Editing Abd Lomax

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'''Abd ul-Rahman Lomax''' (''born:'' '''Dennis George Lomax''', 1944),<ref>[[Archive.org:20210223171854/http://ColdFusionCommunity.net/w/index.php/User_talk:Abd|User talk:Abd]]; ''ColdFusionCommunity.net'' (via [[Archive.org]]); [[CFC wiki]]; archived 23 February 2021.</ref> who edits under the [[username]] '''Abd''', is a [[Wikimedia Meta-Wiki|Meta-Wikipedian]], [[English Wikiversity|Wikiversity]] user, and cold fusion expert, with interests in Landmark Education programs.  It has been stated that "On vortex, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax is responsible [for] the best summary about the history of LENR, analysis of scientific community behavior.[http://www.lenr-forum.com/showthread.php?764-LENR-history-by-Abd-Ul-Rahman-lomax]  A thorough lampooning of his style appeared on [[RationalWikiWiki]].[http://en.rationalwikiwikiwiki.org/wiki/Abd]

More specifically, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax is a long-term student of [[:Category:Consensus|consensus]] process, and anticipated much of the [[Wikisphere|wiki movement]].  However, the 800&nbsp;lb gorilla, the [[English Wikipedia]], was naive about consensus process and the community did not realize that it is far from 'quick'.  That is, the basic operation of the [[wiki]] could indeed be quick, ad hoc, and it was not surprising that this worked as well as it did.  However, for the project to be [[:Category:NPOV|NPOV]] (express a neutral point of view), genuine consensus process was needed.  Outside of narrow circumstances where high consensus is relatively natural, this requires deep discussion and often skilled facilitation.

So Wikipedia failed to be neutral.  It has ideals of neutrality, and often meets them, but never became reliable, because of a lack of structure that would make this happen.

As a [[Wikipedian]], first editing in [[:Category:FoundedIn2005|2005]], I eventually came across an abusive [[blacklist]]ing of a website that is a library of permitted copies of published on cold fusion, [http://LENR-CANR.org LENR-CANR.org].  I confronted this entirely on process grounds, my opinion about cold fusion at that time was the standard one: fascinating discovery, announced in 1989, that was unfortunately unconfirmed.  I was wrong, very wrong, on that.  However, the [[Wikipedia Arbitration Committee]] confirmed my complaint, and then I discovered how totally useless this was.  They reprimanded the [[Sysop|administrator]], who then proceeded to retaliate in every way possible, and his friends did, as well.

Wikipedia is vulnerable to '''factional editing''' and administration.  It is not a violation of policy.  It can be difficult to detect, it takes research and objective analysis to do this.  And that takes a lot of time, and nobody has the time.  If someone does the research — I did — the community will assume that someone who is crazy enough to put in that much time and effort *must be* a [[:Category:Point of view|POV]]-pusher.

And so it goes.  My home wiki was [[English Wikiversity]], active for a long time, and where I had been [[sysop]] a number of times.  Because [[:Category:Wikiversity|Wikiversity]] allows, and allows sub-pages in mainspace, and implements neutrality inclusively instead of exclusively, there is little content conflict on Wikiversity, and [[:Category:Education|educational]] resources may be developed there with high depth, while maintaining overall neutrality (if the maintainers of the resource care to make it so, and we know how to do it).  However, I am currently indefinitely [[blocked]] on Wikiversity.  I am recovering all content that was abruptly deleted out-of-process, but I had previously stopped creating educational resources on Wikiversity, having concluded it was not a safe place to work.  That proved to be accurate.  I'm in the process of documenting what happened.  I have a new wiki, being used to hold deleted Wikiversity content (hundreds of pages), [[CFC wiki]] [[Archive.org:20210223171939/http://ColdFusionCommunity.net/w/index.php/Main_Page|here]], in addition to a blog, [http://ColdFusionCommunity.net], where what I'm finding in my research is published.  It's quite a mess.

The description above on Wikiversity is no longer true.  A bureaucrat has unilaterally declared that "fringe science" cannot be studied without prior approval of a review board that never existed.

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