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GIen

Voice your opinion! (16/0/0) Ending 22:10, 2006-08-22 (UTC)

GIen (talk · contribs) – An exemplary user and a vandalproof moderator with around 7000 edits. Certainly meets my criteria, and to be honest I'm surprised he wasn't already an admin! All of my experiences with this user have been good - I have found him to be helpful and responsive at all times, and would certainly, judging by his vandal-fighting disposition, make good use of the tools. Martinp23 22:10, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh no! I've been meaning to nominate GIen, formerly known as User:Stollery, for months now, and it appears Martinp23 has beaten me to it! Nonetheless, GIen has allowed me the honor of co-nominating him, for which I'm most greatful. I first came across GIen several months ago, I belive it was in April, when he approached me about wanting to help out in any way he could with the VandalProof project. Now this was back when I was first getting my feet wet with Wikipedia, and I was naively confident that I could completely handle all of the stress, conflicts, and work that comes along with releasing such an application all by myself. GIen, on the other hand, had already learned the ropes, and though I at first believed that his help would not be all that needed, it soon became quite painfully clear how essential he was both to the VandalProof project and to my work as an editor and administrator.

I've always been quite impressed by GIen's handling of every situation. He consistently acts with remarkable professionality, never allowing any personal problems or quarrels with other editors to get the best of him, and he continually possesses and demonstrates what I view to be the most important quality in an administrator--civility. Furthermore, he has an inconceivable amount of patience, patience I wish I had, and he is also one of the more mature and sensical individuals I've encountered on Wikipedia. When you take his professionality, civility, patience, maturity, and sense and add to it the diligence in all of the work he does, it seems obvious that Wikipedia stands to reep great benefit from handing him the (I apologize in advance for the cliché) mop and bucket. AmiDaniel (talk) 04:07, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Wow, thank you so much. With enormous thanks I accept - Glen 05:45, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
A: Well first off the bat I think the most important task I could undertake would be the task of taking time to learn to utilize the tools so that they were applied correctly and according to applicable policy. I'm a quick learner, but there's no replacement for experience, good things take time after all! That being said, I feel I am a pretty well rounded Wikipedian and envisage I would happily contribute in any area requiring my services, however I do feel at this stage I would be most prolific in the following areas:
  • WP:AIV I spend a lot of my time on Wikipedia dealing with vandalism (I was one of the first ever VandalProof users and am also a VP moderator), and given that I live in New Zealand I am online during Wikipedia's periods of least activity (the period when most of the continental US is asleep; UTC 7:00 - 13:00, is early evening here for example). The unfortunate thing is during this period the number of vandals vs. number of wiki users on vandalism patrol is at its highest, and as such individual occurrences of vandalism seem much more frequent. The major problem during this time however, is that proportionally the number of administrators on hand to assist via the blocking of troublesome users is also much lower. I've made well over 100 posts to the Administrator intervention against vandalism noticeboard[1] and at that time of night it can take an hour or more for a report to be cleared. An unbelievable about of damage can be done by a persistent vandal in an hour when given free reign, trust me! Obviously the ability to deal with these vandals, and stay on top of AIV would be of enormous benefit both for myself and no doubt for other nocturnal Wikipedians :)
  • C:CSD When I first started tagging speedys I recall feeling somewhat surprised when my {{db|advertisement}} tag was (rightly) removed by an admin - after all advertisement is not speedy deletion criteria! Since then I have learnt the criteria and and as such would envisage assisting in ensuring this category is well serviced. I also believe its very important that those authors of said articles are not only notified but taught why this occurred, as I can imagine having your work almost immediately deleted could be very discouraging, and may even turn off otherwise valuable potential contributors
  • WP:AfD Deletion again is something I will ease into as it is imperative that correct procedure and policy are followed, however I regularly contribute to AfD discussions and see many daily that obviously have clear consensus and could be closed. Again, as per above I believe the author(s) should be notified and shown why this occurred so they are not discouraged.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A: My user page has a (very out of date) list of subjects I either wrote exclusively or have put a lot of effort into so without copying like 20 article names here that may be a good place to start. However, answering the question regarding an actual specific article alone is somewhat harder. Recently I began WikiProject Bodybuilding which already a dozen or so users have signed up for, and one of my reasons for doing so was the massive amount articles missing when it came to notable bodybuilding subjects, specifically bodybuilders. Although no longer one myself I've been in the industry one way or another for the last decade so I am very familiar with the subject matter. Consequently I have either started or been the most significant contributor to a whole heap of related articles, from memory; Dan Duchaine, A. Scott Connelly, Bill Phillips (author), Mike Mentzer, Mike Katz, Experimental and Applied Sciences, Met-Rx and Craig Titus come to me off the top of my head, but there are dozens more. Of all the above I guess I am most proud of Dan Duchaine as I wrote the entire article myself, and as he died several years ago reseach on the net was slim (so a lot of paper references were used). Personally, I think at this stage its more important for a potential user to find something on a specific subject, than nothing, and as a result probably spend my time when writing articles working on creating reasonable pages that were otherwise completely missing from the encyclopedia.
