User:Gerda Arendt/ACE 2023

This will NOT be a voters' guide, just my private quick evaluation, looking at the candidates' answers to my questions, and how I saw them previously (Precious, when (by number), for what (by header)).

My question:

I love to sing the music of Mozart and Pärt, Requiem and Da pacem Domine. What does the RfC about an infobox for Mozart tell you regarding WP:CT infoboxes, and can you offer ideas towards peace?

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:16, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

I did not want to ask over Thanksgiving ;) - Asking all now. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:11, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Answers

The second column has the days of nomination and answer. The third column has a link to the page with the answers, with the question number, such as q8 for the eighth question for the candidate. (Different from previous years, I can't link directly to it.)

As of today, all candidates won my neutral but not more. Arbitrators have failed to look at details in the past (check out 2013, 2014, 2020, and 2022), and I want new ones to do it. Views such as "entrenched positions" and "dislike all infoboxes" are similarly too general. We need to look at which infoboxes cause conflict, while infoboxes are found helpful almost projectwide, and why. Today is the centenary of Maria Callas, and the anniversary of death of Aaron Copland. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:26, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Candidate	days	answers	Precious No. · reason	experience
ToBeFree	12 Nov - 24	q10: Without a community-wide, documented and clear consensus about the inclusion of infoboxes, there likely won't be peace in this area.	1975 · fighting vandalism	admin 2019, arb clerk
Firefly	12 Nov - 25	q10: It appears that we have reached "peace".	2717 · support	admin, arb clerk, checkuser
Aoidh	13 Nov - 24	q8: What that RfC specifically tells me is that the subject of infoboxes is in no way a settled debate on Wikipedia.	2828 · leafy Georgia environment	admin
Z1720	13 Nov - 24	q8: I think the RfC was the correct way to maintain peace in this topic area.	1174 · French-English dance	admin
Maxim	16 Nov - 25	q9: It appears that we have less infobox chaos than before. 2020 answer	1196 · ice hockey players	admin, arb, crat
HJ Mitchell	18 Nov - 25	q10: As for peace, I don't think we'll get that short of a sitewide consensus determining the criteria for an article to have an infobox.	280 · historic events and people	admin
Sdrqaz	19 Nov - 25	q8: The Mozart discussion seemed better-tempered than the Laurence Olivier one that you asked me about last year. 2022 answer	2727 · stop disruption through discussion	admin
Cabayi	19 Nov - 26	q7: It looks like a reasonable discussion of the matter in hand with no user conduct issues to trouble me. 2021 answer	2894 · renamer	admin, arb
Robert McClenon	21 Nov - 25	q10: Infobox cases continue to divide the community, which is illustrated by the opposition of some editors to an infobox for one of the greatest classical composers. ... Maybe editors should listen to music when angry rather than editing when angry. 2022 answer	1409 · belief in logic	mediator
Wugapodes	21 Nov - 25	q9: My sense, having read through a fair number of infobox RfCs, is that there are two camps that are relatively set in their opinions on infoboxes and when an RfC happens there tends to be an influx of editors who are more pragmatic in their decisions. (draft) 2021 answer	1513 · dialogues, linguistic and legal	admin, arb

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