Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2004/Candidate statements: Difference between revisions

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If for some Otherworldy chance I'm elected, I will avoid bans and temp injunctions to the maximum possibility and only when a user thoroughly refuses to communicate with me or other users will place them. Temp injuctions should only be put into place after trying to reason and warn the user to change their actions or there will be a temp injunction. They should not be used as proactive preventions, and for sure not without checking evidence in a case first. If temp injunctions contiue as they are we risk alienating our userbase, or perhaps turning what was a minor problem with a user into a much larger one as they no longer feel that the ruleset of Wikipedia is friendly or fair at all.

== [[User:CunningLinguist|CunningLinguist]] ==

Hello, fellow Wikipedians. I am a longtime Wikipedia contributor and editor, although I only recently made my appearance under this current UserName. I guess I am somewhat of a Dark-Horse candidate as unlike many of the others here I am not a part of the establishment (i.e. moderators, admins).

I feel I would be a great addition to the Arbitration Committee for a variety of reasons. First off, I am not a part of the establishment and have spent the majority of my time as a common reader/contributor to Wikipedia and I feel this has given me great insight into what the populace wants. This leads to my vision for Wikipedia and how I would rule as an abritrator: I feel Wikipedia is one of the great marvels of our age. However, it is at a crossroads. There are some here would like to only keep a limited group of articles and basically turn this into any other Encyclopedia. I however, feel this should be turned into the great index of worldly information it is possible of becoming, a modern day Alexandria if you will. I will arbitrate in favor of expanding Wikipedia's horizons as much as possible. I will rule in favor of keeping all the articles I feel contribute to Wikipedia's greatness even if others dont find them interesting or up to their standards of 'notability'. I will vote to keep as many schools listed as possible. I will also work to acquiesce 'the other side' by helping to turn Wikipedia into a two-tiered system, one tier of mainline encyclopediac knowledge, another tier acting as an index of ALL the worlds information, including arcane info, creating the greatest resource tool known to man.

In conclusion, if you would like to vote for someone with a fresh perspective, an innovative vision, who will rule justly and who may be a 'maverick' or 'outsider' compared to some of the Old Guard people here, then please vote for ME! CunningLinguist! Thank you.

== [[User:Dante Alighieri|Dante Alighieri]] ==