User:Richardcavell

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This user [1] an administrator on the English Wikipedia.

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This user comes from Australia.

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This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.

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This user identifies as straight.

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Richardcavell is Richard Cavell, a man from Melbourne, Australia. You may email me by clicking here. I am related to Edith Cavell.

I am an administrator. I consider myself open to recall in the following way: If five logged-in users place their names in good faith to a petition on my talk page requesting recall, then I will subject myself to RfA and be bound by the outcome.

I'm a doctor with interests in anatomy/radiology and medical law/forensics/administration. I like to make small corrections every now and then. I also occasionally contribute articles on medical topics and Japan. I'm interested in Aussie showbusiness, particularly community access television, such as Channel 31 Australia. I often create new articles.

I hate paedophiles and I enjoy shaming them.

The contributions that I'm most proud of, though, are grammatical/spelling/usage upgrades. Although you may see this as pedantic and unhelpful, I think that it is important to use the language correctly. It gives so much credibility to wikipedia to have precise, concise expression.

RfA:

I believe that Requests for Administration are being used as a forum to indulge in editcountitis. It seems to me that the principal criterion for supporting Administrator requests is a person's edit count, regardless of the quality of those edits. This means that Administrator status is being used as a kind of automatic reward for time-serving. The principal criterion should be whether or not Wikipedia would benefit from the candidate being given the admin tools. I have therefore been spending time at RfA. Although I still spend time at RfA, it seems the editcountitis has quietened down in recent times.

I'm an advocate of giving anti-vandal tools, such as automated rollback, to registered users who are not admins.

XfD:

I've also been spending time at AfD/RfD. I think that these debates tend to stray too far toward deletionism. I at least want to have my say before good articles and redirects get deleted.

~~I'm also an advocate of making WP:VSCA a criterion for speedy deletion.~~Thankfully, it did get added to WP:CSD as #G11.

I don't see anything wrong with crossing namespaces with redirects when it helps a person find what he or she is looking for.

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		In recognition of balanced, thoughtful and above all dedicated performance on AfD debates of all flavours. Rarely do editors straddle the inclusionist / deletionist divide so effectively. Deizio talk 23:24, 24 May 2006 (UTC)