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Andres

I would like to nominate Andres for adminship. Andres is a very intelligent and level-headed contributor that researches articles very thoroughly. (He has been around since April of this year I think, has about 1000 total edits, 850 non-minor, 550 non-minor and non-Misplaced Pages/User/Talk related for those who care :) Dori | Talk 03:49, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)

• Thank you for nominating me. I don't oppose adminship though I don't need the sysop status. I spend most of the time on the Estonian Misplaced Pages and here I edit only articles I am interested in because of their content. Andres 04:15, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. I especially like his edit summaries. silsor 04:10, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)
• Support. --Wik 04:13, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)
• Support if he thinks he'll use it. If not, I oppose. I don't think it's necessarily good to have inactive sysops. (He is definitely active enough as an editor and has sufficient experience for me to support otherwise.) Daniel Quinlan 04:39, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)
• Support, -- G-Man 13:34, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I would not be an active sysop. I would use my adminship very rarely, if at all. Andres 04:46, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I don't think inactivity as a sysop should be an issue. If Andres only uses his extra buttons to delete a nonsense page once in a blue moon that's OK (or even if he doesn't). I use mine rarely myself, and don't see that as a problem at all. -- sannse 08:51, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I certainly hope there isn't a required page deletion quota for all sysops... Damn, forgot to block someone today, I'll probably get my Misplaced Pages salary for today halved... Κσυπ Cyp   16:56, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Bcorr

Brian has been with us for 4 months and did 811 edits. He started some nice article: User:Bcorr/new articles. He doesn't sound bitchy or hateful, so he probably will make a good admin who is not bitchy or hateful. And he, even though an non-admin, sometimes participates in the Mailing List. That's more involved than admins like me! (Damn my small-sized hotmail. I can only read the mailing list, not reply. :-D --Menchi (Talk)â 07:15, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Support. Brian has made excellent contributions and spent a lot of time mediating the 2002 Gujarat violence page. He will make a great sysop. Angela. 07:24, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. --Jiang | Talk 07:25, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Yes! Support. Was thinking of nominating him myself :) Dysprosia 07:25, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Excellent idea. Yes. -- Viajero 11:14, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• oui Anthère

• Support. Why do I always assume the regulars already are sysops..? Κσυπ Cyp   16:56, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support -- Smerdis of Tlön 20:01, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Oppose... no, just kidding. Support. -- Cyan 20:04, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. BCorr would make a great admin. - Hephaestos 21:28, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support, thought he was one already! --Uncle Ed 21:41, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support, I agree. Daniel Quinlan 22:05, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)
• Oppose! I discriminate against those named Brian! *gets flamed by developer Brion* err... Support! - ugen64 02:43, Dec 11, 2003 (UTC)
• I support, Bcorr is very nice to newbies. Alexandros 00:23, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Definitely. I thought he was already an admin, seeing the way he mediated (very successfully) 2002 Gujarat violence chance 14:15, Dec 13, 2003 (UTC)
• Support. One of the statesmen of Misplaced Pages, if there were any. - Mark Ryan 04:40, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thank you all. I'm honored to be nominated and I accept. I've felt welcomed and encouraged from the beginning of my time being active on the Misplaced Pages, and I appreciate all of you who've taken the time to ask and answer questions, offer guidance, and correct me when I've made an error. I'll do my level best to follow my own advice and to be helpful and friendly. And thank you for the kind words. -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 23:30, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Support Secretlondon 07:45, Dec 18, 2003 (UTC)

Timwi

• Timwi -- Hi. I've been around since June, and I've been a well-behaved user all the way through. :) I don't make ground-breaking new contributions very often, but I make a lot of minor corrections and I revert vandalism. I would like to be able to help with this better, and thus, I am requesting adminship. Thank you for your attention. -- Timwi 21:49, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. --Jiang | Talk 21:56, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Daniel Quinlan 21:57, Dec 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Secretlondon 21:57, Dec 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Pakaran 21:59, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Κσυπ Cyp   23:55, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. I wanted to nominate him, but he disappeared off my radar for like 3 months. Menchi (Talk)â 04:13, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • Oops ;-) -- Timwi 13:32, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Boilerplate:

