In order to provide a coherent record of what happened to the anti-polygamy article I tried to create, I have put all the deleted content into this page. It is now archived here by itself. This page is broken into three sections. The first is the last edition of the anti-polygamy article before it was deleted. The second is the corresponding TALK page that was also deleted. The third is the the suspicious VfD that caused the deletion. Researcher 18:34, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

[[Talk:User_talk:Researcher99/Archive01|Anti-Polygamy Article, Talk, and VfD ARCHIVED]]

Anti-polygamy (article)

(The original article before deleted on 21:19, 22 July 2005)

Polygamy vs. Anti-Polygamy

Polygamy is the practice of marriage to more than one spouse simultaneously (as opposed to monogamy where each person has only one spouse at a time).

While polygamy is a neutral anthropological term, anti-polygamy is a non-neutral agenda and debate. Individuals who are convinced of their opposition to polygamy, employ and even use tactics of the anti-polygamy agenda.

While polygamy (or, more specifically, bigamy) is illegal in some places, it is not in others. Wherever legal or not, the clash between polygamy supporters and opponents is the anti-polygamy debate.

Tactics

In arguing the anti-polygamy position, anti-polygamists frequently associate other issues with polygamy. They will claim that polygamy involves any number of the following other issues:

arranged marriages,
underage marriages,
assertions of lust-crazed men,
assertions of tyrannical men, and
using language like "escaped from polygamy."

When surfing the internet, anti-polygamists will often seek out polygamy chats or forums. They will pretend to be "pro-polygamists" and attempt to bait polygamists into saying things that the anti-polygamists may later use to argue for their agenda. (Polygamists have responded by creating an internet pro-polygamy passport system by which pro-polygamists may verify their actual support.)

Anti-polygamy web-sites will attempt to "report" news about polygamy, always using the worst case stories, and never reporting any good news about polygamists.

When polygamy-related stories involving any form of other abuse arise, anti-polygamists always refuse the assistance of pro-polygamous groups and individuals who reach out to to work together to fight the abuses.

The Debate

In the anti-polygamy debate, sites such as the Utah-groups of Tapestry Against Polygamy and Help the Child Brides assert that polygamists do all other kinds of criminal activities. Polygamists defend themselves against such assertions with sites such as Tapestry of Anti-Polygamy, saying that polygamy is a separate term, distinct from such other side issues.

When a Utah author wrote an anti-polygamy book, called "God's Brothel," implying that polygamous women are treated as prostitutes, polygamists responded with the web-site, GodsBrothel.com, saying that 18 anecdotal bad examples do not represent all forms of polygamists.

External Links

Tapestry Against Polygamy - a small Utah group of a handful of ex-Fundamentalist Mormon Polygamous women
Help the Child Brides - Utah group targets those few situations where underage marriage is involved

Anti-polygamy (TALK page)

(The Anti-polygamy article's TALK page before it was deleted on 21:19, 22 July 2005.)

Starting this new wiki

Because the polygamy wiki has been affected by anti-polygamists, it was necessary to create this new wiki for anti-polygamy.

The two concepts are different and should remain separated. Clearly, polygamy is a neutral term, whereas anti-polygamy is an agenda and a debate.

Because of these separate distinctions, anyone seeking to post anti-polygamy concepts (or the debate thereof) should only do so in this anti-polygamy wiki. Likewise, issues related to polygamy should be posted there instead.

But the two distinctly separate matters must be separated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Researcher99 (talk • contribs) 18:15, June 30, 2005 (UTC)

This is seriously POV: I've reworded the intro, and added an NPOV header. -- The Anome July 1, 2005 17:13 (UTC)

The only "serious POV" going on here is, unfortunately, coming from the outed anti-polygamists seeking to distort this new wiki. The working-together of anti-polygamists of The Anome and Nereocystis and the timeline of their actions together have been noted in the polygamy TALK page in the lengthy post of 16:11, 8 July 2005. Changing the name of this wiki and removing the original introduction (Polygamy vs. Anti-polygamy) section of this new anti-polygamy wiki clearly obfuscate the demonstrated purpose of this wiki. The original version of this new wiki being brought back so that its clarity really can be understood. The fact is obvious to NPOV brains: polygamy is a neutral anthropoligical term, while anti-polygamy is an agenda and debate. Only anti-polygamists seeking to distort the neutral meaning of polygamy would try to suggest otherwise. For true NPOV and clarity, the title and inroduction section must remain. - Researcher 8 July 2005 18:14 (UTC)

