User:Tiggerjay/RfANOM

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

← :: RfA



The idea of an RfA came with this message on my talk page recently:

Currently active in:[edit]

Account Creation[edit]

As of November 2015, processed 824 account creation requests, approved 532. Full stats here. A top 15 active account creator, and top 31 all time [1]

Helpdesk[edit]

Main page: WP:Helpdesk

I spend a good deal of time when I am online monitoring and contributing on the helpdesk. I believe that it is very important to help develop our newer Wikipedians. I am always thrilled to hear from people asking for help before jumping into the deep end. There I would say the majority of questions I answer have to do with COI/YFA/OR;

I also have been helping out part time on the helpdesk IRC.

Requested Moves[edit]

I actively involve myself in contributing to page move requests and non-admin closing discussions when appropriate.

Non-Admin Closures[edit]

Obviously delete tools would be helpful to avoid requesting a CSD#G6 for more complicated moves. Additionally there have been some G6 page moves slip through the cracks because of the delay between the G6 and actual deletion, and the current inconsistency between how the deleting handles the G6 -- that is, some will do all of the post-move cleanup, and others will just delete the requested page (which might result it might be hours or days before I see it again to wrap up the move.) As of 2021 it appears that there is a new role called WP:PAGEMOVER which resolve the majority of the times an admin is needed for a move to be performed.

  • CSD Log - contains all CSD requests, most of which are G6 to make way for page moves, as a result my CSD is full of BLUE links instead of the more common RED.
  • Log of page moves performed - in some cases I performed the moves, in many cases an admin performed the move after a G6 was created by me after closing the discussion of the RM based on consensus
An accurate total would probably be created by adding my CSD and MOVES together, which as of December is around 290 in total.

Exaples of Complex or Controversial Moves[edit]

Women's CEV Top Teams Cup - 2013

This move request was complicated due to the way the organization renamed two different cups, the resolution was this interesting page move/redirect rework documented here User_talk:Tiggerjay#Women.27s_CEV_Top_Teams_Cup

Nebraska Initiative Measure 416 - 2013

This was an interesting closure, where an interested editor was offended, perhaps assume a bit of bad faith and we hashed it out on my talk page to a satisfactory result.

Move review for Range (mathematics) - 2013

This was a case of an editor who thought the move request was performed improperly and requested a move review. All three who participated in the review endorsed by closure of this RM and encouraged the requester to consider relisting the RM, but to date the requester hasn't done anything.

A complicated clean up for an improper RM performed on List of fictional wolves in 2013
Main page: Talk:Wolves_in_fiction § Merge

Prior to consensus, user Deltasim (talk · contribs) copy-paste moved the page, but later, since there was eventually consensus on the talk page, the copy-past move was cleaned up with {{Copied}} tags by me in order to complete this RM and retain proper page history and attribution.

Move review for Kim Davis (county clerk) in 2015

After a contentious discussion over the move for Kim Davis that I closed, a very involved editor opened a Move Review which resulted in an 'endorse close'.[2]

Application of WP:PRIMARYTOPIC guidelines for Gladstone in 2016

A currently ongoing discussion about creating a primary redirect for Gladstone. Was closed by a non-admin, who through my request, reverted their closure. Among the editors it appears some have forgotten WP:DETERMINEPRIMARY which defines what it's a criteria for determining PRIMARY.

COI, NPOV, etc[edit]

Further information: User:Tiggerjay/RfANOM § Conflict

CSD/PROD/AFD[edit]

Thanks to Twinkle, my CSD Noms can be found:

You can view my AfD !voting at: [3] As of November 2015, the number of AfD's where my vote didn't match result: 6.5%

RfA[edit]

Since we're looking at statics, a look over at my !voting for RfA and I found that only two of my votes didn't align with the final results.

