Ylevental has launched a large number of AfD discussions apparently aimed at removing the idea of "neurodiversity": the opinion that some/all autism is not an illness to be prevented/treated/cured, but a different way of thinking. This thread, of course, is not to discuss that idea. The editor has nominated for deletion:
- Autistic Pride Day - "a celebration of the neurodiversity".
- John Elder Robison - an author with autism who "is active in the autism rights movement".
- Wrong Planet - "an online community for individuals with autism and Asperger syndrome." The editor decided the first sentence should state "The site has been noted for the murderers that were connected to it."[45]
- Aspies For Freedom "a solidarity and campaigning group that aimed at raising public awareness of the autism rights movement."
- Amy Sequenzia "activist and writer about disability rights, civil rights and human rights"; "a board member of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network".
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network "advocacy organization run by and for individuals on the autism spectrum".
- Autism Network International "an advocacy organization run by and for autistic people."
- Jim Sinclair (activist) "an autism-rights movement activist".
- Retrospective diagnoses of autism the included list of individuals purported to have had autism was removed by the editor because "this could be used to push an agenda".
The basic goal here is apparently to remove any indication that individuals contributing to society is a positive way may have autism. There are two exceptions to this: Hitler, who the editor repeatedly added as having autism (bumped in from of an otherwise chronological list
[46]) and
Jonathan Mitchell, "an American autistic author and blogger who advocates for a cure for autism." The editor has a confirmed COI with this article
[47] and feels strongly this is a FA or GA candidate.
There are accusations of sockpuppetry and other COIs bouncing around on various talk pages, but I have no meaningful information on those issues. While I do not immediately see an easy solution to this situation, it seems that it will likely end badly if the situation is not discussed and addressed in some way at this point. - SummerPhD
v2.0 05:04, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
First, someone please speedy-keep those bad faith nominations. I'm curious to see
Ylevental's comments on this. I wonder if this is more an issue of NPOV and POINT than of COI.
EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{
re}} 05:16, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
My original title here was not simply COI (not use how I lost it). I have amended the title as I believe this is not an either/or question. - SummerPhD
v2.0 05:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
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SummerPhDv2.0: Are you familiar with this user and their edits at all? Or just reporting their behavior? (Curious to hear from others who might be able to weigh in on the user's good-to-bad contrib ratio or something like that. From just these AfDs, it seems they're being very disruptive in this one topic). My experience with them was over at
black pride and
white pride (and their bad faith AfD nom for the former) and it was not a positive experience.
EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{
re}} 06:13, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
I cleaned up
Jonathan Mitchell, an article that Ylevental created, after seeing it go to BLPN. That article has been a nightmare. Granted, that's partly because it's under constant attack by an IP sock who has been harassing Ylevental, but, if you ask me, Ylevental is no better:
[48],
[49],
[50], etc. I was tempted to file a SPI on the IP sock who's been harassing Ylevental and close the AfDs as speedy keep, but I didn't want to deal with the drama.
NinjaRobotPirate (
talk) 08:32, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
We had a little discussion about undeleting an article named
Einstein Syndrome; it can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion/Archive_223#Einstein_Syndrome Lectonar (
talk) 08:45, 3 March 2016 (UTC)