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You praised my edit - but I am being Arbitrated over it ?

Hi Licks-rocks - I'm sorry to bother you with this, but I've no experience of the 'arbitration' process here: if you have any advice or tips, I'd be grateful. Thx in advance

This is the page:- Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Peckedagain — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peckedagain (talk • contribs) 00:23, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

this user is currently on wikibreak

If you see me, trout me. Thanks in advance. --Licks-rocks (talk) 14:56, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Lightburst (talk) 23:06, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

and I wasn't even trouted for ending my wikibreak! for shame... --Licks-rocks (talk) 17:06, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Just to show my appreciation to you for stepping in to diligently close that merge discussion, which then, unfortunately, turned into a time sink. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 12:01, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And just to add, I have long appreciated your username. Although I suppose there are some rocks for which this might be a poor choice.

Thank you! It's a shame about the time sink part but what can you do. And agreed on the unsafe rocks, would not recommend licking Orpiment. Have some at home, aftertaste's terrible. It's a good party trick for identifying quartz/limestone/salt in hand samples though! --Licks-rocks (talk) 13:48, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You demonstrate that my own collection is lacking. I have no orpiment. Beautiful as it is. I have a number of others I wouldn't lick, mind. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 14:37, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

Sirfurboy is misleading you because you landed on their side when you supervoted the close. Your close would have been reverted if it were closing any other discussion. You had the good fortune of making this bad close on an article that was targeted for deletion by off-wiki trolls. You have assisted those trolls and so they rejoice. Licks-rocks I hope you will not close these types of discussions going forward. Your decision here was incorrect and it emboldens the off-wiki trolls. I do not know if Sirfurboy is involved in the off-wiki nonsense but I find their actions and encouragement here shameful. Lightburst (talk) 16:36, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You stepped into a dispute with some ugly history, but there was no good way for you to know that -- and even if you did, at the level of a merge discussion closure there wasn't really a good way to address that history. I have a lot of empathy for what Lightburst's been put through, but I don't think any of it is on you. There's just no way anyone was going to close that as anything other than a close call, and it could've gone either way with any closer. Just saying. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 01:11, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I've seen the thread by now, and FWIW, Lightburst has his issues, but people at WPO constantly mocking him and making fun of him isn't going to help, it's just bullying. Either you genuinely believe lightburst is a problem, and you bring a properly argued ANI/ARBCOM case with all the evidence you've apparently collected, or you don't, and you fuck off and stop following every move he makes. Just sitting at the sidelines and jeering is, quite frankly, loser behavior, regardless of whom it is aimed at. Comments like "brainfart wrote: and Then ~~Brainfart~~ Lightburst did his thing, or this... yah, real mature. It's just a shitty way to talk about real people. Let's be honest here, if you're not just there to mock an editor as he flounders around trying to save his writing, and you truly care about the encyclopedia, you either help him write, or failing that, you at least address the issue productively. --Licks-rocks (talk) 10:32, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]