User:Researcher99/PolygamyDisputeBackground

Polygamy Dispute Background

Except for the current situation of dispute here, the polygamy article is a small minority article that rarely gets much editing attention. Usually, under normal circumstances, whenever it does get any editing attention, it is usually by some passing anti-polygamist. They typically make posts like this one here, this other one here, and this one too. These are of the milder types of anti-polygamy POV edits the article typically gets, and show why I had tried to create an additional (but now wrongly deleted) article for such arguments, anti-polygamy. As this external source reported, a May 2005 Gallup poll reported that there's a 92% unfavorable bias against polygamy in Western society.

This is NOT about me promoting a Christian Polygamy POV

I came to Wikipedia as an intellectual researcher who has spent years studying the topic of polygamy. Since the '90s, I have been deeply studying the news, websites, and arguments of various issues related to polygamy. To Wikipedia, I bring those years of studying Mormon polygamy, Muslim polygamy, and a new and very different form of polygamy that I discovered early on, a new movement called "Christian Polygamy." As this external source explains, that very new movement started in 1994. Over these years, I have watched as that movement has risen to prominence in the overall pro-polygamy defense. Before that new movement, anti-polygamists could easily discredit polygamy defenders as either being Muslim or Mormon. Most people could be easily persuaded to dismiss it too for those simple reasons. That's because, without counting the tiny minority populations of Mormons and American Muslims, most of America is either Christian or someone who spends their time with Christians, just like I and most of us do. However, the rise of Christian Polygamy changed all that. It brought a different background concept with it that even non-religious intellectuals could accept. It was realized that there are different reasons behind the differing forms of polygamy. Not only did anti-polygamists soon find their Bible arguments more difficult to defend, it was also not possible to dismiss those particular polygamy defenders as "only Muslim or Mormon." Even Western Muslim polygamists (e.g., here) and Mormon polygamists (e.g., here) recognized that Christian polygamists could defend and argue polygamy with better persuasive success. This also caused non-religious intellectuals to re-think their previous opposition to polygamy. Some have begun to acknowledge that polygamy just might not be as bad as they used to think after all. For these reasons, the new Christian polygamy movement has become the greatest threat to anti-polygamy activism.

That is why the anti-polygamists in this dispute at Wikipedia have tried to distract this dispute by calling me a "Christian polygamist." Even though I come only as an intellectual researcher, the anti-polygamists want to distract others so that they can try to undermine both my NPOV edits and the addition of this new movement that so threatens their POV agenda. So, their focusing on me as a supposed "Christian polygamist" POV editor is a straw man distraction, in order to attack the polygamy article with their anti-polygamy POV. Their last desperate anti-polygamy attempt to call the links to the media-credible proven sites as "link spam" (which they had never once claimed prior to this RfArb) is something they made up for the purpose of misleading Arbitrators away from the real issues and re-directed into mistakenty thinking that this dispute was ever about the newly-created deceptive ("link spam") issue when it did not. So, this dispute is not about me being a "Christian polygamist" (or about "link spam"). It is about their systematic agenda to obfuscate, distract, and attack me and the "Christian polygamy" portion of the article (as well as the rest of it). The anti-polygamists attack and misrepresent because the true facts threaten their own hostile POV agenda to misrepresent polygamy in the encyclopedia.

This is About their attacking, abusing, and pushing a hostile Anti-polygamy POV

In Nereocystis's post to RfArb here, they claim they are not an anti-polygamist, saying, " I am not an anti-polygamist; I support the legalization of polygamy." However, they, along with other anti-polygamists in this dispute, have clearly proven to be very aggressively anti-polygamy.

Three of the surest signs of an activist anti-polygamist are the following.