I don't understand this article. Is there any value to the article at all. I'm tempted to think that it should be deleted. It is extremely POV and mostly incoherent. Nereocystis 1 July 2005 17:16 (UTC)

For all readers: only an anti-polygamist trying to distort the neutral meaning of polygamy with their hostile anti-polygamy POV would try to make such a suggestion. As shown in multiple posts of evidence on the polygamy wiki TALK page, Nereocystis has been outed as a clear hostile POV anti-polygamist. - Researcher 8 July 2005 18:14 (UTC)

The pro-polygamy passport is a $5/month fee for an email address. I want to see documentation for statements such as:

When polygamy-related stories involving any form of other abuse arise, anti-polygamists always refuse the assistance of pro-polygamous groups and individuals who reach out to to work together to fight the abuses. (Thread-cited by Nereocystis 1 July 2005 17:22 (UTC))

For all readers: this attempted obfuscation is easily answered.

* From Anti-Polygamy.org

* From ChristianPolygamy.INFO See: Anti-Polygamy (but actually only Anti-Mormon) section there.

Researcher 8 July 2005 19:04 (UTC)

Anti-polygamy web-sites will attempt to "report" news about polygamy, always using the worst case stories, and never reporting any good news about polygamists. (Thread-cited by Nereocystis 1 July 2005 17:22 (UTC))

For all readers: this attempted obfuscation is also easily answered.

Has anyone ever heard from any anti-polygamy source that polygamists view Tom Green as the "Polygamy Tim McVeigh?" That has been a fact for years. For example,

* From TruthBearer.org

* From Pro-Polygamy.com

How many anti-polygamy sites have reported polygamists are opposed to underage marriage? For example,

* Another From Pro-Polygamy.com

* Another From TruthBearer.org

* A newspaper-published op-ed from TruthBearer.org, but purposely ignored by all anti-polygamists

Additionally, every anti-polygamy oriented site goes out of its way to deliberately not mention such positive polygamy web-sites, news, or organization. (One should always ask, if a site like Pro-Polygamy.com is credible enough for the Wall Street Journal, why isn't it even mentioned by anti-polygamists? The answer is clearly because the positivity of such sites (etc) would detract from the anti-polygamists' agenda. No matter how much the pro-polygamists seek to advance and demonstrate what they really believe, all the anti-polygamy sites deliberately report only that which they believe advances their anti-polygamy agenda. It is not rocket science here to realize tat fact. - Researcher 8 July 2005 19:04 (UTC)

No I haven't seen most of this. But the claim is that anti-polygamists always do this or that. If you define your terms carefully, then an anti-polygamist is someone who always refuses help from polygamists. This is fine unless you need to prove that anti-polygamists actually exist. I guess that I am no longer an anti-polygamist, by Researcher99's standards, since I sometimes say positive things about polygamists. That's a relief for me, since I didn't think that I was an anti-polygamist. Removing the word "always" probably won't change my mind on the relevance of this article. Nereocystis 8 July 2005 19:22 (UTC)

Nereocystis has long been outed as a Sneaky Vandal on the Polygamy TALK pages. That is, Nereocystis uses one of the common anti-polygamy tactics of pretending to be "pro-polygamy" in order to claim a fake credibility for then implementing their anti-polygamy deceptions. Nereocystis knows this, having seen it posted and subsequently archived on the Polygamy TALK pages that "Polygamy Imposters" - Anti-Polygamists Often Pretend to be "Pro-Polygamy". This new deceptive obfuscation is not a surprise though, given that Nereocystis has also been caught outright lying. Researcher 13:55, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Anti-Polygamy (VfD)

The "Vote for Deletion" that was suspiciously started by Spatfield on July 9, 2005 and later deleted on 21:19, 22 July 2005.)

This call was Suspiciously made

LOGGED: Votes_for_deletion/Log/2005_July_9#This_call_was_Suspiciously_made

Before voting, readers are asked to please read the chronology,

Nereocystis acted recklessly aggressive - 2 Examples of Proof.

That comprehensive post also includes a relevant subsection titled,

Suspicious "Spatfield" called for "Vote for Deletion" of Anti-polygamy article.

(For just one quick proof of why "Spatfield" is suspect, see here.)

Also, before voting, please read the subsections at the bottom of this page here too.

Through it all, please also keep in mind that Wikipedia is not a majoritarian democracy. Just because more anti-polygamists are willing to cast their votes to delete because of biased anti-polygamy POV, that does not mean that their votes really address the issue or properly serve Wikipedia.

