Wikipedia:Requests for comment/QuackGuru2

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Statement of the dispute

QG displays tendentious editing at acupuncture-related articles, especially at Acupuncture and German acupuncture trials (GERAC).

Desired outcome

• Make QG realize that his current behavior is making the GERAC article worse, and have him voluntarily limit his contributions to this article to making suggestions on the talk page, for one month
• Make QG realize that his attitude of the end (i.e., fighting against alleged quackery) justifying the means (WP:IDHT, deletion of reliably sourced material, disruptive tagging) is not constructive, and voluntarily improve his editing style.

Description

GQ is a notoriously difficult editor who now seems to be on an anti-acupuncture crusade, to the point that he is willing to skew the facts.
In talk page discussions, he very often refuses to get to the point and to explain his criticism (usually: allegations of WP:OR, POV language, WP:WEIGHT violations, "discredited" sources, etc.); on the other hand, he seems to be unable or unwilling to understand other editors' explanations. This results in other editors recurrently complaining of his WP:IDHT.
He routinely disputes apparently good sources (on grounds that successively change if needed) if they seem too pro-acupuncture or too useful for the GERAC article.

The situation at the GERAC article is complicated by the fact that this article attracts a lot of controversy; it is (ironically and wrongfully) seen as a pro-acupuncture article and/or WP:COATHOOK by several editors of the "skeptic" faction, and survived AfD just two months ago.
As a direct result, QG's tendentious editing routinely is defended by skeptic editors like User:Roxy the dog and jps ([1], [2], [3]).
Two AN/Is have been filed against QG's edits at the GERAC article (I. Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive820#QuackGuru, filed by User:A1candidate; II. Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive822#Disruptive editing by User:QuackGuru, filed by myself) but both were largely ignored by admins.

As there was ongoing dispute about how much information about the trials should be included in the article, with QG and me regularly reverting each others' edits, QG filed a report at Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard/Archive 39#Edits against WP:LOCALCON at German acupuncture trials, which resulted in admin User:Guy Macon recommending an RfC and securing a page protection for one week.
I have refrained from reverting QG's edits since then, which resulted in him deleting the disputed material as soon the page protection ran out ([4]). He's also been deleting any edits I've done since then ([5], [6], [7], [8]).

Evidence of disputed behavior

Persistent history of AN/Is, RfCs etc.

[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]

Skewing the facts because of anti-acupuncture bias

Talk:Acupuncture#Edits on "Legal and political status" vol. I (The diff of QG's controversial edit is here)

WP:IDHT

1. [29]
2. [30]
3. [31]
4. [32]

Disruptive tagging

1. [33]
2. [34]
3. [35]
4. [36]

Disputing reliability of apparently good sources

1. [37]
2. [38]

Applicable policies and guidelines

WP:Disruptive editing

Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute

Attempts by certifier User:Mallexikon

1. [39]
2. [40]
3. [41]

Attempts by certifier User:Middle 8

1. [42]
2. [43]
3. [44]
4. [45]

Other attempts

1. [46]

Users certifying the basis for this dispute

{Users who tried and failed to resolve the dispute}

1. --Mallexikon (talk) 04:28, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
2. --Middle 8 (talk) 06:04, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

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