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Sarahj2107

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (5/0/0); Scheduled to end 17:34, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Nomination

Sarahj2107 (talk · contribs) – I would like to nominate Sarahj2107 for the adminship role. I've been discussing this with Sarah for a few months now and I find her to be very calm and an exceptionally insightful editor. She is a fine content contributor having recently completed getting Shimna River to good article status and creating dozens of other articles. She also has extensive experience with WP:CSD and a solid record at WP:AFD as well. With over 12,000 edits, three solid years of activity and 69.2% of her edits are to article space, Sarah has proven that her goals here are to build an encyclopedia and not to partake in some sort of MMO. I find Sarah's temperament and demeanor to be polite, thoughtful, and collegial. A great example of Sarah's attitude can be seen right here where she calmly and respectfully discusses Misplaced Pages's policies to a new editor who was blocked for socking. Overall, I just think Sarah is an awesome Wikipedian and we'll be better served by giving her the bit. --v/r - TP 04:58, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Co-nomination by Mr. Stradivarius

I remember noticing some of Sarah's edits back in March, and I was impressed enough with her work that I left her a barnstar. So I was very glad to learn that she was running for adminship, and I'm happy to add my co-nominination. I think that she would be an excellent administrator.

One thing that impressed me about her work was the breadth of her content contributions. Sarah is a scientist, and she is at home editing biological articles, whether that is adding content to articles on hormones or creating new articles on animal species. She also has an interest in Irish geography: she has brought Shimna River to Good Article status, and I found a few other gems in that topic area as well. And she is not afraid to get stuck in editing almost any topic, as the list of her top edited pages will attest.

TParis mentioned her experience with CSD and PROD above, but he didn't link her CSD log or her PROD log, both of which show solid work in new page patrol (check the CSD log archives as well). I went through and checked her recent deleted contributions (admin-only link, sorry) as well, and all her tags look like sensible decisions in line with the deletion policies. A random check of her AfDs also showed a good understanding of policy, and a clear and drama-free style of commenting.

Speaking of being drama-free, I agree with TParis about her demeanour, and I encourage other editors to check out the island of calm that is her talk page. Her way of dealing with new editors is exemplary, and will stand her in good stead for adminship. — Mr. Stradivarius 06:43, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Thank you both for your nominations. I gladly accept. Sarahj2107 (talk) 17:34, 28 November 2014 (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: I enjoy working at new page patrol and AfD, and I would like to expand my editing to include admin tasks in the same areas. So, dealing with CSD, prods, and closing at AfD. In particular I would like to help with the backlogs at CSD. Before working in any other admin areas I would need to make sure I know the relevant policies and guidelines really well and would then slowly ease my way into it until I am confidant of my abilities and judgement; although this is true of any admin work I would potentially do (at AfD for example, I would only close discussions with a clear consensus to start with).

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

A: My contributions are spread over a number of different areas and include quite a bit of gnoming type work but I am particularly proud of the Shimna River article. It was one of the first articles I created and it started as a one paragraph unsourced stub. After a lot of work, time spent researching and much appreciated help from other editors it is now a GA. There are also a few articles I have come across that were in need of help and I was happy with how I managed to improve them with some copyediting , for example Leptin, Palacio de Lecumberri, Historical inheritance systems (though I think that one still needs some work and I plan to go back to it eventually) and Migration inducting gene 7 (which I saved from deletion ).

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 don’t think I have been involved in anything I would call a conflict but there have been times I have been in disagreements with other editors and situations that have caused me stress. In March 2012, not long after I started regularly editing and while I was still learning how things are done, I mistakenly tagged a foreign language article for speedy deletion as CSD A2. I then received a rather unpleasant message from the article creator and, mostly due to real life stresses, over reacted (basically rage quitting). It wasn’t my best moment but it was a valuable learning experience. I took some time to deal with my personal problems before I started editing again and now don’t edit when I’m in a bad mood or am already feeling stressed. I also try to walk away from situations when I feel I’m starting to lose my temper. I carefully reread the speedy deletion criteria before tagging any more pages and now feel I have a good understanding of them. I also always make sure to check the history and edit summaries of every article I come across because if I had spotted that editor’s summary I might have handled the situation differently.

Additional question from Jim Carter - Public

4. Hello Sarah, do you agree that "RfA is a broken process"? Thank you and all the best!

A:I definitely think there's room for improvement but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's broken. Unfortunately, given the history of this topic, any improvements that can be made to the process are likely to take a long time to reach any kind of consensus. I do think its important that whatever process we use in the future has the full support of the community or we are likely to just end up in the same place we are now, with people calling it broken. Sarahj2107 (talk) 18:29, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Additional question from an unregistered user 19:00, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

5. As I went through your talk page history, I noticed you've been receiving disambiguation link notifications on a regular basis ever since you started editing. It makes me uneasy as it might be an indicator of sloppiness and unwillingness to double-check your contributions before hitting the Save button, even though you clearly know by now you have a knack of placing faulty internal links. What do you have to say about it? Should I be worried that you'll be equally sloppy in your admin work, or maybe just one specific area of it that you just won't be able to get right for some reason? It's the long-lasting pattern of repeating the same kind of mistake that really worries me; please address that in your answer.

General comments

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

Discussion

Support

1. Support as nom.--v/r - TP 17:35, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
2. Very glad to support. --L235-Talk Ping when replying 17:45, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
3. Another good candidate. Jianhui67 17:46, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
4. Support --AmaryllisGardener 18:13, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
5. Support I've had a quick browse through recent contributions and the spot checks seem fine. For example, she nominated The Islington for deletion. This is my kind of topic and I have saved quite a few but, in this case, I tend to agree with her finding. I am particularly pleased to see her pushing back banner tag clutter — "rm tags no longer needed" — as few editors seem to have the boldness or inclination to do so. Andrew D. (talk) 18:31, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral