Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Spicy

Spicy

The following discussion is preserved as a request for adminship that has been automatically placed on hold pending a decision as to the outcome. Please do not modify the text. The result of the discussion will be posted soon.

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (1/0/0); Scheduled to end 11:19, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Nomination

Spicy (talk · contribs) – Hi, I'm Spicy and I'm nominating myself for adminship. Some of you may be familiar with me from my work at SPI, where I have been a sockpuppet investigations clerk since May 2022. Although I haven't been able to dedicate as much time to it as I'd like lately, I enjoy writing articles, and I contribute at NPP and AFC from time to time. I’m also a member of the Volunteer Response Team with access to the info-en queue. I’m applying for the mop because I think I could help out with certain admin tasks, particularly at SPI.

Disclosures: I have never edited for pay. I have a doppelganger account for my old username, SpicyMiIkBoy, and I used another account over 15 years ago, when I was a young child. That account has been disclosed to the Arbitration Committee. Thanks, Spicy (talk) 11:17, 1 April 2023 (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. Why are you interested in becoming an administrator?

A: Recently, some editors whom I respect have suggested that I should become an administrator. I've also had a few people mistake me for one. I was skeptical of the idea at first, but I've come to believe that the tools would be helpful for my work. The most obvious use case is at SPI, where the toolset would allow me to block sockpuppet accounts and carry out history merges on my own. The ability to view deleted content would also be useful for investigating suspected cases of sockpuppetry. Additionally, during my normal browsing I occasionally come across situations that require admin attention, such as BLP violations needing revision deletion, vandalism-only accounts, copyvios, and other such unpleasant things. I think that having the admin tools would allow me to better serve the community by being able to address disruption as it occurs.

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

A: A few years ago I brought the article Complete blood count through GAN and FAC. It was a long journey, with a lot of help from others along the way, but I hope that I succeeded in explaining a topic that plays a part in many people's lives but whose intricacies are not widely understood. I've also written two GAs, White blood cell differential and Blood culture, and helped save Chagas disease from WP:FAR alongside the lovely Ajpolino and SandyGeorgia. Outside of mainspace, I'm one of the more active clerks at SPI and I like to think that my contributions help a perpetually backlogged process function a little more smoothly. While the obvious purpose of SPI is to get sockpuppets blocked, I'm also proud of the cases in which I've prevented innocent users from being falsely blocked (it's fairly common, for example, for WikiEd students and editathon participants to be mistaken for socks).

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 treat Wikipedia as a hobby and try to stay away from situations that are likely to cause stress. I don’t spend a lot of time commenting on drama boards, for instance. That said, in the course of my editing I have had instances where someone has disagreed with my actions or I've strongly disagreed with someone else's. In such situations I think it's best to clearly state one's case, leave room for others to give input and if one finds oneself getting too frustrated, disengage for the moment and come back when you have a clearer head. Bludgeoning the conversation or getting dragged into an acrimonious dispute is unlikely to lead to anything productive. It's important, I think, not to take oneself too seriously.

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Optional question from LindsayH

4. Which d'you think is the most important of the pillars & why?

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Discussion

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

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Support

1. Hehe, I get the first support on this RfA… but Spicy is not a joke, and is one of our very best and fairest editors! Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 11:23, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

General comments

The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.