Researcher 02:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Anti-polygamy

LOGGED: Votes_for_deletion/Log/2005_July_9#Anti-polygamy

I find this article to be POV and it's very premise is non-sensical to me, Anti-polygamy does not sound like a good title for a "debate" on polygamy. Furthermore, no other pages currently link to it. spatfield July 9, 2005 16:48 (UTC)

An older version of Polygamy has a link to anti-polygamy. I deleted the link for the reasons mentioned here. Nereocystis 17:35, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Delete; I would have said merge with polygamy, except that the article really says nothing at all so there wouldn't be any point. Dcarrano July 9, 2005 18:02 (UTC)
Delete. Concur with Dcarrano. Fernando Rizo 9 July 2005 18:06 (UTC)
Delete, concur with above. --Scimitar 9 July 2005 18:07 (UTC)
Delete. Well said, Dcarrano. --Idont Havaname 20:26, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
Delete, a redirect to polygamy probably wouldn't hurt --Tothebarricades 23:05, July 9, 2005 (UTC)
Delete - (im copying Idont Havaname in congratulating Dcarrano on his well-putness) -my sekurity 05:29, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
Merge anything appropriate to polygamy (if not redundant) and redirect. Essentially pro-monogamists would be anti-polygamy but I do not think there is a difference, like the apparent difference between non-monogamous and anti-monogamous (but that's another can of worms I am not qualified to handle) - Skysmith 12:35, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
Delete as neologism. "Anti-polygamy" doesn't add anything to "anti-" and "polygamy", except an article restricted to one side of a debate. Peter Grey 14:09, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
Kept. According to Wikipedia, this article does not even qualify for being up for a Deletion vote. If one does not know the issue, they are (as the above Wikipedia link calls most of the voters here) voting on something which, "involves a topic of which {they} are ignorant". As explained in the segment below, the anti-polygamy article is open to both sides of the debate for true NPOV. It frees up the neutral anthropological polygamy article from the repeatad anti-polygamy agenda and POV. Actually, it is the vast amounts of one-sided POV anti-polygamy arguments that get added to the polygamy article frequently which do not actually inform the user about polygamy, they are the edits which do not actually apply to the the polygamy page, yet would more appropriately apply in a two-sided agenda/debate anti-polygamy article. Instead of this profoundly hasty call for voting for deletion from a visibly hostile POV, voters should be, as Wikipedia explains, "If you can improve the article instead, do so." Voters here have not even attempted that Wikipedia-directed option based on their own biased POV. There is no fair basis for calling or voting for this page to be deleted. Doing so is only biased POV. This anti-polygamy article should be left alone, and any informed Wikipedians should follow Wikipedia's guidelines to simply build upon it instead of seeking to destroy it. Researcher 14:30, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
Comment: I suggest allowing another week for the vote. Today, I placed a comment about this VfD on the polygamy page. I don't expect many more votes, but there are likely to be a few. I don't expect a change in the result, either, but I do want to allow a fair vote. I don't want Researcher99 to feel any more oppressed than he already feels. Nereocystis 17:50, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

To my great frustaration, Nereocystis is caught here lying yet again. What they have just said here is simply not true, and they know it. Nereocystis is totally out to oppress as shown in this post they made on 19:12, 18 July 2005 and I pointed out their extreme aggressiveness this very day in my subsequent post 19:42, 18 July 2005. Not only was Nereocystis caught lying in those other posts, but they are clearly lying here too about their supposed concern for the oppression they are doing against me and their supposed desire for anything "fair." It is my hope that people will not further assist Nereocystis's hostile anti-polygamy POV and agenda. The current dispute with that anti-polygamist should not be exploited to hastily delete the anti-polygamy article. That article was offered as an NPOV solution to end the abuse and solve that other dispute. (See the other section here about that.) So deleting the article interferes with a possible resolution of that dispute. If the anti-polygamy article does get deleted because of such false exploitation, there will be nothing "fair" about that whatsoever. Despite their little game of suggesting an "extention" of the vote another week, and the admission of expecting no more votes to change the current vote-tally to "Kept," the revealed lie in the linked-posts also reveals how aggressive they plan to be to exploit that deletion in furthering their abuse. So, Nereocystis knows there is nothing really "fair" about deleting this article at all and that they have no desire to stop oppressing me or stop preventing all my obviously-valid edits. To say otherwise is clearly just another lie. It is my hope that the abuse will come to an end and that valid posts can once again be made to the polygamy and anti-polygamy articles in Wikipedia. Researcher 20:25, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Delete, this article was created out of spite and frustration (edit wars and reverts notwithstanding), and is contrary to the Wikipedia mission. StopTheFiling 20:49, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Merge with the polygamy article. I agree with Researcher99 that this topic should be covered, but we cannot have an "anti-x" article for every "x" article. Perhaps later if the anti-polygamy section were to grow significantly it would merit its own place on Wikipedia, but for now I think that this is practically a stub. Explodicle 01:11, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

