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== A ping re Biden == |
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Hi there Thryduulf, |
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I saw your comments at Jytdog's ArbCom about the fact that the Administrator's NB was no longer really working as intended. I was impressed by what I saw as some willingness to speak out against fellow admins when necessary for the health of the project. That is very rare in my limited experience. |
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Have you seen Larry Sanger's [https://www.foxnews.com/media/wikipedia-co-founder-larry-sanger-says-online-dictionary-scrapped-neutrality-favors-lefty-politics latest]? He seems qualified to critique the project. After working on the Biden allegation for the past two months, I have come to realize Sanger is right, and it is a lost cause unless someone steps in, and unless something like a group of disinterested admins oversee this area. |
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Noticeboards are failing us, and we have perhaps discovered why. {{u|Jayron32}} admits [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard&diff=955002072&oldid=955001482 here], that to enforce NPOV on the Biden page would result in all his friends getting angry. Editors can waste hours upon hours of time attempting to bring about NPOV and abide by policy, but if admins are not willing to enforce it, we will continue to receive criticism like Sanger's, and articles like [https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/29/biden_vs_kavanaugh_how_the_metoo_numbers_stack_up_143065.html this one] will be published. |
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I'm well aware that this note to you is insufficient in many ways. I know you were amenable to helping close the first RfC (someone ignored this fact and closed it anyway, and as per usual it was a head count rather than assessment of arguments based on PAGs), so I thought I'd follow up with you as I don't want to just walk away from this mess silently. Anyone willing to look into the problem deserves a thorough list of diffs and a clean, concise explanation of the noted problems. I don't have 8 hours to spare, and sadly, I no longer have the faith in this project required to motivate me to use my time in this way. If there is interest, I could chip away at this as time allows. It's obvious to me this requires an ArbCom since so many admins are involved. But for now, this little note to you is the best I can do. Thank you for your time, <b style="text-shadow:7px 7px 8px #B8B8B8">[[User:Petrarchan47|<span style="color:#A0A0A0">petrarchan47</span>]][[User talk:Petrarchan47|<span style="color:deeppink">คุ</span>]][[Special:Contribs/Petrarchan47|<span style="color:orangered">ก</span>]]</b> 17:05, 1 June 2020 (UTC) |
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Arb process query
I see you and S Marshall editing the Workshop page at the Medicine arb; does the Workshop run concurrently with the evidence phase? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:18, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
- Yes. The workshop phase opens at the same time as the evidence phase but closes later. Thryduulf (talk) 13:22, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks ... did not realize that. So my next question, if you will entertain me, is where to best address rebuttals. James has implicated me for "harassment" via pings in his evidence, although he had never asked me to stop pinging him until 31 March, and he had an acknowledgement from me within 13 minutes. Do I use up more KB on the evidence page to rebut that, or do I add that to the Workshop page under the Analysis of evidence section? The case pages are going to get very long here, so I want to be sure I'm using them optimally ... Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:26, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
- Basic rebuttal is best in your evidence section, especially as you don't have a word limit to worry about on this case. The analysis of evidence is better for longer form examination of the evidence and seeing how it stands up to scrutiny, contrasting different evidences, etc. Thryduulf (talk) 13:30, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:32, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
- Basic rebuttal is best in your evidence section, especially as you don't have a word limit to worry about on this case. The analysis of evidence is better for longer form examination of the evidence and seeing how it stands up to scrutiny, contrasting different evidences, etc. Thryduulf (talk) 13:30, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks ... did not realize that. So my next question, if you will entertain me, is where to best address rebuttals. James has implicated me for "harassment" via pings in his evidence, although he had never asked me to stop pinging him until 31 March, and he had an acknowledgement from me within 13 minutes. Do I use up more KB on the evidence page to rebut that, or do I add that to the Workshop page under the Analysis of evidence section? The case pages are going to get very long here, so I want to be sure I'm using them optimally ... Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:26, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
