Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2024/Candidates/Elli/Statement

Elli

Hello everyone, I'm Elli(e). I've been an active editor since 2021, a member of the volunteer response team, and an administrator for a few months.

After talking to a few current and former arbitrators at WikiConference North America both last year and this year, I've become interested in serving on ArbCom. I like resolving disputes, and believe I can bring a fair and compassionate approach towards cases. I care a lot about both civility and editor retention, and do what I can to help people stick around. This goes both ways: we can't have toxic people driving others off the site, but we should also allow people to demonstrate improvement (much of my work recently has been with unblock requests). ArbCom has a primary role in dealing with complex and long-running disputes that the community struggles with, and I'd like to help out with that.

I'd also like to help out with the generally large workload that ArbCom deals with. I have a decent amount of free time, and knowing myself, would be unlikely to lose motivation for the type of work that ArbCom handles. Given the relatively low enthusiasm for this year's elections, I feel like I could be quite useful to the community in this role. While I'm less experienced than some other candidates with the specifics of what ArbCom deals with (I've never been a participant in a case, for example), I'm a fast learner and believe that having a bit of an outsider's perspective could be helpful for making the committee's work more accessible.

I'm over 18, my alternative accounts are disclosed on my userpage (pl), and I will sign the ANPDP.