Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/2018 CUOS appointments/CU

Ivanvector (CU)

Ivanvector (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Nomination statement

Hello Wikipedians! I'm Ivanvector, and I'm applying for the checkuser permission. I have been a sockpuppet investigations clerk for two years and an administrator almost as long. I'm seeking access to checkuser obviously to aid in my SPI work – although there is not often a backlog in requests awaiting checkuser these days, there is a persistent backlog of “open” cases which often require checkuser attention in the course of investigation. As a clerk I endorse or request (self-endorse) checkuser probably about 10-20 times a week, and I’m keenly familiar with what checkusers can and cannot do from many interactions with the team. We also have a significant backlog of users interested in clerk training, which I would like to help with. Aside from SPI, I have experience in networking and technicalities of the internet from working with networked computers throughout my professional life as well as deploying home and small office networks. I’m familiar with both IPv4 and IPv6 subnet masking, and I’m currently one of 24 administrators listed in the “willing to make range blocks” category. Professionally, I work in accounting and finance, especially in payroll and benefits administration, which involves handling individuals’ very sensitive confidential information such as banking information, details of health issues, and immigration matters. I am very well-versed in handling and protecting such information, including tactful and respectful ways to decline requests for access. I look forward to your questions and comments.

Standard questions for all candidates

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?

SQL (CU)

SQL (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Nomination statement: Hi, I’m SQL. I’ve been an Administrator since 2007, and I am applying for Checkuser. I’m the developer of tools such as ISP Rangefinder, IPCheck, IPRange, and the original developer behind ACC, as well as an early usercompare tool on the old toolserver.
I am a regular at CAT:RFU, UTRS, and one of the primary patrolling admins at WP:OPP. I would primarily use the tool at UTRS, and in reviewing unblocks on-wiki.

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Stwalkerster (CU)

Stwalkerster (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Nomination statement: I would like to respectfully nominate myself for an open CheckUser position. I've been an admin for a decade, and while I'm not active around SPI itself, I have been involved in a few recent sockpuppetry cases (Imeghana17, Realmissvoodoo), and I am fairly active around ACC (since around June 2007), and I'm also on IRC. I am acutely aware that the CheckUser queue within the ACC tool has been fairly backlogged for quite some time, and there are simply not enough CheckUsers who look in on ACC. As a software developer, I have the technical background necessary to use the CU tool, and as one of the primary developers of the ACC tool, I'm also acutely aware of the privacy policy and both what it requires and what is generally good practice in addition.

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TonyBallioni (CU)

TonyBallioni (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Nomination statement: Hi, I'm Tony. I've been an admin for about a year now, and I'm applying for CheckUser because I think I have experience in several areas that would be beneficial to the CheckUser team. In terms of how this tool would be useful to me: I have pretty broad experience with SPI, COIN/UPE work, UTRS, and several LTAs where SPI doesn't work as well so it requires private coordination with CheckUsers. I'm also involved across the Wikimedia movement as a global renamer, and in the past, I have worked pretty closely with sysops, CheckUsers, and stewards from other projects to combat cross-wiki socking and LTAs from various language groups in the past, and having the CheckUser tool would be helpful in dealing with cross-wiki issues on large a project that many en.wiki users aren't as familiar with.
In terms of what I bring to the table: I've been one of the more active admins at SPI in the last year, and I am behaviorally familiar with many UPE farms and LTAs, and because of my work at COIN, I also am aware of the privacy guidelines in many of these difficult cases and am familiar with the guidelines for when running a CheckUser would be appropriate. I'm familiar with range blocks and with VPNs/open proxies, and feel I would be competent to operate the technical aspects of the CheckUser tool and would be able to learn anything that I'm not initially familiar with.

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Oshwah (CU)

Oshwah (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Nomination statement: I am applying for the CheckUser and Oversight permissions to extend my participation with Wikipedia in order to protect the privacy of users and put a stop to disruption. I'll be available to help with processing requests that I see go unanswered on IRC, as well as help with the backlog at SPI and ACC. I've been an administrator for two years, and have been consistently active and available to help with requests as well as urgent matters on IRC and other communication methods. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask and I'll be happy to answer them.

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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?