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Mifter

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Nomination

Mifter (talk · contribs) – I am happy to be able to present Mifter to the community for consideration. Mifter first began contributing to Misplaced Pages back in February of last year, racking up over 11,000 edits. More importantly, however, is the quality of these edits. Mifter spends much of his time on Misplaced Pages helping out at WP:DYK, moving hooks around and generally being useful. He also has done good work moving free images to Commons. Mifter will obviously be an even greater asset in these two areas as an administrator.

Mifter has also consistently contributed to anti-vandalism efforts with recent changes patrol and new page patrol. His edits in these areas has also been of high quality, and I was happy to see very few problems with his work there on his talk page and archives. One final area of Mifter's contribution to Misplaced Pages I would like to highlight is his work at the account creator toolserver where he has worked steadily at, responsibly using the account creator userright. Considering the high quality of Mifter's edits, it can be seen that he will make an effective and helpful administrator if given the tools. Thank you for taking the time to consider Mifter as a candidate for adminship. Malinaccier (talk) 22:40, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I humbly accept this nomination, and I thank Malinaccier for this vote of confidence. Mifter (talk) 22:52, 30 May 2009 (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 administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: As an Administrator, I plan to focus primarily on WP:DYK which I have been helping out at for over a year now, and specifically on moving approved hooks into the DYK queues waiting for the DYKadminBot to move them onto the main page, I also plan to work in locally uploading and protecting images that are going to appear on the Main Page for DYK and occasionally for ITN, TFA, etc, which as is stated here is something that could use some more admin help. I also plan to help out at WP:AIV and WP:CSD on occasion although I plan to work mainly on DYK. Also, I will continue my work on moving Images to the commons which I have been doing for quiet a while now and the Admin tools would make it easier me to delete images locally once I had moved them to the Commons. Finally, I plan to do some work at WP:RPP although I will probably wait until I gain more experience as an Administrator before starting to help out here, I also plan work at the WP:NAS to gain experience before I actually start making use of the tools.

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

A: My best contributions to Misplaced Pages in my opinion are to Misplaced Pages:Did You Know and to WP:MITC, In terms of building the encyclopedia which I count as one of the most important things I have done during my about 1 ½ year tenure here at WP, I have written a few articles and my best among those FBI Buffalo Field Office, I have 2 DYK’s from articles that I have written or expanded, and I currently have 19 DYK nom credits and a few other DYK noms currently in the pipeline so to speak. I have also done quiet a large amount of work at WP:MITC which I also see as important, because the English Misplaced Pages has one the largest collections of free Images of all the Misplaced Pages’s, and I believe that it is important that we transfer images to the Commons so that other Wikipeidans on other Wikis and use them to improve the content on their wikis.

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: Fortunately, I have not been in any conflicts over editing in the past and I have never been caused stress by another editors actions, if I were ever to get into a conflict with another editor(s) over content or some other thing which I know will be more likely when I have the admin tools, I would always approach the conflict with a serious business like attitude always listening to the other users POW and their issues and I would work to reach an outcome that is appropriate to both me and the other editor(s), also in the event that I were ever to become flustered in dealing with another editor, I would immediately take a “step back” and think about the situation so I would not do anything rash or uncivil and I would also take a look at the issue and see how I could help to resolve the issue. I know that being an administrator can be stressful, but if I ever were to be faced with a conflict over my editing, I would be sure to keep my cool and to discuss to find a solution that is acceptable to all involved parties.

Additional optional questions from Timmeh

4 Why have your edit numbers (by month) been declining throughout this year, leading to just one edit in the month of April?

A: My edits had been declining throughout the last month and before because unfortunately I was getting quiet busy in Real Life, I am on a crew team and once our race season started earlier in the year, I unfortunately had less time to devote to Misplaced Pages than I wanted due to the increased practices and races, but being that my last race was last weekend and I have no more practices for a while, I should have lots more time to spend editing Misplaced Pages and getting back to what I love to do :). I hope that this answers your question and if you would like a clarification, please feel free to ask :). All the Best, Mifter (talk) 00:40, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Optional questions from User:Dlohcierekim

5.In reviewing new articles, is it better to delete an article that meets WP:CSD on sight, or to search for verifiable information with reliable sourcing that would show the subject to be notable? Does it make a difference as to which criteria the article meets?

