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


A: I do a lot of low-profile tedious 'grunt' work, category creation for example, following on from the patterns that have been set before. Cleaning up stubs A: I do a lot of low-profile tedious 'grunt' work, category creation for example, following on from the patterns that have been set before. Cleaning up stubs, XFD, etc. I hope that the admin tools will increase my effectiveness in this work, and as I get more familiar, I'll hope to start contributing more widely. I'll stay mainly within WP:MILHIST, as I have done, unless I have specific familiarity with an issue.
A: Over the past several months, I've learned what I'm good at, and what I feel comfortable participating in. They include primarily XFD, and AIV, and that is what I will start out working on as an administrator. Granted, I will start out slow, and get a feel for the mop before I dive right in. As I become more familiar with the tools, I'll branch our into various processes, though I still indent to spend the majority of my time doing what I do know—article writing and maintenance. Of course, I'll also benefit from the tools in those areas.

A: I intend to initially focus on articles on topics which I know the most about - military history topics, alternative bands and Australian politics. I hope to be able to help protect these articles from attacks from vandals and spammers, contribute to AfD debates and help mediate any disputes which arise. As I gain confidence in the role I will look to contribute in other ways, but won't venture into disputes over topics I don't know anything about as I don't think that that would be helpful.

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



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  • A British Plan to Invade England, 1941

John P. Campbell The Journal of Military History, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Oct., 1994), pp. 663-684 doi:10.2307/2944273 This article consists of 22 page(s).

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Admin

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

A: I do a lot of low-profile tedious 'grunt' work, category creation for example, following on from the patterns that have been set before. Cleaning up stubs, XFD, etc. I hope that the admin tools will increase my effectiveness in this work, and as I get more familiar, I'll hope to start contributing more widely. I'll stay mainly within WP:MILHIST, as I have done, unless I have specific familiarity with an issue.

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

A: I've tried to focus my work on militaries that are not covered by our US-heavy systematic bias. I've got two articles to featured status, Russian Ground Forces and Military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with much help by others, but have made hundreds of edits to other lesser-known militaries, like Liberia, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Iran (like 92nd Armored Division) as well as creating all the Russian military districts (bar two), all the Chinese military regions, and a large number of Russian army and division articles, plus the main list articles List of Armies of the Soviet Union and Divisions of the Soviet Union 1917-1945. Within the MILHIST project I contribute regularly to policy discussions - I suggested the Top Ten Team, though there had been earlier discussions on the subject - and do grunt work, trying to clean up Category:Military stubs and Category:Military history articles with no associated task force. I've created numerous categories to order our collection of military unit articles and done a good deal of work on U.S. and British units as well, notably current British infantry brigades.

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: Previously I've been involved in several very minor conflicts, and one major, long-running dispute, over the actions of user:Mrg3105 (in common with dozens of other editors). Mrg is extremely single-minded, and does not believe much in WP:Consensus. I tried to remain civil and rational, pretty successfully I believe, and sort things out in cooperation with other editors, often including the coordinators of the WP:MILHIST project. Mrg3105 has now been given several blocks, and is now under a community editing restriction, and is behaving himself. Since he was placed under that restriction I've had no further conflicts with him.