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Excirial

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Excirial (talk · contribs) - Excirial is a very experienced Misplaced Pages user who has been on Misplaced Pages for 9 months. During those nine months Excirial has tirelessly performed the admin-like tasks of vandalfighting and new page patrolling. Administrative tools would allow him to perform his tasks more efficiently and make Misplaced Pages a better, more reliable and professional encyclopedia. With his long Misplaced Pages experience, evidenced by his 25,00+ edits and nine months of experience, I believe we can trust him with the tools. From my experience seeing this user on vandalism patrols, and from his edits, I can see that making Excirial an administrator will help Misplaced Pages, while not exposing it to any risks. Natl1 (Talk Page) (Contribs) 18:18, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I feel truly honored by this nomination, and i will gladly accept it. Excirial 19:16, 11 July 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 admin work do you intend to take part in?

A: My main line of work on Misplaced Pages is vandalism and newpage patrol, which means that the obvious answers for this question are WP:AIAV and WP:RPP. Due to the nature of my work these are the pages i constantly encounter and work with as a non admin user, and as of such know best of all the admin pages. Other then these pages i am also specifically interested in working on WP:CSD, WP:UAA and WP:AFD as these are also sections i have worked with at times, and which could also use a hand every now and then.

I will not only work on the previously mentioned sections. I am interested in helping at whatever page that requires administrative attention; The project pages i specifically mentioned are merely the pages with which i have the most working experience, meaning that i am accustomed with their functioning. Other pages such as copyright issues would be completely new for me, and before taking any admin action on those i want to make sure i fully understand those pages as well.

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

A: My best contributions are probably the one i have made during Vandalism patrol, more due to the amount of them then due to their individual quality. The results of my editing i am actually most fond of is my cleaning of 1.5 months of WP:GEO backlog and the few articles i have created or substantially altered. For the more seasoned article writer these articles will be nothing special, but since they are so far from my regular work it felt like a real accomplishment that i actually managed to write and source a completely new article :).

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: Not counting the occasional wrath from an IP user who turns my user page in a swear farm, and also leaving out the occasional friendly misunderstanding, i have had only one major collision with a fellow editor about 7 months ago. For the people who like reading a full transcript is available in my talk archives..

I am not exactly proud of the way i initially handled this issue back then. While i still stand with my original opinion that the other two editors should have formulated their wording more politely, i can not say i stayed comfortably within the WP:CIV guidelines. I ended up opening a Wikiquette alert to get some form of feedback on my own, and the other editors handling of the issue. I have since that day double-checked my responses before posting them, as i had the habit of being cold/rude when trying to write in formal wording(Non native english user). As i have had no other major conflicts since then, i think that this issue hasnt been troubling me a lot since then. :)

Optional question from Keepscases

4. Do you believe a chimpanzee who demonstrates relatively superior intelligence and communication skills should be permitted to have a Misplaced Pages account?

A:

General comments

• See Excirial's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.

• Links for Excirial: Excirial (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/Excirial before commenting.

Discussion

Support

1. Nominator support- See the nomination statement.--Natl1 (Talk Page) (Contribs) 19:18, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
2. Strong Support Great editor healthy edit count. Will do a great job. Meets my Criteria!!

Oppose

1. Oppose at the moment as I can't see any significant mainspace contribs other than reverts. I don't think editors who haven't had the experience of putting large amounts of work into an article, and/or defending their work against well-intentioned but wrong "improvements" or especially AFD, are in a position to empathise with quite why editors get so angry when their work's deleted and/or The Wrong Version gets protected, and I don't support users who don't add content to the mainspace being given powers to overrule those who do; however, if you do have some significant article work that I've missed due to the "burying" effect that minor bulk edits have, I'll happily reconsider. – iridescent 19:21, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Neutral