A: That would really depend on the article, their are some articles that are obviously attack pages or pure nonsense and those should be deleted under WP:CSD on sight. But, for most other articles I feel that it is better to do a quick search to see if their is any readily available verifiable/reliable information that could assert that the article should not be speedy deleted and that in fact the subject is notable, and instead of being speedy deleted, it should be flagged for cleanup/rewrite. And, to a certain degree it does matter what WP:CSD category that an article is deleted under, something that is non-notable shouldn't be deleted as an attack page or an orphan talk page because the speedy deletion reasons help newer users realize why their article(s) were deleted and that helps them to not make the same mistakes in the future and a completely wrong speedy category could lead them in the wrong direction, but in some cases and article can fit more than one criteria e.g. it is a test page about a non-notable person, then in that case it could go in either or even both could be quoted in the deletion log as being reasons for it being speedied, so it does matter what criteria an article is speedied under, but it is possible for an article to fit into more than one category. I hope that this answers your question and if you would like a clarification, please feel free to ask :). Thanks All the Best, Mifter (talk) 00:49, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

6. Is there any set of circumstances in which you would block a user without them having received a full set of warnings?

A- Their are some circumstances where if a user is a blatant vandal (Making blatant personal attacks in the user or user talk namespaces, or obvious BLP related matters) that I would block without a full set of warnings, although I would never block if the user had less than 2 warnings because the first two warnings are generally kinder and most users who got past those and into the 3rd and 4th warnings generally have minimal intention of contributing constructively (Although I would prefer not to block without full warnings because even one constructive edit shows that a user has the potential to be a good contributor) and each case requires its own unique investigation and judgment, and also as B said here their is no entitlement to receive warning, they are done as a curiosity, but in most if not all cases, I would wait for a full set of warning to be given, unless the vandalism was blatant and the user showed no intention to contribute constructively. I hope that this answers your question and if you would like a clarification, please feel free to ask :). Thank you and All the Best, Mifter (talk) 00:59, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Additional optional questions from S Marshall

7. Scenario: You're closing an AfD. It's a subject with which you're not personally familiar — say, Eskimo marriage customs — and there are a total of twelve !votes including the nominator.

Nominator states: "Article contains no references from reliable sources, delete." Four other editors agree. Another user states: "References do exist", and cites a paper source by ISBN. She goes on to say, "Deleting this material would be another instance of systemic bias against non-caucasians. Besides, the article could be sourced, it just hasn't been sourced yet." Three other editors agree (but no changes are made to the article to actually source it during the AfD). Then an admin states: "Merge to Marriage Customs — sourced or not, there's not enough content here to justify a separate article at the moment." Two other editors agree.

How would you close? Please give reasons.

A: This is an interesting situation, when I first become and administrator, I will generally try to stay away from these kinds of AFD's and even when I have more experience, AFD is a field where I will probably not do much work. But, in this case what I would do is one of two things (1) I would research the one user's claim that their is are reliable sources and then if their were some readily available I would suspend the AFD for a few days asking those who were in favor of keeping the article to make whatever sourcing changes they wished to improve the article and the after that time was up, I would re-list the AFD to gain a new consensus and then I would rule based on the new consensus wither it be to keep, delete, or to merge to article, Misplaced Pages is not a democracy and the number of !votes does not always determine consensus, and because of that I would allow for some improvements in the article because their were sources out their and once those who thought it should be kept had made whatever improvements they wished, then I would let the AFD run its course and then merge, delete, or keep the article based on the new AFD. Either that or I would do (2) I would also invite another neutral administrator to render their opinion on how the AFD should be closed and I would then discuss it with that administrator I would close the article based on what me and the other administrator had decided (Also, I would bring the discussion the the WP:VP or other administrators if necessary) and then I would write a detailed explanation on why I decided to close it the way I did. I hope that this adequately answers your question and if you would like a clarification, please feel free to ask me :). All the Best, Mifter (talk) 01:16, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Question from Sandstein

8. You are reviewing the unblock request of an editor who was blocked for a month for disruptive editing. You agree with the blocked editor's argument that the block is excessively long and seems to be punitive rather than preventative. You also notice that the block has been under discussion at WP:ANI for about eight hours, with some ten uninvolved editors supporting the block and eight others arguing that it should be lifted or reduced in length. What, if anything, do you do as an administrator in this situation?  Sandstein  06:49, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

A: Being that the matter was currently being discussed at WP:AN/I I would not unblock the user or do anything else concerning this matter until the discussion at WP:ANI had been resolved, and the only other thing I might do in this matter is I might go and join the discussion at WP:ANI but otherwise I would not perform any administrative actions on the matter until the discussion at WP:ANI had been resolved. I hope that this adequately answers your question and if you would like a clarification, please feel free to ask me :). Thanks and All the Best, Mifter (talk) 12:39, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Additional optional questions from Groomtech

9. Do you believe that Wikipedians have rights? If so, what will you do to uphold them?

A:

Optional question from Keepscases

10. Were these definitions provided by you? http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=mifter

A:

General comments

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• Edit summary usage for Mifter can be found here.

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Mifter before commenting.

