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Evidence presented by User:Imaglang (aka Neigel von Teighen)[edit]

Summary

The evidence here presented tries to show User:Nereocystis' abusive behaivor unto User:Researcher99 in the respective articles mentioned before, but also to defend User:Researcher99's attitude and comments in the dispute.

I'll be adding more evidence whenever I'm able to do it. --Neigel von Teighen 20:04, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Evidence presented by User:Researcher99[edit]

Posted: Researcher 00:28, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am posting this hurriedly under the specific instruction of my AMA advocate, Neigel von Teighen. I was working to make a brief Evidence listing here, according to Fred_Bauder's advice on 21:19, 7 November 2005. My AMA advocate has noticed that on 21:28, 7 November, 2005, the Proposed Decision discussion was already begun before I have had the opportunity to present my case and receive a fair arbitration. For that reason, Neigel von Teighen has told me to post all the DIFFs here now and we can work from there. All these DIFFs tell the whole story. (We are still waiting for official IP investigations and deleted article DIFFs, as I noted here.) In posting all these DIFFs this way so hurriedly, I am following my AMA advocate, Neigel von Teighen's specific instructions. I hope this is acceptable, as I am so trying to provide the needed Evidence and obtain a fair presentation of the events. Researcher 00:28, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Polygamy Dispute Background

Except for the current situation of dispute here, the polygamy article is a small minority article that rarely gets much editing attention. Usually, under normal circumstances, whenever it does get any editing attention, it is usually by some passing anti-polygamist. They typically make posts like this one here, this other one here, and this one too. These are of the milder types of anti-polygamy POV edits the article typically gets, and show why I had tried to create an additional (but now wrongly deleted) article for such arguments, anti-polygamy. As this external source reported, a May 2005 Gallup poll reported that there's a 92% unfavorable bias against polygamy in Western society.

This is NOT about me promoting a Christian Polygamy POV

I came to Wikipedia as an intellectual researcher who has spent years studying the topic of polygamy. Since the '90s, I have been deeply studying the news, websites, and arguments of various issues related to polygamy. To Wikipedia, I bring those years of studying Mormon polygamy, Muslim polygamy, and a new and very different form of polygamy that I discovered early on, a new movement called "Christian Polygamy." As this external source explains, that very new movement started in 1994. Over these years, I have watched as that movement has risen to prominence in the overall pro-polygamy defense. Before that new movement, anti-polygamists could easily discredit polygamy defenders as either being Muslim or Mormon. Most people could be easily persuaded to dismiss it too for those simple reasons. That's because, without counting the tiny minority populations of Mormons and American Muslims, most of America is either Christian or someone who spends their time with Christians, just like I and most of us do. However, the rise of Christian Polygamy changed all that. It brought a different background concept with it that even non-religious intellectuals could accept. It was realized that there are different reasons behind the differing forms of polygamy. Not only did anti-polygamists soon find their Bible arguments more difficult to defend, it was also not possible to dismiss those particular polygamy defenders as "only Muslim or Mormon." Even Western Muslim polygamists (e.g., here) and Mormon polygamists (e.g., here) recognized that Christian polygamists could defend and argue polygamy with better persuasive success. This also caused non-religious intellectuals to re-think their previous opposition to polygamy. Some have begun to acknowledge that polygamy just might not be as bad as they used to think after all. For these reasons, the new Christian polygamy movement has become the greatest threat to anti-polygamy activism.

That is why the anti-polygamists in this dispute at Wikipedia have tried to distract this dispute by calling me a "Christian polygamist." Even though I come only as an intellectual researcher, the anti-polygamists want to distract others so that they can try to undermine both my NPOV edits and the addition of this new movement that so threatens their POV agenda. So, their focusing on me as a supposed "Christian polygamist" POV editor is a straw man distraction, in order to attack the polygamy article with their anti-polygamy POV. Their last desperate anti-polygamy attempt to call the links to the media-credible proven sites as "link spam" (which they had never once claimed prior to this RfArb) is something they made up for the purpose of misleading Arbitrators away from the real issues and re-directed into mistakenty thinking that this dispute was ever about the newly-created deceptive ("link spam") issue when it did not. So, this dispute is not about me being a "Christian polygamist" (or about "link spam"). It is about their systematic agenda to obfuscate, distract, and attack me and the "Christian polygamy" portion of the article (as well as the rest of it). The anti-polygamists attack and misrepresent because the true facts threaten their own hostile POV agenda to misrepresent polygamy in the encyclopedia.

This is About their attacking, abusing, and pushing a hostile Anti-polygamy POV

In Nereocystis's post to RfArb here, they claim they are not an anti-polygamist, saying, " I am not an anti-polygamist; I support the legalization of polygamy." However, they, along with other anti-polygamists in this dispute, have clearly proven to be very aggressively anti-polygamy.

