Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Andrew Zito

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Statement of the dispute

This User seems to be intent on adding vanity information about himself, and becomes abusive when the material is deleted.

• Description:

User:Andrew Zito's first contribution to Wikipedia was to create a vanity page about himself, which was moved to his User page.

He then began to insert himself repeatedly into the Deism page, and refused to take no for an answer.

Finally, he posted the following on Wikipedia:Village pump:

Abusive userSSSS

DEAR WIKIED-AHOLES DELETE IT ALL CAUSE YOU ARE AHOLES BASTARDS JUST TELL ME HOW ONE CAN OFF ALL THE WIKIS LEGALLY FOR YOU ARE NOT AN ENCYCLOPEDIA AND ARE AN INSULT TO NORMAL INTELECT AS YOUR SHIT DOESN'T STINK EXCEPT YOU ARE FULL OF IT BYE NOW SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS AS YOU HAVE DEVELOPED ANOTHER LOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH WHICH YOU CAN REMEMBER WHEN YOU DROP DEAD. By the way for abuse look in the mirror ASSHOLE

He then blanked the Deism page.

Copy of Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress#User:Andrew_Zito

Known for vandalizing the Deism page, now blanked entire page (added comment on Talk:Deism, without with profanity), added strong profanity to Wikipedia:Village pump and User talk:Bkonrad

Quote from Village Pump:
DEAR WIKIED-AHOLES DELETE IT ALL CAUSE YOU ARE AHOLES BASTARDS JUST TELL ME HOW ONE CAN OFF ALL THE WIKIS LEGALLY FOR YOU ARE NOT AN ENCYCLOPEDIA AND ARE AN INSULT TO NORMAL INTELECT AS YOUR SHIT DOESN'T STINK EXCEPT YOU ARE FULL OF IT BYE NOW SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS AS YOU HAVE DEVELOPED ANOTHER LOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH WHICH YOU CAN REMEMBER WHEN YOU DROP DEAD. By the way for abuse look in the mirror ASSHOLE
End Quote

I reverted Deism twice (so far), and cleaned up the village pump. I did not revert the talk pages Talk:Deism and User talk:Bkonrad.

Chris 73 | (New) Talk 04:19, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Has been blocked for 2 hours. See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Andrew Zito. RickK 04:27, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Evidence of disputed behavior (provide diffs and links)

[1] - Note that the initial vanity page has been deleted. This is the version of the page that was MOVEd to User:Andrew Zito then deleted form the article space.

[2] - Andrew Zito's first post to Deism, which was reverted.

[3] - Zito's first post to Talk:Deism

[4] - second post to Talk:Deism, in which he deleted other Users' postings and conitnued his abuse

Other postings to Talk:deism: [5], [6], [7], [8]

[9] - History of the editing to the Deism article, noting the number of times Andrew Zito was reverted.

[10] - evidence of Andrew Zito's blanking of the Deism article.

[11] - Andrew Zito's abusive posting to Wikipedia:Village pump

[12] [13] [14] Zito's abuse on User talk:Bkonrad

[15] - Zito's abusive posting on User talk:Theon

[16] - abusive post on User talk:Moink

[17] - creation of article Bern Nix with vanity information included, now listed on VfD

[18] - Self reference to (now deleted) Andrew Zito on Joey Gallo

I just went through his edit history, and removed links on Allen Ginsberg, and John Lennon to his no-longer existing page on Yahoo. Removed a self reference on Joey Gallo. Put Image:Photo6.jpg and Image:Simple color drawing Andrew Zito 001.jpg on Images for deletion due to vanity. Put a stub message on a really short article Jimmy Breslin. -- Chris 73 | (New) Talk 04:53, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Further abusive postings: [19] [20]

On May 5th Andrew Zito announced his departure from Wikipedia:
Bye The experiment failed I will have no part of this stupid bourgeiosie project as the mechanism is completely faulty and I will not be blamed for nor escalate participation as if I were to act as an individualist I have better one than Wikistupidity Wikifailure Wikirudness and Wikiinsults I further reccomend that it be terminated as disturbingly useless pompous and contentious/argumentative and boycotted.

[21] Added Departure announcement and profanity to User talk:Chris 73

[22] Added Departure announcement and profanity to User talk:RickK

[23] Added Departure announcement to User:Theon

[24] Added Departure announcement to Wikipedia:Community Portal, including an odd reference to Luther.

[25] and [26] Added profanity to Talk:Vote.

He's back. Vanity on Talk:Deism, especially here [27], but also milder rants here [28] [29] [30]

User:Richard Sorge recreated the page Andrew Zito, and also added a comment to Talk:Deism here [31] which was later signed by Andrew Zito here [32]. Possible sockpuppet.

• Applicable policies:

1. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a vanity press
2. Violations of Wikiquette

• Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute (provide diffs and links):

1. User talk:Andrew_Zito
2. Talk:Deism

• Users certifying the basis for this dispute (sign with ~~~~):

1. RickK 19:53, 1 May 2004 (UTC)
2. Chris 73 | (New) Talk 23:54, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

• Other users who endorse this summary (sign with ~~~~):

1. older≠wiser 00:34, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
2. Stormie 00:51, Jul 7, 2004 (UTC)

Response

This is a summary written by the user whose conduct is disputed, or by other users who think that the dispute is unjustified and that the above summary is biased or incomplete.

THe criticism made against AZ are as completely uncontextual and pretentious as they are without merit and basis (though perhaps Wikipedia may attempt to rewrite dictionaries and history it CAN NOT rewrite truth and reality). I object to to these slanderous people for what they say is without true meaning foundation or sense as they merely attack people without proper explanation.

In that Wikipedia changes it self on a moments basis without any seeming record of what it has done it is a lie a distortion and a waste of time for any serious scholar or person as what it does can not be called anything more than delusion. Oh before I forget the attacks were made in an unresponsive disfunctional manner. Vandalism is a misleading term when matters are being created and its use is DOUBLESPEAK. Unless Wikipedia changes I have no rela interest in it as my time is too valuable to haggle over the WIKIbickers/ing which dominates it. The weakness of Wikipedia is it has no past no present and alas no future as what has been writen in effect afetr erasure no longer exists. So RickiR erase it all erase it until the cows come home. And by the way I did not make any entry on JOey Gallo I made it on Joseph N. Gallo who was bigger and more influential but as Wikipedians are not interested in truth that should not bother them as WIKIPEDIA IS NO ENCYCLOPEDIA AND NEVER WILL BE. OH I also withdraw my consent for Wikipedia to use my material until such time as it can adequately address the issues and act civil (as it is all copyrighted [including this note] another reasona as to why I have no interest in it)

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Users who endorse this summary (sign with ~~~~):

1. Celestialnight 06:34, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

As a near first-time user of Wikipedia, I just came in to look for a definition for deism but because of my interest in ICT began to surf further around the site. This is shocking. I cannot take Wikipedia seriously so long as this kind of thing is able to happen. Just look at his entry for himself!? It's unfortunate that he comes in for such abuse, but understandable. O.M. (User:Sony-youth)