Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2009/Comments/Coren

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Coren

Latest comment: 15 years ago6 comments5 people in discussion

Good candidate, I think, which makes me wonder why his candidate statement is so jelly-weak. "I believe my record speaks for itself" is not gonna cut it: no sense of "my strengths as an arb have been in blah and blah", and "I will work towards [reform, streamlining, whatever]". Unless it has all been tickety-boo until now—but it's not: we know there's hard change ahead to make ArbCom work better for the community and the arbs themselves. Tony (talk) 03:55, 22 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

I don't think that an expansive statement is that productive, really, and the Q&A is a much better way to see where my positions like and where I stand on various matters of interest.

The problem with the statement is that, with 400 words, I either end up having to gloss over or oversimplify matters to give electoral platitudes which might have sounded superficially good but could not have real substance (note how some of my answers to single questions can expand near or beyond 400 words). So I simply give the short summary ("I think I did a pretty good job"), and invite people to ask the questions that'll get at the heart of the matters which they see as important to assess my qualifications. — Coren ^(talk) 05:13, 22 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

OK! Tony (talk) 15:13, 22 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

Voted to create the Wikipedia:Advisory Council on Project Development. Will have my Oppose vote. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 23:02, 24 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

I agree with Tony. I hoped that you would nominate yourself. However, I was disappointed by what I think are a statement and answers that don't cut it with those who are not familiar with your work. I voted for you. Sole Soul (talk) 06:19, 5 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Edit Analysis

A detailed analysis of this candidate's edits in article, user and project space can be found at User:Franamax/Ucontribs-2009/Coren. Franamax (talk) 06:23, 24 November 2009 (UTC)Reply