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Jenks24

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (13/0/0); Scheduled to end 22:07, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Nomination

Jenks24 (talk · contribs) – Hello all. I present Jenks24, who's been here a little over two years, with 39k+ well distributed edits. I'd seen him often around requested move discussions, offering knowledgable, policy-based opinions; a speciality area in which we need more admin help. I learned he was not an admin the other day when he closed a move discussion noting "(non-admin closure)". I investigated, and liked what I found. He's written substantive, reliably sourced articles such as ‪Kate Hollywood‬, ‪Chris Lamb‬, ‪William Flintoft‬ and ‪Donald Duffy‬. He's closed 23 uncontroversial AfDs and participated in about 400 others where he's not a potted plant. In most I checked, the discussion closed in the same posture as he !voted. There's TfD, CfD, RfD and MfD participation as well. His CSD taggings appear spot on and I found no declines in his last 10,000 edits (his taggings are easy to search because he always uses "CSD" in the edit summary). While doing that I found this encouraging A7 removal. I also checked twenty CSD taggings for user notification and he had warned the creator in each case. He certainly knows the ropes. But what convinced me to offer to nominate was the intelligent, sober and amicable discussions I found when I scrolled through his talk page archives and looked at a bunch of random talk page and board discussions. He appears level-headed, good humored, windmill tilting adverse, someone who's wont to discuss rather than argue and to change his opinion if convinced. I believe he is competent to use the tools, unlikely to delete the main page and would be an asset to the project if granted adminship.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:50, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept, thanks for the kind words. Jenks24 (talk) 22:04, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

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

A: Primarily I intend to work at requested moves (RM) as it is the area where I have the most experience and it is also one of the admin areas that is consistently understaffed. I'll preface my next comments by saying it is one my pet peeves when someone goes through RfA saying 'I only want the tools to do X' and seemingly the next week they are doing bucketloads of Y and Z which were never mentioned at the RfA. So, while I anticipate most of my admin time will used at RM, if this RfA is successful it would not be outside the realm of possibility to see me working at the following admin areas: histmerges; XfDs, primarily AfD, WP:CFDS, TfD and CfD; WP:ERRORS; WP:ITN; and blocking and protecting in the rare case that something requiring either of those actions comes across my watchlist. Jenks24 (talk) 22:04, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

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

A: I like to think that almost every edit I've made has at least had a small positive impact on the encyclopedia, but to answer the question I'd have to say that my real content contributions have been my best. I've developed into a bit of a gnome over the last year or so, just making MoS fixes, small copyedits, adding little bits of info and refs, etc., but earlier on I created a few articles (30 or so according to this tool) and, although they aren't perfect, they are (IMHO) well referenced, fairly thorough and all at least start class. If I had to pick one article, it would be Ken Hall (footballer), which is the only GA I've written and, I believe, nicely demonstrates that, at least for Aussie rules, WP:NSPORTS is a pretty good guideline. Jenks24 (talk) 22:04, 21 May 2012 (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: Of course, I don't think it's possible to spend so much time on Misplaced Pages without getting involved in a few disputes, though I wouldn't say that any of them have caused me stress, maybe mild frustration at the most. Every now and then I do find myself typing frustrated responses, but when that happens I try to think to myself "will this improve the discussion or just make both sides more aggravated?" before hitting the save page button. If the answer is the latter I generally close the tab/browser/computer and focus on something else until I'm able to make a level-headed comment. Jenks24 (talk) 22:04, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

General comments

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Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review his contributions before commenting.

Discussion

• Stats on talk. Ryan Vesey Review me! 22:12, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Support

1. Support per my nomination.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:11, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
2. Support. Been waiting for this one. Jenks24 would be a real asset at WP:RM. Favonian (talk) 22:19, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
3. Support. I've had a few interactions with the candidate, and in all cases he's been sensible, reasonable and easy to talk to, all good things for an administrator to be. 28bytes (talk) 22:21, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
4. Support. I think we have too many admins, but better more potentially good ones than bad ones. Malleus Fatuorum 22:30, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
5. Support Seems like a good candidate, seems to respond to disputes positively, has reasonable experience in a quasi-administrative areas where the tools would be useful. Monty₈₄₅ 22:36, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
6. Support AFD !votes agree with the result or are found as no consensus 92.8% of the time. 100% edit summary usage. Active in content creation, with over 100 edits to four separate articles. Has created 36 articles (including DAB pages, excluding redirects). Understands when to revert things as a good faith edits . Evidence of correct procedural closure . Finally, support due to the glowing nomination by Fuhghettaboutit. Ryan Vesey Review me! 22:43, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

   I think you've over-egged the pudding with "Active in content creation, with over 100 edits to four separate articles"; that's hardly breaking sweat. Malleus Fatuorum 23:13, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

   Fo shizzle. That's a bathroom break, not a job. Drmies (talk) 23:27, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

7. Support Good solid content contributions coupled with a calm rational demeanor indicate the presence of an adult to me, and someone I'd like to see with a few extra tools to work with. — Ched :  ?  22:55, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
8. Umm, wait, what? Jenks24 isn't an admin? Support, obviously. He does good work in RM, which is occasionally backlogged and could use another active admin. Plenty of experience, and clear evidence of possessing the necessary clue. Good luck. Jafeluv (talk) 23:06, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
9. Support. It's about time. Kauffner (talk) 23:14, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
10. Support - seen this user around doing a good job. Mato (talk) 23:21, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
11. Support. I also have seen this user over the past year and a half (I used to see them a lot more; maybe we're in different areas now?) and saw good work. RM is an area that heeds help, certainly. Drmies (talk) 23:27, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
12. Support Looks good to me. -Scottywong| yak _ 23:57, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
13. Support. Good contributions. Axl ¤ 00:03, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral