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Mediation Case: FeloniousMonk

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Request Information

Request made by: --05:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC)Pravknight

Where is the issue taking place?

Paul Weyrich and the WP:CON,WP:V, WP:NPOV talk pages.

Who's involved?

User:FeloniousMonk

User:KillerChihauhua User:Jim68sch User:Jossi

What's going on?

I began by objecting to what I saw as POV edits on the Paul Weyrich page accusing him of having connections to Dominionism, an ideology that believes in replacing the U.S. Constitution with Old Testament law.

I know this is false because Mr. Weyrich was my parish deacon at my Melkite parish for over four years, and I told FeloniousMonk that I knew Mr. Weyrich and that his source was inaccurate. I checked the underlying source, and it didn't say how he was affiliated, but it only relied upon an ad hominem and a strawman argument.

Before I knew it 4 or 5 editors and admins who routinely work alongside

FeloniousMonk (I know this because I Googled their names and the same names kept coming up alongside his as members of a known "Atheist cabal") began accusing me of violating WP:AUTO because I know the individual in question. He also accused me of violating every other rule in the book such as WP:NPOV,WP:V because I removed his language that I found partisan in tone. I put warning labels on the sections I felt needed reader discretion, and he accused me of using them improperly when no guidelines were provided to give new editors guidelines of when to post them and when not to.

There were times I lost my cool, but I felt frustated by his interpretations of the rules. I read all of the rules he accused me of violating, and I couldn't find any justification for his interpretations from what I could read.

They all refused to meet me half-way and instead accused me of biased editing or "whitewashing" whenever I edited the article to provide what I felt was proper NPOV language. I also flagged FeloniousMonk for claiming that Mr. Weyrich intended to exempt Wiccans from the First Amendment's "Free Exercise Clause" when ample caselaw shows that the military can regulate religious expression. I changed it to attribute the

sentiment to a group that shared his POV, but her reverted it and added it to a RfC that he setup,

What would you like to change about that?

I'm a reporter/copy editor by training for a newspaper, so that's the mindset I bring to Misplaced Pages. I just want the partisan tone of FeloniousMonk's additions to the Paul Weyrich article removed and the tone of his other Misplaced Pages contributions examined. I feel he demonstrates a strong, uncompromising partisanship that I think makes Misplaced Pages look biased against religious people. As someone who takes his faith very seriously, I find some of his work hateful and offensive.

I just want more neutral language, that's all, such that he talks about the issue but doesn't become immediately involved.

Would you prefer we work discreetly? If so, how can we reach you?

I feel unfairly, to try to railroad me.

I can be contacted at User:Pravknight

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