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Information icon Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is WP:COMPETENCE problem with Arctic Kangaroo on AfC. Thank you. Issues about your adoption of AK have been brought up - please see lowest subthread. Thanks, Mdann52 (talk) 17:50, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Mdann52 (talk) 17:50, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
  • In my comment I pointed out that even if you gave imperfect advice, that advice did not get Arctic Kangaroo into trouble, as he didn't take that advice. I clawed back part of my criticism of you as a mentor, as we are all fallible, and it is unfair to judge someone based on a single mistake.
When you get back, it might be a moot point, but am I correct that Arctic Kangaroo only completed the very first steps of being mentored? Geo Swan (talk) 20:51, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
By Rcsprinter's marking, AK has thus far completed four out of the nine "required" lessons, including the entirety of the lesson covering copyright. It's not entirely clear (by which I mean, I haven't checked) why it has taken AK seven months to get that far. Obviously it would have been better for AK to complete the course before embarking on things like AfC. I may have some recommendations about ways forward. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 23:17, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

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