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Just a note to say...

Just a note to say I have replied to FT2's reply to a question about my block of him in early 2009, and wasn't sure where to put my reply: here or somewhere else? It's "discussion"... but then again it's about something on the "Questions" page. Anyway. I ended up putting it on the FT2 "Questions" talkpage. Here's a link to my post. Bishonen | talk 15:42, 26 November 2010 (UTC). reply

There was this discussion about two years ago. Mathsci ( talk) 16:48, 26 November 2010 (UTC) reply

I was disturbed by your previous service on Arbcom

I had not any firm opinion of your work until the OrangeMarlin case. I discovered several points in the precis you wrote on that case which were either false implications or patently false and was unhappy with your evasiveness about seeing those points corrected. I remember being disturbed when you would bring incidents where you had involved yourself forward as Arbcom cases. You always seemed to be escalating things and then talking in circles around the point. I have found you to be out of touch with reality and unreasonable too often. I hope you do not return to the committee. BirgitteSB 00:32, 28 November 2010 (UTC) reply

• Wikipedians have different strengths and skills, and it's important that we learn over the years what we're good at, and not so good at. FT, I have to agree with Birgitte that your strengths don't lie in dispute resolution. I think it would harm the ArbCom if you were to sit on it again, and I also think it would harm you. I remember how tense you were when you were on it, and how you began to relax once you'd resigned. I really hope for both those reasons that you'll reconsider your decision to stand. SlimVirgin ^{talk| contribs} 00:39, 28 November 2010 (UTC) reply

I wonder if there is something special about Arbcom in that case -- because I've found FT2's dispute resolution in other fields to be pretty good and well thought out. ⇒ SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 21:25, 28 November 2010 (UTC) reply