Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Private Butcher

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[edit] Private Butcher

Requests_for_adminship/Private_Butcher|action=edit}} Vote here (9/6/2) ending 16:37 October 28, 2005 (UTC)

Private Butcher (talk · contribs) – Private Butcher has been a user here since July 21, 2005 (3 months ago) and has gotten over 2000 edits [1]. I revert vandalism, I'm a RC patroller, and I'm a speedy tagger. I fix articles mostly, I've only created a few. I usually make about 25 edits a day, unless I'm not near a computer, or if I have to work overtime (I got a job). I have complete faith and support in Mr. Pierce. Private Butcher 16:37, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: No I don't, I'm not good enough, I truely don't meet my own standards, I just wanted to help wikipedia, I wanted to make it better, but of course that's not good enough. I've failed wikipedia and myself, everyone should listen to Redwolf24 whenever he gives you advice. Private Butcher 19:39, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm extremely sorry that I wasted all your time. Don't worry, I'll never run again. Private Butcher 19:49, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Support

  1. FireFox 16:41, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Tags speedies, reverts vandals, welcomes users. Martin 16:49, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  3. Support Edits well-placed across namespaces. Friendly and thoughtful whenever I've noticed a comment. Marskell 16:50, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  4. Full Support. Oran e (t) (c) (@) 16:52, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  5. Support - seen him lots + experience always good = support --Celestianpower hablamé 16:55, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  6. Support. He's seriously involved in the project, his intentions are good and he has what it takes to be a great admin. He's perfectly suited to wield the mop. Shauri smile! 17:58, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  7. Support. I trust Shauri's judgment.--Wiglaf 18:32, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  8. Weak Support Mistagging speedys are a concern but I think you deserve the rollback button and become a admin. --JAranda | watz sup 19:58, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  9. Support. Essjay & Shauri wouldn't be behind him if he didn't have what it takes. KHM03 20:00, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  10. Strong Support. This editor has tried very hard to make Wikipedia a better place, and, had he not nominated himself, I or another person would have nominated him. The only two "negatives" I would hypothesize are (1) That he may spend too much time on a volunteer project to the detriment of "real life" responsibilities, and (2) He is human, subject to human error, but otherwise, he is a good neighbor, seems to meet and exceed the requirements for Admin, and thus gets my vote.--GordonWatts 03:01, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

  1. I like you as a user, but there is a big reason why I feel I can't. You used to have the username User:The Fascist Chicken, something which I feel is wildly inappropriate. You're suggestion for a new username (when you decided to change it (the discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Changing username/Archive3 near the bottom) was The Wandering Bastard, something which I also find wildly inappropriate. I'm sorry, but that is enough for me to oppose your rfa. gkhan 17:01, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
    I had a reason behind the name "The Fascist Chicken" just so you know, I've said it before. And "bastard" isn't an inappropriate word, and its not good that people think its a bad word. There are a lot of people that are proud to be bastards, I just couldn't think of a good name. But I appreciate your vote no matter what you choose. Private Butcher 17:05, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
    I realise this, and that is why it's not a total 100% oppose. I just feel that in this case, I need more time and experience than what I have seen so far (because of the name thing, that is). If this RfA fails, and you put on your best behaviour for a couple of months (which I'm pretty sure you will), I will nominate you myself ;) gkhan 17:10, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
    Alrighty, I'm going to put on my best behaviour now anyway, I've tried to have somewhat of a sense of humor on wikipedia. But that won't get me any votes, in fact it'll make me lose votes, I have a few edit summaries where I try to use humor, but sometimes there's swearing in them. So I'm going to be on my best behaviour from now on. Thanks again for your vote. Private Butcher 17:14, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Oppose. I do seem to find myself in frequent disagreement with some of your philosophies, and I'm sorry to say that leads me to oppose. Best wishes, Ëvilphoenix Burn! 17:41, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  3. Oppose. I've seen you around (but mostly on RFA), and think that more time is needed to gain familiarity with WP. --NormanEinstein 18:05, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  4. Weak oppose for the moment. It is PB's bad luck that the first of his edits I have noticed was adding {{db|movie review}} to Invisible Child. Since when was movie review a criterion for speedy? -- RHaworth 18:17, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
    Wikipedia isn't supposed to have movie reviews on it, its an encyclopedia, the entry was all just a review of some movie, so I'm sorry that you don't think I'm good enough. Private Butcher 18:31, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  5. Weak Oppose, I don't know exactly why, but I have a bad feeling about this RfA. I don't like the message placed on User:Private Butcher. Also, a good number of articles he speedied are still in existance (suggesting poor judgement). Broken S 19:20, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  6. Oppose. I don't think you have been around long enough. Your constant edit counting bothers me (sample comment: "1950 edits, ha ha!"), as does the self-nomination. The first article I clicked on that you edited was Rita Wilson, which, while small, was wrong. The Carl Radle article is nice, but there seems to be little else of substance except for lots of user page editing. You also state below (question 3) that you have "high standards for Admins" but self-nominate yourself after exactly 3 months? Turnstep 19:34, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  7. Oppose. This editor appears, from his userpage, to have left Wikipedia in the last few hours, apparently as a consequence of some criticism received here. Criticism is part of the deal, whether an editor or an admin, and having mistakes pointed out when they are made is a fact of life. If Private Butcher returns, after a few months of balanced editing, I imagine an RfA would be much easier. (PS: It's helpful to mention an old username. I didn't see Private Butcher around till very recently, but I would have recognised Fascists Chicken at once.) -Splashtalk 20:35, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  8. Oppose I'm not sure if this user is mentally stable enough for adminship. Not so long ago he had a quite disturbing message on his user page about his RL happenings and this makes me think he wouldn't be able to bear the stress that the adminship gives.  Grue  20:44, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Neutral

  1. I just don't know how familiar Private Butcher is with Wikipedia policy. There are zero edits to Wikipedia talk and virtually all edits to Wikipedia namespace are for AfD and RfA. Also, I do usually like to see more than three months of activity. Carbonite | Talk 16:54, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Don't take this the wrong way, but I just kind of get a bad vibe from you. It really isn't big enough for me to oppose, but I can't suppport. The whole Soup/Opera/Newt thing kind of bugs me too. -Greg Asche (talk) 18:29, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Alright thanks, sorry for trying to somewhat humorous. I've removed the "Soup/Opera/Newt" thing, I just tried to add some personality but I guess that's not the right thing to do. Private Butcher 18:31, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
What's with your comments on my talk page? I said it wasn't that big of a deal, and I'm not opposing you over it, so just relax. -Greg Asche (talk) 18:48, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

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 read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
A. I will continue to revert vandalism, and will block users who excessively vandalise, after warnings don't work. I will delete the pages that I speedy tag, after I make sure that they should be speedy tagged, so I don't delete anything incorrectly.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. I said before that I don't really create that many articles but Carl Radle is my proudest contribution. I've worked hard on making that article the best as possible, and I continue to search for information on him to make the article the best, complete, and possible even a featured article but there's still a lot of work that's needed.
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 haven't been in really any edit conflicts, but I have been in conflicts with other wikipedians over my voting on RfA's. I have very high standards for Admins, and I used to yell at people when they disagreed with my reasons. I dealt with it by apologizing to all who were involved, and then I calmed down, and now it'll never happen again. But if I do get in edit conflicts, I will talk it over on the articles talk page, and work together calmly to fix the problem, without getting angry, I've worked on being angry and its been fixed.

If memory serves, shortly after I renamed this account a few weeks ago, I saw it mentioned somewhere that the original holder was transferring it to his brother. Is my memory of this correct, or am I crazy? →Raul654 03:02, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

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