Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Freestylefrappe 2
Vote here (24/5/2) ending 01:10 October 19, 2005 (UTC)
Freestylefrappe (talk · contribs) – This is Freestylefrappe's second nomination (May 2005 was the first) after an earlier self nomination failed essentially to not enough edits (only about 450 at that time). Today, Kate's tool shows a total of almost 3,000 edits for those that care about edit counts. Freestylefrappe is well rounded; he almost always uses edit summaries, contributes to Wiki namespace, has made big contributions of quality to numerous articles, doesn't engage in edit wars, utilizes talk pages and is an overall asset to Wikipedia. He has been around for over a year and has familiarity with six (6!) languages. Time for a mop and a bucket MONGO 01:10, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
I gratefully accept. freestylefrappe 01:43, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Support
- Support As nominator, absolutely! MONGO 01:11, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support does not fit my opposing criteria. --Bjarki 02:17, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support --JAranda | watz sup 02:18, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support RfA cliche #1. -Greg Asche (talk) 02:19, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support, he seems to do good work. Christopher Parham (talk) 02:35, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support Can't have too many! And doesn't seem to be an Albanian, Macedonian, Pakistani, Indian, Hindu, or Ahmadi. --BorgHunter (talk) 03:09, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support. El_C 03:25, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support JobE6 03:44, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Weak Support. This user once annoyed me about a joke I did to WikiFanatic after I already apologized days ago, so that rather ignored me that s/he (assume she) was reprimanding me for it after it was over. But otherwise the Frappe is a pretty good editor. Redwolf24 (talk—How's my driving?) 03:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Yup (I was sure he was an Albanian Hindu). Grutness...wha? 05:03, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support. For sure! Banes 05:33, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support Give him a mop`! --Rogerd 05:40, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Merovingian (t) (c) 07:15, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support would have been easier if the vote here link worked. CambridgeBayWeather 07:46, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- S'port --Doc (?) 07:51, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support. --Monkbel 10:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support. the wub "?!" 11:42, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support. Frappe does good things. -Splashtalk 12:26, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support. utcursch | talk 13:12, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support. KHM03 15:09, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support. Kirill Lokshin 15:10, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support.Oran e (t) (c) (@) 15:41, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support Looks to be a strong editor. Maltmomma (chat) 17:08, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Support --{{IncMan|talk}} 00:13, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
- -- (drini's page|☎) 05:23, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Oppose
- Weak Oppose. I would support, but during my RfA, this user went around to other people's talk pages and told them to vote against me. He failed to assume good faith on multiple editors parts. I do not particularly care for this type of behaviour. This should be no big deal, so I should at least vote neutral since I don't mind his contributions, but I just cannot support this candidate at this time. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 14:52, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Oppose. --Scimitar parley 16:12, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Oppose. I'd have expected this user to have been a bit more proactive in solving edit disputes, especially on articles started by him. Seems to be like he is on his own track offering little assistance to the actual issues on hand. More maturity required. Idleguy 16:27, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Weak oppose. I have no objections against him as an editor, and this is the first time I ever oppose a RfA; but his attitude of contacting other users who, like him, had voted against my RfA based on edicountitis in order to establish a common baseline to oppose other "inexperienced" users from becoming admins, dissapointed me. Shauri smile! 00:10, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
- Oppose, I am sorry Freestyle, but learning how important you feel edit counts to be, I'd rather see you get more experience, first. If your vote should fail, see that as an opportunity in your personal evolution as a Wikipedian.--Wiglaf 06:25, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
Neutral
- Generally, I haven't had a bad experience with him, but he needs to steer clear of taking sides in petty disputes. Aside from that, good work. a.n.o.n.y.m t 01:22, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Neutral I'm neutral on this one after reading the comments on this users behavior by Lord Voldemort, and Anonymous editor. Private Butcher 15:45, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Comments
- I would like to take this as an opportunity to clear up some misconceptions. For the record, I am and have never been an Albanian, Macedonian, Pakistani, Indian, Hindu, or Ahmadi. In the near future I plan on adding John Adams' Second State of the Union Address, and a page on October 11 2005 letter from al-Zawahiri to al-Zarqawi. freestylefrappe 01:43, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- Does he really speak 720 languages? — JIP | Talk 05:25, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- No Jip, the parenthesis denote multiplication, so he actually speacks 4320 languages -- (drini's page|☎) 05:23, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
- The "Vote Here" link doesn't appear to be working on this nomination...anyone know how to fix it?--MONGO 10:58, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
- After going through his edit history exhaustively, I see that many of the articles he has created and or worked on would possibly be in areas that would cause friction as far as substance and following NPOV and in the few cases in which he had difficulty with this, it was months ago. But in none of those, did I notice any POV pushing, hostility, or edit warring...a pretty big achievement considering the potentially of angry debate due to the subject matter.--MONGO 20:20, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
- 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
- A. Most of my sysop-related activities would be closing afd debates and reverting vandalism. Especially the latter as I have found my edits increasingly taken up by reverting anonymously added nonsense. I think the role of administrator should act more as a pacifier than a settler of a contentious dispute.
- 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
- A. John Adams' First State of the Union Address and List of Christian terms in Arabic were some of the better ones. Robert Davis of New Orleans will probably see a lot of action, and Terrorism in Pakistan has had an unusually high edit response. See also: the slightly outdated Pages I started
- 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
- A. The Slavic Macedonian Culture page has generated a large amount of pov pushing, and endless moving (though this seems to have toned down to legitimate disambiguation). Most of this seems to stem not from a dispute over this page in particular, but a larger argument over the use of Macedonia verus Republic of Macedonia. Qiyamah - which I rewrote and expanded upon, triggered a series of reverts between myself and one other user, Universaliss, who is no longer active. Univ. insisted on deleting huge amounts of information, and spent his last few edits blanking the page except for comments like "F*** Islam."