Guild Wars Wiki talk:Elections/2007-06 bureaucrat election/Xeeron

With tanaric standing, I have the hunch that this election might have a clear winner, but nevertheless, more choice is surely better and I guess I do differ from Tanaric in some of my views and characteristics, so I'll accept the nomination. Btw, I noticed that you used just 3 words, so I'll have to come up with some neutral descriptive text as well Rezyk, don't punish me to hard for demanding that mission statement ;-) --Xeeron 23:47, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm expecting an awesome statement now. -- Lemming64 00:07, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
 * lol, should have seen it comming. Hope you like it, I tried my best. --Xeeron 00:16, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry; I would have written something deeper, but really just have too much stuff to do. Feel free to second the nomination with something nice and poetic, anybody. =) --Rezyk 00:36, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Xeeron's mission statement
In terms of content policy, I support a very wide range of content on the wiki. That is, I would favor non-restrictive policies on user pages, guilds, builds and legacy content. Basically for me, as long as it does not disrupt other content on the wiki in any way, it should not be disallowed hastily. Especially the "social side" of the wiki, which is happening on user and user talk pages is something I would love to see flourish.

Regarding wiki formatting, I freely admit that I am not a coding pro. Maybe for that reason, but also to make it easy for now editors to start contributing, having an easy to use wiki is a prime concern for me. Templates can both be a curse and a blessing there. A curse if they hinder new editors with their complexity, a blessing if they reduce formatting code and are well documented.

When it comes to sysops (not bureaucrats) powers, I hope for a policy that makes the process of becoming sysop reasonably hard, but allows sysops to have a certain flexibility when making their decisions. Not every eventuality can be foreseen and set into policy, that is why we should chose individuals whom we trust to make the right decisions when they encounter a situation which is not covered by policy. Bureaucrats on the other hand should be a measure of last resort which will hopefully rarely be needed, stepping in only asked to because sysop action has been controversial.

Lastly a few words about myself. I have been an editor on guildwiki for a long time, but stopped contributing there a few months before guild wars wiki started up, because I substantially disagreed with the lack of transparency and communication by Gravewit. Once guild wars wiki came around, I joined in from the start hoping this to be a place that carries over all what made guildwiki good, but tweaking those parts which did not work out well there. I played Guildwars since beta and still play both PvP and PvE regularly.

I am usually outspoken, not afraid to tell people when they are wrong, even if they might not like to hear that. In discussions, I will resist social pressure and argue my point, but I am always open to rational arguments and there is a good chance you will get me to change my mind if you have good reasoning to back your position up. Building of networks and all kinds of "court politics" is one of my weaknesses. I tend to view everyone as basically positive every time we meet, even if there is strong evidence to suspect otherwise. So you might describe my social competence at somewhat lacking, but I feel that I make partly up for that by being a very fair minded person. I will never ever pre-judge a person and give everyone a fair chance. --Xeeron 00:14, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Questions
Some optional questions from myself to the candidate: --Rezyk 18:13, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Are you willing to disclose your email address publicly, if elected?
 * 2) How often and for how long do you expect that you might be "away from wiki" for a few days or more, over the elected term?
 * Yes.
 * I expect my wiki presence to continue along the same pattern I had in the last months. That is a few weeks of holidays per year, during the rest I expect to be on the wiki every day in 98% of the cases. --Xeeron 20:23, 11 June 2007 (UTC)