Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/K6ka

K6ka

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (9/0/0); Scheduled to end 19:41, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Nomination

K6ka (talk · contribs) – It's long overdue that I present to you k6ka for consideration for adminship. In many ways, k6ka reminds me of me: they're rather gnomish, focusing more on the maintenance side of the project and helping other users rather than writing articles directly. I first came across k6ka in 2014 when they began clerking at the Wikipedia:Changing username venues. I was rather impressed with their diligent work there - they had a keen sense of the relevant policies, guidelines, and community norms, and excelled at helping users navigate the sometimes-confusing username change process. Accordingly, I encouraged them to apply for the meta:Global renamer privilege when it became available to non-bureaucrat users in 2015. Since their successful candidacy, I've had the privilege of working alongside k6ka on the global rename queue, at meta:Steward requests/Username changes, Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple, as well as Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations (where they continue to clerk in advance of the much-awaited global usurpation policy). While k6ka does not have a large volume of content-writing contributions that can be presented for scrutiny, neither did I when I became an administrator many moons ago. And we need administrators who are willing to do the grunt-work of clearing backlogs, just as we need our article writers to focus on creating high-quality content for our readers. Accordingly, I strongly recommend granting k6ka the administrative toolset - I'm certain you will not be disappointed with their administrative work. –xeno^talk 16:39, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Co-nomination

xeno gave a great summary of K6ka's work in the renaming-department of Wikipedia. With a whopping 34,000 mainspace edits however, K6ka also does great work with counter-vandalism. First thing one notices when they go to k6ka's talk page are multiple notices that would help new editors, which are frequently attracted to vandal-fighters' talk pages. If you visit k6ka's subpages, there are multiple ones that might attract a new user. One that catches the eye is User:K6ka/Becoming a vandal fighter. It is pretty much an unintended, extremely simplified version of User:Callanecc/CVUA/Tasks. With 3 years of activity, a clean blocklog, and exemplary responses in the archives, it is pretty clear that k6ka is civil. I am sure that k6ka would be a great contribution to the mop corps. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 19:16, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept, thank you for the nomination. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 19:41, 31 December 2016 (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 on focusing primarily on AIV, as my background on Wikipedia is largely comprised of vandal fighting. I have also reported a number of usernames to UAA, and my background in global renaming will also come in handy there, as I can already process username change requests. I have tried out New Pages Patrolling, but very scantily, and I don't intend on working there anytime soon. I also don't have much interest in working at AFD. I have had experience with the admin tools on Wikia, but Wikia and Wikipedia are two very different places, so expect me to be a bit careful with the tools within the first week of adminship. Of course, I'll ask for help during difficult situations.

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

A: Much on my work on Wikipedia has been fighting vandalism, and recently I have been very active on WP:CHUS, processing requests there. Before I received global rename, I was a clerk there — a non-admin clerk, admittedly, but the job didn't require the admin bit, and it was really mostly about fixing malformed requests and notifying users about problematic requests.

I will admit that I do not have much content creation tucked under my belt. Most of my non-maintenance edits on Wikipedia have been gnomish work, fixing typos, some copyediting here and there, adding a source, etc. Recently I've been working on Tribu (film), which isn't a particularly *exciting* article, but while it may not meet up to even GA standard, it still looks better than when I first found the article earlier this year.

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've been fairly careful to avoid conflict on Wikipedia, though there have been some shoe scuffs here and there. The most significant of the conflicts I had been involved in took place at Talk:Street Artists Program of San Francisco about two years ago. I only made one edit to the article in question; I noticed that a substantial part of the article was removed despite being sourced, so I reverted with an explanation. I tried to explain our policies to the editor that got reverted, but as I lacked interest in the subject of the article, I limited my participation on the talk page. There was a resulting edit war on the article, one that I did not partake in, and eventually the editor was blocked per WP:NOTHERE. It did help me familiarize myself with the content policies, and above all it was a very important reminder not to lose one's cool and to always assume good faith, especially if you're telling other editors to do the same. I don't recall too many times where I have been frustrated with an editor, and I'm willing to apologize for any cases where I have snapped, since that's never okay even if I was right.

My only significant appearance on ANI can be found here. It was not a user conduct issue, but a technical one; a glitch in the MediaWiki software resulted in random users being notified about messages left on their talk page even when no such message existed. It just so happened that one of the warnings I (correctly) issued somehow gave an innocent user a notification, and the user got confused and thought something was up. The problem was already being discussed at the correct venues, and was fixed shortly after.

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Discussion

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Support

1. Support as co-nominator. Dat Guy^Talk_Contribs 19:43, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
2. Support I've known K6ka for a while now and I can say, without a doubt, that I would trust them with the admin tool set. Their judgment in matters of renaming prove that they are competent enough to be granted the bit. --Majora (talk) 19:47, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
3. Support – I've interacted with K6ka several times on IRC (often when our names are confused), and they will clearly be a great admin. KSFT^C 19:49, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
4. Support Lets see how many people say thought he was one already ;) Full Rune^{Speak, child of Guthix} 19:52, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
5. Support. Obvious net positive. k6ka has been trusted with global renamer for a while, which is a right that can crash the site if misused, so he's reached the threshold of trust many times over. As far as competency, every interaction I've had with the candidate has been extremely positive. WP:AIV and WP:UAA both need additional administrators to process things in a timely manner. The former is high-priority, and the latter is chronically backlogged. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 19:53, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
6. Support Per xeno. Lourdes 19:54, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
7. Support. Bradv 19:56, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
8. Support: (edit conflict × 5) Another case of "I thought he was already." Clear net positive. KGirlTrucker81 ^{huh? what I've been doing} 19:59, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
9. Support Obvious net-positive. Thought they were one already. Someone should really write an essay about that. --AntiCompositeNumber (Leave a message) 20:02, 31 December 2016 (UTC)