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:'''5.''' In a State of the Union address, American president George W. Bush once said, "Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research...creating human-animal hybrids." If such human-animal hybrids are created, do you believe they should be allowed to have Misplaced Pages accounts? | :'''5.''' In a State of the Union address, American president George W. Bush once said, "Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research...creating human-animal hybrids." If such human-animal hybrids are created, do you believe they should be allowed to have Misplaced Pages accounts? | ||
:'''A:'''If they were to be able to be created and they were to live then I would say yes. I was going to look for a quote to support this from somewhere on Misplaced Pages but i cannot currently find one. If and when I do I will add it to this response.<font color="blue">''']''' <sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub></font> 20:33, 29 October 2008 (UTC) | |||
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Addshore 2
Voice your opinion (talk page) (18/2/1); Scheduled to end 18:45, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
Addshore (talk · contribs) - This is an unusual candidate, further to the post I made at WT:RFA , offering to nominate unusual candidates.
Addshore has a lot of edits and had an unsuccessful RfA some months ago.
I've reviewed the RfA and the concern that most bothered me regarded lack of proper interaction with other users; something I have always taken very seriously when considering admin candidates.
While Addshore still clearly spends a lot of time working in areas that don't need large amounts of debate, a read through the user's talk page reassured me that they are perfectly capable of reasonable, thoughtful, civil dialogue with irritated others and is flexible enough to change their own behaviour as a result.
We need more admins and while this one is not a serial FA producer, nor an AfD junky, I trust Addshore. --Dweller (talk) 15:59, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Co-nom by Dendodge (talk · contribs): I have only ever had good experiences with Addshore. He is a prolific contributor, with a clear understanding of Misplaced Pages policy, and I have no reason to believe that he will misuse the tools, either on purpose or accidentally. In fact, I'm surprised he isn't already an administrator! He appears to have fixed the issues raised in his previous RfA, and no new ones have come up, to my knowledge. Therefore, I am honoured to have Addshore as my first admin nominee. DendodgeTalk 18:20, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
- Accepted ·Add§hore· /Cont 17:21, 29 October 2008 (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 administrative work do you intend to take part in?
- A: I plan to do all of the basics (WP:AIV WP:CSD WP:UFAA WP:RFPP e.t.c) I also plan to keep an eye on Category:Administrative backlog and help out with anything listed there that I think that I could help with. For example now Misplaced Pages:Images_and_media_for_deletion. I also hope to move towards closing AFD's e.t.c. I also plan on expanding on my technical side and taking a bigger part in WP:OP with trying to get rid of the almost constant backlog on the page. I also hope to be able to help all users with the little tasks which admins sometimes get asked to do (User page protection, content recovery). I also hope to be able to develop, bug fix and enhance huggle for the admins on en.wiki that use it.
- 2. What are your best contributions to Misplaced Pages, and why?
- A: Well one of my major contributions, as with virtually everyone these days is reverting vandalism. I'm pleased with how much I have reverted and how many mistakes I have not made. I'm also pleased with the templates I have made and the articles and stubs that I have created. I'm also pleased with my work on User:Addbot my bot which does various tasks around Misplaced Pages. I'm also pleased with my small works on huggle helping Gurch whenever I can. I also do work on WP:ACC and the relevant tool server pages approving new users to use the tool and creating new accounts for those that request them. I feel this is a good contribution as it is helping new users to start on their ways through Misplaced Pages. I try to help out on the help desks whenever I can for the same reason and welcome those I feel I should. And again I think the adoption process is valuable and useful so I help out there as well.
- 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 have not been in an editing conflict before but as i think is probably similar with almost every user on Misplaced Pages there are defiantly users that have caused me to be stressed. I try to talk to people that stress me and try to settle our differences but if tat fails ill normally just log off and go and do something else. In the future I plan to deal with stress in exactly the same way as now.
Optional question from Tanthalas39:
- 4. While I have already supported and am still rather firmly in place, the one current oppositional vote brings up your AfD experience. It seems you participated in a glut of them in early July, and maybe only a handful since. Mbisanz notes that your arguments are better than a lot of things we see, but it does stand out that you don't tend to do a whole lot of research on each one, as the timestamps indicate; it appears (at face value) that you are simply scanning the nominations and making a bandwagon call. Since you state above that you "hope to move towards closing AFDs", can you address this user's concerns?
- A With most articles up for AFD that I decide to vote in i only do a quick google search and See what turns up. If I think there is enough "evidence" in the google search or as in most cases not enough I will vote. On a few cases my google search turned up a positive results. One such article is Indulekha.com with its conversation here. This AFD that I strongly disagreed with made me make many edits to keep the article. I hope that this shows some hint towards my ways. ·Add§hore· /Cont 20:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Optional question from Keepscases:
- 5. In a State of the Union address, American president George W. Bush once said, "Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research...creating human-animal hybrids." If such human-animal hybrids are created, do you believe they should be allowed to have Misplaced Pages accounts?
