Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Paine Ellsworth 2

Paine Ellsworth

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Nomination

Paine Ellsworth (talk · contribs) – Wikipedians, I present to you ... Paine Ellsworth, a long-standing editor who is always friendly, trustworthy, helpful, courteous and a pleasure to work with. For anyone who has submitted an edit request to a template-protected page, then Paine will need no introduction as he is extremely active and efficient in processing these requests, and has proved to be a careful and diligent template editor. Paine can and has written content but his main activies on Wikipedia are administrative and/or gnomish in nature. He is Wikipedia's resident expert on redirect categorisation and also regularly assesses consensus when closing Requested move discussions. I believe Paine will be a positive addition to the administrator team as it will allow Paine to work on more administrative tasks and further reduce backlogs.

Paine Ellsworth was previous nominated for adminship in 2015, which did not succeed. I believe the reasons were due to misinterpreted remarks which became blown out of proportion. I am happy to confirm that in 14+ years of Paine's editing history, there is absolutely nothing that has suggested to me any hint of racism or discriminatory behaviour. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:52, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:  Many thanks for the sponsorship above. Have always edited Wikipedia for free, both project and encyclopedia, and will never accept payment of any kind for my work or status. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 13:05, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

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Discussion

RfAs for this user:

• Requests for adminship/Paine Ellsworth
• Requests for adminship/Paine Ellsworth 2

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Support

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