Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Candidates/Hawkeye7/Statement

Hawkeye7
I have been a Wikipedia editor for over ten years, with more than 100,000 edits. I have contributed to 82 Featured Articles, 3 featured lists, 128 A class articles, and 310 Good Articles. I have been active as a Military History Project coordinator, being re-elected to a seventh term in September 2019. In this capacity I have assessed articles, closed A class reviews, and occasional written opinion pieces and book reviews for our monthly newsletter, The Bugle. I assist at DYK with reviews and have been involved in the assembly of the prep areas from time to time. I was runner up in the WikiCup in 2013, Military History Project Military Historian of the Year in 2012, and runner-up in 2014 and 2016.

I have been involved with GLAM work with the Australian Paralympic Committee. I was instructor in four Wikimedia Australia workshops, and an accredited Wikimedia media representative at the Paralympic Games in London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Since then I have continued expanding the Paralympic articles, particularly relating to wheelchair basketball. I have travelled around Australia, and to Thailand, China, Germany, the United States and Canada covering Paralympic sports. I attended Wikimania in Hong Kong in 2013 and Esino Laurio in 2016 on scholarships from the Wikimedia Foundation.

I hope that I can provide a voice for content creators on the Arbitration Committee.

I have never been blocked or banned. Which brings us to the elephant in the room: I was desysopped for cause ten years ago. So I know what it is like to be on the losing end of an ArbCom case. I blocked an editor after taking as a personal attack, oblivious of the wider implications. In the decade since then I have attempted mend fences, and nearly all the members of ArbCom at the time voted for me at an unsuccessful RfA. So I am not an admin, but I strongly believe that ArbCom would be enhanced by the presence of at least one non-admin.

I confirm that I will comply fully with the criteria for access to non-public data. I have never edited under another account, but in addition to my main account, I have written and maintained two registered bots, the, which is used by the featured article process, and the for performing various administrative tasks related to the Military History Project. I also created a third bot account, AussieBot, which has never been used.