User:Asenine/MockRfA

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:
 * WP:AIV – I will take action against vandals that need to be dealt with, acting within guidelines.
 * WP:UAA – I intend to help out here.
 * WP:SCV – There is an amaranthine backlog here. I intend to review articles and check that the article is a copyvio, and then speedy delete.
 * WP:AFD - I would look at the consensus being achieved, comment on nominations (although admittedly this is not a sysop privilege), and delete as appropriate.
 * CAT:PROD – I would work with deleting expired PRODs, checking the reason and viability of that reason per guidelines before deletion or action.
 * CAT:CSD - This category is never empty. I would see if the article falls into this and if it did, I would delete it. I admit I have been somewhat slapdash with this in the past, but as you will see, I have cleaned up my act, now helping out newcomers confused by the process of article deletion and always making sure that the article is criteria for speedy deletion before nomination.


 * Although the above would be my main areas of activity within sysop work, if somebody were to request for me to do something else that required my permissions for a time, I would certainly oblige (if I had the knowledge or I could gain the knowledge needed to efficiently participate).


 * Being a sysop would mostly be about doing what at this time I have to request to be done.


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
 * A: I am especially happy about my help within the community. I have helped users out when they have been confused over boilerplate templates and article disputes (this occured with Susan E Webb, who needed guidance with a page where a conflict of interest might arise, Wikiklrsc who needed guidance about image tagging, and LukeTheSpook who needed help with utilizing wikisyntax). I also have helped UzEE with the grammar in his userspace.


 * I also enjoyed working on this, which ended in an indefinite block - a perfect result.


 * I enjoy adopting users by giving them help and support (although admittedly my current adoptees very rarely even contact me despite my policy of 'contact me whenever you need something'. It brightens my life to see that I help out in the community, and adminship would make my help quicker and more efficient.

On the article side of things, I have created or significantly improved the following articles:


 * 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 have not been put under stress by other users before, but if I was to be faced by it I would leave them a notice regarding the problem, and deal with it efficiently and completely in good faith. If a user was putting me under stress to do something for them, then I would leave them a message stating that I would have a break from whatever it was for a while and that I would continue it when it was appropriate (if it was time-critical, to be honest with you I don't really mind stress). If it was a debate that was putting me under stress, I would either back out (I would only use this rarely and if it was really needed, I like to have my say) or would work out what is causing me stress and address the problem. If it was a user, I would simply tell them straight that I am rather stressed because of the incident.


 * I have been involved in only one edit conflict in the past over my addition of band logos to articles, but this was because I and another user (IllaZilla) were interpreting a consensus in different ways. The conflict was over soon after it began, as I backed down - I could see his point of view and I started understanding why he believed as he did. This conflict was carried out completely in good faith. I always leave stressful situations like this with a smile and a sense of satisfaction that two (or more) people that have disagreed, but at the end of it all there haven't had to be any sanctions imposed upon them. If there were any sanctions, I would be quite sure to keep my actions so that I was in the right and within rights. If another conflict were to occur I would discuss with the user why their point of view was as such and would quite happily back down as soon as I knew they were in the right, or it was turning into a WP:SNOW debate. If I still believed I was in the right, I would discuss with the user how to resolve the problem in the best and most constructive way.