Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Halibutt

message: I would like to express my thanks to all the people who took part in my (failed) RfA voting. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! I was also surprised by the amount of people who stated clearly that they do care, be it by voting in for or against my candidacy. That's what Wiki community is about and I'm really pleased to see that it works. As my RfA voting failed with 71% support, I don't plan to reapply for adminship any more. However, I hope I might still be of some help to the community. Cheers! Halibutt 05:10, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

message: #Oppose. He's part of a group of Polish-nationalist POV pushers, of which the nominator Piotrus is himself a member. Note how Piotrus routinely unblocks his Polish comrade Molobo  - it was already a mistake to make him an admin, and with Halibutt we would see the same thing. As Ghirlandajo has mentioned below, they also frequently talk Polish with each other here on the English wiki, even though they all speak and understand English well enough. They all seem to have some paranoia that everyone is out after the Poles (see Halibutt's "How to deal with Poles"). An example of POV editing: Here he says that "Poland regained her independence" in 1989, as if Communist Poland wasn't independent. He also frequently calls opponents he's edit-warring with "vandals" (such as here where he tried to force an entirely repetitive infobox into the article). JohnSmith214 15:55, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I really don't know. In the end it's up to the bureaucrat whether to count the votes but that's not really the issue here since it seems quite unlikely that the final support ratio will be over 70% however the votes are counted. I still think it would be nice to keep the sockpuppet comment on the talk page, the issue of Wiglaf's vote is quite different. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 22:50, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The current tally (not counting my support and counting both of the disputed voices) is 34:20 = 63% supporting. If we adjust this to 35:18 what we get is 66% - quite, quite close. Of course, the vote may swing in both directions or remain constant, and with new votes the weight of each individaul vote will diminish - but nonetheless this is an important question. I certainly won't dispute the result if the end result is not satisfactory but 'close', but if there are no clear rules on this, I think we should make them - to avoid unpleasantries in the future.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 23:56, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Invalid votes

message: To all whom it may concern: I asked for that page to be deleted. If I had known that people would assume my bad faith basing on that page (and, IMHO, without going into details), I would asked for it a long time ago. 
At first I forgot about the page, then I thought if could be ignored as a long-forgotten archive of a long-disused page that had lost its rationale after the community decided it's not needed. Then I realized that this is not the case and that perhaps people will simply listen to my explanations and assume good faith. But now I got tired with having to repeat the same things over and over again and simply asked for a speedy deletion. Though I doubt this would settle the problem, as some people will still remember me as "the guy who offends people by starting witch-hunting", and not the "guy who wanted to avoid RfC, ArbCom and all that by simply talking to parties involved and discussing concrete evidence". 
Anyway, I thought you might want to know. Halibutt 12:46, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pink booklet 

message: I already noted on Piotrus' talk page that I really believed my candidacy would be either supported or not, but I never thought that there is a third option: that this RfA will never end :) Theoretically it should be over by 6AM today, though it was not closed so far and I even saw people cast their votes after that time. I wonder is there anything I could possibly do about it? Halibutt 21:38, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, sometimes the fun just drags on and on - I was in the same position three weeks ago and I can sympathise. When a bureaucrat eventually gets around to closing this she will consider both the vote total at the official end and the vote total at the bitter end. At least that's what mine did. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 21:50, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  When will this end?