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Here you can make a request for adminship. See Misplaced Pages:Administrators for what this entails and for a list of current admins.

Guidelines

Current Misplaced Pages policy is to grant administrator status to anyone who has been an active Misplaced Pages contributor for a while and is generally a known and trusted member of the community. Most users seem to agree that the more administrators there are the better.

Wikipedians are more likely to support the candidacy of people who have been logged-on contributors for some months and contributed to and created a variety of articles over that time without often getting into conflicts with other users.

If you want to nominate yourself to become an administrator, it is recommended that you wait until you have been a user for six months with a good number of edits. Then, add your name to the list below. Any user can comment on your request—they might express reservations (because, for example, they suspect you will abuse your new-found powers, or if you've joined very recently), but hopefully they will approve and say lovely things about you.

After a 7 day period for comments, if there is general agreement that someone who requests adminship should be given it, then a developer will make it so and record that fact at Misplaced Pages:Recently created admins.

Requests for adminship

DavidLevinson

• Question ... not sure who to direct it to. According to this page, (and Misplaced Pages:Administrators I was made an admin last month or so, but nothing ever happened, that is I don't have any super-heroic powers. How might this be remedied? (btw, My superhero power of choice is Early Edition powers, the ability to know tomorrow's news today.) Thanks dml
  • I just ran a query to check and he's definitely not one. The Misplaced Pages:Recently created admins shows full support for making him one. Angela. 23:36, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • Our software stores user information not only in the database but also in memcached. If a developer makes someone a sysop in the database but doesn't clear the memcached key, the user can be spontaneously de-sysopped. This occurs because if a change is made to the user data, the script loads it from memcached and then saves it to the database. If anyone finds that they are not a sysop when they have been told they are, they should report it immediately. Fixed in this case. -- Tim Starling 00:25, Dec 15, 2003 (UTC)
      • Much thanks dml

SimonP

• User:SimonP I've been here for over two years and have some 5000 edits. In recent weeks I have come across a handful of situations where I have desired to delete some blatant junk or move a page but have been unable to do so, and thus feel it might be time to finally take the plunge into sysophood. - SimonP 23:10, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support - you've always been a pleasure to work with on Canada-related articles. Adam Bishop 23:15, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support -- Arwel 23:18, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Angela. 23:36, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Though at least one line in the User: page would be nice. :) Fuzheado 23:49, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Greenmountainboy

• User:greenmountainboy I've been here for a while, and I guess it might be nice if i got do some vandalism quashing while equipped with sysop power. I don't know if there is a minimum edit requirement, but if there is I think I meet it. (I saw another user just get adminship with less than 600, and I have more than 700. BTW, is there a way to quickly count ones edits without pasting into microsoft word?) Oh yeah, in case you are wondering, i get along with everyone and I am good at staying cool when others are fighting. Peace out, may the force be with you, etc, etc, etc. Greenmountainboy 18:39, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • You need to be here a lot longer than five days before you can be a sysop. There is no way people can judge whether you are trustworthy in such a short time. Angela. 18:43, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Oppose. I really, really wish new users would stop pointing to me as a precedent for quick adminship. Give it another two months. Pakaran 21:54, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Is this some kind of double standard Pakaran? If you believe that people shouldn't have adminship this early, then you could always have refused to accept. Regardless, this user has more edits than you had, and seems to be a solid contributor. Alexandros 22:30, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • In the spirit of full disclosure, is it worth mentioning that Alexandros and Greenmountainboy go to the same school (high school or larger university school I don't know)? Pete/Pcb21 (talk)
    • Hmm, can you not tell the difference between 5 days and 3 months? --snoyes 22:48, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • It's not about double standards as Pakaran was nominated by another sysop, rather than requesting adminship himself. The guidelines at the top of this page do state "it is recommended that you wait until you have been a user for six months". Angela. 22:57, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Looks like a good contributer, but more time is needed. --snoyes 22:49, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Regardless of how good a contributor he is, less than a week's experience is far too little. -- Arwel 23:18, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • If this is the case, does that mean someone should remove me from the page? Im sorry about all the trouble ive caused. :-( Greenmountainboy 23:52, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • You didn't cause any trouble. It's a little soon to remove the request but you can remove it anytime you want. silsor 00:01, Dec 15, 2003 (UTC)
    • Trouble... what trouble? As with everything, trial-and-error is the normal way to learn, and this trial has helped you to know that people around here valuate your work and hope to see you helping. After a while (some prudently say 6 months, I'd say several months) someone will nominate you. I am sure of that. Pfortuny 08:40, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Way too new. Daniel Quinlan 17:08, Dec 15, 2003 (UTC)

