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Anyone, whether directly involved or not, may add evidence to this page. Please make a header for your evidence and sign your comments with your name.

When placing evidence here, please be considerate of the arbitrators and be concise. Long, rambling, or stream-of-conciousness rants are not helpful.

As such, it is extremely important that you use the prescribed format. Submitted evidence should include a link to the actual page diff; links to the page itself are not sufficient. For example, to cite the edit by Mennonot to the article Anomalous phenomenon adding a link to Hundredth Monkey use this form: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anomalous_phenomenon&diff=5587219&oldid=5584644] [1].

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Please make a section for your evidence and add evidence only in your own section. Please limit your evidence to a maximum 1000 words and 100 diffs, a much shorter, concise presentation is more likely to be effective. Please focus on the issues raised in the complaint and answer and on diffs which illustrate behavior which relates to the issues.

If you disagree with some evidence you see here, please cite the evidence in your own section and provide counter-evidence, or an explanation of why the evidence is misleading. Do not edit within the evidence section of any other user.

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Evidence presented by {your user name}[edit]

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Evidence presented by Zscout370[edit]

17 April[edit]

  • 21:03, 17 Apr 2005
    • At List of national flags, he added the flag of Palestine by stating in his edit summary "including israeli but not palestinian flag is pov." [2]
  • 21:15, 17 Apr 2005
    • Same page, reinserts the Palestine flag, despite being reverted, and changes the definition of the page from flags of "independent states" to flags of "national groups". [3] The revert, by User:Jayjg, stated "Please don't change the definition of the page so that you can include flags that don't fit the original definition. I don't see Kurdish or Tibetan or Quebequois or .... flags."

18 April[edit]

  • 21:29, 18 Apr 2005
  • At the same page, LevelCheck adds Israel to a "Disputed Nations" category he has created, describing his edit as a "compromise edit". [4]. Does this again on 22 April (see below).

22 April[edit]

  • 14:49, 22 Apr 2005
    • Same page, created a new category called "Disputed Nations." Decides to list in this category Palestine, the Republic of China and Israel. [5]

Note: After the April 22 edit, he has not made any more edits to the List of national flags page, or contributed to any discussion.

Evidence presented by Meelar[edit]

Behavior added in chronological order. Separate incidents of disruption are separated by horizontal bars if they occur on the same day.

April 15[edit]

  • User:63.173.114.137 nominates User:SamuraiClinton for adminship; at the time, SamuraiClinton had a request for comment up about him.
  • I warn the anon user not to disrupt Wikipedia to prove a point, assuming they were editing in bad faith, as a nomination was certain to fail and could only provoke people [6].
  • The anon registers as User:LevelCheck to satisfy the requirement that requests for adminship be made by a logged-in user [7].
  • When asked why he thought SamuraiClinton would be a good admin, he replied that SamuraiClinton "avoided edit wars and other destructive behavior", neatly dodging the question. [8]
  • The matter is dropped.

April 16[edit]

  • LevelCheck nominates Template:User fa-2 for deletion, with the edit summary "Tfd gibberish" [9]. The template in question is to alert people that the user can communicate in Persian, and as such is written in that language; it is linked to by Wikipedia:Babel, the project page.
  • User:Knowledge Seeker explains politely that the template is not gibberish, assuming good faith. Again, the matter is dropped as a new user's mistake. [10]
  • LevelCheck requests that User:ClockworkSoul block an anonymous user for violation of the 3RR.[11]
  • ClockworkSoul responds by noting that the anon had a blank talk page, and that LevelCheck had not attempted to communicate with the anon or warn them of the 3RR. [12]

April 18[edit]

  • After LevelCheck creates Poking Dogs with sticks as a redirect to animal cruelty, I politely ask for justification [13].
  • LevelCheck replies, saying that "It seemed like a good idea at the time" [14]. I contend that no reasonable editor would create that redirect in good faith.

April 19[edit]

  • LevelCheck creates Worst United States President in history [15]; within an hour, an anonymous user has edited to include everyone who's ever held the office. LevelCheck engages in a revert war over the contents, eventually breaking the 3RR.
  • User:Postdlf puts the page on Vfd, 1 hour and 22 minutes after its creation [16] ([17] was the addition of the VFD notice—this link is obviously now obsolete).
  • The vote on Vfd runs 40-3, but in the process, it does lead to some friction between a number of users. I submit that this was the goal of the entire article--no reasonable editor would submit this page.

April 22-23[edit]

April 24[edit]

  • LevelCheck responds to the Rfc against him, apologizing for what he characterizes as "Socratic" editing and promising to refrain from it in the future.

April 25[edit]

April 26[edit]

  • LevelCheck creates Izziehugger, a page about an obscure neologism for those who support Israel. In the article, he notes that it was invented by a Usenet troll and that it receives 25 google hits. [34]. I believe this to be what he refers to as "Socratic editing", despite his promise to halt.
  • I file a request for arbitration against LevelCheck.
  • LevelCheck, in his statement to the committee, says "No comment".[35]

April 30[edit]

May 9[edit]

(below all submitted by User:Klonimus)

    • Imho these are both useful stubs, categories and lists. Yes these catagories are "disruptive" but only because of a small cadre of editors who will disrupt wikipedia in reaction to any article that they perceive to be unfavorable to Islam. The creation of these categories is not per se disruptive.
    • I wish to remind the ArbCom that

Ammended Klonimus 06:15, 15 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence presented by Rhobite[edit]

May 13[edit]

  • 21:14
    • LevelCheck creates Template:Uglybox [41], a multicolored box with several parameters. LevelCheck quickly starts using this template as his signature: [42], [43]. Netoholic lists the template for deletion as disruptive [44]; I agree.
  • 22:49
    • LevelCheck makes Template:Tfd much bigger [45], adding a large red "stop hand". This disrupts any page which uses a template for deletion; Template:Tfd is designed to be unobtrusive. I warned LevelCheck that this behavior was disruptive.
  • 22:59
    • LevelCheck recreates Template:Bush-stub, a template which was previously deleted via TfD. LevelCheck's content was "This Bush-related article is a shrub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.".

Evidence presented by Tony Sidaway[edit]

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Seems to be suffering from a particularly severe case of WP:POINT. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 04:20, 17 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

May 17[edit]

Evidence presented by Carnildo[edit]

17 May[edit]


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