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Fabrictramp

Voice your opinion (talk page) (1/0/0); Scheduled to end 23:56, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Fabrictramp (talk · contribs) - Fabrictramp (old username: KApplebaum) is one of Wikipedia's quiet contributors. He has made about 24,000 edits, including 19,000 edits to articles, at an astounding rate of more than 1,000 edits for each of the last 12 months. The edit count perhaps overstates Fabrictramp's investment of effort: these are mostly minor edits using tools such as Twinkle and AutoWikiBrowser. Fabrictramp has focused on two large projects: (1) Updating all-time rosters within Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball, including Chicago Cubs all-time roster and St. Louis Cardinals all-time roster; and (2) cleaning up the vast graveyard of Wikipedia:Dead-end pages.

Fabrictramp has more experience dealing with Dead-end pages (i.e., articles without links to other articles) than anyone else, and this experience has familiarized him with essentials of the deletion policy. Among his recent contribs and talk page comments you can find evidence that he has listed many pages for proposed deletion. Though he has limited familiarity with other administrative functions, such as vandal-fighting and dispute resolution, I am not worried about this, and I trust that he will learn whatever he needs to know to serve Wikipedia effectively as an administrator. I think Fabrictramp may be particularly willing to help clear administrative backlogs at CAT:PROD and CAT:CSD. Shalom Hello 20:16, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept the nomination.--Fabrictramp 23:57, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to address a few issues that seem to come up in every RfA. One is main space editing. The vast majority of my edits are main space, but many of them are small edits. (While I use AWB extensively, rarely are these edits automatic. Instead, I use AWB more as a list manager and a macro tool.) While major article contributions are the foundation of wikipedia, I'm not comfortable writing large blocks of encyclopedic prose and instead prefer to write stubs and to do minor rewrites on articles others have started. I have done some translations of articles, including work on Claude Nobs (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Claude_Nobs&diff=80519533&oldid=77759347). I feel that a large volume of small amounts of writing does give me a good grasp on what editors are up against in the quest to make a good encyclopedia.
Another issue is reporting vandals to AIV. I have made very few reports, but that is due to the nature of the articles I work on. Between DEP and new page patrolling, most of the warnings I issue to vandals are the first entry on their talk page, or the first entry in a long while, which does not qualify for an AIV report. When I have encountered a vandal who qualifies for an AIV report, I have not hesitated to do so.
(And for the record, I would like to state that I'm a female.)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
A: I have been actively involved in nominating articles for speedy deletion, prods, and AfD discussions, and as an admin I would like to help with the workload in those areas. There are also some page moves for name standardization in the baseball player pages that need an administrator. Because I am not heavily involved in vandal fighting, that is not an area I see myself doing much work in for the present. Because page deletions and editor blocks can have far-reaching consequences for Wikipedia, I will only be involved with work that is within my comfort level, or work where someone can coach me until I reach a comfort level.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: My two best contributions are the Dead End Pages project and my work on the baseball all-time rosters.
In the DEP, I do a mopping up around wikipedia. I find a lot of articles that need to be deleted, and a lot of articles that need some basic improvement. We see ourselves as doing basic triage, but I also try, where time and patience allow, to improve each article as much as I can, through wikifying, rewriting introductory paragraphs, and other cleanup. Although I use AWB for much of this work, it is certainly not automated. I handled the last regeneration of the DEP list, and am currently working on the next regeneration of the list.
I am particularly proud of my work on the all-time rosters. I have worked with WikiProject Baseball to develop consensus on what information should be included in these pages to strike a good balance between useful information, clear presentation, and not being a duplicate of existing categories. Once that standard was developed, I have worked to implement it. This means checking the information against other sources, formatting pages, checking every blue link to make sure it is going to the right page, checking the existing categories to see if there are incorrect entries there, and writing a number of baseball article stubs and disambiguation pages to clarify which players belong to which roster(s). For the most recent one I completed, check Detroit Tigers all-time roster. This revision shows what the page was like before I started working on the project.
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: Working extensively in the Dead End Pages project, I do get the occasional conflict with editors who are upset about maintenance tags or deletion recommendations. I have two methods for dealing with this. First, I try to diffuse any conflict from the start. I remind myself that it is a real, live human I'm dealing with, who has feelings as I do, and who can make mistakes as easily as I can. I assume good faith (until shown that I shouldn't), and part of assuming good faith is assuming that the other editor is trying to improve wikipedia just as much as I am. I find that pointing editors to links to relevant guidelines and asking for clarification if I'm not 110% sure what the issue is, will diffuse most tension before it can get started. And, if I feel anything escalating, I walk away from the computer until I've had a good night's sleep. There is no sense typing anything I might regret later, that would unjustly accuse someone of something, or that would hurt feelings that don't need to be hurt.
I have not had a conflict that escalated beyond this point so far, but if I did, I wouldn't hesitate to ask a neutral party to mediate.

General comments

Please keep criticism constructive and polite. Remain civil at all times. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Fabrictramp before commenting.

Discussion

Support

  1. Support. Indeed a quiet editor. I believe she will be constructive if sysopped. bibliomaniac15 15 years of trouble and general madness 00:15, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support. I don't see any problems. --Hirohisat Kiwi 00:37, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Yes, I was acually thinking about nominating him as well. Jaranda wat's sup Sports! 01:01, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Neutral

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