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Cla68

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Cla68 (talk · contribs) - Since joining Misplaced Pages over a year ago, Cla68 has done a lot of work on the Pacific War. He's responsible for raising a number of articles to FA status. I've also seen him dealing with vandalism and POV-pushing. I believe he'd make a good administrator. —wwoods 14:13, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I accept the nomination. Cla68 23:23, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

A little about my contributions to the project...I've been the primary editor on 10 Featured Articles (FA) (I have another one currently in the nomination process). I've started around 30 articles, mostly about military history events or biographies. My edit count is about 4,300 in mainspace.

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A: Basically any area that needs administrator attention, especially if an issue hasn't been responded to on any of the administrator noticeboards. I monitor the Administrator Noticeboard and Incidents pages and notice that not every question or concern gets answered, even a "no administrator action required" response. I hope to help respond to more editor concerns or questions. I'd also plan to monitor the "speedy delete" (both article and image) and AIV pages to help keep things moving. I "watch" a lot of pages, mainly military history, martial arts, or Japan related, some of which go through phases of high-vandalism, and would semi-protect when necessary.

One area of special concern to me is Eric Goldman's prediction that spammers, in his opinion, will eventually "overwhelm" Misplaced Pages's administration and destroy the credibility of the project. So far that doesn't seem to be happening, in large part due to aggressive monitoring and action by administrators to prevent it. I would hope to participate in this effort also. Cla68 23:58, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

2. Of your articles or contributions to Misplaced Pages, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A: Of the FA's that I've been heavily involved with, I'm probably most proud of Operation Ten-Go, Battle of Savo Island, Battle of the Eastern Solomons, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, and Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. I'm also proud to have assisted other editors in taking their articles to FA by copyediting or giving advice, including Ohio Wesleyan University and Aleksandr Vasilevsky. In addition, I participate in peer reviews and "A" class article reviews in the Military History Project.

I've helped resolve a couple of edit/content disputes, the one I'm most "pleased" about concerned a section in the Japanese war crimes article: . I've also helped improve articles by adding infoboxes, reference lists, adding images, and creating campaignboxes. I've started several image galleries of related graphics in the Commons and added Commons links to those galleries to the related articles, more than I can list here. I've created one category for friendly fire. I reorganized the section headings in the Kyokushin article (which was really a mess before) and have happily watched as other editors have filled in the necessary information and have turned the article into something much better than it was.Cla68 01:26, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

A: I've tackled what I've observed to be POV-pushing in many articles and this has led to some confrontations with other editors, particularly in: Global Warming, Gary Weiss (most of the comments in this dispute were permanently deleted by Mr. Wales, among others), Allied war crimes, Japanese war crimes, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Masutatsu Oyama, among others. Over time I believe I've become better at reasoning with other editors without getting too heated, even when the other editor in the dispute tries to bait or incite a pejorative response. I'll usually state my position and reasoning on the talk page or edit summary and boldly make the change. If it starts to turn into a edit war now I'll usually just leave and come back and try again later. I believe that most of the articles I list above are now more neutral than they used to be, I hope in part due to my efforts. Cla68 03:10, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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