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• LOL! Who made this presumptuous boilerplate?! So damn useful! --Menchi (Talk)â 04:13, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• • Support. Timwi is a decent person. - Mark Ryan 14:22, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Greenmountainboy 18:13, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Angela. 04:29, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Raul654

• User:Raul654: I'd like to be an admin. I've been here since August and in that time, I've made 943 edits (mostly science, science fiction, computer, or history related - most of my time is put into writing new articles or massively expanding existing ones). The reason I ask is that I want vandalism quashing powers. --Raul654 11:35, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Support. Alexandros 16:17, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Have you been involved in any disagreements we can look at, to see how you acted during them? I like what I've seen of your general editing. Jamesday 16:48, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I think this() is a excellent example of Raul654's diplomatic demeanor that he displays when resolving issues. He is quite pleasent to converse with. Alexandros 17:17, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Three that I can think of. (1) On the List of Famous Experiments, someone (user: DJ Clayworth) moved all of the chemistry experiments into physics. To me, this was not an improvement, so I moved them back, without realizing he had made an entry into the discussion page. I apologized and we talked it out on the discussion page. (2) The second one was on Lee Atwater. I admit it - the original article I wrote was POV (it's pretty hard to write NPOV for a hatchetman). Other people came in and changed it, and the only change I objected to was calling bounce polling a research technique (it's not - see Talk:Lee Atwater) (3) On the Theory of everything page, someone posted about Gene Ray. I took it out, believing it has no place an encylopedia (at best, he's a crank). Most of the subsequent edits pretty much bear that out. In the end, someone created the List of speculative or fringe theories and linked to it there. I agreed with this (and when it came up in the votes for deletion, I voted to keep the page). Basically, I make a conscious effort to avoid inflammatory articles and edits (not hard in the areas I do), and I try to fix them when I see them. --Raul654 17:20, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. A good contributor - sannse 22:32, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. I have personally disagreed with Raul654, and found the experience stress free. -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 16:32, Dec 13, 2003 (UTC)

Evercat

• Evercat: Oh I give up. After about a month of abstinance I want to be a sysop again. There are still vandals to fight. :-) But fighting Wikiholism is futile. Still, I've learnt I can just ignore stuff sometimes and let others handle it... Evercat 23:48, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Let him back in! silsor 00:10, Dec 16, 2003 (UTC)
  • Glad you're willing to rejoin the ranks: support! Jwrosenzweig 00:19, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support, of course! Pakaran 00:21, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Let those who voluntarily leave the sacred order of the sysops burn in hell for heresy against the great god Jimbo, and make an example of him so no sysop ever dares leave again! ... *Gets turned into a small rodent in a flash of divine lightning for badly misunderstanding the Will of Jimbo...* Ok... Support. Κσυπ Cyp   00:32, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Can't think of a witty opposition remark, so I'll have to say support. Welcome back to the madness Evercat. Angela. 01:11, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support, of course, and this has inspired me to create Prodigal son as well, so something good came of this. Fuzheado 01:23, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support enthusiastically, it'll give the other admins that much less work to do. :) - Hephaestos 06:54, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Of course. Tannin 08:12, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Welcome back. =] Delirium 02:54, Dec 17, 2003 (UTC)

Ugen64

• ugen64 I'd like adminship, mainly because of all those vandalisms I see and have to correct (usually by writing a stub, because I am like that). I've been here for about, oh, 6 months, but I've only contributed significantly for about 4 months. I've asked once before, but was rejected. ugen64 14:09, Dec 5, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. I have no reason to believe that ugen64 would not make a good sysop. Quite the opposite. Daniel Quinlan 02:15, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Didn't have enough information to support last time, but do now (300 non-minor edits in the last two weeks alone, many of them very good ones). --Delirium 02:47, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
  • I withdraw my oppostion. Alexandros 15:54, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Also support; seems like a good contributor. - Hephaestos 16:05, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • This has nothing to do with anything, but how do I tell exactly how many edits I have (besides counting)? Oh, and thanks by the way for the support :-). ugen64 16:15, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
    • Crank up the limit number on your user contributions page and count. I doubt anyone counts by hand. ;-) Daniel Quinlan 20:49, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
    • Delirium gave me a extremely Wikigenius tip on my talk page... actually it was kinda common sense :-). ugen64 20:54, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
  • I pledge support for Ugen64 to become an administrator, because he may edit websites.
    • Well... thanks... I guess... ugen64 20:58, Dec 9, 2003 (UTC)

