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Alphabetical list of candidates and recommendations

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I refine the standard evaluations (support, neutral, oppose) with modifiers (strongly, wisely, politically, etc.) so that the evaluation-categories' alphabetical order is consistent with my evaluation. ("Wisely" was chosen for alphabetical reasons only.)

ArbCom 2012 by Kiefer.Wolfowitz
Candidate Recommendation
Beeblebrox Oppose wisely
Carcharoth Support strongly
Coren Support
Count Iblis Oppose strongly
David Fuchs Oppose with regrets (neutral) ??
Elen of the Roads Support strongly
Guerillero Support
Jc37 Oppose strongly
Jclemens Oppose strongly
Keilana Political support (neutral) ??
Ks0stm Oppose wisely ?
Kww Political support (neutral) ??
Newyorkbrad Support strongly
Nuclear Warfare Support strongly
Pgallert Political support (neutral) ??
RegentsPark Support strongly ?
Richwales Oppose wisely ?
Salvio giuliano Oppose with regrets (neutral) ??
Timotheus Canens Support strongly
Worm That Turned Support
YOLO Swag Oppose strongly

The list contains question marks (?, ??) according to my likelihood of mistake! Please review other guides and look at the candidate's behaviour (for example, 2 years ago) in making your own decision!

Recommendations

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I am pleased that my top candidates enjoy nearly unanimous support (among the guide authors). There are another 3-5 candidates who could also do a good job.

It should be obvious that I evaluate the candidates almost entirely by their years of editing. I disregard their candidate statements, except Richwales's claim that he is making the NPOV-pillar one of his two central themes.... The candidates' responses to personal questions are revealing and have also been consulted.

Strong Support

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1. RegentsPark

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RegentsPark writes articles, mediates content disputes, and is one of the most helpful persons with resolving issues at ANI. RegentsPark has been invaluable in helping to maintain civility and productive editing on articles related to Pakistan and India, one of the toughest proving grounds for administrators.

SandyGeorgia has a good discussion of RegentsPark's virtues on 2012 Wikipedia controversies.

2. Timotheus Canens

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Endorsed by Casliber and Sandy Georgia. 'Nuff said.

3. Nuclear Warfare

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Long serving clerk to ArbCom and an administrator noted for professionalism and calmness. I rank him high strategically, because he is new. Non-strategically, I would rate him just below the returning arbs I support. 22:45, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

4. Elen of the Roads

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Good heart, sound head, winning personality.

Outside of ArbCom duty, she is active in mediating and settling disputes, sometimes with a soft voice and other times by cracking a whip (that needed to be cracked).

Even if she makes a misstep, she does it with such intelligence and style that it is a pleasure to watch, at least in retrospect.... (At my RfC/U, I asked her to resign from ArbCom and as an administrator and she declared me a "net negative" and predicted my banning, I think.)

Like NewYorkBrad and Casliber, Elen has maturity and gravitas---the ability to speak with her own voice, even when alone against a crowd, and immediately improve a discussion.

5. Newyorkbrad

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NYB has earned 80% support from the community in previous elections, and there is no reason to vote against him, and many reasons to support him.

One caveat: I don't understand how he could have signed the "Civility Enforcement" decision, which made an unwarrantedly expansive reading of WP:Disruptive..., given his intelligence and principle.

Support

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These four deserve to be elected.

1. Guerillero

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I supported him to become an administrator in 2011, and he has been good, in my memory at least. He has also volunteered as a clerk for ArbCom, and so won an endorsement from editor User:Reaper Eternal, whose judgement I trust.

2. Carcharoth

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A former arbitrator, recruited by Newyorkbrad, supported by nearly all and opposed by none (known to me).

3. Worm That Turned

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My 2011 guide stated that I looked forward to seeing Worm That Turned earn the community's trust and win election in 2012. Thus I am pleased to support him now. (Truth be told, my opposition with great likelihood resulted in his losing the election....)

He is a young man who is unusually mature and who is growing every month. He still makes mistakes, but he learns from his mistakes more than anybody I've seen on Wikipedia. He has served as clerk this last year (for part of the year) and so is familiar with many aspects of ArbCom.

