Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2010/Candidates/Loosmark/Statement

Loosmark

Coordinator's note: This candidate was found to be operating illegitimate alternate accounts, and has been site-banned according to community consensus; their name will remain on the ballot.

Every year when the time comes for ArbCOm elections the candidates are full of promises how will they improve or change this and that but it always comes to nothing. The changes to the way the ArbCom operates are either not made or are only cosmetic in nature. The French have a saying: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, that's very true for wikipedia's ArbCom.

To come directly to the point, in my opinion the biggest problem with the ArbCom is the way the ArbCom gathers information on which it bases its conclusions. To cut a long story short, the Arbs relay almost exclusively on statements and diffs provided by the involved parties and their friends who inevitably pil in during cases. Needless to say the involved editors have the tendency to misrepresent the events either by cherry picking the diffs or by misrepresenting them or/and putting them out of context. I am not saying all the editors do that on purpose, some are unaware of it. Others do do it on purpose (and sometimes it gets quite shocking.) What the Arbs would need to do is investigate the problem pages themselves or delegate the job to uninvolved editors who have a high trust of the community and who would then report back to the Arbs. If elected I will try to do implement such a system.

A couple of other things I will try to do if elected is:
-improve the clerking on the Arbs pages to reduce the noise
-bring more transparency to the way the ArbCom operates
-try to make wikipedia a nicer place for content creators, i'd be in favor of desyoping some admins who are here mainly to play the "wikipedia game"

Finally I never had any function on wikipedia, I don't have powerful friends on wiki and I have the will to try to improve things. Unlike most other candidates I am not just talking the talk, I mean business. If you have questions or suggestions please visit my talk page and post them there.

I have no alternative accounts, I have only ever edited under Loosmark account.

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