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BrendelSignature

Voice your opinion (31/0/0); Scheduled to end 19:25, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

I am pleased to present BrendelSignature (talk · contribs) for your consideration. BrendelSignature has been a Wikipedian since November 2005 and has made over 14,000 edits since joining up. Before adopting his current user name, he edited under the name Gerdbrendel. As far as I am aware, he has never been blocked or otherwise harshly scolded.

According to his user page, BrendelSignature has an impressive array of articles to his credit, including at least five good articles. He contributes to a wide range of articles, but focuses on subjects related to political science, sociology, economics, world affairs, and luxury automobiles (didn't see that one coming, did you?). His contributions demonstrate a high level of intelligence and education.

My interaction with BrendelSignature has been only positive. I witnessed BrendelSignature withstand, quite admirably, vicious attacks on his ethnicity at the AFD for the American (ethnic group) article. Despite the long-winded attacks, BrendelSingature continued to respond with calm, reason, and and intelligent explanation with reference to guidelines and policy. BrendelSignature has a substantial number of project space edits. He appears to have the grasp of policy an administrator needs.

Clearly, Brendel has demonstrated that he would not abuse the extra tools available to administrators and would, in fact, be an even greater asset to the community with the tools than he is already. · jersyko talk 00:50, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I accept the nomination. Signature 04:28, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I believe in Misplaced Pages's mission. To provide a free, easy to navigate and use reference source available to nearly everyone. I have written several articles and have published my complete edit history on my user page. No, the statistics on my user page are not a case of "editcountities." They are there because I believe in transparency. If a user would like to see a summary of my contributions - to get an idea of what it is I do around here - he or she can simply visit my user page. As an administrator I will strive to preserve the integrity of Misplaced Pages through enforcing the civility guidelines and keeping an eye out for vandals who threaten our credibility as a resource.

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages as an administrator. You may wish to answer the following optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?

A:

The civility notice board. I have withstood and seen several personal attacks. From personal experience I have seen how long the backlog on the civility notice board can be. Misplaced Pages as an encyclopedia needs to protect its editors from uncivil remarks. It is essential for the health of this institution that uncivil behavior is dealt with quickly.

I also intent to keep the vandalism notice board on close watch. Vandalism poses a severe threat to the credibility of Misplaced Pages. As someone who has put extensive effort into writing credible articles, I have a strong interest in seeing Misplaced Pages's credibility as a reference source maintain and improved.

2. What are your best contributions to Misplaced Pages, and why?

A:

My best contributions are undoubtedly the articles I have written pertaining to socio-economics in the United States. I am most proud of my articles on Household income in the United States, Affluence in the United States, Average Joe, American middle class and other related articles. I have also re-written the economy section of the United States article which I check regularly for vandalism, OR and POV. My aim is to provide the public with information pertaining to areas of expertise. My articles, especially those that have been recognized as Good Articles, accomplish this mission- they educate and inform those who come here to seek knowledge. Furthermore, all information and all statements in these articles are referenced through college textbook, government data and authoritative periodical articles. Not only do these references ensure that the reader is provided with the best information possible, these articles also improve the credibility of Misplaced Pages. They show how well-researched and trustworthy Misplaced Pages articles can be. For the reason why I joined Misplaced Pages, please see the mission statement on my user page.

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:

Yes, I have had several experiences with users who have lost their temper or have been relentlessly trying to force a certain point of view on an article. Jersyko has mentioned a long conflict I was involved in with Eponyme. This user created an article entitled the "American people." Instead of discussing the diverse population of the United States, however, he had create an OR article that discussed those whom he consider to be "real Americans"- that is those descendent from colonial settlers. After explaining to him that his article was using the term "American" in an OR manner (applying it only to the Daughters of the Revolution), he quickly lost his temper, resorting to personal attacks and profane statements. I continued to reason with him, while starting an RfC and reporting him to the civility notice board. He was finally blocked for incivility.

