Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/KuatofKDY

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[edit] KuatofKDY

Final (5/7/0) ended 17:46, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

KuatofKDY (talk • contribs • count) – I am nominating myself for the position of administrator because I have been working with Wikipedia for quite a while and enjoy editing and contributing to the database. I have been cleaning up succession boxes and badly made articles on royalty and generally clean any messy article I come across. I respond very quickly to most comments made to me or a page I edited, and I continue to watch nearly everything I edit. I created a template scheme for the succession forms (Template:s-start) and have overhauled the entire system. I have learned much of CSS from scratch and used what I learned to help where I could. I wish to be an administrator so I can help further and be more prominent in the Wikipedia community while allowing me to continue the editing that I love. Whaleyland 05:25, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Support

1. Merovingian 05:45, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
2. Support Editor since Sept. 2003. Relatively low edit count, but a diligent history of template maintenance. Seems a solid "janitorial" wikipedian, and we need the cleaning around here. Xoloz 07:10, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
3. Support template editors should be able to be admins. There is room for them and I don't see that as a reaosn for an oppose vote. Seems arbitrary to me. Wii edits aren't any more better or more important than template edits when being an admin is no big deal. Could use an admin like this user.Gator (talk) 18:54, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
4. Support Solid and trustworthy worker. User talk:Jtdirl 19:25, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
5. Support. Ambi 00:24, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose. Edit summaries are basically non-existent. This plus just 7 wiki edits (looking through contrib's there is little diversity generally) is enough to oppose. The work in templates is excellent though, and the user seems to want to help. Use summaries and move around the wiki and you get support next time! Marskell 17:01, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
2. Oppose 7 wiki edits are Way too few. Try editing more in AFD and RFA and u will get my vote next time --Jaranda(^{watz sup}) 17:24, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
3. Weak Oppose Wait a few months. Good attitude and the CSS knowledge will ensure approval then, but right now I think he's a bit too unseasoned. Karmafist 20:28, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
4. Oppose, per Jaranda. Θrǎne (t) (c) (e-mail) 21:56, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
5. Oppose. Looking through your contributions, it seems that you made your first edits on 27 September 2003, then one edit on 4 October 2003, 9 edits on 9 November 2003, 17 edits during December 2003 and then nothing for six months, until you returned in late May 2004 and were very active through to 26 July 2004. You then took another break and didn't return to active editing until 2 April 2005, where you then edited through to 26 April 2005. It seems you then took another long break until 10 September 2005. However, from that time through to now I'm glad to see that you have been active and have done some great work on the succession templates.
   However, the reason I oppose at this time is for you lack of edit summaries of which they are the exception rather than the rule. The other reason I oppose is your current lack of communication with other users and your current lack of edits in the project namespace.
   Please don't feel disheartened by my vote. Get yourself involved in the project namespace, remember to always write an edit summary and continue to actively edit over the following months and I will gladly support your nomination. -- Ianblair23 (talk) 02:04, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
   • Surely if there are only a few edits, then edit summary usage is not a big issue. It can be corrected straight away. If one was dealing with someone who edits 100s of articles and did not do edit summaries then one could regard it as a serious issue. In this case I suspect it is simply a case of someone who does few edits on the rare occasions he has done so forgetting to do edit summaries, not a serious ungoing repeated issue. I think this editor is someone who shows a calmness, community spirit and professionalism that would make him a worthy admin. Lack of edit summaries is simply a minor glitch probably by accident, not a deliberate 'I will not do them and you will not make me' attitude. Just my observations. User talk:Jtdirl 05:16, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

   Thanks for the support Jtdirl. And yes, for those of you wondering, I often do tons of minor edits with templates to test them, and often the one that ends up on top I did not bother to place a summary with. It is not intentional, I just like to reserve summaries for when I do something that needs justification. On those other issues, I plan to get to them when I finish the project I am working on. My school hours and homework, unfortunately, conflict with my ability to edit entries, but I am trying. Thanks for the support and/or advice!
   –Whaleyland 06:13, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

6. Oppose. I couldn't have said it better than Ianblair23. Keep up the good work, and please work on your weaker areas. Owen× ☎ 23:14, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
7. Oppose per Ianblair23. Fahrenheit Royale 16:58, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Neutral

Comments

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.

A. I have been working to clean old HTML succession forms for a while and continue to remove those and clean up new ones. I also like to clean up and create lists for better sorting, as well as cleaning up and creating categories where they are needed. General cleanup of messy pages, especially early Spanish monarch pages, is a project I am working on right now. Any other chores within or without my field I would be happy to participate in, though I would prefer to find things relative to my interests so I can be most at help.

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

A. Although I take great pride in all my successful edits and creations, I especially enjoyed researching and writing the House of Capet page. Working with CSS to create the Template:S-start succession box series, though, I consider my greatest success. My other major joy is working with the List of kings of Dalriada, a pet project that got me started on Wikipedia and is still keeping me going.

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. My only major conflict ever has been over the Bagrationi page, a dispute that still rages. I believe I have handled it well, coming up with a decent compromise, but it still ended with the violator getting banned. In the future, I hope not to be forced into such situations, but I will stop users from violating Wikipedia if it is necessary. All pages I edit I watch for vandalization continuously.

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