Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Alexsautographs


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

alexsautographs
(0/18/0); Closed on 09:38, 15 January 2010 (UTC) per WP:NOTNOW &mdash;Dark 09:38, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Nomination
– Alexsautographs' story is long and eventful. Born in a pickup truck to a bipolar dyslexic manic hermaphrodite named Joe while traveling down the fabled Route 66, he accidentally fell out the back of the vehicle when the truck screeched to a halt and a busy intersection. Silly Joe, always leaving that hatch down. A pack of hungry wolves found him, and picked him up with the intent to eat him. But sensing that he was just an innocent, defenseless little child, they instead carried him back to their den and snuggled him up with the other wolf pups. And then they ate him. Surprisingly, due to the large amount of fiber in his little baby body, Alexsautographs was not digested by the wolves' stomachs. Rather, he sped right through their digestive tracks and came out the other end, undigested and unmarred. Save for the fact that he was torn in two pieces. By some miracle, a plane shipping super glue from New York to California lost its load right over where the wolves had evacuated they baby-filled bowels, and crates and crates of extra adhesive super glue fell all around Alexsautographs. He did not get crushed - instead, the glue spurted out on him and glued him back together. Is was at just this moment that a hippie jogger named Wonderdust ran by while listening to the song Alive Again by the band Chicago. She saw Alexsautographs, and noticing the intrinsic beauty in his little baby face she picked him up and took him home with her. And that is where he grew up. What a wonderful cardboard box it was, too. After that, he left home to go to community college, but quickly dropped out to work at a stamp licking factory. It was his passion. Sadly, the factory went under when they invented stamps that didn't need licking. Sure, Alexsautographs was distraught. Sure, he considered suicide - he even tried overdosing on Flintstones vitamins, but to no avail. All the hopes and dreams he had in life were shattered, and his life was completely empty. Depression set it. Until one day, he was looking on his computer to purchase downloadable RAM, when he found a website. A strange, foreign website, with a weird name that was in a language he didn't understand. Wikipedia. He didn't know what it was, but on a whim he signed up anyway. He noticed that there were all sorts of people on the site, contributing all sorts of things, and he wanted to help too. Sure, his first 400 or so edits were deleted due to what they called "vandalism" or "patent nonsense", but he eventually got the hang of it. He thought that he'd become such an awesome Wikipedian, that he started working on a project...a baseball project. As the old saying goes: "baseball...who cares?" Well, Alexsautographs thought to himself, "I care." And so it began. He began writing and editing all sorts of baseball articles, and that has been his main focus these past five years. He has put together quite an impressive resume he claims, and very much so deserves an adminship. And does he. Alex (talk) 04:23, 15 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Yes, I accept. Thanks!

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: Whatever you request, my man.


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
 * A: The many hours I have put into writing hundreds of baseball articles, my man.


 * 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 way, my man. I am as cool as a cucumber, my man.

General comments

 * Links for Alexsautographs:
 * Edit summary usage for Alexsautographs can be found here.

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Oppose

 * 1) Judging from the user talk page and the absurd introduction in this RFA, I don't think Alex is ready.--Chaser (talk) 04:40, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Application indicates a lack of familiarity with Adminiship on Wikipedia. Icewedge (talk) 04:44, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) Sorry, I agree with Chaser. Adminship isn't a big deal, but it should still be taken seriously. Camw (talk) 04:46, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) Is this even a serious request. I suspect it may not be. Regardless you are not ready for this position. Rymich13 (talk) 04:47, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 5) Oppose - For the reasons stated above and because your falling out the back of the truck defies the laws of motion - kinetic motion would have propelled you through the windshield (or onto the driver's feet, depending if the driver was holding you or not). - Warthog  Demon  04:56, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment to all of you A sense of humor: get one - —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexsautographs (talk • contribs)
 * Comment While adminship isn't a big deal, it's hardly a joke. - Warthog Demon  05:00, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I never said it was a joke. I will take the adminship very seriously if and when I get it (haha, right). However, the tomfoolery and shenanigans presented in my opening statements were not meant to be taken seriously. Perhaps I shouldn't have said "get a sense of humor" I should have "please gain the ability to recognize when one is being lighthearted and not too serious." 05:12, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Addendum And following this failure of a nomination attempt, I will actually post one that is serious, as was my intent. Alex (talk) 05:14, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * You should have been serious to begin with, my man. ArcAngel (talk) (review) 05:35, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * You got it, boss. Alex (talk) 07:19, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Because of his comment immediately above, I oppose ~DC  Talk To Me 05:03, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose. The RFA response alone is enough for me to confidently say that this editor should not, at this time, be trusted with the admin tools. I move for WP:NOTNOW. --Mkativerata (talk) 05:16, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose per lack of judgement in opening statement and for repeated use of 'my man' (it's outdated and sexist, IMHO). ArcAngel (talk)(review) 05:35, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Sexist? Are you for reals? I don't mean to be rude, but anything can be construed as sexist or offensive if you let it be. Man, by the way, is a gender-less word.Alex (talk) 07:30, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Strongest Possible - Cool as a cucumber? Whatever you say, my man? Heres what I say to real admins who alexsautographs&oldid=337942109 don't consider adminship a joke. Close per WP:NOTNOW. Definitely.  smithers  - talk  05:47, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Per the opening statement, the answers to questions, and the failure to transclude the RfA correctly. Timotheus Canens (talk) 06:16, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose. Adminship is no big deal, but that doesn't mean it's a joke. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 06:20, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) Oppose this and all subsequent RfAs for the next 6 months per the nonsense categories and unreferenced BLPs created, the AfDs, and the low edit summary usage. Aditya Ex Machina  06:42, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Well, that's not very nice. Alex (talk) 07:30, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Then I apologize. It wasn't my intention to be rude. Please come back after 6+ months as this request one certainly won't succeed. Aditya Ex Machina  09:03, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Not yet, my man. You don't take adminship seriously my man. Th e T hi ng  Vandalize me 06:49, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose. User obviously does not take adminship seriously. The answers to the questions here have shown us that you're simply not ready. JulieSpaulding (talk) 07:41, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Oh, but I am. Alex (talk) 07:55, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Strong oppose per the disgusting level of unpleasant badgering Alex appears to be doing. ╟─ Treasury Tag ► belonger ─╢ 08:12, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Strong Oppose. Concerns with maturity, policy knowledge, and general lack of common sense.  -  F ASTILYsock (T ALK ) 08:20, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 3) Sorry You do have over 7000 contributions, including over 600 created articles, so you must know something about content work. That being said, there's no way I can support a joke nomination such as this. I'd welcome you back in 6 months with a serious attitude and some evidence of constructive interaction with other editors, since your talk space edits are out of proportion with your article edits: you only have 31 in the user talk space and less than 100 in the article talk space. I think this lack of interaction may explain for your unusual behaviour here as well.  Them From  Space  08:21, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 4) Oppose, concerns about lack of seriousness displayed. Cirt (talk) 08:59, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Neutral



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