Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Racepacket/Workshop

Making the best use of the Workshop page
It would be more helpful if interested people collected evidence first and then wrote finding of fact to support the evidence. The drafting arbitrator is often criticized for omitting relevant facts or sanctions. But more often than not no one has collected the diffs and presented them on the evidence page with a concise explanation of why it matters. FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 21:57, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * See Guide to arbitration/when a case is accepted for suggestions as to how to make a good case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FloNight (talk • contribs) 22:07, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm partly blaming it on the bad timing of the opening of this case. I'm actually quite busy this week, and I've already spent too much time on the little I've added to this so far. I'll add a few more points on the weekend. There might be more progress on the weekend, in general, actually. - Zero1328 Talk? 06:36, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Biased and vendeta-like actions
I would like to express concern with the proposals and evidence submissions of Chester Markel and Zero1328. Chester Markel has been aggressively lobbying for the 100% permanent ejection of Racepacket, or any derivative thereof. Their evidence submissions and proposals have been carefully picked to present a very negative interpretation of the facts. The evidence presentation of Zero1328 regarding the instance of IP socking (which I understood that we weren't supposed to associate IPs to name accounts) is not related to the primary focus of the case Civility issues revolving around LauraHale and Netball articles. Hasteur (talk) 03:29, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I threw the IP thing in there since I noticed that the comments (and diffs) on meta-wiki are actually by an IP, yet signed with Racepacket's name. It's more of a reminder than anything else.
 * I didn't intend on a vendetta, so sorry if it looks like that. I think the new evidence I put in today is fairly vague and subjective, so yeah, it looks negative. If the other stuff looks negative, uh, sorry. I was actually trying to make it neutral. Guess I didn't do so well. - Zero1328 Talk? 04:25, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
 * To summarize the salient points, per my evidence Racepacket has socked extensively, persistently created copyright violations, made 135 edits evading his Feb 2011 indefinite block for copyright violations, and threatened an editor's employment. A "100% permanent ejection of Racepacket" is more than overdue. "I understood that we weren't supposed to associate IPs to name accounts" isn't an accurate assessment of rules regarding editors who log out to create a disruption. Chester Markel (talk) 21:58, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * "Signing out" is impossible if you did not have a signon. Racepacket (talk) 00:54, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
 * And yet, if you do (meta), it should be used. If you don't, it's very easy to set up the unified login on all wikis. (See meta:Help:Unified login for details.)  Imzadi 1979  →   01:26, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
 * There is nothing to connect the meta signon with the en.wikipedia signon. Is this another "outing" problem? Racepacket (talk) 11:39, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Let me put it this way: the meta Racepacket account has edited pages related the the proposed DC chapter of Wikimedia and Wikimania '12. The meta 66.173.140.100 IP has also edited pages related to the proposed DC chapter of Wikimedia and Wikimania '12. The meta 66.173.140.100 also signed its posts to Foundation wiki feedback indicating it was Racepacket on enwp. Over here on enwp, the 66.173.140.100 IP was blocked for block evasion as an alternate/sockpuppet of the Racepacket account, based in part on this edit made under the IP. The enwp Racepacket account has edited items of interest to the Washington, DC, area including WMATA-related articles. In addition, the 66.173.140.100 IP on Commons has edited related to DC meetups, DC-related photos, and netball-related photos. All five entities (enwp Racepacket account, enwp 66.173.140.100 IP, meta Racepacket account, meta 66.173.140.100 IP and Commons 66.173.140.100 IP) have interconnections, so associating them together is not a stretch of the imagination. The fact remains that that the 66.173.140.100 IP on meta signed with your enwp account name in its initial edit, and that activity became a matter of both the RfC/U and the current arbitration. We're not revealing any information you have not chosen to reveal, intentionally or not, on your own already.  Imzadi 1979   →   12:42, 25 May 2011 (UTC)


 * As a general comment, 'socking' is determined per-project, not all-WMF. It's okay for people to register an account on the English Wikipedia, to use a different name on Meta, to use a third name on a non-English Wikipedia, and to work as an unregistered person on Commons.  Unified login exists for your convenience, not as a gotcha for people who don't want to bother with it.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:14, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah. That being said, if you want to apply for advanced permissions (steward, etc), unified login is probably required. --Rschen7754 21:23, 27 May 2011 (UTC)