Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2010/Candidates

Shortcuts WP:AC2010 WP:INDECISION2010 2010 Arbitration Committee Election status Nominations are closed. Voters were invited to review, question and discuss the candidates. Voting is now closed. Voting ran for 10 days from 00:01 UTC Friday 26 November to 23:59 UTC Sunday 5 December. Editors were encouraged to review the on-wiki voter log to investigate and annotate possible cases of vote fraud. The results have been released and formally announced, and the successful candidates have assumed their seats. Feedback is solicited from all participants in the election.

The nomination statements of editors running in the 2010 Arbitration Committee elections appear below.

• Eligibility criteria

To stand as a candidate, an editor must have:

• made at least 1,000 edits (including deleted edits) to the English Wikipedia article namespace as of 00:01 UTC on 14 November 2010.
• been at least 18 years of age and of legal age in their place of residence.^[note]
• been willing and able to identify to the Wikimedia Foundation before taking their seat.^[note]

• Candidate statements

There are no fixed guidelines for how to write a statement, but many candidates treat this as an opportunity, in their own way, to put a cogent case as to why editors should vote for them—highlighting the strengths they would bring to the job, and convincing the community they would cope with the workload and responsibilities of being an arbitrator.

Statements must:

• not exceed a limit of 400 words (although candidates are free to link to a longer statement if they wish);
• include a disclosure of all prior and alternate accounts or confirmation that all such accounts have been declared to the Arbitration Committee;

Footnotes

^{^} From the Wikimedia Foundation's Access to nonpublic data policy:

Any volunteer who is chosen by any community process to be granted access rights to restricted data shall not be granted that access until that volunteer has satisfactorily identified himself or herself to the Foundation, which may include proof that such user is at least 18 and explicitly over the age at which they are capable to act without the consent of their parent in the jurisdiction in which they reside.