Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2022/Candidates/BoldLuis

BoldLuis

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Statement by Edderiofer

I think it's patently clear that User:BoldLuis has wholly failed to demonstrate suitability for the ArbCom role. I admit that I know very little about ArbCom and their job duties, but their statement doesn't explain at all why they are suitable for the ArbCom role (or indeed, that they themselves understand what the role requires). Not only that, they have answered zero of the questions posed to them, and it seems they've outright not done anything on Wikipedia for the last two weeks. My understanding is that ArbCom requests should normally be responded to within 48 hours, and it seems we cannot rely on them to be active enough to do that. Edderiofer (talk) 12:59, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Agreed. They had delay with posting the Confidentiality Agreement, And has failed to answer the questions asked, By not contributing to the project during this time in 2 weeks, Its shown that they do not have a strong enough focus on the project to particularly serve on the Arbiration Comittee. And while not a requirement, Having 0 Administrator experience does not help the case here. PerryPerryD Talk To Me 18:27, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

I agree. BoldLuis might make an excellent arbitrator, but how would we know? De Guerre (talk) 05:03, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Agreed. I have concerns about possible prior accounts so I asked this question on his questions page and he hasn't responded to that or to any of the other questions asked by others. A disinclination or inability to respond in a timely manner tells me they are not suited to this responsibility. The position requires extraordinary trust and they've failed to demonstrate they deserve it. EnPassant♟♙ (talk) 15:28, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

User:BoldLuis is someone who has pretty much zero chance of ever passing RfA at all, never mind win an ArbCom election. The fact that this guy even considered running for ArbCom election is mind boggling, to say the least. 92.29.170.121 (talk) 00:30, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

What's crazier is there's no WP:NOTNOW or WP:SNOW equivalent for Arbcom elections. I'm assuming because something like this hasn't happened before? And the current criteria (500 mainspace edits) is way too loose to be reflective of what happens in reality. Satellizer el Bridget ^(Talk) 06:59, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

WP:SNOW couldn't work as it's a secret ballot and the only thing we know before the results are announced is how many people have cast votes - for all we know they could have received the highest proportion of support votes of any candidate. They aren't the first candidate to stand who has little hope of getting elected, but none for quite the same reasons (they are the very first I know of who hasn't answered any questions at all, and the first who hasn't been consistently editing during the election period) and it would not have been appropriate to exclude any of the previous ones from the election. If you want to propose something for next year though, then Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2022#Topics to review for 2023 is the best place to note that. Thryduulf (talk) 11:40, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

I'd argue that something like this happens pretty much every year. I mean, at least Banedon had a chance. casualdejekyll 14:19, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

"I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." JoJo Anthrax (talk) 16:29, 8 December 2022 (UTC)