Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/ACBest


 * ''The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a request for adminship that did not succeed. Please do not modify it.

It is apparent that there will not be any consensus for promotion, so this nomination has been closed early due to SNOW. ( [ →]O - RLY?) 01:30, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

ACBest
Final: (2/10/5) at 01:30, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

- Hiya! Damon here!

Well, what can i say... I have been a user of Wikipedia for a few months, and have contributed a lot, and for those of you who fight the vandals, i have been vandal fighting for the last couple days, and got 2 vandals blocked.

I think I would be good as an admin, and I would make sure that I still kept Vandal Fighting.

I also have a good sense of humor, and I dont get ANGRY!

Please feel free to say yes or no...

Many thanks, Damon  AC Best  My Contributions  Autograph Book  17:07, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh yeah, i forgot to say - I tagged a lot of pics for deletion the other day as they had no FU rationale, so i keep a watchful eye for that too.  AC Best  My Contributions  Autograph Book  17:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Own nomination ;)  AC Best  My Contributions  Autograph Book  17:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

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: Just vandal fighting/blocking and picture deleting, if/when they need deleting.


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
 * A: Probably my best contributions are Vandal fighting, and my edits to Newark North Gate, and Lincoln Central


 * 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: No, not that I can think of ;)


 * 4. Why are your edits so frequently brusk and ill-mannered? If you alienate people now, how will you do as in admin? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.64.200.210 (talk • contribs) 17.21 28th July 2007
 * A Excuse me, but i believe you are only saying that because I reverted an earlier edit by you.  AC Best  My Contributions  Autograph Book  17:32, 28 July 2007 (UTC)


 * 5.(optional) Over 700 out of your 2100 edits have been to a user page of some kind. Why so many?  T Rex  | talk  17:48, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * A They are all to my userspace mostly. So many as that was when i was less advanced, and was cleasring my page up almost non-stop. Now, more of my time is going into other stuff.

General comments

 * See ACBest's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.


 * Links for ACBest:

''Please keep criticism constructive and polite. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/ACBest before commenting.''

