Are Ryan Postlethwaite and Alison tag-teaming together to damage an editor in the troubled "Troubles" area. I certainly hope not, and would be suprised if Alison was. Domer48, an intelligent and learned editor had to continually contend with two trollers, Wotapalaver and Colin4C on the Talk:The Great Hunger page. Colin4c insisted that his citations were good, but Domer48 wasn't fooled, and called Colin4c a liar. It appears that Colin4c may have been inventing citations. Dormer took it to ANI.
What happened? Domer48 gets a 2 month ban from editing the article, and a one month ban from the talk page. There are no specific reasons. Ryan Postlethwaite bars IPs from the talk page. I complain to ANI, and then he accuses Domer and me of being sockpuppets. Domer asks Alison to do CU, and she gives back an extremly anemic response, "can't prove guilt, can't prove innocence, sorry!". I have seen her do better. I remind Domer that Ryan Postlethwaite nominated Alison for admin, "conflict of interest" perhaps?
Now Domer has left Wikipedia.
I have asked Ryan Postlethwaite to apologise to Domer48. He hasn't yet, but as they say, "is he man enough to apologise?".
We'll soon find out, I guess.