User talk:JulesH/Archive Oct 2007

Johann Hari[edit]

Hi. This is a quick note about the editing of the Johann Hari page, which I know you've helpfully intervened on in the past.

As reading though the page's history will show, the user Felix-Felix has described Hari as "a self-publicising careerist, and an especially unpleasant one at that", accused him of being in favour of "the destruction of Untermenschen" (when in fact he is an Amnesty International award-winner), inserted fictitious claims he went to the most exclusive public school in Britain when in fact his father is a bus driver, and, most crucially, inserted poorly sourced claims that he "fabricated" a story he wrote about.

This is a pattern of falsehood and animus that really worries me. This user is now insisting on his right to reinsert the claims that hari farbricated a story, sourcing them to a magazine that wiki administrators have already said is not reliable. What can I do in this situation? - DavidR81.129.156.202 12:27, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about the above. Dave r has been smearing me with these accusations, one of which is false, the other taken out of context, and utterly irrelevant. He has also posted this defamatory message on multiple other user talk pages;

This is starting to feel a little like harassment, and not in a good way. FelixFelix ^talk 14:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is, so far as I'm aware, no bar on the offspring of bus drivers being taught at "the most exclusive public school in Britain". The ability to pay fees might be raised, but (a) the family might be concentrating its financial resources on this project, (b) the mother might have a sizeable income in her own right, (c) there could be money available within the larger family, (d) there are such things as scholarships and bursaries. Given that Winchester College charges £36K per annum, (d) seems a plausible explanation. The comment strikes me as class-obsessed, sexist nonsence. Ghostwords 17:57, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]