Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Wassupwestcoast
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[edit] Edit count for Wassupwestcoast
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[edit] On administrators
There were two articles that I read that motivated me to apply. The first was User:Keegan/On administrators - and in it there is this paragraph:
Certainly any editor who contributes regularly will at one point or another need the use of the flag. When it becomes a persistent need in editing and the user has proven trustworthy, adminship is no big deal. Even if the user does not desire to delve into any particular backlog or noticeboard, every hand is a helping hand.
That is why I offered to help. I do not understnad the insistence that I have to name which backlog or noticeboard I have a desire to delve into as if naming this or that would demonstrate my trustworthiness.
The other article I read was this article Wikipedia:Administrators - it is linked on the request page - where there is this sub-heading in toto under No big deal:
An often paraphrased comment about adminship is the following, said by Jimbo Wales in February 2003, referring to administrators as sysops:
I just wanted to say that becoming a sysop is *not a big deal*.
I think perhaps I'll go through semi-willy-nilly and make a bunch of people who have been around for awhile sysops. I want to dispel the aura of "authority" around the position. It's merely a technical matter that the powers given to sysops are not given out to everyone.
I don't like that there's the apparent feeling here that being granted sysop status is a really special thing.
– Jimbo Wales, wikimedia.org archive entry, gmane archive entry
I thought, well 'no big deal' and 'every hand is a helping hand' so why not apply? So, I'm having difficulty in parsing the 'opposes', especially in light of a completely voluntary project, especially because the 'opposes' seem to fall into Arguments to avoid in adminship discussions. For example, one opposition centres around my self-nom which is addressed at self-nominations. The opposer clearly goes against a major tenant of Wikipedia which is WP:FAITH.
Some opposes seem to lean towards Doesn't need the tools which says in part
Wikipedia benefits from having as many trustworthy administrators as possible. RfAs are intended to establish whether a particular user can be trusted with the tools, not whether they will use them to their maximum potential.
Other opposes seem to lean towards Namespace balance which says in part
It's appropriate to oppose a candidate who has done nothing in an area that may be considered a basic: editing, working with other editors, understanding something about Wikipedia policies and the Wikipedia community. But opposing a candidate simply because they do not contribute in the same way that a participant does, or in the way that an "ideal" candidate would, is counterproductive: it can deprive Wikipedia of a good administrator, forcing existing administrators to focus less on the administrative task they prefer to do and more on what they feel they have to do.
I don't really know what to think of this process. While the project needs more help some editors think otherwise for reasons that don't jibe with policy. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 16:24, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
- My observation that the project needs more help is not without evidence. Two recent complaints at WP:AN are about no responses after two and five days. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 16:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
- You make a calm and well-argued case that some arguments against you are essentially arguments to avoid. I think mine (that you haven't said what you intend to do with tools) is essentially a version of "Doesn't need the tools". I'd be happy to change my oppose to a support if you could give one example of an administration activity you might get involved in (perhaps with a very brief example). Kim Dent-Brown (Talk) 23:09, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
- OK, the only time I've ever thought it would be handy to be an admin was when I was working on the Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer series of articles. For example, there were duplicate 'dab' pages for Tom Sawyer [1] at one point. I moved and merged pages (after a week of waiting for comments) - for example, Talk:List of characters in the Tom Sawyer series#Merge - but talk page histories were a mess. At some point I requested an admin to help me merge histories but I can't find the diff at the moment. Anyway, if I had the 'tools' to merge histories I could have helped Wikipedia clean up a mess faster. By the way, I haven't watchlisted any of the Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn pages for months so I don't know what state they are in now. This is to show a concrete example of how I could help the project: collaborate with editors who find themselves at Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves and are baffled. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 23:36, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
- Nice answer, and good to see you open to feedback - have changed to 'support'. Kim Dent-Brown (Talk) 09:07, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
- OK, the only time I've ever thought it would be handy to be an admin was when I was working on the Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer series of articles. For example, there were duplicate 'dab' pages for Tom Sawyer [1] at one point. I moved and merged pages (after a week of waiting for comments) - for example, Talk:List of characters in the Tom Sawyer series#Merge - but talk page histories were a mess. At some point I requested an admin to help me merge histories but I can't find the diff at the moment. Anyway, if I had the 'tools' to merge histories I could have helped Wikipedia clean up a mess faster. By the way, I haven't watchlisted any of the Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn pages for months so I don't know what state they are in now. This is to show a concrete example of how I could help the project: collaborate with editors who find themselves at Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves and are baffled. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 23:36, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
- You make a calm and well-argued case that some arguments against you are essentially arguments to avoid. I think mine (that you haven't said what you intend to do with tools) is essentially a version of "Doesn't need the tools". I'd be happy to change my oppose to a support if you could give one example of an administration activity you might get involved in (perhaps with a very brief example). Kim Dent-Brown (Talk) 23:09, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
