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I'm afraid a RL crisis prevented me withdrawing before the election began, as I had decided to do yesterday. I have agonised over this decision - some of those agonies can be seen at User:Rlevse's talk page.
The ArbCom nomination was a tremendous surprise to me and flattering, but I have three reasons for declining for now.
For one, my editing time is limited currently and I'd rather concentrate it on my Crat duties, as we're so short on Crats and, my first love, developing quality articles.
My second love is helping others, which is why it's a shame I'm withdrawing this time. I have a fierce desire to assist good faith editors (witness, for example, my work at the Ref Desks) and privacy issues are key to this, especially since becoming a Crat and helping with username changes, and because so much of my mainspace work is on biographies, where I've developed a finely tuned appreciation for WP:BLP issues. Perhaps a future occasion will have better timing for me.
Oh, and one other thing - there are some outstanding candidates on this page, so I don't feel a pressing community need to keep my hat in the ring.
For now, I thank ArbCom for their faith in me and apologise for wasting anyone's time by being late with this statement. --Dweller (talk) 06:47, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]