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

Courcelles

 * Hi, I'm Courcelles, I've been here for a few years, an admin for about 4, and I was an arb for the 2011-2013 term.

I'll start by saving I haven't been very active this year. When I rotated off the committee last year, I was effectively going blind. This year, I've undergone two surgeries to fix that, neither of which went particularly smoothly. At least I now have one fully-functional eye!

ArbCom does a lot of important things, some of which it does well, some of which it doesn't. Currently, the system pretty much lets 12 of the 14 arbs forget cases even exist for the (too long) they sit at the evidence and workshop phases. The two subcommittees need a complete rethink; Beeblebrox's proposal isn't perfect, but BASC needs to be reformed, and I still think that we need to go back to letting the community pick their "community" members of the AUSC. The committee needs to appoint more functionaries ASAP, the lack of an appointment round this year and normal attrition has led to a few people doing tons of work.

I think I would be a better arbitrator than I was three years ago. I'm a mellower guy in real life, and I know what I'm asking to jump into here, something that I had no clue about when I was elected in 2011 I'm willing to do the job for another two years, so I'm asking for your votes.

This hasn't changed from three years ago, so in means of standard disclosure, I have a travelling account User:Courcelles is travelling a bot account I've registered User:Courcelles Bot but have never used, a test account, User:Courcelles (ACIP test) and a doppelganger, User:CourcelIes is travelling. This account was once renamed by a bureaucrat, but I've never used any other account than these. As a CU/OS, I'm identified already to the Foundation, and do and will continue to comply with the non-public data access criteria.