Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2009/Candidate statements

This is the candidate statements page, where editors wishing to run in the 2009 Arbitration Committee elections may present themselves and their nomination statement.

• Criteria for running

Editors must have 1,000 mainspace edits as of 00:00 UTC on 10 November 2009. For the purposes of this requirement, deleted edits may be counted.

Editors must be either 18 years of age or older, or of legal age in their place of residence, whichever is higher.

Editors will be required (per this thread) to identify to the Wikimedia Foundation before taking their seats. (See also, WT:ACE2007#Ruling on age limit.)

• Candidacy statements

Statements may not exceed 400 words, although you are free to link to a longer statement if you wish. You should submit your statement using the below section ("To run for this year's elections"). Statements are formatted using the {{Arbitration Committee Elections statement}} template. Statements may be submitted at any point after 00:00 on 10 November 2009 and before 23:59 24 November 2009 (all times are UTC). Any statements submitted out of this period will not be accepted (and may be removed by any editor).

• To run for this year's elections

Candidacies are entered into the election using the below inputbox. Append your username to "Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2009/Candidate statements/", ensuring that you keep all of that text (including the "/"):

Further instructions will be given once you click "create a statement." You will be reminded of this when submitting your statement, but do note that you will need to transclude your statement, once it is saved, at #Standing candidates using the following code:

{{Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2009/Candidate Statements/Your username}}

Withdrawn candidates

Candidates who withdrew prior to voting.

<poem> Chutznik, Chutznik (talk · contribs). Withdrew on 13:54, November 24, 2009.

Candidates who withdrew during the voting period.

Secret, Secret (talk · contribs). Withdrew on 13:19, December 7, 2009.