I appreciate your input. The article is a brand-new work-in-progress. Only one day after the article was originally created, hostile anti-polygamist Nereocystis made a post on the anti-polygamy TALK page there hinting for someone to call for it to be deleted. This call for deletion was way too quickly and suspiciously made. Regarding size of the article, it could very easily and quickly be filled up to a large article. If anti-polygamists would spend their time building up the anti-article instead of craftily trying to hide their agenda by trying to destroy it, they could quickly help it reach that size. Pro-polygamy responses would then further add to its size. (Plus, the current polygamy article so already too large. When you try to edit that whole polygamy article, the red-font warning tells you it is alrady too large. So, the time really is now to make that separation to the anti-polygamy article. Researcher 02:32, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
Nereocystis himself called for the extension on the vote - do you think further extension would be a fair compromise? I would change my vote to "keep" if this were a bit more in-depth and fit in better alongside the main article, and from what you say, all that needs is time and effort. In the meantime, I don't think we have consensus to resolve the issue. Explodicle 04:18, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

I very much appreciate your input, Explodicle. Actually, Nereocystis is not being honest about that. It is one of their tactics, much like a politician smelling possible victory (such as with likeminded anti-polygamists voting their way), trying to come out in front of the final result and pretending to be gracious, when they certainly do not mean it. A couple months ago, I had had to "out" Nereocystis as the anti-polygamist they are. At that time, they were pretending to be "pro-polygamist" as they were committing sneaky vandalisms to actually destroy the polygamy article. They also frequently make obfuscatory claims that are obviously untrue, as seen here where they claimed that a clearly obvious NPOV statement is somehow POV. regarding enlargement, I would be glad to enlarge the anti-polygamy article. But Nereocystis aggressively removed the link to anti-polygamy from the polygamy article a day after its creation, so no one else knows it exists in order to build it further. When I tried to restore the link, the rv'ed it again. Lately, Nereocystis has been plotting daily with new ways to destroy the polygamy article, so much so and are not giving me a chance to even catch my breath. Lastly, there are some things on the currently too-large polygamy atricle that could be moved to the anti-polygamy article. But considering that Nereocystis rv's every edit I make, no matter what, I can only expect to see my edits to build up the anti-polygamy article rv'ed too. As shown at the top of this page here, the very call for this "Vote for Deletion" is, itself, highly suspect. That suspect person who created this call for VfD has not posted anything in Wikipedia since last year. All of a sudden they make this call for VfD and only this call? Very suspect. So, with all that, I do not really believe that any extension is all that much of a fair compromise. This suspect call is just another abuse being heaped toward me in a not-yet-resolved problem with Nereocystis. (I was actually trying to help resolve the problem by creating the anti-polygamy article in thefirst place.) I would certainly be glad to enlarge the article over time, with help from others who can find the article. But that will take time. I need Nereocystis and their hostile anti-polygamy POV to be prevented from destroying every work I do and every single edit I make. They now aggressively act as if they "own" the polygamy article and have created numerous problems indeed. That last issue is really the heart of the problem here. I am hoping to have it resolved so normal editing can resume. I also hope my response here has been helpful for you. Thanks again. Researcher 01:17, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Please copy the text from the polygamy article into the anti-polygamy article, but don't delete the original from polygamy. This will allow people to see what you envision as the anti-polygamy article. Nereocystis 17:19, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Whatever personal grudge you two may have against one another is none of my concern. I'll keep an eye on THIS article and THIS article's history, and vote solely based on what I see there. Explodicle 20:14, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you. I don't have a grudge against him, just a desire to discuss the article itself, and not be subject to personal attacks. Nereocystis 20:44, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

For NPOV, the difference between neutral term vs. non-neutral POV agenda/debate MUST be Separated

LOGGED: Votes_for_deletion/Log/2005_July_9#For_NPOV.2C_the_difference_between_neutral_term_vs._non-neutral_POV_agenda.2Fdebate_MUST_be_Separated

