Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023/Candidates/Maxim/Statement

Maxim[edit]

I'm Maxim, and I'm running for a third term on ArbCom, having previously served from 2020 to 2022. I am also an administrator and bureaucrat, having served 16 years and 12 years, respectively, in those roles. When I was an arbitrator, I focused most heavily on the behind-the-scenes work. Most significantly, I was involved with appeals and general email/issue management. Additionally, I worked on functionary-related matters, including appointments, inactivity audits, and investigating allegations of misuse of functionary tools.

I'm running again to resume the work I had done during my previous two terms. While I myself have highlighted the need for more arbitrators willing to do behind-the-scenes work, it seems to be a common theme in recent arbitrator experience essays. Another strength I would bring is expertise with the CheckUser tool, which is indispensable to a lot of ArbCom work, including appeals, functionary management, and certain complex investigations undertaken specifically by ArbCom. While this sort of work can definitely get exhausting, it is equally rewarding, especially when looking back at the three years I had served, because of the variety of complex issues that ArbCom ends up handling that have no other place to go, in addition to the more-obvious dispute resolution done on-wiki. Now having not been on ArbCom for almost a year, I feel ready, willing, and able to contribute as an arbitrator again.

I am compliant with the Foundation's policies on access to non-public information. My sock-drawer is declared to ArbCom and includes User:Maximr, User:Maxim's JS test account and a few others in my user creation log. Maxim (talk) 16:36, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitration Committee Election 2023 candidate: Maxim