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:'''7a.''' Will you be available for [[WP:RECALL|Administrator recall]]?

::'''A:''' I feel very strongly that administrators, like any editors, should be accountable for their actions and should be governed by our policies and guidelines. That said, I'm also aware that "administrator recall" is a politically loaded term, with factions both supporting and opposing it. In looking over the processes and criteria for current open-to-recall admins, it seems to me that "recall", as a category, has become extremely legalistic, with admins doing their best to design procedures that prevent gaming or retribution by angry editors. It's a valid call to make, because yes, admins make enemies, but I ''think'' my feeling is that it's an excessively complex way to go about things when we have a perfectly good RfC system that could do the same thing. Rather than calling myself "open to recall", I would be more comfortable saying that if an RfC is ever put forth and closed by an uninvolved admin with the consensus that I have a pattern of misusing my admin tools, I will resign them, and that should such an RfC close with such a conclusion and I fail to resign my tools, the community would be within its rights to ask Arbcom to remove them.

:::Thankyou. That's a good answer, and smooths over the worries I had.

:'''7b.''' For the purposes of this question, assume you have a conflict of interest with subject X. If you spot something problematic in that subject - for example, a disruptive user - and you feel that an administrative action should be taken, where would you go for assistance? Possible examples would be IRC, ANI, a friendly administrator, a completely uninvolved administrator, the article talk page... etc. All of these are appropriate places, I'm just interested in where you'd go ''first''.

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