I am here to abuse of your hospitality and experience :) I have put up my first piece of evidence at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine/Evidence#Bluerasberry. Because it will be so lengthy due to the number of editors and issues to be covered, I need to make sure my evidence is tightly focused and helpful towards formulating remedies. Could I entice you to add a reader's critique of my first submission, to guide the rest of my evidence? Keep in mind that each piece I present in this initial submission will be tied to a pattern of behavior repeated across other topics by other editors. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:08, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- @SandyGeorgia: I'll take a look, but it might be a couple of hours before I get chance (I'm going to need to start cooking soon and I've some stuff to do before then!) Thryduulf (talk) 16:11, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- No hurry, and no need to look today ... I have LOTS of work to do still on the rest of my evidence. Enjoy your day, however you celebrate. If you can remember, please ping me when you respond here, since I'm kinda busy :) Thanks in advance, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:15, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- @SandyGeorgia: Based on a quick read that all looks good. You do though have what looks to be a reference to a footnote after the statement "26 editors" but you haven't included the footnote. I expect you are intending to add that with a later addition to your evidence, but I suggest it would be better to include it now. This makes it clear what you are referring to when people read this set of evidence and you wont have to spend energy defending it if someone replies before you do add it. Thryduulf (talk) 19:02, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- It was there, but buried at bottom, so I moved it up. Thank you SO much. You don't find it too much or tedious reading? I have just added my preamble, upon which all other evidence (to be submitted) will be based, in case you also have time to look at that: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine/Evidence#WPMED tension is long-standing. I would have preferred to submit all of my evidence at once, so it will all hang together, but am concerned that the Workshop page is already becoming overburdened with proposals that will not address the core dispute. Hence, I have put up this partial .. but full evidence will build on it. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:08, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- At arbcom being tedious and overinclusive is better than missing something important. There is a reason only mad people read cases for fun! Don't worry about overburdening the workshop, the arbs/clerks will step in if there is anything disruptive or stuff is off topic. However don't duplicate for the sake of making a complete decision, e.g. if you want to suggest a remedy based on a finding of fact someone else has posted, just post the remedy and note in your comments that it is supported by User:Examples's proposed FoF "BadEditor did Foo". Thryduulf (talk) 19:17, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- I expect one editor I have tangled with before to complain about (my) length, and I tend towards verbosity (understatement), so want to be sure what I have added so far is concise, succinct, on point. But then, since I am adding piecemeal, that could be hard to determine :) I have added several things to the Workshop page which will become more clear as I add evidence. This thing has more legs than an octopus. Thanks for your guidance, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:35, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- At arbcom being tedious and overinclusive is better than missing something important. There is a reason only mad people read cases for fun! Don't worry about overburdening the workshop, the arbs/clerks will step in if there is anything disruptive or stuff is off topic. However don't duplicate for the sake of making a complete decision, e.g. if you want to suggest a remedy based on a finding of fact someone else has posted, just post the remedy and note in your comments that it is supported by User:Examples's proposed FoF "BadEditor did Foo". Thryduulf (talk) 19:17, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- It was there, but buried at bottom, so I moved it up. Thank you SO much. You don't find it too much or tedious reading? I have just added my preamble, upon which all other evidence (to be submitted) will be based, in case you also have time to look at that: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Medicine/Evidence#WPMED tension is long-standing. I would have preferred to submit all of my evidence at once, so it will all hang together, but am concerned that the Workshop page is already becoming overburdened with proposals that will not address the core dispute. Hence, I have put up this partial .. but full evidence will build on it. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:08, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- @SandyGeorgia: Based on a quick read that all looks good. You do though have what looks to be a reference to a footnote after the statement "26 editors" but you haven't included the footnote. I expect you are intending to add that with a later addition to your evidence, but I suggest it would be better to include it now. This makes it clear what you are referring to when people read this set of evidence and you wont have to spend energy defending it if someone replies before you do add it. Thryduulf (talk) 19:02, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- No hurry, and no need to look today ... I have LOTS of work to do still on the rest of my evidence. Enjoy your day, however you celebrate. If you can remember, please ping me when you respond here, since I'm kinda busy :) Thanks in advance, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:15, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
