English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/2021 CUOS appointments

The community consultation phase is closed.
The Committee has announced the appointments.

The current time and date is 08:34, Sunday, May 11, 2025 (UTC) .

The Arbitration Committee is seeking to appoint additional editors to the CheckUser and Oversight teams.

Prospective applicants must be familiar with (i) policies relevant to CU and/or OS and (ii) the global privacy policy and related documents. They must have good communication and team-working skills. CheckUser candidates must be familiar with basic networking topics and with SPI tools and techniques, and preferably are willing to volunteer at ACC and/or UTRS.

Applicants must also be:

• an administrator on the English Wikipedia;
• available to regularly assist with the workload;
• familiar with Wikipedia processes, policies, and guidelines;
• at least 18 years of age and have legal majority in their jurisdiction of residence;
• willing to disclose all other accounts they have operated to the committee;
• willing to agree to the WMF Access to Non-Public Information Policy (L37) and the VRT Users Confidentiality Agreement (L45).

We welcome all applicants with suitable interest to apply, but this year we have particular need of applicants who are:

• Familiar with common ISPs and editing patterns from Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe.
• Familiar with IPv6.
• Familiar with identification of factors that may change a result or block, such as ISP, location, activity, or type of network.
• Experienced in analyzing behavioral evidence for sockpuppetry investigations.
• Interested in mentoring editors who wish to become SPI clerks.
• Active users of non-standard venues, such as IRC, the account creation interface, VRT, and/or the Unblock Ticket Request System.
• Interested in handling private evidence related to paid editing, including sockpuppetry investigations and reports submitted to the VRT paid editing queue.

Applicants must be aware that they are likely to receive considerable internal and external scrutiny. External scrutiny may include attempts to investigate on- and off-wiki activities; previous candidates have had personal details revealed and unwanted contact made with employers and family. We are unable to prevent this and such risks will continue if you are successful.

Appointment process

Dates are provisional and subject to change

Applications: 6 September to 18 September

Candidates self-nominate by email to arbcom-en-cwikimedia.org. Each candidate will receive an application questionnaire to be completed and returned to the arbcom-en-c mailing list before the nomination period ends. The questionnaire will include a nomination statement, to a maximum of 250 words, for inclusion on the candidate's public nomination sub-page(s).

Review period: 19 September to 23 September

The committee will review applications and ask the functionary team for their feedback.

Notification of candidates: 24 September to 26 September

The committee will notify candidates going forward for community consultation and create the candidate subpages containing the submitted nomination statements.

Community consultation: 27 September to 6 October

Nomination statements will be published and candidates invited to answer questions publicly. The community is invited to participate. Please note changes from previous consultation phases:

• Editors may ask a maximum of two questions per candidate;
• Editors may comment on each candidate with a limit of 500 words, including replies to other editors. Discussion will be sectioned and monitored by the Arbitration Committee and the clerks;
• Please refrain from bolded votes, as this is a consultation and not a community consensus.

Comments may be posted on the candidates' subpages or submitted privately by email to arbcom-en-cwikimedia.org. Editors are encouraged to include a detailed rationale, supported by relevant links where appropriate.

Appointments: by 17 October

The committee will review community comments and other relevant factors, finalize an internal resolution, and publish the resulting appointments. Successful candidates are required to sign the Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information prior to receiving permissions. Oversighters and CheckUsers who intend to work the VRT paid editing queue must sign the VRT Users Confidentiality Agreement.

Candidates

To comment on candidates, please use section edit buttons to edit the appropriate candidate subpage(s).

CheckUser

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Oversight

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Results

The Arbitration Committee is pleased to welcome the following editors to the functionary team:

• Dreamy Jazz (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is appointed as a CheckUser and Oversighter.
• Ferret (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is appointed as a CheckUser.
• GeneralNotability (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is appointed as a CheckUser.
• Girth Summit (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is appointed as a CheckUser.
• LuK3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is appointed as an Oversighter.
• RoySmith (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is appointed as a CheckUser.

The committee thanks all members of the community who participated and helped bring this process to a successful conclusion.

Katie^talk 16:48, 14 October 2021 (UTC)