Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kc9cqj

KC9CQJ

Discuss here (1/1/0) ending 17:46, June 14, 2006 (UTC)

Kc9cqj (talk · contribs) – I have been involved with Wikipedia for about a little over a year now. Since I've been here, I have edited a few articles mainly in the Scouting realm, but contributed to other articles in Indiana, and the United States. Recently, I have been working on RC patrol and helping to quell the tide of vandalism against Wikipedia. The main reason that I seek adminship is to assist with VfD nominations and helping to keep vandalism to a minimum so Wikipedia remains a good resource for the world. KC9CQJ 17:46, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept my self-nomination. KC9CQJ 17:49, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Support

1. Support -- GruntiIda 18:31, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose Just too few mainspace edits. --digital_me^(t/c) 18:17, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Neutral

Comments

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Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A: I anticipate mainly helping out with two major irritants that we have, one being vandalism and the other being speedy-deletion articles. I already do this to a certain degree by checking the RC list on a frequent basis, watching my own watchlist, and tagging articles for speedy deletion. I'm not opposed to watching pages for protection, blocking, and unblocking users as well. I mainly want to help out with the janitorial day-to-day upkeep of the project.

2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A: I am most pleased with my contributions to Firecrafter, which is the article that caused me to become involved with Wikipedia in the first place. I have been the main editor on the article and have had it fact-checked with many different individuals, both active and inactive on Wikipedia as editors. I also am pleased with the progress that the Order of the Arrow article has made over the last year or so. Most importantly, I feel as if every contribution I make here is beneficial and worthwhile, and has taught me about working with other people in a collaborative environment.

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

A: I remember in my third or fourth month I started to do some work with the Association of Members' Advocates and did some work on the Javier Solana article with SqueakBox and his battles with Cumbey. It really wasn't my fight in the first place, I had come across an RfC and was helping him work on it when Cumbey threatened legal action and was barred. It frightened me, but that didn't stop me from coming back. Hindsight as 20/20, I could have thought a little more about what I was saying at the article, but I feel as if things worked out in the end. I can think of another edit conflict I was involved in at Order of the Arrow where we were going back and forth about secrecy warnings and spoiler tags and I gradually gave up after Johntex and I had some words. I left Wikipedia for a while and came back, and I think the reason I came back is that I figured out that I was taking things too personally. I would say that these two edit conflicts/situations have taught me that reading the whole truth and seeking true is the best way to work here on Wikipedia. Since then, I have used Wikipedia policy for the basis of my edits and stuck to the facts rather than semantics when in an edit conflict.

Question from Yanksox (optional)

4. What is your knowledge of admin powers? What exactly could/would you do as an admin as opposed to being a normal user? Yanksox 18:24, 7 June 2006 (UTC)