Discussion


Support Oppose
 * 1) Moral Support Too soon my friend. Two days of vandal fighting does not an admin make. Your answers to the questions are both honest but not full enough for me to understand enough about your need for admin buttons at this time. You may also find that turning on the auto prompt for edit summaries will help (it's in your preferences) as I feel admins need, more than others, to justify / describe actions through the summary. However your contributions look fine and your vandal reversion is deeply valued to this project. Remember also that blocking is preventative not punative. I hope to see more of your contributions and a future RFA, but sadly I suspect this will not be succesful at this time. Pedro | Chat  17:43, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Um... I have done more vandal fighting in the past  AC Best  My Contributions  Autograph Book  17:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * AC - can I make a quick brace of suggestions. 1) please don't feel the need to respond directly to every comment here (although your participation thorughout is of course encouraged) and 2) indent your responses with a hash and a colon (or many colons) to keep the numbering together - I've sorted the last ones out for you! Cheers! Pedro | Chat  17:56, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, Thanks ;)  AC Best  My Contributions  Autograph Book  18:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Support it should be noted Ilyanep was 11 when he became an administrator, and 13 when he became a bureaucrat. Please, no unhelpful age-related opposition. I urge the candidate to work on the issues raised by the opposition that have concerns related to adminship and the encylopedia. As long as ACBest learns from this RfA and improves greatly when his next nomination comes around in a few months time, he'll be a fine candidate, regardless of age. Acalamari 20:47, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Oppose - not sure if this editor has enough experience to determine which admin tasks really need to be accomplished or what adminship really entails.  Bots/Requests for approval/ACBot requests a vague request for a bot account without specifying what it does or why it needs to be done.  Also, the autograph book page just encourages people to use long, flowery, colorful signatures without adding content.  --Elkman (Elkspeak) 17:44, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * ACBot is to have a new request soon, and this time it will have more details!  AC Best  My Contributions  Autograph Book  17:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * It has also been denied: Bots/Requests_for_approval/ACBot_2. ~   Wi ki  her mit  20:40, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Oppose - While you have over 2,000 edits to wikipedia, only 519 of them are on the mainspace. You say your main priority will be vandal fighting yet you have only 12 AIV reports. You seem also to use summaries only about half of the time. You need more experience and then we'll see.  Wikidudeman  (talk) 18:08, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose - Too inexperienced. The goal of becoming an admin should be for the betterment of the encyclopedia, not just to hold the title. Lara  ♥Love  18:26, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't just want to hold the title...  AC Best  My Contributions  Autograph Book  18:31, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I just don't feel a 12 year old can have the maturity to be an admin. I also feel that if vandal fighting is going to be one of your greater areas of involvement as an admin, you should have more than a couple days experience with it. Lara  ♥Love  18:45, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I have more than a couple of days experience... I have done it in the past...  AC Best  My Contributions  Autograph Book  18:50, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * AC - 1) your age does not bother me. 2) You stated yourself about the time that you had been helping out vandal fighting so you can hardly then argue against it whatever your contrib. history. 3) Ignoring my gentle (and transparent) note not to respond to every comment will not help you. Please, I do not want this RFA to be a negative experience for yourself. Feel free to approach me on my talk page if you wish. Pedro | Chat  18:57, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Please no ageism. Just because you're x years old doesn't mean you're automatically smart, immature, stupid, etc. 13 year old, -- (Review Me) R Parlate Contribs@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 19:01, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * With all due respect, every user is entitled to judge each nomination and give their own opinions. It is my honest opinion that 12 is too young to be an administrator of a wiki. If you don't agree, then that's your opinion. I'm only one !vote. Lara  ♥Love  19:19, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Oppose - Not enough experience in my opinion. I would also like to see more detailed answers if there happens to be a next time you apply to be an admin. Best of luck in the future! DanThaMan17 18:54, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose due to lack of experience, as stated above. More familiarity with the main spaces and admin-related processes would be an advantage in a future RfA. (aeropagitica) 20:12, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose Per T Rex. Also your sign is too long and burns the eyes. Kindly consider changing your sign.-- Agεθ020 ( ΔT  •  ФC ) 21:04, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Whoops, sorry 'bout the signature!  AC Best  Autograph Book  21:31, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Oppose Not enough experience. I don't think this user is capable of being an admin, yet. Leave edit summaries more often, and provide more detailed answers. - Lemon flash talk  21:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose AC, unfortunatly at this time I have to oppose your Rfa. You seemed to have been on wiki for a reasonable time, but many of your edits (as many as 1/3) goes to the Usernamespace. Also, try consider using edit summary more which will make life a bit easier for others who want to check what changed. Being in the same age group, I would like to morally support you, but at this time I have to oppose. Good luck next time! --H| H irohisat  Talk 21:24, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Suggest wthdrawal and change of signature.  Daniel  00:05, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Oppose &mdash; I view self-noms as prima facie evidence of power hunger. While I have no reason to explicitly think this may be the case with you, it is not a risk I am willing to take.  Also, quite frankly, I agree that it is just not possible for a 12-year-old to possess the maturity level needed for the job.  It's not a personal reflection on you, it's just a fact of life.  Kurt Weber 00:34, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) Neutral needs to use more edit summaries, more mainspace edits. I do applaud you for your work with images as it is something that many users even experienced ones look over.  T Rex  |  talk  17:55, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Neutral. I don't really know what to make of you right now. You seem a bit too inexperienced, so I won't support. Also, you know there's a setting that reminds you to add a summary, right? Go under the "Editing" tab in your preferences, and it should be the last box at the bottom.  J- stan  Talk 18:54, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Neutral Really needs a little more experience Corpx 20:20, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Neutral Your age is not a problem. You just need more experience and better habits (for example, leaving edit summaries more consistently).  Let us see you again in three or four months. Bearian 21:06, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Neutral I think you are still just too inexperienced still. I know of a great many vandalism fighters who send 12 or more users to AIV in a day. I suggest you continue doing what you've been doing, spend some more time observing and trying out different administrative-related tasks. Every little bit that you learn is going to make your next RfA go that much more smoothly. Don't take all of the information you are getting too hard, I think if you listen to and apply what everyone is telling you, your next attempt will be far more successful. Trusilver 23:28, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.