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Keegan

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I am Keegan, that is my true first name. I am 28 years old, and I reside in the Central Time zone of the United States.

I have been a consumer of Misplaced Pages for nearly six years (fall '03), five years as an editor by IP (fall '04), four years as an account(fall '05), and I have been a sysop for just shy of three years (fall '06).

I serve the Foundation as an OTRS volunteer, working with info and sister projects primarily but access to permissions and photosubmissions in case the need arrives or I run out of other things to do. I am not a sysop on any other project, but sister projects causes me to keep an eye out on other Foundation wikis. This work occasionally includes coordinating with administrators on other projects in dealing with privacy issues.

I can aid Misplaced Pages by serving as a functionary of the project/Foundation with Oversight. I am calm, civil, communicative and have a solid understanding of the Wikimedia Foundation's Privacy Policy and how it is meant to work in conjunction with individual projects. Oversight requires the delicate touch of privacy, transparency, trust, and knowing when to suppress an edit and when to tell someone no. It's quite the high-wire act, but I have great balance. I am not an article writer, I make no bones about it. I wish to aid the project and the community however possible by maintaining what others have taken their time to write; Oversight is one of those spots that I can fill to give back for the knowledge that others have given me.

If you are unfamiliar with me (I'm not the most active of this slate at clicking "edit"), please do have a hearty look over my contributions and my logs. I have requested Oversight many times over the years and to my recollection all requests have been valid and acted upon accordingly, including dealing with some well know long-term vandals and other cross-wiki issues. I am available here for questions or concerns or by my email. Keegan (talk) 04:48, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Comments and questions for Keegan

• Question from Aitias (added 00:03, 26 July 2009 (UTC)): Obviously, you would not have nominated yourself if you did not believe that there is a realistic chance to be elected. Why do you feel that you of all people should be one of those which will be elected? Do you, for example, reckon that you are better qualified than the other candidates?

  I'll answer the second question first, because it is the short response of the two: I do not consider myself to be better qualified than any other candidate.

  Now for the first question, which is a bit more complicated: I do not think that I should be one of the ones elected. I believe that I can be one of the ones elected. My feelings on UserRights are adequately covered in two essays I wrote, located here and here. My experience in my physical life as well as my digital one leaves me confident that I can fulfill the job as required. Oversight requires a delicate touch and is not a measure of status or gravitas; it serves as a function to protect both the privacy of others and the project in itself. Now, the actual act of oversight or revision supression undertaken is a different issue, because it has status and gravitas. To perform an oversight function requires the trust of the community, which is implicit in the results of an election. To just say "Trust me" smacks of ego when there is no confidence to boot. Perceptions of status are just that: perceptions. I convey no special privilege to any one user. I hope this adequately addresses your questions. Keegan (talk) 03:47, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

• Question from Mailer Diablo 04:10, 28 July 2009 (UTC): How would you deal with editors/vandals/requestors/lawyers who attempt to creatively stretch the Oversight/Suppression policy, be it making an edit or making a request for suppression?

  Easy to answer now, since I know of better ways to deal with such situations. I would not. Previously I was engaged in a debate in which I deleted an article after a legal threat. However, that was an unusual sequence of events that, for privacy reasons, cannot be outlined. I learned my lesson about the proper process under such duress. I have since run across multiple scenarios that have been properly remedied without disruption. Keegan (talk) 04:23, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Votes in support of Keegan

2. Vicenarian 00:03, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
3. –Juliancolton |  00:06, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
4. Majorly talk 00:18, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
5. iMatthew  at 00:19, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
6. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:24, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
7. Prodego 00:27, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
8. (X! · talk)  · @065  ·  00:33, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
9. JamieS93 00:50, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
10. --Aqwis (talk) 00:57, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
11.  Chzz  ►  01:03, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
12. Support. — Aitias // discussion 01:04, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
13. Triplestop x3 01:16, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
14. Hersfold 02:57, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
15. –blurpeace 03:34, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
16. Jehochman 03:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
17. EVula // talk // ☯ // 04:35, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
18. 龗 (talk) 04:56, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

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