Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2017/Candidates/The Rambling Man/Questions

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Question from Carrite



 * Very illuminating and nicely put. I hope everyone reads this. Thank you. Carrite (talk) 17:27, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Questions from Softlavender
You have been WP:AE-blocked twice within the past seven months ; you currently are under three indefinite behavioral sanctions placed by ArbCom, including a one-way IBan with an administrator ; and you were desysopped (or rather you resigned the mop when it was clear desysopping was inevitable) a year ago. Given those things:

Questions from Martinevans123


p.s. I know how busy you are with the Main page every day, TRM, so please feel free to totally ignore these questions for the next 12 days, if you just can't find the odd precious few minutes, or until WP demands a recount, of course.
 * No problem, from Vienna, my thanks for your input. The Rambling Man (talk) 23:54, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your prompt replies. You've still got 11 days to reconsider any of your answers! Good luck. Martinevans123 (talk) 08:46, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * No thanks. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:58, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Question from Jessegalebaker

 * Since our first administrators were appointed, more than five and a half million articles have been added to the product. Maybe the ratio of content builders to police/monitors hasn't hurt the project as much as you suggest.Moriori (talk) 02:24, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I see no link between the early admin promotions (which were something of a joke) and the building of content. Early adopters of Wikipedia (like me) found it very easy to build content and had no interest in admins.  The fact that we have very few operational admins left now with such a huge tome of work somewhat contracdicts your position.  In any case, it's not really admins that are broken, I didn't actually say that. The Rambling Man (talk) 06:48, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I see no link between the early admin promotions (which were something of a joke) and the building of content. Early adopters of Wikipedia (like me) found it very easy to build content and had no interest in admins.  The fact that we have very few operational admins left now with such a huge tome of work somewhat contracdicts your position.  In any case, it's not really admins that are broken, I didn't actually say that. The Rambling Man (talk) 06:48, 6 December 2017 (UTC)