Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2013/Candidates/The Devil's Advocate/Questions

Candidates are advised to answer each of these questions completely but concisely. Candidates may refuse to answer any questions that they do not wish to, with the understanding, however, that not answering a question may be perceived negatively by the community.

Note that disclosure of your account history, pursuant to the ArbCom selection and appointment policy, must be made in your opening statement, and is not an optional question.

Individual questions
Please ask your individual questions here. While there is no limit on the number of questions that may be asked, please try to keep questions relevant. Try to be as clear and concise as possible, and avoid duplicating questions that have already been asked.

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Questions from Rschen7754
I use the answers to these questions to write my election guide. There is a large correlation between the answers to the questions and what the final result is in the guide, but I also consider other factors as well. Also, I may be asking about specific things outside the scope of ArbCom; your answers would be appreciated regardless.

The questions are similar to those I asked in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012; if you've already answered them, feel free to borrow from those, but make sure the question has not been reworded.



Thank you. Rschen7754 02:12, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Questions from Collect
I also use these questions in my voter guide, and the latter four were actually general questions asked in 2012, which I asked be used again.



Thank you. Collect (talk) 00:45, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Question from Piotrus
(Note borrowed from Rschen7754): The questions are similar to those I asked in 2012. If you've already answered them, feel free to borrow from those, but make sure the question has not been reworded.



Thank you, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:39, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Questions by Gerda Arendt
Thank you, precious candidate, for volunteering. Thank you, passed. (If you looked you saw that we almost lost an editor for helping me, something that would have been hard to take for me.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:04, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Questions by Tarc
Thank you for stepping up and giving this a go, being an Arbitrator is a often a difficult and thankless task. However;



Question from User:HectorMoffet
The number of Active Editors on EnWP has been in decline since 2007.

This decline has been documented extensively:
 * In our own "Editor Trends Study"
 * In popular media ("Nobody wants to edit Wikipedia anymore")
 * In scholarly literature ("How Wikipedia’s reaction to popularity is causing its decline")

This raises several questions:



Question from Carrite

 * Thank you. (This is my view also, by the way.) Carrite (talk) 03:39, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. (This is my view also, by the way.) Carrite (talk) 03:39, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Question from user:Ykantor

 * Thank you. Ykantor (talk) 14:08, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Ykantor (talk) 14:08, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Ykantor (talk) 14:08, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Ykantor (talk) 14:08, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Questions from user:Martinevans123

 * Many thanks for your sensible answers, DA. I personally think that civility and edit effort/quality should be considered as separately as possible. But it is, of course, usually very difficult, perhaps impossible, to judge either in isolation from who's involved. I wish you well in the election. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:08, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for your sensible answers, DA. I personally think that civility and edit effort/quality should be considered as separately as possible. But it is, of course, usually very difficult, perhaps impossible, to judge either in isolation from who's involved. I wish you well in the election. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:08, 9 December 2013 (UTC)