Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/Candidate statements/Carcharoth/Questions for the candidate


 * For discussion regarding this candidate, please see also: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/Vote/Carcharoth.

Personal election schedule and notes
The way I intend to tackle the questions posed during the election is as follows. Over the next two weeks (until around 24 November, when nominations close) I will be splitting my time between: (a) working through the questions here (including copying over general questions and answering them); (b) extending and explaining parts of my candidate statement (see here); and (c) answering the questions here (depending on whether or not those questions are repeated here or in the general questions list).

From 24 November to the time voting opens (1 December), I will be concentrating solely on the question list here. During the election period (November and December) I should be able to edit most days, though I will continue to attend to other areas of Wikipedia that I edit as well as answering questions here. If I take a break for a few days, I will leave a notice here and on my user pages. I do intend to answer all questions, both individual and general, and will be copying general questions over as I answer them, or to indicate that I will be answering a particular general question soon. If you are waiting for a reply to a particular question, please be patient - I will get there eventually (it is either waiting in the queue, or I am pondering my answer). Urgent stuff about the election should go to my user talk page (or via e-mail).

I'll be making silent corrections of grammar and spelling to my answers, and will indicate clearly if any of the answers I provide have had updates made to them. Substantive updates to the answers should be rare (though I may cross-link between answers), so reading the answers as they are posted, or reading them all at once at the end before voting, should be pretty much the same. Any follow-up questions (or requests for clarification) should be posted to this talk page, or as new questions, though exactly how that sort of thing is handled might vary during the election. Carcharoth (talk) 01:01, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Update - a slight change of plan. A couple of days ago I printed off the General questions list and am making notes while offline. I will then use these notes when answering these questions after the general questions list has closed on 17 November, plus adding answers to questions submitted since I printed off the questions. I will continue to answer the individual questions as I find time to deal with them. Carcharoth (talk) 02:08, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Further update - been short of time to edit over the last few days. Will be transcribing my written notes to the questions page later today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday). Carcharoth (talk) 12:40, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * ...and Monday and Tuesday as well. There is a Signpost interview to finish up as well, so forgive me if the answers to the questions are not completed until later in the week. Carcharoth (talk) 02:22, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Intermission
Will be busy in real-life until Friday evening, with only sporadic access to Wikipedia. I had hoped to get more of the questions finished before then, but things will have to wait for now. Will resume answering the questions on Friday (possibly on Thursday). Carcharoth (talk) 23:55, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Intermission has ended. Carcharoth (talk) 07:34, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Other discussions
I've generally tried to avoid getting involved in discussions about this election away from the central election pages (specifically not posting to the discussions at the main election talk page, for example), but for full disclosure (and information for voters), I am listing here the other places that I have left notes or generally asked people about ny criticisms or comments they may have made during this election (the listing may not be complete, but it should be by the time voting opens).
 * Some discussions on my talk page, such as here and here
 * Arbcom box note
 * Section on Lar's guide
 * Question for East718 about his comment on his guide
 * Section on Sandy's guide
 * Advice asked for from Lar

Other pages

 * Signpost election questions
 * User:Jc37/Userboxes/Carcharoth4Arbcom
 * Related to the above, a weak joke involving the Bandog
 * User:Carcharoth/Contributions/IPs - IP edits I found while looking through my contribs

Final few days and after election ends
My schedule for the next few days is to answer the last few questions that were asked during the election (during the weekday evenings) and then to be available most of the weekend to answer any last minute questions. After the election ends, I'll be around on Monday (scheduled holiday) and during the evenings (as normal). Carcharoth (talk) 08:36, 11 December 2008 (UTC)