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

Timtrent
Disclosures: I meet the eligibility criteria. I have the account User:Fiddle Faddle as a declared alternate account, and adopted it to remove confusion because I use the signature " Fiddle  Faddle " on my main account and have almost since day one here. I confirm that I will fully comply with the criteria for access to non-public data and the WMF identification policy. I will sign the relevant confidentiality agreement. I have been here almost 10 years with a fairly broadly based portfolio of edits.

I am not an admin and have no desire to be one. I involve myself in WP:AFC as a reviewer and a guide, trying hard to retain new editors with advice and guidance despite a variable and usually high workload. One of the areas I find myself drawn to is the handling of the more challenging editor interactions, attempting to bring order out of chaos.

I cut my editing teeth here quite a while ago in the controversial area of 9/11 conspiracy theories, a topic where I had no horse in the race, simply a desire to see if WP:NPOV could be wrested from a mire of conflicting opinionated editing.

I believe in bringing an analytical and polite approach to every situation, coupled with a light hand.

I am well known for typing errors.

I am far more interested in helping editors do it right or do it better than I am in dealing with persnickety folk who want to use process to prove how right they always were.

Am I suitable to work here as an arbitrator? I have no idea. I think so, and I promise to do my best if you choose to entrust the position to me. I rest on my editing track record, in articles, with editors, and on talk pages. Fiddle  Faddle  21:57, 10 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Withdrawal
 * Since offering myself as a candidate my personal circumstances outside Wikipedia have changed such that it is very unlikely that I will be able to devote the extra time required to serve. It is important to be able to devote the time, and a foolishness and a conceit to continue knowing it is unlikely to be available. It would do the English language Wikipedia and the community a disservice.


 * While my vanity says it would have been good to see the end result of the polls it is far more important for the project for me to withdraw now, even at this late stage, than to continue as a candidate, only withdrawing after potential election and resigning in the middle of a period of service. I am humbled by the amount of support I have been offered. I offer my apologies to those who have already voted and ask those of you who have supported me at the poll to consider re-voting. To those who opposed, an oppose vote is never wasted.


 * I want to stress that I have stood as an editor, believing ArbCom to require editors, whether admins or not, to work for the good of the project. The discussions about ensuring that non admins who are elected are able to see the material have been interesting, and have formed no part of my decision to withdraw. I have absolutely not stood as a 'non admin', nor as a protest candidate, but have stood believing that, for this committee, an editor is an editor, is an editor, and that I would be able to serve you and add value. Fiddle   Faddle  07:06, 25 November 2015 (UTC)