Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Asenine 2

Asenine

Voice your opinion (talk page) (0/0/0); Scheduled to end 16:20, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Asenine (talk · contribs) - Ladies and gentleman, I am glad to have the pleasure to present Asenine as the next candidate for adminship. Asenine came here in late 2007, and has over 8000 edits. Since arriving, Asenine has been hardworking, dedicated, and friendly. Asenine is a user I have seen around many times, at RFA, ACC, and multiple other places. He helps out new users, whether it's on talk pages, the help desk, or adoption. Asenine has also been active a lot on the WP:VPT and WP:PUI. Never have I seen him ever acting uncivil, or in any way being a negative. Looking at his coaching page, I believe that he has the knowhow to be an admin on the pedia. Xclamation point 16:20, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

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: I intend to work at/with WP:AFD, WP:SCV, CAT:PROD and CAT:CSD.

Although the above would be my main areas of activity within sysop work, if somebody were to request for me to do something else that required my permissions for a time, I would certainly oblige if I felt I knew the area well enough to participate. Being a sysop would mostly be about doing what at this time I have to request to be done. To be honest, I am a massive WikiGnome, so I would be only making the odd use here and there, mostly where there is blatant need for admin intervention.

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

A: Mostly a lot of WikiGnomish stuff, but I feel that my actions towards users and the community in general are some of my best contributions. I have helped users out when they have been confused over boilerplate templates and article disputes (this occured with Susan E Webb, who needed guidance with a page where a conflict of interest might arise, Wikiklrsc who needed guidance about image tagging, and LukeTheSpook who needed help with utilizing wikisyntax). I also have helped UzEE with the grammar in his userspace.

I also enjoyed working on this, which ended in an indefinite block - a perfect result.

I enjoy adopting users by giving them help and support (although admittedly my current adoptees very rarely contact me). It brightens my life to see that I help out in the community, and adminship would allow my help to be more efficiently delivered.

On the article creation side of things, I have created the following articles:

• Bikini Bandits, Kill! Kill! Kill!
• Blood Puke Salvation
• Disfigured Narcissus
• Detrimentalist
• Funeral Marches and Warsongs
• Grand Imperial (album)
• Hip Hop and the World We Live In
• Lister Wilder
• Love & Hate (Aceyalone album)
• Lux (album)
• Oxidizer (album)
• Ruin The Memory
• Suture (album)
• The National Lottery People's Quiz

Whilst I concede that these articles are in general far from perfect, article writing has never been my forté, and I mostly stay away from 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: I have not been put under stress by other users before, but if I was to be faced by it I would leave them a notice regarding the problem, and deal with it efficiently and completely in good faith. If a user was putting me under stress to do something for them, then I would leave them a message stating that I would have a break from whatever it was for a while and that I would continue it when it was appropriate (if it was time-critical, to be honest with you I don't really mind stress). If it was a debate that was putting me under stress, I would either back out (I would only use this rarely and if it was really needed, I like to have my say) or would work out what is causing me stress and address the problem. If it was a user, I would simply tell them straight that I am rather stressed because of the incident.

I have been involved in only one edit war in the past over my addition of band logos to articles, but this was because I and another user (IllaZilla) were interpreting a consensus in different ways. The conflict was over soon after it began, as I backed down - I could see his point of view and I started understanding why he believed as he did. This conflict was carried out completely in good faith. I always leave stressful situations like this with a smile and a sense of satisfaction that two (or more) people that have disagreed, but at the end of it all there haven't had to be any sanctions imposed upon them. If there were any sanctions, I would be quite sure to keep my actions so that I was in the right and within rights. If another conflict were to occur I would discuss with the user why their point of view was as such and would quite happily back down as soon as I knew they were in the right, or it was turning into a WP:SNOW debate. If I still believed I was in the right, I would discuss with the user how to resolve the problem in the best and most constructive way, and if that failed, I would involve another administrator for a second opinion.

General comments

RfAs for this user:

• Requests for adminship/Asenine
• Requests for adminship/Asenine 2

• Links for Asenine: Asenine (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)

---

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

Discussion

Support

1. Support - I had this one watchlisted for some reason...Probably to support =) –xeno (talk) 17:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)