Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/2021 CUOS appointments/CU

Ferret

Nomination statement: I am applying for the CheckUser permission, and have been an administrator since January 2017. In the course of my patrolling and gnoming efforts, I often interact with checkusers to verify sockpuppets I've identified. I'd like to help take some of the burden off those individuals.

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Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.
Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.
Do you hold advanced permissions (checkuser, oversight, bureaucrat, steward) on this or other WMF projects? If so, please list them. Also, do you have OTRS permissions? If so, to which queues?

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RoySmith

Nomination statement: I am applying only for CU. I have been an admin since 2005, active at SPI since August 2017, appointed as a clerk trainee in May 2020, and full clerk in December 2020. I applied for CU in 2019, which was declined. Feedback at the time indicated that I needed more experience at SPI. I made extensive statements about my background and experience in 2019; rather than repeat all that, I'll just refer people to WP:CUOS2019. One of my side projects over the past couple of years has been a suite of tools for helping to analyze SPI reports. It's available at https://spi-tools.toolforge.org/spi/.

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GeneralNotability

Nomination statement: Hello! I'm GeneralNotability, and I'm applying for the checkuser and oversight permissions. For checkuser, I have been an SPI clerk since I became an administrator and have a good deal of experience dealing with sockpuppet investigations. I have a good understanding of both the abilities and limitations of the tool. I've also been active in tackling abuse from open proxies, including peer-to-peer proxies. I expect that I would mainly use the checkuser tool at SPI, but I also intend to work on CU-related backlogs, particularly the paid-en queue and requests for IPBE. I also intend to continue training SPI clerks. I would also be interested in developing scripts to streamline the checkuser process. As for oversight, I am active in the revdel request channel on IRC and would be willing and able to help tackle the suppression requests that come through the channel, especially since some revdel requests end up needing suppression. I expect I would also make use of it at SPI from time to time - there have been occasional cases where I had to ask an oversighter for help since some of the material common to two accounts was suppressed.

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Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.
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Do you hold advanced permissions (checkuser, oversight, bureaucrat, steward) on this or other WMF projects? If so, please list them. Also, do you have OTRS permissions? If so, to which queues?

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Girth Summit

Nomination statement: In the time I've spent editing Wikipedia, I've formed the opinion that while admins perform multiple tasks which are vital to the smooth running of the project, the one which is most important to deal with urgently is the protection of our contributors, and of the subjects of our articles about living people, from harm. I've come across numerous cases of harassment, doxxing and threats of violence, and want to do whatever I can to help deal with such situations. I've done what I can with the normal admin toolset, and I became involved in SPI clerking last December in hopes of becoming more effective in this area. I believe that access to the CU and OS privileges would allow me to be more effective in this area, so if the functionaries team believe that I would be able to use them competently and not to abuse them, I would like to be given the opportunity to serve in these roles.

Abuse of multiple accounts causes disruption beyond harassment and doxxing of course - now that I'm familiar with the SPI process, I think I could also use CU to help process all types of cases and keep the backlogs down.

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Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.
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Do you hold advanced permissions (checkuser, oversight, bureaucrat, steward) on this or other WMF projects? If so, please list them. Also, do you have OTRS permissions? If so, to which queues?

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Dreamy Jazz

Nomination statement: I am applying for the CheckUser permissions. My RfA was in December 2019 and I’ve been a SPI clerk since May 2020. Furthermore I’m a VRT agent, ArbCom clerk and have been previously active in accounts for creation. SPI has a backlog of cases, which as I write this statement is mostly comprised of checkuser requests, which I could help address if I am appointed. I’m also willing to help in ACC and UTRS. You can reach me over IRC for off-wiki communication and if I am appointed, I will respond to request for checkuser over IRC. I am familiar with the relevant policies from my time as a SPI clerk and already signed the relevant agreements. As a SPI clerk, I’m very familiar with IP addresses, ranges and identifying sockpuppets from their edits. If you have any questions for me, please feel free to ask them below.

Standard questions for all candidates (Dreamy Jazz)

Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.
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Do you hold advanced permissions (checkuser, oversight, bureaucrat, steward) on this or other WMF projects? If so, please list them. Also, do you have OTRS permissions? If so, to which queues?

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