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Awolf002

Requests_for_adminship/Awolf002|action=edit}} Vote here (3/5/0) ending 22:55 December 8, 2005 (UTC)

Awolf002 (talk · contribs) – I am a member since February 2004, and contribute regularly. I decided to request adminship since I am currently the main contributor to Current science and technology events and I now need adminship to archive it monthly. Awolf002 22:52, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Self nomination. Awolf002 23:00, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Support

  1. Support unless someone makes a bot to perform the archival. — David Remahl 05:14, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support, user is unlikely to abuse administrator tools, reasons for opposition are weak at best. Christopher Parham (talk) 07:13, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support. Excellent response to my question. If a Ph.D. wants admin privileges to do some specific tidying, it's fine by me. Xoloz 08:00, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

  1. Oppose Good science editor but I dont like his responces especially number 1 and I also dont see this user very active in Wikipedia namespace which is a must for me --Jaranda(watz sup) 00:29, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Oppose per Aranda56. --WikiFanaticTalk Contribs 20:12, 1 December 2005 (CST)
  3. Oppose as above, you have less than 25 Wikipedia-space edits in the last six months or so, that's quite poor. NSLE (讨论+extra) 02:14, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Oppose per above. Quentin Pierce 02:44, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Oppose Only chore listed would be a once a month duty, not a heavy contributor. xaosflux T/C 03:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Oppose per the above, sorry. ナイトスタリオン ✉ 06:50, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral

Comments

When trying to archive the Current event page to its respective month the "move" operation tries to overwrite the exisiting page, which is a redirect. This is no longer allowed for non-admin users. Awolf002 04:51, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
You should be able to move a page over the top of a page which only redirects to the page being moved and which has no edit history. December 2005 is a redirect to Current events with no edit history. November 2005 in science does have a history, but it's all your work, so presumably such redirects in future will not.-gadfium 08:37, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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 check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
As indicated I plan to help with archiving Current events pages in a monthly basis. I may consider other chores, if asked or they come to my attention.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
I am pleased with helping to bring biographies of important scientists to WP. I also learned a lot during this (ongoing) work.
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 few 'spats' here and there. I try to focus on the issues regarding the article in question and to ignore attacks or grandstanding. I also do feel fine when voted down or persuaded by a good argument.
4. As of now, your responses to the above questions are a bit brief. Please consider expanding them, if possible. Please share your view on WP:IAR, for one thing, to help us understand exactly how much you plan on doing with admin powers?
Alright, I see that I might be an "unorthodox" candidate, since I do not seek "power" or "status" with my adminship. All I like to do is keep on working and improving WP, which I did with no problem up to now without adminship. However, with the latest restrictions on "move" operations I decided to request this privilege, so I can keep on serving the community. Serving is what I thought a candidate for adminship is striving for and that is my intention.
When you check my contributions you will find that I regularly revert vandalism on the pages I watch, trying to be nice to newbies at the same time. This can be done with no special powers and so (as many others do) I have served in this work and will do this in the future, whatever the outcome of this request. My first answer was meant to show my openness to new "chores" that would require special powers, of which I might be unaware.
Regarding "rules" in WP, my philosophy is to follow them as "precedent" as long as the outcome does not interfere with the goal to improve and expand WP. I approach these precedents with the assumption that somebody thought about them and that there are good reasons for them. If they clearly interfere with obvious progress, I would first try to find consensus for changing them, and most likely not just charge ahead. Being bold is good for article text and lively prose, but not necessarily for making or breaking rules.
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