactics correspond to those of a troll, and in the same case User:Duae Quartunciae calls his manipulative use of regulations (to create either fear, or annoyance, such as putting a complaint against Tenebrae) "self-serving" and warns him that he might get banned. The former would fit in with the old comment that he finds annoyance with manipulation funny; And perhaps most noteworthy, there was an extremely lengthy (and dull) ongoing debate about that he appeared entirely willing to vandalise multiple pages just to make an exaggerated satirical point, and following talk about that he just keep sticking to (more sophisticated versions of) the same behaviour no matter how many chances he is given (likely a few specific examples in the J.Greb talk, if I remember correctly): [53] [54] [55]; and his ban list should mention plenty of other cases.
There have been several older conflicts that I had with him in the "cosmic section", but it's been too long for me to remember the specifics of who did what, or in which cases it was someone else. However, I do remember that a compromise solution was agreed upon in the Thanos page, to simply have Asgardian return when everyone thought this was over and done with to restore exactly the version he wrote several months ago... He did much the same thing after being brought to attention about the Dormammu article, and this highlights the problem with him. He does not work under the same view of time as most other editors. If someone gives him a chance yet again, and he doesn't seem to do anything for weeks, most would assume the matter is done and over with, whereas he is fully willing to wait for up to a year to revert to his original edit all over again, and by that point almost nobody is willing to check through the incoherent archives to make a case against it, if it is even noticed. Dave (talk) 20:47, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wish I'd known that this was going on, I'd love to have helped, and best of luck to all of you. I note, however ,that the entire 'I did all that to make a point' problem was not mentioned, in which Asgardian stated that he created a huge fight on Abomination to make a point about the Rhino article, or vice-versa. (It's late, it was long ago, and I'm not digging out diffs now. J Greb can probably point the way quickly.) Best of luck to you. ThuranX (talk) 08:23, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; I found it and will be including it. BOZ (talk) 05:23, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dormammu

Despite being reverted by numerous editors, he continues to try to remove information from the Dormammu article. He dismisses the opinions of everyone else on the talk page, and does his own thing. If enough people are against him, he'll just vanish for a while, then return, and do the same thing, with the same results. [56] Is there a way to search for the number of times this editor has been reverted? Dream Focus 08:44, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The only way I know how to do that is by hand... ;) BOZ (talk) 12:37, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Nightscream

Copied from my talk page:

I'm not sure what the exact historical scope is for the behavior by him you wish to include, so I'll try to limit it to some examples from the past 15 months:

Example 1. Asgardian has expressed a personal aesthetic against mentioning the titles of books, storylines or issue numbers in comic book-related articles. In September 2008, he attempted to remove them from the Black Bolt article. I attempted to discuss it with him on that article's Talk Page. Reading that discussion should illustrate the type of behavior he displays when people attempt to talk to him. In this discussion, he attempted to use WP:CRYSTAL to justify his removal of this material, and as you can see, I refuted this claim. He tried to claim that articles have to be written in-universe, and I corrected him by pointing out that the opposite is true. I pointed out that he made assertions in his Edit Summaries that such things could not be mentioned in the sections in question, and challenged him to justify this. He reacted to administrator warnings I placed on his Talk Page by saying, "Finally, please, no more threats," as if placing such warnings is not a legitimate purview of administrators for disruptive behavior. (Had he explained why the warnings were not justified, that would be fine, but he does not do this; he simply acts as if he can dismiss legitimate legitimate policy-based attempts to address violations of site guideline, as this was not the first time he had done this.) I also show how he made personal comments directed to me during this matter. Ultimately he left me a message saying he would request another opinion on the matter, but then abandoned this, as we never heard back from him on this matter. He also ignores/blanks attempts on his Talk Page to contact him in such matters, often without responding to them. This is part of his overall pattern of evading the collaborative process in favor of making unilateral edits, against attempts to discuss, and in contrary to consensus.

