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Questions from Red-tailed hawk

  2. Hello. Thank you for volunteering to serve on the Arbitration Committee. Would you please explain your understanding of WP:INVOLVED, and would you summarize the extent to which you agree and/or disagree with how the Arbitration Committee has applied the principles of involvement with respect to administrator conduct in Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block, Manning naming dispute, and Climate change? — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 00:13, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Red-tailed hawk, here's a whole AN post I started with a violation of INVOLVED as one of its key points; an admin unblocked an editor they were friends with, and the unblock led to problems down the road. My basic explanation of INVOLVED is that you should not take administrative action regarding editors you are friends with/had conflict with, and you should not take action in topic areas/discussions you have extensively edited/had significant participation in. There are exceptions in taking an obvious action that "any administrator would've taken" or interacting with someone in a purely "administrative role"; for example, it is not a violation of INVOLVED if I block someone, I've previously warned for copyright violations. As for the cases cited, I agree with the FOFs at Reversal and reinstatement; TNT was clearly involved with regards to Athaenara and it would've been best to avoid administrative actions related to her. While the admin in the Manning case would be right in most of their actions, it was inadvisable to take them given their involvement in the dispute, and unfortunately likely contributed to it becoming more heated. Climate change is one of those ultra-complex bible-sized cases from before my time; from a short reading and vague familiarity with the area, my understanding is that one of the issues was that there were admins taking action in a topic area they had extensively edited in, which would run afoul of INVOLVED. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 06:47, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Questions from Izno

  2. As an arb, you will have to deal with messes which often have a lot of reading attached to them. Some of them will be the reasonably ordered messes most cases are. Some of them won't be. One mess I regularly think about is this case request (last revision before archival and first revision). Assuming (for simplicity's sake) that the entire discussion was held onwiki, can you share some thoughts on how you might have responded to the original case request, the changes in aggregate that occurred while the request open, and the ultimate case request? Izno (talk) 02:59, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Questions from Wbm1058

  2. You were appointed as an Arbcom trainee clerk on 8 January 2020 but – still a trainee 20 months later – resigned on 17 September 2021. Why weren't you promoted to full-clerk status? Why did you resign? Describe your tenure as a clerk trainee and how that influenced your decision to run for a seat as an arbitrator. – wbm1058 (talk) 04:20, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Wbm1058 I'm glad you asked... in August 2020 I was told all I had left to do in order to become a full clerk was clerk and close a full case. The next full case was Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Flyer22 and WanderingWanda, which I clerked but it ended up being dismissed by motion without clerk input, so no promotion for me. The next case I got to clerk was Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Iranian politics, but I resigned shortly before it closed. Why did I resign? There were a lot of factors behind why. I would say the most important ones are: 1. I don't like and don't really use IRC, which is something that is all but required to be a clerk. 2. I was severely burned out and frustrated with the site at the time, and was under a significant amount of real life and on-wiki stress, which you can get a real sense of at this AN discussion 3. I never really enjoyed the job– the mailing list was cool and tweaking case requests could be fun, but a lot of work revolved around making very specific edits to templates on obscure pages and reminding parties about obtuse rules, which I found boring. I found the role high-stress and low reward. 4. The role restricts what you're able to say and do greatly, in ways it might not for an Arb. It encourages you to be less active in dispute resolution and to "be quiet". 5. I felt I had made too many mistakes in the role, like this block for example, which while necessary and vindicated by the user being an LTA, wasn't needed at the time, and template/procedure mistakes like initially forgetting to include a motion at general sanctions. I know that was minor but I felt guilty about it. 6. Me and someone involved with Arbcom/the clerk team were on bad terms and did not get along with each other at the time. After my resignation I received high praise from an Arb and was told I should consider running in 2022. I had no desire to become an Arb at any point prior and thought the idea of me becoming one was far-fetched, but after thinking about it for a while I decided to go for it. I would say my experience outside of clerking actually influenced me more since it had more to do with dispute resolution and solving issues instead of paperwork and templates. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 05:40, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Questions from TheresNoTime

  2. How do you foresee the role of the Arbitration Committee changing with regard to the adoption of the Universal Code of Conduct (namely, due to the enforcement guidelines, and the introduction of the global Coordinating Committee)? — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 05:58, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Is ANI pronounced A-N-I or Annie? Thank you for standing, and good luck. — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 05:58, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Annie. Moneytrees Industries®™© will not be taking further questions on this matter. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 06:51, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Questions from InsaneHacker

  2. When you successfully ran for adminship in 2020, one of the concerns stated by opposers – aside from lack of content creation experience – was an alleged lack of maturity. However, you've since had the bit for almost three years, and a lot can happen in that time. What factors or incidents do you think led to the impression of lack of maturity, and do you think you have addressed those concerns since becoming an administrator?

Just one question for now. InsaneHacker (💬) 10:00, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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