Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Axon

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For the record, I think this whole thing is ridiculous. It's ridiculous that Axon is using an unrelated Wikipedia article to air some grievance that stopped being relevant years ago. I think it's ridiculous that either of us is spending this much time and effort trying to save or destroy an article that all of a dozen people on the face of the planet will ever read. I think it's ridiculous that there is no editorial oversight on Wikipedia, and that a request for mediation gets no response from either the other party or from anyone at Wikipedia itself. Most of all, I think it's ridiculous that two reasonably intelligent adults can't discuss their differences and create a factual, relevant Wikipedia article. I do not know what the outcome will be, but I am going to see it through to its conclusion. If something this trivial can't be resolved in a reasonable fashion, then Wikipedia as a whole has some serious problems. -- Bblackmoor 15:42, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Also, for the record, if the community or the Arbitration committee decides that RPG Library's failed experiment from the late 1990s really does belong on the Open gaming page, and that the authors of the October Open Gaming License really should be maligned one-sidedly for time immemorial in any venue even tangentially related to that license, I'll go along with that. I try to be objective, but I am only human. If I am actually working against the best interests of Wikipedia, I want to know. -- Bblackmoor 16:10, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

In the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that it is true that, at one time, on my user page I had linked the word "stupid" to Axon's user page [1]. I did that out of frustration during a Request For Deletion discussion last year (it was, if anything, even more frustrating that this current tempest in a teapot). I removed the link the next time I looked at my user page: until today, I assumed that no one else had even seen it. As for the rest of his accusations, I do not know. I am not immune to the occasional emotional outburst, but as far as I know, I have gone beyond the pale in trying to resolve this matter in a civilized manner. In the request for comments, the survey, and the request for mediation, I have tried very hard to phrase his point of view as neutrally as I possibly could. I am sure that I could have done better. But I did try. -- Bblackmoor 23:53, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)