Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2019/Candidates/KrakatoaKatie

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I will support[edit]

I checked the voter guides of the users whose opinion I care about, and most of them are skeptical. I am probably not going to support 11 candidates, staying in the range 5-6, but here I have a strong opinion. Katie is coming straight from ArbCom which had a relatively difficult year. And while some other arbs were making political statements, going semi-active or completely inactive long-term, or even vanishing, she was just doing the job. Well, just wading through the piles of diffs, reading piles of statements, and slowly drafting the decisions. There are some decisions she signed I do not agree with, or I do not particularly like, but this is fine with me, I do not expect to get an ArbCom making decisions I 100% agree with. However, mostly I agree with them, and I thing they had a lot of clue. And I am clearly going to support.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:29, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I will support[edit]

...this thoughtful, experienced, trustworthy candidate. But even if I knew nothing at all about her other than that she was generally well-intentioned, I'd still support. As there is only one other woman currently on arbcom, we could literally end up with no women at all on the committee. That's not a great idea when the committee is going to be considering harassment issues. I don't mind having the committee be mostly men; WP is mostly men. But I don't think we can risk that arbcom might actually become all men, if for no other reason than I don't think other committee members want to be looking at such cases with zero input from a woman committee member. --valereee (talk) 16:45, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]