Raul654

• User:Raul654: I'd like to be an admin. I've been here since August and in that time, I've made 943 edits (mostly science, science fiction, computer, or history related - most of my time is put into writing new articles or massively expanding existing ones). The reason I ask is that I want vandalism quashing powers. --Raul654 11:35, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Support. Alexandros 16:17, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Have you been involved in any disagreements we can look at, to see how you acted during them? I like what I've seen of your general editing. Jamesday 16:48, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I think this() is a excellent example of Raul654's diplomatic demeanor that he displays when resolving issues. He is quite pleasent to converse with. Alexandros 17:17, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Three that I can think of. (1) On the List of Famous Experiments, someone (user: DJ Clayworth) moved all of the chemistry experiments into physics. To me, this was not an improvement, so I moved them back, without realizing he had made an entry into the discussion page. I apologized and we talked it out on the discussion page. (2) The second one was on Lee Atwater. I admit it - the original article I wrote was POV (it's pretty hard to write NPOV for a hatchetman). Other people came in and changed it, and the only change I objected to was calling bounce polling a research technique (it's not - see Talk:Lee Atwater) (3) On the Theory of everything page, someone posted about Gene Ray. I took it out, believing it has no place an encylopedia (at best, he's a crank). Most of the subsequent edits pretty much bear that out. In the end, someone created the List of speculative or fringe theories and linked to it there. I agreed with this (and when it came up in the votes for deletion, I voted to keep the page). Basically, I make a conscious effort to avoid inflammatory articles and edits (not hard in the areas I do), and I try to fix them when I see them. --Raul654 17:20, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. A good contributor - sannse 22:32, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. I have personally disagreed with Raul654, and found the experience stress free. -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 16:32, Dec 13, 2003 (UTC)

Timwi

• Timwi -- Hi. I've been around since June, and I've been a well-behaved user all the way through. :) I don't make ground-breaking new contributions very often, but I make a lot of minor corrections and I revert vandalism. I would like to be able to help with this better, and thus, I am requesting adminship. Thank you for your attention. -- Timwi 21:49, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. --Jiang | Talk 21:56, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Daniel Quinlan 21:57, Dec 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Secretlondon 21:57, Dec 11, 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Pakaran 21:59, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Κσυπ Cyp   23:55, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. I wanted to nominate him, but he disappeared off my radar for like 3 months. Menchi (Talk)â 04:13, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • Oops ;-) -- Timwi 13:32, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Boilerplate:

**Support. ~~~~

• LOL! Who made this presumptuous boilerplate?! So damn useful! --Menchi (Talk)â 04:13, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• • Support. Timwi is a decent person. - Mark Ryan 14:22, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Support. Greenmountainboy 18:13, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Nominations for adminship

Note: Nominations have to be accepted by the user in question. If you nominate a user, please also leave a message on their talk page and inform them about their listing on this page, and ask them to reply here if they accept the nomination.

Docu

User:Docu has some 7000 edits since Feb. 2002. A user who's been around this long deserves adminship. --Jiang | Talk 05:40, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Support. Lots of good work. - Hephaestos 05:47, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Has done a lot. Thought a lot was correcting spelling, but I'm probably confusing that with someone else.

Κσυπ Cyp   12:04, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Support. silsor 17:00, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)

Finlay McWalter

Finlay McWalter has been here for three months and made over 1100 edits in that time. He has made some excellent contributions and has a good understanding of pages like VfD and Vandalism in progress. I think he would make a excellent sysop. Angela. 03:38, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Support from me :) Dysprosia 03:40, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support Dori | Talk 03:42, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)
• Support. Daniel Quinlan 03:43, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)
• Support - why do I think the old users are all sysops? Pakaran 03:46, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. And not just because he reverted vandalism to my userpage a short while ago ;) His contributions have been constructive throughout, and his votes on Vfd have always been either on the mark, of darn near it. -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 05:27, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)
• Yes on Findlay; I've seen good contributions from him, just can't remember where at the moment ;-) -- Viajero 17:07, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support -- Arwel 23:18, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Yes, and Finlay McWalter (real name?) is one of the best names i ever saw. Looks like a detective smoking a pipe. Muriel Victoria 16:39, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Alexandros

