Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006/Summary table

Examples exhibiting arbitration skills

When I inserted the column, I explained the reason on #Examples exhibiting arbitration skills, but not here. I understand that it was reverted, because I assume that the reverter did not know my reason for adding it:

Actions count more than nice statements, so I would like to see examples of how candidates handled tricky arbitration issues. To this end, I just added a column "Examples" to the Summary table - please help me populate it! I also encourage candidates themselves; and I think it's also fine to insert counterexamples. Thanks, Sebastian

Please allow me to reinsert this column. I really feel it is important, and I don't see that it does any harm, even if many fields will be empty initially. That will only help us see for which candidates we have no example yet. — Sebastian (talk) 00:18, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Our posts just crossed. At the same time, Tra wrote:

"I've merged that column into the notes, for now. It takes up a lot of space and it only applies to one candidate at the moment. If information is added for more candidates, it could probably be given its own column."

I'd like to reply that it doesn't take that much space: No more than the word "Example", which is much less than "Date of first edit" plus "Date of adminship" plus "Date of nomination", which together may be equally important. — Sebastian (talk) 00:28, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

numbers by first edit/adminship dates?

I realize the cat is out of the bag so feel free to tell me to go climb a tree, but why are we 'ranking' candidates according to when they first edited, became an admin, etc? I don't understand the rationale here, and would like to remove it but would like even more to see some discussion first. If this has been discussed elsewhere I apologize. -- nae'blis 00:42, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]