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Welcome, correspondents If you're here because I deleted an article you think should be undeleted, please read this first and remember--Most of the time, I didn't write the text that appears in the deletion summary.
N.B. I don't respond well to either fawning or abuse. Talk to me like a peer, assume good faith, and you'll find I reciprocate in my helpfulness.

Functionary Assistance My ability to help as a checkuser, oversighter, or arbitrator in individual matters is currently limited by my positional and non-Misplaced Pages obligations. For non-trivial assistance, especially that which requires extensive consideration of private correspondence, you will likely get a faster response by asking another functionary.

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Administrator Goals Doing my best to improve the tiny little wedge in the top center:

Perplexed and hurt

I'm perplexed as to why you and the others signed up to the following, and very hurt that you did.

5) Born2cycle is warned that his contributions to discussion must reflect a better receptiveness to compromise and a higher tolerance for the views of other editors.

If you have any examples of where you feel my contributions to discussion did not reflect sufficient receptiveness to compromise and/or too low of a tolerance for the views of other editors, I would very much like to know where, and why you think that.

If you don't know of any such examples, why did you agree to this?

Thank you. --Born2cycle (talk) 21:45, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Since you're not articulating any particular reason why my personal conduct, rather than my conduct as an arbitrator supporting particular remedies in an open case, is at issue here, I'm going to redirect you back to the relevant talk page for the case. Remember, if I bore you any personal ill will, I would have already recused myself. On the other hand, a "warning" offers no specific sanction, merely an expectation of improved conduct on those areas going forward, so it is little more than formal advice--a written warning, rather than a citation of an infraction, as a topic ban would be. Cheers, Jclemens (talk) 00:08, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Bore me ill will? That possibility did'nt even cross my mind Why would it? I'm just trying to understand what you think I did that warrants giving me this advice.

However, if you can't explain how the statement to which you agreed applies to me, actually applies to me, I can start listing all kinds of personal behavior problems with that. But I'm assuming I'm missing something. Yet, I know of nothing on those talk pages or anything in my history that indicates I'm not receptive to compromise or am intolerant of the views of others. What are you talking about? --Born2cycle (talk) 06:53, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Again, the talk page of the decision is the better place for this conversation. Jclemens (talk) 21:57, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Checkuser

Would it be possible to perform a Checkuser regarding Willsnoogbaroots and the IP address 77.97.87.115? Unconstructive modifications, mainly undoing other users' constructive and accurate edits, were made on an article several times. The intervals of time between each of the disruptive edits performed by the accounts suggests that the editors are in fact the same person, which edits unconstructively "under IP." Thank you. --MaxDawsonC (talk) 18:33, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Did you ask at WP:SPI? Since I sit on the audit subcommittee at the moment, I generally don't run sockpuppet investigations except on my own initiative, such that I would be recused on any review of the action anyways. Cheers, Jclemens (talk) 01:13, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

This is not a case related to sockpuppetry. A disruptive user is thought to constantly sign in and out to make unconstructive modifications on articles, "under IP." --MaxDawsonC (talk) 01:34, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Disruptive IP editing is also handled at WP:SPI. Cheers, Jclemens (talk) 21:57, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

OK. Thank you. --MaxDawsonC (talk) 22:59, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

When will pending changes be added to this site

When will "pending changes" be added to this site?--Misconceptions2 (talk) 16:32, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

That is an open question. There is currently an RfC open on the future of pending changes on the English Misplaced Pages. Jclemens (talk) 21:52, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

does any of the positions on the rf need a certian number of votes?--Misconceptions2 (talk) 16:46, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Not specifically, no. Consensus will be evaluated at the end of the comment time, which is normally 30 days, and then next steps will be evaluated based on the strength of that consensus. Jclemens (talk) 18:40, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Game of Thrones episodes

Hello, I'm very impressed with your work on the Game of Thrones episodes (loved the series and the books!), and I've noticed every episode is now a Good Article, doesn't that mean that you could nominate them all for a collective good topic? Gday, Aranea Mortem 17:13, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

I intend to, but by convention a season of television has a featured list article outlining the season. Game of Thrones (season 1) is not yet to that quality, but once it is, a good topic should be a slam dunk. I'm looking for an opportunity to nom it for FL, once I have the time to clean it up and monitor it. I already took it to peer review and got some helpful suggestions. Cheers, Jclemens (talk) 21:56, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Who handles watchlist notices?

Hey, JC. Can you refer me to somebody who'd be appropriate to talk to about the watchlist wording for the "abortion article RFC", in re the difficulties mentioned in this edit? —chaos5023 (talk) 14:58, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

You know, I have absolutely no idea. I've never worked with those announcements before. Does any TPS know? If not I can (and probably should...) find out. Jclemens (talk) 19:08, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Apparently it's handled at MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details? Who knew. —chaos5023 (talk) 00:07, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

COI RfC

Any idea if ArbCom or anyone else is going to do anything with the information provided by the community at Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/COI? Seems like the discussion has dried up. What are the next steps? I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 04:53, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Harassment of editors and Arbcom transparency

On my talk page at User_talk:Russavia#Comment_from_AGK, there is a discussion between myself and your fellow Arb User:AGK, concerning an issue which came to the attention of Arbcom. As the various links and diffs show, many editors saw the recent RFC/U against User:Fae as harassment, at best, and as homophobic harassment, at worst.

AGK firstly stated that he "voted" to ban Delicious Carbuncle, then has "corrected" himself to state that he merely was in favour of the Committee reviewing the case; either way there was opposition on the Committee to either banning Delicious Carbuncle or even reviewing the harassment that Fae was being subjected to.

As an Arb, the community elected you to represent the community for the community. The Committee time and time again pushes on editors who come before it that transparency is essential in our editing; in fact, transparency is one of the key tenets of this project, however the Arbcom often does not act in the same transparent way that it (and the community) expects of the community itself.

AGK states on my talk page that one can only expect a transparent hearing if a request for arbitration is filed, and states that most Arbcom business is conducted this way. This notion is somewhat correct, but it is also very wrong. As the committee time and time makes a point of stating that community transparency is essential, the community also expects the same of the Committee -- at all times. The Committee also makes many decisions "behind closed doors", and when pushed to explain decisions cites various "get out of jail free cards" to avoid being transparent to the community-at-large. This includes decisions such as banning editors for things done offwiki which can't clearly be attributed to that editor, or unbanning editors with a history of socking, etc, etc.

In aid of this, and in the interests of transparency to the Community at large, I am asking that you answer the following questions:

1. Did you discuss the harassment of Fae on the Arbcom-l mailing list?
2. If you did discuss this on the mailing list, were you in favour or against the Committee reviewing the information?
3. If the discussion got to anything resembling a vote, did you vote in favour or against banning Delicious Carbuncle?

These are very simple questions which one is able to answer if they are truly for transparency both on the Committee and in the community in general, and I would expect that many in the community would be wanting transparent answers to these questions.

The last thing, it is of course Fae's choice if he wishes to request a case for Arbitration, but these questions are not being asked to have an end-run around the Arbitration process, but are being asked in the interests of transparency on a specific example that the Committee was aware of and refused to act upon. I would expect Fae and other editors (especially LGBT editors) would be wanting transparent answers here now, before deciding if they wish to act. Russavia 07:53, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

(parsing the above...) 1. No, 2. N/A, 3. N/A. Cheers, Jclemens (talk) 08:12, 2 April 2012 (UTC)