Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/LordAmeth

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[edit] LordAmeth

Vote here (23/0/0) ending 23:17 13 October 2005 06 October 2005 (UTC)

LordAmeth (talk • contribs) – LordAmeth has made numerous edits & many excellent articles. He is a cool, calm & extremely knowledgable editor & deserves to be an administrator for his extensive contributions to Wikipedia. Spawn Man 23:17, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I humbly accept this nomination ^_^. LordAmeth 15:27, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Support

1. Enthusiastic support! for a great editor. Kirill Lokshin 16:40, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
2. Strong Support Spawn Man 23:00, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
3. Merovingian (t) (c) 00:14, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
4. Support even though over 10% of his edits seem to be on his own user page--Rogerd 01:12, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
5. Support. Over 1700 article space edits, including creation of many new articles. Decent participation in other areas as well. Please continue to use edit summaries. Jonathunder 03:43, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
6. Support CambridgeBayWeather 04:50, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
7. Support. Carbonite | Talk 12:46, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
8. Support. Very good work on Wikiproject:Battles, amazing work on Japanese history!--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 17:30, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
9. Support Private Butcher 18:58, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
10. Support. CDThieme 02:49, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
11. Andre (talk) 04:55, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
12. Support from Japanese history lover. - Darwinek 08:54, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
13. Support from another Japan Fan. -- Chris 73 Talk 09:29, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
14. Support. Excellent work in articles related to Japan--Confuzion 23:38, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
15. Zach (Sound Off) 04:06, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
16. Support. Referenced and intelligent coverage of a number of Japan-related topics; great creation of new articles. --Dvyost 04:33, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
17. Evil Monkey∴Hello 04:34, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
18. Support. utcursch | talk 05:00, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
19. Support Dlyons493 Talk 19:37, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
20. Support: RENTASTRAWBERRY ^{FOR LET?} röck 22:30, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
21. Support. No big deal. Sounds evil enough. We need to build the House of Lords. --Lord Voldemort ^{(Dark Mark)} 14:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
22. Support. Good quality edits, particularly on Japan. See no reason for concern. Jayjg ^(talk) 15:53, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
23. Support. Count me in! Shauri smile! 19:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Comments

• Hi Ameth; for the sake of other people, how many articles have you roughly created or contributed to? Spawn Man 23:01, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
• At the moment, I have created (or contributed to in a major way) 285 articles. The list is on my User page. FYI, this list is also the reason that so many of my edits are to my own page - I'm updating the list every time I create a page. LordAmeth 02:14, 7 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. I have already been watching and occasionally posting on the speedy deletion and Cats for deletion, Manual of Style, and other pages, and in dealing with certain NPOV issues. I can't make any guarantees how often or how much I'll be able to become more active on this pages, or to what extent I would choose to take it upon myself to mediate a discussion, but I'm certainly eager to give it a try. I think, I do a fair amount of this sort of stuff already (to the extent that I can as a non-admin), and beyond that if people wish to ask me specific admin-related requests or questions, I'll be happy to help them as best as I can.

Two issues I would like to help see resolved are (1) various categorization disputes. I enjoy categorizing things, and I enjoy seeing things categorized in a simple and meaningful way. We've finally reached consensus on the vast majority of "History of Foo", "Battles of Foo" and related categories; I think my next target will be WWII battles which are currently organized by campaign, and not under the "Battles by country" category tree. (2) The use of diacritics and foreign letters in article titles. I don't know what the consensus is, and to be honest, I'm confused what the official policy is. But as a Japanese historian, I do not know how to pronounce the French "ç" or the Portuguese "ő", and I do not want to have to search for things under those names. Anyway, this is not the place to argue my entire opinion on the matter, but suffice it to say that if Tōkyō and Kyōto are to be titled as Tokyo and Kyoto (no diacritics), then articles from other languages should be too.

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

A. At the moment I have a list of 285 articles which I have either created or which I have made significant major changes.

Genpei War - One of the first articles I created, the page for the war itself doesn't look like anything special, and perhaps could use some work. However, the articles of all but one of that war's battles were created by myself and edited only superficially by others.

Tzippori - One of a handful of articles which I edited towards NPOV, Jacob Schiff being another. I was astonished to discover that Tzippori had no article, and the only reference was a brief article about the nearby Muslim/Arab town which was destroyed in the 1948 war. A strongly anti-Israel (read: biased) article, ignoring entirely the long history of this town, one of the oldest Jewish settlements ever discovered.

Japanese castle - While the argument could certainly be made that Spanish, English, and Eastern European castles differ in significant and important ways, I think Japanese castles are different enough to warrant a separate article. Another long, involved article, complete with pictures which I created and which remains 80-90% my own edits.

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. I have been involved in edit wars a handful of times, particularly over POV issues relating to Israel, and to Japanese involvement in (or relations with) China and Korea. My expertise, if I could presume to say I have one, and my focus is Japanese medieval history, and so to a large extent I try to avoid adding or removing facts, instead focusing on the style of the article. Even if something is true, does it need to be included? Does it need to be stated in that way? POV is a very difficult thing, and I do not presume that my views on history and politics are unbiased; I keep my eyes out for glaring problems, I point them out on talk pages, make suggestions for changes (often without making the changes myself) and leave it up to those who know the subject better to make the change.

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