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21:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Che I have requested Arbitration because of exactly the problems you wrote. I understand your wish to remain neutral, but what you said you said, very accurately, and your words provide a neutral 3rd party comment during mediation of the underlying situation. I will not pretend that you did not know what you were saying.Richardmalter 05:06, 13 December 2006 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Involved_parties

RfC

I opened an RfC regarding Fairness And Accuracy For All, it is located at Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Fairness And Accuracy For All and would appreciate you comments if you have any. This message is being posted to anyone's talk page who it seems has had much contact with the user in question.

I know you interaction has been breif but its also been neutral. --NuclearZer0 22:06, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Just to give you an update I have little to do with Democratic Underground and the issue with FAAFA that I have takes place mainly outside of that. I had compiled a page following what I felt were bad edits to a noticeboard and have kept it since, this was while he was editing under NBGPWS (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). After he changed his name I kept the list of incidents and it just happens that many of the people coincide with that articles as they seem to know eachother off wiki, or butted heads in the past. That is why it seems odd that I am introducing it. I am not involved in the Democratic Underground debate at all, the issue stems from outside of it, but contains many of the same people. --NuclearZer0 03:22, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Attention

Your attention is requred at Talk:Democratic Underground. JBKramer 20:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

You are far too kind, CheNuevara. Your comments were so nice, thank you for them! -- Natalya 23:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

RfC

Thanks for your unbiased input on the RfC, Che. I'm somewhat unfamiliar with these. Let me ask -- Is it helpful for me to point out the similar violations of my accusers, to illustrate that this was a two-way street?

Here for instance, is documentation of one editor and tormentor creating a sock puppet, solely to taunt and bait me, and even admitting to it.

tbeatty's taunting sock - Thanks - F.A.A.F.A. 07:02, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually it was created in response to your special friends enemies list. You were lacking a Super Friends enemies list so I added a user to it.--Tbeatty 07:27, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Do you intend to deal with the dispute, or just the users slapping at eachoter? JBKramer 17:20, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey

: Lol, Che. Nice to know that someone agrees with me occasionally. BTW, why are people so hung up about their edit counts? Get over 500/1000 - it all becomes are bit irrelevant, no? Also BTW, you might like to know that I voted for Kim (Bruning) in the board elections, so no hard memories of the minor scrap at your old RFA, right? Cheers, Moreschi 21:40, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Help and Advice on Starwood Mediation?

I sort of got a recommendation from User:Addhoc that you could possibly give some advice on the Misplaced Pages:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-11-03 Starwood Festival. Mediation seems rather stalled for the moment and we have no mediator in charge. Related to this is Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Mattisse as well. I'm uncertain whether we should move on to WP:RFAR or what. Since things seem to be heading to another edit war, I'd really like some input from a more experienced hand at this. We really need a help with this situation. If nothing else, we could use feedback on this situation if you have the time to do so. Also FYI, I'm also mentioning this to User:Ars Scriptor, another recommendation from Addhoc. Thanks. --Pigman (talk • contribs) 19:57, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Che -- I think the Starwood spamming is clear case of policy violation, therefore not a case for mediation. I think Ars Scriptor's comments about WP:BAND, and how that is a precedent for no internal links from perfomers/presenters to the festival, are relevant. I don't think this case should have ever gone to mediation. As I seriously doubt anyone who is familiar with WP linkspam policies would support this google bombing attempt, how could a "neutral" mediator who is also familiar with WP policy even be found? In addition to WP policy, I think the consensus on the charges against Matisse show community consensus that it was a clear-cut case of spamming. So, my question is, what's the best way to deal with the spammers at this point? --Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 23:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

