Changes

* His manner seems almost deliberately calculated to annoy and infuriate editors with an academic background.  His insistence on absurd and trivialised standards of 'civility' to the exclusion of all editorial or content determined material, is having a marked and deleterious effect on the project.  

* His manner seems almost deliberately calculated to annoy and infuriate editors with an academic background.  His insistence on absurd and trivialised standards of 'civility' to the exclusion of all editorial or content determined material, is having a marked and deleterious effect on the project.  

Combined with the important position he holds on Wikipedia, and the reverential awe in which he is held by less knowledgeable and somewhat impressionable administrators, FT2 exercises a malignant and pernicious influence on the encyclopedia.  He has driven off a stream of excellent and well-qualified editors.  He has gathered around him a group of administrators who hold him in high esteem for his supposed impartiality and neutrality, and who will block upon a single word from him.

With the important position he holds on Wikipedia, and the reverential awe in which he is held by less knowledgeable and somewhat impressionable administrators, FT2 exercises a malignant and pernicious influence on the encyclopedia.  He has driven off a stream of excellent and well-qualified editors.  He has gathered around him a group of administrators who hold him in high esteem for his supposed impartiality and neutrality, and who will block upon a single word from him.

I know these criticisms are harsh.  But they are not ''personal''.  I have no thoughts or interest about the person who is FT2 in real life.  My criticism is directed against FT2 the editor and administrator and official of Wikipedia.

I know these criticisms are harsh.  But they are not ''personal''.  I have no thoughts or interest about the person who is FT2 in real life.  My criticism is directed against FT2 the editor and administrator and official of Wikipedia.