Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Malo

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[edit] Malo

Final (61/0/0) ended 00:48 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Malo (talk · contribs) – Malo has been a member of Wikipedia for more than a year now, and has been heavily active since August. In that time he has amassed more than 6,000 edits. Malo is a tireless vandal fighter. More appropriately, he's a vandal's worst nightmare. He's a vandal fighting machine with more than 25% of his edits in reverting vandalism. Just over the last two weeks alone, he has received 11 thank yous on this talk page (funny one [1]) for vandalism reverts, and received multiple awards for his efforts. He is not afraid to step in and fight vandals on contentious, frequently vandalized articles such as George W. Bush, Adolf Hitler and Scientology. In addition to reverting vandalism, he takes the time to place test messages on appropriate pages, having made more than 600 test message placements in his time here. This is an oft overlooked step even by admins, and can do much to help foster new users. He is calm with vandals ([2], [3], [4]), frequently signs for others (especially anon-IPs) ([5]) and often explains his reverts ([6], [7], [8]). He has demonstrated willingness to generate and defer to consensus ([9], [10]), requests and uses sources for information ([11], [12], [13]), and remains focused on NPOV ([14]). He also frequently thanks others for their efforts ([15], [16], [17]). In his editing, he has used edit summaries 99% of the time. He has contributed extensively to United States Navy articles, having made more than 1900 contributions in that arena. He has also uploaded more than 150 images and uses image tags appropriately. It's time to hand him the mop & bucket, as he's doing so much vandal fighting already and doing it very well. --Durin 20:49, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Thank you for the very well researched nomination, Durin, I accept. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 00:57, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Support

