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ArbCom questions

Hi. I'm Ral315, editor of the Misplaced Pages Signpost. We're interviewing all ArbCom candidates for an article next week, and your response is requested.

1. What positions do you hold (adminship, arbitration, mediation, etc.)?

   Admin, OTRS

2. Why are you running for the Arbitration Committee?

   I can help and have the skills to do so.

3. Have you been involved in any arbitration cases? In what capacity?

   Yes, I've taken two cases to arbitration, and Monicasdude. In both cases, I was a party.

4. In the past year, are there any cases that you think the Arbitration Committee handled exceptionally well? Any you think they handled poorly?

   I think the Attack sites case was a bit of a mess. It was a sticky thing to be going into and ended up producing a rambling list of decisions to try to remind the community of our policies. I think it would have made a lot more sense to either just clarify the earlier ruling or, once the case was opened, deal with the problematic behavior instead of making general statements.

5. Why do you think users should vote for you?

   Because you probably don't know who I am -- this means I manage to contribute, clean-up, mediate and work for OTRS and still manage to resolve problems without creating issues and or drama. (Don't take this too far out of context - if Durova doesn't get a seat on ArbCom, it will be a sad, sad day.)

Please respond on my talk page. We'll probably go to press late Monday or early Tuesday (UTC), but late responses will be added as they're submitted. Thanks, Ral315 » 04:48, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Given recent events, ending with Durova's withdrawal of her ArbCom bid and resignation of adminship, I've removed that portion of your statement; you can re-add it on the Signpost pages if you wish. Ral315 » 03:47, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Mentoring Barnstar

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		message thanks for helping out my students! You made a lasting impression on them! Thelmadatter (talk) 17:07, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Questions

An FYI - SRNC closed over a year ago and hasn't been disturbed since. --Rschen7754 (T C) 01:30, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

SRNC may have been closed, but the debate is brought up on the Admin boards and other places ad nausuem, or at least thats how it feels to someone not involved in the discussion. Shell 15:22, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

ArbCom table with portfolio links

Hello! As we did for last year's election, we are again compiling a Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Summary table. This table contains a column "Portfolio" for links that display candidates' pertinent skills. I will be going through each candidate's statements and gradually populate the column, but this may take some time. Please feel free to add some links in the form if you feel it shows conflict resolution skills, or otherwise. It would also be helpful if you can check if the information about you is correct.

My motivation is that as a voter, I don't want to just rely on a candidate's words, but also see their actions. Moreover, I believe a portfolio of "model cases" to remember in difficult situations can be useful for each candidate, as well. I believe that conflict resolution skills are most pertinent to the position, but if you want to highlight other skills, please feel free to use a new letter and add it to Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Summary table#Columns of this table. — Sebastian 05:35, 28 November 2007 (UTC)    (Please reply on this page. I'll be watching it for a while.)

I think its great that you put together that table -- in fact, that's exactly the type of thing I was talking about for ArbCom cases -- a summary table could do worlds of good in that sometimes convoluted atmosphere. Shell 16:12, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! Maybe I can help you with that. I hope to win Newyorkbrad for the idea, too. He wrote to me something about ArbCom beeing too complicated a year ago. I'll ask him. — Sebastian 18:04, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Unblock request

See User talk:65.189.175.10. Was the indefinite block intentional? Also, could you explain why you did a block? From a quick glance, it looks like the edits were made in good faith. Nishkid64 (talk) 22:59, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

It was supposed to be indefinite in the hope that the person would give up and I could unblock the IP later. While they are now claiming the edits were made in good faith, the problem has been going on for some time from different accounts and IP addresses. They are trying to spin the article based on their feeling that the school is poor -- the fluff piece that's there now needs to be fixed, but calling it remedial and reverting anyone who tries to change it wasn't the way to do it. If they're willing to try writing from a neutral point of view and using the talk page when other editors disagree, there shouldn't be any problem unblocking the IP address. Thanks for checking! Shell 03:17, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Ah okay. I'll be checking to see if the user keeps up the same behavior in the future. Best, Nishkid64 (talk) 03:41, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

172.*, agreed but...

I agree it's far to large a block range for any direct action, but I was hoping to get some more people, especially admins, to keep an eye on this. It's clear that someone is targeting specifically, especially since they have repeated the content of their vandalism multiple times ("CJ Currie is a fag"). --Kickstart70-T-C 05:07, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

If its just that particular page that keeps getting vandalised, page protection might be an option. Considering that the person is editing from an AOL address, there's very little that blocking is going to do to stop them. Shell 05:29, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps name confusion, I was so sure!

I spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out how I could possibly confuse you with another editor here searching the archives of the talk pages where I was sure I saw your name. It was not there. The only idea I can come up with is that I confused you with Jkelly and linked my memories associated with the opinions of that user with your name. I am still puzzled on how could this possibly happen as I seemed to have clearly remembered a two word "Firstname Lastname" type user name which looked exactly like yours in connection with this. Perhaps a memory glitch.

Anyway, I most sincerely apologize for ascribing to you the views that in fact belong to someone else. It was a regrettable mistake. I will now strike my vote with an explanation and leave a talk page message to the users who voted citing my concerns. My vote was indented and supplied with an explanation promptly and I hope this should have warned the editors who came to vote at later time.

If I vote on your candidacy later, my erroneously cast vote would in no way affect my judgment. I would like to thank you for bringing my error to my attention in such a gracious and courteous way.

Best regards, --Irpen 06:12, 4 December 2007 (UTC)