I am under attack in Wikipedia. Another editor who calles himself Midgley and is in all likelihood the same person as one Adrian Midgley, is accusing me of bad manners and extreme bias. He's more or less surreptitiously leaving messages with other editors I've had disagreements with and making various kinds of accusations other places - implying that I'm drunk, trying to ridicule other information he finds about me on the web, and trying to convince people that since I have a son he's inferred is "autistic," I am blind to his superior knowledge and intellect, and admin action is needed. Presumably he wants me to be banned or reprimanded or something. He isn't clear what sanctions he thinks are appropriate.
He has also started looking at other articles I've been involved, claiming that it is a matter of opinion whether Mordechai Vanunu was prosecuted and convicted of treason. I suppose he believes that the judges, the attorneys and Vanunu himself may possibly have been hallucinating when the verdict was handed down; maybe that if you think about it, the whole universe is a subjective experience. Wow, man.
Midgley's point here is that he is tired of being pissed off by my arguing with him. He thinks that he is the kind of editor Wikipedia should try to keep, presumably because he's a medical doctor. And I guess he believes I am the kind of editor Wikipedia should try to shed.
My observation is that at Wikipedia, editors who leave in a huff pretty much have to hurry to not get the door hit them in the back - I don't know of a single example of an editor who has been pleaded with to stay. And it's been my experience that sooner or later, the stuff that I think is ridiculous eventually gets corrected through some other mechanism. In other words, my involvement may lead to resolution of issues faster, but only faster.
Midgley, however, who tells us he is more interested in the things that motivate the boogymen "anti-vaccinationists" than what they actually say they believe, as if some remote psychoanalysis is in order. In other words, reasonable people can't possibly disagree on certain topics Midgley feels strongly about.
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