Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Anas Salloum


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

Anas Salloum
Final: (49/0/0); Ended 15:27, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

- Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls; I give to you a model Wikipedian (also known as Anas Salloum). Anas has been with use for a total of eight months now, with his first edit being on 8 October 2006, since then he has ammassed over 10,500 edits, with almost 4000 if these being to the WP:NAMESPACE and a large selection of other varied edits across the different namespaces - as well as always leaving an edit summary (100%) excluding the edits in the first two months of his arrival, since then – Anas has shown extreme skill and dedication to this Project, working extremely hard on English-Arabic translations over a range of different articles (some examples: here, here, here, and here - always remembering to remove the Arabic from the article talk page - shown here, and here - these are just two examples). He has shown excellence in his image uploads as well as helping to promote Faten Hamama to the good article status, giving it a complete re-write – just by looking at the page history you can see he is a regular editor of that article, improving it where possible. As well as his other excellent work, Anas has created the highly successful WikiProject Syria and helped maintain it throughout.

Going back to article work, Anas has wrote a total of seven B-class article and a large amount of other non-B-class articles. All of the seven B-class articles had information written by him featured on the did you know section of the Main Page, Anas helps improve articles regularly by adding maps, he has recently become involved and is very active in creating maps for the different locations across Syria, some of his maps are included in Syria Labelled Map. moving on to the sometimes distressing part and sometimes annoying of Wikipedia, Anas is a regular vandalism fighter, with regular and helpful contributions to the never ending battle against vandals. Not just has Anas shown extreme skill and dediciation throughout, he has also helped out with the large maintenance tasks on a selection of article:
 * Gregoria de Jesus - Anas saved this article from being deleted, completely re-written the article and as a result of his helpfl contributions, was a DYK feature on the Main Page.
 * Muhammed Taib - Anas helped save this from deletion with his helpful contributions and maintenance to the article.

Anas is a regular interactor with fellow Wikipedians. regularly discussing ways to discuss and improve WP:FILM articles, as well as being one of the most polite users I have came across on Wikipedia, always remaining civil and polite, for just one out of the hundreds of examples of his maturity and civility just see here.

Now, finally as you will almost certainly already know, Anas is one ther most regular participants at WP:RFA, making decisions on whether to support, remain neutral or oppose on other users requests for adminship, his comments always seem accurate and reflect an accurate and excellent knowledge of policy and what it takes to be an administrator. Therefore, giving Anas the tools would in my opinion help benefit this Project in multiple ways The Sunshine Man 15:10, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I am humbled by The Sunshine Man's graceful offer to nominate me and am glad to accept his nomination. — An as  talk? 15:57, 13 May 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: With the acquisition of the tools, I expect to be involved actively in admin work. Since I live on the "other side of the world", for now at least, WP:AIV is often backloged when I'm online, especially in days with high vandal-activity. I will continue my vandalism fighting and will help out in WP:AIV by monitoring for new reports. I will also help clear the constantly updated backlogs of WP:CSD. I am likely to use the tools when performing moves needing deletion; many articles with Arabic transliterated names use incorrect transliterations. Seeing that I have a fair understanding of the standard schemes of transliterationg Arabic, I usually encounter pages which have been moved to incorrect names; usually, in the case of Arabic-named articles, mistakes occur mainly with the usage of the "Al-" prefix (or article). Since many Arab new-comers come to me for help, I might be able to help them whenever they need my admin assistance. Eventually, as I get better accustomed to dealing with the tools, I will expand my work to other admin areas.


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
 * A: I really enjoy article writing. I have taken this stub and turned it into a good article; having acquired a new book recently, I am planning on taking it to FA-status soon. I have also written seven B-class articles featured on the DYK section in the Main Page. Since I speak Arabic fluently, I have cleared the backlog of articles needing Arabic script and have so far added the script to more than 1500 articles. As part of my activity in WikiProject Film, I have written many film articles, all about Egyptian cinema. Sadly only Arabic sources are available for such articles. I've also single-handedly created and set up WikiProject Syria. As part of my work in the Project, I have created dozens of needed and requested articles, assessed all in-scope articles, and created stub-templates and missing categories. I have also spent a great deal of time rearranging and maintaining articles in the scope of the Project. Recently I have worked on finding maps for the districts of Syria, and with the help of Rarelibra, created and designed dynamic maps for all districts. I am now proud to say that Wikipedia is the only place you can find these maps online. As my nominator has indicated, I've saved a few articles from deletion: Gregoria de Jesus, an article I rewrote, sourced, and successfully nominated for inclusion in the DYK section, and Muhammed Taib, an article which was saved from deletion by dint of my Arabic language and transliteration skills. I'm also currently working on an article on Syrian Americans, which I plan to take to GA or FA status. For more on my article work, please visit this page.