When I started the anti-polygamy article, I did so with the full invitation for anti-polygamists to add their views there as well. That was the point, actually. So, I had only started the anti-polygamy article, but fully expected others, including anti-polygamists, to bring their views there too. If anti-polygamists thought it was too POV there, they were welcome to build upon the article (not delete or destroy) and to simultaneously await any pro-polygamous response too. Instead, however, anti-polygamists who are afraid of their agenda being so exposed in such an open debate of their itemized presented arguments and tactics like that have responded by trying to hide and undermine that altogether. This very "vote for deletion" page is a pure example of that, anti-polygamists trying to prevent their agenda from being so exposed because they are not confident enough that their views and exposed tactics will be able to "win" their debate. Instead, they want to hide behind the seeming "authoritativeness" of directly infesting the neutral anthropological polygamy article with their POV and mis-information.

It is, of course, fully expected that anti-polygamists would oppress a minority by wanting to prevent Wikipedia readers from learning about the tactics and debate about anti-polygamy. Like I just said, they want the "freedom" to misrepresent polygamy as if authoritative rather than have their debates exposed for what they are.

Again, it must be understood that Polygamy is a neutral term but anti-polygamists continue to infest the Polygamy article with their POV. Nereocystis has repeatedly been outed as a hostile anti-polygamist on the Polygamy TALK pages. (Anti-polygamists have further tried to hide those "outings" by "archiving" all the evidence about the "outings." As well, an ANON editor deliberately tried to hide the evidence I had recently presented about what anti-polygamists did to my original version of the anti-polygamy article, by removing the specific segment of evidence from the TALK altogether!]) Therefore the outed anti-polygamist Nereocystis is here attempting to appeal to a hostile anti-polygamy POV majority in order to prevent the real issues from being exposed.

Anti-polygamy is obviously a non-neutral agenda. To obtain true NPOV in Wikipedia, polygamy should not be infested with the obvious POV of anti-polygamists as has been happening.

Instead, for true NPOV throughout the issue, anti-polygamists can have a place at the anti-polygamy article to itemize their agenda points and views by putting them in the more appropriate anti-polygamy article. Then pro-polygamists can also list their refutations of those items. That way, both articles are truly NPOV.

In that way, the neutral anthropoligical polygamy article can teach Wikipedia readers what polygamy really is about without the distraction of the agenda of anti-polygamy POV. If the Wikipedia readers want to also see the anti-polygamy view and debate, then they can go to the anti-polygamy article and get that information too. (When I created the anti-polygamy article, I created an immediate explanation and link to it on the anti-polygamy article.) Wikipredia readers should not be distracted with the agenda of the anti-polygamy POV and propaganda, unless they seek it directly.

What I have created with all this also allows true NPOV on the anti-polygamy article too. As already explained, anti-polygamists can place their reasons for their agenda and pro-polygamists can respond. Balance, NPOV. In the same way, pro-polygamists can point out the tactics of anti-polygamists and anti-polygamists can respond. True NPOV.

Polygamy is the neutral anthropological term. Anti-polygamy is the non-neutral agenda and debate. True NPOV accross the board.

In addition to the NPOV issue, the polygamy article itself is already too long. Whenever one makes an edit to the full polygamy article, they get the red-font "too long" message. The reason that the polygamy article is too long is because it is too infested with anti-polygamy agenda. So, by moving the agenda and debate to its own anti-polygamy article, the length can be kept within Guidelines.

Lastly, the POV of those wanting to delete or prevent this solution is easily observable as hostile anti-polygamy POV itself. To refuse to allow the anti-polygamy article, as the needed solution to the anti-polygamists destroying the polygamy article, is the same thing as a KKK majority refusing fairness and NPOV to African Americans on a Wikipedia article about African Americans. It is the same thing as contining to allow KKK editors to imply all the worst ideas against African Americans as if authoritative rather than allow their POV agenda and debate be openly exposed for review of all Wikipedia readers.

So, for true NPOV, article-length, and true fairness to an oppressed minority, a legitimate encyclopedia must separate the neutral anthropological term of polygamy from the non-neutral agenda and debate of anti-polygamy. Anything less than that is bigoted POV and has no place in a legitimate Wikipedia.

Researcher 13:57, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Why not just Build the Article?

LOGGED: Votes_for_deletion/Log/2005_July_9#Why_not_just_Build_the_Article.3F

Rather than vote to destroy the article, why not just follow the Wikipedia policy of building upon the current anti-polygamy article instead? It was created as a work-in-progress and yet it is being called for deletion before it even had a chance to grow. Researcher 02:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.