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Gregory Kohs (Arise Sir Loin of Beef)

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Gregory Kohs, 2007.

Personal:
- Name: Gregory Kohs
- Age: 39
- Location: Pennsylvania
- Languages: English, German

Editorial:
- Wikimedian since: March 2005 (User:Thekohser and User:Arise Sir Loin of Beef)
- Active wikis: en.wikiquote, en.wikipedia, meta.wikimedia

Statement

My candidacy is a referendum for several important principles.

Commercial support activity in concert with open-source free content is natural and beneficial.
Wikipedia is doing too much harm with biographies to people who have never had a paper biography written about them.
The leadership of the Foundation Board and the Executive Staff of Wikimedia is crippling Wikipedia by failing to take due care and responsibility for the project.

These issues affect the Foundation now on a daily basis, and they are destroying at least the English Wikipedia from within. I would challenge the board that acts as steward of the Foundation, and all of its projects, to assume more professional responsibility for the care and management of its flagship project.

Hello Greg. Is there a template for candidates to use (or is that it above?) When is the deadline for submiting? Good straightforward description of issues you support. I suppose I should check information on WMF site, but thought I would stop by here first. GlassBeadGame 19:24, 15 May 2008 (PDT)

See this page meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Candidates/Submissions for the current nominees.

Time line:

01–31 May 2008: primary translation phase; subcommittee actively coordinates and promotes translation.

08–22 May 2008: candidate submissions.

29 May 2008: deadline to send proof of identity (late or missing submissions will be disqualified).

01–21 June 2008: elections.

22–23 June 2008: vote-checking.

26 June 2008: publication of results.