QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Sun 13th December 2009, 9:16pm)
QUOTE(Mathsci @ Sun 13th December 2009, 2:56am)
Wizardman has now posted the proposed decision
here.
And what utter stupidity, too! "If you cannot work with others on a wiki, then there is nowhere on the site for you, no matter how good your content work may be." So is the W-man going to start banning the other resident malcontents on the site (including Mr. Gerard, Mr. Sinclair, and Mr. Chapman, to start with), or is this just a convenient way for him to pick apart the guys he personally dislikes?
And for being "banned" -- really, even W-man's fellow arbitrators openly acknowledge there is no way to enforce such stupidity.
Well, in principle, banning someone who is genuinely disruptive is quite a sensible thing. The trouble is that they rarely seem to be able to tell the difference between disruption and sheer frustration at the daily stupidity to be tolerated and the likely results of that, and as you rightly point out, they have been magically blind to the disruption of some of the old guard.
In fact in terms of disruption to the project, who has done more harm, Ottave Rima or Peter Damian, who may be difficult to deal with but ulitmately are individual nuisances to the project, or the old guard of Gerard, SlimVirgin and so on who have consolidated the dysfunctional organisation of Jimbo's vision of Wikipedia and whose influence is enmeshed in the fabric to the extent it is proving impossible to reform.