In 5 years, he shall be an even better candidate, but I think that he can contribute this year. If he shall make a mistake on ArbCom, it will be because he will be impatient to resolve a problem, that may be better left unresolved.... Some problems should be accepted as inevitable parts of community life, of course.

Cunard spotlighted this problem with WTT: Like this year's ArbCom, Worm That Turned misuses "disruption" informally, rather than according to the policy on WP:Disruptive editing, as shown by the diffs and his responses to Cuncard's questions, also in the second round.

Note that Cunard supports WTT. I wish that the exchange with Cunard will spur WTT to review his past and present positions on "disruption", particularly his labeling Cunard's RfA editing as disruptive (for Sigma's RfA). A year or so ago, WTT's statements on RfA as a process were more troublesome (although we usually agreed on candidates)....

4. Coren

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Long-standing and computing-savy former member of ArbCom. Coren helped to save mathematics on Wikipedia by improving this decision. Everything else is peanuts.

Political support (neutral)

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I would urge editors to vote in support of most of these candidates, to prevent a lesser qualified candidate take their place.

1. Pgallert

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A thoughtful editor who is not an administrator. Obviously smart and articulate, Pgallert avoids cliches. In previous years, I would have supported Pgallert. If Pgallert does not get elected, perhaps clerking at ArbCom would be beneficial to all.

2. Kww

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Kww gets to the point, with no distractions about apple-pie, motherhood, and the flag (e.g., NPOV), etc. This shows confidence and self-awareness, and is refreshing. It would be intellectually deadening to have an ArbCom filled only with policy paraphrasers.

The concern is his ability to collaborate with other ArbCom members. At least arbitrator Coren has been impressed with Kww, and an endorsement from Coren suggests we all consider Kww especially thoughtfully, rather than just reject an unconventional personality.

Oppose with regrets (neutral)

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My parenthetical "neutral" attempted to show great respect to these three, whom I opposed this year because there were so many qualified candidates, 8 of whom seemed safer. I would have no concern were any or all of them to be elected. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 09:49, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

1. David Fuchs

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Since (at least May), David Fuchs has contributed little to discussions at ArbCom, often showing up to add support to popular motions at the end of deliberations. His support of banning Malleus did include an insult, which was especially inappropriate at a case on civility enforcement; in this case, he failed to disassociate himself from JClemens's and AGK's insults.

Now there are many candidates who are likely to be much more capable of assessing evidence, deliberating the case, and formulating findings. Voting is only a small part of an arbitrator's work.

On the other hand, Sandy Georgia notes that David Fuchs stood up for fairness and decency in the Featured Article process case. This kind of backbone is so rare on Wikipedia that it raises David Fuchs from strong oppose to neutral.

Former arbitrator (and former punchline of Stephen Colbert) Wizardman noted that David Fuchs keeps himself busy with unbanning request work, which is done off wiki. This is an important merit.

2. Keilana

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SandyGeorgia's strong opposition is based on solid evidence.

  • Like many RfA nominations, Keilana's RfA nomination of Rlevse was glib and riddled with cliched falsehoods; I did support the Rlevse's RfA weakly, since " Saul did become Paul". Glib writing is not what we want from ArbCom.

SandyGeorgia also discusses her FA articles, etc. Rschen raises similar concerns, without the diffs....

However, I retain my judgment, overall.

Good writer of articles, including science and women. Seems like a calm and clear leader on administrator tasks. Her talk page shows endorsements and encouragement from many administrators whose judgment I trust.

Because of her productivity and fire-fighting at drama boards (rather than pyrotechnics), she has a relatively low profile.


3. Salvio guiliano

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Salvio is experienced as a bureaucrat and ArbCom clerk, and I'm sure that he would be an asset to the committee work, and in most other years Salvio would have had my support.

However, I don't sense the same degree of thoughtful independence in Salvio that I do in Kww and Pgallert. On English Wikipedia, he has little experience with writing, editing, or assessing articles, and he has little experience with mediation (as opposed to using administrative tools within policy).

