Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Midas02

Midas02

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Nomination

Midas02 (talk · contribs) – It's a good sign that someone is a candidate for adminship when they correctly bring needed admin actions to the attention of their neighborhood admin. When someone develops an eye for when the mop needs wielding, it makes sense to give them the mop. In this case, User:Midas02 has been editing here since 2010 (heavily over the past three years). I am confident that he will push the mop appropriately. bd2412 T 23:00, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Thanks, I'm happy to accept. --Midas02 (talk) 14:48, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: I'm currently mostly involved in the disambiguation project, so my editing issues are usually related to the problems you come across doing that kind of work. Reverting or executing page moves, doing some anti-vandalism work. Sometimes speedy deletions or cleaning up article histories, restoring & fixing cut-and-paste moves. Probably venturing into the closing of page move discussions as well. But it might change over time.

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

A: The answer is rather diverse. Probably rather unusual, but coming from a multilingual upbringing I spend a lot of time on interwiki work. I used to help WP.NL clean up the list of interwiki conflicts they had, then did the same on Wikidata, spent some time on WP.FR cleaning up disambiguation conflicts, and have been doing much of the same on WP.EN. This also means I edit a lot, or fix things, across Wikipedias. So when I find an issue on one, I tend to correct other WPs as well. It also helps to bundle knowledge. I was recently looking for a long-forgotten cycling track, started asking for it on WP.FR and ended up getting help on WP.DE. Similar for trying to find sources or new references.

The same goes for the tools I'm working with. I found DisamAssist so useful that I ended up porting it to four or five other WPs, where it caught on. Same for Zeusmode (don't try to understand it, I'm probably one of the only ones using it), which I ported to six or seven other WPs. I'm currently also in the process of trying to get WP.NL's disambiguation links-to-fix bot repaired. It's been broken for two years, and being tired of doing manual updates for them, I'm getting some expertise from this Wikipedia to help out.

A vast amount of my content work is in the Disambiguation project. There I tend to have a track record of leaving 'clean sheets' behind, also cleaning up a lot of idle red links in the process, going a long way to get links fixed. I am also quite vocal in terms of improving project guidelines and procedures.[1][2][3]

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: Not too many, and it's decreasing. I believe there's some advice out there that tells you to steer away from it, so that's what I tend to apply. I don't often challenge people on content, but more on the application of policies and guidelines. When I'm doing so, I'm usually quoting the guidelines which explains why I'm making that change. Or I go through the talk page when it's more complicated to explain. Most people take notice and leave it at that, or they thank me for the information. It's only once in a while you tend to come across people, usually junior editors, who feel they can still go ahead just 'because they can'. When I notice the issue isn't going to get resolved, I usually call other senior editors to weigh in as well. That tends to help people understand I am making a valid point.

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