Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Bennyboyz30002

Bennyboyz3000

Voice your opinion (talk page) (0/0/0); Scheduled to end 12:12, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Bennyboyz3000 (talk · contribs) - Hello to everyone! My name is Ben, and I'm here to request the no-big-deal, over-rated, not-a-badge mop. I've been here since November 2006 (but had been editing as an anonymous editor for about 3 weeks beforehand). Over the time I've managed to make a hobby out of it, learned an endless torrent of new facts, made new friends and acquaintances and then again had my bad days, which I frankly admit to as appalling. I regularly participate regularly in vandal cleanup. Basically I'm here to request the buttons in a positive light, which I would like to keep this RfA in regardless of the outcome. I come here only with the best of intentions for the project, please don't judge me on first glance. I thank in advance all those contributors who offer constructive or supportive comments :) --Ben^chat 12:12, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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: Handling requests at WP:AIV (aside faster blocking of obvious, persistent and appropriately warned vandals whilst reviewing recent changes) and gradually expanding to CSDs (only the obviously inappropriate ones), clearing such backlogs and participating in whatever calls me or presents itself needing a sysop's attention.

2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?

A: I did a lot of backlog clearing during the AfC drive, and I was proud of that. My work in patrolling recent changes/vandal reverting (albeit under threat of being replaced by bots in the not too distant future), I believe, is an ongoing help to the community here. I've learned to appreciate the humor of editors that present nonconstructive edits.

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 have only really had one "conflict" as such - regarding my block log entry. This was done after a series of errors on my part (and some unfortunate circumstances)- I will try to explain the series of events:

I created the All-nighter article, and it grew substantially over a month or two.
It was put up for AfD, and as I was confused over talk page discussion, and removed the notice (stupidly) believing the nom to be false.
It got deleted against consensus as the notice was not present so editors were unaware of the debate
I was unaware of the deletion debate myself, and warned Sandstein thinking it was a random (new) editor deleting content, and warned him using TW appropriately.
He then warned me, and I warned him, and a somewhat frivolous and playful saga of warnings ensued.
Whammo, he blocked me. I kicked up a fuss and was back online soon.
I raised the issue at Wikipedia:Deletion review, and made a perhaps over-emphasized claim about him lying (which I still stand by). Red the log if you want.
I made some curt but polite closing comments (Notably the AA Award).

In future, I will just walk away from such debates, and try to be less desperado.

I'll make it easy for my opposers now - here is nasty thing you'll burn me alive for: [1]. I'll explain myself - A very close relative died of a heart attack about 2 weeks earlier, and I vented some of my anger here. Obviously normally I would have no problem with such issues at any other time, and I'm over the incident (whilst having all regret for what I did). Without trying to detract from the blame, I didn't post my angry thoughts on other's pages.

I would like to point out that these incidents were in the past and although my handling of them could have been better, I am well prepared to use the sysop tools appropriately, and will not use them if under considerable stress. Take note I have made no attempt to hide these incidents, have tried to make amends and learn from my mistakes.

General comments

Links for Bennyboyz3000: Bennyboyz3000 (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
Just explianing my first RfA, I made that request when my account was about 20 days new, and I had no idea whatsoever about the appropriate policies, formalities and requirements. --Ben^chat 12:16, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Bennyboyz3000 before commenting.

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