 * 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, but nothing serious. Since I watch some celebrity articles, the addition of spam is ineluctable. I had a conflict with Yalibnan over the addition of external links to an article. I tried to convince him that the links he added were not acceptable and are considered spam. We had a little discussion and the problem was solved. And of course, as I revert vandalism, I occasionally get into small conflicts with vandals. Usually when I'm stressed from a conflict or a disagreement, I take a brief wiki-break and return when everybody has cooled down.

Optional questions from

 * 4.You are requesting the community grant you extra tools - primarily the ability to block users, the ability to delete material and the ability to protect or un-protect pages. Could you provide some examples of when you found it frustrating or inconvenient not having these tools and how you would have used them ?
 * A: You are correct. There are several cases where I have needed the tools. As I have indicated in my answer to Q1, there are many cases where I needed the tools to move articles. Unlike English names, and generally names written originally in Latin script, Arabic names can have many different transliterations. For example, the most common Arabic name, Mohammad, can be written as Muhammad, Mohamed, Muhammad, Muhammed, etc. On many occasions I have encountered articles which use a name which is not the primary transliteration or transcription of the name. On some occasions, I have found it frustrating when a troubling vandal is able to inflict more damage to articles when WP:AIV is backlogged. In such cases, I have found it somewhat inconvenient not having access to the tools.


 * 5.What is your position on fair use imagery on Wikipedia, should high quality fair use images be used instead of low quality free images, should episode lists be left to use hundreds of images, should fair use images be hold on Wikimedia Commons ?
 * Can you explain how fair use images impact of the libre and gratis aspects of Wikipedia. How would you use administrative tools in relation to images ?
 * A: I am never in favor of having a high quality fair use image replacing a low-to-medium quality free image. In some cases, a non-replaceable fair use image is necessary for demonstration or to explain the content; such cases include images of album covers, DVD covers, logos, etc. I strongly disagree with the addition of fair use images to any list, and particularly in episode lists, where I think images add nothing much to the lists, and are somehow decorative. The use of fair use images contrasts the mission and concept of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, which is supposed to provide free and reusable content with no restrictions. This is also why I disagree with and strongly oppose the use of non-free images in Commons. Using the administrative tools, I will delete/replace any images that are unneeded like thumbnails, unencyclopedic images, or orphan fair use images. I can also delete an image if another available image has a friendlier copyright policy.


 * 6. Looking through your image contributions, I notice a number of Flickr images which have been uploaded, all under licences suitable for Wikimedia Commons - is there any reason you are still uploading free images to the local project instead of Commons.
 * Do you intend to move these free images to Commons - if not, why not ?
 * A: I have been uploading most of the free images I find to Commons recently. However, I used to upload free images to the local project earlier, for no certain reason though. As for moving these images to Commons, I don't think I'm going to do that any time soon. This is mainly because I currently have an unreliable dial-up connection, as Internet technologies are shockingly not well-developed where I'm living currently, Saudi Arabia. In a little more than a month, I am going back to Canada, where I am probably going to have a broadband connection that will enable me to move these images more easily. So yes, I will move them sooner or later.

Optional question from Durova

 * 7. What would you do as an administrator about ideological or profit motive attempts to manipulate Wikipedia? Bear in mind this statement from Brad Patrick as well as this news story, this conference summary, this press release, and these blogs.  Durova Charge! 20:52, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * A: I certainly agree with Brad Patrick. However, I will, and have always been, very careful and scrupulous when I catch a user editing his own/company's article. Assuming good faith, I will always accept such edits if they are reasonable, neutral in tone, and confirmed by reliable and acceptable sources. On the other hand, if I detect any edits that are in anyway worthless promotional additions, I will intervene and stop that. On many occasions, I have encountered many articles which are autobiographical, audaciously advertising, or simply spam links to a website. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and there is no place for vanity in here. These edits have to be either deleted or reverted, and the users spamming articles must be appropriately warned and blocked when necessary.

