Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Chochopk

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a request for adminship that did not succeed. Please do not modify it.

[edit] Chochopk

Final (1/11/3) Ended 23:26, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Chochopk (talk • contribs) – I am nominating myself to be an administrator. I have 7891 edits on 3691 unique articles. My first edit was on 2005-01-17 T 02:33:17. I believe that passes most of the requirement at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Standards/A-Z. Besides the quantity, I also posses these qualities

• Team work: I have been collaborating with members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics. If you look at the history of Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Sandbox/Succession, you will find I have worked with User:Mom2jandk, and more recently, with User:Timur lenk on Hungarian currencies.
• Standardization: As a programmer, standardization is a second nature to me. I can easily help on any template or standardization related stuff. Will explain more on standard question 2.
• Non English/American background: I have a well balanced background from Chinese and American culture. This means that not only I can help translating, but also provide a global point of view (not POV! No pun intended).
• Doing the right thing: I regularly whack vandalism and do not hesitate to give warnings.

ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 08:47, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I "accept". --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 08:50, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I withdraw. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 23:26, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Withdrawal comment I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone regardless what they voted. Even this RfA was unsuccessful, I know a lot more about the requirement. I humbly accept the result and will work toward what everyone suggested. I hope I can prove myself again some time in the future. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 23:26, 1 October 2006 (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 voters:

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 would like to help deleting images on Category:Images on Wikimedia Commons, Category:Images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons, and Category:Redundant Wikimedia Commons media. IMHO, most images should be on Commons. The same image, or images that serve the same purpose, should not be duplicated over different wiki spaces. By doing so, it encourages the requester submitting more appropriate requests (which is a good thing), and a casual editor will be more likely to land on an image that is from Commons (another way to slowly propagate the awareness).

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

A: I believe most of you have seen my user page by now. I created {{Infobox Currency}}. It's transcluded on 187 articles now and more is on the way. Before that, various people have attempted to do something similar, but none was really wide spread (Examples at [1] and the deleted Template:Currency box). I also created {{Exchange Rate}}, a lesser known template which replaced copied-and-pasted code that was all over currencies of the Americas (like [2]). Last but not least, User:Timur lenk and I co-develop the currency specification table. In the past, it was like one style per article.

Others have followed my steps without me asking them to do so. For example, {{Infobox Currency}} was deployed to most of the African currencies by User:Zntrip; User:DDima added the standard coin and banknote table to [3] and [4].

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: Most of my experience with other editors has been positive. However, I remember being mad at User:Enlil Ninlil. I was particular upset with his/her edit on Australian coins and Lao kip (more detail on his/her talk page). Basically this user makes mistake all the time. I think the only choice we have with sloppy editors is to watch the edits more closely.

On reading through User_talk:Enlil_Ninlil, I see you used the Stop Hand image a number of times. Maybe I'm just overly sensitive, but I feel the use of the Stop Hand when coaching another user or trying to arrive at a consensus to be too strident and confrontational. Also, I think "You" statements are sometimes less constructive than "I" statements when coaching or instructing another. Conflict resolution is often patiently working toward understanding rather than "telling others the way it is." Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 13:38, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Optional question from feydey

4. When You removed the license from these images ([5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13]) in 5 July 2006, why didn't You tag them as not having a license and didn't notify the uploaders for a need for one?

A: I didn't know I was supposed to do that. I will look up the convenient template to do that and make up the oversight. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 09:42, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

OK, I stepped away for a while, then I found the correct template. And I accidentally overwrote some of Feydey's edit. (But the result is the same). If you remind me, I can quickly adjust and make necessary changes. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 12:32, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

As an administrator, you shouldn't need reminding. --Alex (Talk) 12:35, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Additional questions from (aeropagitica):

5 Can you explain why you issued multiple-level vandal warnings in single edits, for example [14], [15], [16] and [17], the first being multiple final warnings?

A: The offenders repeatedly blanked/added non sense to (the same) articles. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 10:01, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

6 I can only find one contribution to xfD debates. Can you list some more to demonstrate how you would apply policies and guidelines in various discussions?

A: On the top of my head, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of circulating coins and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Antarctican dollar. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 10:01, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

General comments

• See Chochopk's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool.

Discussion (for expressing views without numbering)

Support

1. Moral Support Chochopk is obviously very dedicated to the project, judging by the edit count etc. Only a bit more experience and knowledge of policy is needed. It is good that you put up this RfA, so that you now know what you need to improve with. Get involved in vandal combat, deletion participation, and read up on policies. 认识这，你会变成更好. The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 17:31, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose - I found Q3 uncivil towards the user (light WP:WIKISTALKING?), that it's self to me would of been a neutral.. but this gets you an instant oppose. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 09:15, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

   I will not make changes for the sake of overwriting. I just want to make the content better. I was not aware of any policy against advertising RfA. But I will take it down. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 09:22, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

2. Oppose you seem like a good enough user, but you don't seem to know policy (such as with images, and RfA advertising) which means I must oppose. --Alex (Talk) 10:44, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
3. Oppose per response to oppose #1 suggests insufficient policy understanding for adminship. Answer to question 4 is particularly troubling-- deficient knowledge in area of stated use for the tools. The whole image mess requires a very thorough understanding of related policies. Needs more expereince in XfD and dealing with vandalism as well.Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 12:16, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
4. Strong Oppose per everyone else, particularly the canvassing. Moreschi 12:34, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
5. Oppose You appear to be a good editor, but the canvassing does prevent me from supporting you, I am sorry. Also, I would like to see more participation in AfD. :-/ --Húsönd 13:16, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
6. Oppose Poor knowledge of policies is a major concern here. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 13:17, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
7. Oppose Insufficient experience for admin. tools. Michael 14:05, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
8. Oppose Poor knowledge of polices and per all else above. Hello32020 17:20, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
9. Oppose and recommended withdrawl, per above. Vulcanstar6 17:57, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
10. Oppose No real policy knowledge and per all above oppose votes. --CFIF ☎ ⋐ 19:47, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
11. Oppose per first oppose. And the advertisement is still there even after nom said he/she would remove it. Stubbleboy 22:21, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Comment The advert is in the edit history of the page but not in the current revision, having been deleted by the RfA subject. (aeropagitica) 22:30, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Neutral Per above, plus to avoid WP:SNOW, I suggest that you withdraw this nomination. T REX_speak 15:54, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
2. Neutral Rather than pile-on, I would recommend reviewing your knowledge of Wikipedia:Vandalism and reporting those vandalising beyond Test-4 to WP:AIV, in addition to contributing to XfD. (aeropagitica) 19:30, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
3. Neutral Please withdraw, and take heed of aeropagitica's recommendations.-- danntm ^T _C 20:51, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

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