Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Angelo.romano


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Angelo.romano
Final (47/0/0) Andre (talk) 21:19, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

- Angelo exemplifies the longstanding trustworthy contributor. His first edit was in March 2004 and he has been regular contributor since November 2004. He is active in articles relating to football (soccer), Italian politics and his native Sicily, and has created or improved countless articles in those areas. I have had the pleasure of working with him at WikiProject Football for the past two years, where he has consistently been a knowledgable and level-headed contributor. He has a sound understanding of policy, as evidenced by his regular addition of reasoned comments to AfD debates, and he has shown that he is more than capable of performing admin-like tasks in a fitting manner, as his work in chasing down sockpuppets in Requests for checkuser/Case/Kwame Nkrumah demonstrates. Oldelpaso 14:46, 29 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I hereby accept the nomination. --Angelo 16:37, 29 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: I always thought of admin work in a soft way. User blocks are not a priority to me, unless in exceptional cases such as evident sockpuppets of banned users, like the case Oldelpaso showed in the nomination, or evidently unconstructive edits (such as vandal-only accounts). However I am a bit concerned about the high presence of blatant copyright violation images in the Wikipedia (as I have recently marked many of them) as well as replaceable unfree ones, and the growing slowness in receiving an answer in protection and semi-protection requests. So, in the end, in case the nomination passes, I would not change that much, being the same user than usual but using my additional admin powers tended by the community solely to enforce the current Wikipedia policies. --Angelo 16:37, 29 July 2007 (UTC)


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
 * A: I am very proud of my work at U.S. Città di Palermo, a Good Article and probably a potential FA, as well as several other football-related articles. I was recently involved also in Democratic Party (Italy), an article I feel might become a potential Good Article, a kind of miracle in the messy world of Italian politics. Several other interesting contributions of mine I can remind of are a bunch of templates (the football squad template set, the latest version of the Italian cities infobox, and a number of others), as well as several SVG images I designed and created specifically for my work in the Wikipedia. --Angelo 16:37, 29 July 2007 (UTC)


 * 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: The Wikipedia is full of potential editing conflicts over controversial issues, the Football (soccer) naming discussion being the latest. However I have always tried to keep a soft and smart approach, always following the policy and avoiding personal attacks and unnecessary edit wars. Other recent heated discussions regarded the naming policy for "national" football teams not representing independent countries, and minor discussions with excessively bold users not following the Manual of Style. --Angelo 16:37, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

