User:Samwalton9/RfA/NinjaRobotPirate

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Samwalton9's nomination

Come one, come all, and take some time out of your busy Wikipedia editing schedule to consider NinjaRobotPirate for access to the administrator toolset. Since becoming an active editor almost four years ago, he has become a valuable contributor to the project, and could do even more great work if handed a mop.

With over 18,000 edits to article space - 60% of his total 30,000 - including more than 250 article creations and three Good Articles (Cult film, Leprechaun (film), Keyser Söze), NinjaRobotPirate has an excellent track record of content creation; a quick glance at any of his articles will find it well written and well referenced. He has a solid history at AfD, with a great mix of well reasoned votes and a very high match percentage, lots of participation at SPI (e.g. 1, 2, 3), alongside experience in a variety of other relevant areas.

Perhaps most importantly, NinjaRobotPirate is a civil and friendly editor, happy to both help new editors (I was especially impressed by the responses here and in the sections below) and engage in productive discussions with experienced ones. Overall, I am confident that NinjaRobotPirate will make an excellent administrator.

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: My primary use for the tools would be blocking long-term abuse vandals and obvious socks. I have experience with reporting these to ANI and SPI, and I would keep an eye on these noticeboards. The less sensational discussions at ANI sometimes scroll off without any admin attention as everyone rushes to comment in more exciting threads. I have little interest in speedy deletion, but I enjoy participating at AfD. I prefer to contribute to deletion discussions, but I would be willing to work on the AfD backlog. I contribute occasionally to the help desk and tea house, and without being able to see deleted pages, one is sometimes limited to giving generic advice.

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

A: Cult film was a complete mess when I found it. It took me months of work, locating sources and completely rewriting the article section-by-section, to finally bring it to GA. My experience with finding sources and working on poorly-written articles led me to AfD. Although usually called a deletionist, I'm proud of the articles that I've saved, many of which I subsequently expanded or rewrote. Compassion in World Farming is an example of an article that I worked on to remove promotion and add third-party sources after it was nominated for deletion (before, after).

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: There will always be content disputes. Recently, I was involved in one over whether "in popular culture" items needed to be sourced. I contended they did, and another editor disagreed. During a centralized discussion on the topic, consensus was they do need secondary sourcing, and an uninvolved editor provided the citations. Discussion provided both consensus for future disputes and citations for the content. When I disagree with the direction consensus has taken in an article, I move on to another one. Sometimes I find I don't care so much about the dispute after some time has passed.