Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Nenyedi

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[edit] Nenyedi

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Nenyedi (talk · contribs) - I, Nenyedi, am nominating myself for the mop. I have recently become active in the project, and during my edits, many of my edits could be a lot easier if I had administrative provelages.

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Accept After a unsuccessful RFA in the past, I am trying again.

[edit] Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. You may wish to answer the following optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
A: In the past, I have been involved in reverting vandalism and simply contributing, but I have recently become active in reverting vandalism and patrolling the recent pages section, especially the new pages section. As an administrator, It would be much easier for me to quickly deal with pages that deal with pages that clearly violate Wikipedia policy.

Along with this, I also am interested in the aspect of blocking other users. While I beleive that no user should be blocked from editing Wikipedia, I am aware and am able to indentify instances where this action would need to be taken. As an administrator, I would be able to promptly block users who are persistent vandals and those who pose a risk to the integrity and informational value of Wikipedia. Instead of placing names on the administrator's intervention watchlist, I would be able to simply block a user myself, and also help deciding on blocks suggested by fellow Wikipedians on the watchlist.

Although the areas mentioned here are somewhat limited, I also am interested in participating in a wide array of activities available to administrators, and overall increasing the quality of Wikipedia and making the project great.

2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: I am most proud of my edits to pages with vandalism and pages that don't deserve to be on Wikipedia. If many of my edits to spam pages, and non-notable biographies, and other pages that meet the criteria for speedy deletion didn't end up simply being deleted as I tagged them, I would have thousands more edits to my name.

I am also proud of my communication with other users. When I revert vandalism, I always leave the vandal a message, not only because they deserve to know that what they do was wrong, but this also gives them a chance to change their action in the future. I always leave a message for users who create pages that violate the criteria for speedy deletion, as well. This gives them an opportunity to change the page, and make it comply, or at least a chance to add a {{hangon}} tag to the page and at least give their opinion. The number of people writing back to me regarding these tags, some of which are angry, shows that I am doing a good job.

I beleive that some of my best contributions are to Wiki Project Aviation, where I have added many photographs of and information about airports.

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
A: I have been some minor conflicts in the past, and I am never too worried about them. I always resolve them amicably, and don't let them preoccupy my life.

Optional questions from Nick (talk · contribs)

4.You are requesting the community grant you extra tools - primarily the ability to block users, the ability to delete material and the ability to protect or un-protect pages. Could you provide some examples of when you found it frustrating or inconvenient not having these tools and how you would have used them ?
A:
5.What is your position on fair use imagery on Wikipedia, should high quality fair use images be used instead of low quality free images, should episode lists be left to use hundreds of images, should fair use images be hold on Wikimedia Commons ?
Can you explain how fair use images impact of the libre and gratis aspects of Wikipedia. How would you use administrative tools in relation to images ?
A:

Questions from The Transhumanist:

5. Why are you in such a hurry to become an admin?
6. What skills and attributes do you have which make you believe you are qualified to be an admin at this time?
7. Have you read all of Wikipedia's guidelines, policies, and help pages? Which ones do you have left to read?
8. Are there any policies you disagree with, and if so, what are they, and why do you disagree?
9. Please name all of the departments you have participated in.
10. What would you do if a friend came to you and asked for a copy of something from the deleted pages of Wikipedia?
11. As an admin, what is the proper procedure to follow when you've encountered someone you believe has a conflict of interest with respect to an article that user has been editing?
12. Who is Larry Sanger, and what is your position on his claims?
13. What do you like about Wikipedia the most? Why are you here?
14. If you were an admin, and somebody repeatedly vandalized your userpage, what would you do?
15. What if a user asked you 10 questions per day, relentlessly? What would you do?
 :) The Transhumanist 21:45, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Optional Question from Cool Blue (talk · contribs)

16. In the future, do you think The Transhumanist should be prevented from participating in future RfA discussions? :) Just kidding!:)

[edit] General comments

Please keep criticism constructive and polite. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Nenyedi before commenting.

