Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Cyberpower678

Cyberpower678

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (9/0/2); Scheduled to end 00:53, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Nomination

Cyberpower678 (talk · contribs) – If you asked me if I'd be nominating Cyberpower678 for adminship when I was first introduced to him - I'm have given a cautious 'no'. There are a lot of great attributes to say for the guy - but I was concerned a great deal about his...enthusiasm. I was concerned that he would get involved in technical matters that were above his talent, or processes that he hadn't fully understood, or in disputes that would cause him to shut down. I am so ashamed that I hadn't had more confidence in Cyberpower678 from the start. He deserved better than my ill-conceived judgements. He's made a fool out of me - proven me very wrong.

Cyberpower and I met shortly after User:X!'s retirement. X!'s toolserver account expired and I just happened to be on IRC with a toolserver account at the time it happened. I took over the tools out of necessity at the time and I had no intention of them becoming "TParis'" tools. I took great effort to remind everyone that they were X!'s and I merely hosted them. I performed very little maintence other than to keep them online. Along came skipperdy-do-da with lots of ideas and asking for my support to let him write for the tools. I was reluctant at first but he kept bugging me - over and over and over again. Finally, with WMFLabs coming along, we agreed to transfer the tools into a project that we both could manage. I should have handed over the project sooner - Cyber took those tools and ran and what he transformed them into is astounding.

I'm sorry, this is going to rattle on a bit.

Cyberpower678 is not a great "content creator" - I'll admit. But, he's also not your generic vandalism patroller either just looking for access to that block button. He's a technically competent and process-savvy asset to the project. He has undertaken Worm's adoption in 2012, he has helped moderate contentious discussions, he's been very active at the technical village pump, rewrote tools and operates User:Cyberbot_I and User:Cyberbot_II. His technical expertise with the MediaWiki database and API make him a superb candidate for writing admin bots, working with templates which require the admin bit, and within in contentious areas to help solve disputes where we'd normally require admins. I think Cyberpower has the calm demeanor, knowledge level, and persistence to handle admin functions. On top of that, he shows introspective capabilities to recognize when it's appropriate to back out of a situation that is overwhelming - a skill many admins (including myself when I had the bit) lack. Further, I hope this is a step for Cyberpower678 toward B'Cratship where he'd be a tremendous (read TREMENDOUS) asset at WP:BRFA. v/r - TP 20:34, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Co-nomination

I've been waiting for this day for a while. When I first met Cyberpower678 four years ago I knew he would make a fantastic admin one day. I believe that day has come.

Back in 2011 he was an enthusiastic young editor who was eager to use his skills to improve the project to the best of his abilities. The only problem was that he had trouble reigning in that enthusiasm and it got him in trouble a few times. He even managed to get indefinitely blocked back in November 2011. But that's a long time ago and the editor we are asking you to consider for adminship has grown both in maturity and "cluefullness" to the extent that he is hardly recognisable as the same editor. Indeed, he has developed into one of the most helpful Wikipedia contributors that the project has. The only thing that has not changed is his enthusiasm. If only there were more like him.

It is my considered opinion that giving Cyberpower678 the mop and associated admin responsibilities is a no-brainer. Just do it! Catfish Jim and the soapdish 12:17, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Co-nomination

As a member of the xTools team, I have worked closely with Cyberpower678 for some time now. Myself an administrator, I can attest to how his work has had a direct and profound effect on the admin community. Maintenance and development of the WP:RFPP bot, for instance, or RFU report and {{adminstats}}, are wondrous clerking features us admins take for granted everyday. Any issues with his bots are promptly addressed, exemplifying his dedication toward the project and diligence to keep things running smoothly. I can only imagine how adminship would not only assist Cyberpower678 further with these efforts, but also open the door to put his technical talents to play with admin bots, or work within the MediaWiki namespace. From within the xTools team, Cyberpower678 has shown excellent leadership skills, with a strong commitment to consensus-driven administration and onboarding of new maintainers. He is also admirably humble about other projects, such as the popular supercount user analysis tool, where he took extra caution to get backing from the community before making some statistics publicly available. This for me contradicts any doubt he can handle the role of adminship responsibly, and won't impulsively mash buttons. The mainspace is surely not where he will shine, but I believe his specialized proclivity and initiative will excel in other areas where bearing a mop would benefit the entire project. — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:17, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I'd like to thank TParis for his kind nomination and coming back to Wikipedia to nominate me. He's been offering for quite some time now, but I never felt ready to run for RfA, until now. Also a thank you to Catfish Jim and MusikAnimal for volunteering when the presence of this page became known and a thank you to kind words. So I graciously accept the nominations. —^cyberpower_Chat:Online 00:53, 3 July 2015 (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 would probably immediately start working in username areas such as WP:UAA. Even though I don't have any contribs there, my experience with ACC makes me more than familiar with username policy. Also having the admin bit will be useful if ACC has a mistaken account creation. It's rare, but known to happen. I do have a few ideas for potential admin bots. Operating an adminbot requires the op to have the sysop bit as well. I frequently lurk around WP:RFPP, so I would start taking up page protections as well. Having template editor rights, I tend to go around addressing template protected edit requests. Having the bit would allow me to expand to fully protected edit requests for pages, templates, and interface pages.

