Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2022/Candidates/Tamzin/Statement

Tamzin

 * As an SPI clerk and an admin active in arbitration enforcement, and someone who's written an article that falls into four discretionary sanctions areas, I spend a lot of time operating in the shadow of ArbCom. I see how the Committee's decisions trickle down to affect the thousand admins it oversees and the thousands more users who edit in DS areas. Overall, I like the direction things have gone in the decade since I joined this project. I'm particularly impressed by recent committees' efforts to better hold admins accountable for misconduct and the ongoing efforts to make the discretionary sanctions system less bureaucratic. There's also room for improvement. ArbCom still struggles to keep up with sockmasters in DS areas. ArbCom still sometimes forgets it can't make policy. And, even as the person who wrote There's a reason you don't know, I can see that ArbCom is often opaque purely for the sake of being opaque, particularly in its supervision of the CheckUser and Oversight teams, where its preference for private warnings and even private restrictions keeps the community out of the loop about the behavior of those who should be most trusted.My philosophy of ArbCom's role is: Community processes work well most of the time, and any time it's possible to defer something to the community, ArbCom should. At the same time, ArbCom should never be afraid to act decisively in situations where no other entity can.I am over 18 and willing to sign the ANPDP. Sock drawer and other disclosures can be found at User:Tamzin/Disclosures and commitments, which also has an "if elected" accountability subsection.