Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Tra

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[edit] Tra

(46/0/0) final Andre (talk) 19:54, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Tra (talk · contribs) - To those in the community of Wikipedia, I present to you, Tra, as a candidate.

Tra has been here on Wikipedia since October 2004, though he has been active mostly since May 2006. In that time, he has made almost 5000 edits to different areas of the project. Among those 5000 edits, he has over 1500 to the mainspace and over 1250 in the Wikipedia-space. He also has edits to categories, help pages, images, over 400 edits to templates, and even edits to the MediaWiki talk.

He is a member of Wikipedia: WikiProject Big Brother, and has worked hard on articles relating to Big Brother. He has also worked on articles such as Chewing gum, Guernsey, Lord of the Flies, and Nikki Grahame. Tra has both done article-writing and vandal-fighting, so he is experienced with both of those activities.

Besides edits, Tra has a lot of experience with policy. He has been active a lot at Wikipedia: Village pump (technical), Wikipedia: Village pump (proposals), and Wikipedia: Request an account. Plus, Tra has created highly useful user scripts and worked with them. With his personality, he is well-mannered, and he is great with the newcomers, which I know from personal experience. All my interactions with Tra have been positive, and in my early days, Tra was patient and kind to me.

Tra is a brilliant editor, and he will make a brilliant administrator. Upon receiving the tools, I am completely confident that he will make great use of them. Acalamari 02:03, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept. Tra (Talk) 19:38, 17 July 2007 (UTC)


[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 Wikipedia:Request an account, there are various situations when administrator access is required. The most common one is creating accounts that have been flagged by the software as too similar to another username (but where the the other username has no or very few edits that were some time ago, reducing the chances of a conflict). Periodic deletion of the page's history (for privacy reasons) and adding links to the page from various system messages when required are also times where sysop abilities would be useful.
Administrator access would also be useful for when a system message or highly-used, protected template needs to be updated. I have occasionally before had to use {{editprotected}} to ask for changes to system messages and I have also noticed that there is often a few requests pending in Category:Wikipedia protected edit requests so being able to answer them would also be useful. Generally, I would start with minor and uncontroversial changes to pages with lower visibility and where a change would cause a more significant impact on the wiki (such as rewording a high-visibility page like Template:Disambig), I would wait for a consensus to develop before implementing these changes.
These are the types of activities that I can see myself doing mainly in the near future. I might also, once I am more experienced, move on to do other activities such as history merges and requested moves. When reverting vandalism, the rollback tool would be useful (even though it is only a little bit faster than javascript) and if necessary, I would be able to block vandals which again, would be faster than reporting then to WP:AIV and having another admin deal with them.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: A lot of this has been covered in the nomination. I would say, in terms of article edits, I have contributed quite a lot to various Big Brother related articles (1, 2, 3) and their related pages with edits such as re-writing pieces of text ([1] [2]), making minor format changes ([3] [4]) and adding in pieces of information as they become available ([5] [6]). A lot of my article edits have been vandalism reversions, as I have previously watchlisted a few pages that are often vandalised, such as previous series of Big Brother and articles such as Chewing gum and Lord of the Flies which often tend to attract vandalism as well.
In the Wikipedia: space, I have helped to construct the page Wikipedia:Request an account and its related subpages and templates (1, 2, 3, 4) to allow it to work more efficiently. I also help to handle requests made there. I have also participated on various village pumps where I have helped other users to sort out problems involving complex wiki-syntax etc.
I am quite proficient in template syntax, ParserFunctions and other wiki syntax, and I have been been able to use this ability to help make and maintain templates.[7] I also have some knowledge of javascript, which I have used to make a few javascript tools and to help me fairly repetitive edits to pages such as fixing the sortkey for pages in a category.
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: Fortunately, I haven't been involved in any major conflicts, outside of the usual disputes that occur over things like article content and how something should be formatted. I find it often helps to pause a bit and look at the whole situation, and I often find that the opposing side to you has some very valid points which can persuade me to take their viewpoint. With that in mind, I find it's often easier to be flexible and to change my mind depending on the opinions that I see and I'm willing to make a change to a page supported by a consensus of editors even if I personally would disagree with it. Tra (Talk) 19:38, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
A question from bainer (talk)
4. Under what circumstances should one ignore a rule?
A: Rules should be ignored if, by doing so, common sense is used and the encyclopedia is improved as a result. Most of the time, this would not need to happen however, since since the existing rules we have were written with the intent of improving the encyclopedia. The ignore all rules policy basically asks you to follow the spirit of these policies and guidelines, rather than the letter.
As an example of how I might and have encountered this rule, if someone wishes to request a username that has been flagged as similar to an existing user, and the existing user has a low, but substantial quantity of contributions that were all made several months ago, the request would normally be denied. However, if the requester is able to provide a good reason why they should have that name, such as having the same username on another language Wikipedia, it is a lot more likely that their request would be accepted. The reason for this is that although the letter of the username policy states that "Usernames that closely resemble the name of another Wikipedia user and may cause confusion" are prohibited, the spirit of this is to make it easier to identify and distinguish the different users. Allowing someone to use the same username on multiple language Wikipedias would help with that. Tra (Talk) 12:14, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] General comments