Helping Others[edit]

Britney Spears discography
Main page: User:Tiggerjay/Resolutions/1

Who doesn't love Britney Spears -- okay perhaps a lot of us don't :) But I was asked to help with this dispute regarding specific discography numbers. This was a very contentious discussions, so I created the subpage to work with several admins to resolve the issue. In the end, everyone involved in the dispute accepted the results of this team. Tiggerjay (talk) 00:52, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Oldspammer
Main page: User:Tiggerjay/OldSpammer Archive

This was a talkpage diaglog with a very POV pushing editor and the various discussions which took place to help bring this editor into a constructive place. Tiggerjay (talk) 00:52, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Colayer
Main page: Talk:Colayer § About_Colayer_Article

for User:Dhoom4 - major rework with user to create a WP acceptable article.

IRC #wikipedia-en-help[edit]

  • Helped editor after failing an AFC for FirstWatch Solutions, Inc. with this major cleanup dif - that is now dead as the AfC was abandoned and subsequently deleted.
  • Helped editor after having problems post-AFC process for Edward Evelyn Greaves with this major cleanup dif.

Project Pages[edit]

A select list of projects I contribute to:

Page Creation[edit]

The following is a selection of SOME of the pages I have created.

Regular Main Space Articles
As part of Requested Moves
  • Depending on the tool you're using to count page creations, some of them record activity related to page moves as creating articles. Also sometimes I actually create pages as part of the work over at Requested Moves, such as Disambiguation pages.
Disambiguation pages

These pages were not created as part of the Requested Move process

Splits
Deleted
Other
  • Hyperion Theater - technically created, but at the time it was just a redirect, now it is a mainspace article

Major Edits[edit]

Here is a brief selection of pages which I provided MAJOR contributions to:

BLP[edit]

I am not super active with BLP (~5% of all main space edits), with the majority of my edits coming as the result of other project activity such as Helpdesk & COI (as well as previously from Counter vandalism)

See: [9]

Older things no longer really active with[edit]

Counter Vandalism[edit]

Counter vandalism was the first place I started to really contribute to the project outside of content creation/editing - I was the target to vandalism several times, and eventually by page was by an admin...

Some silly encounters include:

However since 2013/14 is has really become a very minor activity for me, instead I've been focusing on more constructive, positive efforts in the community, and leaving the dirty work to those really interested in it. I found it was affecting my AGF approach to other editors. A lot of automated edits come from here, but that percentage is quickly falling. [10]

Adoptions[edit]

Everything Else I used to dabble In[edit]

Common RfA Questions[edit]

  1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?
  2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
  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?
These were taken from other RfAs
  1. I just want to ask you, so far, how many articles you have started? And among them, which is your proudest? Thank you and all the best!
  2. What is the actual difference between Substitution and Transclusion?
  3. You indicated that you want to work in RFPP. When should you apply Pending-changes protection to an article instead of Semi-protection? When would you apply Full protection to an article instead of Semi-protection or Pending-changes protection?
  4. You're reviewing an AIV for an account that has made four edits. The first edit added "HI" to the middle of an article without an edit summary. The second edit removed the birth date from Rob Thomas (musician) with the edit summary "No source cited!". The third edit replaced an entire article with "TEST DOES THIS THING WORK?" with no edit summary. The fourth edit blanked Jimbo Wales' user page with no edit summary. All of the edits made were reverted and warnings left for vandalism. What do you do with this AIV report? What message would you leave on this account's talk page?
  5. In what situations is it appropriate to block an account that has made no edits or contributions to Wikipedia?
  6. What is your view of Process is important?
  7. What sort of things constitute a "claim of significance" in assessing an A7 or A9 speedy deletion? Can you explain what "claim of significance" means, and give some examples of things that do or don't qualify?
  8. As an admin, you are patrolling CAT:CSD and find an article whose entire content is "In 1979-80 the <organization>, a feminist art center in <Major US City>, issued a nationwide call for lesbian artists to organize exhibitions of the work as part of <Event name>." It has been tagged for speedy deletion under WP:CSD#A1, no context. What do you do?
  9. Under what circumstances, if any, is it appropriate to block an editor for not answering a question put to them on their talk page?
  10. How strictly should the literal wording of the speedy deletion criteria be applied?
  11. What is the place of WP:IAR in carrying out administrative actions?
  12. When a ip editor adds defamatory content on an article and an admin reverts it. Then ip also reverts 5 times and admin reverts 4 times (this happens within 3 minutes) while another editor posts an editwarring template on ip talk page. Admin mistakenly thought edits were vandalism. Another editor reports this incident on editwar notice board. What action(s) would you take, if any?