More on Starwood Mediation

Thank you for your offer to mediate the Starwood mediation (is that a proper sentence?) I would welcome you in that role. I am willing to attend in good faith. I won't throw tantrums. I'll listen to advice. I'll try to be civil at all times and will apologize if I overstep civil discourse. (Now if everyone would just agree to these things as well...) --Pigman (talk • contribs) 04:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Che - Just to clarify my statement above: I didn't mean to declare that the attempted mediation should be abandoned. Rather that, given some of what has (or has not) transpired, I question whether it was the most effective or appropriate approach to the situation. Perhaps the RfC should have been done first, and maybe the problem could have been taken care of that way. But if you think you can get mediation to work with the parties involved, I certainly welcome you to come on in as mediator :-) --Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 06:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your offer of mediation. Might I ask a question regarding how you might conduct the mediation? Will you insist that the mediation address current issues? What will be your policy toward parties who raise user conduct accusations that have already been list on WP:AN/I or in user conduct RfC's? Please let me know if you have plans to deal with such situations. Thanks. Sincerely --BostonMA 12:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I would be absolutely thrilled to have a mediator actually mediate the issues. —Hanuman Das 13:50, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I withdraw from the proposed meditation and also completely from the situation so please don't refuse the medation b/c of me. I proved to myself and at my own expense that User:Mattisse gets to play by different rules than the rest of us, and I make it a policy not to play with a stacked deck. If you don't know what I mean, I was indef blocked for making a single joke edit (non-abusive, non-libellous and non-ban-evading) with an alternate account, while User:Mattisse is still here after using 18 socks, some of them abusively. Please carry on without me, I'll not impede the mediation or remove or replace Starwood links, though I reserve the right to edit the articles in other ways. Sincerely, —Hanuman Das 23:23, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Your mediation is fine with me. Will you open a new mediation page for it? Will it be MedCab or MedCom? Ekajati (yakity-yak) 15:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Greetings, Che - I would be happy to have you mediate the issue. Unlike BostonMa, however, I do believe that a look at the history of this issue is important, and the behavior of the people who have initiated it. I feel that my actions have been steered by the very people who turned around and objected to them, some of whom have made some rather nasty accusations and assumptions of bad faith, and now seem to want to set the bars much higher on the standards for inclusion of input than usual. Kathryn's statement above is an example: 3 statements on the futility or inappropriatness of the mediation, 3 accusations of spamming and one of "google-bombing" in a single paragraph! My attempts to find a middle-ground position and my removal of external links seem to only encourage this. I would welcome an objective view. Rosencomet 20:12, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Changes to WikiProject Buffyverse (aka When Info Goes Poof)

I discovered this is already being discussed. :) And there is also a more appropriate place for the discussion as well. Feel free to delete away. Not sure how to remove this completely from your talk page. Sorry for any inconvience. QuinnZadok 14:19, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Future of Adopt-a-user

Hi there - with Flameviper leaving Adopt-a-user for the next generation to take on, and your obvious interest in the project, I was hoping you would find to comment and help out with some suggestions for the future of the project. Please see Misplaced Pages talk:Adopt-a-User. Many thanks Lethaniol 15:10, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Starwood meditation

Thanks! And nobody else had posted yet. I love it when I get to define the discourse before everybody starts accusing each other ;-) Ekajati (yakity-yak) 14:58, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

neutrally and succinctly?

I'm reluctant to respond to Pigman's post on the mediation site since you asked us not to, but I think he's straying into motives and away from the issue, and using negative terms like "gratuitous" and "with little regard" (unlike the other contributors so far). I'm not whining, I just hate to leave his statement unchallenged (which I could do on several points). Rosencomet 19:45, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• I understand your concerns, and they will be addressed, but everyone needs to be on the same page first. The pertinent issues will be discussed, just not quite yet. - Che Nuevara 19:49, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• • I shall be patient, though it isn't my best feature. :-) I guess I was just a bit shaken by the success of those who wished to drive Hanuman Das away from the issue; I have a great deal of respect for him and his contributions. Waiting is. Rosencomet 19:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Participation of Hanuman Das

Hi, in this comment left on your talk page, Hanuman Das states that he will disengage from the Starwood controversy. Yet, in this comment made subsequently, on Rosencomet's page, Hanuman Das states that he intends to vote Keep in any related AfD's. Could you request Hanuman Das to clarify whether he will, or will not, engage in further conflicts on related to Rosencomet? Thank you. Sincerely, --BostonMA 22:13, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I'll be happy to clarify for you. I have withdrawn from the mediation, which to date has not concerned whether any articles should be deleted; there has been no discussion of deletion of anything, it has never been on the table. What has been on the table is external and internal linking. I will leave those alone. AFAIK, editors are free to vote and comment as they will in AfDs - I have never seen that challenged as part of a mediation process. I don't believe that editors in mediation can vote to delete an article without putting it out for AfD comment by the whole community. That is, mediation and deletion are completely different spheres of action which operate by their own rules. I don't think that voting keep in an AfD is to engage in conflict. It is simply an expression of opinion which is taken together with other opinions to determine a result. I will not give up my right to express that opinion simply b/c BostonMA chose to intimidate me into withdrawing from mediation by filing a sockpuppet accusation and repeatly tagging my user page to the extent that I almost got indef blocked over an intentionally obvious joke. Cheerio! —Hanuman Das 00:32, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

