User talk:John Carter/Adminship

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This is largely a comment about the I believe possibly willfully prejudicial statements of one of the complainers, Cleo123. She mentions that I have had difficulties with other Judaism editors, which is true. She however refuses to supply any of the pertient details. To the best of my knowledge, I have been in a few disagreements with User:IZAK, who, if I dare say, has gotten in conflict with several others as well. His work regarding the content regarding Judaism has been acknowledged as being very important, even if his own behavior has at times been far less than par. The conflict I believe she is referring to however, is with User:Bus stop, who was banned from wikipedia regarding his own conduct in the only discussion I have to my knowledge been involved in that Cleo123 has also been involved in. I think it is also worthwhile to mention that my own comments in the discussion for community ban, at Wikipedia:Community sanction noticeboard/Archive10#User:Bus stop, were such that even Durova commented that I was defending him. I have also at least three times tried to get the ban on Bus stop lifted, not on the basis of any perceived misbehavior on my part, but because it was clear to me that he was incapable of even approximate objectivity regarding this subject. I believe I still can produce e-mails to that effect. It is also true that Cleo123 has herself, on I believe more than one occasion, had his/her own tendencies toward possibly amusing melodrama commented upon. In short, despite the comments of that individual, I believe that the nature of the complaint from that party may be in part a continuation of that editors tendency to act like characters in the soap operas s/he has mentioned writing. While I do not dismiss the complaints out of hand, I believe that they may be at least as much driven by that individual's own personal characteristics as any truly objective views. John Carter (talk) 15:08, 23 May 2008 (UTC)