• Focus on pushing the "underage marriage" issue.
• Focus on the Tom Green case
• Promoting anti-polygamy sites that are very limited in their scope

Pushing "underage marriage" is an immediate tell-tale sign of a hostile anti-polygamy POV. Pro-polygamists have repeatedly opposed the child rape issue. Tom Green is only one of a small number of polygamy related criminals who got caught doing crimes not about polygamy. For example, Tom Green had committed welfare fraud and child rape. As this external source shows, polygamists have nothing and want nothing to do with Tom Green. They even call him the "polygamy Tim MacVeigh," that's how despised he is by pro-polygamists. Tom Green is not a legitimate representative of polygamy. The fact which anti-polygamists hate to accept, though, is that there is not one recent example of any non-criminal polygamist being convicted solely for polygamy or even multiple co-habitation. Anti-polygamists insist on promoting Tom Green, though, despite his irrelevance as a complete criminal. They also push hard for anti-polygamy sites that really do not contribute honest information about polygamy. In a May 27, 2005 post I made to Talk:polygamy page, I provided a detailed explanation of these issues and how they pinpoint a hostile anti-polygamist.

It is explicitly evident that those "disputing" me here are hostile anti-polygamists, grinding their POV axe against me.

• The "underage marriage" issue was pushed hard by Nereocystis's first polygamy edit on November 23, 2004 and by Kewp's first polygamy edit on August 22, 2005. They have made other posts pushing "underage marriage" propaganda.

• In addition to Nereocystis's numerous posts in their obsession with Tom Green (starting with Nereocystis's very first edit to the polygamy article), Kewp created the new Tom Green article on October 4, 2005. Nereocystis posted to it too.

• Anti-polygamy links were sneaked in by GhostintheShell on April 29, by Nereocystis on May 19, and by Kewp on August 21, 2005.

No matter how many times that Nereocystis claims to "support the legalization of polygamy," the evidence clearly proves that to be an obvious lie. Their extremely aggressive abuse toward me repeatedly also makes it obvious that they are no pro-polygamist. As Arbitrators read the sequence of events in this RfArb and see every action taken by Nereocystis, asking this following question becomes self-answerable: "Is this what someone would do if they really 'supported the legalization of polygamy?'" The answer becomes obvious: no way.

Because I have been intelligent enough to see all this, I have become the target of their systematic exploitation of the Wikipedia process system to abuse me as their way to either make me want to leave Wikipedia or to get others to cause my removal. When Nereocystis returned "back" to the polygamy article on May 10, 2005, the situation at that time was my calling for the Wikipedia Guidelines of restoring to STATUS QUO so that we could then TALK. I have repeatedly said that ever since. There was never any mistake about that. Solving the dispute was that easy. Follow the Wikipedia Guidelines of starting from STATUS QUO to then TALK. Rather than being civil or working with me, though, the anti-polygamists have routinely "run right over me," edited the article with anti-polygamy agenda, ignored the Wikipedia Guidelines of STATUS QUO, rv'ed my every edit to try to get back to STATUS QUO, lied by saying I supposedly refused to TALK, come up with new "dispute" after another to keep my time being wasted, make me explain issues over and over, immediately sabotaged and encouraged the wrong idea of getting the anti-polygamy article that I had created to be wrongly deleted, refused or sabotaged my genuinely WIN-WIN and NPOV resolution offers, used, the announcement method to draw others to their agenda, lied to others about me and the situation, repeatedly claimed the lie that I was ever refusing to find a resolution.

This prolonged series of attacks over all these months is not a matter of their making simple mistakes that they might say, "Oh boy, I guess I made a mistake. Sorry. I won't do it again." This was a prolonged, deliberate non-stop set of attacks against me, solely to get me out of Wikipedia because I am such a qualified expert on the topic that threatens their POV agenda. It was not some unintended little mistake.

While there is currently a 92% unfavorable view of polygamy in the West, that makes me a very valuable resource of information to fill in the blanks for the benefit of this encyclopedia on polygamy related topics. However, that fact is not acceptable to the more activist hostile anti-polygamists, of course.

So we are now here at RfArb to address the abuse. As I have always said, I have always wanted to get to where we could TALK about content. Knowing that this has been a systematic abuse that brought us to this point here, it is clear that without addressing the abuse, more abuse would prevent TALK from ever happening.

So here we are.

To see the concise, entire timeline of 165+ DIFFs, please see the current Chronology Page.
Researcher 01:52, 5 November 2005 (UTC)