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![]() | Note added evening time 26 November 2012: I've been unavoidably out of town since Sunday morning my time. I'm just now coming home to quite the load of stuff to catch up on. I will point out that I did not and never have recieved any emails or other on or off wiki communications related to any emails Jclemens might have made to the arb-com mailing list. I'm still in the process of assimilating the whole brohaha and may change votes depending on my reading. I do, however, doubt I'll be changing my mind on Jclemens. |
Note that I'm looking for folks who have their eye on the main point of this whole enterprise - writing an encyclopedia. With that in mind, I want content contributions, or at least the concept that they support content contributors. If you're an admin or not really doesn't matter to me at all. In fact, NOT being an admin should be a requirement for at least one of the seats, quite honestly. I'm also looking for folks who don't get so wrapped up in enforcing civility or rules that they forget that first goal above, the writing of the encyclopedia. I don't want to have my work interrupted by idiots who don't know the first thing about subject matter but who seem to think that their opinion on some tangental matter should trump the folks in the trenches writing the content and dealing with the vandals.
To that end - I expect folks to have at least 45-50% of their contributions to article space, unless they show a LOT of clue in supporting content creation. Stupid ruleslawyering or spending ages at ANI will not get you much support here.
This year, I've been pretty disappointed with a number of the decisions that ArbCom has taken or almost taken. And some of the behavior of the arbs has been very close to what they have admonished regular editors for. I'll probably be taking a much harsher look at candidates with last year's experiences in mind - I'm much less likely to approve of folks who are hardline on civility, for example.
Also note that I do not consider myself suited for ArbCom, I do not deal well with high stress situations nor do I have the tact required. Whether I think someone is suited for ArbCom has nothing to do with whether I think they are good contributors to the project in other means.
As a side note, feel free to drop me a note on my talk page if you wish to discuss any of these.