Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2010/Candidates/Georgewilliamherbert

civility police
i was blocked by GeorgeWilliamHerbert a few weeks ago. the reason given for the block was "personal attack" which was based on a statement i did not make, but rather based on other users interpretations of what my comments might have implied; interpretations which george took at face value. i was not notifed of the ANI discussion which prompted geroge's action and given no chance to clarify my comments or defend myself in anyway. even when george notified me on my talk page that he had blocked me, he made no mention of that thread; i only discovered it through another users talk page. i subsequently appealed the block to arbcom, a case which george neglected to make a statment in. afterwards i tried to take the issue up with him directly on his talk page, but was simply ignored. other users have accused george of acting like the "civility police", a charge which george denies. but seeing as he appears to regularly arbitrarily and unilateraly use admin powers against users without discussion or consultation with other admins or even the users he blocks, and then proceeds to ignore people who question him, i don't think this accusation is necessarily all that far off the mark. even in his nomination questions page, questions sit unanswered, and the voting period is almost half way over. just my personal POV about this candidate, cheers WookieInHeat (talk) 03:36, 29 November 2010 (UTC)


 * From my acquaintanceship with GWH activity on the I-P conflict I can tell that his decisions looked many times, for many editors, as lacking reasonable explanation. While it's natural that one side will always be unsatisfied when sanction is enacted by an admin, it was away more than that with his.


 * In the "principles" clause, under the "responsibility" count -GWH wrote that all of the admin actions should be transparent but it's not applied to private correspondence. In fact, WP obligate any admin to explain his/her deeds when he/she use his/her admin tools to enact sanctions against other editors-however, though GWH was asked to do that by editors he blocked and etc (sometimes without any complaint by others) he systematically failed to do so many times (for instance, he blocked me about a year ago without any complaint by others for "violating several of WP guidelines" but though he was asked many times by me (and not only) specifically to tell which guidelines exactly he never answer that). Also, while he used heavy hand against some editors without disruptive history, he used very very light hand against users with very long disruptive history.


 * I believe that this admin behavior make him incapable to deal with admin responsibilities within the I-P conflict. I also believe that the very light hand he used against repeatedly disruptive editors had very negative contribution to the I-P conflict(many times he wrote that he looked for the lightest possible punishment in cases when editors refused to apologize for their actions, to take any responsibility and continue with very obvious disruptive behavior on the AN/I itself, including PA and etc-in these cases he enacted sanction which were way below the minimum expected in Wikipedia). Obviously such policy couldn't and didn't yield any good. GWH activity in the I-P conflict area convinced me that he's not a good candidate for the ArbCom. I can provide many diffs in support of what I wrote if someone is interested. --Gilisa (talk) 10:16, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Exalted one
I revere GeorgeWilliamHerbert as the most nearly perfect human being I know. I believe him to be the inspiration for this superb series of instructional videos at YouTube:
 * Wikipedia: an introduction
 * Wikipedia: an introduction pt II
 * Wikipedia: an introduction pt III
 * Wikipedia: an introduction pt IV Pachuco cadaver (talk) 00:26, 7 December 2010 (UTC)