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Mentioned at WP:Arbitration enforcement

As you are aware, your name has come up at WP:AE#NickOrnstein with the assertion that you are a member of '110 Club Wikipedia.' The significance (if any) of membership in that group is now being discussed in the AE thread. Since you appear to be a participant, I am leaving you a case notice for the Longevity sanctions. This step is required by some of our processes. Thank you.

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The Arbitration Committee has permitted administrators to impose, at their own discretion, sanctions on any editor working on pages broadly related to Longevity if the editor repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process. If you engage in inappropriate behavior in this area, you may be placed under sanctions including blocks, a revert limitation or an article ban. The committee's full decision can be read at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Longevity#Final decision. EdJohnston (talk) 05:20, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

EdJohnston, I see that you worded your explanation differently here on Melissa's talk page as opposed to my talk page. You stated that "this step is required of some of our processes." Please enlighten us on what the exact process is, considering that I don't believe the process includes "sending a formal notice to all members of a forum just because they are members of that forum". You told me that we cannot appeal a notice, but I would like to make sure that you are indeed following the process correctly as an uninvolved administrator. Although, you have made those following statements suggesting that you have already formed your conclusion:

• "I think that everyone who is part of the '110 Club Wikipedia' ought to receive this message." Why, pray tell? Membership of a forum by and of itself cannot be used as a rationale to send a formal notice.
• "you are probably aware that Arbcom takes offsite coordination very seriously. At a minimum, the AE will end with all of the members notified of the discretionary sanctions" I completely understand that canvassing is a violation of Wikipedia policy, and it may come to a determination by a closing administrator that is the case for some members, but all members?? All members of that forum getting a discretionary sanction (by the way, what does that mean?)?? Tell me again, what did I (and Melissa) do other than being guilty of being a forum member??
• I have noted that I have made all necessary clarifications per your requests, but you have not responded to my feeling that the WP:AE#NickOrnstein should *not* be expanded outside the scope of the original request by David in DC to impose a two-week ban on NickOrnstein. Otherwise, itsmejudith has successfully turned the AE into a wider audience & scope that should be in a separate AE request. After all, what if David in DC is not in agreement with the wider audience & scope?

I respectfully request your reply to our concern here, EdJohnston. I hope you will understand that I will more than likely attempt to request assistance from some members of the Arbitration Committee to see if your action(s) has been appropriate to date. Thank you, CalvinTy 18:55, 7 March 2011 (UTC)