Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2015/Candidates/GorillaWarfare/Statement

GorillaWarfare

I'm Molly White, a 22-year-old American software developer. I've been a Wikipedian for over nine years, and an administrator for five of those. I have served a term on the Arbitration Committee from 2014–2015 and am putting myself up for re-election.

I have not been an uncontroversial arbitrator in the past two years. I certainly have made some mistakes during my tenure; I personally think my biggest shortcoming was my timidness to speak my mind when I thought something was wrong when I first took the position. I think many people will agree that I have overcome that. I realize that I've made a reputation for myself as a feminist and as someone who is willing to acknowledge and fight against the gender gap issue on Wikipedia. I think that making Wikipedia a welcoming and safe place for non-men to contribute will help the project immeasurably, and be beneficial to all editors regardless of gender. If you don't think that that is suitable for an arbitrator, I urge you not to vote for me.

This is a shorter statement than those put forward by many other candidates, but I think my actions over the past two years speak louder than my words. Please ask if you need any more information.

The only other active Wikipedia account I currently have access to is User:NEU-Molly, an account I used while helping a research laboratory at my school. I have not edited using that account since December 2013, and have no plans to return to working for that lab. I used to use User:GorillaWarfarePublic when editing on public computers, but no longer do. I also first started editing as User:Theunicyclegirl, but lost the password a year later. I have already signed the access to non-public data forms as an arbitrator, functionary, and OTRS volunteer.