It wasn t spurious it was just too messy for action You are not thinking straight Jusdafax You seem to think WP works on some strict legal principles and it doesn t WP COMMONSENSE applies and editing aggressively on a controversial article is sanctionable I encourage you to think with your Wikipedia hat on progress is made on difficult articles though careful discussion on article talk pages focused on content and sources not contributors and using WP DR when things get deadlocked Please don t encourage Prokaryotes to edit aggressively