Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2013/Candidates/Floquenbeam/Statement

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Floquenbeam

I'm concerned that there won't be nine solid candidates for ArbCom this year. To be honest, I can think of many people who - if they ran - I would vote for before I'd vote for me. But most of them aren't going to run. If you can find nine candidates you think will make great arbs, that's fantastic. Vote for them, please. But if you can't quite get to nine, then a vote for me is a vote for a non-insane, reasonably intelligent, non-dogmatic, middle of the road person with no agenda, no point to make, and who is willing to help out. You could do worse. (campaign slogan: "Floquenbeam! You could do worse!")

I'm not a content builder. But I respect those who are, I try to help them when I can, and I at least try to stay out of their way.

If elected, I'm not going to be a terribly active arb. I'll be as active as I reasonably can, based on my real life. I guess my theory is, that might not be a bad thing.

I may not answer all the questions; I certainly won't answer them with NYB-level verbiage. I'll try to answer enough to give you a clear feel for who I am and how I approach things. If I skip one (or skimp on one) that you think is really important, poke me on my talk page.

Miscellanea:

Created Floquenbeam in 2008.
Became an admin in 2010.
Had an account before this one, abandoned for privacy reasons; a checkuser (User:Alison) and a 'crat (User:WJBscribe) know that account's name, and confirmed in the linked RFA above that I had no skeletons in my closet when I retired it. Haven't used it for 5 years, so I think it's a moot point.
Never been (intentionally) blocked, never been sanctioned. There was an ArbCom case request that included me as a party, but it wasn't accepted. (Link just before it was archived: [1])
I'm (grudgingly) willing to give my name to the WMF.
I also edit with Special:Contributions/Floquensock, Special:Contributions/Floquenstein's monster, and Special:Contributions/Floquenphone, though extremely sparingly.
I promise not to block anyone on ArbCom while I'm on it.

Thanks for considering this. --Floquenbeam (talk) 23:19, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]