Coren
- Hello. I'm
Coren, a regular Wikipedian since 2006, administrator since 2007, and I have served on the committee from 2009 to 2011 and as a
checkuser since.
Why choose to run again? The first reason – and I suppose the most important one – is that I know I can do the job. I spent my year of "vacation" occupying myself mostly with SPI, normal administrative work, and implication at the Foundation level and find myself again with the energy I no longer had at the end of my previous terms.
Some people have described me as a "baseline candidate", and that's probably not far from the truth. I'm not the most flamboyant or revolutionary of candidates, but I have a solid track record of getting the job done. I think this is something the committee needs at this time: the past year has seen a bit too much shooting from the hip, and I think the more measured approach of 2010-2011 is desirable.
Finally, I think that this year has a regrettable paucity of candidates for the job (despite the impressively high quality of the selection). I'd be lying if I said the job was easy, or that I didn't understand why many would hesitate to step forward to so much scrutiny in order to get a seat that seems to bring so much aggravation. Nevertheless, I believe it's important that the voters have a meaningful choice between several good candidates in order to keep the committee healthy; it works best when it is diverse and representative.
I am already identified with the foundation [1] and have no undisclosed user accounts. I have a few bot accounts, only one of which is nominally active: CorenBlockMonBot, CorenANIBot, CorenSearchBot, CorenGoogleBot, and one doppelgänger that never edited to protect my real name. — Coren (talk) 23:44, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
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Arbitration Committee Election 2012 candidate:
Coren
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Coren
- Hello. I'm
Coren, a regular Wikipedian since 2006, administrator since 2007, and I have served on the committee from 2009 to 2011 and as a
checkuser since.
Why choose to run again? The first reason – and I suppose the most important one – is that I know I can do the job. I spent my year of "vacation" occupying myself mostly with SPI, normal administrative work, and implication at the Foundation level and find myself again with the energy I no longer had at the end of my previous terms.
Some people have described me as a "baseline candidate", and that's probably not far from the truth. I'm not the most flamboyant or revolutionary of candidates, but I have a solid track record of getting the job done. I think this is something the committee needs at this time: the past year has seen a bit too much shooting from the hip, and I think the more measured approach of 2010-2011 is desirable.
Finally, I think that this year has a regrettable paucity of candidates for the job (despite the impressively high quality of the selection). I'd be lying if I said the job was easy, or that I didn't understand why many would hesitate to step forward to so much scrutiny in order to get a seat that seems to bring so much aggravation. Nevertheless, I believe it's important that the voters have a meaningful choice between several good candidates in order to keep the committee healthy; it works best when it is diverse and representative.
I am already identified with the foundation [1] and have no undisclosed user accounts. I have a few bot accounts, only one of which is nominally active: CorenBlockMonBot, CorenANIBot, CorenSearchBot, CorenGoogleBot, and one doppelgänger that never edited to protect my real name. — Coren (talk) 23:44, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
- Coren ( talk · contribs · count · logs · target logs · block log · lu · rfas · rfb · arb · rfc · lta · checkuser · socks · rights · blocks · protects · deletions · moves)
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Arbitration Committee Election 2012 candidate:
Coren
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