Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/2012 CUOS appointments/OS/Snowolf

Snowolf

CheckUser candidate pages: DeltaQuad • DoRD • Ponyo • Salvio giuliano

Oversight candidate pages: DeltaQuad • Foxj • Mentifisto• Mlpearc • NuclearWarfare • Ponyo • Salvio giuliano • Snowolf • Someguy1221 • Tiptoety • Worm That Turned

Comment on the candidate below or email (arbcom-en-c lists.wikimedia.org) • Community consultation period open until 23:59, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Snowolf (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Nomination statement (250 words max.)

I'm Snowolf and I've had the pleasure of serving the English Wikipedia as one of its Administrators since late 2007, and the wider Wikimedia community as a Steward. I am now hoping to be able to make use of my high availability to help out as an Oversighter. I am fully familiar with the operations of both the new Suppression by means of RevDeletion (and related tools such as blockhide) and the old Oversight extension. I already serve, in my role as a Steward, as an oversighter for wikis without ones as well as performing global suppressions of abusive username accounts. It is in these roles that I've taken a closer look at the Enwiki Oversighter role, and thought that I could help provide more availability to the current team. I believe the main purpose of the role and the policy to be not only the protection of the community but of its individual members too, and I would be delighted to serve in this capacity if appointed. While I am currently in a period of significantly lower activity due to being out of the country on an extended holiday, I will be back in full force in September.

Standard questions for all candidates

Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.

My experience comes from my service as steward, who handle oversight requests on wikis without global stewards and global suppressions of abusive usernames. In particular, I've been involved in the latter, reviewing past suppressions to address a series of bugs and perform local suppressions when the global suppression tool did not perform it automatically as well as unsuppressing mistaken or outside of policy suppressions.

Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.

I do not believe I have any particular off-wiki/technical expertise pertaining to this role, beside being familiar with and having used the oversight toolset and having reported or looked into a number of bugs pertaining to it.

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?

The only advanced permission I hold is that of steward. I do have OTRS access to steward-l and info-en. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 03:55, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Questions for this candidate

Please describe your familiarity with the Wikimedia Privacy Policy, Meta Oversight Policy, ENWP Oversight policy, and ENWP Outing policy. Also, without breaching privacy, for each of these policies, give an example of a time that you have used the policy when evaluating a situation or taking action. Pine^✉ 01:21, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
As a steward, I am familiar with the Wikimedia Privacy and Oversight policy (the "Meta Oversight Policy" is actually merely hosted on Meta's mainspace, it would be better described as a Global Oversight Policy. Metawiki could, if it chose to do so, adopt a more specific policy just like Enwiki does) and have consulted them and acted on them many times. I have repeatedly consulted the English Wikipedia Oversight policy and I am familiar with it. Regarding the Outing policy, we don't have one but rather a subsection of the Harassment policy, but yes, I am fully familiar with it. I am not however willing to provide even abstract versions of real occurrences where I have used the policies. Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 16:13, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Comments may also be submitted to the Arbitration Committee privately by emailing arbcom-en-c lists.wikimedia.org. Please note that the candidate will be provided the opportunity to respond to a paraphrased version of any emailed comments; the sender's name will not be provided.

Support generally positive presence on ANI. Nobody Ent 02:43, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I have worked with Snowolf as a member of BAG and as a Steward and he has an extensive understanding of policy and has shown responsibility in holding and using oversight-like tools. He would be a good addition. MBisanz ^talk 02:45, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Snowolf is obviously trusted and could probably make use of the oversight tool in crosswiki cases in addition to handling local OS requests. Not terribly active here lately, but has my support. Jafeluv (talk) 06:04, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Snowolf has been particularly helpful in a case recently where a young and not particularly competent user had some, uh, issues cross-wiki that required co-ordination between enwiki admins, oversighters and stewards/Metafolk. He's good tempered and helpful and would be able to combine experience on enwiki with issues that are occurring cross-wiki. —Tom Morris (talk) 15:27, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Would make a great oversighter despite relative inactivity. — foxj 08:43, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I know Snowolf very well through my interactions with him as a steward and highly active IRC channel operator. He has a solid understanding of the oversight policy and his frequent online presence will be helpful for the growing number of oversight requests made through IRC. The Helpful One 14:23, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - obviously understands the policies and use of the tools from his Steward work. Trustworthy and very diligent in ensuring the right process is followed, policies adhered to, etc., when working on small projects so no reason not to trust he will be the same here QU ^TalkQu 16:07, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Snowolf is experienced and trustworthy, and I have found him to be very professional in his interactions with other users. His work as a Steward leave him well qualified for this role. —DoRD (talk) 16:13, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support as an excellent candidate for the oversight tools.
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 18:18, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Worked with this user several times, I trust him. He's always active somewhere, rarely can I not get a hold of him, he would be a good Oversighter. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 18:31, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Trusted user part of BAG and a Steward and can make use of the tool in both crosswiki as well as local cases..Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 19:06, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Trusted candidate. Snowolf is a Steward which are highly trusted users, have most of the required experience and knows the policies well for the use of Oversight permission. TheGeneralUser (talk) 19:49, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support: really we have not enough !OS and !CU in European/Asian countries, besides that fact he would do a really job! mabdul 21:51, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]