All registered editors entitled to give their opinion on an AfD. Similarly, all editors are entitled to participate in mediation. Hanuman Das, you are welcome to participate in this mediation. You are free to walk away if you choose. However, if you plan on maintaining involvement with the articles, I think the mediation would be more worthwhile if you participated. (Che Neuvera, please let me know if you would prefer that I not communicate with Hanuman Das on your talk page.) Sincerely, --BostonMA 03:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Mattisse

I'm not sure what's going on here, but I feel that I must point this out as it is relevant to the Starwood mediation. Please take a look at this comment by Mattisse to Paul Pigman. It looks innocent enough, but to one who knows the history of Mattisse's abuse of sockpuppets, it is clearly a disingenuous comment. The article was started by Flinders, who was shown by CheckUser to be a sockpuppet of Mattisse by User:Rdsmith4. At that time, sockpuppets of Mattisse created several hoax articles intended to discredit the other Starwood articles. Another two were Anne Hill and Ann Hill. To now bring this article to the attention of Paul Pigman as if it had been created by Rosencomet as part of the Starwood set of articles is clearly manipulatory. Ekajati (yakity-yak) 15:05, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry if I'm being a bit dense, but I don't see any place where this was confirmed by a CheckUser. I see that Netsnipe tagged Flinders as a sock, but where is that backed up? The RFCU for Mattisse did not list Flinders as a possible sock. There is no RFCU for Flinders. Please point me in the right direction. --Ars Scriptor 15:24, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, I found it. --Ars Scriptor 15:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I find this to be rather bizarre, and a good example of how the folks on the other side of this issue have had a pattern of manipulating things either for their own amusement or to put the actual editors of the articles in question in a bad light. I had nothing to do with the Musart article, which was created by "Flinders", apparently a sock-puppet. He/she also created the Ann Hill & Anne Hill articles, claiming she was a "frequent speaker at the Starwood Festival" (she exists, but has never appeared at Starwood). At one point the name Anne Rice was changed to Anne Hill. (Someone also accused me of linking to and messing with the Andrew Cohen article, though as far as I know it was never linked to the Starwood page, nor did he appear there.)

I'm not saying Musart isn't deserving of an article, and I could create one, but this one had only two facts that were not false: the very first line ("Musart is a musical art company founded by Muruga Booker."), and the links to the Musart website. (Pigman, oddly enough, just took down those links.) The rest of the article seems to be a cut & paste job from part of the Starwood Festival article as it stood at the time of the Musart's article's creation. (Muruga Booker actually asked me about it in a conversation 2 days ago, assuming I had created it, and wondered why the content was so very wrong.) This kind of behavior - fake articles linked to Starwood, constant demands for citations, subsequent accusations that the citations constituted linkspam and google-bombing - all seems to have started with Matisse just 7 days after my first contribution to a Misplaced Pages article. Rosencomet 17:50, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Rosencomet, let us assume for the moment that someone has "manipulat things either for their own amusement or to put the actual editors of the articles in question in a bad light." Would that mean that all of "the folks on the other side of this issue have had a pattern of" doing so? Your comment seems to insinuate that "the folks on the other side of the issue" are all bad people, therefore, the points that they raise should be discounted. Sincerely, --BostonMA 18:55, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Quite right. I should have said "some of the folks". It's just so confusing not knowing who is a sock and/or egged on to weigh in by others. But admittedly, I was generalizing. And I never called them "bad people"; they might be good people who, in this instance, were engaging in bad behavior. Rosencomet 18:47, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