Moved to User talk:Alexandros - no consensus reached

Bcorr

Brian has been with us for 4 months and did 811 edits. He started some nice article: User:Bcorr/new articles. He doesn't sound bitchy or hateful, so he probably will make a good admin who is not bitchy or hateful. And he, even though an non-admin, sometimes participates in the Mailing List. That's more involved than admins like me! (Damn my small-sized hotmail. I can only read the mailing list, not reply. :-D --Menchi (Talk)â 07:15, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Support. Brian has made excellent contributions and spent a lot of time mediating the 2002 Gujarat violence page. He will make a great sysop. Angela. 07:24, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. --Jiang | Talk 07:25, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Yes! Support. Was thinking of nominating him myself :) Dysprosia 07:25, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Excellent idea. Yes. -- Viajero 11:14, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• oui Anthère

• Support. Why do I always assume the regulars already are sysops..? Κσυπ Cyp   16:56, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support -- Smerdis of Tlön 20:01, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Oppose... no, just kidding. Support. -- Cyan 20:04, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. BCorr would make a great admin. - Hephaestos 21:28, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support, thought he was one already! --Uncle Ed 21:41, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support, I agree. Daniel Quinlan 22:05, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)
• Oppose! I discriminate against those named Brian! *gets flamed by developer Brion* err... Support! - ugen64 02:43, Dec 11, 2003 (UTC)
• I support, Bcorr is very nice to newbies. Alexandros 00:23, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Definitely. I thought he was already an admin, seeing the way he mediated (very successfully) 2002 Gujarat violence chance 14:15, Dec 13, 2003 (UTC)

Thank you all. I'm honored to be nominated and I accept. I've felt welcomed and encouraged from the beginning of my time being active on the Misplaced Pages, and I appreciate all of you who've taken the time to ask and answer questions, offer guidance, and correct me when I've made an error. I'll do my level best to follow my own advice and to be helpful and friendly. And thank you for the kind words. -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 23:30, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Andres

I would like to nominate Andres for adminship. Andres is a very intelligent and level-headed contributor that researches articles very thoroughly. (He has been around since April of this year I think, has about 1000 total edits, 850 non-minor, 550 non-minor and non-Misplaced Pages/User/Talk related for those who care :) Dori | Talk 03:49, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)

• Thank you for nominating me. I don't oppose adminship though I don't need the sysop status. I spend most of the time on the Estonian Misplaced Pages and here I edit only articles I am interested in because of their content. Andres 04:15, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• Support. I especially like his edit summaries. silsor 04:10, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)
• Support. --Wik 04:13, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)
• Support if he thinks he'll use it. If not, I oppose. I don't think it's necessarily good to have inactive sysops. (He is definitely active enough as an editor and has sufficient experience for me to support otherwise.) Daniel Quinlan 04:39, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)
  • I would not be an active sysop. I would use my adminship very rarely, if at all. Andres 04:46, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I don't think inactivity as a sysop should be an issue. If Andres only uses his extra buttons to delete a nonsense page once in a blue moon that's OK (or even if he doesn't). I use mine rarely myself, and don't see that as a problem at all. -- sannse 08:51, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • I certainly hope there isn't a required page deletion quota for all sysops... Damn, forgot to block someone today, I'll probably get my Misplaced Pages salary for today halved... Κσυπ Cyp   16:56, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Requests and nominations for de-adminship

If you're requesting your own de-adminship, you can do so private communication with a developer, should you wish to do so. If you're requesting de-adminship of someone else, you can do so here, but please first try to discuss the issue directly with the admin in question.

Note that there are alternatives to removing sysop privileges: a "clarification" or "request" from Jimbo is more likely than something so drastic.

The Cunctator

The discussion previously listed here is still active as of 4th December 2003 11am UTC. However I have moved it to Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/The Cunctator due to the length of this page and the fact the discussion had drifted away from the primary purpose of this page, which is about granting people sysopship. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 10:51, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Andre Engels

Although I still stand behind this project, I also notice lately that me and the 'people in power' have clearly different ideas about what an encyclopedia is, or at least what a good encyclopedia is. Rather than continuing to clash with them, I prefer to leave this place for .

I wish you luck, and regret that I do not feel able to cooperate on this wonderful project further. Andre Engels 08:40, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)

A matter of regret. Good luck Andre. Martin 00:30, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Request withdrawn. Large part of the reasons still stand, but above it was said that inactive sysops are not unwelcome, and there are some things that need sysop-powers that I still want to do (especially updating Misplaced Pages:Disambiguation pages with links to see what I can get Robbot to work on). Andre Engels 08:59, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)