By the way, a process suggestion, that you may be able to give me feedback on. The simultaneous opening of the Evidence and Workshop pages impedes both, as a) editors gathering evidence get sidetracked by cockamaney Workshop proposals from people who have not yet seen any evidence, and b) the Workshop page gets bogged down by those same proposals. It would make more sense to me if the Workshop page opened a week after the Evidence page, still with overlapping time frame. I have had to sidetrack and put up evidence piecemeal so that we don't see a gynormous irrelevant bunch of Workshop proposals based on, as yet, no evidence. Backwards! (And, in my search for diffs, at the rate I am finding new and more concerning evidence, being sidetracked into the Workshop page could add a week to the Evidence phase, as I'm unsure if I will make it on time now.) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:45, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) That's an idea that deserves more thought. I can see the merits in your argument (although you don't have to contribute to the workshop and you can just ignore proposals that clearly wont go anywhere), but it would disadvantage someone who posts evidence and makes their suggestions on the workshop in the first couple of days and then doesn't (possibly can't) return to the case after that, and requiring evidence to be presented before commenting on the workshop would remove the opportunity from comment by uninvolved editors (sometimes helpful, sometimes unhelpful). Its not something I can recall there being significant discussion about (Risker is a better arbitration historian than I am though) so might be worth suggesting (probably after this case is done) on the arbitration talk page. Thryduulf (talk) 19:55, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- Ah, that darn Risker! You can't trust her for anything :) :) (I still owe her a stay-at-home greeting on another page, but have been a wee bit busy.) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:58, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
Just letting you know that your name popped up incidentally in my evidence here. Just processing through intersecting contribs ... finding more examples than I know what to do with. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:31, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
- @SandyGeorgia: Thanks. By the way, are you aware of WP:AN#Review of RfC close by User:Cunard? I'm not plugged in to the case enough to know if that is relevant or not. Thryduulf (talk) 07:07, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
- I haven't yet read his evidence carefully, but I believe that is the instance S Marshall refers to in evidence? I avoid e-cigs like the plague, because it is a topic (like many other medical topics) that was historically dominated by the bully brigade and unhelpful editor interaction; I am not up on the specifics, but what is referred to in Version 1 vs Version 2 there is totally clear to me at first glance. As you can see, I have had to put up voluminous amounts of diffs to evidence the trend being referenced in that discussion by S Marshall-- how does one show trends without years worth of diffs? There are three issues affecting RFCs in medical editing: a) one editor tries to do too much, all the time, and doesn't often fully engage or understand all discussions, such that speed of editing seriously impedes discussion, leading to !voting-style RFCs often poorly formed; b) !voting by other editors who almost never engage or fully understand discussions reinforces incomplete understanding of the underlying conflicts or issues to be resolved, so that issues fester; and c) we don't know how to formulate RFCs, yet rely on them to the detriment of actual discussion. I put up one of the worst RFCs ever last December, after discussion had stalled, and only understood well into the RFC why it was bad and just how bad it was, then tried to remedy that mid-stream, and made a worse mess of the mess. The RFC was so poorly formed that the inevitable conclusion was no consensus, leading to WhatamIdoing imploring us all to hold off on any more RFCs, leading to the unresolved dispute discussion being autoarchived by the bot (while we were all busy on the drug pricing RFC), leading to the removal of the dispute tag because there was no "active discussion" on talk (wikilawyering?), leading to another edit war pending yet another RFC ... yada, yada, lather-rinse-repeat. Factor a) (one editor editing too fast) worsens over time as long-term, committed, knowledgeable editors have simply backed off from the tactics employed on contentious articles like e-cigs, and avoid WPMED as much as possible. End result of tactics used at places like e-cigs: not enough medical editors engaging, as long-time, founding, core contributors have been alienated. The idea that it is an "ego battle" is off; it is a matter of those who adhere to policy versus those who reject policy, and that is somewhat divided along the lines of old-timers vs relative newcomers, many of whom model their interactions on the bully brigade. MOST of the problems affecting WPMED can be resolved by a) finding a way to get one editor to slow down, digest, engage, understand, discuss; b) instituting some sort of independent approval needed before RFCs are launched; and c) stopping the coordinated !voting on RFCs. With some (not all) of the bully brigade finally being addressed by arbitration actions, the prognosis for WPMED is not as bad as it might seem from the current level of tension. And there are editors who can help rebuild and heal if the underlying issues are dealt with. The outlook is not as bleak as some have painted; we can get along, but I am concerned that I put up enough evidence, to show why the standard techniques used for arb enforcement won't work to solve the issues in this case. TMI !! Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:09, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Persistent edit war!