Example 2. The next example is the ANI review of my block of Asgardian in February 2009, his fifth one overall, which was, IMO, incorrectly reversed. Here I detail, with copious Diffs, many examples of his behavior. Of particular interest is the Points of Contention section, because I respond to a number of Asgardian's lies, his use of logical fallacies, double-standards, etc. It's a lot to slog through, and I apologize, but the amount of material is determined by what Asgardian provides us. If you go through it and verify the Diffs (there may be an error or two on my part), they may prove valuable. One important point is that he claimed that there was a discussion on the Comics Project page that supported his practice of removing titles and issue numbers from articles. (He had abandoned his attempts to use WP:CRYSTAL to justify this personal whim of his, and was now attempting this new line of reasoning.) I went to that discussion page and saw no such thing, so I asked the participants on that page (scroll down to my 2.13.09 post) about Asgardian's assertion, and they made it clear to me that they had never discussed this matter at all (disproving Asgardian's assertion), and when I brought up the matter, they agreed that it was perfectly reasonable to occasionally mention important book and story titles and issue numbers in comic book-related articles. A total of four people agreed on this point.

Example 3. Then there's the Red Hulk matter from late August-September 2009. During this again began reverting titles, issue numbers, etc., from the article. I tried to talk to him about this, but he ignored me. Despite the earlier Project Page discussion, I started a second one on that topic on the Red Hulk Talk Page in order to accomodate him. I contacted over 20 people to invite them to it (adhering to WP:CANVAS), but only three showed up, not counting Asgardian. Again, four people (though not the same four as in February) agreed that occasionally mentioning important book titles or issue numbers was reasonable. Despite this, Asgardian continued reverting the article against the wishes of these four people, and while the discussion was ongoing, despite the fact that he was aware that this was a violation of Wikipedia's collaboration policies, as he had been blocked for this before. He insisted on September 3 that we needed yet another discussion to bring it to a wider audience, so I again went to the Comics Project page. He was again arguing against a "laundry list" or "minefield" of dates and issue numbers that he felt would make the article unreadable. I tried to point out that no one favored this, but only mentioning them occasionally, which was not a "minefield" or "laundry list", and was a nice middle ground between that and not mentioning them at all. When I tried to ask him on September 3 if he understood this, he refused to answer this, saying we should discuss that on the Comics Project page. He never answered this question there either. I should also mention that during the course of this, I protected the article in order to encourage discussion and consensus. It was opined by the others that I shouldn't have done this because I was involved. I apologized for this, having not known that it would matter (though I've since heard contrary opinions on this). In any event Administrator Mangojuice tried to desysop me for this on the AN Board. Here is my post in which I defend myself (I was not desysopped, and Mangojuice apologized to me for this), and in so doing, I detail Asgardian's behavior with respect to ownership of articles and consensus. Unfortunately, the two other admins that in that matter, Mangojuice and Xeno, exercised poor judgment in their refusal to find any fault with Asgardian, with Mangojuice claiming that no evidence was presented that he did anything wrong, even though I furnished him with the relevant Diffs. They indicated that four people was not a consensus, completely ignoring the fact that even if this were true, he still reverted during a discussion. When I attempted to address this on the ANI board, they refused to address the matter, claiming that the matter was settled--even though the issue over my page protection and Asgardian's reverts during discussion were two separate issues. Apparently they figured that resolving one issue somehow served to resolved a completely unrelated one simply because they originated from the same edit dispute. Xeno claimed that this was better handled at the then-ongoing discussion over titles and issue numbers, despite the fact that that content discussion and a discussion over an editor's behavior were obviously two separate things. Asgardian, again tried to make the matter about me, claiming that the discussion should be on my aforementioned error in protecting the article, even though that matter had been resolved. (Not surprisingly, he cited Mangojuice's statement that he did nothing wrong, but had no difficulty in ignoring Mangojuice's statement that my page protection matter was settled.) Asgardian also claimed that he was willing to discuss the issue of titles and dates on Red Hulk when he had stated the opposite previously, that my attempt to address this matter there was "not conduct becoming an administrator", and that I was being "abusive" and "uncivil" because of the criticisms I leveled at him for his behavior (this is another common tactic of his).

Example 4. Last, Asgardian claimed in October that he doesn't "ever" make blind reverts. In fact, here is one example in which he did do so, during the aforementioned Red Hulk matter a month prior, and here is my revert of it. When I pointed this out (as it was only one month to the day prior), he reacted badly, leaving these silly taunts on my Talk Page, implying that my pointing this out was not proper admin conduct, was something for which I could lose my admin privileges, would "go to an overall pattern", and so forth. Asgardian attempted to couch these posts in a supposedly friendly, concerned tone, which was completely inconsistent with his evasive and intellectually dishonest history of behavior. Nightscream (talk) 07:51, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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