  • Links for Tra: Tra (talk · contribs · deleted · count · logs · block log · lu · rfar · rfc · rfcu · ssp · search an, ani, cn, an3)
  • I probably should mention, since someone's bound to ask, the lack of contributions in 2005 and early 2006 is due mainly to the fact that I had begun to lose interest in Wikipedia back then, although I later became more interested in Wikipedia and consequently resumed editing in May 2006. The one and two-week gaps in editing that I've had recently are due to me being either busy or away from the computer. Tra (Talk) 19:38, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

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

[edit] Discussion

Support

  1. Support nom beating or otherwise. I'll be honest - I can't stand Big Brother and think it's about the worst load of tosh on telly. However Your Q1 answer is superb - referencing areas that are commonly not cited in Q1 of RFA and backed up by history. Your contribs and dedication are outstanding, your civility and helpfullness is evidenced across your edits. Just remember - when this RfA passes we're watching you! :) Pedro |  Chat  19:51, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  2. Support - I see nothing in the contribs to dissuade me, and your count shows a diversity of spaces editted. A fine candidate. Hiberniantears 19:55, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  3. Support Good answer to Q1. Shows you will need the tools & will use them wisely --Agεθ020 (ΔT • ФC) 19:59, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  4. Strong support as Tra's nominator. I would have been here earlier, except that I was having lunch. Acalamari 20:04, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
    Pshhhhhh.... you eat when you should be contributing to Wikipedia ? I question your dedication :) </humour> Pedro |  Chat  20:10, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
    It's not just eating, I have to sleep too. :) Sleeping is as evil as eating lunch, and prevents me from editing even more so than eating. :) Acalamari 20:15, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
    That's nothing compared with the unmitigated gall of siva, who confesses rather openly on his RfA to having prioritized going to/staying in the hospital over editing Wikipedia... Joe 21:12, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
    • sighs* It's called a laptop... :P Giggy UCP 22:09, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
    Hypocrites! When I tell people I'm editing Wikipedia on my laptop while at work, they get very uneasy. Trusilver 22:13, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
    People think I'm strange when I edit wikipedia at school. --Chris g 02:23, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
    Ditto :-) --Boricuaeddie hábleme 14:16, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
  5. Support. Request an account is not exactly an area of interest for admin hopefuls. You seem to be a very honest editor, and I trust Acalamari's judgement. J-stan Talk 20:11, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  6. Support an excellent and varied set of contributions that shows a fine knowledge of wikipedia and its processes. ck lostsword•T•C 20:17, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  7. Support. I just don't know about Acalamari, I don't trust you damn kids. (always up to something!) BUT... I can't find anything about this user that makes me anything but enthusiastic. I think he's an excellent choice all the way around. Trusilver 22:05, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  8. I detest Big Brother but am still supporting because you're probably a good editor despite having bad taste in TV. Giggy UCP 22:09, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  9. We could definitely use Tra as an administrator. -- John Reaves (talk) 22:29, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  10. Most definitely. Sebi [talk] 22:35, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  11. Support, based on contributions, attitude, and also as thanks for the useful tools. Good luck! --Ckatzchatspy 22:47, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  12. Support - I ran through his contributions about a hour ago, and I feel he is ready for the tools. Nice mainspace partcipation as well. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (ταlκ) 22:49, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  13. Similar to an administrator and should be promoted shortly. Ha, just playing. Good luck with the mop, Arky ¡Hablar Conmigo! 22:53, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  14. Support Good editor. Politics rule 23:29, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  15. Support You seem to be qualified for the mop and seem to be willing to help new editors. Marlith 23:37, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  16. Support I'm going to support per nom and per above. Clearly good editor. Wikidudeman (talk) 23:40, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  17. Support no major concerns. —Anas talk? 23:59, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
