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| text = No signs that the Arbitration Committee is in any form willing to change for the better (as expected).
For years we have been complaining about anchoring, about railroading, about bias. When someone comes before ArbCom, ArbCom has to sanction, no matter how feeble the evidence is. They do not care to properly present the evidence that they make decisions on. They do not care whether the editor has been trying to improve since. And when an editor comes again in front of ArbCom, they will just increase the sanctions - they have been here before so they must be guilty.
It is becoming more and more clear that there is no will, nor possibility to improve.1 This institute should be abandoned - NOW}}
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Could you unblock him? I've submitted a request for a global lock. Cheers. JayCubby 20:01, 9 March 2025 (UTC)
:@JayCubby done. Dirk Beetstra T C 02:59, 18 March 2025 (UTC)
::Thank you. Is it worth replacing
:@JayCubby That’s beyond my pay grade, I’m not familiar with those specifics, I here only reacted to the’self’-declaration. Dirk Beetstra T C 04:54, 18 March 2025 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
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Hi Beetstra! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Beetstra&dir=prev&limit=1 your first edit] and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:16, 19 March 2025 (UTC)
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:@DaniloDaysOfOurLivesThanks! Dirk Beetstra T C 03:24, 19 March 2025 (UTC)
COI Bot poke latency
What is a reasonable latency before COIBot query by authorized requester to turn blue from red? Graywalls (talk) 03:40, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
:@Graywalls .. I have no clue. Some links are barred from reports (the on-IRC do-not-count and whitelists), some crash the LinkSaver (memory overload because too much data). Rest has a queue, which sometimes goes massive through massive reports. I had LiWa3 issues due to flooding on wikidata, I resolved that but now the bot is working on a massive backlog to keep up, which does result in increased autoreports. Dirk Beetstra T C 06:36, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
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