2022 Arbitration Committee Elections

Each year, I tell myself I'm going to write a useful guide for this fun little event, and each year I fail to do so. So instead, as a treat, you get to see what my self-nomination statement would have been! Exciting. /s

TheresNoTime #

It appears that ill-advised ArbCom runs seem to be a habit of mine — my standing for election in 2015 was destined to fail, but coincidently may have prompted me to run for adminship the year after, so silver linings and all that…

This year, my hat finds itself ambling to the ring after an ArbCom case in which I lost my functionary permissions, having held them on and off since 2017.

To say this puts me "on the back foot" in an election may be the understatement of the year, but I do wish to make it clear this is not a "protest candidacy" — on the contrary, this experience has highlighted to me a number of areas where improvements could and should be made, as others have already begun to point out in their statements.

My strengths lie in the areas of investigation & prevention of harassment and abuse, and in the reduction of bureaucracy and its attendant overreach — I have very little interest in policy wonk work, and would instead strive to see a slimmed-down Arbitration Committee which can focus on important local issues, whilst building on how we as a project work with the global community. I believe my position as a steward (since ~2018) lends itself to further bridge this gap to the English Wikipedia's ArbCom.

Disclosures #

• I maintain a list of my other accounts at this disclosures page.

• I have already signed every NDA going.

• I am employed by the Wikimedia Foundation.

• I remain in compliance with the ANPDP.

Yeeeaaah, I didn't think it would go down so well either…

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