User:Samwalton9/RfA/Clpo13

Samwalton9's nomination
It's my pleasure to be nominating Clpo13 for access to the administrator toolkit. With almost 40,000 edits to their name over the course of more than 10 years editing here, I think Clpo13 has more than sufficient experience to be trusted with the extra buttons.

Clpo13 has a wide range of experience on the encyclopedia, including at Articles for Deletion, with a high match percentage and well informed vote rationales, lots of anti-vandalism work, and a huge CSD log, which a spot check shows to be more than sensible. He also has a good history of content creation, with a number of quality articles including Did You Knows and a Good Article. His area of expertise, however, is evidently files and copyright - a quick look through his contributions to files for discussion debates will show that he is very knowledgable when it comes to this area of the encyclopedia, and would be a real asset to it if given the mop.

Clpo is friendly and informative when speaking to new and experienced editors alike, and I believe can absolutely be trusted to act sensibly and knowledgeably as an 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: I'm primarily interested in file work, such as files for discussion and moving appropriate files to Wikimedia Commons at CAT:COMMONS. I'm quite active at Commons as well as here on enwiki, and I feel I've got the necessary experience to understand the issues surrounding both US and non-US copyright. I also hope to expand my participation at articles for deletion and new pages patrol with the tools allowing me to close discussions with a delete consensus (as well as assess more complex discussions than allowed under WP:NAC) and delete new pages that are blatant copyvios and attack pages. With more experience as an admin, I'd move on to requests for page protection and the edit warring noticeboard, where I have some experience filing requests and reports, though I'm not planning on jumping feet first into protecting pages and blocking editors (aside from cases of obvious vandalism).


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
 * A: I'm quite fond of John E. Corbally, which I researched, started, and brought to good article status. It was a good opportunity to exercise my research skills and round out the list of Syracuse University chancellors articles on Wikipedia (I also created William Pratt Graham and Charles N. Sims). It was also my first experience with the GA process. While it's my only GA so far, I hope to get more articles to that status and maybe even start reviewing some as well. Aside from article creation, I'm happy to have contributed some photographs that are used on Wikipedia articles. I believe that every article that can have an image should have one, and I try to do my part to find or create an appropriate illustration for a subject.


 * 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: Yes, I have been in a few, some quite heated. Most recently, the matter of infoboxes on featured articles led to negative interactions with some prominent FA contributors, some of whom are, regrettably, no longer active on the project. Looking back now, the whole situation was a good lesson on the importance of civility and respecting the work of editors who may make editorial decisions I disagree with. I've avoided the infobox area since (with the exception of starting an RFC on an infobox template), and I now try disengage from such stressful situations until I can come back later and take a fresh look at the situation.