Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-04-29/Arbitration report
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It was User:MastCell that brought forwards the TM discussion. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 10:48, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
- Fixed, thank you. Neotarf (talk) 13:05, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
- Well, yes. And I didn't bring the request to "clarify the relationship between privacy and conflict of interest in a situation where employees of a transcendental meditation institute may be editing an article related to that institute." (I think we should clarify that issue, but I'm not under any illusions that ArbCom is going to do so, least of all in a clarification request). I simply requested a tally of how the Arbs voted on Will Beback's ban appeal. That's all. (I wouldn't have even bothered to do that much, except that an Arb actually encouraged me to.) I didn't ask for Will to be un-banned. I didn't ask for any action to be taken against accounts with a COI. I didn't ask for anything except a simple show of hands. Obviously, it was a mistake - either I didn't clearly express what I was asking for, or people simply filled in the blanks with a lot of mistaken assumptions (not just the Signpost, but also many of the Arbs themselves). Whatever. MastCell Talk 15:44, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
- Okay, I see what happened. There are actually two requests with the same name, the first one filed on April 5 by IRWolfie-, closed April 25, and now archived here, and the second brought on April 29 by MastCell, which is the current request. The report has been updated to reflect both requests. —Neotarf (talk) 03:27, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
- Well, yes. And I didn't bring the request to "clarify the relationship between privacy and conflict of interest in a situation where employees of a transcendental meditation institute may be editing an article related to that institute." (I think we should clarify that issue, but I'm not under any illusions that ArbCom is going to do so, least of all in a clarification request). I simply requested a tally of how the Arbs voted on Will Beback's ban appeal. That's all. (I wouldn't have even bothered to do that much, except that an Arb actually encouraged me to.) I didn't ask for Will to be un-banned. I didn't ask for any action to be taken against accounts with a COI. I didn't ask for anything except a simple show of hands. Obviously, it was a mistake - either I didn't clearly express what I was asking for, or people simply filled in the blanks with a lot of mistaken assumptions (not just the Signpost, but also many of the Arbs themselves). Whatever. MastCell Talk 15:44, 2 May 2013 (UTC)