3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
A: In Real Life I'm 31 and head up two companies with in the realm of 15-20 staff employed for me, and have done so for the last ten years without a single staff member resigning or being fired under bad terms. As such I'm fairly qualified in dealing with people, especially in a position of responsibility and in matters of a serious or sensitive nature. As an employer you also learn civility, as you cannot just blow your top when things aren't going your way (well you could, but you'd have no staff!) I guess this RL experience has served me well when in Wikiworld, as I can honestly say that in 8 or 9 months I've not had a situation cause me any undue stress. I did have an "interesting" experience back in April which was probably the closest I've come to wikistress, with User:Nikitchenko, one of the many sock puppets of indefinitely banned user User:AI. He caused a lot of disruption because myself and other users would not let him insert blatant POV, nor remove anything he perceived as negative in any of the Scientology related articles. When I filed a report to WP:AN/3RR regarding a 3RR violation and he was subsequently blocked he took offence and began (for want of a better word) wikistalking me; filing complaints to Esperanza, the Concordia noticeboard (when it was in operation) and a Mediation Cabal case against myself and a few other editors (which was subsequently tossed out). He was finally blocked when his sockpuppetry was discovered. Probably worth noting is that I do steer away from Scientology related articles now as a result, (in fact the only exception is the boatload of vandalism I have reverted from them) as contributors feel very deeply about the subject, and I do not want to be consider biased. As such in recent months everything has been plain sailing!
4. How would you deal with an editor in good standing editing articles in which you have a vested interest, such as Experimental and Applied Sciences or ScienTOMogy, contrary to your own point of view? —Quarl (talk) 2006-08-16 07:11Z
Comments
Support
  1. Proud to be the first to add my support vote.-gadfium 05:48, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Strong Support. Excellent VandalProof moderator, excellent user, all-around excellence. Vandals beware, you're in for a scare. Will make an (excellent) admin. alphaChimp laudare 05:56, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support - seems to be a good guy abakharev 06:06, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support - Very good VandalProof Moderator, also has been more then willing in helping me to develop some of my tools. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 06:19, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Strong support. Efficient, polite, friendly, helpful, experienced user that I for a long time thought was already an admin. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 06:22, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  6. ... these type of happy, supportive and useful people are what wikipedia needs more of. Crazynas t 06:40, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support I've seen nothing but good contributions from this user. Kimchi.sg 06:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support - ditto Kimchi.sg. Daniel.Bryant 06:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support - Glen has come along very nicely as an editor. He is knowledgeable about the policies and guidelines. He is cogent and I think he'd be a wonderful addition to the list of admins. Vivaldi (talk) 06:59, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support. DarthVader 07:04, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Merovingian - Talk 07:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Hrm, thought he was already an admin Support Seriously, he would do very well to have access to the extra buttons, as would Wikipedia. I've been wanting to see some more Pacific candidates and the fact that Gien is a Kiwi is great, as he'll be active when much of Ireland, the UK, and the Americas are not. hoopydinkConas tá tú? 07:32, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Moriori 07:39, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  14. STRONG OPPOSE ... err ... I mean support as co-nom. AmiDaniel (talk) 07:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Support Terrific candidate. Based on his userpage there's something specific that I'd like him to look into, but I'll wait til the RFA closes before asking ;-). Phr (talk) 07:56, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Support - I've never come across him before, but seems like an excellent and sensible user. It is always reassuring to find such people. Keep up the great work! JesseW, the juggling janitor 07:56, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Oppose
Neutral
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