Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/TodorBozhinov

TodorBozhinov

Discuss here (3/4/0) ending 16:31, 11 June (UTC)

TodorBozhinov (talk · contribs) – This is a self-nomination. I have been contributing to the Wikipedia community, with constantly rising activity, for a year (since late May 2005). My main (yet not at all sole) area of interest are the articles related to my native country, Bulgaria, and I am the founder and initiator of WikiProject Bulgaria and the Bulgarian WikiPortal. Although I certainly have made mistakes as part of my work here, I consider myself ready for the responsibility and duties of an administrator. I believe I have good knowledge of the policies and am also very familiar with unpleasant and non-creative activies such as making redirects, copyediting, mass categorizing and moving pages. Todor Bozhinov  → 16:31, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept. Todor Bozhinov  → 16:33, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Support

1. Support Rama's Arrow 16:47, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
2. Support looks good to me. I don't consider "only edits Bulgarian articles" to be too narrow, and I'm sure Wikipedia has few active Bulgarian editors so I'm glad for his activity there. Also I don't understand withholding support until he pastes a warning template on a few dozen vandals' talk pages, as this is just grunt work and won't make him into a better candidate than he already is. — GT 17:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
3. Support. Froggy 18:06, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Unfortunately feel a need to oppose. [1] shows that the user clearly has the right attitude for adminship. Furthermore, the user has edited in a few areas other than just Bulgaria related issues. However, the user has very few Wikipedia space edits. Furthermore, the user wants admin tools for among other things reverting and blocking vandals, but I see almost no history of dealing with vandalism on any significant scale and no edits to WP:AIV. I also see few edits related to the other concerns for which the candidate wishes to use admin tools. I am not convinced that Todor has the experience or need for admin tools at this time. JoshuaZ 16:59, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

   Indeed, many of my contributions are related to Bulgaria, but I believe I have a broader view of the developments in Wikipedia even if most of my edits concern my native country. My work connected to dealing with vandalism until now has been expressed in warning the users and reverting, since most of the vandals I have encountered until now have been sporadic and have usually quickly ceased vandalizing. But as a whole, I fully understand Joshua's concerns and intend to be more active in those spheres if I am granted admin status. Todor Bozhinov  → 17:16, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

2. Weak Oppose per JoshuaZ. Naconkantari 17:00, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
3. Looking through your user_talk edits, I see only a small handful of vandalism warnings, yet your main reason for wanting adminship is vandalism. I suggest you come back once you've done some more reverting and warning. --Tango 17:07, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
4. Oppose Per Tango. ForestH2
5. Oppose - per Tango and JoshuaZ, sorry -- Tawker 18:43, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Neutral

Comments

• See TodorBozhinov's _{(Talk ▪ Contributions ▪ Logs ▪ Block Logs)} contributions as of 16:50, 4 June 2006 (UTC) using Interiot's tool:

Username	TodorBozhinov
Total edits	6579
Distinct pages edited	2910
Average edits/page	2.261
First edit	17:25, May 24, 2005
	
(main)	5112
Talk	265
User	147
User talk	231
Image	395
Template	124
Template talk	14
Category	87
Wikipedia	104
Wikipedia talk	10
Portal	84
Portal talk	6

 G.He 16:50, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

• See TodorBozhinov's edit summary usage with Mathbot's tool.

Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A: The main chores I would help with are quickly reverting vandalism, deleting non-free-licensed images, blocking vandals and semi- and fully protecting pages in cases of vandalism, edit warring and heated disputes.

2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A: I cannot say I am particularly pleased with having made a given contribution or written a specific article, although there are some that have been specially pleasant to work on. Of these, I would mention the articles on the Tetraevangelia of Ivan Alexander, the Banat Bulgarians and the Bessarabian Bulgarians, the mayors of Sofia and the Dormition of the Theotokos Cathedral. Writing the somewhat shorter articles on the Burgas-Alexandroupoli pipeline, the American College of Sofia and the Zograf Monastery also turned out to be a great experience.

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

A: Although I do not think someone has ever caused me stress during my time as a Wikipedia contributor, I do have engaged in some occasional conflicts, the most serious one being what could be classified as an edit war with a troll about facts in the List of cities in Bulgaria. While I asked for a third opinion and did much to prove the user, a well-known troll whose activity has spread well beyond Wikipedia, wrong, I also slipped to violate the three-revert rule. And although I was not blocked because I reported myself, I regret letting the situation escalate to this point through being too quick to revert.

Question from Yanksox (optional)

4. Why do you want to be an admin? Yanksox 17:29, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

A: I would like to be an admin because I feel there is great need for a person who is well informed on topics related to Bulgaria to actively help with the related administrative tasks. I also think I would be useful by doing general chores, whether related to my area of interest or not.

Why do you feel there is a need for an admin whom has knowledge relating to Bulgaria? Yanksox 18:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Questions from Computerjoe (optional)

5. You don't have many project edits: why?

A: I prefer working on the content of the encyclopedia and am more attracted to editing articles and discussing the content. I certainly do not purposefully evade "Wikipedia:" namespace pages, I am simply more interested in the other spheres of the project.

6. Have you ever RC or NP patrolled?

A: Although recent changes and new pages patrolling isn't a usual thing for me, I often keep an eye on them and have made an occasional edit, minor or not, to some of the pages I have seen there.

7. Is there a cabal?

A: I see Wikipedians as people equal in terms of rights and regard the entities within the project as simply what they are - groups of people who do their job to serve the community, not secret authoritarian organizations. I have not seen the slightest reason to think otherwise so far, and find it highly unlikely to encounter one in the future.