  1. Support per above. --Durin 20:50, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
  2. Support per nom. --pgk(talk) 21:45, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
  3. Support per nom. Great vandal fighter Olorin28 01:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  4. Support I could have sworn he had a mop alreadyFile Éireann 01:08, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  5. Strong support obvious to me.Gator (talk) 01:09, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  6. Support. —Kirill Lokshin 01:13, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  7. --Jaranda wat's sup 01:17, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  8. NSLE (T+C+CVU) 01:31, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  9. Support. Definitely deserves to be an admin.--Shanel 01:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  10. Strong Support, Great vandal whacker! Calm editor, would mop in circles instead of back and forth! --негіднийлють (Reply|Spam Me!*|RfS) 01:37, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  11. Support, so he can stop posting to WP:AIAV and do it himself :).--Sean|Black 01:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  12. Strong support. Vandals beware. Canderson7 (talk) 02:38, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  13. Support Looks good to me xaosflux Talk/CVU 03:24, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  14. Support, that's quite an impressive nomination! HGB 03:29, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  15. Support appears to be a strong editor with good contributions--MONGO 03:42, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  16. King of All the Franks 03:47, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  17. Support —wwoods 04:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  18. Wow - Support. BD2412 T 05:03, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  19. Support. Any nomination by Durin shouldbe good enough for anyone!--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 05:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  20. Support <Insert tired clich'e here> I really thoguht he was one. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 05:44, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  21. Support, unlikely to abuse administrator tools. Christopher Parham (talk) 06:03, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  22. Support. All these great users are making me feel inadequate! Seriously, Malo has done nothing but good work here. Raven4x4x 06:05, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  23. Support. Mass annihilates vandals but doesn't insult them. btw, my heart stopped for a second when I did not read the last four words in the previous support vote ;-) --Gurubrahma 06:45, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  24. Support: --Bhadani 06:55, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  25. Support. Good and responsible contributor. Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:11, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  26. Clear as crystal support. ナイトスタリオン ✉ 11:23, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  27. Harro5 11:32, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  28. Support Proto t c 15:39, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  29. Undivided support. Excellent, lightning-quick vandal fighter, and, well, I thought he was an admin. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 16:27, Dec. 14, 2005
  30. Support great admin candidate --rogerd 17:09, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  31. Support obviously qualified. --CBD ☎ ✉ 17:42, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  32. Support --Duk 17:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  33. Support - sounds like me. Or at least what I think I'm like :). Huge amounts of edits, very regular, and goes the extra mile. Way too many links in the intro to ignore. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 18:58, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  34. Support - thought he already was an admin. Izehar (talk) 19:56, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
  35. Support, people have to start telling me whether they're admins or not, because I really thought he was one. Titoxd(?!? - did you read this?) 01:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  36. Support. We need vandal fighters. --Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 02:39, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  37. Support. Malo gets my support. We need more like him ("malo" means "bad" in Spanish, bad news for the vandals when he gains access to the flamethrower) ≈ jossi fresco ≈ t • @ 04:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  38. Support for all reasons stated above. I thought you were already one! :( Mo0[talk] 04:25, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  39. Support. Malo + sysop mop = Bueno!--cjllw | TALK 05:19, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  40. Support. Malo es Bueno! -- PRueda29 Ptalk29 07:06, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  41. Strong support per other votes - Wezzo 13:28, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  42. Support per all above. I notice Malo around Wikipedia doing good work.--cj | talk 16:30, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  43. Support per above.--a.n.o.n.y.m t 20:10, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  44. Strong Support - anyone that can be that nice to vandals, deserves it. Good luck and good hunting. Prsgoddess187 21:39, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  45. Support - his talk page pretty much says it all. -- Ian ≡ talk 23:16, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  46. Support - excellent work so far. Keep up the good work --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 16:15, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  47. Support - Gladly. Sango123 (talk) 20:26, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
  48. Support. Give him the flamethrower! the wub "?!" 00:28, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
  49. Support. Does great work. delldot | talk 01:48, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
  50. Support; excellent work; often encounter him while on RC patrol. Antandrus (talk) 05:40, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
  51. Support, I was thinking of opposing him just because the Oppose part was looking really lonely. But I can't oppose a great editor like this. Croat Canuck 06:10, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
  52. Strong support: brilliant vandalwhacker, while I was on RCP last night, he was really active, and beat me to it 50% of the time Sceptre (Talk) 12:56, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
  53. Support--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 13:42, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
  54. Durin nomination. El_C 12:49, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
  55. Support. Exactly the type of user we need around here. Revived 21:56, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
  56. Support Definitely qualified. Gflores Talk 21:57, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
  57. Durin as per Durin. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 07:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
  58. Support per above. --Kefalonia 12:59, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  59. You have my Vote of Confidence. - Mailer Diablo 18:28, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  60. Strong support. Blackcap (talk) (vandalfighters, take a look) 22:22, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  61. Support minutes before the final whistle. Deserves it! -- Svest 00:05, 21 December 2005 (UTC)  Wiki me up™

Votes after deadline

  1. Lunging, last-second support. Wait for it...TOUCHDOWN! Harro5 03:17, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

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. At the top of my list would be blocking presistant vandals as they often waste a great deal of other users time. I have often used WP:AIV for requests of intervention, and I would also help there. You can almost always find me in the WP:CVU IRC channel, even when not vandal fighting, and making other contributions. I would also be more interested in helping more with AfD's and checking through WP:CSD. I am also interested in WP:CV, as I feel that copyrights are too often overlooked, and must be addressed.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. I have made a decent size list of some of "my articles" at User:Malo/Contributions. Some of those that I am especially pleased with are my contributions to:
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. Yes, back in early October, I was randomly looking for articles that were flawed in some way or another and then I'd try to do my best to fix them or clean up in some way. One of these was Henry Schlacks. I tagged this article for a {{nn-bio}} tag and shortly there after User:Kelly Martin left me a message about it. This is not my proudest moment on wikipedia, let me tell you all. My response was not typical of my attitude, and in response I did accuse this admin of being biased due to her association with a Wikiproject. While the issue never escalated, it has been on my mind. In hind-sight, the experience taught me to keep a cool and level head and not to take such edits too personally. I am not free of all fault, however I take each mistake that I make and learn from it. This one incident has been the biggest stress of mine on wikipedia. I have dealt with other minor issues in regards to editing conflicts with other users, in which I am a fan of the WP:1RR policy, as it helps to avoid unnecessary conflict.
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