3a. ...the second part of the question asks "and how will you deal with it in the future?" What if the other party is civil? Question submitted by VK35 21:11, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

General comments

• See BrendelSignature's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.
• Links for BrendelSignature: BrendelSignature (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)

Please keep criticism constructive and polite. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/BrendelSignature before commenting.

Discussion

Support

1. Support as nominator. · jersyko talk 19:15, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
2. Support Been here around for a long time, 5 GA's, knows policy well, won't abuse the tools. Why not, anyways? Evilclown93 19:29, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
3. Support Adminship is no big deal. T_{Talk to me} 19:30, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
4. Support Having worked with this editor on a number of articles I consider that he has sound judgement and ample common sense, all combined with a firm grasp of policy. I have no doubt that he will prove to be an excellent admin. --Xdamr 19:53, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
5. Support Great contributor, responsible and always helpful. -- zzuuzz 20:00, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
6. Support: Excellent amount of experience, and editor seems responisble and trustworthy. I would like to see a little better edit summary usage, but I can't see anything else wrong other than that.  Orfen  | _Contribs 20:12, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
7. Support Just set your edit summaries to be forced in your user preferences and that should remove that obstacle in future. I see no problems with your contributions and I don't believe that the project would be harmed by you being granted the admin tools. (aeropagitica) 20:39, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

   I have adjusted my preferences, thank you! Signature 20:49, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

8. Support Yeah, seems like it would be a nice fit. Jmlk17 21:14, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
9. Strong Support As far as I can tell, he will and even better help to Misplaced Pages given admin tools. He uses edit summaries conistently (except for when he started, but hey. We all did that.) He has made significant contributions to United States socioeconomic articles, which were sorely needed. Neranei 21:17, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
10. Support I dig admins with editing experience. the_undertow 22:10, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
11. Support This user meets my standards. --Random 22:37, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
12. Support I don't see anything wrong with this user. Nishkid64 (talk) 23:19, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
13. -- Y not? 15:37, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
14. Support - Concerns in the neutral section are not serious enough to merit an oppose. Adminship is no big deal. Walton 15:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
15. Support rock on --Infrangible 17:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
16. Support John254 18:10, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
17. Support--Agεθ020 (ΔT • ФC) 19:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
18. Support. Probably would have co-nominated the BS-man (haha - I just made that up!) if I knew how to do so. Really appreciate his contributions to automobile related articles. These sometimes become a hotbed of conflict, especially when new models and concept cars come out and get kicked around; and also when well-intentioned editors go around snapping horribly-composed images of assorted cars they found in a local parking lot and just had to replace well established images, or litter the articles with more. Need another admin or two in there keeping an eye on things, to try to clarify the rules of engagement and encourage consensus. --T-dot (Talk | contribs) 21:09, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
19. Support seems to be a reasonable and pragmatic guy on article talk pages, which is a fine trait in prospective admins, and no problems pointed out so far in this RFA. See no reason not to support. --W.marsh 00:53, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
20. Support good person that I think will be a good admin. Captain panda 04:01, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
21. Support qualified for adminship, good article work, nice activity, no concerns. —Anas 13:58, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
22. Rettetast 19:32, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
23. It doesn't appear that the canadate will abuse the tools.--U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. 02:49, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
24. Support - a pretty good choice I reckon..----Cometstyles 05:37, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
25. Support - will be ok. cheers, Cas Liber | talk | contribs 10:13, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
26. PeaceNT 11:27, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
27. Support Seems like a good editor. I like the answers the standard Qs, feel the concerns raised in the neutral section were addressed and haven't seen anything of concern while looking through the (extensive) contribution history. --Seed 2.0 16:05, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
28. Support from Neutral I am satisfied that Brendel doesn't make it a habit to use stats as a bat. The extent of your work, both in quantity and quality is impressive. JodyB _talk 18:01, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
29. I'm Mailer Diablo and I approve this message! - 18:33, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
30. Support A fine user, from what I can see here. Acalamari 23:19, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
31. Support Have seen good work from this user, and trust them with the tools. --Aude (talk) 14:13, 16 May 2007 (UTC)