Three of the surest signs of an activist anti-polygamist are the following.

Pushing "underage marriage" is an immediate tell-tale sign of a hostile anti-polygamy POV. Pro-polygamists have repeatedly opposed the child rape issue. Tom Green is only one of a small number of polygamy related criminals who got caught doing crimes not about polygamy. For example, Tom Green had committed welfare fraud and child rape. As this external source shows, polygamists have nothing and want nothing to do with Tom Green. They even call him the "polygamy Tim MacVeigh," that's how despised he is by pro-polygamists. Tom Green is not a legitimate representative of polygamy. The fact which anti-polygamists hate to accept, though, is that there is not one recent example of any non-criminal polygamist being convicted solely for polygamy or even multiple co-habitation. Anti-polygamists insist on promoting Tom Green, though, despite his irrelevance as a complete criminal. They also push hard for anti-polygamy sites that really do not contribute honest information about polygamy. In a May 27, 2005 post I made to Talk:polygamy page, I provided a detailed explanation of these issues and how they pinpoint a hostile anti-polygamist.

It is explicitly evident that those "disputing" me here are hostile anti-polygamists, grinding their POV axe against me.

No matter how many times that Nereocystis claims to "support the legalization of polygamy," the evidence clearly proves that to be an obvious lie. Their extremely aggressive abuse toward me repeatedly also makes it obvious that they are no pro-polygamist. As Arbitrators read the sequence of events in this RfArb and see every action taken by Nereocystis, asking this following question becomes self-answerable: "Is this what someone would do if they really 'supported the legalization of polygamy?'" The answer becomes obvious: no way.

Because I have been intelligent enough to see all this, I have become the target of their systematic exploitation of the Wikipedia process system to abuse me as their way to either make me want to leave Wikipedia or to get others to cause my removal. When Nereocystis returned "back" to the polygamy article on May 10, 2005, the situation at that time was my calling for the Wikipedia Guidelines of restoring to STATUS QUO so that we could then TALK. I have repeatedly said that ever since. There was never any mistake about that. Solving the dispute was that easy. Follow the Wikipedia Guidelines of starting from STATUS QUO to then TALK. Rather than being civil or working with me, though, the anti-polygamists have routinely "run right over me," edited the article with anti-polygamy agenda, ignored the Wikipedia Guidelines of STATUS QUO, rv'ed my every edit to try to get back to STATUS QUO, lied by saying I supposedly refused to TALK, come up with new "dispute" after another to keep my time being wasted, make me explain issues over and over, immediately sabotaged and encouraged the wrong idea of getting the anti-polygamy article that I had created to be wrongly deleted, refused or sabotaged my genuinely WIN-WIN and NPOV resolution offers, used, the announcement method to draw others to their agenda, lied to others about me and the situation, repeatedly claimed the lie that I was ever refusing to find a resolution.

This prolonged series of attacks over all these months is not a matter of their making simple mistakes that they might say, "Oh boy, I guess I made a mistake. Sorry. I won't do it again." This was a prolonged, deliberate non-stop set of attacks against me, solely to get me out of Wikipedia because I am such a qualified expert on the topic that threatens their POV agenda. It was not some unintended little mistake.

While there is currently a 92% unfavorable view of polygamy in the West, that makes me a very valuable resource of information to fill in the blanks for the benefit of this encyclopedia on polygamy related topics. However, that fact is not acceptable to the more activist hostile anti-polygamists, of course.

So we are now here at RfArb to address the abuse. As I have always said, I have always wanted to get to where we could TALK about content. Knowing that this has been a systematic abuse that brought us to this point here, it is clear that without addressing the abuse, more abuse would prevent TALK from ever happening.

So here we are.


Summary

This Summary has been stated as my official "Statement by party 1" on the Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Polygamy page.


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Final Notes[edit]

For proceeding in this RfArb, My AMA advocate here has made, on my behalf, a request to get the vitally important DIFFs for the wrongly deleted anti-polygamy article I had created, possibly by undeletion. (Until that happens, Arbitrators may use my previously-made archival of the former article, its TALK page, and its AfD archive here.) My AMA advocate has also begun the process of officially requesting IP investigations for some very suspicious occurrences and user similarities. We are waiting for both of those requests to come back so that we can proceed.

I am only at Wikipedia as a content expert/researcher to share my rare expertise in a very misunderstood and attacked topic. I am not here as an advocate. I am here to provide information for an NPOV encyclopedia. I am hoping that this RfArb will lead to the positive conclusion of all this. I genuinely want to just get back to the fun of real knowledge-sharing again with an end to the anti-polygamy attacks and abuse.

