Oversight candidate pages: Courcelles • Fluffernutter • WilliamH
Comment on the candidate below or by email • Community consultation period is now closed.
WilliamH ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
I'm Will and I have been an editor for 5 and a half years, an admin for 3, and have OTRS access. I live in GMT/BST. I am offering to be a CheckUser because I believe I can assist in this area. I understand how CheckUser works, what it may and may not be used for, and what’s beyond its scope. I can easily be reached, and am frequently available in IRC, often at odd hours. I am over 18 and already identified to the foundation.
From candidate: I am currently packing for a flight tomorrow. I look forward to getting stuck into these questions once I have reached my destination.
WilliamH (
talk) 21:29, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.
Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.
Do you hold advanced permissions (checkuser, oversight, bureaucrat, steward) on this or other WMF projects? If so, please list them. Also, do you have OTRS permissions? If so, to which queues?
Being a new checkuser, would you be willing to help with the Checkuser backlog at WP:ACC as there are usually up to 6 requests waiting about 5 days+? -- DQ (t) (e) 19:34, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Would you be proactive in looking at the open cases at SPI to see if they could use a checkuser? -- DQ (t) (e) 19:34, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
I see your also running to become a steward, do you think you could be taking on too much at once right now? (obviously you don't have to give details) -- DQ (t) (e) 19:34, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
As a CheckUser, you will likely, from time to time, coordinate and communicate with the Stewards. What cross-wiki experience can you bring that can help out not only the Stewards, but editors, administrators, and CheckUsers on other wikis? – MuZemike 21:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
In your own words, what are the main differences between the WMF's CheckUser policy and the privacy policy? – MuZemike 21:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Under what circumstances do the above policies give on the release of CheckUser data? – MuZemike 21:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Give some examples on when CheckUser requests of a sensitive nature or discovered CheckUser results of interest that would not be posted on-wiki. – MuZemike 21:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Checkuers are often relied on to determine whether someone is using anonymising proxies to perform their sockpuppetry. Please describe your general experience in this area. Please also describe, preferably with an example, how you (would have) suspected, identified, confirmed, and blocked a socking open proxy on Wikipedia. -- zzuuzz (talk) 17:20, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Oversight candidate pages: Courcelles • Fluffernutter • WilliamH
Comment on the candidate below or by email • Community consultation period is now closed.
WilliamH ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
I'm Will and I have been an editor for 5 and a half years, an admin for 3, and have OTRS access. I live in GMT/BST. I am offering to be a CheckUser because I believe I can assist in this area. I understand how CheckUser works, what it may and may not be used for, and what’s beyond its scope. I can easily be reached, and am frequently available in IRC, often at odd hours. I am over 18 and already identified to the foundation.
From candidate: I am currently packing for a flight tomorrow. I look forward to getting stuck into these questions once I have reached my destination.
WilliamH (
talk) 21:29, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.
Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.
Do you hold advanced permissions (checkuser, oversight, bureaucrat, steward) on this or other WMF projects? If so, please list them. Also, do you have OTRS permissions? If so, to which queues?
Being a new checkuser, would you be willing to help with the Checkuser backlog at WP:ACC as there are usually up to 6 requests waiting about 5 days+? -- DQ (t) (e) 19:34, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Would you be proactive in looking at the open cases at SPI to see if they could use a checkuser? -- DQ (t) (e) 19:34, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
I see your also running to become a steward, do you think you could be taking on too much at once right now? (obviously you don't have to give details) -- DQ (t) (e) 19:34, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
As a CheckUser, you will likely, from time to time, coordinate and communicate with the Stewards. What cross-wiki experience can you bring that can help out not only the Stewards, but editors, administrators, and CheckUsers on other wikis? – MuZemike 21:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
In your own words, what are the main differences between the WMF's CheckUser policy and the privacy policy? – MuZemike 21:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Under what circumstances do the above policies give on the release of CheckUser data? – MuZemike 21:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Give some examples on when CheckUser requests of a sensitive nature or discovered CheckUser results of interest that would not be posted on-wiki. – MuZemike 21:37, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Checkuers are often relied on to determine whether someone is using anonymising proxies to perform their sockpuppetry. Please describe your general experience in this area. Please also describe, preferably with an example, how you (would have) suspected, identified, confirmed, and blocked a socking open proxy on Wikipedia. -- zzuuzz (talk) 17:20, 28 September 2011 (UTC)