Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2011/Candidates/Courcelles/Statement

Courcelles

The Arbitration Committee is, as a community, our highest body for resolving disputes. We all know this line, and we've heard it a hundred times. Let us face facts, to a supermajority of the community, the Arbitration Committee is only considered in two situations; when they're frustrated with a situation that isn't getting resolved involving another user(s), or at this time of the year. We can't elect a quality committee when the first situation presents itself, so we have to do it now. ArbCom looks less busy than it used to, there are fewer cases than in years past; but the importance of the body is in many ways increasing as time passes, with the cases the Committee does hear being even tighter Gordian Knots than in years gone by. I believe that editors that care about this project deserve an ArbCom that is available, active, and experienced, and to those ends, I offer myself up as a candidate.

To know whether I can live up to those goals, you'll need to know me. Well, as the page title makes obvious, I'm Courcelles. I've been an admin here for roughly 18 months, a member of the Audit Subcommittee for almost seven, and was confirmed as a permanent Checkuser and Oversighter earlier this quarter. That's a list of rights, you could have looked on my user page for that, but it seems to be standard in these statements. I've had my hands in 23 featured lists, 2 featured articles (though I'm hesitant to take significant credit for those), and a featured topic. I believe that all of us, are first and foremost editors of this encyclopaedia; everything we do, as admins, as functionaries, or even as arbitrators, must be to serve the needs of the encyclopaedia. If we lose sight of that, we have lost our way.

In means of standard disclosure, I have a travelling account User:Courcelles is travelling a bot account I've registered User:Courcelles Bot but have never used, a test account, User:Courcelles (ACIP test) and a doppelganger, User:CourcelIes is travelling. This account was once renamed by a bureaucrat, but I've never used any other account than these. As a CU/OS, I'm identified already to the Foundation. 400 words, as I'm discovering, isn't a lot of space, so, questions, anyone?

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