User blog comment:Sannse/Stand Up and Speak Out/@comment-961279-20140130044557

This can also come up when dealing with problem users; the one who aren't committing outright vandalism, but instead seem fixated on adding information that the members of the wiki have determined isn't correct or isn't appropriate/needed. The extreme version of this is what Wikipedia calls The Truth.

But most of the time it isn't going to be that extreme. Just someone with a fixation or obsession. Dealing with people like this requires being firm and persistence.

In these situations you have to ask yourself, "Have I made an effort to work with the person, to help them see there is a better or different way of doing things? Or have I been talking at them, ordering them to stop?" If it's the former and you're not getting anywhere with them, then you've done what you can and it may be time to move on to the latter approach.

It's at this point that being firm and persisting in cleaning up their messes can look like bullying, especially if several wikis are involved because the members of those other wikis may not know the history and reason behind your actions. If you're asked, you need to explain what you're doing. Actually, you should be explaining it as you go via the edit summary.

A few years ago, one of the people I had to deal with told me he felt I was bullying him. I apologized, since that definitely was not my intention. I explained the situation to him, which was he was repeatedly adding information he insisted was true but could not provide any proof. He is one of the very few problem users that ever answered and made an effort to talk with me. Most don't. You can't do anything about the ones that don't because sometimes they just don't want a chance to change, but you can ask yourself those questions to help make sure you don't step over the line.