Pakaran

I nominate User:Pakaran, who is doing a lot of good work. RickK 05:26, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I'm willing, if the community wants me. I nominated myself a month or two back, and the consensus was that I wasn't ready. I don't think I'd be one of the more active admins, like you, Angela, Evercat, or Dysprosia. I don't even think I'd use admin powers every day, but I'd help out - much the same as I do now. -- Pakaran 05:30, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Oppose. Has not demonstrated ability to investigate matters in a fair way, by accusing me of having a "hobby" of edit warring etc. --Wik 05:34, Dec 5, 2003 (UTC) (PS Actually I'm helping you, as my opposition will move ten other people to support you!)
• Support (and not because Wik opposed), since I've noticed Pakaran striving for quality in articles, and is active in keeping an eye out for vandalism. Dysprosia 05:42, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Pakaran has shown an excellent understanding of Misplaced Pages and has worked on many controversial topics whilst avoiding getting involved in edit wars over them. Angela. 05:47, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Defer. Pakaran is a good contributor, but he's been here for just two months with 270 edits of article pages. Perhaps a *bit* more time only because we should be consistent. WP has rejected other folks for too little experience. Fuzheado 06:11, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support, why not be an admin, while getting more experience? Κσυπ Cyp   09:02, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. From the very start, Pakaran has shown good sense about avoiding conflicts and has actively tried to calm things down a bit. This is a no-risk decision. --Uncle Ed 15:48, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. I deferred last time because I figured Pakaran was too new, but I've seen enough good actions from him/her now to firmly support. - Hephaestos 15:50, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support (changed decision after speaking to Pakaran on the IRC channel._Defer. This user has not been here long enough(only 574 edits!) and does not understand all the policies. Alexandros
• Support. Seems a sensible contributor. Arwel 16:13, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. He doesn't think he'll be using his powers as much, but I have a feeling (and the vandals will back me up on this) that he'll be racking up edits once he becomes a sysop *cue evil laughter* Dori | Talk 16:55, Dec 5, 2003 (UTC)

Dieter Simon

Excellent contributor (see eg. Landsknecht). Active for +- 1.5 years, with over 1.5k edits. --snoyes 00:22, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

• Support. He has great linguistic knowledge and is quite polite and mild-mannered. Talk:Compound verb is an example of a nice discussion with him. --Menchi 00:51, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Thank you, I accept the nomination. --Dieter Simon 01:32, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Maximus Rex 06:51, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. A great contributor. Angela 04:26, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. -- Smerdis of Tlön 16:06, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

WhisperToMe

Excellent contributor. Been here since the 13th of July, with over 5k edits. --snoyes 20:23, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

• Support. Angela 23:45, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• You're nominating the author of Rachel Scott? Maximus Rex 06:31, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • I don't know. I'm just not comfortable with this. He/she has been involved in arguments re:unilaterally moving articles without discussion. I suppose the Rachel Scott stuff has affected me - they are still adding trivia to the article. They've just started high school in the US - I'm not sure how old that makes them (11?) and whether that is an issue as well. Secretlondon 14:29, Nov 27, 2003 (UTC) The rewrite is fine. I withdraw my opposition. Secretlondon 23:07, Nov 27, 2003 (UTC)
    • First year of high school? 13-14 years old. -- Viajero 14:46, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I'll take the nomination. Thank you so much, snoyes. :) WhisperToMe 20:32, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I'm actually 16 years of age. Most high school freshman in my area are 14-15. Also, Maximus, i'm not the original author of the FIRST Rachel Scott page. See: WhisperToMe 22:49, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

• I strongly support this nomination. Age should not affect anyone's decision. Good work WhisperToMe! Alexandros 00:24, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Support. --Jiang
• Nthly seconded -- James F. 22:41, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Age has nothing to do with maturity. -- Pakaran 05:38, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)

168...

