Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/CheNuevara

CheNuevara

Discuss here (2/0/0) Ending 9:10, 2006-07-27 (UTC)

CheNuevara (talk · contribs) – CheNuevara has thoroughly impressed me with his strict fairness and impartiality and his ability to bring warring sides together to achieve consensus. This was amply demonstrated during the recent fracas on Democratic Underground. Needless to say, an article on such a controversial political topic brings out heated passions on both sides, and a full-fledged edit war was developing or underway, when Che stepped in, calmed both sides down, and initiated a process which achieved amicable consensus over the controversial issues. I suspect that his politics differ from mine, but he's demonstrated that he can go beyond politics to enforce WP:NPOV, WP:EL, and other Wikipedia policies intended to keep bias out. He'd be a welcome addition to the Wikipedia administrator team. VoiceOfReason 16:36, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept this nomination :) - CheNuevara 09:10, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Support

1. Support, despite the low edit comments I can see you have 'changed your ways', I was a little unsure about the low article edit counts but you are a good active participant in AFD which wins some points with me. I think you would make a good admin -- Errant  ^talk(formerly tmorton166) 09:27, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
2. Support per nom. Reggae Sanderz 09:39, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Comments

• See CheNuevara's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool.
• I would like to raise an issue myself which I foresee coming up in this discussion: namely, my low percentage of edit summaries. I admit to a less-than-desirable percentage of edit summary use in my first year of Wikilife (since last April). I recently, however, submitted a request for editor review, upon which it was pointed out to me that I need to use them more often. Since then, I have (I'm pretty sure) used 100% edit summaries, not just in the article space but in all namespaces. The fact remains that in that time I have not accrued enough major edits in the article namespace to heavily influence this statistic. I believe, however, that a look at my contributions for the last few weeks will demonstrate the fact that I took this criticism to heart and intend to, from now on, absolutely use edit summaries in all my work. - CheNuevara 09:10, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

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 make it a point to participate in AfD regularly, every day when possible, including to look for instances of copyvio that are missed. I watch recent changes for vandalism, and I recently acquired the VandalProof tool to aid me in that. I also regularly check up on the Wikipedia backlogs, particularly the NPOV disputes (many of which, as I've noticed, turn out to be copyvio issues). As an admin, I would like to take part in the closing of AfD discussions and the execution of speedy deletes. Rollback would be helpful in my recent changes patroling. I would use the protection/blocking privileges sparingly and reluctantly -- I would always rather see an issue worked out than enforced -- but they could possibly be appropriate and useful in attempts to mediate disputes.

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

A: I've translated two full-length articles from the German Wikipedia, Katholikentag and Mainz Cathedral. I've been working on Walk to Canossa, a significant historical even which was a stub when I first found it. Also, I opened and had a guiding hand in Wikipedia:WikiProject Buffyverse, which has flourished into a vast project which has touched many articles. As part of that project I've pioneered efforts to merge minor characters, saving time and space for both readers and editors, such as Sunnydale High School students and Initiative members. I'm also developing a navigation tool for easy Wikipedia surfing, found here.

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 doubt that there is a single Wikipedian who has contributed significantly over a lengthy period of time who has not rubbed elbows with any other user. The important thing in my mind is how one responds to these incidents. I always try to be fair and level-headed in my dealings with Wikipedians, preferring to work out and understand the other editor's point of view. The most significant incident that comes to mind was a disagreement with User:Paxomen over an ambiguity in some of my text at WP:Buffy. After discussing the matter at some length, we realized we really didn't disagree, we just said it differently, and both went on our happy way editing our separate articles.