[edit] Discussion

Support

  1. I'm not convinced with the opposing comments that the canadate is too focused on vandalism. Just as long as if the canadate assumes good faith and doesn't bite the newcomers. I think Wikipedia needs more administrators to help with WP:AIV, so in short, I don't see why the canadate wouldn't have a sufficient use of the tools, paticipating in one, more than none, backlog.--U.S.A. cubed 23:03, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

  1. Oppose - sorry. Adminship isn't really meant to make editing life easier. If anything, it makes it harder. Your edits look great so far and you've made plenty of good contributions to the project but I believe you need more experience esp. as you've an ongoing Editor Review and that you'd previously applied for adminship just a few weeks back. Get some more edits behind you, maybe get more involved in WP: pages and come back in a while. You're on the right track - Alison ☺ 17:56, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  2. Oppose as per my previous comments on your first RfA. You are making progress but you still have a way to go in order to be an admin, as per Aquarius's comments on your Editor Review. (aeropagitica) 18:03, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  3. Oppose, there seem to be some problems with your image uploads, some as recently as one month ago. You uploaded Image:Fiercecologne.jpeg Which is exactly the same as this promo shot from a commercial website. You then changed the licensing from {{logo}} to {{pd-self}}. Also, you have uploaded some non-free images which are now orphaned. Admins need to understand free content and licensing laws, and the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation at least to an extent. Mak (talk) 18:17, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  4. Oppose You're still quite inexperienced to be given the tools, and while you are on the right track, you seem overly anxious to become an admin. Sit back and relax on the issue, have fun, edit more, join some Wikiprojects and contact other users. Get more involved and gain more experience, then try back in a few months time, if you have gained the experience. Jmlk17 19:43, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  5. Oppose. Violated WP:3RR last month by repeatedly blanking his/her previous RfA. link -- LeCourT:C 20:49, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  6. Strong and Serious Oppose - I know adminship isn't a big deal, etc., etc., but there are some serious concerns that need to be addressed. You only have 1171 edits total, or something like that, and only around 518 of them are in mainspace. Secondly, you violated 3RR on your first RfA, whereas administrators are supposed to deal with 3RR violators, not be them. Thirdly, you're too focused on vandalism. Expand your horizons. Fourthly, (and this is the 1st time I've ever used that odd-sounding word in my life) you vandalized your first RfA, by blanking it, and are breaking the very policies you're sworn to uphold. And fifthly, you don't seem to know basic policies, such as WP:3RR, that administrators have to deal with on a regular basis. Try again when these issues are straightened out. Cool Bluetalk to me 21:39, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
    Here's my rationale. Wikipedia does not need administrators to revert vandalism, or warn the users who vandalized, but WP:AIV is a very important backlog, and if the canadate participated in that and blocking vandals, just as long as they make sure good faith was assumed in them first, I don't see how that's insufficient. Sure, there are many other areas of Wikipedia for administrating, but I think covering one will be enough.--U.S.A. cubed 23:03, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
    I don't see any serious regular backlogs on AIV?? - Alison ☺ 23:14, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
    I thought that AIV was an important backlog, because I thought one of the main duties of an administrator included blocking vandals, but I guess you also think it's insufficient, Alison?--U.S.A. cubed 23:19, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
    Okaaay. Maybe it's because I see part of an admin's duty as dealing with vandalism and all that that entails. Blocking is not really where it's at. Where I tend to see backlogs is in CSD, with 'speedy' images and stuff hanging around for weeks. But whatever - I feel we could certainly use more admins. Anyways - not a conversation for here ... - Alison ☺ 23:24, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  7. Oppose The 3RR is serious in my mind. I commend you for you enthusiasm and assume you blanked the page out of frustration and embarrassment. In fact, you may not have realized you were violating 3RR. But as an admin you are expected to know such things. Maybe later. JodyB talk 21:40, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  8. Oppose - Sorry, I just don't see a need for the tools, or a mature understanding of them. Philippe 22:25, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  9. Oppose: I don't see a need for this user to have the tools at this point in time. Perhaps at a later date.  Orfen User Talk | Contribs 22:31, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  10. Oppose per all of the above. BoricuaeddieTalk • Contribs • Spread the love! 22:41, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  11. Oppose You have only a limited number of edits in Wiki, and none at all in wiki-talk. Although we try to avoid edit-count obsession, your total count is too low to please many editors, given that your contributions are all we have to go on to judge your potential skill at admin-related tasks.--Anthony.bradbury 23:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  12. Oppose, (edit conflict) sorry, I just don't think you've had enough experience or even much use for the tools at this point. Also, try racking up some talk mainspace edits. *Cremepuff222* 23:57, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
  13. Oppose: You've: (1) Not been active enough in the past few months. (2) Nomonated yourself for adminship again too soon after your previous one. (3) not enough project-space or mainspace edits for an administrator. Please get more expreience in the project and main spaces, and then come back after 2 - 3 months. ~ Magnus animum ∵ ∫ φ γ 00:35, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
  14. Oppose get some more experience and you can be a good admin. Captain panda 01:19, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Neutral

  1. Undecided - pending answers to my questions above. The Transhumanist 22:03, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.