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Wikipedia:Requests for Adminship/thedemonhog

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: I intend to move protected pages that are protected against moves, create accounts for users when similar user names exist (as long as they are not too similar) and respond to problems and questions at the noticeboard. The requested moves and account request pages seem to be monitored less than some others, such as the one for protection requests. Of courses whenever I pass by the protection requests page or recent changes, I will try to make myself useful. Finally, while the "undo" button is quite speedy, the "rollback" button is apparently faster, so I would use that.

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

A: Most of my time on Wikipedia has been spent editing articles of the Lost WikiProject. In the last six months, I have written two featured articles, two featured lists, a good article, a did you know article, renovated the project page and significantly contributed to many other Lost articles. The article on the fourth season has over 80 references and it does not even begin airing until February. When the new season airs, I plan to tackle the episode articles immediately and get them nominated for good or featured article status a week after the episode airs.

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 do not think that I have been too stressed out, nor do I think we should be as editing Wikipedia is just for fun. I had a minor disagreement over which picture to use in an article, but that was a year ago and we rationally discussed it. There was also a misunderstanding in March after a user (unknowingly) uploaded a picture within minutes after I uploaded an almost identical image. His was deleted because I was (barely) first, I edited out the watermark and I shrunk mine so as to better meet fair use. He didn't understand and thought I was out to get him, so I explained myself while keeping a cool head. The biggest conflict I have had was in December/January. Two sides engaged in an edit war, violating the three-revert rule several times. At the time, I was largely unfamiliar with the policy and that incident taught me to discuss matters instead of reverting. Protection was granted and it was discussed on the talk page – both of which should have happened earlier.

4. An administrator has blocked an editor and you disagree with the block. What is the policy about unblocking and do you intend to adhere to it?

A: I intend to adhere to official policies. First, I will check the blocked user's edit history to see that I have a justified reason for disagreeing with the block. Instead of reverting the action, I will consult the blocking administrator on their talk page. Hopefully, we will discuss it and come to an understanding. If they do not respond after a few days, I will assume that they missed my message and I will post a new one. If they are hostile or continue to be unresponsive, then I will bring up the issue at the administrators' noticeboard. Recently, a new user reverted my edits, seemingly not understanding how references work. The user's edits were reverted and the user was blocked. While I am glad that the user's edits were reverted, I did not understand why the user was blocked and I have been following up on this here and here.

List of crossovers on Lost

On the ABC Television series Lost, characters are frequently shown to have interacted in their past, in ways typically only obvious to the viewers. Sometimes these crossovers directly or indirectly affect the course of characters' lives. The creative team of the show have stated such interactions are part of the show's "mythology".[1] (02/06/2006)

