User talk:SebastianHelm/ArbCom elections

re: ArbCom Questions for Paul August

Hi Sebastian. I've answered your question. Thanks for asking. Paul August ☎ 22:14, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Portfolio

Thanks for letting me know; however, I'm really not sure what you're looking for in the portfolio. I'm hesitant to reduce complex situations down to a single diff or link to a page, and other situations I'm hesitant to link to because of confidentiality issues as a mediator. I think, though, that my statement and questions page should provide a general picture of my previous activities. Please don't hesitate to let me know if that's not what you're looking for. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:36, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Generally, I'm looking for anything that a candidate can bring to the table. But you got plenty to show! Your Signpost contributions alone show that you have a good understanding of this job. I'll add one of them to the table for now.

I wasn't aware confidentiality was an issue, since I thought these mediations took place in the open. I also take your point that a simple link doesn't do a good candidate justice. For now, I don't want to change the format of the table, but next time I'll start this sooner, and we'll find a collaborative consensus to either ditch the column or find a more appropriate way to present this information. — Sebastian 17:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

That's a great idea. Too many people I think are making their decision based on candidate statement alone (in fact, I left my candidate statement intentionally uninformative... so it's probably a terrible judgement tool to use :D ). Well I keep a list of all my previous MedCab cases... I can't recall any that I felt I did an awesome job with. The entire list is at the top of my questions page, if that helps any. Tell me if you'd like more info. --The Prophet Wizard of the Crayon Cake 23:08, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Cool! For the moment, I will just simply link to that list. I will look at the cases later, and if you like I can pick my favorites. — Sebastian 23:24, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Whatever works for you. Oh, and thanks a bunch for the comment. That's exactly the kind of attitude I take on these kinds of things.

Here's a list of some useful pages and some of the more active disputes:

• Talk: Macedonism
• User talk:The prophet wizard of the crayon cake/Archive 2 <--- That paticular archive has a lot of mediation stuff

• Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-07-24 Tewfik harrassment of Cerejota
• Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-06-16 Disemvoweling
• Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-07-05 Wikipedia:WOT#Mediation at User talk:The prophet wizard of the crayon cake
• Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-06-05 Bullshit <-- My very first mediation... on the case page itself
• Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-06-13 Conservatism#The Prophet Wizard of the Crayon Cake's super amazing solution proposal <-- eww... that was a nasty dispute.

The Prophet Wizard of the Crayon Cake 23:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for this list. How about if you put the list, with your explanations, in one place together and linked to it from the summary table? I don't know the election procedure well enough, but maybe you could even amend your statement page (sounds OK to me as long as you make that clear and add a date), in which case we wouldn't even have to change the summary table. — Sebastian 23:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Portfolio

Hello Sebastian - May I ask what you are looking for? If you want to know what things I am doing in addition to what I stated on the signpost and on my userpage? Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:11, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

User:Username

You blanked the notices on User talk:Username, stating that the user had been permanently blocked, yet, upon checking the block log, [1] the user is not currently blocked. Kukini 20:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Kukini, if you come back here again: I wonder why you wrote "blanked": I never blanked it, but replaced the text with an explanation. Did it appear blanked to you? — Sebastian 22:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

please explain. Kukini 20:31, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

(edit conflict:) Oh, I see. Sorry about that. What should we do about the many wrong links that go here? — Sebastian 20:32, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Not sure, but the talk page should remain. You can ADD a notice to it if you like, but best to unlink whatever links you see as problematic. Kukini 20:33, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, I reverted to your version. Let's move this conversation on that page - it's a talk page, after all. — Sebastian 20:47, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

A thought, if you are referring to "what links here" on that talk page, all of our talk pages have many pages that link to them. See yours [2] for example. Is this what you are referring to? Kukini 21:14, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes. And many of them are erroneous. Why don't we discuss this on the appropriate talk page? — Sebastian 21:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Because I was talking to YOU, not that user. Best, Kukini 21:30, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, I see the distinction you're making. I was anxious to not discuss that user's user page behind their back, but I see now that you agree with me on that. — Sebastian 21:57, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I am always a fan of transparency. But..the links to which you refer are not the doing of that user. Kukini 21:59, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Exactly! That's what I wanted to point out in the box. If that isn't clear, you can maybe think of a better wording. (And please, let's move that part of the discussion to that talk page. It is about that user, and directly about that page, now.) — Sebastian 22:02, 8 December 2006 (UTC)