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

A: I would like my contribution to speak for themselves. I'll admit, my content work isn't going to impress any FAC reviewer. I've been primarily involved with ACC, bot work, and maintaining tools such as xTools and Quentinv57's tools. I'm currently working on getting xTools completely rewritten in coordination with the xTools team. I feel my greatest contribution would be introducing a fully stable set of tools that is so popular among the community.

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: My biggest conflict got me indefinitly blocked for oversight issues, when I seriously lacked clue. I tried to be a moderator of a dispute, and ended up screwing up big time. ArbCom was generous enough to unblock me days later. Needless to say I learnt my lesson and avoided a repeat. In another conflict, I was edit warring, where I caught myself having crossed the 3RR limit. I immediately acknowledged that I violated policy and was admonished instead of blocked. Back in my earlier Wikipedia volunteer career, I see myself as having been pretty stubborn, and thick headed, I took offense easily when I didn't agree with something, and caused quite some drama sometimes. I was practically bordering WP:NOTHERE in my opinion. Reflecting on my past, I realized I needed to change. I'd like to think that I have mellowed, become more mature, responsible, and most importantly level-headed and reasonable. I'm bound to make mistakes, but I'd like to think that my editing history shows that I am capable of learning from my mistakes and improving.

Question from Biblioworm

4. If I'm not mistaken, you were "Retired" as recently as a few months ago. Why are you seeking adminship so soon after you became active again?

A: I'm honestly not sure what you are talking about. I don't recall retiring myself at all. If you could possibly elaborate, that would be very helpful. I might be missing something here.

General comments

RfAs for this user:

• Requests for adminship/Cyberpower678
• Requests for adminship/Cyberpower678/Bureaucrat discussion
• Requests for adminship/Cyberpower678 2

• Links for Cyberpower678: Cyberpower678 (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for Cyberpower678 can be found here.

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Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review his contributions before commenting.

Discussion

Support

1. Absolutely. — foxj 01:03, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
2. Nom.--v/r - TP 01:05, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
3. As co-nom — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:06, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
4. Happy to support your request for the admin toolset. Thanks for all your work. - NQ (talk) 01:07, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
5. Support - I completely agree with the nom. A couple years ago, I would have said he was too enthusiastic, but he has mellowed and proven he is an asset to the project, time after time. Most of the time, we want more content in a candidate's background, but he more than makes up for it with his technical experience, and frankly, we also need tech admin. Each of us admin can't be all things, and you can't fake tech. I'm comfortable giving him all the buttons, knowing he might only use some of them. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 01:12, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
6. Support Thought he was an admin already, and no problems to make me oppose. KonveyorBelt 01:15, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
7. Support - He's a valuable asset to the project and good guy! I trust the candidate and I trust the nominators. Swarm ^{we ♥ our hive} 01:17, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
8. Support - Yep. he is an excellent editor. I trust the candidate fully and he will make a wonderful sysop. --EurovisionNim (talk to me)(see my edits) 01:40, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
9. Support per what is probably the best nom statement I have seen. I appreciate Kudpung's caution, but I have a feeling you need the tools to further your tech work. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 01:49, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Neutral, for now, until I can review Cyberpower's history. I'm somewhat unimpressed by his mainspace work (most of which seems to be on Pokemon articles). I would generally like to see at least 25% mainspace contributions, but I might be willing to make an exception for such a specialized editor upon whose bots we rely upon. --Biblioworm 01:18, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

   Re Q4 above, the closest I can find to what you describe is this removal of a wiki-break message from January.--v/r - TP 01:49, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

2. (edit conflict) Neutral. If you were anyone else, this would probably be a clear 'Support'. I hate to do this Cyberpower, but you are so snarled up with the work you have undertaken for the migration of important tools from the ToolServer to Labs and still nothing functioning at all as it should after all this time, plus the loss of your 'team' through retirement and being banned by Arbcom, and your admission that your newly begun tertiary studies leave you hard pressed for time, that I cannot see you having time at all for admin tasks (not to mention this RfA) on top of all that. As any admin knows, after passing RfA the temptationion to start using the tools is immense - even for a person of my advanced years who is not in the slightest bit interested in accumulating 'toys'. I would wholeheartedly support an application from you for the mop as soon as the issues with the Labs tools have finally been addressed once and for all, but for now, adminship is too soon. Sorry, but you can of course count on my continued support for getting those issued sorted as quickly as possible. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:26, 3 July 2015 (UTC)