User talk:Evilphoenix/Dontknow

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[edit] ArbCom

Are you sure that not knowing somebody is a fair reason for opposing them? An oppose vote is really saying 'this person is in my eyes not up to the job'.

My feeling is that if I have not encountered your name in the several months that I have been on here, I personally don't know that you are a frequent enough contributor to understand policy and interact with users enough to be an Arbitrator.

That's what the User Contributions history is for. --kingboyk 09:59, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I have been on Wikipedia for more than one year now; and have done a bunch of edits also. There are some people who are very likely to become arbitrators, whom I never heard of. But that's more my fault than theirs. You know, Wikipedia is so big compared to me, and its interests so much more varied than mine, that what I saw on Wikipedia is not a representative sample of what is on Wikipedia. Not by any measure.

As such, of course you may vote as you please, but the right thing to do is to not vote at all when you don't have any information. Doing anything else is just like voting randomly.

You can reply here if you have any comments. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 18:57, 21 January 2006 (UTC)