General comments

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


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Discussion


Support
 * 1) Beat-the-nominator support - seems like a fine fellow. Will (is it can be time for messages now plz?) 15:58, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Strongest possible support D'oh (lol), I wanted to be the first to support, as nominator.The Sunshine Man 16:07, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support - no evidence of problems. Adminship is no big deal. Wal  ton  Need some help?  16:09, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support I've seen him about, and he definitely "gets it". Was thinking of nominating myself, if it wasn't for that userbox... ah well, good luck Anas, and I look forward to seeing you as an admin! :)  Majorly  (talk | meet) 16:17, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support-Definitely time for this. Good participation at RFA and over 4,000 edits in WP: space. Edit count isn't everything, but that shows it's time. -- TeckWiz is now R Parlate Contribs@ (Let's go Yankees!) 16:20, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Support - with no hesitation. Khu  kri  16:21, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Support Great user. – Rianaऋ 16:22, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) Strong Support. Great contributor. CG 16:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Strong Support, of course. Asabbagh 16:54, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) -- Y not? 17:01, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 11) Support despite their short time on the project, this editor has shown a lot of dedication. I don't believe that the admin tools would be abused. (aeropagitica) 17:06, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 12) Support brilliant --Infrangible 17:48, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 13) Support John254 18:06, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 14) Support nothing but positive things to say about this editor. The Rambling Man 18:20, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 15) Support - answers to the questions are excellent. No concerns at the present time. -- Nick  t  19:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 16) Support-- Agεθ020 ( ΔT  •  ФC ) 19:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 17) Strong support A great user. Acalamari 20:14, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 18) Support, Meets my personal criteria. --  Ra nd om   Say it here!  20:16, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 19) Support Record of excellent edits and comments and help to new users.DGG 20:29, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 20) Strong Support. As the nomination said, she is a model Wikipedian. I see her helpful comments all the time. -- M s c h e l 20:46, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm a "he". ;-) — An as  talk? 11:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Happily support. Wonderful user and awesome person.  P h a e d r i e l  - 22:13, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support Great work, will make very good use of the tools.-- Hús  ö  nd  23:05, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Absolutely. Sean William 23:26, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support looks excellent.-- danntm T C 23:26, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. Nice comprehensive answers to the questions and a user I certainly trust with the tools. Will (aka Wimt ) 23:35, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Support I have seen this user elsewhere and I think this user should be an admin. Captain   panda  03:52, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Support More than happy to add my voice of support! Jmlk17 04:22, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) Support. WjBscribe 10:17, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) support - I've been impressed with anas for a long time, he's a dedicated user, and from comments he puts in other RfA's, I see he fully understands what is required for an admin.  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  10:57, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) Terence 14:21, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 11) Support - ahh.I missed again..should have been an Admin long time ago.. Cometstyles 15:04, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 12) Support this good fellow.. I like his edits and contributions Ralhazzaa 16:21, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 13) Support, good answers and contributions that demonstrate eloquence and intelligence. · jersyko   talk  17:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 14) Support, satisfied with the answer to my question, see no problems elsewhere. Durova Charge! 18:53, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 15) Rettetast 19:39, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 16) Support: User has plenty of experience and edit summary usage is also excellent. I have noticed this user around recently and have seen nothing but good work from this user. Also, I like the answers to the questions.   O r f e n     User Talk | Contribs 20:54, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 17) I'm Mailer Diablo and I approve this message! - 18:30, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 18) Strong support. A very level headed, hard working and civil editor. This is the n time my vote comes just after Mailer diablo's one. So, i think i'll start to just say "as per MDiablo". --  FayssalF  - Wiki me up®  18:35, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 19) Strong support Interactions always positive. – B.hotep u/t• 18:37, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 20) Support Yonatan talk 18:52, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 21) PeaceNT 05:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 22) Although I knew he "wasn't already one" (as opposed to the popular cliché), I've always wondered why. Expresses himself well, and has been extremely helpful and insightful in project and user talk space whenever I've seen him. Has proven that he doesn't snap, and doesn't make rash decisions. A model candidate.  Daniel  05:44, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 23) Support Hard-working editor, he seems neutral too. --Mardavich 08:53, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 24) Support, have noticed positively, like the answers. M urgh disc.  23:48, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 25) Support No worries at all. Sarah 08:44, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 26) Support Per everyone above. :) · AndonicO Talk 16:55, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Haven't I supported already? I certainly had one typed out a few days ago cracking a joke about your name, oh well. Back to business - a great hard working user who would make a fine administrator.  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  21:38, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes Ryan, you have supported already. See #29... WjBscribe 00:43, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Oops! I knew I had but just couldn't find my name - obviously I thought the name comment wasn't appropriate!  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  00:51, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I shudder to think... WjBscribe 01:02, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Support - good editor - seems capable of making a good admin.-- VS talk 11:40, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support Would be fine. -- ♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪  walkie-talkie  12:16, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Almost forgot to support. Another user I had already accepted as admin... —AldeBaer 12:27, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral


 * 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.