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Ekabhishek

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Nomination

Ekabhishek (talk · contribs) –

• Number of edits: 106,000 (almost)
• Been here: Since Feb 24, 2007 16:30:42
• Enabled edit counter: Yes
• This editor works silently but steadily. When I was new editor after creating articles I found many times that this editor correcting my formatting errors or expanding the article. This editor's behaviour is polite too. I am nominating his name as admin. Tito Dutta ✉ 04:27, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Co-nomination

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Much gratitude to Titodutta and to all those who have added to my learning, I accept the nomination. -Ekabhishek 06:14, 7 August 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: The area I intend to work most is vandalism, wherein I would like to aid in page protection and handle requests for page protection besides handling specific interventions in vandalism. On many occasions, many users have asked me for help, in such cases I direct them to various noticeboards, now I would be able to help them directly. In doing so, I might be able to pay forward the immeasurable kindness of many admins, who timely intervened and helped in vandalism related issues, restoring not just valuable labour of love, but also faith in innate goodness of us all. Though adminship might not be as glamorous as a DYK or a FA, but then without those silent workers, we see the edit history, would there be a wiki tomorrow.

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

A: My most satisfying contributions have been in India-related new articles, Unreferenced BLPs and sometimes the last chance XFD, wherever I find an article I can rescue, I pitch in. Often they are new users, who in good faith and right boldness create improperly referenced articles or with copyrighted text, which need quick referencing or a rewrite. I believe within every first-timer lies the possibility of a future excellent editor. Content-wise I have worked on arts, literature and cinema related article, especially biographies, as reading them is one of my passions. So, in terms of main namespace, articles, my best contributions have been Tomb of Humayun, Hindi theatre (Andha Yug, Habib Tanvir, Amal Allana), Baroda State, Manoj-Babli honour killing case, as they have turned out to be informative.

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 am sure I must have in the early years (been here since 2007), though cannot recall the exact events (perhaps someone can point out). I soon realized reverting doesn't help much, nor does feeling unnecessary ownership in the ephemeral realm; most often I only needed to get down from my high horse and withdraw. Sometimes this also requires giving up the need to make a point, perhaps revisiting the subject again later with a more NPOV helps or working on something else all together, there is always something new to work on, to cool off shift some images to commons, address some other to realise how much more I still have to learn here, as in real life. I have reverted edits in good faith many times, where they were incorrect or superfluous, not to be mention some hilarious one from school IPs, though when properly explained in summary, most people are considerate enough to respect the changes, so I would continue the same in the future as well, unless of course something kinder and equally efficient strikes.

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