1. In the interest of transparency, can you (Ars Scriptor) post a link?
2. I do not have the mechanisms to deal with previous user conduct. All I can do is insist that all users act appropriately from now on. If all users do so, then we should have no further problems. If some users act inappropriately, then other channels can be sought. Now that I've been supplied with this background information, let's focus on forward movement. - Che Nuevara 19:42, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry this is on your talk page. I support CheNuevara's first point particularly. While the RfC/Mattisse contained a number of accusations of sockpuppets, it was unclear to me which of these were actually confirmed. I know at least one was. Am I just not reading closely enough? --Pigman (talk • contribs) 20:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

There was never a formal checkuser request. The sockpuppetry was discovered sort of accidently by an admin with CheckUser privileges while investigating an unrelated issue. The only report was a notice by that user to Mattisse the use of socks had been detected: here. I agree with Ekajati that this IS a current behavior issue. While the created of the faked page occured in the past, bringing it up just occured recently. —Hanuman Das 20:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the link. I agree that it is an issue, and I will keep an eye out and keep it in mind. However, until I see something that looks disruptive or in bad faith, there isn't a whole lot I can do. - Che 20:24, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

In the interest of full disclosure, another Starwood article has been discovered written by one of my suspected sockpuppets: Sincerely, Mattisse 23:02, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Also, there was a Checkuser:

1. Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/Listerin Filed July 26
2. Misplaced Pages:Suspected sock puppets/Mattisse filed September 6
3. Misplaced Pages:Suspected sock puppets/Mattisse (2nd) filed September 6
4. Misplaced Pages:Suspected sock puppets/Mattisse (3rd)- filed September 21
5. Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/Mattisse filed October 25

These are the ones I am aware of. Thank you. Sincerely, Mattisse 02:06, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

And is it your honest contention that these users are not you? - Che Nuevara 02:11, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

My truest recollection is what I wrote to BostonMA which formed the basis of the latest incident report on me: "Mattisse Reduc": Sorry. I am as confused as you probably are. Sincerely, Mattisse 02:22, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

and since you reply with what seems like sarcasm to me (I know I am a joke and only "Mattisse Redux" and therefore am not a person to be taken seriously and a mere pretext for people to go on and on about other things)

(quote from Misplaced Pages:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-11-03 Starwood Festival) which perhaps you should bother to check it out before you level more accusations:

1. The sockpuppet situation is old news. All puppets have ceased operating. It have been confirmed at Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/Mattisse that Timmy12, MaxReg are not a sockpuppet of mattise. Further the only confirmed sockpuppet User:Xampt was an account used for only three days for a total of 16 edits, the account was used to avoid the harrassesment, and did not break and wikipedia policies and guidelines. Administrators decided that no action was necessary.

I am ever hopeful that someone will act responsibly, even if perhaps not you as you seem satisfied with yourself currently at my expense. Sincerely, Mattisse 01:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Che, I thank you again for all your hard work. It is very much appreciated. I hope you'll find it in you to assume good faith and realize that all I want is a well sourced and balanced version, of this as well as every other WP article I touch. Of course my idea of 'balance' or 'source' may not be someone else's - I am far from thinking that I am always right. In fact, I hope that I am sometimes right, no more. I am also very open to ideas and criticism, although it does take time sometimes for me to become convinced and to change course. I do want to see neutral editors in the sense that they have no ax to grind, no conflict of interest. Dealing with COI-SI (conflict of interest single-issue) editors is very hard, if your target is to end up with a neutrally balanced result. But I think for WP to succeed, and I am sure all of us here want that, we cannot cave in to COI or special interest or any other pressure group for whom our own pillars of well sourced neutrality are not paramount, but their own interests. I think WP will live or die by editors' ability to fight (with civility) for what is right, not what is quick or easy. Thanks again, Crum375 22:20, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm. I believe that Crum cant rise above himself in a number of matters, and I have very little if any trust towards him/her. But I will try to continue to act in good faith towards him. Anyone that represents me in some way, that when I correct them, repeatedly does the same thing, for just one example, does not get much respect; someone that reverts his agreements gets even less. Someone that wants others not to act in one way then acts just like that gets a minus figure for trust. Someone that has a declared bias as Che noted, then denies it, get a bigger minus still. I think Crum is the antithesis of the WP spirit as intended. Maybe he/she will prove me wrong in the future. So far has failed any such test.Richardmalter 08:20, 10 December 2006 (UTC)Richardmalter 08:21, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

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User:CheNuevara/brag

Starwood Link History

A couple of fellow editors suggested that I appraise you of these facts. I realize I have already posted some of this information, but for the sake of organizing it I will put it all here together. I'm sorry if it's long.

The following information is just to show that while Matisse was wildly tagging articles linked to Starwood Festival with "citation needed" tags, later to call on many editors to help in a campaign to delete them, then have them taken down as linkspam and google-bombing, she was ALSO CREATING articles with links to Starwood Festival herself, then calling them to the attention of other editors as examples of how there were too many articles linked to it and that I was "out of control". I believe that most of the objections by editors other than Matisse and socks of Matisse (who have weighed in multiple times in discussions about both the links and the notability of individual articles I've written in order to create the illusion that she had major support in the Wiki community) were swayed, in great part, by this campaign to create a "Major Problem" where one did not exist. (Ironic, since a running theme of the event is conspiracy theory & the Illuminati...)

1. The Musart article (linked to Starwood Festival, Association for Consciousness Exploration, and WinterStar Symposium) was created August 25th by Flinders, a sock of Matisse, 12 days after my first Wiki input. The Answers.com text mentioned below about Musart (point 6) is obviously cribbed from the Wiki article she created, yet she speaks as if she "found" this evidence that this issue is not minor!

2. The "What Witches Do" article was created on September 3rd by LiftWaffen, another Matisse sock. She returned the next day to add a link to Association for Consciousness Exploration.

3. Andrew Cohen, mentioned below by Matisse on Salix Alba's page as a "Starwood Speaker", has never appeared at Starwood nor has his page been linked to the Starwood page.

4. There are links to Musart on the "Chalino Sánchez" and "Lucero" articles that I believe are incorrect, and probably refer to the record company DiscosMusart, which has no Wiki article.

5. Here is what Matisse said to BostonMa about Musart in November:

hopeless mediation

Hi. I wrote a question on the Starwood Mediation page and got an unsatisfactory answer from Rosencomet. Plus I notices another article waiting in the wings: Musart. Do you think we should ask for another mediator? Ours seems to be missing in action. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 01:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I must agree. It is hopeless and would be a waste of your time. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 02:02, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

6. This was posted on Salix Alba's talk page the same day:

Hi again! Check out Musart. it is waiting in the wings to have bunches of names added. Mattisse(talk) 01:13, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Check this out from Answers.com If, by chance, you think this is minor. Mattisse(talk) 03:23, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

And 8 days later:

Maybe you would weigh in on the Andrew Cohen talk page (a Starwood Festival speaker) as there is a discussion on what type of links to include as external links. The particular link in question may not be a good example to defend, but at least it's the start of a general discussion. Mattisse(talk) 16:08, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

7. Now this one was on Pigman's talk page just a few days ago. I've included Ekajati's comment.

I just ran across this: Musart. The links at the bottom are bad. One goes nowhere. The other pertains if anything to this: Musart Records -- which I wrote (not very well) trying to sort out the problem regarding various (legitimate) artists whose articles list this label -- none of which are in that list on Musart. What to do? Perhaps you know. Thank you. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 02:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

As you can see, it's the usual Starwood Festival crowd listed. I wonder if this is hopeless. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 02:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Oh, now this is not funny, Mattisse. That article, as you have to know, was started by Flinders, who was confirmed by CheckUser as one of your sockpuppets. Ekajati (yakity-yak) 14:56, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

8. This non-explanation of the creation of the Musart article was posted on BostonMa's talk page. I've included Hanuman Das' input:

