Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/O Keyes

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[edit] O Keyes

O keyes (talk · contribs) - I am a student from South London and have been a wikipedia user for approximately a year and a half, making my first edit in Feb 2006. My primary area's of interest are recategorising and cleaning up articles, as well as (in some cases) requesting outright deletion for particularly pointless or biased articles. O keyes 12:02, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: self nomination O keyes 12:10, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
A:

I mainly hang around the uncat section, so mainly using my new priveleges to make quicker and more effective edits and recategorisations. Since i'm strongly involved in this section but not neccessarily in many others, i'll also offer my services for advice and mediation, since i'm unlikely to be directly involved.

2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A:

Personally i think attempting to clean up and categorise pages that get the uncat tag as soon as possible; pages which arent done soon tend to vanish into the backlog.

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 havent really got into anything i'd call a conflict, although there has been disagreement or misunderstanding in the past. i have my own opinions and can be a bit nitpicky, but when i mess up i always tend to admit to it and apologise.

[edit] General comments

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/O Keyes before commenting.

[edit] Discussion

[edit] Support
  1. Moral Support It's clear that you're getting there. You will want to heed the advice of the opposers below. Also, try to become familiar with policy. Participating in XfD discussions is a great way to do this. Otherwise, keep up the good editing! NF24(radio me!) 20:57, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Oppose
  1. Wish you had more edit summaries. Sorry, more experience required. Miranda 12:14, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
  2. Oppose. Soory, but out of 2593 edits, you only have five to article talk pages, thus leading me to believe that you do not discuss articles, which is good for discussing improvements in cases of revamps. The poor edit summary usage is also a worry. You're on the right track, however. Qst 12:58, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
  3. Weak Oppose - you're on the right track, but your insufficient answers to the questions doesn't inspire me with confidence that you know all the policies you should do when you're an admin. — Rudget contributions 13:21, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
  4. oppose the essays are people's first impression of many candidates. Your's leaves me completely uninspired.Balloonman 15:40, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
  5. Oppose. Discussion is an important thing for me, as are edit summaries. Not quite ready yet. Jack?! 19:13, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
  6. Oppose. I think you're not quite ready yet, but keep up the good work. --Kaaveh 19:19, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
  7. Oppose. While the total number of edits is not a problem (I don't subscribe to any particular minimum limit) the recent distribution is a bit odd: July 146 edits, August-November inclusive 6 edits, December (already!) 286 edits. If I have read this right it does not yet speak of a steady commitment which I'd like to see in an admin. Kim Dent-Brown (Talk to me) 19:57, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
  8. I'm sorry, but I see no evidence of the dedication I expect to see in an RfA candidate. Not even editing in the past couple of months is one of the nails in that particular coffin. EVula // talk // ☯ // 20:46, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Neutral
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.