Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Academic Challenger


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

Academic Challenger
Academic Challenger has been with us since mid-November 2003 and has done invaluable expansion work on many of Wikipedia's articles on political figures across the world. He also is a prolific article creator, and has proved himself to be fair and even-tempered. I know the community can trust him to be a sysop. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 22:37, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Yes, I do accept the nomination. Academic Challenger 23:54, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 22:37, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) In my experience, an excellent contributor, and one whose edit count is not an accurate indication of the level of contribution to this site. Should be a good admin, if not a proactive one, methinks. Jwrosenzweig 22:44, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. --Lst27 22:55, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) Agree with Jwrosenzweig. Everyking 22:55, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) Anyway, Frazzydee has less than 2000 contributions and has a practically unanimous nomination... ugen64 22:58, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * 6)  &mdash; Kate Turner | Talk 23:08, 2004 Sep 3 (UTC)
 * 7) Agree with Jwrosenzweig. If you read through his userpage, you'll discover that he also has contributions as an IP (nearly 200 more). You might also get a good idea of just how impressive an accomplishment his overall edit count really is under the circumstances. --Michael Snow 23:36, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) Checked through his edit history; I feel he's a very strong contributor. Potential to be a good admin here. Support. Antandrus 01:18, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 9) -- orthogonal 01:29, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 10) GeneralPatton 01:32, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 11) Jiang 09:48, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 12) Merovingian  &#9997;  Talk  13:43, Sep 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * 13) JCarriker 18:27, Sep 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * 14) Andre 06:16, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 15) 172 22:28, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 16) Tireless & trustworthy, imho. &mdash;Stormie 00:10, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * 17) ffirehorse 02:09, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 18) Gzornenplatz 09:52, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * 19) Taco Deposit | Talk-o Deposit 15:31, Sep 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * 20) Numeric standards considered harmful. - Fennec (&#12399;&#12373;&#12400;&#12367;&#12398;&#12365;&#12388;&#12397;) 18:52, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 21) &#8212;No-One Jones 21:26, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 22) Pitchka 01:56, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * 23) Geogre 03:27, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC) A mender, not a breaker.  (I won't say uniter not divider, because that's big trouble.)
 * 24) Absolutely.  +sj +  05:19, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 25) Of course. Rhymeless 05:36, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 26) Great contributions over a fairly long period. Warofdreams 18:02, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) Not at this time.  Will probably support after 2,000 edits. blankfaze |  (&#1073;&#1077;&#1089;&#1077;&#1076;&#1072;!)  22:53, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Check all the pages he's created. Like Jwrosenzweig said, "his edit count is not an accurate indication of the level of contribution." [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 22:59, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes, yes, I saw. No matter.  This is just my personal feeling here. blankfaze |  (&#1073;&#1077;&#1089;&#1077;&#1076;&#1072;!)  23:50, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) I would like to see a bit more community involvement. This may just be me, however. --Slowking Man 23:21, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) Who? -- Cyrius|&#9998; 23:26, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) After reviewing his work, and considering his circumstances, I honestly believe him to be a great if not exemplary user, and if not for the user's inexperience in interuser relations in the community, I would be willing to waive my usual minimums and support. However, I'd like to see this user come back after getting more acquainted with user relations and disputes.  Will most likely support in the future.  blankfaze |  (&#1073;&#1077;&#1089;&#1077;&#1076;&#1072;!)  23:47, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Comments
 * User has 1,070 edits, for those curious. blankfaze |  (&#1073;&#1077;&#1089;&#1077;&#1076;&#1072;!)  22:53, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * To Slowking Man and others who have doubts about supporting me because I do not have enough community involvement: It is true that I contribute more content than I contribute on talk and community pages, but I read talk and community pages such as VFD and Cleanup very often, and feel that I am very familiar with Wikipedia policy. I plan to become more involved in these pages gradually over the next few months, but I only comment unless I feel that I have something valuable to say or have a strong opinion. I do not have time to spend my entire life here, and so far am using most of what time I have to improve Wikipedia's coverage of political figures. However, I am gradually becoming more involved in the community, and believe that I would make a good admin, although I agree that I will not be one of the most active ones at first. I feel that one thing I could do as an admin would be deleting pages so that they can be merged and moved, particularly for duplicate articles. Academic Challenger 23:54, 4 Sep 2004 (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.