I clicked on the name, Flinders, and it was identified as a sockpuppet of my account. I don't know what else to say. I was not aware of all the accounts identified as mine - rather I should say I recognise the names now but I don't always know what they have done. I am not clear what was going on at that time. At the time I explained my role in the matter. The result is though that I am not always aware when one of my sockpuppets created an article. If will explain the situation in any degree of detail you desire. I don't know what level of detail is appropriate here. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 16:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Further explanation: That I personally did not create the sockpuppets but they were created on my computer, as proved by CheckUser. There was an unusual sitation. Relatives, including my daughter and her children, suddenly were in my house. In the middle of this was when I was doing backlogs in the wikify bin (to get away from real life stress) and AFD'd Philip Farber. This was just after Netsnipe had identified a suite of similar articles and ADFed the whole suite. I asked him what to do but he was busy with his admin election. I used bad judgment and tagged too many articles. 999 attacked me. I became upset, being already upset because of outside events. I talked about it too much to my visitors, none of whom were involved with Misplaced Pages. I don't know really what happened. Part of what was going on here meant that I was not home always. I do know that I left my granddaughter alone, at that time not realising that Misplaced Pages was such a dangerous place, so she did somethings on Misplaced Pages unsupervised. I guess I should look back and see exactly what. Someone emailed me that she put her age on her user page and that I should delete that. I tried but was not allowed. Then an admin believed she was my granddaughter and did delete it or do something with it. To tell you the truth, I don't really want to know what these various accounts did because it starts to give me bad feelings about my family -- whether they were trying to harm me or help me I don't know. And it has affected our relationship since then. Let me know if you have any questions. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 17:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Please excuse me for butting in here, but this is the same excuse she used for the previous sockpuppet incident (pre-Rosencomet). See Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for checkuser/Case/Listerin. I believe that User:Salix alba was involved in that incident. —Hanuman Das 17:42, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I looked at the discussion and I don't quite get what I did that was so wrong. I asked Paul Pigman a question. At the time I didn't know it was a Flinders article. Flinders did whatever in the past. In any case, I would not have done anything to a Starwood article myself. That is why I asked someone. If I repeat the same story regarding events around that time, what else should I do? It's only because Musart Records came up on my watch list as "unsourced" that I even looked at it. Because I write and edit so many record label articles, I did not get the connection at first. I do not understand this place. Sincerely, Mattisse(talk) 22:58, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

9. I must say that this is a pretty bizarre situation. Matisse has used sock-puppets for a long time to disrupt the work of a number of editors in various ways, and seems to openly admit it here, and I find that strange enough (since, perhaps because I'm a newcomer, I just don't see what she gets out of this kind of behavior except sowing anger and frustration among hard-working volunteers), but phrases like "I was not aware of all the accounts identified as mine - rather I should say I recognise the names now but I don't always know what they have done." or "I am not always aware when one of my sockpuppets created an article" make me wonder how she can EVER be held accountable for what she does. It sounds bi-polar to me (I'm not diagnosing, just saying what it sounds like). She seems not to know what she has done, or perhaps even what she is doing. In a different way, I find the attempt to shift the blame to unspecified family members even more disturbing.

Matisse seems to have a talent for creating trouble and drawing well-meaning people into the fray. I don't see how the issue under mediation can be discussed without at least airing these facts, and allowing those who have been swayed to believe that there is a serious situation that must be nipped in the bud to understand that, at least to some extent, it has not only been exaggerated but increased and manipulated by the very person that brought it to their attention and enlisted their help. Rosencomet 00:00, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for your efforts with respect to the impenetrableswampsinkholeblackholefromwikpediahell Yoshiaki Omura entry. You were patient, dedicated, determined, and steadfast. These things, in my estimation, matter far more than any entry. Thank you. GenghizRat 00:32, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Rosencomet mediation

Hi. I would like to call your attention to this comment made by User:Rosencomet which reads in part.

"I must say, with all due respect, that it seems some folks have decided the entries should not be there, THEN looked for a rationale to support this, one that has changed several times."

I feel that this remark reflects a lack of assumption of good faith, and is unhelpful. Could you please remove it. Thanks. Sincerely, --BostonMA 19:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I have added this comment:

I apologize to anyone who took my general statement personally. I did not mean to assert that there was an INTENTIONAL attempt to contest posted information without what those doing it consider a good reason. However, I do see that this mediation has strayed from a discussion of the validity of the citations and links that inspired it to issues of POV, conflict of interest, whether the event is commercial or not, and whether those appearing there are paid or not and in what manner. None of this is in keeping with the list of pertinent issues Che offered at the onset of the mediation. Rosencomet 20:38, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Yoshiaki Omura Arbitration

As per request: Richardmalter has requested arbitration. GenghizRat 05:05, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

User:Daniel575

Your bot "notified" User:Daniel575 of an article issue. Daniel575 has been indefblocked. - Che Nuevara 00:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for "notifying" me of this. - PocklingtonDan 08:10, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Haha I didn't mean to be facetious -- I just figured he probably wouldn't get the message ;) - Che Nuevara 17:11, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, no problem. Thanks - PocklingtonDan 17:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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Re: Omura mediation

I responded to your query that you placed on my talk page. My response can be found here. If the message isn't on my talk page, please see the archives for the time period of your original message. Feel free to post any further comments on my talk page, and I'll respond to you as soon as possible. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 22:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Rest up and feel better!

