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that I've notified my fellow arbitrators about my late activity on this case, it was my decision alone to do this and any criticism of this should be directed at me alone. At the root of this is that I managed, in the RFAR statement, to confuse content and behaviour issues, and incorrectly stated a need to recuse on a specific issue. The reasoning I used at the time was that I took a strong stance on the content issue raised at the ANI thread (the one linked to from my RFAR statement), and I thought that this warranted recusal. It turns out, however, that the findings of fact about SemBubenny's behaviour related to those articles quite correctly say nothing about the relative merits of the content, so I could quite easily have voted on them without worrying that my earlier stance on the content was prejudicing my voting (all arbitrators should be able to do this, unless they are deeply involved, as I've said I would be for
Tolkien-related articles, for example). However, this would require changing things again, and I think this one change was quite enough, and my abstaining on those findings of fact won't make any difference to the ruling. For the record, my RFAR statement (which pointed out ways SemBubenny should have handled these articles, mostly using PROD and AfD) clearly shows that I would have supported findings of fact 3 and 4 if I hadn't made things complicated by throwing the recusal word around too lightly (I've learnt a big lesson there). In short: I shouldn't have used that recusal word; I realised very late that I'd made a mistake; and rather than say nothing I decided to try and correct that mistake. So in essence, I support findings of fact 1, 3 and 4 (and have reservations about 2), but abstained on 3 and 4 on a technicality. Once I accepted that to my own satisfaction, I felt comfortable voting on the remedies. I do hope that was a sufficiently clear explanation. I can't emphasise enough the lessons I've learnt here, about content issues versus behaviour issues, and when recusal is warranted or not. I will be happy to discuss this further, but don't want proceedings to be distracted too much, as the critical issue now is deciding on which remedy gets enacted (or whether an alternative proposal will gain more support among the committee as a whole).
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the case to do with the phobias issue. It is obviously too late to change the case acceptance (and it would likely have been accepted anyway), but I cannot in all conscience stand by on the non-phobias-related issues being decided here, so I am moving myself to active on this case. I should have clarified all this with the case clerk at the point when the case opened. This was a mistake on my part, and I don't intend to make this mistake again. In future, when I may need to abstain on parts (but not all of a case), I will note this at the RFAR and avoid conditional recusals that will only confuse matters. I have examined my recusals on other cases, and those still stand. I have notified my fellow arbitrators of this decision, and I will notify the case clerk and the parties to the case, and will add a note to the original record of the RFAR in these case pages.
310:(including remedy 1). Do you envisage yourself supporting or opposing remedies while not taking any position on the findings of fact that underlie those remedies? Or do you just plan only to support remedies that you think are justified by the findings of fact that you have voted on (which I think at present would be no remedies at all - you abstained on all actionable findings, correct)? Apologies for being so inquisitive, I'm just a little bemused as to where you could be going with this. Perhaps you're considering proposing new findings that would give rise to additional remedies unrelated to the other matters?
289:"Recuse on the phobias issue - took part in ANI thread on the phobias, and gave SemBubenny (Mikkalai at the time) advice on his talk page. Additionally, don't think deletion of phobia articles out of process needs to be dealt with by ArbCom (AfD and DRV should handle content issues like that). If the deletions get regularly overturned, then that would be a problem. Will check back here to see if SemBubenny makes a statement. Carcharoth (talk) 12:07, 26 January 2009 (UTC)"
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426:. 16 of you isn't such a great number as that! It also looks bad if this is what happens here, and then elsewhere the Committee makes righteous resolutions urging what it's failing to attempt here. :) SemBubenny might get desyssoped permanently with no consensus here. Surely there can be some more gravitation to a middle line than this? No?
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Thanks for pointing this out. I agree with what you are saying here, and possibly the right thing to do here is to propose a new finding of fact based on those diffs instead, but that is unlikely to make a substantial difference at this stage. One thing I did notice, when following one of the diffs
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Here we get the break Flo feels is necessary, while NYB's harshness concern may also be addressed. This needn't prohibit btw the imposition of any resysopping restrictions/conditions, if a motion to that effect is more likely to gain arbitrator support. The wording in the current desysopping motion
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thing, you know. "Knowledge (XXG) Community" will not see any change: it sees me only when I occasionally piss somebody off. Once I attended a wikipedia meetup I felt extremely humiliated when I was recognized only "You are #6 in edit count or something, aren't you?". The guy thought he is praising
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I wrote a long reply that got lost when my computer crashed (well, the wireless card went doolally). Anyway, to cut a long story short (but still start at the beginning), my initial RFAR statement was the wrong approach entirely. Before I explain that, I should make clear that though I noted above
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Okay, it seems you did vote on the remedies on the existing findings. How can that be reconciled with "abstain on any aspects of the case to do with the phobias issue"? Did you just disregard the core issues and find that most of the proposed remedies were too harsh in relation to what was left?
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Didn't know that actually, though it's still gonna be a nail-biter for him. x/y is, btw, votes cast/notional pool. I suppose it would be simpler to do majority (e.g. 8 and 9 rather than 14 and 16), but that's out of a habit I gained elsewhere and it also makes the numbers easier to crunch for
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