Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2015/Candidates/Pldx1/Statement

Pldx1

 * I step forward, because I think that Arbcom should be more diverse. A greater diversity at Arbcom would not save the world by itself, but could give a greater legitimacy to this instance and help her to fulfill her main duty: being the last line of defense of the community concerning poor behavioral patterns (or alleged poor behavioral patterns).


 * I am one of these many small contributors that came to write into Wikipedia because they don't find the article they were searching for. In my case, this was concerning the Offices during the Joseon period in Korea. While I was writing about some Korean painters and even telling to some relatives: "look at what I participated", came the shitstorm of that cucumber painted portrait. How freezing this was (not the painting by itself, but the way it was dealt with). I have written some pieces of advice relative to this story: they can be used to look into my way of reasoning.


 * Obviously, I know that Commons is another country, but our own fallacies often appear more clearly when we see them replicated across a border or another. A part from my main space activity here, I have also written some comments during the Manning case. I think it is important that our system of conflict resolution acts as a damping system, allowing behavioral problems to dissipate, rather than amplify under firephylia behaviour.


 * Therefore, when dealing with the cases that escalated to Arbcom, a clear distinction should be done between the case of someone turning amok once (due to harassment or to any other burning out context) and the case of a long term warrior refusing to cool down despite the n-th chances given (with a large n). In the first case, a long presence should be held as attenuating (the longer was the presence, the more were the occasions for being bullied). In the second one, a longer presence should be held as aggravating (the longer was the presence, the more were the occasions for learning policies and cooperation). A greater diversity of Arbcom could made this more evident.


 * To conclude, I assert that this account is the only one I ever used in the whole Wikipedia galaxy, that I fulfill the conditions of age and good standing, and will identify to the WMF as soon as elected.