Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Candidates/Hawkeye7/Statement

Hawkeye7

I have been a Wikipedia editor for over ten years, with more than 100,000 edits. I have contributed to 82 Featured Articles, 3 featured lists, 128 A class articles, and 310 Good Articles. I have been active as a Military History Project coordinator, being re-elected to a seventh term in September 2019. In this capacity I have assessed articles, closed A class reviews, and occasional written opinion pieces and book reviews for our monthly newsletter, The Bugle. I assist at DYK with reviews and have been involved in the assembly of the prep areas from time to time. I was runner up in the WikiCup in 2013, Military History Project Military Historian of the Year in 2012, and runner-up in 2014 and 2016.

I have been involved with GLAM work with the Australian Paralympic Committee. I was instructor in four Wikimedia Australia workshops, and an accredited Wikimedia media representative at the Paralympic Games in London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Since then I have continued expanding the Paralympic articles, particularly relating to wheelchair basketball. I have travelled around Australia, and to Thailand, China, Germany, the United States and Canada covering Paralympic sports. I attended Wikimania in Hong Kong in 2013 and Esino Laurio in 2016 on scholarships from the Wikimedia Foundation.

I hope that I can provide a voice for content creators on the Arbitration Committee.

I have never been blocked or banned. Which brings us to the elephant in the room: I was desysopped for cause ten years ago. So I know what it is like to be on the losing end of an ArbCom case. I blocked an editor after taking this as a personal attack, oblivious of the wider implications. In the decade since then I have attempted mend fences, and nearly all the members of ArbCom at the time voted for me at an unsuccessful RfA. So I am not an admin, but I strongly believe that ArbCom would be enhanced by the presence of at least one non-admin.

I confirm that I will comply fully with the criteria for access to non-public data. I have never edited under another account, but in addition to my main account, I have written and maintained two registered bots, the FACBot, which is used by the featured article process, and the MilHistBot for performing various administrative tasks related to the Military History Project. I also created a third bot account, AussieBot, which has never been used.

Arbitration Committee Election 2020 candidate: Hawkeye7