I ask the ArbCom to please consider all this necessary Evidence. Thank you. - Researcher 00:28, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence presented by User:Nereocystis[edit]

Wikibreak, starting October 19 - November 9

I will be away from regular Internet access from about Wednesday, October 19, for about 3 weeks, until about November 9, perhaps a bit sooner. It is unlikely that I will be able to respond during that time. Sorry for the delay. Nereocystis 03:52, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Summary

Over the past few months, Researcher99 has refused to discuss the text of the polygamy article with Nereocystis. He reverts changes which have been discussed on Talk:Polygamy. He attacks Nereocystis, accusing Nereocystis of sockpuppetry, abuse and vandalism. He has refused mediation, both unofficial and official. He fills Talk:Polygamy with lengthy, repetitive, meandering posts. He engages in link spam, pushing his web sites, and sites which are hosted by him. He posts POV sections on Christian polygamy, and refuses to consider alternative wording.

First contact

20 November

16:53 [196] Added many web site hosted by standardbearer.com:

  1. pro-polygamy.com
  2. truthbearer.org
  3. christianpolygamy.info
  4. anti-polygamy.com
  5. 2wives.com

Some of the sites he added are hosted elsewhere. This was an anonymous edit, but performed slightly before Researcher99 first appeared, and the comment was written in Researcher99's style. This issue is open to question.

Prosecution of Tom Green in Utah

This is my first disagreement with Researcher99. Again, the issue could be debated, but Researcher99 did not provide citations, despite multiple requests. 29 December

14:17 [197] Researcher99 changes polygamy article to state that Tom Green conviction was due to welfare fraud.

2 January

11:30 [198] Nereocystis asks for a reference for the Tom Green claim.

20:10 [199] Researcher99 replies, but doesn't provide reference.

3 January

13:05 [200] Nereocystis requests citation for Tom Green claim.

18:29 [201] Researcher99 provides reference that about Utah Attorney-general to article on his web site posted a short while earlier. Quote does not answer question about reason for Green prosecution. Attorney-General did not prosecute Green.

6 January

22:56 [202] Nereocystis provides additional citations, requests relevant citations.

7 January

12:06 [203] Researcher99 again does not provide citation.

13 January

02:35 [204] Nereocystis asks for a reference, again.

07:47 [205] Researcher99 says he does not have to provide reference, but does provide reference to a web site with which Nereocystis believes he is associated, truthbearer.org. Nereocystis suspects that the article quote Researcher99.

Editing war heats up

Nereocystis reentered the polygamy article, adding a disputed section to the talk page, and making some edits. Researcher99 did not discuss any topic in this section. However, Researcher99 accuses me of sneaky vandalism, and more.

11 May

16:03 [206] Nereocystis introduces disputed section of talk article to discuss areas under question.

12 May

10:31 [207] Nereocystis adds dubious tag to Tom Green paragraph.

16 May

07:42 [208] Researcher99 complains that Nereocystis's edits of polygamy are sneaky vandalisms. 12:56 [209] Nereocystis adds disputed tag to polygamy.

13:31 [210] Nereocystis requests discussion on talk page, asks Researcher99 for citations.

3rd opinion requested

Nereocystis requests a third opinion, which was offered. Other editors made suggestions. Researcher99 turns down all suggestions.

6 June

16:40 [211] Nereocystis requests Third Opinion.

7 June

15:30 [212] Dan100 provides 3rd opinion, suggests brevity, description of desired changes by Researcher99.

7 June

16:07 [213] Hawstom agrees with Dan100

17 June

09:09 [214] Researcher99 posts extremely long article accusing Nereocystis of sneaky vandalism, does not mention suggested changes.

18 June

10:31 [215] Dan100 repeats request to focus on issues, reduce mention of sneaky vandalism.

30 June

7:07 [216] Researcher99 responds, but doesn't state suggested changes.

17 June

04:40 [217] Researcher99 continues attacking Nereocystis's behavior, no discussion of text

18 June

10:29 [218] Hawstom suggests forgetting past conduct, editing and discussing, starts poll

18 July

10:43 [219] Researcher99 opposes Hawstom's poll, offers no alternative

Nereocystis suggests mediation, other solutions

Nereocystis continues to suggest the Researcher99 join in mediation, or any other solution.

18 July

14:11 [220] Nereocystis suggests Association of Member Advocates for Researcher99, mediation or arbitration. No response from Researcher99

POV Christian polygamy section

19 July

17:22 [221] StopTheFiling suggests that a section on Christian polygamy is POV. 18:08 [222] Nereocystis agrees.

18:51 [223] Researcher99 disagrees with POV, calls StopTheFiling anti-polygamist, mostly for other posting.

20 July

03:07 [224] Researcher99 accuses Nereocystis of sneaky vandalism, sockpuppetry, but doesn't address POV.

13:02 [225] Nereocystis adds NPOV tag, asks for specific suggested text from Researcher99

13:26 [226] Researcher99 attacks Nereocystis, refuses to consider modifications.

