Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/2011 CUOS appointments/OS/Courcelles

Courcelles

CheckUser candidate pages: 28bytes • AGK • Courcelles • Elockid • HelloAnnyong • Keegan • Kww • Mentifisto • WilliamH

Oversight candidate pages: Courcelles • Fluffernutter • WilliamH

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Courcelles (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Nomination statement (250 words max.)

Hello, I'm Courcelles, and I'm applying to retain the checkuser and oversight permissions following the end of my term on the Audit Subcommittee in April of next year. I've been a member of that subcommittee for nearly six months now, and an administrator here for around eighteen. In that time, I've also been semi-active as an operator of both permissions, and am frequently available on-wiki and through IRC to handle requests that come up. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them.

Standard questions for all candidates

Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.

A: Well, I've wielded the suppression tools as needed for the last six months, and the revision delete one for about a year longer than that. I personally don't think counting logged actions means much, but I have made fairly substantial use of both tools in the time I've had access to them. Courcelles 22:10, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.

A: Oversight, unlike Checkuser, is a technically simple tool. Any admin that has operated the Revision Delete tool will be able to pick up the mechanics of it inside ten minutes. Oversight is all about knowing what should, and what should not be, suppressed. I think I've picked this up in my 18 months of sending OS requests in, and six months of handling them myself, reading oversight-l, oversight OTRS tickets, and reviewing other usage of the OS tool in my capacity as a member of the AUSC. Courcelles 22:10, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Do you hold advanced permissions (checkuser, oversight, bureaucrat, steward) on this or other WMF projects? If so, please list them. Also, do you have OTRS permissions? If so, to which queues?

A: I currently hold the CU and OS flags here as a member of the AUSC. I'm on OTRS, with acccess to oversight-en, info-en, and permissions. Courcelles 22:10, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Comments

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• In my limited observations of Courcelles I have found him to be an articulate and good faith editor with the significant authorities that he has on WP, so I support him continuing in CU and OS. Pine^talk 19:44, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
• Patient and communicative, with very good judgement. What's more to ask? sonia♫ 05:03, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
• I have a generally favorable impression of Courcelles' judgment in his current roles. If he wants to continue doing CU and Oversight work after rotating off the audit committee, that should be beneficial to Wikipedia. --Orlady (talk) 02:58, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
• He has already done the work, let him keep doing it. JORGENEV 17:50, 5 October 2011 (UTC)