  18. Support. per pedro, and nom. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 00:50, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  19. -- Y not? 01:38, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  20. Support level-headed user. Peacent 02:14, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  21. Support Looks ok apart from the Big Brother Deal. --Chris g 02:55, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  22. Support It is time to give this user the mop. --Siva1979Talk to me 02:57, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  23. Support clearly a solid candidate.--Chaser - T 04:19, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  24. Support I love Big Brother. Of course, I also love As The World Turns. This user edits templates - how cool! the_undertow talk 05:32, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  25. Support I'm pretty sure that this user won't abuse the mop. Hirohisat Talk 06:29, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  26. Tora for an admin = Yes! I always thought you were an admin and I wish you good luck. Rlest 09:11, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  27. 8-hour delayed Support - looks good, no palpable concerns. (I fell asleep before it submitted, then there was a database lock :p ) Nihiltres(t.l) 12:01, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  28. Support User has specified an e-mail and their adminship is not yet taken so they will be sysopped. GDonato (talk) 13:27, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  29. Titanium Cabal Support - Oh mann..I wanted to beat the Nom support For your dedication to Acc Creation and for being a very good helper to all the 'newbies'.hehe..This nomination should have happened months ago..Acalamari is becoming very lousy it seems.. hehe.. Now I can vandalize happily with you around..Good Luck ..--Cometstyles 13:41, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  30. Support Tra has put in a lot of time and hard work at WP:ACC jwillbur 15:28, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  31. Support I don't see why not! Jmlk17 17:57, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  32. Support Has a good range of edits over various aspects of the project. --Anthony.bradbury"talk" 21:34, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
  33. Support I love Big Brother. People who don't like Big Brother have a bad taste in TV. You're a great editor, too. -Lemonflashtalk 01:06, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
  34. Support, excellent user. AW 04:28, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
  35. Support. Everything I've come to look for in an admin candidate: good contributions, good answers to questions, and obvious support from the community. Charlie-talk to me-what I've done 12:10, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
  36. Support- per all of the above. --Boricuaeddie hábleme 14:16, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
  37. Support. Experienced user. *drew 14:21, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
  38. Support I've known Tra pretty much since the start of my wiki-career (yes, I started by editing Big Brother articles). He's always polite and helpful, always willing to assist others with their work. He's here for the right reasons (and yes, I LOVE Big Bro) - that is, we're here to write an encyclopedia. He's done great work in the account creation area, and is a trustworthy and experienced Wikipedian. I've offered to nominate him many times before, so this is well overdue. Good luck, Tra. Majorly (talk) 01:20, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  39. Support; many of the adminship areas Tra wants to work in are almost understaffed at the moment (especially with WP:ACC, having more admins working there would reduce the delay before new users get their accounts and therefore help avoid biting them), and from my experience with this user and a review of their contributions I have confidence in the candidate's competance with technical work. (Note to Tra: you may have to create a non-administrator alternate account for WP:ACC work, as you can't get the 'Similar to' message when testing a new account name when logged into an admin account (instead the account will just be created); I suspect you know this already but this is just a reminder to make sure that similar-active accounts won't be created by mistake.) --ais523 16:02, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  40. Support Trustworthy and has need for the tools. Welcome to WP:40, Tra. -- Jreferee (Talk) 18:16, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
  41. I'm Mailer Diablo and I approve this message! - 18:31, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
  42. Support nothing to suggest will abuse the tools (but can't believe you like Big Brother) Davewild 08:32, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
  43. Support Every event in the history of the universe has led up to this exact moment. The avalanche of support is clear evidence that the almighty creators have willed this to be... or maybe you're just a good wikipedia editor... Either way, cheers! ~ Infrangible 20:22, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
  44. Support, looks good, although I do not care for Reality shows of any kind. Bearian 19:27, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
  45. Support. See no issues here. Jayjg (talk) 21:18, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
  46. Support Good, trustworthy user. Prodego talk 02:30, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

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.