User:168... has made some 4000 edits since January 2003 (and presumably more as an anon) and doesn't seem to be a controversial user. --Jiang 23:01, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

• Support 2³×3×7... Κσυπ Cyp   23:12, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Support -- a good contributor. Maximus Rex 00:52, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. -- Cyan 18:25, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Angela 04:26, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. I've never seen 168 do anything but really good stuff. - Hephaestos 15:45, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Me too. 168, you are the second person I am supporting in this place. Curious day... :-) Anthère
• Support - I thought you were already a sysop! :) -Pakaran 05:39, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Weird handle, but not the weirdest I've seen. Dori | Talk 16:57, Dec 5, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the nomination and for all the support. I never would have predicted that I'd be described here as non-controversial. I'm still waiting for the roars of disapproval to roll in. Anyway, I do appreciate and accept the nomination. If I win, I promise to remember all the little people (insert emoticon for irony here).168... 04:49, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Michael Hardy

I would like to nominate Michael Hardy for adminship. He's been here since at least October 2002 (March 2002 if you count the page move bug) and has made over 12k edits. I checked a couple of times to make sure he wasn't already listed as an admin, and to my surprise he wasn't. He writes good articles and is helpful and friendly to others. Maximus Rex 06:42, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Support. Does some valuable work, very knowledgeable - but I'd like Michael to stick with some conventions like instead of visible inline comments, use HTML comments or the talk page. Dysprosia 06:48, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Huh? You mean he isn't already? Support, of course. Michael can be terse to the point of rudeness, but he does an incredible amount of very tedious and absolutely essential copyediting work, always with care and accuracy, keeps a cool head, and he cooperates effectively with other workers. He will be a first-rate addition to the team. Tannin 08:08, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Yep, support. --Menchi 08:34, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support, of course - thought he already was. Even checked history to see if he was just accidentally removed from the list somehow... Κσυπ Cyp   08:53, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Wanted to nominate, but had already nominated two others recently. --snoyes 17:08, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support of course. I'm astonished Michael isn't a sysop already. I always presumed he was. How did we miss out someone so obvious for so long? FearÉIREANN 22:10, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hello. I am flattered by the attention. Would such a status require me (or enable me) to actually do something? Michael Hardy 22:06, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Support. Does a great job of correcting newbie mistakes. RickK 02:05, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. (Even if superfluous given the above, apparently any user can comment!) Michael contributes excellent articles and constructive criticism. We have disagreed, and will (no doubt) continue to disagree, on a number of points of style, but such is the wonder of our diverse global society! Ben Cairns 02:17, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Michael will make a great sysop. Angela 04:26, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. His command of the language is impeccable, this should make it even easier for him to fix things. - Hephaestos 15:45, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support, I also assumed he was an admin (I guess I assume anyone who has been here longer than me is an admin :)) Adam Bishop 17:15, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. -- Heron 10:33, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Khym Chanur

• Khym Chanur. I'd like adminship so I can delete "Candidates for speedy deletion" without having to ask someone else to do it.
  • That's okay, but I think you could use a bit more time and experience on Misplaced Pages as an editor before you become a sysop. The speedy deletions are pretty well handled right now, you can always ask on WP:VFD and it will get deleted (maybe slowly). (Note: just over 300 edits since Aug 26, 2003) Daniel Quinlan 04:29, Nov 23, 2003 (UTC)
    • OK. -- Khym Chanur 08:54, Nov 23, 2003 (UTC)
  • I'd support. Not a very lengthy contributions list, but seems reasonable enough and familiar with what's going on here over a few months. --Delirium 00:23, Nov 26, 2003 (UTC)
  • support. I didn't realize this user has been here for a while. RejectToo new. Alexandros 00:43, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Accept -- no harm in having more sysops. Lirath Q. Pynnor
  • Support. Khym seems to know what he's doing and has managed to avoid any conflict since he joined in August. Angela 04:26, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Ihcoyc

