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Andrwsc

Voice your opinion (2/0/0); Scheduled to end 21:24, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Andrwsc (talk · contribs) - I would like to nominate Andrwsc for adminship. I met him at the flag templates and we have been working together over the last weeks. Andrew communicates very well and precise over complicated things and is able to handle "hotter" situations with great respect for the participants and for the details of the matter (example). I believe Andrwsc has a good on-board antenna for gauging consensus and can be trusted to do the right thing. He is calm and level-headed. I would expect Andrwsc to help with the admin side of stuff like the flag templates (protecting high use templates, editing protected templates, deletes etc). But I believe he is also good at defusing complicated situations for example in the area of sports related articles, which he has a considerable experience with. Dear Wikipedians, please take a closer look at Andrwsc and tell us what you think. Thanks in advance for your participation in this discussion and thanks to Andrwsc for accepting to go through his first RfA. --Ligulem 19:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I accept Ligulem's nomination.

I have been a Wikipedia editor for just over a year, and have spent the majority of my time on Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports Olympics related articles, mostly because the subject matter appeals to me, but also because I see a massive project that needs a lot of help to improve the overall quality of those articles. At heart, I am somewhat of a perfectionist and I have a keen attention to detail, and I think that both of these qualities are good for Wikipedia. I have also spent a lot of time working on various templates, as I see a lot of places where more elegant solutions ought to be considered relative to current practices. Andrwsc 21:24, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog and Category:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A: I intend to spend most of my time with "cleanup" chores, especially things like speedy deletions and template work. I have already been doing a lot of these tasks, but only so far as a non-admin can do. I especially like the whole WP:PROD concept, and would probably spend a lot of time there, deleting proposed pages I also strongly agree with. I already often revert vandalism on pages on my watchlist, and I usually follow the trail of other pages vandalized by those same users and revert those, so I would hope that I would be more efficient with admin tools to help me.

2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A: As I've mentioned, I have spent a lot of time on Olympic-related articles, so my biggest contributions are certainly in that area. I changed the internal working of the {{flagIOC}} template and created {{flagIOCathlete}} etc. to help with the consistent formatting of Olympic results articles. I created the {{Infobox Country Olympics}} template to put a consistent infobox on about 3000 articles such as Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics. I have created many articles for past Games (e.g. Canoeing at the 1972 Summer Olympics) so that there now exists a complete set of articles for each Games. I got the ball rolling with articles in the Lists of Olympic medalists series, which are now almost complete and possibly ready for featured list status.

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: I have been involved in edit conflicts several times this past year, but have always tried to be civil and respectful. I think the most notable instances were on the Olympic sports and Ice hockey at the Olympic Games articles, as both times were with a noted vandal, Roitr. In each instance (as you can see from the respective talk pages), I tried my best to appeal to rational sense and find some consensus, even after some other editors had given up dealing with Roitr. I believe in the power of consensus on Wikipedia, and would always try to reach it in any editing disputes I was involved in.

General comments

• See Andrwsc's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.

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Please keep criticism constructive and polite.

Discussion

Support

1. Nominator support. --Ligulem 19:50, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
2. Support Looks like a good user. Probably will use the tools wisely.--Natl1 (Talk Page) (Contribs) 22:17, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral