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Summary

Justinm1978 (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi) is a disruptive user who sole purpose is to POV push and harass users on Wikipedia. His conflict of interest with Greek fraternities and organizations, such as Alpha Phi Omega as well as the Boy Scouts cause him to POV war with editors, sometimes stalking their edits and harassing them to concede to his point of view. He also wikilawyers to gain the upper hand and also is insufficient in policy knowledge.

Policies Violated

Evidence from miranda

I first encountered Justin when he changed "service" to "social" in all nine NPHC articles. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8] [9].

I later revert his changes. And, he reverts back, as seen with edit history in May. He responds with "...charges of vandalism (which I see you have a history of making) are not valid." Later, another editor Ccson who is a key editor on the Alpha Phi Alpha article, reverted Justin's edits as "vandalism". Justin later responds with reverting vandalism, user is not contributing to discussion on subject matter. He also reports CCson to AIV in order for him to be blocked, even though it was a content dispute. The dispute was later solved with mediation seen below.

Another instance of Justin POV warring is deleting "Sorority/Fraternity, Incorporated" to articles without discussing the issues on the talk page. HistoricDST and I were trying to improve Delta Sigma Theta, Justin makes his POV known that Inc is redundant as all national GLO's are by nature incorporated.. I revert him noting that there are two DSTs, one professional and one which is a sorority. He later reverts me, then reverts himself, asking the question "is this about Delta Sigma Theta the business or the organization". I later revert him.

When I address him to the mistake of treating some non profits as businesses, he responds with and I also thank you for being too myopic to see that I'm going through and cleaning up all articles, not just NPHC.. FYI: Myopic is another word for narrowminded. He also doesn't use edit summaries when making these changes.

Also, I think he takes warnings too personally. I warn him not to brink 3RR and try to mediate with him, he blanks the content on his page. Later, he responds on my page as interpreting it as a threat and is uncivil. Whenever, I revert him, he reverts me on my talk page, which is in violation of TALK.

Mediation Cases

In order to make a type of consensus with this user, steps towards mediation were taken in order to reach a consensus. However, amid mediation, this user has continued to be disruptive. I feel as though if a request for comment were to be made, this user's behavior would not change.

  1. 00:19, May 4, 2007 (hist) (diff) Zeta Phi Beta‎
  2. 00:18, May 4, 2007 (hist) (diff) Sigma Gamma Rho‎
  3. 00:18, May 4, 2007 (hist) (diff) Phi Beta Sigma‎
  4. 00:18, May 4, 2007 (hist) (diff) Omega Psi Phi‎
  5. 00:17, May 4, 2007 (hist) (diff) Kappa Alpha Psi‎
  6. 00:17, May 4, 2007 (hist) (diff) Iota Phi Theta‎
  7. 00:17, May 4, 2007 (hist) (diff) Delta Sigma Theta‎
  8. 00:16, May 4, 2007 (hist) (diff) Alpha Phi Alpha‎
  9. 00:15, May 4, 2007 (hist) (diff) Alpha Kappa Alpha

In both mediation cases, he did not provide an online source in order to prove his point. In the DST case, I provided sources to DST's website stating that DST's name is officially "Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated" on their website which is verifiable. (see related discussion) Even a Delta member admits that the organization is named Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. The lack of Justin providing sources in order to win an argument is considered original research.

Other Examples removing "Sorority/Fraternity, Incorporated"

Lack of encyclopedia contributions

Instead of adding knowledge to the encyclopedia, Justin deletes unsourced facts, instead of finding sources for them. This behavior is counterproductive to the encyclopedia and shows ownership.

Revert warring via PRODS

I noticed in late December that an IP began to make proposed deletions on articles that I have worked on improving. This in my opinion constitutes stalking.

My revert
Justin's revert
Justin's revert
Justin reverts again

AFDs

When I and another user were having a conflict regarding an article, Justin clearly makes his presence known during which I was trying to make Alpha Kappa Alpha and List of Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters both featured. Two days later via IP (see above), he prods article pages. Several days later, Justin made two AFDs not soon after the IP prodded the pages. He also did not notify me that he was deleting the pages, which angered me.

ABF

Template Harassment

Per this IP edit to Omega Psi Phi and the IP's contributions in February Justin posted three separate warnings on a user's page for the same offense in order to prove that Service fraternities are not social fraternities. In my opinion, one warning should suffice. Also, not all new users know the difference between "social" and "service" fraternities. He has also template harassed Allstarecho (see below in Allstarecho's section).

Violations of 3RR

Regarding 3RR, I don't think Justin understands what 3RR means. The three revert rule does not mention censoring. Only in cases of obvious vandalism, 3RR should be used. However, he has violated 3RR based on content disputes. He has violated 3RR in the past with his POV pushing. (2 of them)

On Talk:Sigma Alpha Mu

Justin reinserted comments based upon talk page history. According to WP:CIVIL, comments can be deleted if they are uncivil. Also, see this discussion in his talk page regarding his uncivil behavior relating removing/deleting of talk page comments.

On Blogcritics

Justin violated 3RR by reverting five times on this article in a twenty-four hour period.


Inadequate page moving

  1. 11:53, January 7, 2008 Justinm1978 (Talk | contribs) moved User talk:Justinm19782 to User talk:Justinm19783 ‎ (revert)
  2. 11:52, January 7, 2008 Justinm1978 (Talk | contribs) moved User talk:Justinm1978 to User talk:Justinm19782 ‎ (revert)

Other evidence

my revert

Evidence Presented by ALLStarecho

History:

Sigma Nu

  1. Allstar reverts unexplained "blanking" of content by an IP.
  2. Allstar reverts unexplained "blanking" of content by same IP again.
  3. Justin reverts Allstar's reverts
  4. Justin templates ALLStar twice with two templates (one on sourcing/copyvio and one on advertising), something which clearly did not occur.


