An advice from VG Cats to stalkers in general: #252

Posts

ArbCom questions (White Cat)

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

What positions do you hold (adminship, mediation, etc.), on this or other wikis?

None. -- Cat ^chi? 11:08, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Have you been involved in any arbitration cases? In what capacity?

I have been involved with four arbitration cases plus an ongoing case. In all cases I was an "involved party". -- Cat ^chi? 11:08, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Why are you running for the Arbitration Committee?
I feel arbcom is broken and needs some fresh blood. Among the things that are broken is...
- ...an overal lack of communication & slow response rate,
- ...inability to actually resolve disputes,
- ...how evidence is ignored at times,
- ...the ridiclous length of some cases
...comes to my mind

-- Cat ^chi? 11:08, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
How do you feel the Arbitration Committee has handled cases and other situations over the last year? Can you provide an examples of situations where you feel the Committee handled a situation exceptionally well, and why? Any you feel they handled poorly, and why?
I can't think of a single case where arbcom had done an exceptionally well job within the past three years. Arbcom performance had been mediocre at best.
I strongly feel arbcom had done an exceptionally poor job in handling various cases.
- Among the ones I observed closely was the three year old ongoing case concerning a stalker. I feel remedies discussed today should have been passed three years ago at the first case.
- I also feel the two "episode and character" case had been exeptionaly inadequate in resolving the actual dispute. Arbcom has went out of their way to ignore some of the objections raised.
-- Cat ^chi? 11:08, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
What is your opinion on confidentiality? If evidence is submitted privately to the Committee, would you share it with other parties in the case? Would you make a decision based on confidential information without making it public?

If Privacy Policy allows it nothing should be kept confidential. It may be better to keep some evidence confidential during an ongoing investigation but once the case is over the evidence should be made public. Otherwise the community will slowly loose their confidence in arbcom. -- Cat ^chi? 11:08, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Why do you think users should vote for you?

This is a question everyone will have a different answer. I sincerely believe the reader should be deciding this alone. -- Cat ^chi? 11:08, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Please respond on my talk page. We'll probably go to press on Tuesday, but late responses will be added as they're submitted. Thanks, Ral315 (talk) 10:25, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Image tagging for Image:TR ARMY Insignia 1.gif

Thanks for uploading Image:TR ARMY Insignia 1.gif. The image has been identified as not specifying the source and creator of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the source and creator of the image on the image's description page, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided source information for them as well.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:

This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 06:44, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Undecided

Hi, I noticed your voting guide (not sure what to call these). Feel free to ask me questions. Granted a successful pass at my candidacy appears unlikely but I am more than happy in answering questions. -- Cat ^chi? 19:11, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello, first thank you for approaching me as you have, that itself impresses me. My guide is a little out of date at this moment and I have actually already voted against your candidacy. It is apparent it is not likely to pass but I am happy to re-consider my vote given that, compared to some of the other candidates, I do not know you so well. I could have asked some questions, but for all candidates I was not entirely sure what to ask to be honest, but I have thought of a few now so I might ask them shortly. Camaron | Chris (talk) 19:32, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh that's all right. Please do notify me on my talk page so I can give the most prompt response. I do not generally keep a watchlist as it gets overcrowded almost instantly. -- Cat ^chi? 21:56, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Your example

I am not sure I understand... I also do not see where I ignored consensus. I haven't recreated the template in question or anything. I am not asking you to support me or anything, I just want the rationale to make sense. -- Cat ^chi? 16:21, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

It's an example of where you became combative over a simple notification. --Farix (Talk) 21:23, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

I wasn't combative at all. I was not ignoring consensus. When you see the same thing get nominated for deletion a third time it gets to you. Thats all there is to it. -- Cat ^chi? 21:53, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello there

I know it has been a while. I thought you may want to take a look at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Request to review User:Jack Merridew's ban. I know RFARs are in general unpleasant to even look at but this one is a light reading than your typical rfar. I am pointing this out to you as you were involved back then. -- Cat ^chi? 19:15, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi! I just read the whole thing and to be honest I don't think there's much I can do here. It looks like Casliber is going to be an arb from January which is a good thing. If Merridew really does stay away from you as promised and the conditions are enforced through the ArbCom and not depending on how Moreschi feels about it then I think you're fighting a lost battle to keep him away from EnWiki completely. Pixelface has already said pretty much what I would have said so I'd just be repeating him anyway. Casliber looks like he understands the issue with Moreschi so hopefully there won't be any problems. If it turns out that Moreschi is not being fair to you or not enforcing the injunction against Merridew seeking contact with you in any way then I'll be happy to back you up but unfortunately as it looks now I think I'd be hurting your chances of a working arrangement more that improving them by commenting. I think you have a better chance getting Moreschi removed as mentor/enforcer if he doesn't comply with the arbs decision than you do stopping this completely. Like I said, if it doesn't work out then I'll be happy to help you. EconomicsGuy (talk) 20:13, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh I was merely giving you a head's up of the situation. :) Last thing I want to do is get you stressed over something like this. Thanks for the offer though. -- Cat ^chi? 21:57, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

link on your arbcom statement

On your arbcom statement, your link to "CSI idea" should point to Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 56#A wiki equavalent of CSI (developing idea), for people like me who don't follow the village pump closely, and didn't see the discussion when it happened. --Enric Naval (talk) 23:54, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest. At this stage although archived the idea itself is still a developing one. It seems very few people pay any attention to WP:VPP, so I hope to resurrect the idea in the near future in some other median (not sure which median is the best). A number of the people voting seems to like at least some of my ideas even though they have voted oppose so my idea may have a chance unlike my candidacy. -- Cat ^chi? 09:58, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Magic 8-Ball#Standard answers

The probability of getting a positive result in a magic 8-ball is 50% or 10/20.
The probability of getting a negative result in a magic 8-ball is 25% or 05/20.

Must be my luck this year. :) -- Cat ^chi? 11:13, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Oooh, I do give you kudos for your response. --Cyde Weys 14:26, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks... I think... :P -- Cat ^chi? 14:36, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Contents