13:56 [227] StopTheFiling further explains views, denies anti-polygamy bias, agrees with Nereocystis.

16:55 [228] Researcher99 attacks Nereocystis, does not suggest preferred text.

22 July

14:30 [229] Nereocystis posts rewrite of Christian polygamy section.

26 July

12:20 [230] Researcher99 does not like suggested rewrite, does not suggest alternative, attacks Nereocystis.

12:32 [231] Nereocystis asks for Researcher99's suggested rewrite.

13:03 [232] Researcher99 does not provide his suggested version.

29 July

10:30 [233] Nereocystis provides another rewrite, tries to address Researcher99's issues.

28 July

14:58 [234] Nereocystis suggests mediation. No response from Researcher99.

2 August

12:48 [235] Nereocystis provides another rewrite.

3 August

11:14 [236] Researcher99 refuses rewrite, does not provide his version, attacks Nereocystis.

15:15 [237] Nereocystis suggests modification based upon Researcher99's comments.

16:56 [238] Researcher99 attacks Nereocystis, does not provide alternative text.

17:48 [239] Nereocystis thanks Researcher99, asks for alternate wording.

4 August 06:20 [240] Researcher99 does not provide alternate text, attacks Nereocystis.


1 August

13:41 [241] Nereocystis suggests mediation on Researcher99's talk page. No response from Researcher99.

August 3

16:56 [242] Researcher99 states that Nereocystis is vandalizing his talk page.

17:28 [243] Nereocystis suggests mediation.

Researcher99 suggests solution

Researcher99 suggests a solution, but wants me to acknowledge his proven expertise in polygamy.

August 5

06:16 [244] Researcher99 removes links to Christian polygamy sites which he disagrees with.

10:10 [245] Researcher99 insists that Nereocystis defer to Researcher99's proven expertise.

16 August

13:54 [246] Uriah923 offers unofficial mediation.

August 18

9:55 [247] Researcher99 wants to discuss past.

August 26

16:06 [248] Researcher99 does not provide outline; postpones conversation for a few days, past deadline for outline.

7 September

12:14 [249] Researcher99 compares Nereocystis to a rapist and a terrorist.

Mediation

We attempt mediation.

13 September

16:14 [250] Researcher99's AMA advocate starts mediation.

29 September

[17:42 [251] Mediator Andrevan asks Researcher99 what he expects from mediation; question is unanswered.

30 September

13:03 [252] long rambling post by Researcher99 accusing Nereocystis of fake graciousness, refuses to discuss content

1 October

9:06 [253] Mediator asks Researcher99 what he expects from mediation; Researcher99 does not answer.

4 October

13:02 [254] Researcher99 refuses to join mediation if it includes a discussion of the text of the polygamy article.

13:25 [255] Mediator asks for explanation of what Researcher99 wants from mediation. Researcher99 does not answer.

Nereocystis 17:13, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Response to Researcher99

I don't know exactly what Researcher99 will say yet, but I will be away from the Internet for a while.

I do not use sock puppets. I did edit one article anonymously, but it wasn't related to polygamy. It is possible that I accidentally edited other articles anonymously, and I am willing to consider charges on an item-by-item basis.

In most of my edits on the polygamy page, I either:

In most of these cases, Researcher99 did not reply on the talk page.

There are probably a few times where I failed in this practice. Either I considered the edits trivial, or I screwed up. I think that I screwed up very few times. If Researcher99 mentions specific edits where I failed, I will look at the charges and respond to them, apologizing when appropriate.

Defending myself against other charges will have to wait until my return. Nereocystis 05:14, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The charges against me are a little hard to follow. Most of the diffs posted support my view that Researcher99 is unwilling to work on resolving the issues. I'll let the arbitrators decide those issues. However, I'll respond to a few items.

9 July[edit]

22:54 [256] I did originally vote to delete anti-polygamy. A few minutes later, I deleted that vote, and decided to let others make the decision. Of course, voting for deletion is a legal move. Nereocystis 22:37, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

18 July[edit]

10:28 [257] As Imaglang says, I did mention that there was an AfD on anti-polygamy. However, I did not suggest which way people should vote. I mentioned the vote so that people interested in the polygamy article could make a decision on the article.

10:50 [258] Here, I explain the reason for the announcement and request that the vote be left open longer than usual so that people can decide.

13:25 [259] Researcher99 accuses me of lying.

Evidence presented by User:Kewp[edit]

Summary

I have been watching and participating in the dispute relating to the Polygamy articles for almost 3 months. Over this period of time, Researcher99 has been unwilling to discuss the contents of the Polygamy article in any way, preferring instead to throw around groundless accusations of abuse in posts that are incredibly long, melodramatic, and almost impossible to comprehend. While Nereocystis has provided most of the relevant evidence against Researcher99, I am going to provide a few pieces of evidence that I think are relevant for the arbcom to consider.

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