Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2018/Candidates/Guide

2018 Arbitration Committee Elections

Status as of 13:07 (UTC), Friday, 6 June 2025 (Purge)

Thank you for participating in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections. The results have been posted.
You are invited to leave feedback on the election process.

This is a tabulated guide to the candidates in this election. The information written here has been compiled manually and should not be assumed to be accurate or complete; voters are encouraged to conduct independent research, and amend this guide accordingly.

Key: User rights: A = Administrator; B = Bureaucrat; CU = Checkuser; OS = Oversight; S = Steward

Other positions: ARB = Arbitrator; OMB = Ombudsman; BAG = Bot Approvals Group; CL = Arbitration Committee Clerk; SPICL = SPI Clerk; M = Mediator; OTRS = Volunteer response team

A stricken 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A stricken date indicates that a request was unsuccessful, withdrawn or denied.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 2018/Candidates.

Last update timestamp: 20181111195326

Candidate	Positions	Since^[1]	Other accounts	RfX	Previous runs	Candidate profile
AGK (talk · contribs · count · block log)	A, ~~ARB~~, CU, OS	27 February 2006	Disclosure of secondary accounts	May 2007 RfA ~~July 2007 RfB~~ ~~June 2008 RfB~~	2011, 2013	Statement
Courcelles (talk · contribs · count · block log)	A, ~~ARB~~, CU, OS	19 September 2006	Courcelles is travelling, Courcelles Bot, Courcelles (ACIP test), CourcelIes is travelling	May 2010	2011, ~~2013~~, 2014	Statement
Doug Weller (talk · contribs · count · block log)	A, ARB, CU, OS	23 April 2006	DougWeller, Dougweller	Sep. 2008	2014, 2016	Statement
Fred Bauder (talk · contribs · count · block log)	A, ~~ARB~~, CU, OS	6 March 2003	Fredbauder	WikiEN-L Message	Jan.2004 (direct appt. by Jimbo Wales), Jan. 2006	Statement
Kelapstick (talk · contribs · count · block log)	A, ~~ARB~~, CU, OS	20 December 2006	Kelapstick on the Run	~~May 2009~~ July 2013	2015	Statement
Patient Zero (talk · contribs · count · block log)		7 January 2014	User:Patient Zero/Sock declaration			Statement
Robert McClenon (talk · contribs · count · block log)		4 July 2005	McClenon Test	~~Mar. 2006~~ ~~Sep. 2017~~		Statement
SilkTork (talk · contribs · count · block log)	A, ~~ARB~~, CU, OS	12 January 2006	SiikTook	~~Nov. 2007~~ Nov. 2008	2011	Statement

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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