Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2011/Candidates/Jclemens/Statement

Jclemens

As one of the two remaining arbitrators elected to a one-year term last year, and as the only one without prior experience on the arbitration committee, I am submitting myself for reelection as its most junior member.

During this year, I have done what I promised: been an advocate for the non-admin, the new user, the content contributor. If you review my votes on cases, I have advocated opening cases on incivil or abusive administrators as well as appropriately harsh penalties for those who seem to have missed their way and see themselves as the masters, rather than the servants, of the content contributors.

This has also been a learning year for me. At this time last year, I was just another administrator with two years' tenure. Throughout 2011, I've learned to handle the tools of the trade: Checkuser, Oversight, high-profile OTRS queues, and the other, non-public tools such as the arbitration wiki and various mailing lists. I've also just posted my first case decision as a primary drafter. While I've participated in others before, this one was more than I had imagined it might be, and the delay, too, was a learning experience.

While not visible to the public, I have remained active in arbitration proceedings even when my graduate medical education has been challenging, and even when I have been out of my home country for weeks at a time.

With the reduction in seats, the number of well-qualified incumbents running, and a few other dedicated functionaries throwing their hats into the ring, this election is shaping up to be about which candidates are the best among the field, rather than simply who is tolerable. If not retained as one of the top candidates in this election, I will bid good luck to the incoming committee, and work to alleviate their work by refocusing my efforts on high-sensitivity OTRS work and content creation.

The fine print: I am already identified to the Wikimedia Foundation. The sole other account I've used to edit Wikipedia is User:Jclemens-public, which I created myself after becoming an administrator.