I discovered by chance that Ihcoyc is not listed as an administrator...a fact I found so mind-boggling I checked three times to be sure. My experience working with Ihcoyc is that he is a very good contributor here who is dedicated to producing fine articles and building a solid, usable resource that is NPOV and well-written. He's been here since January with 4,100+ contributions: I hereby nominate Ihcoyc for admin. Jwrosenzweig 23:38, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)

• Ho! Daniel Quinlan 23:56, Nov 13, 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Secretlondon 09:06, Nov 14, 2003 (UTC)
• Uh-oh --- pretty soon I'll be drunk with power! But I accept the nomination -- Ihcoyc / Smerdis of Tlön 04:37, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Ho ho hoh. I too support Jeshua to become a sysop. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 09:30, Nov 14, 2003 (UTC)
• I find myself unable to speak in any way save for that way in which speaking I may lend my support to Ιησους. --Delirium 09:40, Nov 14, 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Angela 21:00, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Support. By the way, how old are you? The Ιησους Χριστος article about you doesn't give your exact year of birth. Κσυπ Cyp 11:49, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • At least by mundane reckoning, I am fourty-four years old. -- Smerdis of Tlön 19:50, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Another unpronounceable name, but... Support! -- Viajero 20:30, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Support. --snoyes 20:41, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Morwen

• Morwen has been here since beginning of August, does copyediting and writes sensible articles. Secretlondon 22:46, Nov 13, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. I've thought about nominating him/her myself -- G-Man 22:51, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Sensible edits and corrections (and lots of them!) -- Arwel 22:57, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. -- Cyan 22:59, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. -- JeLuF 23:07, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. -- Angela
• I accept. :) Morwen 23:09, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • I'm coming in late, so I hereby support Morwen's acceptance. Daniel Quinlan 23:25, Nov 13, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support from me too :) Dysprosia 11:54, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Dori

• Dori is doing a great job especially on Albania-related topics. Also very good with his edit summaries, and avoids getting into edit wars. Would make an excellent sysop. --Wik 07:28, Nov 10, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. --Jiang
  • Support. A sensible level headed contributor -- G-Man
  • Support. -- Angela
  • Support Secretlondon
    • Thank you for the support! If no one objects and the adminship is offered I will humbly accept. Dori
  • Well, we elves traditionally have been suspicious of dwarves, but... okay, I support! --Uncle Ed 15:40, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Pratyeka

• Pratyeka has been with us for nine months, with over 700 edits, especially in the historical Chinese philosophy, history and religion areas that we've been lacking. Reply nicely when people ask him questions. --Menchi 02:12, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Jwrosenzweig 23:36, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • I clicked on this page and was trying to nominate Pratyeka. But Menchi beat me this time, :) ; anyhow, I fully support hir nomination. kt2 07:56, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)~
  • Support. -- Angela
  • Support Secretlondon
• Ooh thanks :) I accept! *cue for tears* --Pratyeka 02:08, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

DavidLevinson

I've been here for 1.5 years and one time was in the top 30 contributors. I check in daily and try to do no harm. dml

• Support. Adam Bishop 19:22, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Daniel Quinlan 21:00, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)
• Yep. --Menchi 01:56, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Support. snoyes 18:02, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Seconded -- kt2 07:56, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Christopher Mahan

Because I want to see for myself what ya'll gripe about :) Christopher Mahan 13:15, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)

• Support. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 13:32, Nov 7, 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Angela 18:29, Nov 7, 2003 (UTC)
• Support. -- Cyan 21:52, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Support. (There was some weirdness with his user page due to a redirect. I couldn't seem to navigate to his user contributions, although they are there.) Daniel Quinlan 22:22, Nov 7, 2003 (UTC)
• Support. He graciously responded to advice and offers of help, in regards to changing his username. --Uncle Ed
• Support. Chris has been a valued contributor since before the phase III switchover. Ed, are you saying you will support him if he moves his user page? (Support) --

Update: My username is now Christopher Mahan. Christopher Mahan 23:54, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Warning: the above entry has been refactored. The last revision which made sense and accurately expressed the views of the participants can be found here. -- Tim Starling 12:04, Nov 12, 2003 (UTC)

