Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Cyclonenim 2
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Voice your opinion (talk page) (1/0/0); Scheduled to end 14:55, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Cyclonenim (talk · contribs) - Hi there! As you've probably guessed, i'm Cyclonenim (or CycloneNimrod according to my signature) and i'm here for my second application to become an administrator here on the en wiki. I first applied for adminship on the 17th April 2008 where my application failed pretty much per WP:SNOW and WP:NOTNOW, I'd only been actively editing for a month or two. Since then, I'd like to think i've come a long way—in both my editing capabilities and within other areas. For example, i've now got better experience with WP:RfA, WP:CSD and WP:AIV. I've been actively combating vandalism using Huggle for the past few months, and i'll be honest i've made a few mistakes there and then but i've always tried to learn from them. Whilst I haven't actually nominated anything yet, i've got a pretty good understanding of how WP:RFPP works. Anyway, enough babbling on this introductory statement, really! I look forward to answering your questions and I really hope you find that i've improved enough since my last self-nom. Many thanks!
— CycloneNimrod Talk? 15:14, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
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'd love to help out at both WP:AIV and WP:CSD. The constantly have backlogs, particularly the latter, and it seems as thought they could always use a helping hand over there. After I finally get some experience of WP:RFPP, i'd like to help there too. I do not intend to compromise my article editing with my adminship, however. That is still my priority :)
- 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
- A: Any constructive contribution is a good contribution but recently, in collaboration with JFW and Delldot and several others who are part of WikiProject Medicine, i've been helping to edit subarachnoid hemorrhage. Whilst working with these editors, we brought up the article up to featured article status. I've also worked on several good articles including cerebral venous sinus thrombosis and subcutaneous emphysema. In addition to article editing, I also formed WikiProject Neurology which aims to take the disease article workload off WikiProject Neuroscience—that said, it's not entirely active at the moment... must get round to that!
- 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 like to think I deal with conflicts in a calm and coordinated manner—never taking rash decisions or retalliations. I had one conflict with DoctorDW about the naming of the article physiotherapy. We basically talked about it in a calm manner and I recommended that he post a topic on the talk page of the article itself. The result was a move back to physical therapy, which has now been removed back to physiotherapy per agreement with JFW, Davidruben, myself and most likely other medical editors. I also had a dispute with StuRat about the removing of medical questions from the Science Reference Desk. He accused me of being overzealous but we managed to come to agreements on the talk page of the reference desk itself. It became clear it was a simple misunderstanding on both parts, really!
Optional question from xenocidic
- 4. As an administrator, you will most likely have to deal with some fairly troublesome users. You'll come across some extremely vulgar language and often come under attack for your actions. And you will sometimes be tasked with considering unblock requests from the users you block. Please review the very NSFW scenario outlined at User:Xenocidic/RFAQ and describe how you would respond.
- A: I'm a firm-believer in second and perhaps third chances for users who have vandalised. I once vandalised Wikipedia under the account CycloneNimrod (perhaps the only contribution, I can't remember) and I have since turned out to be a sincere, helpful wikipedian. In this situation, it is clear that the edits they made were not good faith edits but seeing as they have apologised in a sincere manner, I would most likely give them another chance. I would consult with the administrator who blocked the user and protected the page and assuming they are happy with my decision, I would unblock the user. Should further vandalism occur from the same user, it's highly unlikely I'd be quite as forgiving.
General comments
- See Cyclonenim's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.
- Links for Cyclonenim: Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Cyclonenim before commenting.
Discussion
Support
- Support. He wants to work with AIV and CSD, so taking a look at his work there, I found quite a few reports to AIV and going through his deleted contribs, what I found there seemed to indicate a good understanding of what should be speedied; he meets my criteria. Useight (talk) 15:44, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
- As a side note, though, your use of "i" instead of "I" is pretty annoying to a WikiGnome like myself and it looks really unprofessional. Could you try to avoid doing that? Useight (talk) 15:47, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
- My apologies, I usually try to uphold grammar and spelling to a high standard. When it's not, it's a genuine mistake! — CycloneNimrod Talk? 15:53, 13 July 2008 (UTC)