  • On a good committee, Salvio might be better able to help to pass common-sense decisions and especially to perform the behind-the-scenes work which occupies a lot of time (e.g., with requests from banned editors to accept a standard offer).
  • On a bad committee, Salvio might be more liable to support bad decisions.

(My (now revised) evaluation was acknowledged by Sven Manguard, who supports Salvio as his eighth choice. Readers should examine Sven's analysis.)

Also, I have trouble spelling "Salvio guiliano"! ;D

Salvio could draft resolutions
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If Salvio is not elected, I would ask that members of ArbCom consider asking Salvio to try his hand in drafting a resolution, perhaps to be presented by another ArbCom member for public viewing. Such draftings are typically done by law clerks in the US, and the experience of drafting resolutions would be beneficial to Salvio and to his future candidacies.

To grant Salvio permission to engage in discussion, at least as an experiment on one selected case, might also be beneficial; I understand that letting all the clerks comment on all the cases could create headaches.... Kiefer.Wolfowitz 18:59, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Please read the comment of Newyorkbrad, who shared his experience on non-administrator drafting.

Oppose

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These candidates have many positive features, and so I would urge each voter to make his own investigation here. For these candidates, the guides disagree, and so we all need to think carefully. :)

1. Richwales

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Richwales is running on two pillars, civility and NPOV. Raising NPOV, which is supported by all, is a distraction.

In the 2012 ArbCom case entitled "civility enforcement", Rich Wales seemed to criticize only Malleus. A principled leader of the community should have addressed at least some of the incivility and personal attacks against Malleus. I double-checked the extensive discussion to see whether Rich was even-handed in any of the proceedings, but found nothing; when I asked Rich to provide an example of once restraining the behavior of an ally in the case against Malleus---or in any other heated discussion, he gave no examples, but instead gave a list of his contributions to the Civility Enforcement, writing that the community could judge him based on his record and previous statements.

My review of the ArbCom case and his self-nomination raises a strong concern that he would be even more one-sided in civility enforcement than the existing ArbCom, which at least showed some notice that there was "uneven" enforcement of the civility policy.

I am also concerned that Rich has so far ignored procedural questions of ArbCom: In Civility Enforcement,

  1. the topic of the case had a wide scope, but the decision was focused narrowly (and one sidedly) on Malleus.
  2. The administrator who filed the case (User:Alexandria) has been (self-requested?) blocked by Hersfold, who did not recuse himself or declare any relation to the community; in contrast, Elen and NewYorkBrad recused themselves, and CasLiber discussed recusing himself (asking for feedback). (Alexandria later reversed the block for violating NPA on JClemens.)
  3. The request for clarification turned into a circus, with most of the committee supporting a de facto ban of Malleus, before some sense was restored.

From these three issues, I suppose that almost everybody can agree that one was a real issue, and perhaps nearly half would agree that two raise concern.

Frankly, Richwales will do a great job 90% of the time. However, I believe that he could be like Hersold and AGK (and many more outside of ArbCom) pushing a schoolboy understanding of civility (focusing on naughty words, rather than on overall behavior) ahead of the other pillars.

In his guide, Arbitrator Coren suggests that Richwales would be a stronger candidate after a year of e.g. clerking, an excellent suggestion.

2. Ks0stm

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A new (2011) administrator, and so inexperienced. Wait a few years. He seems to have been calm and a good influence as an administrator, and so in other years I would have considered endorsing him.

3. Beeblebrox

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Beeblebrox's history of closing discussions as supporting his opinion rather than as "no consensus" led to his Request for Bureaucratiship's failure. Making policy is appropriate for community-discussion leaders but not for ArbCom.

Beeblebrox has weak experience with writing or assessing articles, according to Elonka, and this suggests that he will have trouble with complicated article-disputes. Similarly, Beeblebrox's weak content experience and temperament problems warrant the oppose by Ealdgyth.

Beeblebrox is similar to JClemens in having a propensity to insult editors, etc., according to Sven Manguard. SandyGeorgia suggests that other editors may better restore a good working-environment at ArbCom. Also, Beeblebrox is not strong at dispute resolution, suggests Reaper Eternal.

Finally, Beeblebrox's answers to questions appear to be evasive.

