User:ImperatorExercitus/RFA

ImperatorExercitus
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Nomination
– Hello! I've been here on Wikipedia for over 6 months, in which time I've attained over 5550 contributions, 255 of which are deleted. In addition to my abundant anti-vandalism work, I'm also dedicated to article-writing; I've 5 DYKs (with another already accepted), 2 GAs down, and one that almost there. I'm also pretty active at various projects; for instance, I regularly help out at Articles for creation. In addition, I've demonstrated a clear knowledge of Wikipedia policies; I have numerous reports, comments, and votes at WP:AFD, WP:AIV, and WP:CSD. I also regularly patrol Usernames for Administrator intervention (which is one of the primary reasons I need administrator tools-see below) and Administrator's Noticeboard. Also, I help maintain the heavily backlogged Did You Know by help reviewing people's articles.  I 'mperator 21:29, 3 April 2009 (UTC)


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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 administrative work do you intend to take part in?
 * A: As mentioned above, I often help take care of Did You Know by often reviewing people's submissions; consequently, I believe that I could aid by adding the approved DYK hooks to the queue. In addition, I plan to contribute to WP:AIV, where, though not too bad at some instances (thanks to j.delanoy :P), can be heavily backlogged when the majority of administrators are absent; for instance, I often help revert vandalism when the people across the Atlantic are asleep. Also, I plan to interact more at UAA. There, I often help clear up the backlog by eliminated false positives from bots and discussing usernames with beneficial users whom otherwise might be banned. However, as a direct consequence of my lack of administrator tools, I sometimes make mistakes, namely the fact that I miss deleted contributions. These contributions mark a user as either a well-intentioned user with the misfortune to pick a bad username or a promotional user who uses Wikipedia for blatantly advertising.


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
 * A: Well, aside from my many reversions of vandalism (whether manually or via Huggle, which I don't really like that much), I have written plenty of articles that span from specific fungi to articles of art (a list can be found on my userpage. However, I must say that the ones that I'm most proud of are my 6 DYKs (this, this, this, this, this and this) and three GAs(this, now reassessed, Bart the Fink and this), with three more well on the way And Then There Were None, Brush with Greatness and Three Men and a Comic Book. In addition, I'm proud of my endless work at WP:AFC/R WP:UAA and WP:AFD.


 * 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: First, my biggest conflict was with Calton at UAA over a user who had created spam pages (which were quickly deleted without tags on his/her talk page). Consequently, as far as I could make out, the user had done nothing wrong; consequently, I marked the reports as "Non blatant". In fact, I had even checked contributions, which reflected nothing. As a result of my misreplies, I was quickly "put down" and spent a few weeks reviewing all the policies again that related to WP:UAA. To this day, I have always requested a list of deleted contribs, in any, from an admin. Should the community decided me worthy of attaining these tools, I will be able to avoid such conflicts in the future.


 * (A link can be found here.) There was a notable incident with another well-intentioned editor, whom I accidently reverted with Huggle (and giving him a warning). Although I reverted my revert and removed the warning, I was accused of "going in like a bull in a china shop." However, I calmly conversed with the user, and, sure enough, WP:AGF paid off. We finally ended with a cup of tea and apologies on both sides.


 * Additional questions:
 * 4. What is the difference between a block and a ban?
 * A: The classic RfA question. Blocks are basically a technical measure designed to simply prevent disruption or damage to Wikipedia. However, they are often assumed to be "punishment", which they are definitely not. Their main goal in Wikipedia is to simply deter and discourage disruption of the wiki. In addition, they are commonly used for BLP violations, legal threats, deliberately placing users in danger, persistent vandalism, sockpuppetry, spamming, attacks, Edit Warring, Violations of username policy, and Open proxies.


 * In contrast, a ban (most commonly a topic ban of some form) is intended to prevent a user from editing one or more pages of Wikipedia. Users are never banned by any one user (excpet maybe Jimbo); rather, they are either the result of Consensus or ArbCom rulings. However, unlike blocks, bans themselves do not prevent the editing of any page; it is merely a decision.


 * 5. When should cool down blocks be used?
 * A. Never. Period. Blocks are not punishments; their goal is to preclude disruption, not flame it higher.


 * 6. Are you open to recall?
 * A. Yes. If the community decides that I am doing a poor job of performing my administrative duty, then I must be doing a pretty damn bad job. Hopefully, however, they won't happen.

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