Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2025/Candidates/Guide

2025 Arbitration Committee Elections

Status as of 15:57 (UTC), Tuesday, 11 November 2025 (Purge)

Self-nominations for the Arbitration Committee are open until 23:59, 11 November 2025 (UTC).

This is a tabulated guide to the candidates in this election. Coordinators, candidates, and voters are encouraged to update and correct the guide as appropriate.

Key: User rights: A = Administrator; B = Bureaucrat; CU = Checkuser; OS = Oversight; S = Steward; Other positions: ARB = Arbitrator; OMB = Ombuds commission; BAG = Bot Approvals Group; CL = Arbitration Committee Clerk; SPICL = Sockpuppet Investigation Clerk; VRT = Volunteer response team

A stricken, italicized abbreviation indicates that the candidate previously held a position.

A stricken date indicates that a request was unsuccessful, withdrawn or denied.

For candidates' statements, see Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2025/Candidates.

Last update timestamp: 20251110005510

Candidate	Statements	Questions	Positions	Since^[1]	Previous usernames	RfX	Previous runs	Discussions
Aoidh (talk · contribs · count · block log)	Statement	Questions	A, CU, OS, ARB	Sep 22, 2009	SudoGhost	RfA Mar 2023	2023	Discussion
HJ Mitchell (talk · contribs · count · block log)	Statement	Questions	A, CU, OS, ARB, VRT	Mar 29, 2009	None	~~RfA Dec 2009~~ RfA May 2010 RfA May 2011	2023	Discussion
Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs · count · block log)	Statement	Questions	A	Jul 5, 2008	None	RfA Nov 2009 ~~RfA Feb 2016~~ ~~RfA Aug 2019~~ ~~AELECT Oct 2024~~	~~2015~~ ~~2019~~ ~~2020~~	Discussion
SilverLocust (talk · contribs · count · block log)	Statement	Questions	A, CL	Dec 1, 2015	None	AELECT Oct 2024	None	Discussion
HouseBlaster (talk · contribs · count · block log)	Statement	Questions	A, CL, VRT	Feb 1, 2019	None	RfA Jun 2024	None	Discussion

Footnotes

^ This is the date of registration of the candidate's first user account; for accounts which were registered before these logs were being recorded, it's the date of the first edit.

[since-1] This is the date of registration of the candidate's first user account; for accounts which were registered before these logs were being recorded, it's the date of the first edit.

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