Appeal

On the September 2016, Tryptofish asked for AE against me because 1) I deleted an article that he had claimed supported his claim that Jill Stein had made statements that were "contrary to science", despite being a medical doctor. The article, in fact did not support that Jill Stein had made statements "contrary to science", but noted that Jordan Weissmann (a business and economics editor) author of "an opinion piece at Slate dismissed Green Party candidate Jill Stein as “a Harvard-trained physician who panders to pseudoscience” concerning genetically modified organisms, pesticides, “quack medicine,” and vaccine efficacy." This is hardly a recommendation of the article, insofar as it notes that it is first an opinion piece, and second is dismissive. Moreover, it gives the false impression that the author Stephen Corneliussen himself argued that Stein made statements contrary to science, which is a claim he does not make.

Next, I was called out for changing the name of a reference from :03 to WaPoArticleCitedSixteenTimes and waiting for a bot to come correct the other 15 references to the article. People objected to this waiting so I rapidly changed all sixteen references to avoid links being unavailable. Waiting for the bot was a regrettable technical mistake, as was the polemical name I chose for the overcited reference. The legitimate point on the oversourcing of the article to the Washington Post interview got lost in the process. (A similar interview by the LA Times [1], which is considered much more reliable than the WaPo (being the 4th largest paper in the country), has not been cited at all.) This was done shortly after I had to revert Tryptofish's non-constructive edit diff in the science section, which was clearly an attempt to discredit her peer-reviewed published views on science in the preceding sentence:

Stein has said: "For science geeks, you can show yourself if you have any doubt that I too am a science geek."