Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Fawcett5

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[edit] Fawcett5

final (31/0/0) ending 15:19, 6 June 2005 (UTC)

Fawcett5 is a very dedicated Wikipedian. With 8007 edits since the first one last November, Fawcett5 has contributed greatly to two featured articles, and has done a great deal of writing outside the featured pages. I feel Fawcett5 would make an excellent admin, particularly in light of his work on deletion pages and in vandalism revertions. Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 15:19, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Candidate please indicate acceptance of the nomination here
  • I am honoured to accept the nomination. Fawcett5 16:32, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Support

  1. Mais oui! Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 15:24, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
  2. Bien sûr! TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 17:36, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
  3. Support, excellent editor. JYolkowski // talk 20:49, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
  4. Support. A top class editor. Rje 21:25, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
  5. Support. -Lommer | talk 22:13, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
  6. Support - I've had nothing but the best of interactions. Al guy 22:38, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
  7. Support. I really enjoyed working with Fawcett5 on Louis Riel and related pages. He did a lot of great work to enhance Wikipedia. -- JamesTeterenko 00:16, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
  8. yeeeuppp - Grutness...wha? 01:17, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
  9. Support Very nice edits. Bratschetalk random 01:39, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
  10. El_C 02:56, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
  11. Everyking 03:42, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
  12. Support. JuntungWu 03:45, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
  13. Support Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:37, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
  14. Support. With pleasure. SlimVirgin (talk) 06:55, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
  15. Support--Scimitar 14:11, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
  16. Support. EdwinHJ | Talk 17:36, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
  17. Support Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:33, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
  18. Obviously. Bishonen | talk 20:13, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
  19. CryptoDerk 23:55, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
  20. S. Radiant_* 11:28, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
  21. support Kingturtle 18:47, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  22. Support  =Nichalp (Talk)= 19:09, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
  23. Support. --Silversmith Hewwo 19:14, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  24. Support --nixie 01:49, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  25. Support David | Talk 08:54, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  26. Support--Duk 16:12, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  27. Support SqueakBox 17:21, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
  28. Support. -Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 22:34, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  29. Support - I enjoyed working with Fawcett5 on Lord Dufferin which we got up to featured status, and I'm sure he'll make excellent use of admin powers. Worldtraveller 00:59, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  30. Support - meets my admin criterion, jguk 19:14, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  31. Support.-JCarriker 06:56, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

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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 read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
A. While I primarily consider myself a "content editor", with 3500+ pages on my watchlist I inevitably find myself spending an ever increasing amount of time dealing with vandalism. The rollback feature would be a real boon. I can also see myself helping out with RC patrol in new way, and contributing to out-of-the-way nooks and crannies of administrivia such as Tfd that sometimes develop a backlog.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. Well, there is no question that so far Louis Riel is my pièce de résistance — this was almost completely rewritten to bring it to FA status. I normally specialize in biography on a smaller scale, of which Albert Lacombe and John Macoun are good examples. I've also had a couple of cute articles on ...Did you know? of which I'm fond — see for instance Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters George and Marie-Anne Gaboury. I also write a bit about rail related topics, see for instance Consolidated line and The Canadian. Finally, I have initiated a long-term project to create an article for every person with an article in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and have made extensive efforts to add DoCB citations to every applicable article, as this is a wonderful and authoritative biographical resource.
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 will deal with it in the future?
A. There have been some stressful moments, but not too much direct conflict. The worst direct conflict probably came when I was very new to the project and heatedly squabbled with User:Agriculture over what constitutes a research university. I made some comments to him the tone of which I now regret (see for instance this talk page here, where I accused him of "Talking out his ass"). But anyway, I think we ended on good terms, and I know better than that now. I was also on the sidelines of the style wars, but managed not to get caught up in the worst of it. The most stressful situation has definitely been my involvement with the Alexander MacGregor article. I found this as a vanity article, and in an attempt to establish the individual's notability, found out some unsavoury details about the fellow which I added to the article. There were legal threats to the wikimedia foundation, and the article is currently on Vfd. All I can say about this is that I was acting in good faith when I added the information (which was all from newspaper articles and court documents), that I do not know MacGregor personally and am not out to get him, and that I have not opposed the deletion of the article. Fawcett5 16:32, 30 May 2005 (UTC)