Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2014/Candidates/Courcelles/Questions

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NB:I'm packed up and leaving for Thanksgiving. Snowstorm willing, I'll be back sometime Friday or Saturday. Courcelles 19:47, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Questions from Collect

 * 1)  Thanks. Collect (talk) 20:25, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry about the last one, I just got too tired last night ebfore I was able to compose an answer to it. Courcelles 22:26, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * NP - I am always willing to emend stuff. Moves you up to a nice "Honourable Mention" by the way.
 * 1)  Thanks. Collect (talk) 20:25, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry about the last one, I just got too tired last night ebfore I was able to compose an answer to it. Courcelles 22:26, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * NP - I am always willing to emend stuff. Moves you up to a nice "Honourable Mention" by the way.
 * 1)  Thanks. Collect (talk) 20:25, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry about the last one, I just got too tired last night ebfore I was able to compose an answer to it. Courcelles 22:26, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * NP - I am always willing to emend stuff. Moves you up to a nice "Honourable Mention" by the way.

Questions from Gamaliel
Thanks in advance for your answers. Gamaliel ( talk ) 23:08, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Questions from Everyking

 * How do you feel about the ArbCom's practice of deciding cases through private deliberation? Would you push for greater transparency, up to the point of holding all discussions on-wiki, so long as sensitive personal information is not revealed? Would you be prepared to make a personal pledge to make all of your own comments in public, unless sensitive personal information is involved? Everyking (talk) 01:38, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I have to dispute the assertion that arbcom decides cases in private deliberation here. Arbcom-l traffic that relates to cases is quite frequently of the herding cats variety, "For all the saints, go vote on that PD tonight!" or "I added a new remedy to case Foo, please come back?" or "We're at three votes to close, here's a list of who missed voting on what".   Could this be done on-wiki now that we have notifications?  Perhaps, but people get a lot of them, and email is a lot more direct.  Sometimes it looks like something funny is going on when five people swoop from seemingly nowhere to vote on something, but they all just got emails poking them at the same time; and a lot of people leave their email client open all the time.  The only other things I've seen that would be prohibited by your pledge (I.e. case discussion not involving private information) is a request for a sanity check.  Even though I think that things should be done on-wiki, I won't make the proposed pledge, because anyone making it in isolation from the rest of the Committee's membership would be hamstrung, unable to give their input in the conversation due to the pledge, and yet unable to unilaterally move it on-wiki due to the confidentiality of the mailing lists that are proscribed by the arbitration policy.  It needs a communal rethink and decision to change, not individual pledges. Courcelles 20:10, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Questions from Rschen7754
I use the answers to these questions to write my election guide. As a break from past years, I am not assigning "points" for the answers, but the answers to the questions, along with other material that I find in my research, will be what my guide is based on. Also, I may be asking about specific things outside the scope of ArbCom; your answers would be appreciated regardless.



Thank you. Rschen7754 22:30, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Questions from EllenCT


Thank you for your kind consideration of these questions. EllenCT (talk) 04:06, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Questions from Rich Farmbrough


All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:48, 11 November 2014 (UTC).

Questions from Carrite

 * Interesting questions, thanks. Courcelles 22:34, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Interesting questions, thanks. Courcelles 22:34, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Interesting questions, thanks. Courcelles 22:34, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Interesting questions, thanks. Courcelles 22:34, 21 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your answers. —Tim /// Carrite (talk) 16:50, 22 November 2014 (UTC)