Thread:BastionMonk/@comment-2253059-20150613213746

I have previously informed Wikia Bureaucrat John Hammond about this issue and I regret also having to dump this problem on your lap, but since I have not heard back from John within a week and this problem needs to be dealt with as soon as possible, I figured it was best to contact you. The problem is with the editor BadlyBruisedMuse. I apologize for the length of this post, but I want to make it clear how he is causing problems on this Wikia.

A Wikia is meant to be a collaboration between the various editors who visit it and BadlyBruisedMuse is opposed to this idea. He wants things done his way and his way only. He wants articles written only the way he would write them. We have a disagreement over whether "dropped" or "fell" should be used in the articles mentioning how Zara wound up in the Mosasaurus' lagoon. I granted him the courtesy of letting his preferred words exist in these articles when we first debated the subject. When the matter was brought up again, I asked him to show me the same courtesy and he refused. He would not allow the articles to be written in a manner he was opposed to.

Debating BadlyBruisedMuse is futile because he is convinced he is correct and nothing can change that. He cannot accept the possibility that he might be wrong. He is dismissive and disrespectful to opposing viewpoints and will not only ignore arguments against his position, but also openly admit to it. In our first debate, his reply to a lengthy post I made was this:

“Sorry didn't bother to read past the first sentence. It's incorrect. Try again without being intellectually dishonest.” (http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:29457#9)

That was it. No response, let alone refutation to anything I specifically said. No reason even provided for why my first sentence was incorrect. Just him telling me I was wrong because he said so and my arguments weren’t worth his time. In our latest debate, he again refused to acknowledge my points:

"You are under the impression that I believe there is viable point that you are presenting. I don't." (http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:30799#5)

"Didn't read any of that. I'm assuming it's a long and whiny passage about how you are upset that I won't give your argument a fair shake. Suffice it to say - they are times when someone is simply wrong and they refuse to accept that. That person is you. I don't need to continuously dispute arguments you keep repeating that I have already refuted." (http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:30799#7)

This attitude is bad enough, but BadlyBruisedMuse hasn't even performed the actions necessary to accurately claim what he claims. He has still yet to refute the aforementioned 3,166 word response I wrote to him. He doesn't even bother backing up his own statements. A constructive and beneficial debate cannot occur when one of the participants refuses to acknowledge key arguments against him and won’t elaborate his own points, believing what he says is true just because he says it is true. These actions prevent progress from being made in a debate. And since he performs these actions, BadlyBruisedMuse stands in the way of progress; it’s his way or the highway.

To top it off, BadlyBruisedMuse has demonstrated he will continue conflicts to ensure things go his way and he will not learn from his past wrongdoing. Although he did apologize when John spoke to him about a wall post he made that insulted me, he felt the need to blame me for his own actions and insist what I did was worse than him (http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:30488#1). Then after John told him he needed to stop targeting users if they disagreed with him, he came to my message wall and wrote a post attacking me; calling a request I was making "ridiculous" and blaming me for a massive fight we were both involved in. Plus, despite calling our debate "pointless," he is still engaging in it.

I have done things on this Wikia I should have not done and I am not proud of the wrongs I've committed, but I am trying to learn from my mistakes. I now know that trying to argue with BadlyBruisedMuse will not solve anything and just cause more problems. If BadlyBruisedMuse replies to this post in an attempt to attack me, justify his actions, and prove I'm the real problem to this Wikia, I will not acknowledge his words (unless you request me to) to demonstrate I am not repeating my past wrongs. I am not trying to start another fight with him. BadlyBruisedMuse needs to realize his conduct is unacceptable and harmful towards this Wikia. 