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BuickCenturyDriver

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Nomination

BuickCenturyDriver (talk · contribs) – After 3+ year and over 5000 edits I think I am ready to take my Misplaced Pages experiance to the next level. I've considered adminship many times but feel the aforementioned experiance could make me a good candidate. The number of people getting nominated has dwindled lately so perhaps this could be me chance. I have been editing since 2007 and am proud of my history, by in large. I especially enjoy editing baseball related articles. I think I could be trusted with the extra tools since I've been able to use rollback without any problem though I haven't used reviewer very much since the feature is new. However the rollbacker has come in handy and I think I could handle the other toold such as blocking and unblocking without any backlash. Though there are users with a lot more edits in a shorter wikilife than me, I think experiance could help, though I'm open to addressing any question and opposition as best I can. from–BuickCenturyDriver 02:05, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

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

A: I intend to work with unblock requests, I enjoy reading them and feel a lot of disruptive users come from the fact that they get refused unblock requests and many go on to take their frustration on the site. A second chance usually is a way to tell them "don't say we didn't warn you if you get blocked again". I could also close AFDs and delete them myself. I have a whole list of AFDs which I nominated on my userpage though I usually don't close an article which the consensus is delete since I can't do it myself.

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

A: I can answer this one easily. My two best articles I've created are a the 1978 American League East tie-breaker game and the {{ipsock}} template which help tag IPs belonging to a specific user. The template has been so well received by the community that has been protected so it feels strange not to be able to edit a template that I've introduced and heavily contributed to. I've contributed to create many other playoff page games and received credit for creating a good article on Misplaced Pages.

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: The achillies heel I have on the site is uploading images. I've uploaded images that are copyrighted but were deleted since I didn't know which tags should be used, I usually don't make attempts to upload them again to avoid edit wars. As far as interacting with other editors I haven't had any chronic grudges that I would know of.

Additional optional questions from MC10

4. When should cool down blocks be used, and why?

A:Considering that this is a very short block it should be used to warn a user that's making a lot of disruptive edits in succession or to stop a confict from getting out of hand. Generally a standard first block for me would be a 24 hour block after that user was warned but stubbornly kept up his or her unruly behavior. I would rarely consider the CBD discussed in the blocking policy.

5. What is the difference between a ban and a block?

A:A block is a technical measure which disables your abily to edit under that name or IP. A user blocked generally is forbidden from evasive measure such as creating new usernames unless the initial block is resolved. A ban is a formal measure taken by the community or Arbitration Committee against a user forbidding any editing from editing under anyname. Basically if no one is willing to lift a block on a given editor or if that given editor's contributions are reverted without question, He or She is banned.

6. What is your view on ignoring all rules?

A:This should only be invoked when all parties invoking it will agree with its use. If it results in a conflict it should not be used. Case in point, we generally have a "one per customer" rule on account with sysop priviliges but we've allowed editord to have certain bots to be upgraded as well as keep access on their primary accounts since they further the project. Since most would agree, IAR is okay.–BuickCenturyDriver 03:37, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Additional optional question from The Utahraptor

7. Imagine for a minute that you have recently blocked a POV-pusher. They request to be unblocked, and say that they weren't trying to be pushy. What do you do?

A:

General comments

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Discussion

• Edit stats posted to the talk page.  7  03:15, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

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1. It seems you are decently acquainted with "the Misplaced Pages way", however, your answers to the above questions leave something to be desired. I'm not going to to say "not now",as you've been here a while, but I honestly think administrators should be able to upload images. Additionally, to combat the "RfA problem", you seem like a good candidate someday. To conclude, I feel as if the problem is not that you aren't experienced enough; it's that your answers need a little tightening for meaning. ǝɥʇM0N0 03:16, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

   I've added your signature back, which seemed to have not been added to this page (only the timestamp was there). —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 03:19, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

   Thanks. Probably used ~~~~~ instead of ~~~~. ǝɥʇM0N0 03:26, 9 November 2010 (UTC)