User:Ealdgyth/2024 Arb Election votes

It's that time of year again...

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 wish folks had 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. Well, that's a great goal, but no way can I just judge candidates on that ... because very few candidates meet that standard. And a few of the ones that do, are not otherwise qualified, at least in my eyes.

In line with the last few years, 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.

And this is number 16 of these things I've done. Good gods, I'm turning into an institution. Over a decade. Yikes.

This year has really slammed me ... not necessarily in a bad way but it's run me ragged like never before. I'm busy as crap in RL and just don't have the time this year for the detailed statistical analysis of the candidates. So this year you're just going to get the comments, since to be honest, most of the candidates are at least not joke candidates.

Past votes

Handy!

To integrate

In the spirit of fairness

- Edit tools 152K+ edits total. Account started editing May 2007. 71.2% to articles, 8.7% to article talk, 5.4% to user pages, 5.8% to user talk pages, 7.9% to wikipedia space, 0.6% to wikipedia talk pages. Last 500 edits go back to Sept 2024. 3 articles with over 1000 edits, 100+ articles with over 100 edits. 101 edits to ANI, 53 to AN. 839 "real" pages created. Is an admin. 58 FAs, 1 FL, 1 FT, 140 GAs.

The Candidates

Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2024/Candidates

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- Edit tools 25K+ edits total. Account started editing Feb 2014. 40.1% to articles, 10.8% to article talk, 2.8% to user pages, 24.7% to user talk pages, 18.2% to wikipedia space, 1.9% to wikipedia talk pages. Last 500 edits go back to April 2024. 4 articles with over 100 edits. 489 edits to ANI, 106 to AN. 32 "real" pages created. Is an admin. Claims two FAs on user page.
- Edit tools 78K+ edits total. Account started editing May 2006. 29.8% to articles, 6.4% to article talk, 3.7% to user pages, 18.6% to user talk pages, 35.5% to wikipedia space, 2.5% to wikipedia talk pages. Last 500 edits go back to Oct 2024. 9 articles with over 100 edits. 1096 edits to ANI, 438 to AN. 234 "real" pages created. Is a former admin. No audited content listed on user page.
- Edit tools 58K+ edits total. Account started editing Feb 2014. 49.2% to articles, 14.6% to article talk, 4.5% to user pages, 8.2% to user talk pages, 9.2% to wikipedia space, 1.2% to wikipedia talk pages. Last 500 edits go back to Oct 2024. 1 article with over 100 edits. 167 edits to ANI, 25 to AN. 357 "real" pages created. Is an admin. Claims one GA and one FA on user page.
- Edit tools 27K+ edits total. Account started editing Nov 2009. 28.3% to articles, 7.3% to article talk, 2.9% to user pages, 22.6% to user talk pages, 28.9% to wikipedia space, 4.6% to wikipedia talk pages. Last 500 edits go back to March 2024. 6 articles with over 100 edits. 257 edits to ANI, 106 to AN. 69 "real" pages created. Is an admin. Claims 3 FAs, 6 FLs, 1 FP, 10 GAs on user page.
- Edit tools 111K+ edits total. Account started editing July 2007. 21.2% to articles, 12.4% to article talk, 1.5% to user pages, 30.6% to user talk pages, 27.5% to wikipedia space, 5.8% to wikipedia talk pages. Last 500 edits go back to Oct 2024. 4 articles with over 100 edits. 1917 edits to ANI, 1728 to AN. 106 "real" pages created. Is an admin. No FAs or GAs claimed on user page.
- Edit tools 36K+ edits total. Account started editing June 2006. 34.1% to articles, 2.5% to article talk, 5.8% to user pages, 23.5% to user talk pages, 32.1% to wikipedia space, 0.5% to wikipedia talk pages. Last 500 edits go back to Sept 2022. 0 articles with over 100 edits. 534 edits to ANI, 275 to AN. 104 "real" pages created. Is an admin. No FAs or GAs claimed on talk page.
- Edit tools 745K+ edits total. Account started editing July 2013. 22% to articles, 2.4% to article talk, 8.7% to user pages, 44.7% to user talk pages, 13.9% to wikipedia space, 0.5% to wikipedia talk pages. Last 500 edits go back to Nov 2024. 3 articles with over 100 edits. 2689 edits to ANI, 933 to AN. (Tool crashed repeatedly trying to figure out how many pages created). Is an admin. No FAs or GAs claimed on talk page.
- Edit tools 59K+ edits total. Account started editing Feb 2021. 18.3% to articles, 29.4% to article talk, 1.2% to user pages, 38.5% to user talk pages, 10.4% to wikipedia space, 1.2% to wikipedia talk pages. Last 500 edits go back to Nov 2024. 1 article with over 100 edits. 765 edits to ANI, 403 to AN. 1 "real" page created. Is an admin. 3 GAs claimed on user page.
- Edit tools 43K+ edits total. Account started editing Nov 2017. 16.2% to articles, 6.7% to article talk, 9.1% to user pages, 10.1% to user talk pages, 14.1% to wikipedia space, 10.8% to wikipedia talk pages. Last 500 edits go back to Oct 2024. 3 articles with over 100 edits. 46 edits to ANI, 37 to AN. 63 "real" pages created. Is an admin. 5 FAs, 1 FL, 14 GAs claimed on user page.
- Edit tools 26K+ edits total. Account started editing July 2008. 23.5% to articles, 4.1% to article talk, 10.6% to user pages, 33% to user talk pages, 20.5% to wikipedia space, 6.2% to wikipedia talk pages. Last 500 edits go back to Sept 2022. 1 article with over 100 edits. 135 edits to ANI, 202 to AN. 43 "real" pages created. Will be an admin. 2 FAs and 29 GAs claimed on user page.

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- Edit tools 13K+ edits total. Account started editing March 2008. 22.4% to articles, 38.5% to article talk, 0.7% to user pages, 9.6% to user talk pages, 27.0% to wikipedia space, 1.6% to wikipedia talk pages. Last 500 edits go back to May 2024. 0 articles with over 100 edits. 642 edits to ANI, 82 to AN. 6 "real" pages created. Is NOT an admin. No FAs or GAs claimed on user page.
Per answers to questions 12 and 13. For one, "It was a single comment in a heated moment - I will, of course, endeavor to arbitrate fairly, impartially and guided by the rules and norms of Wikipedia." is not quite enough for something that reveals Simon has such a strong view of the conflict area. It's quite a bit revealing of the actual views that Simon even knew that "IOF" is a term used instead of "IDF", and that alone should be enough to make someone aware that they cannot possibly "arbitrate fairly, impartially and guided by the rules and norms of Wikipedia". I'll draw attention to ScottishFinnishRadish's answer to a similar question of whether he would recuse himself in ARBPIA5 (question #3). There needs to be the appearance of impartiality - even if it means that sometimes a recusal happens even when someone is sure that they could be impartial, if others might not share that belief, better to recuse. (I myself recuse from any actual admin-ing in contentious areas where I edit - mostly Holocaust topics)
- Edit tools 236K+ edits total. Account started editing Oct 2010. 38.3% to articles, 6.2% to article talk, 3.7% to user pages, 11.8% to user talk pages, 13.3% to wikipedia space, 5.1% to wikipedia talk pages. Last 500 edits go back to Oct 2024. 3 articles with over 100 edits. 386 edits to ANI, 1559 to AN. 121 "real" pages created. Is an admin. No FAs or GAs claimed on user page.
Per answer to question #3. Just - no. Primefac's had a distressing tendency to not recuse when he should and this reply to questions about a [which had two findings that Primefac did not behave properly in regards to the case] shows that they still don't get it.

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