User talk:Daveydweeb/Admin coaching

This shall be the place where my ninjaadmin skills are honed to... uh, awesome. --Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 00:37, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Hehehehe, I wasn't aware that making seperate user talk pages appeared orange, that's nifty. Anyways, I figure we know each other pretty well =D, so is there anything you want to ask about Wikipedia/adminship/life before we start? Yanksox 00:45, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... I won't really be able to start in earnest until after November 8 (my final exam, History Extension), but I'll go on some newpage patrol after lunch and see what I come up with. I'm sure there'll be some pages there that I'm uncertain about. :) Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 00:49, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Heh, it's all cool. You've been around the project, so you're starting with alot going in your favor. So, I'll start you off with a few questions:

1. Why do you want to be an admin?
2. Do you find anything about adminship confusing or weird?

Crappy questions I know, but some sort of a starter. Yanksox 00:53, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Ooh, questions. Right, let's get started...

1. I'd like to be an admin because -- as noted in that RfA, ages ago -- I often find myself spending time expanding existing backlogs at WP:AFD and C:CSD (the latter of which, right now, is at 98 pages). I'd like to help clearing out that backlog, and since my RfA failed on the grounds that I wasn't yet experienced enough to do so I thought admin coaching would help to develop some more experience so that I could actually help over there.
2. Nothing about adminship itself is particularly confusing to me, although other things outside the scope of coaching -- like peoples' admin standards (ie, regarding edits to the article space, and so on) -- can be a little surreal at times.

Hope that helps. :) Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 01:02, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Good answers. Considering you stated you have an exam to study for, I'll let you come with anything you want to talk about. Meanwhile, I'll draft some questions and start my thesis statement on Spinoza (ugh). Yanksox 01:16, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. I'll get back to you once I've done some more newpage patrol. :) Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 01:30, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletions

I thought it might be worth recording the various articles I nominate for speedy deletion, to make sure there were no major problems in doing so. They are, from this afternoon (in between editing the Wikipedia Weekly podcast):

1. Blush Restaurant and Bar under {{db-spam}}, warning the user here. There doesn't appear to be a generic speedy warning tag, so I wrote that warning on their talk page manually -- did I perhaps miss something at Template messages/User talk namespace?
2. Above you under {{db-nonsense}} (originally I marked it as userfy, by mistake). From my above deletion, I realised that I could use {{Firstarticle}}, done here.
3. Brian D'Souza as a {{copyvio}}. Warned user here.

I'll update this as I go. --Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 04:45, 5 November 2006 (UTC)