It's that time again!, Time for 2011 arbcom elections. Options

[that one guy]

I think the topic says it all, but the default questions they have for the candidates this year are particularly good from my view.

[thekohser]

Thank you for not utilizing the "Insert Link" feature of the message board, so that none of us need to waste any of our time looking at this big game of charades that you refer to.

[Michaeldsuarez]

Thank you for not utilizing the "Insert Link" feature of the message board, so that none of us need to waste any of our time looking at this big game of charades that you refer to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...2011/Candidates

Here's a link to the candidates. The nomination process is still ongoing, so we can expect more candidates to sign up. Most of the current candidates' usernames should be familiar. Coren, Kirill Lokshin, and Risker are incumbents, while Hersfold is a former Arbitrator. AGK, Courcelles, Geni, and Hot Stop are also running.

Here's a link to those general questions "that one guy" mentioned:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...estions/General

This post has been edited by Michaeldsuarez: Thu 17th November 2011, 7:10pm

[radek]

Thank you for not utilizing the "Insert Link" feature of the message board, so that none of us need to waste any of our time looking at this big game of charades that you refer to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...2011/Candidates

Here's a link to the candidates. The nomination process is still ongoing, so we can expect more candidates to sign up. Most of the current candidates' usernames should be familiar. Coren, Kirill Lokshin, and Risker are incumbents, while Hersfold is a former Arbitrator. AGK, Courcelles, Geni, and Hot Stop are also running.

Here's a link to those general questions "that one guy" mentioned:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arb...estions/General

Lol, Geni is the person who thought that Vice-Presidents of the United States are not subject to fixed terms (among some other nonsense). And he says he's been de-admined three times. Not sure what the story with that one is.

This post has been edited by radek: Thu 17th November 2011, 8:37pm

[thekohser]

Lol, Geni is the person who thought that Vice-Presidents of the United States are not subject to fixed terms (among some other nonsense).

What country do you live in? VPs in the United States could serve for 60 years, if they wanted.

[radek]

Lol, Geni is the person who thought that Vice-Presidents of the United States are not subject to fixed terms (among some other nonsense).

What country do you live in? VPs in the United States could serve for 60 years, if they wanted.

Term limits vs. fixed terms (yes there was some confusion on terminology in that discussion). I think (not 100% sure) that the term is still fixed at four years, though technically a VP can hold as many of these as they wish.

Anyway, the practical implications of all that is what? Last I checked Hubert Humphrey was no longer VP.

Lol, Geni is the person who thought that Vice-Presidents of the United States are not subject to fixed terms (among some other nonsense). And he says he's been de-admined three times. Not sure what the story with that one is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...age=User%3AGeni

Are you sure he or she was desysopped three times? The log suggests that Geni was only desysopped once. Geni had four RfA's, and only two of them were successful. The sequence of events as I see it goes as follows:

1. First RfA results in Geni becoming a sysop.
2. Geni loses he or her sysop rights.
3. Second RfA fails.
4. Third RfA fails.
5. Fourth RfA results in Geni becoming a sysop for a second time.

It's what s/he claimed: "I've been de-admined 3 times that I can recall."

How did s/he loose'em first time?

Edit:
Ah, one of these other times was probably the temporary desysop by Jimbo, which preceded the official de-sysop by ArbCom. So this is the fella that was restoring Daniel's article.

This post has been edited by radek: Thu 17th November 2011, 9:29pm

[EricBarbour]

Are you sure he or she was desysopped three times? The log suggests that Geni was only desysopped once. Geni had four RfA's, and only two of them were successful. The sequence of events as I see it goes as follows:[list=1]
[*]First RfA results in Geni becoming a sysop.
[*]Geni loses he or her sysop rights.
[*]Second RfA fails.
[*]Third RfA fails.
[*]Fourth RfA results in Geni becoming a sysop for a second time.

It doesn't matter how many times he was desysopped or not.

Geni is one of the most evil, destructive insiders they've ever had.
He used several socks to deliberately revert thousands of edits,
some bad, some good. This, in addition to harassing Daniel Brandt,
and even Jimbo himself.

And he obviously did it for kicks. Look thru this for some examples.

If they put him on Arbcom, you can thereafter be assured that Arbcom,
and the entire admin system, is utterly corrupt.

This post has been edited by EricBarbour: Thu 17th November 2011, 10:06pm

[thekohser]

If they put him on Arbcom, you can thereafter be assured that Arbcom,
and the entire admin system, is utterly corrupt.

Geni for ArbCom!