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2008 Arbitration Committee Election status

Jayvdb

“ I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary. ”
— Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America, Editor's note by Douglas Brinkley. ISBN 0747553459, p.xvi.
See Wikiquote for another apt alternative of this quote.)

Hi. My name is John Vandenberg. I have provided a detailed history about myself on my userpage. I believe that arbitrators should be very open and honest about their formal education and experience in order that the community can make informed decisions about who to vote for, and so that people coming to the committee for arbitration can get a feel for the people that will be making the decisions.

I served as an Arbitration Clerk for much of the first half of 2008. I resigned due to a messy affair, which has since been settled amicably. This experience, and the termination of it, was an eye opener. I am aware of the responsibility, workload and difficulty involved.

My commitments:

  1. I will not edit policy pages or influence policy. This is the responsibility of the community, and arbitrators should not write the policies that they will use in decisions.
  2. I will oppose any remedy that is not substantially grounded in existing policy that was written by the community, or on resolutions passed by the Wikimedia Foundation.
  3. I will be highly active and available, or I will step down and turn in my "access".

I will bring to the committee:

  1. Broad technical skills to automate tasks that the committee regularly performs, and improve processes where possible.
  2. Broad experience and exposure to the culture, policies and leaders of most of the WMF projects. There are very few arbs, ex-arbs, or other candidates who have measurable experience outside of English Misplaced Pages.
  3. Broad language skills - I can only write in English, however I enjoy working with foreign languages and people who don't have a good grasp of English
  4. Limited patience for long & drawn out cases. Quick and measured solutions that result in the least amount of pain and disruption are good. Perfect is the enemy of good.
  5. Limited wiki-friendships with the elite in the power structure here on Misplaced Pages. It will be rare that I need to be recused.

Whilst on the committee, my mission for reform within the committee and arbitration process will be to:

  1. Encourage participatory democracy.
  2. Fire the slackers and the lurkers and people whose term is up.
  3. Require that arbitration cases have a clear scope before they open.
See here for more detailed explanations of these three points.
Voting in this election is now closed.
Any votes cast after 00:00 15 December 2008 (UTC) will be reverted.

Support

  1. Privatemusings (talk) 00:00, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  2. Strong support--Maxim(talk) 00:04, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  3. Support I like the idea for Arbom reform.--Caspian blue 00:08, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  4. Cla68 (talk) 00:12, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  5. Black Kite 00:13, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  6. -- Avi (talk) 00:17, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  7. Support Durova 00:19, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  8. --Kanonkas :  Talk  00:22, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  9. Support Captain panda 00:26, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  10. Strongest possible support. --Alecmconroy (talk) 00:27, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  11. Strong support. Further comments available at my ACE2008 notes page. --Elonka 00:33, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  12. Dlabtot (talk) 00:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  13. Rationale. Giggy (talk) 00:39, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  14. Tom B (talk) 00:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  15. Support. Mathsci (talk) 00:42, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  16. Perfect for the job. ~the editorofthewiki ~ 00:45, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  17. - filelakeshoe 00:48, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  18. iridescent 00:53, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  19. - Pick of the bunch -- Mattinbgn\ 00:55, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  20. One of the best candidates for the job. krimpet✽ 01:02, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  21. PhilKnight (talk) 01:04, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  22. Support Sam 01:05, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  23. I have some disagreements with this candidate, but feel that I can trust his integrity, and that any "wrong" (in my view) decisions will be based on what he thinks is best for the project, and not on petty revenge or covering up for a friend. ElinorD (talk) 01:05, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Oppose

  1. Oppose. Rschen7754 (T C) 00:04, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  2. Nufy8 (talk) 00:04, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  3. Voyaging 00:40, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
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