Where did you get that quote from? I never said "I will rally the troops", nor has anyone else here afaik. Please use quotation marks only for direct quotes.
Accusing me of being disingenuous is rather silly considering the fact you made that quote up yourself and you have been disingenuous in the past and removed the evidence when I called you on it.
I asked you twice if you wanted me to provide an indication that a direction change is required. The second time I wrote: "OK, do you want me to provide that indication? I can rally the troops if you want me to."
Emphasis added by me.
You said my comments "have ceased to be constructive in any way" on the 19th of June, but a lot of people here probably disagree.
For example, user Helder said I made a good point here, and user Subfader said I made some good points here, and user Tom Morris said I made a good point here.
User Rockfang thanked me for replying here, user Bensin agreed with me here, I asked a couple of questions and both user Dougweller and user Bensin said they would like an answer to these questions too here (under my comment), I made a request and user Helder copied it to the bugtracker "to make sure this is noticed by the developers" (see here).
Howief described the fact that I pointed out a bug here and filed a bugreport on bugzilla with all of the relevant details on my system environment as "very helpful".
These are just a few examples I could find quickly, more of those exist.
I'm afraid you might take the criticism of the AFT a bit too personal. This is not a personal thing. It isn't even very important. Most people do not have the time to debate about silly stuff like this because they have real problems. You even wrote: "Is your primary objection to its being there based around the fact that you are the primary editor of the article and that you feel that low ratings reflect poorly on you?" even though I changed nothing on that article.
Now you seem to be saying I pointlessly flood a constructive discussion with non-constructive criticism, and that you called me on it.
Please comment on content, not on the contributor.