Discussion

User:Neurolysis/Counters.js

Support

1. Support. As nominator. Best of luck, Mifter! :) Malinaccier (talk) 22:56, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
2. Support. No reason to believe they'd misuse the tools. –Juliancolton |  23:01, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
3. Support I thought you were an admin already. :-) Meetare Shappy 23:07, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
4. I see no reason to suggest that user will misuse tools.--(NGG) 23:09, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
5. Support No worries.--Giants27 (t|c|r|s) 23:16, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
6. More than happy to support you. Steve Crossin /_{Help us mediate!} 23:49, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
7. Support No issues. America69 (talk) 00:42, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
8. Support Good answers to questions, I think he will help the project with the bits. tempodivalse  01:53, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
9. Support   «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»  (talk) 01:54, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
10. trust nominator. meets my standards. liked answers for my questions. primary area of interest is area where more admin support is needed, and in which candidate has experience. review turned up nothing troubling. Dlohcierekim 02:04, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
11. Support as work at DYK has been excellent and they need more help. I see no evidence the editor would abuse the tools. ···日本穣 02:17, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
12. Go for it! I'm satisfied with your answer to #6. A wave to Malinaccier for entrusting me with the rollback :) –BuickCenturyDriver 03:26, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
13. Support. Per Q7, this candidate doesn't understand AfD, and those weren't the actions I would expect, but what they do show is, when in doubt, this candidate shows a desire to seek consensus before performing an administrative action.—S Marshall /_Cont 09:38, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
14. Support. →Nagy 10:47, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
15. Support SUL 10:59, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
16. Support:Candidate seems reliable, trustworthy & dependable & the more people helping at DYK the better I say. Good luck Mifter. Dottydotdot (talk) 13:44, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
17. Support No indication Mifter would misuse the tools, and my question was answered satisfactorily. Timmeh!_{(review me)} 16:10, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose per answer to Q6. The response sounds like the editor would be counting warning "levels" and waiting for the "magic number" before issuing what would be an obvious block. Nakon 05:34, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

   Please allow me to clarify my answer to Q6 for you :), what I meant when I said “that I would never block with less than 2 warnings” is that I would very very rarely bordering on never block with less than two warnings although as you brought up there is no "magic number" of warnings that a user requires before they should receive a block, e.g. in some cases a repeat vandal might just be given a level 4im warning and then after that if they were a repeat vandal making blatant vandalism, then I might block them with only that level 4im warning and I would not hold of on making a block due to the lack of warnings, what I generally meant to say, is that I would not generally block without the full set of warnings and the chance of me issuing a block decreases drastically for each warning the user has not received and I only meant that blocking for less than 2 warnings is something that I would rarely do except in extenuating circumstances and also that each individual situation requires its own unique judgment call. In addition, in cases I would prefer to err of the side of caution especially once I first get the tools before doing more complex administrator actions that require a bit of experience to make a good judgment in. I would also like to thank you for taking the time to bring this up and voice your opinion on me becoming an administrator :), and if you have any questions you would like to ask me or if you would like a clarification on any of my answers to the above questions, please feel free to ask me :). Thanks and All the Best, Mifter (talk) 12:23, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

2. little in the way of noticeboard contributions or dispute resolution experience, little audited content contributions. --Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs 14:33, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
3. Per Fuchs above. Peter Damian (talk) 15:19, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Neutral

1. I haven't reviewed the candidate's contributions fully, but I am concerned that their talkpage contributions (editor, article, project, user) show almost no experience in editorial discussions. For an editor who has been active for over a year, that is quite unusual. How are we to assess Mifter's judgement with so little to go on?  Skomorokh  23:13, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

   While I do not deny that his talk page is a little bare lately, I have found that most of Mifter's communication with other editors deals with DYK, and so is in a less conventional "venue." He has made comments at WT:DYK, and at TT:DYK (although many of his edits there are simple notices that he has approved hooks, there are also instances in which he communicates with the editors there). Also, (while I know it has been a while) Mifter has contributed to discussions at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject_Law_Enforcement. I hope this helps you out, Malinaccier (talk) 23:28, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

   I'll definitely take a look. Thanks Malinaccier.  Skomorokh  23:30, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

   Having gone through the DYK and WT:LE contribs, I still see no indication that the candidate has ever been involved in substantive or contentious discussions. It's very difficult to predict based on their past behaviour how they would comport themselves if one of their decisions as an administrator was challenged. Mifter seems to have a great attitude, and the quality of their contributions is impressive. The nature of their edits however make the candidate an unknown quantity as an administrator, and this combined with their rather limited experience in the article and project namespaces make me very reticent to support.  Skomorokh  03:39, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

2. Neutral. Nice DYK work, it would be good to have another helping admin on board. Helpful editor, and would probably be fine with extra tools. However, I'm not sure at this point, mainly because I haven't reviewed the candidate's AIV and CSD work, two areas that need to be treated with care as an admin. Best, JamieS93 15:29, 31 May 2009 (UTC)