Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/JXM

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[edit] JXM

Final tally (1/9/2); Ended 01:15, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Jxm - This is a self-nomination JXM 17:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

On behalf of myself, I accept this nomination, which has been made on behalf of myself.

Brief Statement

I have worked as a system architect and collaboration tool designer for many years, and I have been an Arpanet/Internet user since the mid-1980s. I've been editing various elements of WP since November 2005. I feel it is time to step up and offer my experience and skills to the community in a more structured fashion.

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:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A: I am particularly interested in issues of copyright and plagiarism. See for example my comment last December in Talk:Dorothy Ray Healey about the proposed merge of two similar pages.

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

A: I have added and enhanced various pages related to Howth, where I grew up. I have contributed to sorting out the muddle connected with HMV and the Nipper painting and logo. I am always keen to clarify nuances of language and improve accuracy, as in some of my contributed refinements to Charles Haughey and Conor Cruise O'Brien.

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: The only conflict I recall concerned some early contribution I made, which linked representations of intelligent design in science fiction. I initially failed to realize how controversial the topic was, but I subesequently decided that discretion was the better part of valour, and so I declined to continue editing the topic.

General comments

Please keep criticism constructive and polite.

Discussion

Support

1. Support Your contributions are useful and considered.--TheEditrix2 18:22, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose You have been around for over a year, but you have a relatively low number of contributions (517 in total) including 9 to the Wikipedia namespace. I recommend that you acquire more experience in administrative areas, like reporting repeat vandals to WP:AIV, participating in WP:XFD discussions, and tagging pages for deletion on new pages patrol. Leebo ^T/C 17:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

   To clarify, my oppose has more to do with whether or not you need the tools, given your current and hopeful activities, rather than the quality of your article contributions. You may not need to be an administrator to continue the work you wish to do. Leebo ^T/C 18:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

2. Edit-conflict Oppose With only 9 edits in the project space and about 500 edits in total, I am not compelled to support. Questions are not convincing and you don't have the needed experience to use the mop. Try in 6 months with a higher edit count and more participation in the project space (XfDs, AIV, RfA, FAC, etc.). - Anas ^talk? 18:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
3. Oppose Candidate sohws no need for the tools, only approximately 500 edits and no participation of WP:XFD debates, Come back in a few months (I suggest five) with much more edits in varied areas of Wikipedia and you'll probably pass.Tellyaddict 18:28, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
4. Oppose No understanding of how to use the tools for deletion, blocking, etc. YechielMan 18:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
5. Oppose Extremely low edit count. I suggest waiting until you have at least 2500 edits; and of those 2500 edits, countributions to different sections of Wikipedia. Acalamari 18:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
6. Oppose. I admire your enthuisiasm, but you need a little more experience. Yuser31415 19:45, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
7. Oppose. While I believe you may be a good admin in the future, I do not think you have the necessary experience in general to have a good understanding of how everything works here. I suggest waiting several months and getting a lot more experience under your belt before trying again. Please don't let this be discouraging, but rather let it light a fire under you to buckle down and get the experience necessary for the added responsibilities. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 22:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
8. Oppose. You mean well, but you would need to be more active to become an administrator. It's not a big deal, but it is quite a bit of work.--Wizardman 23:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
9. Oppose and Motion to Close-Sorry but your not active enough and only have 500 edits. Also, to whoever wrote the HTML comment below, it doesn't need to be a crat who closes it. Any one can close it if it doesn't have a chance. --TeckWiz ^ParlateContribs_@ 00:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Neutral. Weak answers that don't give the impression you know what admin tools are for, and you're a little short on experience. Leebo has good advice above if you want to go down the adminship path. Grandmasterka 20:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
2. Neutral I'm not very impressed by your nomination statement or answers. You have been here a while, but not very active. Your answers don't convey a sense that you know what to use administrative privileges for. Keep up the good editing thought. --Selket ^Talk 20:56, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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