Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Hahc21 2

Hahc21

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (6/1/0); Scheduled to end 14:34, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Nomination

Hahc21 (talk · contribs) – Fellow Wikipedia Editors, I am very proud to introduce to you all Hahc21. He has been on the project since March 2008 but didn't start to edit actively until September 2011. Hahc21 has most of his contributions in the article main space, and with his article work he has managed to promote several featured lists, featured articles, featured pictures, good topics, good articles and several DYKs. In Articles for deletion, 94.2% of his votes accurately matched consensus. Recently, Hahc21 also become a trainee clerk for the Arbitration Committee. From the above, I am more than proud to call Hahc21 a very impressive user and a great candidate for a administrator. John F. Lewis (talk) 23:03, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Co-nomination

Hahc21 has a solid record of high-quality content contributions and sensible input to behind-the-scenes aspects of the projects, and it's my pleasure to co-nominate him for adminship. He is a tireless article writer, contributing articles on topics ranging from Venezuelan history to French music to video games. He often contributes to Wikipedia-space discussions, where his input is measured and sensible. He has excellent knowledge of image licensing, and is an OTRS volunteer. In addition, he serves as a trainee clerk for the Arbitration Committee. He unsuccessfully ran once for adminship before, and I believe that he has taken the feedback he received from that attempt to heart. Overall, I think Hahc21 is a solid candidate for adminship. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:38, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Co-nomination

My experiences with Hahc21 have been all positive. From his tireless input in article creation, to his massive Good Article backlog elimination, in all ways he deserves to be an administrator. He has been active for over a year now, contributing to discussions and Good Article reviews, and has racked up over 20,000 edits. He is also active on Wikimedia Commons where he is an image reviewer and has uploaded over 150 photos. Along with all this work, he is an active OTRS member and an Arbitration Committee Clerk in training. And yes, everybody can see the "2" in the page title, but as Mark already said, I believe he has learned from his mistakes and is ready for another run. He did have an edit restriction imposed against Non Admin Closures, but this has been lifted by the community for good reason. To sum up, Hahc is sensible, experienced, and would benefit the Wikipedia community if granted the sysop flag. Vacation9 00:48, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I am thrilled and grateful. I accept this nomination, and thank the nominators for the trust they have in me. If successful, I will commit myself to do my best to serve the community, and to be of greater help when needed. Thanks. — Hahc21^talk 14:33, 11 February 2013 (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: First of all, I intend to work on the files area, given that I have a considerable knowledge of image licensing. Alongside that, I would throw myself at PERM, an area I have studied closely the last several months. As a third option, I would work at Articles for Deletion, an area which I have dedicated a big amount of time, and where I always enjoy participating. However, given the recent events I had, related to closing AFD discussions, I would venture there very slowly, following the guide of two admins I trust, Mark Arsten and Elen of the Roads, before going ahead by myself. Finally, I intend to keep working on content just like I currently do at WP:GAN, WP:FAC and WP:FLC (if granted the tools, I could also help with the housekeeping tasks of those areas), as well as performing the duties I currently have with the Wikimedia Foundation, where I serve as a member of one of their Grants Committees, and at OTRS.

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

A: I believe that my best contribution, and the one I'm most proud of, is all the content work I have done on this Wikipedia. I have been honoured with several featured articles, lists and pictures, as well as good articles and topics. They are, for me, a work of art what has great significance because they resemble the very purpose of this encyclopedia. Apart from that, I am very proud of my work at templates; my contributions at the Good article nominations project, where I have co-ordinated two drives and have been doing a tireless work to try to find solutions to all the problems we face out there; my work helping at Articles for deletion; and finally, my work with files. I have a personal interest with files, and I enjoy working with them. I spend a great quantity of my wikitime uploading, verifying and working with files here and on Wikimedia Commons.

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 have rarely been in a editing conflict. I have had several situations that caused me stress; the first time it happened was before I ran for adminship the first time, and involved several users that edit closely to me (Status, Till, Tomica and Calvin999). After that, I was involved in the dispute that led to my now-lifted restriction, although it didn't cause me stress. Since then, I have hardly been involved in any dispute; I am a very calmed and patient person that avoids conflicts and stressful situations. I prefer to drop the battle sooner rather than later and avoid as much drama and damage as possible. After all, when I joined Wikipedia, my main goal was to dedicate myself to write content, and it has mostly been my work here, despite the very wide variety of things I have done that are unrelated to content creation.

Additional question from GiantSnowman

4. Your first RFA was just over 6 months ago, what makes you now ready to try again?

A: When I ran for adminship the first time, I was not aware that I wasn't ready. I was still learning all the nuances of the core policies and procedures of Wikipedia and, although my goal and intention was to help, I admit that I did it while being very inexperienced. Now, seven months have passed, and I believe that I can safely say that I have grown as a user, and that now I can step forward to see if the community believes that I can help as an administrator. I admit that I was scared of running again, but I realized that not doing so was preventing me from offering myself as a volunteer to the project as a whole. Finally, I believe that I am ready again because I have faith in what I have learned in the past seven months, and I will be very pleased to see what the rest of the community thinks of it.

Additional question from Andy Dingley

5 Any comment to make on WP:AN#Request to lift restriction and WP:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive774#Inappropriate_discussion_closure?

In particular, why didn't you consider these relevant matters to note in the nomination itself? Andy Dingley (talk) 14:55, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

General comments

• Links for Hahc21: Hahc21 (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for Hahc21 can be found here.
• For clarity purposes: I have an alternate account named Razr Nation which I often use to do maintenance work such as AFD, patrolling new pages, making automated edits, among other things. I also use this account to welcome new users, and when I am using a computer that is not mine. — Hahc21^talk 01:44, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

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Discussion

Support

1. Support. Status 23:44, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
2. Support I would be a pretty bad nom if I didn't Vacation9 14:35, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
3. Support - Obvious. --LlamaAl (talk) 14:37, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
4. Support Automatic with this user.—cyberpower _{Limited Access}^{Be my Valentine} 14:40, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
5. Support as nom. John F. Lewis (talk) 14:51, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
6. Support as co-nom. Mark Arsten (talk) 14:55, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Not-now Oppose. From where I sit now, I'm not comfortable handing the bits to someone who has literally only just had a restriction lifted that had been imposed due to their poor judgment in admin-related areas. It may well be that Hahc21 is, post-restriction, competent to be an admin, but given that we've not even had any time to evaluate that before he jumped into an RFA, I'm not confident in making that leap of faith. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 14:54, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

   I see your point, but that restriction was unanimously lifted for a reason: Hahc has contributed to many AfD discussion since his restriction was imposed. Hahc has also said he will be careful closing AfD's at first, taking guidance from his admin mentors. Vacation^nine Public 15:00, 11 February 2013 (UTC)