Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/2012 CUOS appointments/OS/Someguy1221

Someguy1221

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

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Someguy1221 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Nomination statement (250 words max.)

• I have been a Wikipedia editor for 5 1/2 years, and an administrator for 3 years. My on-wiki activity mostly consists of handling false-positive reports for the edit filter, as well as handling miscellaneous issues at ANI and other boards. The bulk of my true contributions to Wikipedia is actually at OTRS, where this year I became particularly involved in handling the oldest, most difficult tickets (although for personal issues that have recently resolved themselves, not for the past two months). I was never a big article builder, but I quite enjoy (and I think I'm good at) responding to complaints about activity on Wikipedia. It is for this reason that I ask for permission to use the oversight privileges.

Standard questions for all candidates

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

In my capacity as an administrator I occasionally need to revision delete certain edits. In the past, when I was active at recent changes patrol, I occasionally needed to make requests for oversight via email.

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

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?

I do not hold advanced permissions on any WMF projects. I have OTRS permissions, specifically to queues info-en (f), Voicemail, photosubmission (f), and Donations.

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^✉ 01:22, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am extensively familiar with all such policies. While the Wikimedia Privacy policy is not required reading for OTRS volunteers, the general concept of privacy on Wiki(m|p)edia is something we are supposed to be well versed it. It's an issue that comes up on any OTRS ticket that requires actions on Wikipedia or communications with a third party. And so in my experience handling OTRS tickets (I don't know how many I have handled, as the system won't count beyond 2000), I constantly have to keep the privacy of our contactees in mind, many of whom are Wikipedia editors.

With regard the meta and ENWP oversight policies, I familiarized myself with those long ago so I would know what to request for oversight, and what was better handled with basic administrative tools (or nothing at all, for that matter). Tooting my own horn here, every request I made for oversight was fulfilled, which I take as a measure of my familiarity with the policy.

Finally, regarding outing, this is not an issue I typically involve myself with, outside of lurking ANI threads involving such issues. However, the need to avoid outing is something that anyone who patrols the info-en-quality queue on OTRS should be familiar with. Those tickets frequently require the responder to carry out on-wiki actions while, as always, not revealing any personal information contained within the ticket. In addition, some of the material I have requested oversight on could be construed as outing. Someguy1221 (talk) 01:36, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

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• There are only two users on the OS list that I cannot remember ever coming across, and this is one of them. Normally this would mean precisely nothing, but in this case I find it exceptionally strange and a little bit worrying because this user is asking for a highly trusted position and I really don't have enough contact with the user to say to myself "I might not necessarily vouch for him, but I don't see red flags". Arbs should feel free to assign my comment minimal notice. Sven Manguard Wha? 00:22, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• As a candidate myself, I wasn't planning on commenting on any other candidates' nominations. Since there is only one other comment for Someguy1221, I thought that I might make an exception. I have found him to be an excellent OTRS respondent, and I am confident that he would do an excellent job as an oversighter. I hope that the lack of public comments is not interpreted as a lack of confidence in him. NW (Talk) 22:03, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Support I agree with NW; lo-key doesn't mean non-existent. EeBee (talk) 01:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Trusted candidate. Someguy1221 has all the basic required experience and knows the policy well for the use of Oversight permission. TheGeneralUser (talk) 20:10, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Trusted candidate ,totally non controversial , low key and one without too many hats.Appears to be seeking tools only where he requires them.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 20:27, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]