Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Nickshanks

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[edit] Nickshanks

Final (13/0/0) ended 11:10, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Nickshanks (talk · contribs); edit count; self-nomination. I have been mainly active in my interest areas of space, archaeology, british history, computing and linguistics for a year or so, and contributed articles about places in which I've lived or have visited, with sporadic contributions where I wasn't logged in. I also lightly contributed for a couple of years from various university IPs (147.197.*) but with no registered account. I am a bit of a grammar nazi and often make tiny changes here and there to spruce up pages, make tables prettier, use Unicode instead of HTML entities, fix hyphenation et cetera. I also revert vandalism wherever I see it, for example Planet. I have been involved in a couple of disputes as you can see from my talk page (as I am sure anyone who's been here long enough has). I hope that you are able to see I can resolve them amicably, either by explaining better what I was doing, or by admitting error and reverting changes.
I feel that a strong, consistent record over the past year, a level head when communicating with others, a varied spectrum of disciplins about which I am knowledgeable and solid contributions both large and small stand me in good stead for consideration as an admin on the English Wikipedia. I am also an admin on the Latin, and minor contributor to the French, Kannada, German and Old English Wikipedias, and use the Wikimedia Commons wherever appropriate for uploading images.

Support

  1. Support Good consistent (not consistant) editor and obviously not such a grammar nazi after all! Dlyons493 Talk 16:45, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
    Oops, yeah well spotted Nicholas 18:33, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Support, yeah, what the heck. — JIP | Talk 18:54, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
  3. Support --Rogerd 20:53, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
  4. I give him the nod.  Denelson83  22:11, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
  5. Support, Not the most active of users, but that's alright, active enough to have over 2000 edits (Not that I look at edit counts or anything) Private Butcher 22:53, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
  6. Support CambridgeBayWeather 02:47, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  7. Merovingian (t) (c) 08:13, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
  8. Support Use edit summaries though please :) Ryan Norton T | @ | C 02:35, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  9. Cool. --JuntungWu 07:14, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  10. Support nearly three thousand edits. freestylefrappe 23:12, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
    Only two thousand of those are on article pages, the other 700‐odd are talk pages. Nicholas 23:26, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  11. Support sample checked a small amount of edits, good quality stuff on numismatic articles too. Alf melmac 15:57, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  12. Support. El_C 03:27, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
  13. Support. --NormanEinstein 14:05, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
  14. Support. This user can be trusted. The Singing Badger 17:27, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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Comments

Questions
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. Primarily the same stuff I do now, but better :-) i.e. reverts to vandalism, moving images to Commons, etc. I will probably also take on a role deleting pages that ought not to be.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. I tend not to write whole new articles, but where I do they usually stand unchanged for a long period of time. I suppose this is either because the are either very good or very obscure! The articles that I have written in their entirety, and which have not had people complain about or make substantial changes to, are the ones I feel have been accepted and welcomed into the community. Some examples are [1], [2],[3], [4], [5], [6] and just today [7]. The first of which I have had compliments about how interesting readers found it! The second and third are my most substantial single contributions.
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 not felt stress at any point (yet, fingers crossed). I have a tendency to copy conversations into my own talk page so that when people reply I get notified and can follow the thread. It also mean that the disputes I have had are there for all to see. All have been resolved quickly and amicably, as I have explained in my nomination speech. I don't believe there's anyone on here who holds a grudge against me, at least, I hope there isn't! :-)
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