Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023/Candidates/Cabayi

Cabayi[edit]

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Leaning towards oppose for this candidate, unfortunately, mainly based on three concerns:

Their answer to my question about returning arbs was the shortest of the three, and to me indicated something of an "it's fine" attitude. The other two former (or serving) arbs gave much clearer explanations of exactly why they thought it was fine, and what situations are not fine, and why they aren't fine.
Their answer to BilledMammal's Q16, particularly point 3: "If they don't like us, they can vote us out". While technically true, and recognising of course the need for ArbCom to make unpopular decisions based on private evidence, if it reaches the point where community-supported wheel warring is taking place, this is far past the point of "just fix it next year". I would argue that virtually any ArbCom decision where admins wheel warring, and nobody else doing anything about it, is a scenario that is even envisioned, ArbCom needs to do some serious introspection on either the decision itself or how to better communicate the rationale of the decision to the community. I definitely don't think very highly of the implied attitude that arbs are accountable to the community only at election time.
Their answer to Tamzin's question, the response of which seemed rather pointed; in addition the much more well thought out rationale in response to this question can be found on Tamzin's userpage.

If anyone wishes to, please let me know your thoughts about these concerns. Fermiboson (talk) 03:05, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]