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For reasons that I cannot fully fathom, let alone articulate, I am offering myself for election to the Arbitration Committee. I have been an administrator since January 2008, authored eight featured articles, helped many other editors improve their articles through the Good Article, Peer Review, and
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In real life, I am a 27 year old Canadian law student. Besides the obvious applicability of parts of my academic program, I have been the presiding officer of several boards and committees, some of which have included a disciplinary component. Right now, I am associate chair of the University of
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Unlike with my two candidacies for the WMF Board of Trustees, I am not running for the Arbitration Committee with a revolutionary agenda. I think ArbCom has taken significant steps in the right direction, and I want to support those and do my part to prevent this election from being a backlash
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against those steps. I would like to see ArbCom more assertive in sanctioning content-related misconduct: stonewalling, repeatedly making arguments not framed in Knowledge's core content policies (such as by failing to invoke sources), cherry picking sources, etc.
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New Brunswick's disciplinary committee, in which capacity I hear cases of non-academic misconduct and chair the committee charged with determining guilt and meting out sentences.
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I cannot pledge not to disappoint, but I can promise that most of the disappointed will be those who weren't paying much attention to my record and words.
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