Secretlondon

• I nominate User:Secretlondon. While she's only been here a bit over 2 months, Secretlondon has already made thousands of contributions, large and small, has quickly caught on to Misplaced Pages conventions, works well with others, and often blanks graffitti and similar nonsence. I think Secrelondon would be a fine Misplaced Pages administrator. -- Infrogmation 19:16, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • I support! Lots of good work, always alert! I think is a she... Muriel Gottrop 19:18, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Adam Bishop 19:22, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. -- Cyan 19:26, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. --Wik 19:28, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. --snoyes 19:29, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. --Angela 19:39, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. --Morwen 22:59, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC) (who isn't the same person)
• Thanks. I'm honoured and accept. Secretlondon 22:09, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)

Tristanb

• I would like to nominate Tristanb. He writes lots of good articles, mostly about medicine, and does housekeeping work besides. I would be happy to see him made an admin. Kosebamse 08:00, 5 Oct 2003 (UTC)
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  • Support.Ark30inf 04:54, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. -- Jake 08:19, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Alexandros 16:03, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. -Nydigoveth 19:23, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Looks like Tristanb could easily be promoted, but he has not made any edits since 5 October and possibly doesn't even know about his nomination (which has been mentioned on his talk page; e-mail through his user page doesn't work). Does anybody know his whereabouts? Kosebamse 19:34, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the nomination. I've been taking a one month break from Misplaced Pages to avoid failing my exams last week. Sure I'll accept admin privilages. Thanks everyone for the support! --Tristanb 01:22, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)
    • Privileges? No no, it's duties  :-) -- JeLuF 19:31, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. -- Infrogmation 19:16, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Muriel Gottrop

• I'd like to nominate Muriel Gottrop. She's been here for almost 7 months, quite active for the past three, has made a ton of edits and original contributions to the Roman history sections (see user page and contributions list), and generally been level-headed and responsible. --Delirium 12:39, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • Second -- looks very knowledgable on the Ancients! -- Arwel 12:43, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Support most enthusiastically; via edit conflict, couldn't be the first seconder :-( Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 12:45, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Support most affirmatively. Kosebamse 12:51, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Angela 19:57, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support, of course! Adam Bishop 20:07, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Cyan 22:07, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Support, excellent nomination. Daniel Quinlan 22:15, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support from me too :) Dysprosia 22:20, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Yep: Go ancient history! --Menchi 07:02, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)

• My God! What a way to start a day! Well, i thank everybody for support, encoragment and ego-boosting. Its very nice indeed to see my work acknowledged by so many wikipeers, when i'm used to see my friends and family get bored to death with my research on these topics. But i have my reservations about this. Its not that i dont want, i do!, but the thing is that i have a PhD to do. In Geology, not the Romans... I spend already too much time on the wiki without further excuse. I'm afraid the only task i would do is to delete junk and perhaps cooperate in the Main Page editing (I dislike edit wars and i do not wish to get involved in mess by protecting/unprotecting pages.) But... this makes me very proud! Muriel Gottrop 10:12, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Let me think about this... Muriel Gottrop 10:18, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • You don't need to be Super-Admin, just do your bit for making Misplaced Pages rule :) But, the decision is up to you. Dysprosia 10:25, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • OK lets give it a try! How does this work now? Muriel
    • A developer will sysop-fy you in a few days. Then, you can do the "delete junk" when you catch one, and do some "Main Page editing" when you feel it needs some. There are over 100 sysops, so the work isn't yours alone. There's plenty of time for other stuff. :-) --Menchi 22:24, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Daniel Quinlan

It would be nice to be able to help people out more often and handle trivial problems. I can't claim I plan to use administrator rights every day, but it seems to be at least once a week or so that I wish I could address something, but have to wait and let someone else fix it (like deleting a redirect, for example). I won't abuse administrator status or make use it in any article where I've been actively involved, in an active disagreement with people, etc. I've been a Misplaced Pages contributor since Dec 6, 2002 and have made 1317 non-minor edits since I started. That's about 4 per day. I think I've made some particularly good contributions on United States Presidential line of succession, Synthetic fibers (and sub-articles), English language (and related articles), and elsewhere (well, I think most (nobody's perfect) of my edits are great ;-). I was also quite involved in the discussion around advertizing and when redirects can be deleted, so I've been around and involved for quite a while. Daniel Quinlan 07:42, Oct 21, 2003 (UTC)