Hey there, please take a look at User:Saichana 's editorial history. He's making a mess out of Talk Pages and was already being warned and banned before. Thanks HinduKshatrana (talk) 14:29, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
- @HinduKshatrana: I've blocked them for 3 months this time, as that's exactly the behaviour they were blocked for last time. Thryduulf (talk) 15:03, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
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Joe Biden RfC
Hi Thryduulf. I know you said that you wouldn't be able to be online for the next 12 hours, so I'm going to go ahead and close the RfC on Talk:Joe Biden by myself. I'm really sorry about this, and I wanted to explain my thought process. I think that several days ago, if we were asked to determine the result of the discussion, a team of multiple uninvolved administrators would have been advisable due to the contentiousness of the discussion. However, in the past few days, circumstances have changed with new reporting in mainstream reliable sources, such that I believe the outcome of the discussion is fairly straightforward and perhaps uncontroversial. I understand that Wikipedia is not a newspaper, and we have no hard publication deadlines that news organizations might. However, I think it's important that we switch gears in the discussion from "whether" we include the allegations to "how" are we going to include the allegations as soon as possible. Once again, I'm really sorry for not including your input on this, and I hope that this helps clarify why I made this decision. Mz7 (talk) 01:04, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you, but I'd seen the ping. I didn't participate because I didn't feel like doing anything, and you didn't ask me so I didn't feel like I had to answer anything :-) Nyttend (talk) 02:01, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
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A ping re Biden
Hi there Thryduulf,
I saw your comments at Jytdog's ArbCom about the fact that the Administrator's NB was no longer really working as intended. I was impressed by what I saw as some willingness to speak out against fellow admins when necessary for the health of the project. That is very rare in my limited experience.
Have you seen Larry Sanger's latest? He seems qualified to critique the project. After working on the Biden allegation for the past two months, I have come to realize Sanger is right, and it is a lost cause unless someone steps in, and unless something like a group of disinterested admins oversee this area.
Noticeboards are failing us, and we have perhaps discovered why. Jayron32 admits here, that to enforce NPOV on the Biden page would result in all his friends getting angry. Editors can waste hours upon hours of time attempting to bring about NPOV and abide by policy, but if admins are not willing to enforce it, we will continue to receive criticism like Sanger's, and articles like this one will be published.
I'm well aware that this note to you is insufficient in many ways. I know you were amenable to helping close the first RfC (someone ignored this fact and closed it anyway, and as per usual it was a head count rather than assessment of arguments based on PAGs), so I thought I'd follow up with you as I don't want to just walk away from this mess silently. Anyone willing to look into the problem deserves a thorough list of diffs and a clean, concise explanation of the noted problems. I don't have 8 hours to spare, and sadly, I no longer have the faith in this project required to motivate me to use my time in this way. If there is interest, I could chip away at this as time allows. It's obvious to me this requires an ArbCom since so many admins are involved. But for now, this little note to you is the best I can do. Thank you for your time, petrarchan47คุก 17:05, 1 June 2020 (UTC)