Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ks0stm

Ks0stm

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (4/0/0); Scheduled to end 22:45, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Nomination

Ks0stm (talk · contribs) – Ks0stm is a fellow weather enthusiast, but with an advantage over me: he's currently taking his passion to the next level by choosing to study meteorology at a respected and celebrated atmospheric sciences college. Wikipedia has many excellent editors who contribute to the growing base of climate-related articles, and I've had the pleasure over the past several years of collaborating with several of them. Ks0stm, or Steve, was among them, although he and I worked in slightly different areas—I wrote more on tropical cyclones and nor'easters, while he remained focused on severe weather. Here's where Steve stood out. Most weather writers keep to themselves, although he learned more and more about how Wikipedia works from an internal perspective. He involved himself in several of the administrative pages and endeavors, including AfD and the not-infrequent reporting of vandals. Steve maintains a well-balanced edit regime, and his versatility in that respect means he can slave over an article one minute and help out a new user on one of the noticeboards the next... and, hey, how many young folks are into ham radio these days? My reason for nominating Ks0stm, and asking your approval for the certain pleasure to work alongside him as a fellow administrator, is multifaceted. His level of knowledge in an important and fairly extensive field of research, and one that he has put into use as an editor, will allow him to use the admin tools with a particular level of professionalism. He maintains a high level of decorum and maturity when dealing with colleagues, which is an excellent quality in a prospective admin. And finally, he understands how to put the project into perspective, with his studies taking precedence over this website we've all spent far too many evenings on. As my editing becomes increasingly refocused on meteorology articles after several years with my admin cap on, I've found myself working with (and around!) Ks0stm more and more, and I believe it would be for the benefit of the project to promote him. Juliancolton (talk) 01:57, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept. Ks0stm ^(T•C•G) 22:39, 6 September 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: I intend to work in the areas involving admins that I have the most experience in: WP:UAA, WP:AIV, speedy deletion, and relatively uncontroversial WP:ITN and WP:AfD discussions...in general when it comes to ITN and AfD I would rather express my opinions as an editor in controversial situations rather than act as an administrator.

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

A: One thing that I think shines well is Storm Prediction Center. It's a type of article that I don't normally edit (government organizations) made interesting by my interest in severe weather, and is a good example of how I can use my meteorology related knowledge in editing. Other than that, I would say my contributions have been rather low key and spread across the project, but substantial nonetheless.

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: One situation in particular that comes to mind is a post I made to the Reference Desk [1]. It was subsquently removed as being a request for medical advice [2], a move that I heavily disagreed with. I then reverted [3], and when that was reverted [4] I resisted the urge to revert again and instead initiated discussion [5], in the style of WP:BRD. Given the chance again I would probably express my opinion with less strong of wording, but it's a good model of how I operate under stress...when conflict arises, I initiate discussion and accept consensus, even if it's not a consensus that I agree with.

Additional question from Surturz

4. Will you agree to a term limit? For example something like that for the US President: you agree to resign your adminship after 4 years and optionally seek RfA again, and permanently resign as an admin after 8 years. If not, why do you think admins should be appointed for life?

A:While I would not agree to a term limit in the style that you speak of where adminship is resigned at certain specific, pre-set times, I would certainly not say that admins should be appointed for life like, say, US Supreme Court justices. I much prefer the concept of a recall process, and in my case I would voluntarily submit myself for a reconfirmation RfA should certain prerequisites be met. At this time I'm not for sure exactly what these prerequisites would be, although at the moment I'm leaning towards if a request for comment or other discussion were to determine that I should submit myself for reconfirmation. Regardless, it's one of those things where I would be willing to listen to input from the community, both on whether I should submit myself for reconfirmation or what my requirements for doing such should be. Ks0stm ^(T•C•G) 00:26, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Additional question from Hokeman

5. JulianColton has given you rave reviews in the nom statement; however, he didn't exactly explain why you needed the tools or how you plan to use them once you get them. Please expand on that thought (beyond your answer to Question 1).

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General comments

• Links for Ks0stm: Ks0stm (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for Ks0stm can be found here.

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

• I don't think question #4 is especially fair given that this is not grounded in policy of any sort, and we can't say what Wikipedia will be like in 4-8 years. --Rschen7754 00:02, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Discussion

• Edit stats on the talk page. --Σ _{^talkcontribs} 22:59, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Support

1. Support Like what I see.PumpkinSky talk 23:09, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
2. Support - I see no problems. James500 (talk) 23:16, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
3. Support He's done some GAs in the roads projects as well, seems like a good editor. --Rschen7754 23:21, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

   Oops, I intended to mention that in my statement. How it shows willingness to work in multiple areas, etc. Thanks for point this out. Juliancolton (talk) 00:25, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

4. Support - partly based on nom, partly on spot review of last 500 contributions. Looks like a good addition to the corps.  Frank  |  talk  00:04, 7 September 2011 (UTC)