Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections January 2006/Candidate statements/Dmcdevit: Difference between revisions

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:If anyone ever "invokes the rule" of ignoring all rules (which I've seen) then they've really missed the point. Often, IAR is used (speaking about administrative action primarily here) to justify actions that can't be reasonably defended otherwise. If I'm in an edit confict with another editor, and I block them citing IAR, that just doesn't cut it for a number of reasons. Basically, any correct "application" of IAR is indeed an application of policy, insofar as policy, written or not, is simply good practice for the encyclopedia with community support. If the application is good practice for the encyclopedia with community support, and can be defended in those terms (without even needing to cite IAR) then it passes. It is absolutely not (intentionally or not) an excuse for administrative abuse, and a pattern of such demands action. I hope this gives a good idea of how I think, but it is a complex issue, and one that is much harder to address in general terms than in responding to specific instances. Feel free to ask for further clarification. [[User:Dmcdevit|Dmcdevit]]·[[User talk:Dmcdevit|t]] 21:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

==Questions to many candidates by [[User:PurplePlatypus|PurplePlatypus]]==

#How do you view the role (and relative importance) of [[WP:Civility]] in the process of building a factually accurate encyclopedia? How do you view editors who are normally correct in article namespace, but who may be perceived as rude – including to longtime, popular editors and admins – on Talk pages and the like?

#Do you have an academic background of any kind, and if so, in what field? How do you handle critiques from your peers and professors (assuming those aren’t one and the same), which may be sharply worded or otherwise skirt the edges of [[WP:Civility]] even if they are correct? Considering those professors who have recently had you as a student, what would ''they'' tell me if I asked them the same question about you?

#What are your views on the proposed policy [[Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Code of Conduct]]? Whether you think it should be a formal policy or not, do you believe you would generally act in accordance with it? What aspects of it do you think should not be there, or to put it another way, are there any proposals there which you can think of good reasons to ignore on a regular basis? (Please date any replies to this question as the proposal may well change over time.)

[[User:PurplePlatypus|PurplePlatypus]] 08:17, 20 December 2005 (UTC)