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Michaelbusch

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Michaelbusch (talk · contribs) - After due consideration, I am nominating myself Michaelbusch 04:45, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

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

A: I expect that the dominant form of admin work I would do would be the various forms of fighting vandalism - there are very obviously too few admins for the task. Uses of admin powers here are, in decreasing order: removing speedy-deletion-tagged pages, blocking accounts that continue to vandalize past warnings, checking for evidence of sockpuppetry, and protecting pages from repeated vandalism. Beyond this, I also expect to be involved with 3RR violations - through the experience of breaking that particular rule, I think I now understand its importance.

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

A: I've been active on Misplaced Pages in three major areas: astronomy, physics, and planetary science, where I have some knowledge and have been able to improve or at least maintain the quality of the relevant articles; removing pseudoscience - although my editing has at times been disputed, I think I have helped the content of Crop circle and What the Bleep Do We Know!?, among others; and removing vandalism. In the last, I have slowly learned the limits of acceptable behavior and the appropriate action against violations. I also was pleasantly surprised to receive a barnstar for edits to Gold standard, after what I thought was routine condensation to remove inappropriate material.

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'm afraid I have. As I mentioned above, I have had several run-ins with WP:3RR, where I became too certain that my version of relatively minor points was correct. I did not take the first time with good grace (in fact, I would say I acted like an ass), but I think that by now I have learned the reasons for 3RR, when it applies, and what I should do in cases of violations.

I have also been involved in various editing disputes, many associated with removing different forms of pseudoscience. At times, this led to me reaching the limits of my patience. I have learned that eventually I reach a point when I must declare that I am done with discussion, and exclude myself from further deliberations. The alternative is a risk of me becoming annoyed, which impairs my neutrality. I think I have now reached a point where I can judge myself well enough that I will exclude myself before abusing admin authority.

Thank you. Michaelbusch 05:04, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

4. Optional question from User:GlassCobra: You had a pretty long absence over the summer, from June to August. If you don't mind me asking, what happened? Do you think it might happen again in the future? This question is very optional, feel free to leave it unanswered. GlassCobra 07:11, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

I was getting rather too involved in editing, and decided I needed a long break to regain perspective. Regarding future long breaks: aside from further episodes of self-imposed Wiki-withdrawl, I'm currently working on my thesis. I suspect that a break of similar or longer length will happen in a year or so, when it reaches crunch-time. Michaelbusch 07:18, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

General comments

• See Michaelbusch's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.

• Links for Michaelbusch: Michaelbusch (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Michaelbusch before commenting.

Discussion

Support

1. Support: I agree with Philosophus.--MyMii 14:11, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
2. First support Looks good to me! S_QL 05:30, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
3. Support (unfortunately not first): Michael has been very helpful in maintaining NPOV in pseudoscience and other topics. Adminship would be very useful to help deal with the most absurd of persistent crackpots, and also to deal with vandalism. --Philosophus 05:38, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
4. support for the above reasons Stupid2 05:43, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
5. Support. Back in the middle of May I had a run-in with Michaelbusch on CSD patrol. He has tagged an article for speedy deletion that I felt didn't qualify, and I also thought at the time that he was bitey to the creator. I watchlisted this RFA way back then, knowing that it would soon come; I expected to oppose. Several months later, though, things have definitely improved. I don't see many problems in his recent editing history. I wish he would slow down to distinguish between vandalism and test edits, and respond differently to each. The only big mistake I've noticed in his recent contributions is reporting an editor to WP:AIV over a content dispute (diff) and some related nonconstructive reverting on said editor's talk page (diff). Clearly few candidates are perfect. Still, I'm confident though that Michaelbusch will refrain from doing anything boneheaded like deleting the Main Page, protecting the right version, or blocking an editor he's in a tiff with. The candidate does good work on keeping out some of the cranks and crackpots. (Pffft, thoughtform. You can't win them all.) He's a good faith contributor who should have no trouble learning from his mistakes along the way. ➪HiDrNick! 05:49, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
6. Support - as above --wj32 06:08, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
7. Support, can't see any evidence of being a mental. Neil ☎ 09:42, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
8. Support good uder, unlikely to abuse the tools. Would havve liked a longer nom though--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 12:06, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
9. Support. He promptly helped me disguising a troll (and sockpuppeteer): when I asked Michaelbusch for help , user Michaelbusch promptly reacted by providing me necessary data . Kubura 13:14, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
10. Support Everything above looks good. I also went through your deleted contributions and think that you have demonstrated a solid judgement in regards to WP:CSD, and this is a service wherein we will require many admins to be focused on when the anon page creation starts back up. Good luck! Hiberniantears 14:31, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
11. Support per nom--Angel David 14:53, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
12. Support - judging from some of his actions I find him reasonable and he is aslo a reasonable content contributor. `'Míkka 16:17, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral