Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Treelo

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[edit] Treelo

Final (0/8/2); Withdrawn by admin Tiptoety talk per WP:SNOW at 15:51, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Treelo (talk · contribs) - After eyeing the weight of such a task for some time now (turns out it is no big deal) I think now is a good time to put myself forward for adminship. I feel that my experience within varying areas of Wikipedia and my capabilities of good judgemental thinking and will make me a good administrator. --treelo talk 13:53, 29 May 2008 (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: My strongest participation so far have been within anti-vandalism areas such as WP:AIV and WP:RFPP and probably would continue to put most effort into those areas. For a good while I've been looking over WP:ANI and seeing problems that I feel would join with consensus or enact WP:IAR when necessary with full knowledge of what IAR means. Even though what I know about image policy being a touch shaky but not too much and with the backlog of admin duties I feel I could tackle both and whatever else needs doing with some vigour.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: I'd like to think a lot of my work goes into the general maintenance and upkeep of various articles that I look over as part of Wikiproject Cartoon Network and added a substantial amount to articles such as Chowder (TV series) with a lot of sourcing and images that I've uploaaded. Outside of articlespace, my work within WP:AIV when using WP:HUGGLE which, as I know, has been a source of concern amongst some users but has often resulted in having several reports and successful block periods for disruptive users both registered and anonymous which I take a great deal of pride in.
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've been involved in conflicts in connection to WP:HUGGLE over bad handling of genuine issues with editors whom I reverted accidentally and being too fast with the tool which did create a lot of stress for me and gave me doubt as to whether or not such tools I could handle. Although I use it much less now I also recognised and learnt a great deal during that short period about the wider Wikipedia world and feel I benefited greatly in terms of judicious use of powerful tools and learning to be more accepting and treat anonymous editors no better or worse than registered editors from what was a terrible period for myself when it came down to my standing in the community.
Other incidents come from long term vandals and most recently a vandal named Greg Jungwirth who started as a fairly garden variety vandal and changed into something much more incendiary to myself and other editors who have acted against his personal attacks on others. This vandal did slightly shake me in terms of how some people just won't stop destroying this place because of people who want to protect it but it did also let me relate better to just what WP:DENY and WP:RBI stand for and how doing these things will help me to deal with disruptive vandals like Greg in the future.
Optional question from Filll
4. Please answer two of the eight AGF Challenge 2 exercises found here. Directions are here. Post a link to your answers here so that people can peruse them.

[edit] General comments

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

[edit] Discussion

[edit] Support
[edit] Oppose
  1. Oppose. I don't feel you are ready yet. This has had a slightly negative effect on me. I'd recommend you come back in 3 to 6 months, given improvements. Regards. SynergeticMaggot (talk) 14:14, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  2. Oppose 7500 edits in May... um no... we don't need a bot as an admin.Balloonman (talk) 14:24, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  3. Oppose An extremely high number of edits, which has a negative effect on me. Also this comment wasn't appropriate. Sorry, I don't think it's the time. Best wishes, PeterSymonds (talk) 14:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  4. Oppose You've had some issues with using the rollback tool in the past, and with only 7,500 edits in May, you do not have the experience required to complete the task of administrator at this time. Also, I don't like self-nominations. Razorflame 14:56, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  5. Oppose Per the diff from Peter Symonds and this little exchange which comes across as slightly agressive, unfriendly and unhelpful. Calm down, stop using HUGGLE to make millions of edits and just start enjoying the WP experience instead. Pedro :  Chat  14:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  6. Oppose — I view self-noms as prima facie evidence of power hunger. Kurt Weber (Go Colts!) 15:22, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  7. Oppose, I think Pedro sums it up nicely. I don't feel that you are yet admin material. J Milburn (talk) 15:30, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  8. Oppose per these diffs [1], [2], [3]. Pedro took the words out of my mouth, there is no excuse for uncivility. It does not matter what another user did, telling them they have "shit for brains" is about as uncivil as it gets.— Ѕandahl 15:49, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Neutral
  1. I liked your answers, and was wavering on support, but the weak articlespace work coupled with advocating speedy deletion on articles that don't meet the criteria for speedy deletion (for example, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Craig Duncan, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sherman quickscript) makes me think otherwise. naerii - talk 14:06, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
  2. Neutral per Naerii. Plus, you've got to work on your civility, and your number of edits is quite low when discounting Huggle edits, so a bit more experience is probably needed. There's nothing wrong with using Huggle, but it doesn't add to your suitability for adminship. Your level of article-writing experience isn't too bad though, and you have some non-automated admin-related experience. Epbr123 (talk) 15:23, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
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