Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Rjanag

Rjanag

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Nomination

Rjanag (talk · contribs) – It is my pleasure to introduce to you Rjanag. Rjanag started editing last August under the username User:Politizer, and since then has gone on to become an important asset to the community. I first came across Rjanag last November while working at DYK, and to this day I am continually impressed with his work ethic and commitment to this project. Not only is he a member of WP:HAU, his work at DYK is exemplary; he has been and continues to be an extremely proactive and energetic reviewer of nominations and is always willing to provide assistance. He is a talented template coder, being the creator of the {{DYKproblem}}, {{DYK welcome}} and most importantly, the invaluable {{NewDYKnomination}} templates, all of which widely-used in the project. That's not all - Rjanag has been trusted with Rollback privileges, is two edits shy of having made 100 edits to WP:AIV, and has participated in numerous WP:AFD discussions.

But what about article work you ask? Rjanag certainly pulls his weight when it comes to building the encyclopaedia. With 26 DYKs and 6 GAs - many on poorly-covered topics such as Chinese culture, linguistics and journalism - alongside an impressive effort in getting Street newspaper to Featured Article status, his article contributions speak volumes about his devotion.

In short, Rjanag has exhibited all the qualities fitting of an administrator, and I'm completely confident that he is responsible enough and capable enough to wield the tools competently. ∗ \ / (⁂) 13:17, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept, thank you. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 13:28, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Also I should probably note: you may notice I have a disturbingly high edit count for someone who's been around less than a year. It's not because I use automated tools (unless rollback counts as automated). Part of it is because for writing/debugging templates I have to test it in sandboxes over and over, so I have hundreds of edits that are nothing more than adding or removing a curly brace here and there. Another part is that I like to do gnomish edits to stuff I review at DYK. And the other reason is that when I post on talk pages and stuff I seem to always make typos and have to go back and fix them right away, so what should be 1 post ends up being more like 3; so if you take my actual edit count and divide it by 3 or so, that might be a good approximation of what my edit count would be if I weren't an idiot. Just in case anyone is concerned about edit count. Thanks. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 13:37, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

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 administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: DYK: it's always useful to have someone else who can edit the protected queues to fix spelling errors, etc., that people notice and point out, or to update the template if it's overdue.

CSD: just something I happen to have experience in (sometimes when I'm bored I lurk at Special:Log/newusers, which is where a lot of vandalism and bad articles come from, so I'm used to CSD-tagging and vandalism-reverting); it would be nice to be able to speedily delete copyvios, attack pages, and nonsense, although in the beginning at least I would be more cautious with A7 and stuff like that.

Other areas where I would be qualified to help out are the givens, AIV and AfD, both of which I am relatively familiar with. Being able to edit protected templates would also be nice, because I do a lot of template work and in the past I have often had to write code in a sandbox and then ask an admin friend to make the actual edit for me.

Basically, I'm not so much interested in "being an admin", to be honest; I just want to have tools that would help me be a more productive member of the project. Acting like an admin and having tools is enough for me, it doesn't matter what I'm called.

2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?

A: I have an FA and some GAs that I feel pretty good about; honestly, though, comments like this and this from editors I respect mean more to me than the FA star or GA symbol—if people are interested or enlightened by something I worked on, I feel I've done my job right. As for specific articles I'm proud of, there is Re-education through labor (my first experience writing on a topic in which I was unfamiliar and pretty much learning as I go), Street newspaper (the subject of the comments above) and Nothing To My Name (fun little article on a pretty important topic, I was shocked that WP didn't have an article on it before this February when I started it). I have also been working with User:Apoc2400 on building articles under the "street newspaper" topic, which we are coordinating here. Finally, one of the things I am most happy about one of my silly little projects, User:Rjanag/WikiBirthday display (which I use to keep track of Wikipedians who, on a given day, are having their "anniversary" of joining Wikipedia; generally every morning I check it and then send some little congratulatory messages). It's more or less meaningless, but I have fun doing it.

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: My first major conflict was a series of content disagreements with User:Bobby fletcher, in September/October 2008, spanned over several China-related articles, including One-child policy, He Kexin and related articles on Chinese gymnasts (not long after the Beijing olympics); we had a rather nasty back-and-forth over some plagiarized content he added to one article, but then after taking a few days off from each other I think we more or less dropped it and were able to work collaboratively on User:Rjanag/One-child policy by province (until he disappeared from WP). I have also, as a lot of people reading this probably know, been in several disputes with Ottava Rima, which I won't rehash here unless asked to. We had several not-too-friendly encounters at DYK between December 2008 and February (possibly early March, I don't remember) 2009. I said some things that I guess were pretty incivil, which I believed were justified because I felt Ottava was being out of line, but in retrospect no one is going to want to dig through pages and pages of arguments to see who was "right" and who was "wrong"--the fact of the matter was that I reacted aggressively several times, no matter who was "right". In the past two months or so I have gotten along decently with Ottava (we mostly just stay out of each other's way...but in the last several weeks we have had a couple interactions at DYK without getting worked up, I just try to close my eyes and pretend I'm dealing with someone else). I don't expect us to be inviting one another to our kids' baptisms anytime soon, but I think we have both lost interest in seeking out fights. All in all, I know I have been volatile on a few occasions in the past, but over the past several months I have been making an effort to keep my cool in stressful situations, and I think I have gotten better at striking back when I see a potential fight starting to brew.

Additional questions from Tempodivalse

4. What is your understanding of consensus? How would you determine if consensus does or does not exist in different situations? I'm asking this because, as an admin, you will inevitably come across a situation where you will need to weigh consensus in order to take a certain action, such as in an AfD, article content disupte, et cetera.

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General comments

• Links for Rjanag: Rjanag (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for Rjanag can be found here.

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Discussion

Support

1. Well, you are better than most of the candidates that have passed lately, and you have a legitimate need. The area you would be working in primarily has tons of eyes on it and the screw up potential is not that damaging. Ottava Rima (talk) 13:53, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Neutral for now I don't have time to check more now, but a big alarm goes off if I see someone like you making literally hundreds of minor edits without an edit summary. According to X!'s tools it's not the norm but very alarming nonetheless and a reason for me to withhold support unless you have a good explanation why you did that. Regards SoWhy 13:48, 28 April 2009 (UTC)