User:Giraffer/ACE2024

This is my guide to the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections. It is intended to provide an overview of each candidate's experiences, roles, and background, and to highlight important comments or answers they make. The guide will not have my opinions anywhere, although I will inevitably have to make editorial judgements about what to include and how to word things. You are very welcome to leave any questions or feedback on the talk page.

Table of statistics

User	Reg. date	RfA date	Links	Administrator	Bureaucrat	CheckUser	Oversighter	Arbitrator	Arbitration edit count	Edits this year
CaptainEek	2014-02-19	2020-05-12	t · c · l · x	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	600	600
Just Step Sideways	2007-07-21	2009-08-30	t · c · l · x	Yes	No	Former	Former	Former	2600	4100
Worm That Turned	2008-07-13	2011-07-06	t · c · l · x	Former	Former	Former	Former	Former	2300†	<100
ScottishFinnishRadish	2021-01-22	2022-09-21	t · c · l · x	Yes	No	No	No	No	800	12300
Simonm223	2008-03-12	n/a	t · c · l · x	No	No	No	No	No	<100	1700
Daniel	2006-05-26	2007-01-30	t · c · l · x	Former	No	No	No	No	1400†	4000
Guerillero	2009-11-05	2011-11-30	t · c · l · x	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	2000†	700
Theleekycauldron	2017-11-16	2023-08-17	t · c · l · x	Yes	No	No	No	No	<100	4600
Elli	2014-02-23	2024-06-07	t · c · l · x	Yes	No	No	No	No	<100	5600
Liz	2007-06-22	2015-08-04	t · c · l · x	Yes	No	No	No	No	unknown†	140000
Primefac	2010-01-23	2017-01-16	t · c · l · x	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	1500	19100
KrakatoaKatie	2006-06-14	2007-06-08	t · c · l · x	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	100	600

Legend

  Permission currently held

  Permission requested unsuccessfully (most recent request)

  Permission never held

  Permission previously held (removed in good standing)

  Permission previously held (removed under a cloud)

The legend is in order of precedence; i.e. if a user had a permission removed and later unsuccessfully requested it back, the cell would be colored in red and tagged as "Former". If they have never held a permission but requested it unsuccessfully, they would be colored in red and tagged as "No". All permission requests will be included in a hatnote for all applicable cells.

Notes

Collapsed for brevity.

Three-point summaries

Short(ish) summaries of each candidate, on three major points:

1. Background & activity level
2. Arbitration experience
3. Candidacy overview (i.e. any particularly interesting questions, noteworthy pieces of discussion about them, etc.)

For incumbent arbitrators, I will focus much more on their arbitration work than their background, although they generally tend to do little outside of arb work anyway.

CaptainEek

1. Became an arbitrator only around seven months after becoming an admin, so not much background (pre-arb) mopping to speak of. Wrote 2x FAs (Cactus wren and Vermilion flycatcher) before becoming an arb, among other content work, which is listed on her userpage. Eek has remained active on-wiki since she became an arb in January 2021, making over 1000 edits a year in her first three years on the committee, but not in 2024. Was marked as inactive on the ArbCom members page this year from May until September.
2. Elected in 2020 with 68.18% support, and re-elected in 2022 with 75.74% support. Did not serve as a drafting arbitrator on any cases in her most recent term, but did draft Conduct in deletion-related editing in 2022 and RexxS in 2021.
3. Q2 asked for a self-assessment of her service as an arbitrator; she chose DS/CTOP reform and helping the committee serve as a "moderating force on the Foundation" as highlights, and not drafting a case in her recent term as a point to improve upon. Also mentioned thinking that, on reflection, she did a poor job at drafting RexxS.

Just Step Sideways

1. Very active, with >4000 edits this year. Recent activity this year appears to be mostly general admin work (CSDs, XFDs, UAA blocks, etc.) alongside some content gnomery. Appointed as an Oversighter in 2010 and served until his ArbCom suspension in late November 2023, excluding a 6-month break in 2016 and brief period in 2019. Also served intermittently as a CheckUser until his ArbCom suspension. Unsuccessfully requested functionary tools in October 2024.
2. Not elected in 2012 (54.04%)—recieved enough support for a one-year term but was too far down the order. Elected in 2013 for a one-year term (55.28%); did not run for re-election. Elected in 2019 (66.63%) and re-elected in 2021 (65.54%). One drafted one case (Stephen) in their most recent term. Was suspended from ArbCom for six months in November 2023 after he repeatedly failed to [p]reserve in appropriate confidence the contents of private correspondence sent to the Committee and the Committee's internal discussions and deliberations by making disclosures on off-wiki forums. Intial wording of the motion described the suspension as follow[ing] a previous formal warning issued to Beeblebrox in September 2021 by the Arbitration Committee concerning his conduct in off-wiki forums, but was amended to read In September 2021, within the scope of internal Committee discussions, Beeblebrox was advised that his off-wiki conduct was suboptimal. following a successful ARCA request by JSS disputing the formality of the warning. A redacted version of the disputed warning is publicly viewable.
3. Q1 on regaining trust and Q6 about reflecting on their response to the suspension are particularly worth a read.

Worm That Turned

1. Inactive this year, with just over 100 edits at the time of writing; only ~30 between January and the start of November. Resigned sysop and crat at the start of the year, but is currently requesting the tools back at RfA. Appointed as an Oversighter in July 2012 and served until July 2016, and from December 2017 until his ArbCom resignation in September 2023. Also served as a bureaucrat from 2014 until 2016 and 2017 until January 2024. Author of 2x FAs and 30x GAs, among other content work.
2. The most tenured candidate this year, with just under 7 years on the committee. Not elected in 2011 (59.03%); elected in 2012 (78.25%) and did not run for re-election. Elected in 2017 (70.38%), re-elected in 2019 (75.94%), and re-elected in 2021 (78.85%). Resigned in September 2023, noting his then-recent inactivity. Did not draft any cases in his most recent term.
3. His answer to Q5 on investigating the veracity of evidence presented is interesting. Was endorsed by sitting (outgoing) arb L235 on his discussion page.

ScottishFinnishRadish

(For complete transparency, I opposed SFR at RfA two years ago.)

1. Highly active, with over 12000 edits this year (and yet their least active on record so far). Highlights the time they have to dedicate to ArbCom as a strength of theirs. Passed RfA in 2022 after a crat chat. Active in antivandalism and blocking at AIV/UAA. Has written multiple articles, including 2x GAs.
2. Very active at AE, with >600 edits in under two years and hundreds of logged CTOP actions. Only major case participation was in Skepticism and coordinated editing. Has never run for ArbCom before.
3. Wrote a detailed answer to Q7 on when to accept a case based on secret evidence, which is worth reading.

Simonm223

1. Long-term highly fluxuating activity, with multi-year gaps. >1800 edits this year, but did not edit between May and October. Very active on talk pages, with the Article talk namespace making up the plurality of their edits (38.5%). Lots of activity at noticeboards too, with >600 edits to ANI, >400 edits to FTN and RSN, and >200 to NPOVN and BLPN. No FAs or GAs, but has created six articles, albeit all over 15 years ago.
2. Limited experience at arbitration—over 60 edits to AE, although only 9 this year, and the 10th most recent was in 2019. Have made a handful of contributions (10-15) to ARC and ARCA, although they edited the latter most recently in 2019.
3. Q7 asks about access to CUOS as a non-admin; they say they were not aware that being an arb would give them access.