• Support. --Jiang 07:53, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Support. --Ark30inf 08:01, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Support. --Tim Starling 08:03, Oct 21, 2003 (UTC)
• Support. --Minesweeper 08:18, Oct 21, 2003 (UTC)
• Support. --Angela 09:04, Oct 21, 2003 (UTC)
• Support. --Jake 14:03, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Support: thought you were already a sysop. --Jwrosenzweig 16:05, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Evil saltine

• I nominate Evil saltine for adminship. Pro: solid record of edits, takes pictures and posts them, plays well with others. Con: doesn't write a lot of edit summaries. -- Cyan 02:57, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• I support Evil. Ark30inf 03:05, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Strong support, seen some excellent edits from this person! Dysprosia 03:07, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Support. An excellent wikipedian who is not too easily swayed by the opinions of others. Although, perhaps he will need a name change.. Evil? ;) --Drolsi Susej 03:12, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Support: Friendly. --Menchi 03:23, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Angela 07:11, Oct 15, 2003 (UTC)
• Support Poor Yorick 07:15, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• I humbly accept :-p er.. thanks :-) Evil saltine 14:42, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Arwel Parry

I've been here since the end of January, and have only managed to be involved in one edit war (with Eloquence over date formats in 10 Rillington Place). I'm not the most prolific author, but those I do write tend to be quite, um, encyclopaedic (see most of the denomination articles off British coinage for example, or British banknotes (the interest in money comes from not having much!)), and I've also got a bit of a spelling fetish, hence quite a lot of minor typo edits. I'm also the sole admin over on cy.wikipedia. Arwel 14:20, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)

• Support. I'm sure Arwel would be a great admin. Angela 15:26, Oct 9, 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Coins, stamp, spelling fetish. Good things. --Menchi 21:53, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Also support - Hephaestos 21:59, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Support - just recently I had occasion to notice Arwel's attention to detail and was most impressed. Jwrosenzweig 22:09, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Oppose: Sysops shouldn't get into edit wars.However, if Eloquence votes to support, I will toggle my vote to support. --Uncle Ed 22:22, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Ah, the joys of irony! My point being that as I've only been in 1 edit war, I don't go looking for them (and I didn't start that one). As the outcome was that we got date formats made a user preference, I think I can safely claim that most people were happy with the result of it :) Arwel
  • So you're asking that Eloquence (and probably most sysops, myself included) be de-opped for being involved in an edit war? We look for good behavior with the hope that this good behavior continues when one is a sysop. Deteriorating behavior once a user gains this status should not be permitted. --Jiang 23:01, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Edit wars can't always be avoided, sadly, for example, when not reverting a certain change for too long would mean that work that has already been done needs to be done again. In any case, I don't see that as sufficient reason to oppose Arwel's sysop status.—Eloquence 10:50, Oct 10, 2003 (UTC)
• Support: a solid contributor, I'me surprised he isn't one already G-Man 22:56, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Support. I've known Arwel elsenet for quite a while, and he's sensible and calm. (As a side note, if we de-sysop'd everyone who's ever been in an edit war, there'd be almost no sysops left, and Ed wouldn't be one of them. I probably wouldn't either.) Vicki Rosenzweig 23:16, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Support. About 1000 edits going back to February. Re: edit wars, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone" Fuzheado
• Support. Looks good.Ark30inf 05:37, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Aye. -- sugarfish 06:38, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Support. *blush* Ah, the sadness of irony! :-( I utterly misconstrued Arwel's point and hereby reverse my hasty vote. I can already feel Treebeard's eyes on me... --Uncle Ed 14:21, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Snoyes