Omura Arbitration Request

Sounds like you're a little busy. You might be interested in this arbitration request, which mentions you as part of it's justification . Antonrojo 03:05, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

your message to me

I took it in the context of your talk page where you demanded a response and I patentically responded. And you indicated (perhaps I am interpreting wrongly) that my reply was ridiculous with something like "You expect me to believe that!" or something of the sort. It has taken me all this time to realise that the whole thing was supposedly settled in the RFC against me referenced in the links I gave you. Since you have never bothered with me again, neither apologised or requested more information or anything -- no response, I felt that your were treating me as if I am not a real person in need of a response (as this is the first I have had from you over this issue since). I am very much wondering? Where is the evidence for your sly statements indicting me on the basis of my perennial and consistamt attackers, without new evidence, and disregarding totally the work put in on my behalf by others on the RFC against me? I'm not understanding your total disregard for me as a person and as a contributor to Misplaced Pages to the best of my abilitity. And I am feeling that you and others ("Mattisse Redux") are taking me as a joke. This is your first response to my response to your serious accusations directed at me which was totally based on the work of those that have been attacking my on the basis of Starwood all these months. I hope I am explaining myself clearly, but probably not as I seem a mere excuse for other people's aggrandisement at this point. I don't really expect you to be different from the others. But I do thank you for responding as that rarely happens and shows that you are hundreds of measurements above Misplaced Pages in general. I definately thank you for that! Sincerely, Mattisse 02:23, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Response to your message

Attempt to respond to your message on my talk page. (And I am under stress too and sick and on the telephone now and for the last two hours with my health insurance, on hold on and off, as I write this.)

1. You allowed and prolonged a discussion on your talkpage over something that happened months ago and had aready been settled by RFC/Mattisse and numberous other ANI complaints and Suspected Sockpuppets and CheckUsers.
2. You seem unconcerned that at least one user has been driven away by this, so I am obviously clearly expendable. I have tried to be a good contributor.
3. Your talk page forum on me resulted in further harassment of me and in prolonging the sockpuppet accusations and other harassments and stalking of me in an attempt to discredit me on other user pages.
4. You never bothered to look at any evidence, only taking the word of the people who have been harassing me since August. The links on your talk page as "evidence" against me are not evidence of anything.
5. Your talk page forum resulted in the Arbitrator Ars Scriptor filing an ANI against me "Mattisse Redux" making a joke of me and using the information on your talk page as a basis.
6. The net result appears to be that I cannot participate in anything Starwood related -- as you said "since Mattisse seems disinclined" the accusations in the ANI do not matter. If I do participate, my impression is, the whole thing will start up again. I cannot even ask a question as that brings up the sockpuppet stuff and forums about me by people such as you. (Ars Scriptor has hosted such forums on his pages previously.)
7. Never did you clarify that no sockpuppets, alleged or confirmed, are involved in the current situation. You gave the impression that only because I was not participating were you going to stop making an issue of me.
8. Maybe you were not WP:CIVIL but you were not gracious as you seem to be to everyone else involved in this.
9. Your last words to me were "And is it your honest contention that these users are not you?" What was I supposed to answer? I wrote as honest an explanation as I could to BostonMA because I trust and respect him and I know he is ethical. That was used against me. I gave you a list of the Checkuser and suspected sockpuppet reports. You never bothered to answer.
10. You did not point out that there are "confirmed sockpuppets" of Mattisse for which there is no evidence -- at least I cannot find it and no one else has so far either. You furthered the impression that all these sockpuppets had been proven. You accepted gossip as fact.
11. Final result of your talk page forum is that I have been further marginalised on Misplaced Pages, made fun of as "Mattisse Redux" and treated like an object and not a human being. When you burn out on the Starwood issue, then a new person similar to you will arise and start the whole thing over again. It will never end.

