Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2012/Candidates/Coren/Statement

Coren

 * Hello. I'm Coren, a regular Wikipedian since 2006, administrator since 2007, and I have served on the committee from 2009 to 2011 and as a checkuser since. Why choose to run again?  The first reason – and I suppose the most important one – is that I know I can do the job.  I spent my year of "vacation" occupying myself mostly with SPI, normal administrative work, and implication at the Foundation level and find myself again with the energy I no longer had at the end of my previous terms.  Some people have described me as a "baseline candidate", and that's probably not far from the truth.  I'm not the most flamboyant or revolutionary of candidates, but I have a solid track record of getting the job done.  I think this is something the committee needs at this time: the past year has seen a bit too much shooting from the hip, and I think the more measured approach of 2010-2011 is desirable.  Finally, I think that this year has a regrettable paucity of candidates for the job (despite the impressively high quality of the selection).  I'd be lying if I said the job was easy, or that I didn't understand why many would hesitate to step forward to so much scrutiny in order to get a seat that seems to bring so much aggravation.  Nevertheless, I believe it's important that the voters have a meaningful choice between several good candidates in order to keep the committee healthy; it works best when it is diverse and representative.

I am already identified with the foundation and have no undisclosed user accounts. I have a few bot accounts, only one of which is nominally active: CorenBlockMonBot, CorenANIBot, CorenSearchBot, CorenGoogleBot, and one doppelgänger that never edited to protect my real name. &mdash; Coren (talk) 23:44, 18 November 2012 (UTC)