• Snoyes has been among us since February and made about 1500 edits. He's been doing reverts & some copyright inquiries. See also Special:Contributions/Snoyes. --Menchi 01:05, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • I had a look at his contributions. Support. -- Cyan 04:40, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Vancouverguy 01:43, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. I thought that Snoyes already was a sysop! --Uncle Ed 01:52, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. -- Jake 06:59, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Thanks for the support. After having read Misplaced Pages:Administrators, I have decided to accept. I'll re-subscribe to the relevant mailing lists to be better informed about current debates. snoyes 15:53, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Is this still on ;-) ? --snoyes 18:29, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • It can take some time. The developers seem to like to do this in large batches. -- Cyan
    • I see, thanks for the answer. --snoyes 18:37, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)
      • It took over two weeks in my case. Enjoy the wait. :) -- sugarfish 03:58, 8 Oct 2003 (UTC)
        • A well-defined policy would make me slightly less anxious about doing this myself. What should the minimum listing time be? How many people need to give their assent? Snoyes is a now sysop, BTW. -- Tim Starling 04:54, Oct 8, 2003 (UTC)
      • According to comments made to me by User:Notheruser and User:Angela while I was in sysop-promotion limbo, promotion requires two other users voicing support. I'm not sure how things are resolved if someone voices dissent. -- Cyan 05:17, 8 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Jakenelson

I know I haven't been here long, so I can understand if people say no, but I've become quite the addict here... and I'm tired of having revert wars with anon IP vandals (12.65.43.243, 68.5.127.81, I think another I've forgotten), plus I'd like to be able to delete utter junk pages myself. (On a semi-separate side note (noticing past namechanges at point of adminship), I wonder if it'd be possible for my username to be changed to Jake? It's listed as in use, but the user's made no edits. If not, I'd kind of prefer Jake Nelson to my current Jakenelson.) Thanks, Jake 10:53, 2003 Sep 20 (UTC)

• I had a look at his contributions. Support. -- Cyan 04:40, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
• Me too. Support -- sugarfish 04:22, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)
• Promoted. --Uncle Ed 23:33, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Thank you! I'll do my best. -- Jake 06:57, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)

sugarfish

Can I be an Admin please? Well, I'm fairly new here (about 3 months) and I'm completely hooked. There's no real rhyme or reason to what I edit, but I'm working my way through 80s music... slowly, and doing a lot of good stuff with American History, which ain't bad for a Brit! So I figured... why not? -- sugarfish 07:50, 17 Sep 2003 (UTC)

• I don't see why not.Vancouverguy 02:24, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
• ~1000 edits so far...looks good to me. --Jiang 02:40, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
• I vote in favour -- Cabalamat 03:40, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
• Support. -- Cyan 04:41, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
• Support: a quick view of his contribution history shows plenty of dedication and no worries, in my opinion. Jwrosenzweig 04:49, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
• Promoted. --Uncle Ed 23:33, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Stan Shebs

• Has been here since at least January and has made many thousands of edits in that time. Huge contributions to things like WikiProject Ships. Angela 03:46, Oct 2, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support.Vancouverguy 03:51, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • I support. Adam Bishop 03:53, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)

• • Support. Ark30inf 03:54, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Mee too. Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 04:22, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Yep. --Menchi 04:39, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Also support. - Hephaestos 04:42, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Ditto. Alex756 05:34, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Couldn't agree more. Kosebamse 11:17, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Thanks all! I accept. Does this mean I have to get involved in all the edit wars now? :-) Stan 14:03, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Promoted. --Uncle Ed 23:33, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Ark30inf

• User:Ark30inf. Some great work, and very prolific. Also handy for dealing with vandals. RickK 03:12, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Second. Ark30inf would be a great admin. Angela 03:51, Sep 21, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. - Hephaestos 03:55, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. -- Cyan 04:30, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • Thank you all. Its a bit surprising. If this occurs I'll try to do an honorable job of it. - Ark30inf 05:37, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
      • I was justing coming over here to nominate Ark myself. It is over due Smith03 23:36, 22 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. S/he'd make a great admin. -- Jwrosenzweig 22:40, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Supported. -- Schnee 13:46, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)
• Promoted. --Uncle Ed 23:33, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC)