User:TheFearow/RfA2


 * ''The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a request for adminship that was withdrawn before anyone knew about it. Please do not modify it.

TheFearow
[ Voice your opinion] (talk page) (0/0/0); Scheduled to end 04:59, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

- I have been an active Wikipedian editor since May, with some activity in March. I am a reasonably active contributor, and I have a huge amount of free time. I do a lot of work on Wikipedia, mainly centered around bots. I also do a bit of vandal fighting, and various other patrol tasks. I have done a bit of DEP work, and I run a bot maintaining that listing. I often find myself bored, and in that time I usually edit wikipedia (it's incredibly weird, most people vandalise when they are bored, not help.) I want the admin tools in order to help out regarding the various backlogs, and to help keep pages such as WP:UAA, WP:AIV, and WP:RFPP out of the backlog and preferably close to empty. I am an administrator on Mediawiki.org, and I am a frequent commenter on bugzilla. I know the software itself well, and am capable of answering most technical questions.


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Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. You may wish to answer the following optional questions to provide guidance for participants:
 * 1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
 * A: My main areas of interest are WP:UAA, WP:AIV, WP:RFPP, and WP:PER. I would also help out in WP:CSD, WP:DYK (I know I don't have many edits there, but I am always willing to learn), WP:COIN, and the helpdesk.


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
 * A: My best contributions would have to be DeadBot, which I am still working on new features for. For other contributions, I believe my work as a (possibly temporary) member of BAG, and of course my new (and WIP) process, Requests for Geonotice.


 * 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 been in an ongoing conversation/conflict regarding COI with User:Constantine Adraktas. I believe I have (am) handling the situation well, and I am helping out the user in any way I can, including by creating a temporary sandbox for improvement. Apart from this, I have only been in minor conflicts, and I have never (to my knowledge) beein involved in an edit war (except for the case mentioned above, on Enfield 8000, but that was more of a reverting good faith but against policy contributions, which several others had also been reverting. In the case of stress, I take a break, and let myself cool down, before responding, or performing any action.

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Discussion

 * I am placing RfX-notice on my userpage - this is specifically allowed by the RfA policy, and is not canvassing. If anyone wants it, I can point them to the specific page. As per my previous RfA, I have included this notice as some users have had (in my opinion) unfair opposes regarding this. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 05:14, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

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