Well, the way it is supposed to work is that the scrutineers are power users from projects other than en.wp, usually stewards, and therefore don't really care about the outcome. This years group is three stewards, Superpes15, Mykola7 and Martin Urbanec. I don't have any real read on any of them except knowing that Martin has been around forever.
Hi ElectCom / scrutineers! I was wondering whether you had any updates for us on how the scrutineering process is going, and/or when we might expect results to be available? I realise that scrutineering is a tedious, thankless task and I have nothing but gratitude for the stewards who do this for a community that isn't even 'theirs' - I am in no way pressuring or rushing you fine folk. An update of "yeah it's gonna be another few days" would just allow us all to 'reconvene' then and forget about it in the interim. Thank you!
firefly ( t · c ) 09:23, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
Hmm, I wonder why Martin Urbanec might be feeling a little like he's not a part of the gang?
No, wait, now I remember....
https://wikipediasucks.co/forum/viewtop ... =19&t=3123
One of Wikipedia's so called finest Administrators absolutely unloaded on Martin, breaking multiple policies and probably a few anti-discrimination/harassment laws too, even though Martin had done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG.
It was a vicious and sustained attack, clearly not an isolated temper tantrum, and clearly coming from a very dark place. Pure hatred. But there was absolutely no sense Cullen could or would be blocked to stop him in his tracks and protect Martin. He wasn't even actually warned. And he got away with merely issuing a single apology for the "nasty tone", implying there was only even one problematic post, while "standing by" the substance of his (completely erroneous) complaints.
Martin had been doing his JOB, implementing features the COMMUNITY ASKED FOR, features aimed at ensuring newcomers are more likely to stay, with it being well established Wikipedia has a toxicity problem.
There wasn't even a hint that Cullen's theoretical bosses, the Holy Arbcom, were even made aware of his disgusting behaviour, let alone asked to file a case to determine if there is a pattern here (there totally is).
Instead, thanks to the power shift of FRAMGATE, Martin felt obliged to apologise to Cullen for having upset him.
It was absolutely disgusting to see. I felt truly bad for Martin, and I am not known for my empathy for anyone involved with Wikipedia.
So hopefully this is part of the reason Martin hasn't felt obliged to go the extra mile to help the "community" of that toxic shithole elect the next batch of no-marks who will stand so idly by as their supposed best of them show why Wikipedia is such a fucking joke.
Cullen is a an absolute scumbag. How a man like that hasn't been kicked to death in a back alley before reaching his twilight years, is beyond me.