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#'''Support''' Obviously a good editor, and one that is committed to the idea of wikipedia, and has a life outside of it. Who cares if you took a break?--] 21:59, 23 September 2005 (UTC)


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Jdavidb

Vote here (10/0/2) ending 03:55 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Jdavidb (talk · contribs) – My first registered edit to Misplaced Pages was on 20 February 2004. I highly respect and agree with Misplaced Pages's policies of NPOV and consensus. Lately I've seen heavy involvement in keeping Misplaced Pages clean from spam, vandalism, and unneutralized points of view. I'd kind of like having the additional tools an admin has to fight vandalism, and I believe my history shows I could be trusted with these tools. Jdavidb 20:05, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Support

  1. Very strong support. A true Wikipedian who cares more about NPOV than about promoting his own views. Ann Heneghan 20:17, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
  2. Support—I dont know, I just have a good feeling about you. You still need to work on your edit count in the Misplaced Pages namespace though; please promise me you'll do that. Things you could do include voting here regularly, and voting in AFDs etc.

    Journalist /

    Actually, I don't think either of those are good indicators for adminship. Dmcdevit·t 23:22, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
  3. Support KHM03 21:12, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
  4. Support The Fascist Chicken 21:30, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
  5. Support - An infrequent admin is better than none at all. I trust you and you meet my standards. --Celestianpower 21:38, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
  6. More people who want to fight linkspam are always welcome. He needn't ever touch the deletion process for all I care. --Michael Snow 23:01, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
  7. Support. I've seen plenty of evidence of good interaction and judgment. Also see User:Jdavidb/Linkspam. Dmcdevit·t 23:22, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
  8. Suppoert El_C 06:11, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
  9. Support - I can trust you.--Jusjih 08:03, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
  10. Support. Kirill Lokshin 09:57, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
  11. Cool. JuntungWu 17:02, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
  12. Support Obviously a good editor, and one that is committed to the idea of wikipedia, and has a life outside of it. Who cares if you took a break?--Rogerd 21:59, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

  1. Neutral, I think you are a good contributor, but the lack of edits to the wikipedia namespace worries me. Non-admins can and should participate in AfD, RfA, and other community votes. Until someone changes my mind, I'm neutral. -GregAsche (talk) 20:18, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
  2. Neutral: I'm really struggling with this one. As the graph shows, with the exception of just a few days, there was a huge gap of absence from Misplaced Pages from September of 2004 to July of 2005. Why the huge gap? Bigger concern: less than 8% of edits are in outside of Article/User namespaces. That's rather low; I'm concerned about the experience level of the user in admin appropriate areas. Use of edit summaries is strong at 92%. Average # of edits per day over the period since returning is reasonable (8.6 all days, 12.09 for days when editing). I'd like to see this nominee spend more time in admin appropriate areas. If this is addressed, I'd very happily support candidacy at a later date. --Durin 20:55, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
    Well, there are two gaps, there. The second one started in April 2005. My wife gave birth to our first child and I discovered I was very busy! I'd also been having a bit of Wiki-stress, so I decided to stay away for awhile. The Wiki-pull was too strong, though, and I did quite a bit of anonymous editing: There's more than that because that link shows things done from one of my company's proxy addresses, but there are also several edits done from our dynamic IP address at home. These look too difficult to track down, though, without simply remembering what I was doing at the time.
    The first gap happened because of a surge of activity at work. Had to get away from Misplaced Pages because of Real Life.
    It also might not be apparent to most people looking at the graph, but I immediately noticed that my edits per day dropped dramatically in March 2004, which was when I got married. :) Jdavidb 21:16, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
    If you don't mind me asking, how did you compute his edit summary percentage? Did you do it manually, or is there some tool I don't know about? -GregAsche (talk) 21:21, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
    <joking>I'm deeply offended at your asking! How dare you!</joking> :-) It's an easy step past the collation of data in support of the nominee charts that I do. I have a function that parses the contribution string to see if there is an edit summary and scores a "1" if there is one, and a "0" if there isn't. Sum all the 1s, divide by the total # of edits and voila...% usage of edit summaries. If I did it manually, I'd go nuts! :-) See User:Durin/Admin nominee charts for more information. --Durin 21:52, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
    I'm considerably distracted by your cool graphs and data crunching. :) Out of curiosity, does an edit summary which consists of only a section heading supplied automatically, with no text added from the user, count as a 0 or a 1? Jdavidb 21:59, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
    • It counts as a 0. While a subsection heading that is supplied automatically is slightly helpful to inform a patroller as to where the edit is in the article, it does nothing to explain what the edit was meant to accomplish, etc. Thus, a 0. I hope the data crunching on the RfA and others is proving useful. I hope it helps cure some people of editcountitis and instead focus on experience, ability, etc. --Durin 22:40, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Comments

  • A chart showing this user's edits along with a total # of edits line and average edits per day line is available here: Image:Jdavidb-edits.gif. I offer this not as a more refined version of editcountitis, but as just one tool to help evaluate an admin nominee with a somewhat low edit count on Misplaced Pages. --Durin 20:47, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
A. At the moment, warning, reverting, and blocking for vandalism. Eventually probably working AFD (I'm starting to nominate over there more and more often).
2. Of your articles or contributions to Misplaced Pages, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. I started the My Little Pony article which went nuts. Way too nuts. Not sure I'm proud, but it gives me something to chuckle about. :) I am really pleased about the times I've been able to come to a consensus compromise with people who completely disagreed with me personally about something. I'm particularly happy with the way editing Misplaced Pages has made me prone to spot bias in all writing I see. I'm particularly happy with the chance to help eliminate my own point of view from an article when I see that someone else has added it.
3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
A. Oh, well we all have that, of course. :) I steer clear of the three revert limit and will avoid using the admin revert ability when something other than vandalism is on the line. I handle things by trying to make sure issues get discussed on the talk page, and I am always willing to respect the consensus of other editors. Occasionally I've completely left an article that was stressing me out, and I can certainly do that in the future if necessary. Jdavidb 20:10, 22 September 2005 (UTC)