Update: Beeblebrox seems to have been a primary author of the current RfC/Civility "questionnaire", whose stupidity and dishonesty have been explained by enough independent editors

(e.g. for "bias" and lack of "competence" Risker— but see Risker's dissent from being cited updated21:50, 14 December 2012 (UTC))

already. If I had bothered to pay attention to it, beyond denouncing the incompetence and unethical behavior of its authors, then I would have of course strongly opposed Beeblebrox, and warned you all about Beeblebrox's agenda and character/ability. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:34, 14 December 2012 (UTC) A review of the other guides shows that none of the other authors discussed the (obviously unethical and incompetent) questionnaire, which I think shows the contempt with which it was viewed by serious editors; the talk pages associated with it are filled with complaints, many of which use language unconstrained by my moderation. I don't add links to it, per my contempt. 20:52, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Strong oppose

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-1 YOLO Swag

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The rhetoric disqualifies him, as does his editing history (noted by User:Kurtis).

-2. Jclemens

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Jclemens has used his position on Arbcom to abuse editors and to intimidate administrators at SPI, as documented by Ealdgyth and Heimstern.

He has no place in any position of authority on Wikipedia, save the authority he has earned as a writer of quality articles, especially on health articles. His seat would be better filled by a new arbitrator.

-3. Jc37

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JClemens is at least smart and is aware when his beliefs are deviant and so moderates his discourse unless he feels its time to drop a bomb---which is at least entertaining (like an Ed Wood) and sometimes informative (like Chomsky or Camille Paglia).

In contrast, Jc37 would just waste the valuable time of members of ArbCom, and make it even more difficult to keep active members and recruit new ones.

Jc37 failed his RfB because of numerous limitations: Repeated asking of many inane questions at RfAs, focus on civility-policing at ANI, etc. Elonka notes his problems with explaining his actions as an administrator; Jc37's ArbCom case had no acceptances by arbitrators, 6 declines and only 1 abstain, suggesting that he has trouble understanding the role of ArbCom. Similarly, two editors with whom I've had several disagreements Wehwalt and Bishonen, asked simple but damning questions, which Jc37 could not answer (properly imho) or would not (22:29, 4 December 2012 (UTC)).

In the Featured Article case, Jc37's intellectually deadly statements disqualify him, also, as noted by SandyGeorgia.

Understanding and curiosity

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  • ArbComm has to read a lot of material, often revolving around content disputes, and so its members must have a good education, simply to keep up, and especially to make wise decisions.
  • Having written GA/FA articles or reviewed GA/FA articles on traditional encyclopedia topics are important merits, showing intellectual power.
  • ArbComm members carry big sticks---and I can show you my bruises---so their public whispers cause hurricanes on Wikipedia. Clear writing is essential, and "negative capability"---silence when we have nothing good to say---is desirable.

Experience, being necessary for mature judgement (Nicomachean Ethics 1142a)

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ArbCom is a terrible job, so the volunteers should deserve some appreciation for their hard work. Many members quit, because of the work load and the bitching and moaning of the herd of independent minds called "the community".

Thus, good ArbCom experience is an important merit. Good experience on intellectually and politically demanding committees is another great merit. As a rule, new administrators or editors (having the community's trust) without long experience should not be on ArbCom.

Many writers who are not administrators have contempt for the Administrator Noticeboard and have lost confidence with the Arbitration Committee, simply because of the failure of administrators evenly to apply Wikipedia's civility and no-personal-attacks policy. The essay Boomerang, which reminds editors not to file complaints unless they want to be held accountable for their own behavior, is not even a guideline (and certainly not a policy).

In this year's Civility Enforcement case, ArbCom announced that it would hear a wide-ranging case on Civility Enforcement, but instead chose to sanction only Malleus Faturoum, even though there was plenty of evidence against others, particularly those attacking Malleus repeatedly. Nobody was sanctioned for conducting campaigns of abuse.

Besides wasting the community's time and ignoring the evidence submitted about uneven enforcement, this action had the appearance that the proceedings were a bread-and-circuses show, while the real decision was made by the committee in private. Indeed, former arbitrator Iridescent correctly predicted the final votes just by knowing the members of the committee!

