Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/February 2009 election/Oversight/Dweller
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Dweller has withdrawn from the election |
Dweller (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- I'm afraid a RL crisis prevented me withdrawing before the election began, as I had decided to do yesterday. I have agonised over this decision - some of those agonies can be seen at User:Rlevse's talk page.
- The ArbCom nomination was a tremendous surprise to me and flattering, but I have three reasons for declining for now.
- For one, my editing time is limited currently and I'd rather concentrate it on my Crat duties, as we're so short on Crats and, my first love, developing quality articles.
- My second love is helping others, which is why it's a shame I'm withdrawing this time. I have a fierce desire to assist good faith editors (witness, for example, my work at the Ref Desks) and privacy issues are key to this, especially since becoming a Crat and helping with username changes, and because so much of my mainspace work is on biographies, where I've developed a finely tuned appreciation for WP:BLP issues. Perhaps a future occasion will have better timing for me.
- Oh, and one other thing - there are some outstanding candidates on this page, so I don't feel a pressing community need to keep my hat in the ring.
- For now, I thank ArbCom for their faith in me and apologise for wasting anyone's time by being late with this statement. --Dweller (talk) 06:47, 6 February 2009 (UTC)