Seas.	Character	Connect. to	Episode(s)	Crossover
1	Sawyer	Jack and Claire	(1.16) "Outlaws"	Sawyer meets an alcoholic doctor named Christian in an Australian bar who, unbeknownst to Sawyer, is the father of fellow castaways Jack and Claire. Christian talks to Sawyer about his inability to tell his son that he loves him, and how proud he is of him. He also inadvertently helps persuade Sawyer to kill a man whom Sawyer mistakenly believes responsible for his parents' deaths many years earlier. On the island, Sawyer realizes the relationship between the two men, and eventually shares this knowledge with Jack, along with his father's last words. ("Exodus")
2	Jack	Shannon	(2.01) "Man of Science, Man of Faith," (2.06) "Abandoned"	Jack's future wife, Sarah, was involved in the car accident that killed fellow castaway Shannon's father. In "Abandoned" when Shannon and her stepmother arrive at the hospital, Jack passes them in the hallway.
2	Jack	Desmond	(2.01) "Man of Science, Man of Faith"	While jogging, Jack meets Desmond Hume, who states he is going on a round the world trip. Desmond later turns up on the island, as the occupant of the mysterious hatch.
1, 2	Locke	Hurley	(1.04) "Walkabout", (1.18) "Numbers", (1.19) "Deus Ex Machina", (2.04) "Everybody Hates Hugo"	Locke's superior at the box company, Randy Nation seen in "Walkabout", is later revealed to have been Hurley's manager at the fast food restaurant where he worked before winning the lottery in "Everybody Hates Hugo". After winning the lottery one of Hurley's business investments is the majority share of the box company where Locke and Randy work. Locke's mother was also a patient at the same institution as Hurley (although earlier).
2	Sawyer	Kate	(2.13) "The Long Con"	Sawyer and an associate have lunch together in a diner; the woman who waits on them is Kate's mother.
2	Kate	Sayid	(2.14) "One of Them"	Sayid shares a military transport with Sam Austen, the man Kate considers to be her father. He is seen looking at a picture of Kate.
2	Sayid	Desmond	(2.14) "One of Them", (2.23) "Live Together, Die Alone"	The U.S. military officer who used Sayid to torture information out of Iraqi prisoners is eventually revealed to be Kelvin, Desmond's companion in the hatch during his first three years on the island.
2	Locke	Sayid	(2.17) "Lockdown"	The woman whose home Locke inspects is Sayid's childhood friend and star-crossed love, Nadia.
2	Hurley	Libby	(2.18) "Dave"	Libby had been a patient at the same psychiatric ward as fellow castaway Hurley.
2	Ana Lucia	Jack, Claire & Sawyer	(2.20) "Two for the Road"	In a flashback, Ana Lucia is driving a drunk Christian Shephard in a car and when she asks him to leave he opens the car door in to the path of Sawyer who shouts at them because he is walking there.
1, 2	Claire	Mr. Eko	(1.10) "Raised by Another", (2.21) "?"	The psychic who buys Claire a ticket to Los Angeles in "Raised by Another" later tells Eko that he is a fake. At the airport, Eko is confronted by the psychic's daughter, and Libby intervenes to stop them from arguing.
2	Desmond	Libby	(2.23) "Live Together, Die Alone"	Libby supplies Desmond with the boat, named "Elizabeth" for her, he later uses to try and sail around the world and with which he eventually reaches the island.
3	Desmond	Charlie	(3.08) "Flashes Before Your Eyes"	As Desmond leaves the Widmore Corporation, he runs into Charlie playing "Wonderwall" on the pavement for money.
3	Claire	Jack	(3.12) "Par Avion"	It is revealed that Claire is the daughter of Christian Shephard, Jack's father, and is therefore Jack's half sister.
2, 3	Sawyer	Kate	(2.13) "The Long Con", (3.15) "Left Behind"	A few months after Kate blows up her step-father, Wayne, she meets Cassidy, Sawyer's con victim (and mother of his child).
3	Locke	Sawyer	(3.19) "The Brig"	John Locke's father is the true "Sawyer", the man for whom James "Sawyer" Ford has been searching throughout his life.
1	Jin	Hurley	(1.17) "...In Translation"	Jin goes to a man's house to "deliver a message" in the episode and Hurley appears briefly on the television. He is seen in an interview for the news, shortly before his grandfather dies.
1	Jin, Sun	Kate	(1.24) "Exodus, Part 2"	Sun spills something on Jin, and Kate's mugshot is visible in the newspaper he is reading.
1	Boone	Sawyer	(1.13) "Hearts and Minds"	When Boone is at the Australian police station, he sees Sawyer being brought in, under arrest.
2	Hurley	Charlie	(2.04) "Everybody Hates Hugo"	While at a record store, Hurley listens to an album by Driveshaft, fellow castaway Charlie's band.
2	Sayid	Kate	(2.09) "What Kate Did"	Sayid appears briefly on a television screen in the Army recruiting office where Kate goes to visit her father.
1, 3	Locke	Jack	(1.19) "Deus Ex Machina", (3.01) "A Tale of Two Cities"	The nurse who appears briefly in Jack's flashback is the same nurse that spoke to Locke after he woke up from the kidney transplant in "Deus Ex Machina".
1	Sawyer	Hurley	(1.16) "Outlaws", (1.18) "Numbers"	The woman who accompanies Sawyer in his hotel room is the announcer of the lottery numbers which make Hurley rich.
3	Locke	Nikki	(3.13) "The Man from Tallahassee, (3.14) "Exposé"	Locke eats dinner in front of the television. Though the screen is not shown, the show is audible in the background as Exposé, the Australian television show Nikki would later guest star on.
3	Charlie	Sayid	(3.21) "Greatest Hits"	Charlie saves a woman, Nadia, from being mugged. Nadia has previously been established as a childhood friend of Sayid.
2	Rose	Locke	(2.19) "S.O.S."	Rose reaches into her bag and her bottle of medicine falls out. A wheelchair-bound Locke arrives to return it to her.
1, 2	Libby	Locke	(1.19) "Deus Ex Machina" (2.18) "Dave"	Libby was a patient at the same mental institution as Locke's mother, although their enrollment times were years apart.