Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Coordinators/Election 2

Overview

The project coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers.

The Lead Coordinator bears overall responsibility for coordinating the project; the Coordinators aid the Lead Coordinator and focus on specific areas that require special attention.

Responsibilities

From Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Coordinators:

The primary responsibility of the project coordinators is the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth. There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course—in only a few places have the coordinators been explicitly written into a process—but, since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.

The coordinators also have several additional roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. They also try to regularly contribute to other areas of wikipedia involving Christianity-related articles, looking out in particular for reviews which require additional voices. In addition, they have highly informal roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to informally resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive. The coordinators are not, however, a body for formal dispute resolution; serious disputes should be addressed through the normal dispute resolution process.

Some more specific examples of day-to-day coordinator work can be found here.

Incumbents

Name	Position	Standing for re-election?
John Carter (talk · contribs)	Lead
Secisek (talk · contribs)	Coordinator	retired
Tinucherian (talk · contribs)	Coordinator

More information on the history of the coordinator positions can be found here.

Election process

• The nominations period is currently open for the remainder of the current month, starting at 00:01 (UTC) on August 5 and ending at 23:59 (UTC) on August 31. However, if the candidate pool does not exceed the number of open positions (7) by at least 5 nominations by the end of the nominations period, then nominations will be allowed through to the end of the voting period.

• Any member of the project may nominate themselves for a position by adding their statement in the "Candidates" section below by the start of the election. The following boilerplate can be used:

=== Name ===

{{user|Name}}
: Statement goes here...

==== Comments and questions for Name ====

* ''What have been the achievements of which you are most proud within WikiProject Christianity?''
** Response goes here...
* ''What skills/qualities can you contribute as a Christianity coordinator?''
** Response goes here...

==== Votes in support of Name ====

#

• The election will be conducted using simple approval voting. Any member of the project may support as many of the candidates as they wish. The candidate with the highest number of endorsements will become the Lead Coordinator (provided he or she is willing to assume the post); the next six candidates will become Coordinators. The number of Coordinators may be increased if there is a tie or near-tie for the last position.

• Both project members and interested outside parties are encouraged to ask questions of the nominees or make general comments.

Candidates

John Carter

John Carter (talk · contribs)

I remember having heard about several Catholic Popes who, when finding out they were being considered as candidates for the job, basically said, "Please, God, not me." Although this is nowhere near as important a position, I can somewhat understand the feeling. We've managed to do a good deal to try to bring the various Christianity projects together, but we are by no means even close to being where I would like us to be. I will try to do what I can to help the project be more effective.

Comments and questions for John Carter

• What have been the achievements of which you are most proud within WikiProject Christianity?
  • Helping to bring together the various Christianity projects at least a little.
• What skills/qualities can you contribute as a Christianity coordinator?
  • This is hard to answer, because I'm not the best person to objectively view myself, and the workload has been kind of heavy lately. I will try to do what I can to help the projects be functional, and that's about all I can do.

Votes in support of John Carter

1. NBeale (talk) 21:33, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
2. Sure. JamieS93 16:33, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
3. Strongest possible Support -- Tinu Cherian - 10:35, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

NBeale

NBeale (talk · contribs)

I certainly do not want to take over from John but would be very happy to assist. I'm an Anglo-catholic evangelical social philosopher with a pretty strong background in science and religion.

Comments and questions for NBeale

• What have been the achievements of which you are most proud within WikiProject Christianity?
  • I've done a fair bit of work on biographies of Christian thinkers and on Christian books.
• What skills/qualities can you contribute as a Christianity coordinator?
  • Fairly extensive experience of international collaborations from IEEE 802 in the 1980s to the present. Only limited time but happy to help out. NBeale (talk) 21:34, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Votes in support of NBeale

1. John Carter (talk) 17:42, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
2. Sure. -- Tinu Cherian - 10:36, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Votes against NBeale

1. I should preface this with a caveat: I am not a member of this WikiProject and don't really work on any related articles, and the future of this project is no skin off my back. But I noticed this page when dealing with User:NBeale, who seems to me to be a very disruptive user and barely deserves to be a member of the Wikipedia community, much less a project coordinator. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicholas Beale (3rd nomination) for more background; basically NBeale has repeatedly engaged in COI editing by working on pages about himself and his work, and recently has been insisting that I re-create the deleted article about him. He has engaged in off-wiki canvassing. When given a standard, neutral notice about edit warring (on an unrelated article) he responded by waving the "personal attack" card and misinterpreting edit warring policy; overall, through my brief interactions with this user, it has been clear that he does not have a good understanding of Wikipedia policy or of the collaborative nature of this project. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 22:10, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Comment At the risk of stating the obvious, this new-ish user/Admin seems to have some kind of feud with me. He deleted an article about me that some new editor had posted within 5 minutes of its creation, in clear violation of Wikipedia policy. When this was drawn to my attention I complained, and eventually he gave in but then manipulated an AfD debate so that it was closed within 1h15m by giving a misleading summary and then inviting all those who had previously voted in an AfD discussion to delete a separate article about me to pile in. As for COI - I do edit about people I know, and have worked on Questions of Truth in collaboration with other editors, but always from NPOV which is perfectly allowed. I guess we must expect a certain level of hostility as Christians, and not let this put us off. NBeale (talk) 09:09, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Tinucherian

Tinucherian (talk · contribs)

I certainly have nothing to pride as the efforts of John, but I had helped the project in humble ways I could earlier. I was active at the WikiProject sometime ago, sharing the coordinator burden with John. I've created a few workgroups like Christianity in India Work Group and portal like Portal:Indian Christianity. WikiProject Advocacy and welcoming new members were something I did passionately. I operate a bot that delivers newsletters of the project. I am happy to get back to WikiProject Christianity..

Comments and questions for Tinucherian

• What have been the achievements of which you are most proud within WikiProject Christianity?
  • Being part of this project is itself something to be proud of..
• What skills/qualities can you contribute as a Christianity coordinator?
  • Leaving this question to be answered by all of you..

Votes in support of Tinucherian

1. It's great to have such a global team in the making. I think John is based in the US, I'm in London (mostly) so we need someone from Africa and S America please! NBeale (talk) 11:33, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Results

To be determined.

General comments

Please make any general comments not related to one of the candidates on the talk page.