Oldak Quill wrote:
PS : is it a good idea to have a user named ombudsman ?
I don't think the name "User:Ombudsman" instantly strikes someone as an official position. In Britain, the position "Ombudsman" tends to be reserved as a governmental complaints mechanism and watchdog on trading standards and banking.
An alternative usage for this term that I've seen is for somebody who offers legal advise, often free or pro-bono, to members of a community or organization. Usually this is something that is often topic-specific, for example this use here:
where the U.S. Dept. of Education has a legal team to help cut through the red tape on student loan and aid programs for U.S. citizens.
I think something like this would be useful to help cut through the red tape of copyright and trademark issues that keep coming up for Wikimedia projects. The problem here would be who would be willing to serve in this capacity. And this is also something that simply should not be elected, as you would have specific legal qualification that would be necessary to do something like this effectively.
This, I admit, is also a completely different kind of a position than the one originally suggested by Angela and worthy of a seperate thread, having nothing to do with the checkuser issue.