User:AnonEMouse/Arbcom2007

Thoughts about the Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007. See also User:AnonEMouse/Arbcom

Questions

 * 1) I don't know of any Arbcom member who hasn't been in the minority on some decisions. Link to an already passed Arbcom decision that you disagree with. Explain why you disagree, and how you would have decided it differently. (If you don't have time or interest to read old Arbcom case pages that are stable, how will you have time to read new ones that are changing every day? Or would you be with the majority on everything?)  Seems to already be being asked by Picaroon 
 * 2) Requests for arbitration/Attack sites dodged an important question; you don't get to. :-). A highly notable person we have an article about puts a personal attack on a specific Wikipedia editor on the front page of their personal web site, telling their Wikipedia user name and their real name, and generally being unpleasant. The attack is short, as a fraction of total content of the site, but quite prominent on the front page. Do we keep the link to their web site in their article, and why?
 * 3) What good is a Requests for comment/User conduct? If you think they're useful, link to one that you think was successful, explain why. If you think that they aren't useful, explain what you think they should be replaced with.

David Fuchs
"Generally, I would want the community at large to decide something like a desysop-ization" - so what's the arbcom for?

Deskana
Also a Bureaucrat, Checkuser. Nice.

Dreamafter
Not an admin. Rather harsh on the OTRS administrator.

Durova
Awesome sleuth. Nice attitude towards sanctioned editors. A bit strict on Zscout370, but that may be warranted. Touching family story.

Endlessdan
"You should just take me word for it. I'm a pretty cool cat." Aaa! A cat!

Giano II
"I have strong views, and don't suffer fools, at times I am abrupt and tactless." Ahem.

Hemlock Martinis
"closed the deletion discussion for the Allegations of Chinese apartheid article - result: nothing" Support desysopping both admins in the OTRS case.

Messedrocker
Wanted more sanctions in Badlydrawnjeff and other cases.

Monsieurdl
"Outright bans for a specific period are the most effective way to put people on notice " "anyone wishing to edit Wikipedia must have a login to do so" "absolutely no valid answer in my mind for having an alternate account"

Moreschi
"Wikipedia's very own plague is nationalism" "I'll often dress my points up in irreverent language ... my aim is to provoke a reaction" - smart, but a bit wild

Newyorkbrad
"the most serious problem with the arbitration process as currently administered is the excessive length of time that it takes ... to help resolve this problem is give a high priority to my work as an arbitrator and provide my input in case evaluation and decision as promptly as possible"

'on the rare occasions that I reveal my on-wiki self to the people I am close to in real life, they stare dumbfounded at the overly kind words that my fellow editors have written on my userpage and in my RfA, and uniformly they have the same reaction: "This Newyorkbrad person cannot even possibly be you."'

Raul654
Created clerk system, very successful. Not too active, but he has a lot on his plate. Has done a great job as arbitrator when he did participate.

Ryan Postlethwaite
What did he suggest in RFAR/Betacommand that was adopted? "I'm a strong believer that as a community, we need a leader to move us in the right direction, and sometimes, to simply crack the whip" Ouch! Other than that seems OK.

Secret
"I added myself to recall, please do not recall me over the Mzoli's Meat incident, as I will ignore it. I already apologized, and it's vandalism in my part, and I obviously won't do anything that crazy again." He didn't delete it, just argued against it. But seems to have left in a huff.