Userbox issue

  1. Justin disagrees with a userbox created by Allstarecho and removes it from Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Userboxes not once but twice. After another user reverts Justin, he lists the userbox for MfD. See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Allstarecho/scouts. The userbox is deleted.
  2. Allstar creates another similar userbox without the content which Justin found dubious. Justin lists it for MfD as well. See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Allstarecho/cfireusa. With an obvious outcome of "Keep", Justin requests that the MfD be closed, and it was a "Keep" - even though withdrawal is against policy once !votes have been stated and such "fD" processes should run their course once people have weighed in.

Editing of Allstar's userpage

Justin removes red linked categories from Allstar's userpage while Allstar has informed everyone that he is on wikibreak due to his home burning down. Justin's edit summary states, "clean up, remove categoy per WP:CfD , he'll revevrt it back if he wants to". Considering their history, he shouldn't have engaged in this provocation. If Allstar wanted the cats removed, he would have done it himself. Justin decided to do it and make Allstar do the work to revert. Instead of "he'll revert if he wants to", Justin shouldn't have touched it. Further, it is safe to assume that as much time as Justin has spent talking on Allstar's talk page, he couldn't have missed the big red box at the top that says not to remove red linked user cats from Allstar's page. Regardless, with their history, he shouldn't be editing anything on Allstar's userpage unless it's to leave a comment. This is more proof of him stalking Allstar.

List of cabals issue

  1. Allstar adds the "Boy Scouts Cabal" to Wikipedia:List of cabals, a humor page. The content does not mention any one individual by name. It follows the same pattern as all other entries found on the same list.
  2. As retaliation, Justin attacks the "Gay Cabal" by adding content to its entry.
  3. Allstar doesn't remove Justin's new content addition to "Gay Cabal" but adds the very same content to the "Boy Scouts Cabal".
  4. Justin decides to remove the "Boy Scouts Cabal" all together, almost a month later, as well as the attack content he added to the "Gay Cabal", with an edit summary admitting even his own additions were an attack, stating " rm attack, humor has its place, but this was added with the intent to attack, which isn't humorous.". It is of course important to note that what may not be humorous to some, is to others.
  5. Allstar reverts Justin's removal with an edit summary stating, "it wasn't added with the intent to attack so it stays." That should have been the end of the matter. Justin's failure to assume good faith further manifests itself when he reverts Allstar's revert 3 more times: [10] [11] and [12].
  6. An IP reverts Justin.
  7. Justin again removes the content.
  8. Justin "reports" Allstar at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts.
  9. 8 days after Justin's reports to ANI and WA, and no admins having replied to Justin's reports, Allstar restored the content
  10. Allstar is reverted by user HouseOfScandal with an edit summary stating, "Sorry, I think this BSC stuff is antagonistic in its intent."
  11. Allstar reverts HouseOfScandal with an edit summary stating, "Then you should assume good faith. This whole page could be considered antagonistic. It's called humor."
  12. Justin reverts Allstar with an edit summary stating, "please continue to discuss on talk page, thank you"
  13. Allstar reverts Justin with an edit summary stating, "Exactly, discuss it before you remove it again."
  14. Justin reverts Allstar with an edit summary stating, "three unrelated users have removed this now, and only you have put it back, that should say something." - failing, of course, to mention the others that have reverted him.

Other

Evidence Presented by Alan.ca

Justin's behavior on the talk page of Sigma Alpha Mu felt out of context and disruptive. A civil content debate was taking place between myself and several other parties. An anonymous uncivil comment was inserted into the discussion. I attempted to remove the remark, but Justin insisted this anonymous comment should remain by reverting my removal of the text. I resolved the matter after ignoring Justin when a Wikipedia Administrator interjected and asked for one of us to be mature and move on. Alan.ca (talk) 03:06, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Conclusions/Notes

Users certifying the basis for this dispute

{Users who tried and failed to resolve the dispute}

  1. miranda 23:47, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  2. - ✰ALLSTAR✰ echo 00:28, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Other users who endorse this summary

Response from Justinm1978[edit]

I am interspersing my response throughout the RfC, and will add a summary conclusion here. Justinm1978 (talk) 15:30, 27 April 2008 (UTC) It has been requested that i not intersperse and only give my response here, so I will do that here.[reply]

Note: This section is not complete. I will have completed my response when this notice is removed.

Outside views[edit]

Outside View by Badagnani

Entire proposal lacks merit; in examining the contributions (removals of unsourced material; correcting errors of fact in articles, etc. etc.) it appears that the editor has edited in good faith. This proposal appears tendentious and lacking in merit.

Users who endorse this summary:

  1. Badagnani (talk) 14:42, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Most of these issues lack any sort of merit whatsoever, and after closer examination, are not violations of policy. I have attempted to contact miranda on this issue here, pointing out many of these inconsistencies, to which she responded, "No he has continued his behavior with other users, so this is not just between 'me and him'." To me, it looks like many of these editorial disputes can be solved simply by finding better citations, since most of the pages being edited here are not very well cited with reliable sources. If anything, moderation by a neutral party would be good; but outright banning is not an appropriate solution here (if banning is the answer, then miranda should be banned just as much as justinm1978). Dr. Cash (talk) 22:56, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Refusal of Miranda for moderation is found at [16]. I support moderation before action (if any) is taken. Naraht (talk) 14:32, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  4. I can't see any serious problems here. Extremely nit picky dirt digging. Given time an RfC like this could be compiled on almost any long time user. --Daniel J. Leivick (talk) 06:55, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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