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Melsaran

Voice your opinion (talk page) (5/0/0); Scheduled to end 10:10, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Melsaran (talk · contribs) - Fellow Wikipedians, I present to you Melsaran. While Melsaran has only been here editing this marvelous project for approximately 7 months, he is also active at the Dutch Wikipedia, and he has become a diligent and prolific editor, with almost 2,800 edits already this month. With over 3,500 mainspace contributions, Melsaran also has tens of reports to WP:AIV and WP:UAA, showing good understanding of policy, which is essential in an administrator. He also participates regularly at forums such as WP:RFC/N, and partakes in a range of XFDs. For all of these merits and more, I hope that you will all consider Melsaran's great potential as a Wikipedia administrator. -- Anonymous DissidentTalk 23:06, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I accept. Melsaran 10:10, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. You may wish to answer the following optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
A: I intend to help with cleaning up the various backlogs, including CAT:PER, WP:RFPP, CAT:PROD, WP:UAA and WP:AIV. I have done quite a lot of vandal fighting, and I believe it would aid me if I could block them briefly after sufficient warnings have been given (paying attention to WP:BITE). I am also a frequent new page patroller, and am familiar with the speedy deletion criteria and its workings. I have made a number of page protection requests, and I think that I could help out there. Of course, page protection is anti-wiki, so we should only protect pages with great caution and for a limited duration, but it can be a great tool at times to force productive discussion instead of revert warring.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: Unfortunately, I am not a very good article writer, but I am pleased with my contributions in debates about various policies, including WT:CSD and WT:FLR, my help to new users at the help desk, and my assistance in cleaning up citations in articles (which are often bugged). I also do my best to clean up articles I see, by copy-editing, adding hatnotes, moving pages to fulfil the naming conventions, and removing uncited rumours.
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 haven't been involved in a major conflict, but I certainly had some minor frictions with other users, most recently this RfC. I believe I generally handled them reasonably well, although I could do with improvement. I do always try to assume good faith and remain civil even when "the editing gets hot", to ensure a pretty environment for all. While I may have made some mistakes in the past, I do my best to avoid edit wars and discuss on the talk page or leave it alone, because nobody will win a thing by edit warring, and it goes against the principles of Wikipedia.

Optional Question from User:KamrynMatika2

4. What article have you improved most?Kamryn · Talk 11:52, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

General comments

Please keep criticism constructive and polite. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Melsaran before commenting.

Discussion

Support

  1. Support Yup. T Rex | talk 10:19, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support - despite saying he's 'not a great article writer', there are plenty of mainspace edits which will be useful to new users looking for help. Plenty of experience in Wikipedia space (1,000+ edits) which is of even more value. Gained enough experience now, and seems to know what he's talking about. Lradrama 10:30, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Beat the nom... Well actually, eat the nom... --DarkFalls talk 10:31, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Don't eat the nom until he has supported -- Anonymous DissidentTalk 10:38, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support But I have to ask, why the hell do you have so many edits? I'm on Wiki 4-6+ hours a day, and I hover around 800-1400 a month --Lucid 11:08, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    *GASP* He's a bot! --DarkFalls talk 11:12, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Neutral

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