Administrators and arbitrators should not be so partisan that they ignore evidence of abuse by their friends and allies and solely target their opponents. Administrators and arbitrators should not be so intellectually lazy or partisan that they do not investigate the context of diffs at ANI or ArbCom, and sanction all guilty parties, particularly abusive administrators.

ArbCom needs to prioritize justice.


Summary of guides to ArbCom elections

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Summary chart by Ealdgyth

Monty's good-faith prohibition of any summary table from the template was based on his premature reading of an RfC in progress, which did not find consensus for such a prohibition. I corrected one POV problem with his wording, but failed to remove the prohibition. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 09:30, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

A sortable version of the table by Ealdgyth
Candidates Boing! said Zebedee Casliber Collect Ealdgyth Elonka Hahc21 Heimstern HJ Mitchell Hot Stop Kiefer.Wolfowitz Kurtis Reaper Eternal Rschen7754 SandyGeorgia Sven Manguard Wizardman
Beeblebrox Support Oppose Oppose Oppose Likely Oppose Undecided Support Support Oppose Support Neutral Support Oppose Oppose Support
Carcharoth Neutral Support Support Neutral Likely Support Support Support Oppose Support Oppose Neutral Support Likely Support Neutral Support
Coren Neutral Support Support Support Likely Support Undecided Oppose Oppose Support Oppose Support Support Oppose Oppose Support
Count Iblis Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose
David Fuchs Neutral Neutral Support Support Support Lean Support Undecided Support Oppose Support Neutral Support Likely Support Neutral Neutral
Elen of the Roads Support Support Neutral Oppose Support Undecided Undecided Support Support Support Oppose Oppose Oppose Support Oppose
Guerillero Neutral Neutral Oppose Likely Support Undecided Likely Oppose Support Support Support Support Neutral Likely Oppose Support Support
Jc37 Oppose Neutral Neutral Oppose Neutral Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Neutral Oppose
Jclemens Oppose Support Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose
Keilana Support Support Oppose Neutral Undecided Support Undecided Support Support Oppose Support Neutral Support Oppose Support Oppose
Ks0stm Oppose Support Oppose Oppose Likely Support Oppose Likely Support Oppose Oppose Support Oppose Support Likely Oppose Oppose Oppose
Kww Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Neutral Undecided Oppose Oppose Neutral Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Neutral Oppose
Newyorkbrad Support Support Support Support Support Support LIkely Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Support
NuclearWarfare Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Support
Pgallert Oppose Support Oppose Oppose Neutral Undecided Undecided Oppose Neutral Oppose Support Oppose Oppose Neutral Oppose
RegentsPark Support Oppose Support Oppose Neutral Support Oppose Support Support Neutral Oppose Support Neutral Oppose
Richwales Oppose Support Oppose Support Neutral Undecided Undecided Oppose Oppose Support Neutral Neutral Likely Oppose Neutral Oppose
Salvio giuliano Support Support Oppose Undecided Neutral Undecided Oppose Oppose Support Support Support Undecided Support Support
Timotheus Canens Neutral Support Oppose Support Neutral Undecided Oppose Support Support Support Support Support Support Support
Worm That Turned Support Oppose Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Support Oppose Support Support
YOLO Swag Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose Oppose

Posterity should note Gerda Arendt's honor role:

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.


candidate names with coming to my attention as awesome Wikipedians, worthy of Precious, in chronological order:

Pgallert (talk · contribs) 26 February
Salvio giuliano (talk · contribs) 29 March
Newyorkbrad (talk · contribs) 19 April
Keilana (talk · contribs) 22 April
Carcharoth (talk · contribs) 13 May
David Fuchs (talk · contribs) 14 June
Worm That Turned (talk · contribs) 4 August
Richwales (talk · contribs) 19 October
RegentsPark (talk · contribs) 25 November
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:54, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Kiefer.Wolfowitz 14:21, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Results

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Following the voting period, the scrutineers will examine the votes, and will release a tally of the results. The tally will rank candidates by level of support, defined as the number of votes cast in support of the candidate divided by the total number of votes cast for the candidate ("no vote" preferences are not counted). A total of 858 editors cast votes this election, and 824 votes were determined to be valid.

