Debating whether I should toss my hat (and let my hair loss show) into the ArbCom election. 

I don't know. I'd like to think I could handle ArbCom duties. I know I could handle the stress. (formerly a debt collector, tech support, and competition admin) Thoughts from the page lurkers and Sandy?  ( Ding my phone My support calls E-Support Options ) 
Choice is always good. I cannae' say much else, for I'm a candidate and I know not what might deeds you have committed to honor us on the plains of battle, but... dropping the Viking parlance now... More candidates means more choice and more potential opinions and backgrounds to compose the ArbCom. If you've got the time and think you'd be able to handle it, screw ye courage to the sticking place ) (talk) 
Isn't there a requirement for at least 1,000 mainspace edits?   
Indeed. The requirements are located on this page.  (Talk) 
I did more article talk edits than article edits themselves. Source hunting, etc. My prose style tends to be a bit too... short and sweet for a quality article.  ( Ding my phone My support calls E-Support Options ) 

Copyvios on MP again

G'day SandyGeorgia. I thought you might be interested that I pulled an article from the main page today (T:ITN) that was a copyvio from start to finish: 2010 Colombia floods. It had been up for days and the copyvios were then when it was posted. I've been on wikibreak for a while so I haven't been able to follow what happened with the big "plagiarism on the main page" discussion. I thought you might be interested as I recall you were one of the main drivers of that discussion. If it's still ongoing, I'd be happy to join in. I've written a little rant/essay on the bottom of my userpage about my frustrations with the lack of main page scrutiny.  
 Hi, Mk I've also taken a few days off, and am ever-so-slowly catching up; starting at the bottom of the page is as good a place as any!  I actually did not intend to become a "main driver" of the plagiarism discussion, nor did I intend to become "Plagiarism Central", but alas and alack, so it has turned out )  What fueled that whole thing was me trying to discover how the "reward culture" on Wiki was fueling plagiarism and copyvio at DYK to feed ill-prepared RFA candidates, and I never expected the problem to turn out to be as big as it has.  Anyway, I think we can summarize what has happened with that discussion as 1) slightly more awareness of plagiarism and copyvio on Wiki; 2) much more work for our few qualified copyvio people; 3) little change that I've been able to detect at DYK or ITN (but I don't follow closely enough); 4) circling of the wagons curiously in defense of copyvio by some ArbCom members and some extremely distasteful commentary coming from some arbs; and 5) curiously, even some resistance at FAC to tightening procedures to detect copyvio, with a second copyvio getting through FAC only a week after the Halloween mainpage debacle.   On the copyvio you detected above, I'm not certain you handled it correctly by stubbifying the article, rather than adding the  tag and alerting the copyvio people, you don't allow them to 1) look for other copyvios by the same author, 2) educate that author, and 3) remove the copyvio from article history.  You might want to go through those steps as well.   As to the lack of mainpage scrutiny, I 'spose it will take time, a few more debacles, and a few less unprofessional arbs before the issue is taken seriously.   (Talk)