Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/2012 CUOS appointments/OS/Ponyo

Ponyo

 * Nomination statement (250 words max.)
 * Hello, I'm Ponyo and I am nominating myself for both the Oversight and Checkuser permissions. I have been a Wikipedia editor for over five years and an admin since February 2011. You can usually find me helping with unblock reuqests on UTRS (where the CU tool is helpful) and helping article subjects in the Quality/BLP queue on OTRS (where oversight is a benefit). I'm a current member of the Audit Subcommittee so I am familiar with the use of both CU and OS tools as well as the Foundation's Privacy Policy. I would like to be able to retain the tools once my AUSC appointment expires in February 2013 in order to assist the functionaries on a more detailed and consistent basis.

Standard questions for all candidates
Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.
 * As an admin I use the rev-delete function when appropriate. I also have access to and have used the oversight function in cases of severe BLP violations and on userpages with overly identifying material on minors. I have access to the Oversight OTRS queue and am very familiar with the OTRS system.

Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.
 * I have found that the Oversight role does not so much require specific technical expertise as it does sound judgement and a firm grasp of what information falls under the Wikimedia Foundation's Oversight policy.

Do you hold advanced permissions (checkuser, oversight, bureaucrat, steward) on this or other WMF projects? If so, please list them. Also, do you have OTRS permissions? If so, to which queues?
 * I have Checkuser and Oversight on en-wikipedia (as part of the AUSC). I am also a member of the OTRS team where I have full info-en queue access (including the quality/BLP queue), as well as photsubmissions, permissions, and oversight queue access.

Questions for this candidate

 * Please describe your familiarity with the Wikimedia Privacy Policy, Meta Oversight Policy, ENWP Oversight policy, and ENWP Outing policy. Also, without breaching privacy, for each of these policies, give an example of a time that you have used the policy when evaluating a situation or taking action. Pine✉ 01:21, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I believe that I have a firm grasp on the Wikimedia Privacy Policy as well as the policies governing the use of Oversight (as written at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight). As a member of the Audit Subcommittee I have repeatedly reviewed these policies in order to investigate whether any breaches have occurred when concerns regarding improper use of the oversight and checkuser tools have been raised by the community. With regard to Wikipedia’s policy regarding outing, I understand what is considered outing as defined on EN-WP as well as its relation to the overall Foundation Privacy policy. Although I remain vigilant regarding outing when using the checkuser tools, I have yet to come across an instance where it has been specifically relevant while oversighting.

Comments

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 * I have seen Ponyo in a few situations and see nothing that indicates she would improperly apply the oversight tool as well as seeing much evidence that she is well respected by other editors. Full disclosure: If Ponyo is selected, I will become a member of WP:AUSC in her place as the current alternate member.  MBisanz  talk 02:59, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * For the record, should Ponyo and/or Salvio giuliano be appointed, their appointment will take effect at the end of their AUSC term, unless one or the other elects to resign from the AUSC. Risker (talk) 03:27, 21 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Ponyo is also someone who is relatively new to me and overlooking the typo of photosubmissions above ;-), I'm happy to support her request to continue to have the ability to use the CheckUser and Oversight tools once her term on the AUSC expires, by which time I imagine she will have more than enough experience to be a very useful CheckUser and oversighter. The  Helpful  One  22:00, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The comments I made on Ponyo's CU nomination are just as applicable here. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  08:33, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Trusted candidate. Ponyo is already well experienced with the use of both Checkuser and Oversight permissions and i support them to continue to have access to both the user rights. TheGeneralUser (talk) 14:36, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Support This user  has been part of  Audit Subcommittee and  has both Checkuser and Oversight permissions .Further would prefer a candidate who already has the tools and is experienced over  candidates without them when one has choose between two equally good candidates given the privacy concerns and find the candidate to be trustworthy  as this position which is  without community scrutiny and  nearly impossible to audit.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 18:55, 28 June 2012 (UTC)