Anna - I just don't think terms like 'jumping towards conclusions' and 'gossiping' accurately represent people's reaction to RodHull (ie Encyclopedist) here. Like Arbcom (who naturally didn't want to make it public and simply asked him the question), people here are entitled to be concerned, and WR is all about bringing to light these kind of matters. Arbcom and the admin class actually kept Rod afloat for a very long time, largely because they simply hate to relieve themselves of powers - despite his hunting and blocking of obvious vandals being an only net positive surrounded by increasingly-nutball negatives. Their previous lack of action/interest became one of their problems in the end, as they appear to admit in the leaks that they ran out of excuses to keep him going as a credible admin under any circumstances. Rod completely ignores all the reasons Arbcom had for banning him, and didn't even put up a defence on Wikipedia in the end - despite being given loads of time to get it together. He just kept trying to bargain with (and blackmail essentially) Arbcom on the mailing lists.
As it goes, I think Encyclopedia has been having pretty easy time of it on WR really, given that he chooses to contibute and post what he does. Remember that the word you objected to above was simply "fruitcake" - hardly a libellous term. I've not seen anyone call him anything worse directly - in fact (despite all the evidence of the first post - and the extended detail of Peter's second post for added seriousness) - most people seem to see him as someone who is more delusional than anything else. You make the excellent point that any true legal 'counsel' would tell him to keep away from all this, and stop mentioning Black Ops etc - supposing and especially(!) if it were actually true. So you don't need to worry about him taking legal action, despite all his (typically for Rod) empty promises.
I know you are still new here, but WR really isn't known for giving flowers to spurned badmin, especially the block-happy variety. Rod was the admin who suddenly infef-blocked the pretty mild-mannered Larry Sanger (one of the co-founders of Wikipedia) simply for criticising it once too much for his taste. No grounds in civility etc - Rod just thought it was un-Wikipedian and felt Die Project would do better without him around.
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