- A:If they were to be able to be created and they were to live then I would say yes. I was going to look for a quote to support this from somewhere on Misplaced Pages but i cannot currently find one. If and when I do I will add it to this response.·Add§hore· /Cont 20:33, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
General comments
- See Addshore's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.
- Links for Addshore: Addshore (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/Addshore before commenting.
Discussion
Support
- Nom --Dweller (talk) 16:04, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Nom --DendodgeTalk 18:20, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Support -- Addshore is quite knowledgeable about Wipipedia. He also adopts a lot of new users, something that's sorely needed. --Sultec (talk) 18:26, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Strong support Excellent vandal-fighter who will make a fantastic administrator. Good luck! PeterSymonds (talk) 18:44, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Strong support - Do I trust this user to use the admin tools carefully and thoughtfully? Yes. 18:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Strong support Have worked with him extensively and he clearly understands what is required of being an administrator. MBisanz 18:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Support. Most concerns from the last RfA have been addressed; user now has much more experience in many more Misplaced Pages arenas. Oh, and as long as you never type "e.t.c." as an abbreviation for "et cetera" again. :-) Tan | 39 18:51, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Coming out of Wikibreak support - user has plenty of clue. –Juliancolton 18:55, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- I've seen him around I guess. Seems like a solid editor, contributes only for the good of the encyclopedia, not for self=gain. —Ceran♦ (It's snowing in NJ already!) 19:21, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Huggle. Synergy 19:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Support. Has been around since Dec 2005 and has over 34000 edits with over 14000 mainspace and see no misuse of tools as per track.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 19:25, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Support - I was neutral last time as I was on the fence over one or two issues, after reviewing you again I am happy that these issues have resolved themselves, hence I am supporting. I have no concerns that you will abuse the tools and you have experience where it counts, I note that you have now been very active for the past eight/nine months. I was particularly impressed by your adoption work, you clearly have a good knowledge of Misplaced Pages and you are not afraid to share it. Camaron | Chris (talk) 19:26, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Support. I think, as noted above, that the candidate has sufficient clue to be a good admin. I'm not seeing a whole lot to be concerned about, frankly. Good luck, UltraExactZZ ~ Evidence 19:28, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Reasonably sane. Tombomp (talk/contribs) 19:30, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Support Dlohcierekim 19:35, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Support - Concern from last time is mollified. Wisdom89 (T / ) 19:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Support. Of course. Malinaccier (talk) 19:58, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Support. bibliomaniac15 20:18, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Oppose
- Oppose You have cited in Q1 that you wish to close AFDs. I have gone over your AFD work since July 1st, 2008, and it has been very poor. Almost every single one of your votes is either
- "Per nom" -
- "Not notable" -
- "Fails WP:SOMEPOLICY" -
- or a combination of two out of three. Your votes add no weight to the discussion at all. I cannot trust that you will use the tools responsibly at this time, and have no confidence in your ability to close any XFD. SashaNein (talk) 19:52, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Generally citing a guideline like notability or a policy is considered a good AFD contribution, as opposed to citing something like ILIKEIT or IVENEVERHEARDOFIT. MBisanz 19:56, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- I disagree. Merely citing a policy, yet not expanding on the rationale to tell us WHY it fails the policy is completely unhelpful. If everyone believed that it was helpful to pump out these votes, WP:JUSTAPOLICY and WP:JNN would not exist to discourage that type of voting. SashaNein (talk) 20:13, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Generally citing a guideline like notability or a policy is considered a good AFD contribution, as opposed to citing something like ILIKEIT or IVENEVERHEARDOFIT. MBisanz 19:56, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- Weak oppose, I agree with SashaNein. Lack of elaboration on rationales for AfD nonvotes is a sign of an editor who goes with the flow rather than developing own opinions. --Aqwis (talk – contributions) 20:21, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Neutral
- Neutral - hate to be the first user not to support, and I'm willing to change my mind. Can't oppose because the user seems trustworthy and in need of the tools for the good of the project, and I do think he should become an admin one day. However, I also can't support because there is virtually no article-building experience, and entirely too many automatic/script-assisted edits. The user should consider doing some research about subjects he's interested in and writing articles—even if he spends only half the time he does now fighting vandals, he'll still be a very effective vandal fighter, but also likely a great author and content contributor. -- Ynhockey 19:32, 29 October 2008 (UTC)