Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Torchwoodwho

Torchwoodwho

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (1/2/0); Scheduled to end 15:29, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Nomination

Torchwoodwho (talk · contribs) – I have worked extensively with CSD, Vandal fighting and reporting, reliable sources, AfD (with experience at NACs), and attempted informal mediation of various users dating back to 2007. I'm not as strong at content creation, but have participated in AfC and worked to recover articles proposed for deletion. If granted the tools I would use them to assist in CSD, AfD backlog (for discussions of which I'm uninvolved), and continue to advance my work against blatant vandalism. Torchwood Who? (talk) 15:07, 16 September 2010 (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 will continue my work at CSD, AfD, and AIV as well as attempt to resolve disputes at ANI.

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

A: I have a strong record with CSD having over 850 successful CSD nominations. I have also worked diligently in the areas of reliable sources and article recovery where needed. In recent changes patrol I regularly fight blatant vandalism resulting in numerous short term ip blocks and indef blocks of vandalism-only accounts. I am very proud of feeling approachable by less experienced editors and enjoy pitching in on various noticeboards or direct requests for assistance.

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 was recently in a small dispute with Mono regarding a reversion I made. It was really a matter of bad timing. I reverted a vandal but didn't go back far enough so my reverted version still had vandalism in it. Mono saw the vandalism in my reversion and mistakenly warned me with a level 2 template. I was shocked and brought the incident to ANI for discussion which resulted in a debate about the accuracy of the new vandal fighting tool used by Mono. When it became obvious that Mono and I were not going to be able to work constructively together I disengaged without breaching civility. Additionally, an article I created via the Articles for Creation project over 2 years ago (The Kampung Boy) was found to contain hoax material which was not obvious. I apologized for missing the hoax, defended the validity of AfC's policies, and brought the incident to the AfC talk page for discussion. In the instance of Mono I learned that before going to the community for a consensus on such an event it's better to wait for a proper response in user talk, advice I'd given others many times before but lapsed in my own judgement at the moment. In the future I would be more patient before involving outside opinions.

Additional optional question from Wifione _....... ^{Leave a message}

4. A BLP article that claims an individual is a national sports award winner has only one reference - which is a link to the award's website. You are not able to find the individual's name on the awards website. A simple net search also fails to bring up any links of the person having been a national sports award winner. What would be your next course of action?

A:I would CSD the article under BLP status, inform the creating editor and suggest the editor moves the article to userspace while the award issue is resolved. BLPs carry different urgency standards regarding removal of unverified content, so it's important to get the article out of mainspace asap. If, after a reasonable amount of time determined by the situation, the article is found to not be reliable I would suggest it is removed entirely.

5. An article seems notable but has no reference; and you're not able to retrieve verifiable and reliable references after a reasonably search. You place a prod giving your reasons. The prod is removed within a minute by a freshly created editor (not the author) who gives a reasoning, "Will add". What's would be your next course of action? Thanks and regards.

A:I would replace the prod notice and notify the editor of the time limit on prods. If the editor feels they will not be able to find sources in the amount of time allowed by prod I would suggest moving the article to userspace until sources could be found. If the editor disagrees with this solution I would remove the prod and bring the article to AfD for consensus.

Additional optional question from Begoon

6. You have a couple of thousand edits in early 2008, then a period of very low activity, then a couple of thousand more in the 2 months prior to this request. Is there a reason for this? Obviously we all contribute what we can, when we can, but since it means there are less recent edits that can be assessed, I thought I would ask the question to give you a chance to comment on something that I'm pretty sure others will raise.

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Questions from —fetch·comms

7. (Edit conflicted with Begoon, but related.) Why have you been relatively inactive since you registered an account? Why do you think that, after only becoming an active editor again last month, that an RfA so soon is a good idea?

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8. What do you think about the current BLP policy, broadly speaking? How would you approach an AfD on a BLP, or approach trying to save a BLP from deletion? You can answer about your general approach or give detailed examples on what you would do (or have done in the past, with diffs).

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General comments

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

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Discussion

• Stats posted. —fetch·comms 16:22, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Support

1. Strong support Great vandal-fighting experience, among other things. Will make a great admin. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 16:33, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Oppose

1. You seem to have done little content building work, and have far more user talk page edits then you do mainspace edits. While this may be attributed to vandalism work, I personally do not consider 1400 mainspace edits, many of which would be using tools/scripts, a good indicator of having worked much with developing articles. Of course, saving pages from deletion is commendable, but it still seems like a very small part of what you do. If you plan to work in AfD, I would be expecting either a high level in involvement there already, especially in the administrative processes (closing, relisting, etc.), or a lot of writing to show that you better understand arguments presented in AfDs. You also have only about 50 article talk page edits, which seems to indicate a low level of collaboration with others in article work. In addition, you have only become recently active after over two years of inactivity (excepting a few periods of brief activity). I cannot tell if you have kept up with recent policy changes (such as pending changes, etc.), so I'm looking for a few more months of active participation so that is evident. More recently, as you mentioned in Q3, I was surprised that you took your minor dispute with Mono to ANI when he didn't even reply to your talk page message yet. That was very recent, and I don't yet see any evidence of you being more patient and discussing issues with a user first. Your CSD work seems fine, however, but I don't think now is the time for you to become an admin. —fetch·comms 16:37, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

   1400 edits? Um, according to popups, he has 5117 edits. Nevermind, I see you were referring to article space edits. The Thing // Talk // Contribs 16:39, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

   Presumably, Fetchcomms is referring to mainspace edits. NW (Talk) 16:43, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

   Yes, I clarified it after getting edit conflicted four times :P. —fetch·comms 16:46, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

2. As per the comments made by Fetchcomms above, and in particular your recent unseemly haste to take your dispute with Mono to AN/I without any real attempt to resolve your differences. Malleus Fatuorum 16:40, 16 September 2010 (UTC)