Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2010/Candidates/Iridescent/Statement

Iridescent

 * Since we've less than 24 hours and still have a shortage of candidates, I'll throw my hat into the ring as well.

Those of you who spend much time around WP:FAC probably already know me; for those that don't, I joined Wikipedia back in 2006, and have been active more or less intermittently ever since. I became an admin in mid-2007, and temporarily resigned two years later; I firmly believe Wikipedia's "power users" should all spend at least part of their time every couple of years without advanced permissions, and wanted to demonstrate that losing advanced permissions wasn't the end of the world.

I believe that everything done on Wikipedia should be done with "does this improve the content of Wikipedia as the outside world sees it?" in mind. I also believe that too often, the internal politics of Wikipedia are side-tracking people from that, and that with an increasing administrative workload for a shrinking number of volunteers, our internal systems are coming under increasing strain. Also, as Wikipedia's huge number of policies and guidelines grows it is becoming an increasingly unwelcome place for new editors, and I'd love to see it streamlined, although I recognise there's little any one editor can to to hold back that particular tide.

Although I opposed WP:ACPD because of the way it was implemented without discussion, I agree with the thinking behind it; in the absence of a governing body Arbcom has by default picked up a lot of powers it never really wanted and isn't best qualified to use. If elected, I'd hope to further a streamlined Arbcom that goes back to its core remit of resolving problems, and help in setting up devolved bodies to take on some of these policy-making functions.

(adding) For those who want admin statistics, list of FAs and so on, I've listed them at User:Iridescent/Stats.

Accounts: I originally started editing as User:Heavenly41, and was renamed early-on to the typo of User:Iridescenti, itself swiftly renamed to the current User:Iridescent; I also have an occasional shared-terminal account of User:Iridescent 2. User:Eva Destruction is an empty-shell redirect account, registered as that's the name by which I'm known elsewhere and I wanted to avoid the confusion caused by User:One/User:Cool Hand Luke. Other than that I've no other accounts, other than the occasional logged-out edit.