Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/2019 CUOS appointments/OS

Stwalkerster

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

Standard questions for all candidates

1. Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.

2. Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.

3. 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?

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The Blade of the Northern Lights

The Blade of the Northern Lights (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Nomination statement

I am applying for the oversight permission to increase my participation on Wikipedia, help protect the privacy of users, and keep defamatory content from proliferating. I have been an administrator for almost 8 years, active throughout that time, and am very familiar with both the deletion and oversight policies. I'll be available to help with the oversight mailing list and to handle any requests e-mailed to me, and while patrolling userpages, the user creation log, and new articles I have encountered many instances calling for oversight; I have never had an oversight request denied, and being able to handle such cases on my own would allow me to better serve the community. I am of the age of majority where I live, and have read the policies on non-public information and the confidentiality agreement; if selected, I will sign the confidentiality agreement. Thank you for your consideration.

Standard questions for all candidates

1. Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.

   I regularly check userpages for various types of misuse, such as spam or NOTWEBHOST violations, and frequently find private information of various sorts; often minors self-disclosing or disclosing information about friends, but sometimes very serious accusations of wrongdoing about private people. In addition, when I patrol UAA and Special:Log/newusers I sometimes find exceptionally problematic usernames and attack accounts which post libelous or defamatory material. I have submitted dozens of oversight requests, and all of them have been actioned.

2. Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.

   I work with disabled adults, and in my professional capacity I handle confidential information on a daily basis. Among many other responsibilities, this involves extensive case notes and writing about specific incidents. I must be able to describe client incidents in adequate detail without giving away any personally identifying information about other clients, sonI am very familiar with what is legally considered personally identifying information.

3. 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?

   Right now, my only advanced permissions are being an administrator here. I previously had OTRS access from 2012-2014, and handled a few tickets, but let it lapse.

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ST47

ST47 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Nomination statement

I am volunteering for Checkuser and Oversight. I returned to Wikipedia early this year from a long inactivity - I originally edited from 2006 - 2009. I am familiar with WP:SPI and investigate and resolve cases there regularly, and I have already signed the WMF NDA as a WP:ACC user. I'm a computer security researcher and a part time web admin, so I am very familiar with the uses - and limitations - of the tool. I am comfortable calculating IP ranges and issuing range blocks. My Recent Changes and AbuseFilter patrolling causes me to stumble upon likely sock puppet accounts fairly often, and access to the Checkuser tools would allow me to properly resolve those cases and help with backlogs at WP:SPI and elsewhere. Similarly, I do occasionally run into oversightable things from recent changes or sockpuppets, and report them to the oversight team. I often have IRC and email open even while I'm not actively on wiki. So, I offer to take on either or both roles, as you decide.

Standard questions for all candidates

1. Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.

2. Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.

3. 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?

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Mz7

Mz7 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Nomination statement

Hello, I'm Mz7, and I would like to apply for oversight rights this year. I have been involved in the "behind-the-scenes" work on Wikipedia for almost the entirety of the time that I have been active here, and this has exposed me to numerous situations where I have had to request oversight. From November 2016 through April 2019, I was an active member of the OTRS team—I voluntarily relinquished my access in April because of changes in my real life situation which have now alleviated—so I would be readily able to handle requests to the OTRS queue. Being on the OTRS team exposed me to a more humbling side of Wikipedia: the people whom we write about and the people whom we interact with are real people, and the things we do and say can have real, tangible effects. We cannot forget that. For these reasons, I think I am intimately familiar with the principles underlying the oversight policy. I am very active on IRC, and there I help handle revision deletion requests in the #wikipedia-en-revdel channel—I would be more than happy to respond to the oversight requests there as well. As I mentioned in my CU nomination statement, I find that I get along well with other Wikipedians, so I look forward to working with fellow oversighters if appointed.

Standard questions for all candidates

1. Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.

2. Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.

3. 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?

Questions for this candidate

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Comments

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Xaosflux

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

Nomination statement

Hello, I am xaosflux and I am applying for an oversighter appointment. I have been a Wikipedian since 2005, an administrator since 2006, and a bureaucrat since 2016. I currently function as an oversighter on the meta-wiki project and have previously completed the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information. If appointed, I will diligently support the oversight policy. Regarding oversight, some may recall I recently started a discussion on splitting oversight from ArbCom, to try to free up ArbCom for more dispute resolution activities – though it was a non-starter I still think that having non-arbcom oversighters is important so that the committee can focus on their core responsibilities. To that end, I'd like to think I have the trust of the community to both keep suppressed material secret, and to only suppress materials as supported by policy. Thank you.

Standard questions for all candidates

1. Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.

   Locally, I have years of experience with deletion, rev-del, and redaction as an administrator. I am currently an oversighter on the meta-wiki, so have direct experience both with the tools and its logs, as well as keeping open communications with other functionaries. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:07, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

2. Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.

   I have lengthy off-wiki professional experience in the financial industry, information security, and computer security. My experience includes review and classifying information, maintaining technical and professional confidentiality, and information system auditing. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:07, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

3. 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?

   Yes. As listed in my CentralAuth listing I am an oversighter on the meta-wiki; a bureaucrat here, on testwiki, and on test2wiki. I am a also an administrator on the Programs & Events Dashboard system. I am not a current OTRS agent. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:07, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

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L235

L235 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)

Nomination statement

Greetings: I’m Kevin, and I’m applying for CheckUser and Oversight access to help with some of the backlogs we’ve seen, particularly at SPI. I’ve been an SPI clerk since December 2015, where I’ve been actively involved in sockpuppetry investigations. As a clerk and patrolling administrator, I am responsible for making initial determinations on the use of CheckUser (endorsing or declining CU requests prior to CU review), evaluating evidence, and blocking users for sockpuppetry. I’ve made 499 blocks in the ~1 year since my RfA, and many SPI-clerk recommendations for admin action before that.

I have an extensive track record as a thorough evaluator of behavioral evidence in SPI cases, and I have a technical background as a Stanford computer science student. I am regularly available and accessible on IRC, and I am glad to perform CU/OS functions on ACC, UTRS, and OTRS (all of which I currently have access to).

Standard questions for all candidates

1. Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.

2. Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.

3. 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?

Questions for this candidate

Editors may ask a maximum of two questions per candidate.

Comments

Comments may also be submitted to the Arbitration Committee privately by emailing arbcom-en-clists.wikimedia.org. Please note that the candidate will be provided the opportunity to respond to a paraphrased version of any emailed comments; the sender's name will not be provided.