Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Nihonjoe

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[edit] Nihonjoe

Final (75/2/0) ended 00:07, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Nihonjoe (talk · contribs) – I've been around for a good long while now, so I've gotten down the routine of how things generally work on Wikipedia. I've got a handle on dealing with disputes with other editors, I believe, and I want to be able to do more to help out my fellow editors. I really enjoy working on Wikipedia, and I expect to be here for a long time to come. 日本穣 Nihonjoe 23:14, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept. --日本穣 Nihonjoe 23:15, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Support

  1. Obvious Support. Huge amount of edits! Will make a good admin. DarthVader 23:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
  2. Support - After checking his contributions, I may just say that he seems a very experienced contributor, with lots of articles created, several participations in wikiprojects and a good editcount in every namespace. He'll make a very good admin. Afonso Silva 23:43, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
  3. Weak support, too many userboxes though. Kimchi.sg 00:33, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  4. Hope to see better use of edit summaries in the future, but a minor niggle. Support. RadioKirk talk to me 00:35, 4 May 2006 (UTC) I thought those stats looked odd. Based on user's answers and the more rounded approach promised, still support. RadioKirk talk to me 00:49, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  5. Support Great user. MoppEr Speak! 00:54, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  6. Support —Mets501talk 01:03, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  7. Support, knows this website well. I trust he will use the mop responsibly. Royboycrashfan 01:10, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  8. Support, not an admin? Titoxd(?!? - help us) 02:13, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  9. Support, I trust him with the tools, good user. --Terence Ong 02:27, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  10. Support - enter cliche asking why it took so long here -- Tawker 02:31, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  11. Support - very good contributions. —Khoikhoi 02:51, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  12. Support - everything looks great. joturner 03:03, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  13. Support - I'm not crazy on the 'Nippon Animation' category, but otherwise he seems sensible. - Richardcavell 04:43, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  14. Well duh! Support - would have loved to nominate him myself. - Tangotango 05:45, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  15. Support - looks like a good one. Lots of contributions. Will probably be an excellent admin. Nephron  T|C 05:53, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  16. Support - looks good abakharev 06:11, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  17. Yes. NSLE (T+C) at 06:13 UTC (2006-05-04)
  18. Support Computerjoe's talk 07:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  19. Support --kingboyk 07:55, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  20. Support -- strong user.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 08:10, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  21. Support Great edit count, including an abundance of edits in the Wikipedia namespace. Jared W 11:14, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  22. I would be honored to vote Support.--Kungfu Adam (talk) 12:53, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  23. Support Joe I 13:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  24. Support for another Japanophile (^.^) -- Chris 73 | Talk 14:34, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  25. Support A great user. --Siva1979Talk to me 14:36, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  26. Support. --Myles Long 15:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  27. Support. -Tone 16:13, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  28. Support. Everything seems to be in order here, its mopping time! — xaosflux Talk 16:51, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  29. Support per solid record of contributions and positive interactions on talk page. Definitely even-tempered and won't abuse the mop. --Elkman - (talk) 17:19, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  30. Support. Great user who has earned admin rights. --preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 19:05, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  31. Hooooooooooly crap that's a lot of articles created. No question about this... Strong support. Grandmasterka 19:56, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  32. All the way! Fits all of the admin criteria. Excellent phenomenal Support and a kiss from Love-A-Lot Bear! --Slgrandson 20:43, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  33. Support. A deserving user, and will likely be handy with a mop. Kukini 22:25, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  34. Support. This user doesn't need the mop, they need a deck scrubbing brush and some industrial strength floor cleaner!!! --Darth Deskana (talk page) 22:42, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  35. Support, looks good. Kirill Lokshin 22:49, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  36. Support per above. Bucketsofg✐ 00:42, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  37. Support, of course. - Mailer Diablo 02:25, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  38. Support This user is making great edits ForestH2 03:02 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  39. Support per all the above. Metamagician3000 03:15, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  40. Support. Good editors.Voice-of-AllT|@|ESP 04:34, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  41. Support--Jusjih 06:09, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  42. Support, Joseph Solis in Australia 10:34, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  43. Support, I think the guy can be trusted. Conscious 10:57, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  44. Support Everything checks out.--MONGO 11:57, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  45. Support Additional generic compliment (sorry they've all been taken).--Joe Jklin 13:25, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  46. Support No reason not to. Joelito (talk) 14:15, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  47. Support Why dosen't anyone oppose for him not being here you enough like the dude above?? the_ed17(talk)Use these! 17:06, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  48. Support We need a category titled "I'm going to die if this user doesn't get sysopped!". Primate#101 00:31, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
  49. Support I've seen your anime/manga wp work. :) ~Kylu (u|t) 03:51, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
  50. Support --Knucmo2 11:28, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
  51. Jaranda wat's sup 15:24, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
  52. Highway Rainbow Sneakers 21:26, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
  53. Support Naconkantari e|t||c|m 22:25, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
  54. Support. See no issues. Jayjg (talk) 05:58, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
  55. Support.--Firsfron 06:34, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
  56. Please send more - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 06:57, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
  57. Support Is there really anything else to be said?--digital_me(Talk)(Contribs) 15:26, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
  58. Support. An amazing amount of quality edits, very experienced, and obviously knows his way around Wikipedia. Thetruthbelow 17:56, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
  59. Support I have crossed him enough times to realize he is a good wikipedian with common sense. -- ReyBrujo 20:09, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
  60. Support Looks good. Nephron  T|C 21:16, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
  61. Support, I've seen him around, always good contribs from him. Go for it, Joe! Phaedriel ♥ tell me - 00:05, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  62. Support --Jay(Reply) 01:54, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  63. Support. Nihonjoe has been doing a superb job.--Endroit 03:59, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  64. Support. Seems to be a good editor who contributed a lot to Wikipedia, especially regarding Japan-related articles. Deiaemeth 07:52, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  65. Support OSU80 20:35, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  66. Yes indeed! Can't sleep, clown will eat me 22:15, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  67. Support. Thunderbrand 01:26, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
  68. Support. LordRocketMike 19:26, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
  69. Support - Good user Canderous 22:00, 9 May 2006 (UTC) Talk
  70. Support Good stuff. ++Lar: t/c 22:01, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
  71. Support, great contributions, great attitude -- Samir (the scope) धर्म 00:41, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  72. Support - I thought he was already an admin (based on what I noticed of his presence and accuracy in edits). --Crisu 01:42, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  73. Support - I've heard of him and not in a bad way. ℬastique▼parℓer♥voir♑ 02:47, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  74. Support - too valuable to not be an admin. But fix your signature, even though I can see it perfectly fine. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 05:48, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  75. Support But please, change the signature. —Cuiviénen (talk•contribs), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 @ 22:18 UTC

Oppose

  1. Oppose. Sorry, but your answer to Firsfron was disturbing. Have the courage to say, "NO, that's unethical!" An administrator is not a politician. Ted 02:24, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
    He did. What, admins can't ever compromise?? Grandmasterka 02:35, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
    He did indeed indicate he felt it wasn't right. He was trying to help, even if he felt it was an odd request. Please don't penalize him for just saying he'd look at a problem. --Firsfron 03:27, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
    Quid pro quo for unrelated things is not compromise. Once an adminstrator does that in any case, their further decisions may be suspect. It was irresponsible for him to say he would look at it. I hope he will learn from this experience. I'm sure my negative vote will not affect the decision in any way. Ted 04:29, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
    That's really unfortunate. Ted, I know you have already stated this is your final comment on the matter. At the same time, without trying to pester you, I do want to point out that Nihonjoe categorically states below that his consideration of looking at the case is NOT to try to get me to vote for him, and with the long list of votes above, he doesn't even need it. In other words, he's not being a "politician" as you stated earlier. He was considering trying to help. One can easily tell from his comments below that he was annoyed at me, and he did originally refuse to even consider looking. According to your vote, this WP Admin candidate's "greatest sin" is offering to consider helping someone with a vandal, which in my mind is sort of what the job is, in part, about. Please reconsider your vote. Nihonjoe's one of the few admins who may have come close to recieving a unanimous promotion. --Firsfron 08:54, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
    I appreciate your comments, Ted. ˑˑˑ日本穣 Talk to Nihonjoε 17:27, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
  2. 'Likely temporary oppose. I don't know how many different scripts the average user has installed, but I know I have a fairly large number of scripts installed - yet half of his new signature (the first half) comes up as boxes for me. That's a problem for an admin, I think, and a borderline violation of WP:SIG. Change it to something more users will have the font for and I'll immediately support. —Cuiviénen (talk•contribs), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 @ 00:40 UTC
    Well User:Fang Aili's sig has chinese in it. And also, does it really matter if there are three boxes in front of his name? That a cosmetic preference and shouldn't affect your vote IMHO. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 02:30, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
    Fang Aili uses characters that usually come with your basic operating system. Some of Nihonjoe's signature is fine, but apparently he is also using characters that are not commonly available. I don't which of the Japanese scripts it is, but he should avoid using it in a signature. —Cuiviénen (talk•contribs), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 @ 04:39 UTC
    Actually, all of the Japnese scripts seem to work for me, so apparently it is something else. (Amharic is the only script I can find that doesn't show up for me.) Unless the boxes are a stylistic choice? —Cuiviénen (talk•contribs), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 @ 04:41 UTC
    Huh? you hath confuseth me. IMHO it's some encoding crap that really should never have been invented. I think it's still possible for Nihonjoe to change his signature so that it looks the same for people who see it fine but fixes everyone else. Suggestion: try using Chinese equivalents, or use a different font for the characters. --M1ss1ontomars2k4 05:47, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
    Is that really a reason to oppose an RfA? It's not even like images, where it stresses the servers, this is just script (what script, I have no idea; I can't see it either). I can't see anything in WP:SIG that this violates; it's just unreadable. --Rory096 05:55, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
    It's disruptive. Like I said, it's really easy to fix. —Cuiviénen (talk•contribs), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 @ 12:58 UTC
    3 boxes are disruptive? For some reason I don't feel the same way. (Somebody will now point to ubxen to show how boxes can be disruptive) --Rory096 14:32, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
    I do, but I've changed to support anyway. —Cuiviénen (talk•contribs), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 @ 22:18 UTC
  3. Oppose has non-English characters in his sig on English Wikipedia. Ardenn 03:53, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
    So? As long as something is unicode, it doesn't stress the servers. Please read WP:SIG. --Rory096 05:51, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
    Rory096 seems to be trying to make a WP:POINT I think. Look at the reasons for his recent RfA votes. ~Kylu (u|t) 17:19, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
    uhh, I think you mean Ardenn--Shanel § 18:10, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Neutral

  1. Changing vote to Neutral. Will change vote to support if Nihonjoe considers reviewing this case upon promotion to administrator (I didn't see any specific policy against this, so I hope it's not illegal. I wouldn't normally even consider this move, but I'm at my wits' end with the current admin reviewing the case).--Firsfron 18:48, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
    Maybe it is not illegal, but it is quite close to it. I hope you reconsider this. You should vote according to your views of what he has done and what you expect him to do, not upon condition of doing something. I think this is similar to "I will vote for you if you vote for me". -- ReyBrujo 22:09, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
    I did not say I would vote for him if he votes for me. I said I'd change my vote if he considers reviewing the case. After all, he stated above that he wants to be able to do more to help out his fellow editors. I am in need of help, and I've requested assistance to no avail, off and on for several months. You say I should vote based on what I expect him to do, and one of the things I expect from Admins is to occasionally take a look at potential cases of vandalism, sockpuppetry, copyvio, etc, and fix the problem, if it truly exists. There's little point in having an admin if he or she is unwilling to do so.--Firsfron 22:47, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
    Administrators are never obligated to block users, or act on any matter. --Lord Deskana Dark Lord of the Sith 22:50, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
    I'm aware of that. I did not claim any admin was obligated to block any user or act on anything. Yet since they are the only ones who can do so, it's up to them if they want to prevent serious problems. We small folk can revert vandalism, but we cannot prevent it from happening as admins can.--Firsfron 22:59, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
    Okay, this seems a bit odd. You will only vote "Support" if I consider reviewing this case upon promotion to administrator? That doesn't make any sense at all. Additionally, I haven't really had any experience with this kind of thing, so I'm not sure I'd be the best person to look into it. I just don't see why you think I should basically "buy" your vote by saying I'd look at it. Besides, I can't guarantee anything different happening from what has already happened. ˑˑˑ日本穣 Talk to Nihonjoε 01:50, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
    It is a bit odd. I'm tired of having my pages vandalized, tired of having to deal with this vandal, and want it to stop. I've gone thru what I considered the proper channels (admin noticeboard, vandalism in progress, and suspected sockpuppet board), and it got me nowhere. I tried vandal warnings, sockpuppet warnings, etc. I had originally assumed good faith. No change; I still get legal threats, blankings, etc. I'm going to extreme measures to try to end this problem.
    I didn't ask you to "buy" my vote, I asked you to look into the problem, something I'd ask of any good admin. I didn't ask for any guarantee, I asked for a look. If you can't or don't want to look, I have to question if IMO you'd honestly make a good admin. Were I an admin or even potential admin, and someone asked me to just look at a situation that only an admin could fix, I'd look. That's just me *shrug*. My vote remains neutral.--Firsfron 02:07, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
    Well, that's the way it appears. You've said that you'd vote "Support" if I said I'd consider looking into this issue upon promotion to adminitrator. That sounds like the only way I could possibly get your vote is by promising you that I'll do something in the future, rather than you basing your vote on what I've done so far. So, yes, I'll consider looking at that issue, but I'm not doing it in order to get you to change your vote. I can't promise that I'll be able to do anything, but I'll at least look at it. ˑˑˑ日本穣 Talk to Nihonjoε 09:01, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Comments

Here are some stats for user's last 5000 edits.Voice-of-AllT|@|ESP 01:06, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

User contributions
Contribution data for this user (over the 5000 edit(s) shown on this page):
Time range: 60 approximate day(s) of edits on this page
Most recent edit on: 0hr (UTC) -- 04, May, 2006
Oldest edit on: 7hr (UTC) -- 5, March, 2006
Overall edit summary use: Major edits: 98.64% Minor edits: 99.95%
Article edit summary use: Major article edits: 99.44% Minor article edits: 100%
Average edits per day (current): 83.96
Significant article edits (non-minor/reverts): 6.92%
Edits on top: 39.82%
Breakdown of edits:
All significant edits (non-minor/reverts): 21.62%
Minor edits (non reverts): 73.96%
Quick reverts: 4.12%
Unmarked edits: 0.3%
Wikipedia namespace edits:
Article: 47.92% | Article talk: 22.02%
User: 3.32% | User talk: 6.38%
Wikipedia: 9.1% | Wikipedia talk: 4.26%
Image: 0.98%
Template: 2.28%
Category: 2.1%
Portal: 0.06%
Help: 0.08%
MediaWiki: 0%
Other talk pages: 1.5%
