User talk:Carcharoth/Archive 56

GGTF Case
You wrote "SPECIFICO is having his say on his talk page" -- I am not aware of what basis you might have for that statement. At the current time, I am profoundly concerned about the process in this Case, both for the same reasons which others have stated as well as for factors relating to me which I've shared privately with NYBrad and Seraphimblade. I can comment if that would be helpful, but I will need to know from the Committee -- not individual Arbs -- that it wishes me to do so. I previously solicited the instructions, by email, of one Arb concerning my IBAN. I carefully limited my participation per those instructions and have now been voted againts by several other Arbs who thereby appear to be renouncing the guidance I believed in good faith was proffered by the Committee. I hope this is clear. Thanks. SPECIFICO talk  00:50, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom election question
Just a note that I replied to your question for me at Arbitration Committee Elections December 2014/Candidates/Ks0stm/Questions. Feel free to take a look at your leisure, and if you would like any elaboration or clarification feel free to ask. Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 20:39, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Nominations for the Military history Wikiproject's Historian and Newcomer of the Year Awards are now open!
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Nominations for the Military history Wikiproject's Historian and Newcomer of the Year Awards are now open!
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re: Evidence in Landmark Worldwide arbitration case
Hi, I'm confused by the fact that several of the Arbitrators, including yourself, have made the - reasonable on the face of it - point that the finding of Tendentious Editing by Asynax would need more than the single diff from a year ago that the drafters had included in the Proposed Decision. However, there was an abundance of evidence posted in the Evidence and Workshop pages to support that finding, and I posted links to the most egregious eleven items here on the PD talk page. Is there some reason why these are not being taken into account? Or are they inadmissible for some reason? Or are they simply considered to be unconvincing or irrelevant?

Forgive me if it's not appropriate to approach you directly on this. This is my first experience of being involved in an Arbitration case. I do appreciate that there is a heavy Arbitration workload on at the moment, and that you do all have many other responsibilities in life. I did not want to simply repeat what I had already said on the talk page. Thanks. DaveApter (talk) 14:53, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

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Oh no, it's gone!
I've only just found out about this.

(You may treat this section as a talkback template and delete it as soon as you have read it, or else let it self-destruct with explosive consequences for the rest of this page.)

Hi, by the way. Waltham, The Duke of 21:55, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

drive-by arbitration
I saw your comments described as such by other arbitrators. Now I can understand even better than before some of the reasons that people find being an arbitrator as difficult as they do. Other arbs are generally thought to be able to do what they were elected to do. Having said that, I hope no one sees this as me, who have never been remotely qualified for the job, criticizing others who had the guts to take the task on.

Remember, there are only a few weeks left. That happy thought might be able to help you get through some of the current arbitrations. I'd offer you a beer, but, under the circumstances, I know that for me that might be a real step in the wrong direction this time of year. Given some of the current cases, I'm fairly sure it wouldn't be bright for anyone, even someone who just doesn't like alcohol much like me. John Carter (talk) 00:46, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Assessment and Peer review request for Khwaja Muhammad Latif Ansari
I would greatly appreciate it if you would be able to take time to either assess or review this article:
 * Khwaja Muhammad Latif Ansari — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cuparsk (talk • contribs) 15:02, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

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Peace?
Thank you for the lovely note on my talk which arrived during vacation, - and which I re-discovered only now in archiving. I am in preparation to have a second Bach cantata featured on the Main page, so still busy but in a pleasant way. - Do you remember your reservation regarding my wish for infoboxes for Verdi operas for his birthday? Well, wish is in the process of being fulfilled, look at Rigoletto, Don Carlos, Falstaff. It seems so anachronistic that arbitration still "clarifies" infobox restrictions, related to the case during the (a bit turbulent and not free of misunderstandings) introduction phase of infobox opera while the former wars reached the realms of satire and caricature ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:07, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

A nice operatic performance --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:46, 2 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that link, Gerda. Carcharoth (talk) 22:30, 3 February 2015 (UTC)


 * ... and a flower for performers --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:13, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Proud of Bach on the Main page, did you know that my user is only 5 years old, and when a friend told me he was an arb once I had no idea what that meant? For your continued service, thinking before you type:   This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian on 28 December 2008. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:12, 7 February 2015 (UTC)


 * How do you like (about La Loca (opera), comment, collaboration)? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:22, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Good to see. BTW, I'm going to archive my talk page now, so any further replies made in this thread might get lost in an edit conflict with that. Carcharoth (talk) 13:52, 1 March 2015 (UTC)