Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2018/Candidates/DGG/Questions

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Questions from Carrite



 * Thank you for your answers. Carrite (talk) 06:37, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * Thank you for your answer. feminist (talk) 10:10, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your answer. feminist (talk) 10:10, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Questions from Guerillero
Thank you for running for the hardest and most thankless job on the project. I am rehashing most of my 2015 questions because I don't think that these issues have been resolved over the past three years. Enjoy!

Question from

 * 1) {{ACE Question
 * Q=Your years of service as an arb leave me with only one question to ask - are you sure you want to do this again?
 * A=}As is obvious, I only decided at the last minute. The decisive factor was realizing that the likely composition of the committee might be sympathetic to my way of looking at things, which increases the likelihood of actuallly making a difference there.  DGG ( talk ) 09:31, 16 November 2018 (UTC) }}

Question from Amanda

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 * Thank you in advance for your answers to my long set of questions. I ask these questions based on my experience as an Arbitrator. The answers may not be as clear cut as you think. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 05:16, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * yes, but I think I worded my answers with some qualifiers. In particular, I know that earlier committees have been accused of unwillingness to deal with admin socking, and that there is a recent instance of people urging us to take action which we did not take because of doubts about the accusation.  DGG ( talk ) 18:39, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you in advance for your answers to my long set of questions. I ask these questions based on my experience as an Arbitrator. The answers may not be as clear cut as you think. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 05:16, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * yes, but I think I worded my answers with some qualifiers. In particular, I know that earlier committees have been accused of unwillingness to deal with admin socking, and that there is a recent instance of people urging us to take action which we did not take because of doubts about the accusation.  DGG ( talk ) 18:39, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you in advance for your answers to my long set of questions. I ask these questions based on my experience as an Arbitrator. The answers may not be as clear cut as you think. -- Amanda  (aka DQ) 05:16, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * yes, but I think I worded my answers with some qualifiers. In particular, I know that earlier committees have been accused of unwillingness to deal with admin socking, and that there is a recent instance of people urging us to take action which we did not take because of doubts about the accusation.  DGG ( talk ) 18:39, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Questions from

 * Thanks. &#x222F; WBG converse 09:00, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Curiously, you have already recused yourself as an arbitrator (after being prodded by others) because there is a genuine aspect that you might (And the might is quite quite big, as far as I know you:-))  try to increase your chances of success at ACE by passing a decision that adversely affects Fred's candidature.
 * Now that you have recused as an Arbitrator and your utterances have no more value than a random functionary, you can still go along the lines of Someone will read my privileged comments/reply (which may be intentionally biased to adversely affect Fred's candidature) and based on that, will vote out in the elections, where both I and Fred are standing thus leading to a case of probable COI.
 * But, it might be prudential to note, that to my eyes, your position is nothing different than Courcelles/Drmies, as to this part. locus and both of whom have already answered.
 * Obviously, you have a discretion to reply to my question or not to. But, I'm a bit curious about the motivations and also about whether I missed some other aspect:-) Were you not a current-member of Arbcom but a plain functionary, would you have answered in these circumstances? &#x222F; WBG converse 20:11, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Obviously, you have a discretion to reply to my question or not to. But, I'm a bit curious about the motivations and also about whether I missed some other aspect:-) Were you not a current-member of Arbcom but a plain functionary, would you have answered in these circumstances? &#x222F; WBG converse 20:11, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

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 * Speaking very generally, the functionaries necessarily have a wide range of discretion--the oversight, checkuser, and arb policies are not always bright lines  We could argue among ourselves about each disputable case, but instead we tolerate differences. If we had to wait for explicit agreement, we'd not be able to accomplish our duties.   Admins work similarly, and , in fact, so do all WP editors.  DGG ( talk ) 05:30, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Question from User:Ryk72
Discretionary sanctions (DS) now cover more than 30 topic areas (per WP:DSTOPICS).

Thank you in advance for your consideration of these questions. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 00:21, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Question from User:GRuban

 * Thank you for your answer. I'm not planning to de-admin you, you are a fine editor and admin, and can absolutely opine as you like at AfD; however you're running for ArbCom which, among other things, acts as the oversight of admin actions, so my question was, as an arbitrator, would you have considered an admin speedy deleting this article reasonable. I don't think you quite answered that, but I won't demand more, that would be badgering. Again, thank you. --GRuban (talk) 03:35, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I shall answer you directly: I would not have considered a  speedy deletion for promotionalism so entirely unreasonable as to be a justification for action at ani, let alone arb com.  There is a wide range of action between those things I would personally do, and those things I think so wrong as to be worthy of censure.  DGG ( talk ) 05:20, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
 * --GRuban (talk) 21:45, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
 * --GRuban (talk) 21:45, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Question from User:Ryoung122
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