User:Cullen328/sandbox/Pppery

Oppose Let me start by saying that I think that Pppery is a productive good faith editor, and I hope that they will try again in a while, after addressing the concerns expressed here. I believe that content creation is one of several important factors to evaluate when deciding whether to support an RfA candidate. I personally consider it to be the most important factor in most cases, although I will not support a great content creator who is also a jerk. I do not require candidates to have been the main author of multiple GAs and FAs, but I do expect significant creation of new articles or at least substantial expansion of prose content on a significant number of articles. Transforming crappy stubs to informative start grade articles is both relatively easy to do, and important though underappreciated. I see none of that in the candidate's history. Gnoming is OK but writing solid encyclopedic prose is the most important thing here by far. Writing good content that sticks is the only way to develop a deep understanding of our policies and guidelines. I understand that the candidate intends to work mostly on things like templates, merges and categories. That is all useful "behind the scenes" work, but I feel confident in saying that very few readers come to Wikipedia to see which templates have been edited or which categories have been created or deleted. Our readers come for informatively written, neutral, well referenced encyclopedia articles. Also worth noting is that new administrators often get involved in areas they did not anticipate before they got the toolkit. The candidate states that they have little interest in blocking. I never anticipated doing a lot of blocking, but once I became an administrator, I developed an interest in dealing with spammers, undeclared paid editors, self-promoters and assorted trolls, and have blocked 8640 accounts in the five years since my RfA. I believe that has been of significant benefit to the encyclopedia. The candidate identifies Magic: The Gathering rules as their best content work. While it is true that the candidate has the most edits to that article with 80, it is also true that they are #6 in terms of added text, having written only 0.7% of the content. Their next most edited article is Polyglot (computing), where again they are #1 in edit count with 59, but do not rank in the top 10 editors in terms of added text. Their third most edited article is Amphetamine, where they are in neither the top ten in edits nor in added text. On the edit summary issue, Help: Edit summary says  As an administrator,  I have declined to block editors who do not provide edit summaries because they are not required by policy, but I am reluctant to support an candidate for administrator who has declined to consistently do things that the community strongly encourages. Similarly, in a hypothtical scenario, I would be reluctant to support a candidate who has made an effort to write an autobiography, even though that is only strongly discouraged rather than forbidden. I also have some concerns regarding temperament. Floquenbeam mentioned the CfD discussion about Category:Wikimedians who oppose rebranding the WMF, where the candidate wrote last year To me, that comes off as "I am consistently right and everyone who opposes me is consistently wrong" reasoning, and it rubs me the wrong way, even if it was not intended. My decision has been affected also by the opposing comments from TonyBallioni, Reaper Eternal, and Beyond My Ken.