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Doniago

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (2/0/0); Scheduled to end 17:15, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Nomination

Doniago (talk · contribs) – Ladies and gentlemen , I would like to present User:Doniago for your consideration. I have encountered him on several occasions and was surprised he was not an administrator already due to his calm demeanor. Doniago first joined the project in May 2008 and has accumulated 50,000 edits since then. He is active in Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Film and does a lot of gnomish edits including vandal patrol. When I approached him about the bit, he said "I tend to believe that sometimes the people best able to handle additional power, as it were, are the ones who aren't specifically looking for it." This is the perfect attitude to have, since it shows he is not seeking the mop as a source of power but rather an opportunity. He will be a net positive with the tools. ~EDDY ~ 15:06, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:I would like to thank EDDY for the faith and confidence that they have shown in me by nominating me for adminship. I am surprised and grateful to be spoken of as they have done above, and I am happy to accept their nomination. DonIago (talk) 17:03, 21 August 2015 (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: Based on my practical experience with Misplaced Pages, I believe my skills could best be utilized off the bat at WP:RFPP, WP:3RN and WP:AIV. That said, while this may sound a bit wishy-washy, I have no objection to learning about other areas of Misplaced Pages where it is felt that increased administrator presence would be an asset. The majority of my knowledge of Misplaced Pages has been self-taught, which is to say that when I learn about situations where I think I can help out, I try to do so.

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

A: At the risk of sounding overly-humble, I daresay my best contributions have been the "little things". As noted by Editorofthewiki (talk · contribs) I have been active at WP:FILM, including in conversations that led to refinements to related infoboxes and the Manual of Style. I played a primary role in developing Template:Uw-plotsum1 and Template:Uw-plotsum2, user warning templates that the community seemed to feel were helpful in cases where an editor was adding too much detail to the plot summary of an article (film or otherwise), and which were recently added to WP:WARN.

I have also been very concerned with and active with regards to Misplaced Pages's verifiability policy and have participated in multiple conversations there. This stems from the fact that one of the activities I regularly partake in is patrolling new edits, and I take particular interest in cases where editors are adding information without providing reliable sources. It could probably be said in all fairness that I tend towards the deletionist side of the spectrum, though I make an effort both to inform editors about the verifiability guidelines and assist them where I can.

On another front, I was heavily involved in a discussion regarding appropriate usage of the Religion field at Template talk:Infobox person/Archive 26#Straw poll. When conversation there was, in my estimation, becoming difficult to manage, I started a straw poll to try to gain a more clear understanding of what editors' opinions where. I feel this was a generally successful effort that led to a path forward.

More recently I've taken more of an interest in both AfD and CfD, moreso the latter. I've also been monitoring RfCs in areas where I think I may have useful input and have contributed on occasion.

The blunt truth is that for the most part I'm a gnome. It's where I'm most comfortable in my involvement with the project and I think working in this capacity plays to my best strengths.

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: Quite recently I was involved in a disagreement at Talk:Inception#Analysis of the ending. Because a limited number of editors were involved in the dispute, I solicited additional opinions at WT:FILM. When the conversation continued with a limited number of editors and it, in my mind, was no longer being productive, I proposed an informal closure of the discussion. When no editors supported by motion, I let the matter drop, understanding that I had no consensus for how I felt matters should progress.

I think it would be safe to say that the majority of arguments I find myself in here revolve around my removal of unsourced information. While these situations have generally been localized to either my Talk page or the appropriate article's Talk page, they have on occasion been escalated to WP:ANI (recent examples and ) and I believe it would be fair to say that the feeling is that while my actions with regards to unsourced material may not always be "best practice", they are well within policy.

I think in the end it all, perhaps unsurprisingly, comes down to WP:CONSENSUS and knowing when to walk away from an argument. If I'm the only editor who can or will take my side, I have to consider that I probably don't have a very good leg to stand on with regards to Misplaced Pages. If other editors support my perspective, then what's most important is to be civil and try to find a compromise that will satisfy as many editors as possible. I think it could be argued that one of the greatest problems that can emerge in any debate here is editors who become entrenched in their views and lose flexibility.

Discussion

• Links for Doniago: Doniago (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for Doniago can be found here.

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review his contributions before commenting.

Support

1. Support as nom. ~EDDY ~ 17:11, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
2. Support - Adequate tenure (very active since March 2009, more than 50K edits), clean block log, no indications of assholery. Excellent content-creator's sort of contributions graph. Good luck. Carrite (talk) 17:43, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

General comments