Who gets the WR endorsement for Arbcom09, Could be the kiss of death? Options

[Doc glasgow]

OK, there's going to be lots of useless exit polls, so let's get in first with our pre-poll.

The winner gets a lovely "endorsed by Wikipedia Review" banner (yet to be designed) to put on their nomination. Should be worth a few votes to them.

[radek]

Given only one choice in this particular poll I threw the politics and self-interest out the window and went with Wehwalt since he seems like the guy that actually writes content unlike the rest of the "Professional Wiki Politicians" (PWPs - I realize most of the readership even here belongs to that category in some sense) on the list (don't know much else beside that about him). That criteria also made Cla the runner up. Basically I'm extremely annoyed by the divide between those who actually write an encyclopedia and those who don't but go around arbitratin' and administratin' those that do.

In the real poll I took some politics and self interest into consideration. Of course. And general sensibility wrt to making policy.

(Still voted for Wehwalt and Cla and I'll keep the rest of my votes to myself)

[Sarcasticidealist]

Given only one choice in this particular poll I threw the politics and self-interest out the window and went with Wehwalt since he seems like the guy that actually writes content unlike the rest of the "Professional Wiki Politicians" (PWPs - I realize most of the readership even here belongs to that category in some sense) on the list (don't know much else beside that about him). That criteria also made Cla the runner up.

I don't like to be petulant, but I'm feeling a little left out, here.

[Sarcasticidealist]

I'm feeling a little left out, here.

Although probably not so nearly left out as Ruslik0 and his sixteen featured articles are.

This year's candidates by number of featured articles (yes, I know there's more to content than featured articles):

Cla68 - 30
Ruslik0 - 16
Wehwalt - 14
Steve Smith - 7
Kirill Lokshin - 5
Secret - 3
Jehochman - 2
Mailer diablo - 2
Fritzpoll - 1
KnightLago - 1
Seddon - 1

There are a lot more than two candidates interested in content generation.

[radek]

I'm feeling a little left out, here.

Although probably not so nearly left out as Ruslik0 and his sixteen featured articles are.

This year's candidates by number of featured articles (yes, I know there's more to content than featured articles):

Cla68 - 30
Ruslik0 - 16
Wehwalt - 14
Steve Smith - 7
Kirill Lokshin - 5
Secret - 3
Jehochman - 2
Mailer diablo - 2
Fritzpoll - 1
KnightLago - 1
Seddon - 1

There are a lot more than two candidates interested in content generation.

Well, I'm new here so I'm not sure which one you are. But yes Ruslik's up there too, as is Steve and Kirill. And yes, I picked Wehwalt over the other two due to the 'there's more to content than featured articles' aspect of content creation. It's quite possible that Wehwalt just did a better job of advertising himself as a content creator then others (which for the purposes of the election may have been a bad thing).

[Sarcasticidealist]

Well, I'm new here so I'm not sure which one you are. But yes Ruslik's up there too, as is Steve and Kirill. And yes, I picked Wehwalt over the other two due to the 'there's more to content than featured articles' aspect of content creation. It's quite possible that Wehwalt just did a better job of advertising himself as a content creator then others (which for the purposes of the election may have been a bad thing).

Very good - in the future you might just want to shy away from such phrases as "the guy that actually writes content". In return, I'll try to shy away from behaving like a twit.

(And I'd tell you which one I am, but I think I've acquitted myself rather badly here. If you look really hard, you can probably figure it out, though.)

[radek]

Well, I'm new here so I'm not sure which one you are. But yes Ruslik's up there too, as is Steve and Kirill. And yes, I picked Wehwalt over the other two due to the 'there's more to content than featured articles' aspect of content creation. It's quite possible that Wehwalt just did a better job of advertising himself as a content creator then others (which for the purposes of the election may have been a bad thing).

Very good - in the future you might just want to shy away from such phrases as "the guy that actually writes content". In return, I'll try to shy away from behaving like a twit.

(And I'd tell you which one I am, but I think I've acquitted myself rather badly here. If you look really hard, you can probably figure it out, though.)

Ah, so you made me go back and read the middle pages of this thread more carefully.

Usually I'm pretty good at avoiding these gender-specific terms when they're not appropriate though here it was meant to refer to Wehwalt who I assumed was a guy named walt. But sure, good advice.

Mostly I just wanted to pipe up and say something in support of Wehwalt who was getting no love on this thread, despite being, IMO, a very good candidate.