General comments

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Discussion


Support
 * 1) Support - I very much doubt Angelo will be the busiest admin in the world - he's an extremely good content user and it would be sad anyway if he moved onto soley admin tasks, but I believe that given the tools, he will use them well. I have no doubts that Angelo will help clear the back logs at AfD.  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  18:27, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support as nominator. Oldelpaso 18:36, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Of course I'll Support this nomination. – Elisson • T • C • 18:44, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support Good editor. Politics rule 19:36, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support – although this user is undoubtedly a (primarily) content-focused editor (not that that's a bad thing - this is an encyclopedia, after all), I can see plenty of participation in the sort of tasks we rely on our Administrators to help out at: WP:AN/I ; WP:RFPP, and I'm sure I've seen him at WP:AfD as well. All in all, a user who can definitely be trusted with the mop, and (hopefully) make good use of it when we're a little backlogged. Best of luck! Cheers, Anthøny  19:38, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Support--Agεθ020 (ΔT  • ФC ) 20:23, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Support - Garion96 (talk) 21:20, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) Support - I'm going to vote support. Good user, Good history as well as a good edit count. Shouldn't misuse the tools.  Wikidudeman  (talk) 22:13, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Support. Great user, with plenty of experience. A great content contributor, and im sure you'll be a great admin. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 22:18, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) Support I see no issues, other than edit summaries, but that can be corrected easily. Jmlk  1  7  22:33, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 11) Support If you haven't already, set your preferences to force edit summaries for all edits; otherwise, a fine editor who won't abuse the admin tools. (aeropagitica) 22:49, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 12) Support per above -Lemon flash talk  00:09, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 13) Support Dfrg.msc 00:45, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 14) the_undertow  talk  01:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 15) Strong support - Excellent contributor. Blnguyen  ( bananabucket ) 02:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 16) Support T Rex  | talk  02:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 17) Support A big contributor to articles within the Wikiproject Sicily area (I am a member of that Wikiproject too)! Carlossuarez46 03:53, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 18) Support Excellent editor from everything I have seen, no reason to think that she/she will not make an equally excellent admin. Trusilver 05:22, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 19) Support Unlikely to abuse admin tools. A great user as well. -- S iva1979 Talk to me 05:32, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 20) Support - Longstanding trustworthy contributor. -- Jreferee  (Talk) 11:42, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 21) Support, good luck. The Rambling Man 12:14, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 22) I'm Mailer Diablo and I approve this message! - 12:32, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 23) Support Track is good Harlowraman 19:40, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 24) Support - everything looks good here. Carcharoth 21:56, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 25) Support - a fine editor. WATP (talk) • (contribs) 23:41, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 26) Support - absolutely no concerns --H|H irohisat Talk 00:49, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 27) Support We need more content-focussed admins. Zivko85 07:38, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 28) Support good candidate. — An as  talk? 08:46, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Support – decent participation in XfD (see here and here), obviously comfortable with process (see here); Angelo has all the makings of an Administrator, and I wish him best of luck! ~ Anthøny  09:06, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Mate, you seemed to have supported twice. See #5 :) --<font color="black" face="Comic Sans Ms">Dark Falls  talk 09:16, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Support. Angelo is a longstanding contributor who I trust would make good use of the admin tools.  Can't sleep, clown will eat me 16:55, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support, a sound user. Punkmorten 18:16, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support, ditto. Has made a huge number of new articles and not run into trouble. Bearian 19:01, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. Angelo is a big contributor in terms of mainspace edits, and in a quick spot check, I didn't see anything amiss. He seems to have good judgment in football articles. His percent of edit summaries is only about 67% for major edits and I hope he will work to increase that. EdJohnston 23:24, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support He seems to be quite willing to take the mop and use it well. <font color="Blue">Marlith  T / C  02:30, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) 'Support. Angelo has been contributing to Wikipedia for a long time. As others have said, he may not use adminship to as much of an extent as other users do. However, that isn't really a problem. As the goal of Wikipedia is to build an encyclopedia, it's probably good. There's no reason to think that he will abuse adminship. Bart133 (t) (c) 18:49, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Support - Well balanced and experienced &mdash; Raffaello9 | Talk 20:06, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) Support. Its no big deal, and even if it were I'm sure that Angelo is now ready for the challenges that lie ahead.  RFerreira 08:41, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Support Deserves the mop.  Altruism T a l k - Contribs. 11:40, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) Support per nom. Great user. Peacent 14:01, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 11) Support after desperately attempting to find a pretext to avoid another Italian becoming admin ;-), I had to surrender: Angelo is simply a too good editor not to be more than perfectly qualified to be a great admin. Also, I'm impressed by his dedication to an often quite pretty annoying topic like Italian politics.--Aldux 19:49, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 12) Support, per nom. @pple 09:12, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 13) Support See nothing to suggest will abuse the tools. Davewild 17:02, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 14) Support — Your quality contributions to Wikipedia demonstrate that you can be trusted. Matthew 01:04, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 15) Support. A review of Angelo's interactions with vandals and POV pushers is firm but civil. He will do just fine. JodyByak, yak, yak 12:38, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 16) Support. Great editor. --Carioca 00:26, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 17) Support. <b style="color:#008000;">semper fictilis</b> 03:50, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 18)  <font color="#084C9E">Mi <font color="#4682b4">r <font color="#6495ED">a <font color="#4682b4">n <font color="#084C9E">da  19:14, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 19) Support Contributions look good. I trust he will do right with the tools.-- Sandahl 19:46, 5 August 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.
 * 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.