I hope this satisfactorily answers your questions. Thank you. Sincerely, Mattisse 18:07, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry!

The diff you offered was a wonderful thing as that user has stalked me and harassed me in every way possible. I was talking about the user who exposed all the search engine links that HD and the others had been inserting into the articles and was driven away entirely from Misplaced Pages. Thank you for that. Sincerely, Mattisse 19:51, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

To explain further, the user you are so worried about driving away is the same one that opened Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Mattisse after he had told me to stick a sharp object up a part of my anatomy and been blocked for that comment. This was in the middle of Misplaced Pages:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-11-03 Starwood Festival. He received no support for the RFC against me and ultimately withdrew his own name from it. So I am having a hard time understanding your point of view and your prioritising of people. Sincerely, Mattisse 01:08, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I would also call your attention to this Sincerely, Mattisse 01:14, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Quite frankly, I'm not sure what that comment by yet another of your sockpuppets is supposed to prove. It was never answered. It is simply a question you asked, while pretending to be someone else. The user is not required to answer it. Real life identities are presumed private on Misplaced Pages. —Hanuman Das 06:27, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Mainz Cathedral comments

In my GA review, I was actually referring the nominator of the article, User:Symposiarch, who (according to their user page) lives in Mainz. The GA review general comments can certainly apply to you, as you are one of the editors working on the article. Sorry for the confusion. Green451 04:39, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Actions by party to mediation

Just want to let you know that Paul Pigman has recently taken a number of actions which seem incompatible with a sincere desire to allow mediation to achieve a mediated result.

1. violation of Misplaced Pages privacy policy with respect to Rosencomet
2. Attempted recruitment of multiple parties sharing his POV: , , ,
3. Admission of a bad faith effort to hurry the mediation to a conclusion of his choosing rather than an honest result of mediation:

These activities do not seem compatible with engaging in good faith meditation. What should be done? Can a party to mediation be removed from that mediation? While I am not currently engaged in the mediation, I am interested that the mediation proceed fairly. —Hanuman Das 10:59, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Arbitration

Hi Che, I hope that you are feeling well and that your tests have been going well. I am writing to report to you news of the Starwood mediation. Things seem to have broken down to the point that a request for arbitration has been filed. This puts a question mark over the mediation. (I don't think that it necessarily rules out mediation, because it is still an open question of whether the arbitration committee will hear the case). On the other hand, from your point of view, you may decide that mediation is over. In any event, I wanted to thank you for your efforts, and to say that I'm sorry that we were not able (at least for now) to present you with a successful case in which the parties learned to see eye-to-eye. Please let me know what you think of all this if you get a chance and feel the energy to do so. Sincerely, --BostonMA 23:13, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Starwood Arbitration Again

I'm sorry I didn't notify you about this. Despite some progress in the mediation, I have slowly begun to feel that focus was being lost. This had nothing to do with your mediation. The most recent event in the mediation was when you focused on two basic questions and I found Rosencomet's response was, well, unresponsive, argumentative, and distracting. As you know, this conflict has essentially been going on in various forms since August, 2006. When Hanuman Das slapped a policy violation on my and BostonMA's talk page for our speculation about Rosencomet's connection to the director of ACE and conflict of interest, it was the last straw for me. I dislike being bullied and harassed; I felt this was both. By this action, I think Hanuman Das is being quite disingenuous by claiming to be "out" of the mediation simply because he hasn't posted on the page. I viewed this as a clear attempt at intimidation. Piggy don't play that game.

Add to this my solidifying opinion that the issue may boil down to policy-level violations and I'm becoming less willing to let any part of these additions and links slide. I'm not normally adamant about such things but between the conflict of interest of Rosencomet and what I perceive as harassing tactics from some of the other people, I determined the issue needed a different approach. I believe arbitration will provide a more definitive result and solution.

Again, I'm sorry to have sprung this on you. It really was not the result of your mediation skills in the matter. The arbitration might not end exactly as I might wish, but I trust it will at least settle some of these issues. --Pigman (talk • contribs) 01:28, 17 December 2006 (UTC)