User:Ginkgo100/Diary

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Wow, my RfA finally passed! All those new buttons at the top of the screen are so exciting. Going to go try them out now!

I started with vandalism patrol. It's so much more convenient to rollback with one button. Not to mention blocking users directly instead of having to list them on AIV! I'm going to start helping with cleaning that out.

I did some newpage patrolling today. It's so much more satisfying to just "delete" than to have to add a db tag and wait. A lot of new users don't understand our notability guideline, so I left them all notes on their talk pages. It's a little extra work but it's the least I can do.

Now that I'm a busy admin, my talk page is getting more action than I am!

I decided to patrol AIV today. I blocked a few, but there was one that hadn't committed actual vandalism -- just content disputes. I left the reporting party a polite note.

The editors in the content dispute that was reported at AIV are discussing the article on my talk page. They both think I should block the other. I gently reminded them to use the article's talk page for their discussion, not my talk page.

Newpage patrol today. A lot of the articles get tagged before I get there. Some of them were tagged for speedy deletion for reasons that WP:CSD clearly says are not speedy criteria. Why don't they read the whole page? I left them notes on their talk pages.

I found the Wikipedia admin-only IRC channel today! Squeee!

Someone called me "one of those corrupt admins" today. Why would they say something like that? Don't they know I was an editor for a whole year before my promotion? I know what it's like to be in the trenches without the extra buttons!

AIV had six users listed today, and none of them were ready to be blocked. Two weren't even vandals, and three hadn't even been warned! The other one was a 3RR violator. Why don't users read that green box before hitting the "edit" button? Don't they know admins are busy people?

Deleted about fifty articles out of CAT:CSD. For godsake, how many crappy local bands can there possibly be in the world?

Spending more and more time on IRC. Boy, there are a lot of deletionists there. I wonder if they're "rouge admins"? I think that's too harsh a philosophy.

Someone actually created an article about their cat today. When I deleted it, the creator protested on my talk page and by e-mail. I sent him to the notability guideline.

Got a nasty personal attack on my talk page from someone who didn't like the way I closed an AfD. Fifteen delete votes and one keep was apparently not enough consensus for him. Blocked for a week.

I just realized I haven't gotten a single barnstar since my promotion.

I spent an hour today making notes for that article I've been working on, using some books I checked out from the library as sources. I logged on to make the edits, but was my talk page had three different complaints I had to deal with. One was a user unhappy that I deleted their article, one was reporting a 3RR violation, and one was claiming harassment by another user. As I was sorting all of these out, I discovered the one claiming harassment was actually a sock created to illustrate a point. By the time all of that was dealt with, it was time to log off and go to work. I didn't even get to work on my article.

Newpages patrol. Delete, delete, delete, delete, without end. Sometimes I think we should block article creation from now on and just work on improving the ones we already have. You can't tell me 1.5 million articles aren't enough.

Spending almost all my time on IRC these days.