Connolley Climate Tzar at Wiki Options

[andrewedwardjudd2]

I am the Wiki user andrewedwardjudd referred to in the following link

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.ph...d=1#post3846097

I had some problems registering as andrewedwardjudd so had another go as andrewedwardjudd2

[Bottled_Spider]

I am the Wiki user andrewedwardjudd referred to in the following link

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.ph...d=1#post3846097

I've been reading about your case in various other venues. Your weak point was not availing yourself of some of the "rules" of Wikipedia "conduct" before engaging. Another was thinking that Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, rather than the twisted Facebook/social-networking forum that it really is. Therefore, you were manipulated into losing your cool and then you were banned. And so was your wife, as those Monty Python people would (probably) say. Dear oh dear. And now you seem to be just another notch in Mr. C's belt, or knife, or whatever it is he puts notches in when he wins a Wikibattle with someone. So what's your strategy going to be now? You're not going to let him get away with that, are you?

[andrewedwardjudd2]

I am the Wiki user andrewedwardjudd referred to in the following link

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.ph...d=1#post3846097

I've been reading about your case in various other venues. Your weak point was not availing yourself of some of the "rules" of Wikipedia "conduct" before engaging. Another was thinking that Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, rather than the twisted Facebook/social-networking forum that it really is. Therefore, you were manipulated into losing your cool and then you were banned. And so was your wife, as those Monty Python people would (probably) say. Dear oh dear. And now you seem to be just another notch in Mr. C's belt, or knife, or whatever it is he puts notches in when he wins a Wikibattle with someone. So what's your strategy going to be now? You're not going to let him get away with that, are you?

The aim at the moment is to get sufficient critical mass that Connolley learns that being such a disgusting individual is not going to result in personal happiness for him.

[Somey]

The aim at the moment is to get sufficient critical mass that Connolley learns that being such a disgusting individual is not going to result in personal happiness for him.

Then I'm sorry to say that most, if not all, of your actions thus far have probably had the opposite effect from what you've intended. Connolley is a classic example of the sort of Wikipediot who gets pleasure out of manipulating events on WP in the most game-like fashion imaginable, and your experience was probably like a trip to an amusement park from his perspective.

In retrospect, I'd say you probably should have taken the dispute "offsite" sooner than this - though that may sound self-serving, coming from me. When you're dealing with someone like Connolley, you never want to give him the advantage of trying to deal with him in a venue he personally controls...

It might also help if you'd state categorically and "unambiguously" what your personal position is on the "anthropogenic" part of "anthropogenic climate change." Even if you completely reject it, you're not doing yourself any favors (in terms of WP) by not being clear about it, though it might have seemed that way to you initially.