User:TheresNoTime/SE2025
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Hello, my name is Sammy, and I've been editing Wikimedia projects since around 2008. I was previously a steward between 2018 and 2020, and then again briefly between 2022 and 2023. I am currently a global sysop, as well as a checkuser on the English Wikipedia.
As the result of an English Wikipedia ArbCom case in November 2022, I had both checkuser and oversighter rights removed for cause. In October 2024 I requested the restoration of my CheckUser permissions (via the normal application process) and was was successful.
During my 2023 steward confirmation, I failed to mention this incident nor loss of tools. I should have been transparent and upfront about my mistakes, and I apologise for falling short of the high standard of transparency the community expects of stewards.
In the time since this incident, I've reflected heavily on my actions and behaviour during the ArbCom case, culminating in an apology I posted on the English Wikipedia's administrator noticeboard in May 2023.
This incident is a blot on what I otherwise hope can be agreed to be a good record of stewardship — as many kindly pointed out in my successful 2019 confirmation, I committed significant time to reducing SRG's backlog and being responsive on IRC. Although the loss of permissions, and resultant inability to help in the ways I had gotten used to/enjoyed, has significantly impacted my local and global activity, I have maintained some activity helping out as a global sysop (SRGR).
If re-elected, I can again offer the steward team my technical knowledge, previous experience with the tools, familiarity with global policy and a good chunk of my free time. I know I messed up, but I can unequivocally say that such an incident will not happen again. I am sorry, and hope that the community can see fit to give me a second chance to do the work that I enjoy and do well.
Disclaimer: I work for the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer within the Community Tech team. I am also a member of the Wikimedia UK board of trustees.