Absolutely. (^_^) I was in the process when you posted. --日本穣 Nihonjoe 23:52, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment to the ed17: I'm here. I just haven't seen the need to comment on anything. (^_^) ˑˑˑ日本穣 Talk to Nihonjoε 18:25, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Reply to Cuivienen and Ardenn: Those first three characters are from the Insert box found on every edit page on English Wikipedia. They are basic unicode characters. Why else would they include them in that box? However, since you two seem to be having so much trouble with them, I've changed them to the "middot" character. Are you able to view them now? The second three characters are unicode Japanese kanji, so if you are having problems viewing them, it's likely you don't have a Japanese unicode font installed. I access this site from both a Windows XP machine and a Mac OS X machine, and I don't have problems viewing my sig on either one. I've also added a question mark for people to click which takes them to the Help:Japanese page. That page explains how to install the appropriate fonts to be able to view the characters. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoε 17:33, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I changed it a little bit. Is this better? ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 22:35, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer 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: Some that I already assist with (and enjoy) are stub sorting, category population, and vandal fighting. I would continue with those, as well as assisting out wherever else I could. I also like to clean up articles on occasion. --日本穣 Nihonjoe 23:51, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Φ Adding a few items that do require sysop tools in order to address the point brought up by Kimchi, above: I would assist with settling NPOV disputes, assist with WP:AIV, assist with deletions as I learned the ropes (can't really learn how it all truly works until one becomes an admin), as well as with anything else on the backlog list that needs attention. As my contribution history shows, I'm not afraid to jump in and get dirty. (^_^) --日本穣 Nihonjoe 00:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A: I think WikiProject Japan is one of the best as far as working to help organize similarly-minded editors. There are around 20 participants now, and the project is only a little over a month old now. Related to that, I spun-off Wikipedia:Requested articles/Japan in order to make it easier for project members and other editors to find Japan-related article requests. I've spent a lot of time populating this page (and it's three sub-pages).
ΦI think I created a good article with Shōnen (disambiguation), which has a lot of good information despite it being a disambuiguation page. I learned quite a bit while translating that one from the Japanese Wikipedia page.
ΦWilliam Bliss Baker is small, but contains absolutely all the information I could find about him online. I'm trying to find time to visit a library in order to expand the article further.
ΦHighschool! Kimen-gumi has taken (and is still taking) a lot of time as there is very little English-language information about the show. Therefore, almost everything in the article is translated from Japanese sources (at this point, mostly the equivalent JA-WP article).
ΦTokumei Kakarichō Tadano Hitoshi is another short, but sweet, article. The article isn't terribly large, but it contains a lot of good information. I know a lot of these articles contain large lists of information or timelines, but that's the easiest and quickest way of presenting the information (especially when a lot of what I do is lists of shows someone has worked on, list of casts and staff for a show, and similar things). I think it's more important to have a lot of good solid information there for people than to have nothing at all (which is what was there for all of these before I wrote those articles).
ΦFinally, I think one of the best articles I've written (at least most of it) is MyFamily.com, Inc. (written because I have an interest in genealogy, and I use their services). I try to check their PR page regularly so I can update the page when they release something new. --日本穣 Nihonjoe 23:51, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
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: Probably the biggest one was the Use of macrons in titles of Japan-related articles discussion and mediation. I think I did a good job of genuinely trying to work things out with the editors who disagreed with my stance on the subject. I've also tried to go out of my way to compliment thm and encourage them in order to show there are no hard feelings despite the heated discussion that sometimes took place. There have been a few other minor disagreements, but this was definitely the biggest disagreement/conflict in which I have participated. I think it was resolved amicably, and I still work with most (if not all) of the editors involved to continue improving coverage of Japan-related topics on WP. --日本穣 Nihonjoe 23:51, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
4. Question from Hermione1980. How would you respond if another admin reverted one of your admin actions (e.g. (un)protecting, (un)deleting, (un)blocking)?
A: I'd go ask them why. If they had a good reason, that would be the end of it. If I thought the reason wasn't that good, I'd discuss the matter with them to try to come to a consensus on how to proceed. ˑˑˑ日本穣 Talk to Nihonjoε 21:28, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
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