QUOTE(wikiwhistle @ Fri 18th July 2008, 5:25pm)
QUOTE(Robert Roberts @ Fri 18th July 2008, 4:46pm)
I've come across him a few times, he's a tool - he's not particular interested in "truth", he's interested in pissing off Muslim editors. He's a troll.
Yes but it's still a fact- why hide it unless others have an agenda.
Goldy- thark was banned for a fortnight in jan or something, since then he's been back and had to behave a bit around the muhammad article. I thought he was risking being blocked over the recent Bardy reverts to be honest. How he behaves over Irish, Islam and so on articles merely reflects the perspective of a lot of English people or people worldwide who don't have a POV pushing pro-Irish republican agenda, and our views are not necessarily represented on those articles due to the high numbers of Irish or pro- Irish editing on there. Not that I'm anti-Irish, just saying at the current time there's not many people representing the views Thark is trying to make sure are including in these articles, and he's not alone in holding these views,but they've been forced out.
However, I can't claim to be unbiased, that's why I'm not going to chip in much on any Arbcom etc about it from now on- or I will make sure I let my own allegiances be known.
The reason being that Thark is a personal friend of mine in real life, and we're meeting him for drinks on Sunday for social or reasons largely unrelated to wiki, but which will include a great deal of celebration. (IMG:
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You said somewhere above "
if assuming Muslims can be moderate?". Nice attitude. So you are his mate? Birds of a feather, I guess. Tell him his
behaviour here is utterly gross. There are a billion Muslims in the word, a minority of them extreme (and they do have their reasons, unacceptable as it is) - the last thing the world needs are people like Tharkuncoll.
Ever wondered why the extremism comes from the oppressed areas, and moderation from the free areas? Yes, there are moderate Muslims. I guess not many Muslims are invited to your party. I am pro-British, but I worry sometimes, I really do (skinheads etc).
Almost makes me want to take Bardcom's side! People are right when they say he is starting to mediate and the block worked (as I pointed out myselff above).