User:Bfigura/ACE2009

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Brief candidate evaluations
This format is shamelessly pillaged from Riana, who yoinked it from Elonka's evaluation page. These are all my own opinions, and hopefully will not be misinterpreted as airings of grievances, or personal attacks. This page is largely for my own reference (22+ candidates is lot to keep in my head), as well as for anyone else who might find it useful. In general, my main desire is to see an Arbcom that helps build the construction of an encyclopedia with a minimum amount of drama. Pretty much everything else is secondary. While article building is nice to see in a contribution history (as it's indicative of an ability to collaborate), it's not a necessity in my view. Ditto for being an admin: nice, but hardly a necessity (if you can manage to get elected as an Arb, you've proven the community trusts you).

This is also a work in progress, I hope to be able to better articulate my views, and my understanding of the candidates as the election process moves along. (Also, if I totally screw up gendered pronouns for someone, please excuse my error, or correct me). B figura (talk)

Key: Support -- Oppose  -- Neutral


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 * Unsure. Arbcom clerk, and okay w/ answers.
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 * Withdrew.  No. History of sock-puppetry is an auto-disqualifer.
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 * Could probably be a great arb, but I don't always agree with the views on policy revealed in the questions.
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 * Served once w/o major issues, although Arbcom as a whole didn't cover itself in glory this past year. Would probably be okay though.
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 * I'm not a fan of opt-out as a solution, and I do think it would be nice to get new faces on arbcomm.
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 * Reasonable answers, good history in solving issues.
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 * Everything I've seen suggests a highly intelligent, capable person. I haven't seen a lot of involvement in article writing (or other forms of collaborative editing), as Hersfold seems to do more work behind the scenes.
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 * For diplomacy issues and optics. Probably would be sensible, but would probably result in drama, if only from past involvement in heated subjects.
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 * Good, commonsense arb.
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 * No thanks. Dismantling arbcom is unlikely to reduce drama. (Also, nomination is prima facie evidence of...)
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 * Experienced, seems to have reasonable instincts.
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 * Thoughtful, well-reasoned, no-nonsense answers to the questions. More than enough experience in dealing with Arb-related matters. (While the idea of promoting a lot of clerks to arbs bothers me in theory, in practice it doesn't seem to work too badly).
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 * Seems smart, organized, and engaged.
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 * Based on responses to questions, blocked socks, etc.
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 * appears clueful. Background could be handy, although I'm hesitant to weight that too much, given that it's not really verifiable. (Not to imply that it should be).
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 * Withdrew.
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 * For failure to answer a large number of questions.
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 * Support - seems level headed, OTRS experience speaks well, and like answers to questions
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 * Seems to be level-headed. Good answers to my questions. Responsive to as well as the many others, although I haven't parsed enough of them, or the candidates background to have a strong opinion.
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 * Seems level headed, but I don't really agree with a few answers. Not sure that I agree with ideas on further structure.
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 * Been around since March 2009. I don't really have a hard and fast rule, but that just doesn't seem like a long enough time to have picked up the experience that I'd look for in an arb.
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 * Appears to be an amazing contributor, but I'm not sure s/he would make a great arb. Answers to the questions could be stronger, and the BLP non-answer isn't what I'm looking for.
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 * Seems to have a level head, and to steal a line from Riana, a low tolerance for bullshit.
 * Seems to have a level head, and to steal a line from Riana, a low tolerance for bullshit.

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