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Ktr101

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Nomination

Ktr101 (talk · contribs) – K. Rutherford is a well respected and highly intelligence Misplaced Pages user, editor, and author. I have dealt with him on multiple occasions editing United States Air Force unit pages. As my first couple comments and criticisms came from Ktr101, I took a look at what they've accomplished before I replied. To say I was surprised would be an understatement. Kevin took a model template for the unit pages and expanded the Air National Guard units, encompassing many new pages. Delving further into his edits, I noticed he has kept a good hold on pages dealing with Massachusetts and Cape Cod. One of the areas in which Ktr101 can help immensely as an Admin is throughout the military unit pages - no one seems to have taken charge in this area, and continuity between pages is horrendous. He has the ability, the interest, and since his last RfA, plenty of experience. TDRSS (talk) 01:31, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept this nomination from User:Tdrss.

Over the past 21 months, I have been able to experience all the things that Misplaced Pages has to offer. I've started my edits by originally creating pages that were simple stubs, and have gone from there to get 102nd Intelligence Wing nominated to Good Article status.

Originally I was one of the many plagarizers of the site, and looking back at it, I never should have plagarized. On the plus side of that action, I have become better at citations. I am also one who backs up all that I write. Because of this, I have never intentionally written in anything that could be taken the wrong way or is false, as I know that that is never looked highly upon here.

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: I have a few ideas that I would like to implement should I become an administrator. One of these is maybe having an administrator urgent notice board. I know that there is an adminstrator noticeboard, but there are some situations where urgent attention is needed. For example, if a user is vandalizing a page and some user wants to stop this, they have to either post it on the board or find an active administrator who will swiftly deal with the situation. There is also no guarantee that there will be an active administrator when the probability of them being online is figured out. I believe that if we had a "bells and whistles" urgent notice, like the kind that pops up when there is a new message, then there might be a bit less backup on this site and this could raise the public image of administrators throughout the project. I think that that would be a great addition to the site, and I would enjoy being an active participant in it.

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

A: This is a hard question. Having made many edits on this site, I really cannot decide my best edit. In past RFAs, I had said that I had taken pride in my Air National Guard pages, but the truth is, I really am proud of all of them. This is because I passionately edit the site through good health and bad (try editing with a fever), and I have only regretted the edits that I made within the first few weeks here, when I pretty much plagarized things off the web. As those times are long past, I am looking into the future realizing that I have many more edits to go here. I will always love my work, because otherwise I would've stopped working on this site months ago. In the end, my best work is that with which I have done careful research for, and which has provided the base for many great articles.

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: Edit conflicts are a pain, but they are also a learning experience. I rarely encounter these conflicts, as I edit fairly stable pages. The most recent one that I encountered was when I was trying to add information on Michael Jackson's death, and a combination of the site crashing because of the traffic and the multitude of editors with information made this rather stressful. Because I am normally a laid back person, I was able to just sigh when I learned that all of my edits were erased, and I began to rewrite what was just lost.

About a year ago, I was tinkering around with the Air National Guard by state template when I noticed that there was a dead link to that of New York. When I clicked on the link, I was directed to New York State Air National Guard. Apparently, one editor thought that it would be a great idea to move the state of New York page to New York State. Although I was never part of the discussion on the talk page for the move, I objected to the move and I even notified an administrator about the controversy. The administrator eventually reverted the edit in question, and all became well.

I believe that conflicts can be avoided by good communication between well-meaning users, and this can help to keep the site sane. Otherwise, there is the potential for chaos to be born.

Optional question from Keepscases

4. Are there any sections of Misplaced Pages in which you believe flirtation between users is acceptable? If so, which are they and why? A:

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• Editing stats posted at the talk page. --javert (stargaze) 01:47, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

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