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

DGG

 * I've been at Wikipedia for the last seven years as editor and administrator. I've mainly been involved in dealing with new articles and   drafts, trying to sort out and keep the improvable ones from being deleted--and removing the others, trying to give realistic advice to new editors, and dealing with questions about reliable sources.


 * This is the first time I am running for Arb Com; I think that what I have been doing is critically important. But others are now doing this work just as well as I have tried to do, and I want to take the opportunity to use my experience elsewhere on Wikipedia. I have only participated in WP:AN/I and the like when it seems I was needed, but I think I've shown the ability to summarize complex situations, and to find rational solutions. I work at WP:OTRS, and I am used to dealing with people who are at least initially rather angry.


 * My real name and my background are on my user page; I thought I was formally identified to the Foundation, but since I'm not on their list, I will re-identify. I have an alternate active account as User:DGG (NYPL) for use as a volunteer Wikipedian in Residence at the New York Public Library; for other accounts I have used in the past see User:DGG/accounts