Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2011/Candidates/Worm That Turned/Statement

Worm That Turned

Hello all. I’m Worm That Turned and I thought I’d throw my hat into the Arbcom ring. As Arbitration is the final level of dispute resolution, I feel that a good mixture of users with many different backgrounds is essential to provide a proper cross section of the community. So I put myself in line with editors I greatly respect, hoping the community will consider me a worthy candidate.

I see myself as a fairly quiet editor who’s been getting drawn into different areas in the past few months. In real life, I am a programmer; my academic background is mathematical, but I have also spent a few years working in customer services. Although I've worked as an OTRS volunteer, ambassador and guide, I hope I am best known on Wikipedia for my mentoring, something I take seriously and have great success with. I’ve worked with about 20 users in mentorship and adoption; this is a significant number and I'm very proud of the results. My skills therefore lie in working with people and understanding different points of view – factors I feel would be very helpful in an arbitrator.

Just over four months ago I became an administrator, with support that overwhelmed me, although I still don’t think of myself as an admin, and often need to be reminded of it. I would describe myself as diplomatic and generally tending towards excessive good faith – offering problematic users more chances than they perhaps deserve. However, as an arbitrator, this is a stance that I would tighten up on, since Arbcom needs to create binding judgements in the most difficult of situations.

Mandatory Statement: I hold only one alternate account User:WormTT – which I registered to ensure users wouldn’t get confused by my signature. Most of the usernames in this SPI were created to impersonate me, one of the hazards of working cloesly with new users that encounter difficulties. I will be willing to identify to the foundation.

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