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Congratulations

Hey - I don't really consider this to be jumping the gun, given where the numbers are right now. The numbers don't lie: 200+ supports and no opposes, that is a monumental sign of how much faith the community has in you. The fact that you had the chutzpah to do a self-nom on 1 April, and come out smelling of summer roses - well played sir. Now, go block your own socks at SPI ;) Girth Summit _(blether) 21:32, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats from me too. I have closed your RFA as successful, one of the most successful of all time. Someone will doubtless bring the Tshirt at any moment, wear it with pride, you've earned it. If you ever get bored scrabbling down the back of the sofa for the right block message, some kind person put the code for a really nifty dropdown menu into my monobook. Ϣere SpielChequers 10:38, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Enjoy the extra buttons Cabayi (talk) 10:46, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks everyone. Well, it didn't actually end up being unopposed, but nothing can be perfect. There are so many new buttons... I've been pressing some of them. The admin version of SPIhelper is a little intimidating. Grateful to everyone for their support. Spicy (talk) 11:06, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 12:30, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! :) And I second what GS said! firefly ( t · c ) 12:40, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations @Spicy! Wear it proud.

- 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 13:11, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on the adminship! 192.76.8.84 (talk) 13:49, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Oxford. If I remember correctly, you once said that the only reason you'd consider creating an account is so that you could RfA. I'm just saying... I would support. Spicy (talk)

Definitely not the only reason! Tamzin suggested I should create an account a while back in a conversation, I said I'd consider it but I didn't end up making one at the time. I nearly made an account a few months ago just to turn off this godawful redesign - I find this new skin a pain to use for anything more complex than reading. To be honest I'm not sure if I'd ever run for adminship, I don't think I'd have any chance of passing. 192.76.8.84 (talk) 14:19, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't think I'd pass either, but I was wrong. Maybe you should wait a while after you create your account to RfA, though. ;) I switched back to the old skin immediately - I still find it jarring whenever I go to another project and see New Vector. I liked that Wikipedia looked like it was still stuck in 2006. It added character. Spicy (talk) 18:33, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can use Special:GlobalPreferences to change your default skin across all Wikimedia projects.

I don't actually mind the idea of making the site look more modern, my main complaint about the new skin is that they've sacrificed usability to make it look "minimalist" and "clean" and more like a mobile site. Everything more complex than searching and scrolling through an article is hidden behind poorly labelled, poorly sorted buttons and dropdowns. I can't see why everything needs to be hidden behind extra clicks or what organisation scheme they were going for (e.g. why are the links to other projects in the "tools" menu, but the notice about links to different languages in the hamburger menu? What is the point of putting the logged out "contributions" and "talk" links behind an ... dropdown, it was two small links and there's a ton of whitespace to the side of the search box!).

Anyway, I'm going to stop complaining about vector 2022 now, enjoy the new tools, try not to break anything! 192.76.8.84 (talk) 17:14, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A (rather underinclusive) list of specialized extensions for using other skins is available at Wikipedia:Vector 2022#Without an account, and more general extensions like stylus and fastforward or of course tampermonkey and greasemonkey can accomplish the same thing. You could also write up your own applet without too much difficulty since appending useskin=Foo is all that's really needed example.

Arguably this is counter to the purpose of experiencing Wikipedia the same way most people do, but my preference for monobook is just too strong. If I recall right they're demoing some tools over the beta cluster to allow people to set preferences without accounts, but it'll probably be years before that sees the light of day, if ever. 74.73.224.126 (talk) 19:12, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I might give one of those options a try. 192.76.8.84 (talk) 17:15, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm so glad the begging worked! I would tell you to get to work... but looking at WP:SPI, it looks like I don't need to! Please don't hesitate to reach out to me if you ever have questions or need a second opinion on anything. Mz7 (talk) 22:11, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Congratulations and best wishes. Donner60 (talk) 00:55, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  Congratulations, Spicy! Hehe, your nomination on April Fool's... Tails Wx 12:22, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations

It’s official I hear, time to update your edit notice. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 10:30, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done :) Spicy (talk) 11:06, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulation ❤

Proud moment for us. @Spicy Many many congratulation for achieving what you deserve. NP83 (talk) 11:43, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Passing the baton

A baton for you!

As per tradition (since Tamzin began it for DanCherek's RfA), I am happy to pass this admin baton to you, as it was passed to me by ComplexRational in March. Congratulations becoming the English Wikipedia's newest administrator! There's going to be a lot of new buttons and options and things to read and to test out and many offers of congratulations and it's a lot to take in, but I and others are always more than happy to help both on-wiki and on Discord, so please reach out as often as you'd like. Remember when mopping that it's best to use overlapping figure eights. :) Aoidh (talk) 14:12, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That's lovely. Hopefully I'll remember to carry on the tradition. Spicy (talk) 18:33, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Uncongratulations

It's traditional to be all happy for newly minted admins, but I'm going to say instead should have happened 3 years ago. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 15:52, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I just did it to stop all the nagging. But now people are nagging me about CUOS ): Spicy (talk) 16:42, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]