The Arbitration Committee elections are coming along, and the candidates are putting up statements already:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_Decem...

All the candidates so far are good editors and sincere candidates, which is nice - Lir, Plautus, MARMOT and Enviroknot haven't thrown their hats into the ring. But I think we need some more.

I was more or less drafted onto the AC - people saying "X is running. Could you please run so we have someone to vote for." What I want you reading this to do is to look at the above page, think of who *should* be running and isn't, and ask them to. That's all. (And there are a few I'll be approaching ...)

Also, consider yourself in the job. Necessary attributes are significant clue about the Wikipedia community, a level head, unflappability and a skin like a rhinoceros.

- d.