Candidate Support No vote[note 1] Oppose Net[note 2] Percentage [note 3] Result
Newyorkbrad 584 151 89 495 86.78% Two-year term
NuclearWarfare 454 251 119 335 79.23% Two-year term
Worm That Turned 446 254 124 322 78.25% Two-year term
Carcharoth 361 336 127 234 73.98% Two-year term
Timotheus Canens 347 310 167 180 67.51% Two-year term
Coren 341 282 201 140 62.92% Two-year term
Salvio giuliano 302 351 171 131 63.85% Two-year term
David Fuchs 271 373 180 91 60.09% Two-year term
RegentsPark 253 394 177 76 58.84%
Elen of the Roads 375 160 289 86 56.48%
Guerillero 234 408 182 52 56.25%
Keilana 245 380 199 46 55.18%
Beeblebrox 294 280 250 44 54.04%
Richwales 189 424 211 -22 47.25%
Pgallert 141 432 251 -110 35.97%
Kww 163 356 305 -142 34.83%
Jc37 165 340 319 -154 34.09%
Jclemens 209 182 433 -224 32.55%
Ks0stm 112 413 299 -187 27.25%
Count Iblis 87 305 432 -345 16.76%
YOLO Swag 45 225 554 -509 7.51%
  1. ^ All voters were required to register a preference of either "Support", "No Vote", or "Oppose" for each candidate. The "no vote" column is simply the total votes for which no one selected the Support or Oppose option.
  2. ^ Net = Support − Oppose
  3. ^ Percentage = (Support / (Support + Oppose)) * 100 (rounded to 2dp)

Ellen deserved more support, but I am pleased that only qualified candidates were elected. Also, the good showing by Guerrillero and Regents Park reflect well on the voters. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:29, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Abilities: Role-playing game

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Remember that 10 represents average human ability, so everything above 10 is a (sincere) compliment.

Abilities
Character Strength Dexterity Constitution Intelligence Wisdom Charisma Alignment Class Level Race[1]
Nuclear Warfare 12 16 13 14 15 14 Lawful good Cleric? 7 Human
Casliber 17 17 16 16 16 17 Lawful good Paladin 11 Human
Elen of the Roads 14 17[2] 15 16 16 16 Chaotic good Interspecies diplomat 8 Metron
Newyorkbrad 16 16 16 16 17 15 Lawful good Arch-mage 11 Watcher
Carcharoth 18 14 18 16 18 15 Chaotic good Bard,[3] formerly RED 8 sheepish Ent wearing Fenris Wolf's clothing
Worm That Turned 12 14 14 14 13 16 Neutral[4] good Ring bearer [5] 5 Hobbit
Sir Fozzie (Sabbatical) 14 14 14 15 14 14 Lawful good Indefatigable companion 8? WereMuppet
Guerillero 18 14 18 15 15 13 Lawful good Ranger 5 Bearish man
Keilana 14 15 ? 14 15 15 Chaotic good Sorcerer Apprentice Muggle parents
Richwales 11 12 ? 11 12 12 Lawful neutral Cleric? 4? Canuck, eh?
YOLO Swag 10 12 10 10 10 12 Chaotic neutral Rogue 3 Human
Jclemens 16 10 16 16 10 10 Chaotic Lawful Mentat 8 Vulcan
Jc37 10[6] 10 17 10 10 15 Chaotic lawful bard 6 closeted Beserker
Coren 18 18 18 18 18 12 Lawful good Artificer (Muninn & Huginn) 21 Demigod
Count Iblis NA NA NA NA NA NA Chaotic neutral Count Iblis 2 Extraterrestrial
  1. ^ Hobbits are from the UK, obviously.Humans are from the USA.
  2. ^ Dexterity occasionally drops to 12.
  3. ^ Composes epics of log(Cunard) length and log(log(My76Strat)) complexity
  4. ^ Worm That Turned formerly had a lawful-good orientation. This change of alignment seems not to have been penalized by the Dungeon Master.
  5. ^ Formerly warlord. Again, the change in class does not seem to to have been penalized.
  6. ^ Strength increases to 17 after ingesting Amanita muscaria