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'''Oppose'''
'''Oppose'''
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#'''Oppose''' for [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Bobrae-premier.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=102087373 closing] a deletion discussion about an unsourced unfree image with no copyright holder information and no proper [[Wikipedia:Non-free content]] rationale as a "keep". Even if this user felt that the replaceability argument was a good one, not spending the time to look at whether or not the image was an unsourced copyvio before making the decision does not inspire confidence that they should be making admin decisions. [[User:Jkelly|Jkelly]] 20:27, 15 May 2007 (UTC)


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Arctic.gnome

Voice your opinion (14/0/1); Scheduled to end 16:50, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Arctic.gnome (talk · contribs) - I have been a wikipedian for a bit over two years now, and I would like to take on a bit more responsibility in the encyclopedia. Most of my edits deal with the Canadian government and with the featured topics nomination, but I have individual edits on many other articles. Having admin powers would save me some time in my vandal fighting and project managing, and I think I understand well enough how this place works to be trusted with them. Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 16:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. You may wish to answer the following optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
A: The ability to move, delete, and semi-protect pages would help in my day-to-day editing; I now have to make some requests of admins when I'm tidying up page organization. I would be able to help out with some backlogs that I can't help with now, like speedy deletions. I already spend a great deal of time reverting vandalism and giving out warnings; it would be nice to be able to block vandals on my own. I'd be interested in keeping an eye on the Special:Unwatchedpages to stop vandals. And finally, although admin powers aren't needed for it, I would like to have a bit more legitimacy when closing debates on WP:FTC.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: My biggest contribution recently has been getting the featured topics project off the ground. I found the idea on an orphaned page, so I made the page look nice, re-worked the nomination procedure and criteria, and added links to the project. Since then I have been doing most of the work of closing debates and promoting topics.
I'm also proud of all of my featured lists, such as List of Canadian federal parliaments. In those lists, I (with others) have taken simple groups of links and turned them into what is probably a better source of quick information than anything online or in any book. I'm also happy that there are no longer any gaps in series like 1st to 39th Canadian Parliament and 1st to 28th Canadian Ministry, even though most of those articles are fairly short.
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 in a few some drawn-out debates, the most stressful being in Lengths of science fiction film and television series and Canadian science fiction where a user and I had opposite views about how somethings should be defined. I’ve found the best solution is to offer compromises, like adding a footnote to explain the differing points of view. If the user doesn’t accept a middle ground, I ask members of a related wikiproject to break the stalemate.

Optional question from Durova

4. What would you do as an administrator about ideological or profit motive attempts to manipulate Wikipedia? Bear in mind this statement from Brad Patrick as well as this news story, this conference summary, this press release, and these blogs. DurovaCharge! 18:23, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Optional question from Abu badali

5. What do you think about the recent Foundation resolution on unfree material usage, and what implications (immediate and long term) do you believe it will have for English language Wikipedia?

General comments

Please keep criticism constructive and polite. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Arctic.gnome before commenting.

Discussion

Support

  1. Support - Great work in WP:CANADA and related areas. Aquarius • talk 17:10, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. support I initially had some concerns looking through this users contributions since many of them seem to be very formulaic. For example, recently on May 9 the user made over 20 edits classifying the importance of various highways in Saskatchewan and Ontario. Similarly, on April 22, the user spent a large amount of time making redirects from "nth Parliament of Canada" to "nth Canadian Parliament". This makes the user's edit count of over 10,000 edits slightly less impressive than it might look initially and such edits make it more difficult to determine a user's knowledge of policy and general temperament. However, the majority of the user's edits are more individualized and as far as I can tell demonstrate a good understanding of policy (I do however disagree with his assertion on his user page that he is not a Wikignome- a substantial fraction of his edits seem to be Wikignoming Canada related matters). I also had some concern about a lack of topical diversity in the user's edits, since having such a background helps also show understanding of policy and makes any potential problems more likely to turn up. This objection I have also found to be not a serious worry for two reasons: First, the user has a substantial number of edits that are outside Canadian subjects. Second, Canada is a very broad topic which covers a large number of different types of articles including articles about geography, politics, culture, science, and entertainment. Artic has edited extensively in all those topics in both mainspace and other spaces. Overall, this is a candidate for giving the tools who is both competent and trustworthy. If I had known about the editor before hand and had known he was intending to run I would have been happy to nominate him myself. JoshuaZ 18:55, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Rettetast 19:48, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support per JoshuaZ. Walton Need some help? 19:50, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support Looking at this editor's edits across the main spaces, I see no reason to think that the admin tools would be abused. (aeropagitica) 19:57, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support I'm glad to have wikignomes around - hate to think what the place would look like without them. Give him the tools and let him work. JodyB talk 20:40, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support --Spike Wilbury 22:16, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support--Agεθ020 (ΔT • ФC) 22:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support Looks good...supporting. Jmlk17 22:55, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support All is well here. Acalamari 01:55, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support. Good contributions and experience, and it's clear from his editing patterns that the tools would be put to good use. Krimpet (talk) 07:20, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support browsing quickly through his talk page and contributions, I find Arctic a very good adminship candidate and more than qualified to use the tools. —Anas talk? 12:51, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Support I've seen this editor around, does a good job. DarthGriz98 15:25, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  14. I'm Mailer Diablo and I approve this candidate! - 18:27, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Support, cautious and bold in appropriate measure. --Quiddity 18:30, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  16. No big deals here - Go ahead. -- FayssalF - Wiki me up® 18:50, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Neutral

  1. Neutral To quote: "The ability to move, delete, and semi-protect pages would help in my day-to-day editing". Although an active and excellent contributor I can't see any justification for the demotion here. Why do you need the tools? Pedro |  Chat  19:54, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Doesn't the quote give the justification? You need admin tools to perform certain page moves, and to delete and semi-protect pages. I don't understand your question. --Spike Wilbury 21:46, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    When I need to do chores like moving a page to conform with standard article names or protecting a page from vandals, the tools would save me the time of asking for an admin's help and would save an admin the time of having to do it for me. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 02:12, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, I understand the tools. I can't understand your need for the tools. How often do you have to ask an admin for assistance for example? If you could justify why you need them I would support. But just saying I need the tools so I can do what the tools do doesn't cut it. e.g. I need a hammer. Why? To bang in a nail. So what? because I need to hang a picture - ah! Justification!! As it is your RfA seems to be going well so good luck.Pedro |  Chat  09:43, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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