Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Worm That Turned

Worm That Turned

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (150/15/1); Scheduled to end 09:45, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Nomination

Worm That Turned (talk · contribs) – This is probably one of the most difficult think I've ever done on Wikipedia, I'm not great at blowing my own trumpet and I've spent the last few months discussing the perils of RfA at WP:RfA reform 2011. However, I feel the time is right to put myself forward, and run the gauntlet. Describing myself as a Wikipedian is difficult, I try to work in as many areas as I can, focussing on one at a time to see if it catches my attention. I've been editing for a few years, with a break while I was self-employed, and I started editing with gusto this time last year. I have 7 Good articles to my name, along with 13 DYKs, even winning last year's Bacon wikicup. More recently my time has been spent helping new editors. I run an adoption school, where editors who are looking for a structured explanation of the Wikipedia basics get just that. I'm very proud of my work there, with many graduating students who have shown significant improvement, and regular requests to be adopted.

I've spent time helping out on IRC helpdesk and try to answer requests at editor assistance when I've got time. I have also spent time as an ambassador and a guide - along with my most recent role in OTRS. Overall, I'd consider myself a calm, helpful and patient editor who has a clue, and on that note, I submit myself for your review. Worm^TT · (talk) 09:11, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: The reason I've decided to run for adminship is that I've noticed I keep skipping over tickets in the OTRS queue which I cannot deal with due to not being an administrator. They're no more urgent than others, but the "bit" would be helpful. Otherwise, I would happily chip in with the admin backlog, though I would certainly tackle areas I am less familiar with tentatively.

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

A: Well, I'm intently proud of all my contributions, but especially my first real article, Doom Bar. I will get it to featured status, and even took a trip to Daymer Bay a couple of weeks ago to take photos of it. My other good articles are food and drink related, Clotted Cream, Stargazy Pie, Squab pie, Pasty, Bacon ice cream and BLT, and I feel all 7 are well written and on interesting topics. I've done cleanup work, reducing the number of self-contradictory articles from around 400 to about 80 (though it's crept back up) and other cruft removal from articles. But the contributions I'm most proud of is helping people, be it BLPs like Marcus Clarke, adopting new editors, mentoring more experienced but "troubled" editors or just answering requests for help.

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: Well, I don't really get stressed at all, least of all over Wikipedia - it's just not worth it. Having said that, I have had certain incidents affect me. One of my first adoptees decided to go on a vandalism spree, which he followed up with a sock puppet spree doing Willy on Wheels vandalism, with my name. My own fault, per WP:BEANS, though he did get bored. I did my best to ignore the whole thing, but my adoptees at the time took quite the brunt of his insults, which did upset me. Otherwise, I interact with editors, try to get along with them all. Sometimes I rub people up the wrong way, but I generally seem to get on all right with people as I'm very good at seeing their point of view.

General comments

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• Stats on talk Ryan Vesey (talk) 13:02, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

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Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review his contributions before commenting.

Discussion

Support

1. Seems like a thoroughly decent tenured editor who will wield the tools with caution if perhaps not frequency. Article work impresses and your talk page archive is littered with requests for help (often through your mentoring programme but also from outher sources) which indicates to me someone who has respect and is trustworthy and cluefull. Pedro :  Chat  10:10, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
2. Strong support - Ummm...yeah. (I can provide a better rationale if asked, but why bother wasting the time on a probable WP:100 unopposed?) Reaper Eternal (talk) 10:47, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
3. Support—I've seen you around and always been impressed with your calm and level-headed way of dealing with problems (case in point...) so good luck! ╟─TreasuryTag►Subsyndic General─╢ 10:50, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
4. Support - See no reason not to issue a mop Brookie :) - he's in the building somewhere! ^(Whisper...) 10:52, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
5. Support No problems here. Peridon (talk) 12:09, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
6. Support so far logs and other wiki and block log look OK. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:34, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
7. Support I could not support an editor more emphatically than I can for Worm That Turned. He has been a productive editor for over 3 years now, with a majority of his edits coming in the past year. His work with his adoption school has been excellent and it proves that he has a clear understanding of policy. He is one of the most knowledgeable editors I have met in administrative areas such as copyright issues and speedy deletion criteria. The only thing I fear is that if you give Worm the mop, he might clear all of the backlogs and everyone will be moping around with nothing to do. Ryan Vesey (talk) 13:00, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
8. Support - If there's a reason this candidate shouldn't have the mop, I haven't spotted it. --Alan the Roving Ambassador (talk) 13:35, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
9. Strong Support - Experienced editor with a very good attitude. I believe would make an excellent admin. JoeSperrazza (talk) 13:45, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
10. Strong Support Absolutely no reason to think they'll misuse the tools. FeydHuxtable (talk) 13:48, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
11. Support no reason to think that this user would abuse the tools. --rogerd (talk) 13:52, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Neutral leaning support Although you have been a good mentor, I'm still not sure that if you are experienced in the admin areas. -Porch corpter (talk/contribs) 09:56, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

   The cure for lack of experience...is experience. Just my 2p worth. --Alan the Roving Ambassador (talk) 13:34, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

   I wasn't going to comment, but given the background between myself and Porchcorpter, where I've spent the better part of 3 months trying to dissuade him from adminship before he is ready, I can understand that he would expect me to reach a higher bar than other editors may. I certainly respect that point of view and feel he's been very gracious and reasonable in his comment. Worm^TT · (talk) 13:55, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

2. Analysis needed-- you have a typo in your nomination statement (it's wise to take more care with these things), mention numerous DYKs and GAs but don't name them, and a quick glance at only one of your GAs (Bacon ice cream), shows uncited original research in both the lead and the body. "Bacon ice cream has started appearing on on many high-end restaurant dessert menus, where it is generally well received." I hope it doesn't fall to me again to analyze the quality of the content you use to further your candidacy, and that someone else will do the work this time. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:06, 29 June 2011 (UTC)