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• WP:Civility/Poll

We're way better at talking then doing.

--Tznkai (talk)

NB, have not forgotten about User:Buster7/Incivility, just been busy.

Mentorship

Although you've said "no" already, I write again to invite you to join others in becoming a co-mentor for me.

You may be unaware that the "Finding of facts" in the decision at Tang Dynasty explicitly encompasses a message on your talk page -- see User talk:Tznkai#Seeking help in presenting thoughts clearly

Your experience will help remedy a deficit in the composition of a small group. The nascent status of a mentorship committee is clarified in the currently active thread at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification/Tang Dynasty. Hopefully, this mentorship experiment will prove to be more effective and less burdensome than previous wiki-mentoring schemes.

This is a time for hortatory concepts. Do you know this one?

"I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something.

I must not fail to do the something that I can do."

If Wikiquote:Helen Keller#Misattributed is to believed, then I am not alone in linking these words with Helen Keller. The salient question becomes this: Does precise attribution matter in the context of a teachable moment? No – not always, but often.

What can I say or do to convince you to agree tentatively?

Core policies are the tools at hand; and if you agree to help connect the dots, it could benefit more than me. In this search for a mentor deemed acceptable by ArbCom, I cite Misplaced Pages:Mentorship#Unintended consequences as a plausible context for discussing what I have in mind.

Your background causes me to share something already explained to another prospective mentor, "Among a prospective mentor's many burdens, the most difficult would involve (a) helping me discern why or when I should apologize or (b) helping me to explain why or when I will not apologize in a wiki-context" -- see diff. May I offer an on-topic writing sample? As you think about agreeing to join a mentorship committee, please review Patrick Lennox Tierney#Showa apology rebuffed.

Are you willing to look into this a bit further? I assume that time constraints will limit your participation; but perhaps you might consider making yourself available as a "non-public mentor", as an advisor to the co-mentors whose questions are likely to be different than mine?

If you please, contact me by e-mail or on my talk page. --Tenmei (talk) 19:14, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Your restrictions on Brews ohare

Hi. Your comment at User talk:Brews ohare#February 2010 and/or WP:AE#Brews ohare might be helpful. Thanks,  Sandstein  15:34, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

RFAR

Risker has asked that you be informed of this case which concerns Trusilver's unblock of Brews ohare. Regards -- Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 14:12, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

More

User talk:Brews ohare#March 2010. I tried looking into it all, but it seems to me to be a big mess. Perhaps you can help? ChildofMidnight (talk) 20:33, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

ANI thread on Brews ohare's topic ban appeal

See this thread. Your comment is welcome. Tim Song (talk) 22:08, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Note that I have moved that discussion to WP:AN. Thank you, –MuZemike 03:44, 16 March 2010 (UTC)