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This RfC is now closed. SlimVirgin (talk) 19:19, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
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Erwin Walsh has been disrupting the community by opening VfDs in bad faith. He has also made personal attacks against users who vote to keep the articles he nominated.
Erwin Walsh participates heavily in VfD. While some of the articles he nominates are eventually deleted, several nominations were made in bad faith. He's only been here for a week, but he has already nominated at least 27 articles for deletion. During the nomination, he often makes rude comments toward either the article or the users voting to keep the article. He appears to be have a prejudice against homosexuality, a factor that provides an explanation for his votes on anal masturbation and the Blow Brothers. (Evidence listed below).
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Walsh has changed the notice of the Rfc
to a comment that entirely and deliberately misleads. This is bad faith.
--Gorgonzilla 17:03, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
Walsh has removed the WP:NPOV item from the list of policies involved [13] Walsh's edit comment claims that this is a 'troll', however it is not for him to decide what the charges against him are. He has conspicuously failled to take advantage of the opportunity to reply. This is yet another example of failing to take the complaints against him seriously. --Gorgonzilla 14:09, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
Walsh has repeatedly accused me of sending threatening emails, this is completely untrue as an examination of the email logs will demonstrate. [14] --Gorgonzilla 00:35, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
Walsh has also posted insulting messages to other users talk pages. [15]
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Walsh's early behavior had been very disrptive, tagging articles with VfD minutes after creation without bothering to do the simplest checks such as looking up a person on Google. He tagged one article as a copyvio a minute after creation even though it was simply being split off from the Jack Abramoff article and the material had been copied from Wikipedia.
More worrying was his reaction to complaints, instead of saying oops sorry I will try to be a little more careful he put a notice on his user page stating that his 'policy' for handling criticism was to ignore all criticism. He currently has a notice stating that he is on a two month wikibreak and won't be able to answer any criticism and deleted my note pointing out that since he had posted frequently afterwards that this was obviously untrue.
More recently Erwin has largely desisted from bulk VfD nominations. But the homophobic nature of his VfD on anal masturbation is not acceptable.
At this point I think that Walsh is capable of making a positive contribution but he may not be willing to do so. I think it really depends on what his reaction to this RfC is.--Gorgonzilla 12:14, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
Walsh just deleted the criticism of him from his User page and in particular the link to this Rfc. That and the deliberate lie on his user page that is clearly there to try to deflect criticism means that I now change my vote to delete. --Gorgonzilla 16:06, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
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An RfC filed in bad faith would include an editor using the RFC process to make false accusations of policy violations, and then getting their friends to help certify the RFC, or finding people who have had arguments elsewhere with the accused, and inviting them to certify or endorse the RfC in an attempt to snowball the process.
Pretty much sums up this RFC.
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I think that Erwin Walsh has been guilty of not being civil. I do not see any other obvious violation of Wikiquette. Keeping a log of votes for deletion that he proposed is a statement of his encyclopedic philosophy: "When in doubt, delete." As to any alleged prejudice, I concur with the comments of User:ElvisThePrince that prejudice is undesirable, but is not an offense against Wikiquette unless it leads to non-neutral editing or personal attacks.
I suggest that "Please do not bite the newcomers" applies, and that this user should be aware that he needs to refrain from foul comments, and should be given a chance to do that. Robert McClenon 20:31, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
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I have not followed the VfD's much, so have not observed Erwin Walsh's poor behavior there. However, I happen to be following a rather contentious Wikiproject: Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians for encyclopedic merit. To sum up the contention, the project was initially started as "Wikipedians for decency", and was basically devoted to trying to censor sexual images on WP. A number of members joined who wanted to help reformulate the project as something that was of actual value to WP, such as creating a system for voluntary annotation of content.
Some of the earlier signers, those who like Erwin Walsh who were devoted to a more Comstockian vision of the Wikiproject, had the wrong impression that a Wikiproject belongs to the first few members who join. Erwin Walsh (and unfortunately, several other users), launched into a program of mass deleting the membership statments and comments by any Wikipedians whom he disagreed with. This is a clear WP-abuse, probably vandalism. For example:
There are a bunch more too. And some more that are comment deletions on the talk page.
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