Timeline[edit]

2006-2011
General wikipedia user
2011
Focus on counter vandalism, WP:HelpDesk
2012
wikibreak due to a promotion at work, and a multi-million dollar project I was technical project manager for.
2013
Returned from wikibreak, spending a lot of time with WP:ACC, WP:HelpDesk, WP:RM, WP:RFC, and IRC work at #wikipedia-en-help.
2014
wikibreak from mid 2013 to 2015 due to purchasing a new company and building it over that period. things have settled down a bit at the office to give me more time to focus here.
2015
Returned from wikibreak, spending a lot of time with WP:ACC, WP:HelpDesk, WP:RM, WP:RFC, and IRC work at #wikipedia-en-help. - Will probably return to COIN work soon.

Edit countitis is a dangerous thing... However I know some people look at edit counts as the experience of an editor. You'll see my numbers have dropped since I stopped CVI activity, but you can see, aside from 2014, by annual edit counts are pretty stable.

Barnstars[edit]

Main page: User:Tiggerjay/Barnstar

Learning the hard way[edit]

Because during an RfA, people work very hard to dig up mistakes or other errors, here is a journal of mistakes I have made in the past... The goal isn't to avoid mistakes, but to learn on how to manage those mistakes well and to learn from them.

Main page: User:Tiggerjay/The hard way

Conflict[edit]

It's always good to know where conflict has come up and how it is dealt with, here are some examples of recent conflict that I believe illustrates how I resolve contentious issues:

  • A discussion regarding the use of {{Relisting}} for page moves and if it is an administrative function, who should be able to relist, and if that relister subsequently votes, it is seen as a WP:SUPERVOTE. Consensus as of this edit revision to be about 50/50 split between the two viewpoints.
  • Interesting discussion regarding the use of relisting and how it impacts supervotes and closures of WP:RM at [11]; and proposed a working solution which seemed to gather some support [12]. Tiggerjay (talk) 01:13, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
  • Also see COI many other examples in the sections above such as COI, Helping Others, etc...

RfA Reform[edit]

I have participated in the 2013 and 2015 RfC for RfA Reform. Overall my views have maintained fairly consistent between the two reform attempts with the exception of the idea of breaking out the tools and a probationary period. I am currently against both of those proposals.

I believe we have a very good process currently, and these reforms are just the natural requirement to make things even better. See the links for the diffs involving my edits which explain by viewpoints in context. Please feel free to ask questions on any of these:

  • Representative based approach - works in the US Government, not sure its appropriate for WP. 2013 and 2015
  • Lowering the bar for consensus threshold: Against in 2013
  • However support the concept that clearer criteria would result in better !voting, and properly setting the expectations for them.
    • I believe we get too caught up in the difference between subjective and objective measurements, and think that if we accept criteria then we throw the subjective out. However this is not to replace consensus with purely objective metrics, there is also a place for the subjective within guidelines - see here: 2015
    • There was a good idea brought up in 2015 regarding weighing pros & cons, of which the I support the idea but not the implementation.
  • Unbundling the tools - previously supported, but no longer: 2015
  • Probationary period - no longer support, as stated here: 2015, previously supported 2013
  • Open to recall - supported in 2013, and it appears to be in practice now.

It is also interesting to see how far we have come since this 2005 RfA.

Learning bar[edit]

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tiggerjay/RfANOM&oldid=1142142781"