User:Elonka/ACE2009

Overview
For those who aren't sure what this is about: The Arbitration Committee is part of the Wikipedia dispute resolution process. In fact, ArbCom is pretty much the last stop. For a general real world analogy, ArbCom is sort of like the Supreme Court of Wikipedia. The arbitrators don't make decisions on article content, but they do issue rulings on complex disputes relating to user conduct, and they have considerable authority within the wiki-culture. Members of the committee are elected for two-year terms, with a new batch elected each year. Candidates nominated themselves in November, and went through a Q&A process for a few weeks. At midnight UTC on December 1, 2009 the community began a 2-week voting period, and pretty much anyone could weigh in with "support/oppose" comments, voting for or against as many candidates as they wish.

Voting is now closed, and results have been posted. There were 22 candidates, and the top 9 were selected. With 9 other arbitrators continuing from the previous year, this resulted in a total Committee size of 18.

This page that you are reading, contained my (Elonka's) thoughts on the 2009 crop of ArbCom candidates. Since the election is over, I have blanked the rest of the page, but if you really want to see the details, check the page history. --Elonka 04:32, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

To see my thoughts on the 2008 batch, check the history of User:Elonka/ACE2008.

The 2010 page will be at: User:Elonka/ACE2010.