Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Anonymous editor 2


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

Anonymous editor
final (89/7/1) ending 16:58 January 6, 2006 (UTC)

has been a contributor to Wikipedia since May 31st, 2005. He's been editing and contributing to many religion related articles as well as other different topics. He is an active member of CVU. He also can contribute with French. He was nominated 2 months ago before his withdrawal and since then, this user has shown that he's able for the task. For users interested in editcountitis, Anonymous editor has amassed no less than 6800 edits. I trust him. -- Szvest 07:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC) Wiki me up&#153;


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I am honored to accept your nomination. And I would just like to also say for those interested that I have made over 3300 edits more since my last Rfa and have taken the advice of many seriously using more edit summaries and staying away from edit warring on articles. Don't worry, I still edit dangerous articles, but I also edit much more. Thank you for nominating me again Svest.-- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 16:58, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Support. Fir  e  Fox  16:59, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Suppa! - As nominator. FireFox is on fire (edit conflict). -- Szvest 17:02, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support (after edit conflict). &laquo; Lord ViD &raquo; 17:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support (deja vu all over again) BD2412  T 17:10, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. Splendid contribution to the Encyclopedia. --Ian Pitchford 17:15, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support, as AE has been pretty gracious in the way he's interacted with me since our meltdown two months ago. It's time to let that water pass under the bridge! Babajobu 17:30, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Very strong support excellent user, I wanted to nominate him :p. POV concerns had been taken care of. --Jaranda wat's sup 17:32, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support Editor will make a fine administrator. Xoloz 17:32, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Support Deserves to be an administrator. Good luck --Deepak|वार्ता 17:44, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) I said it then and I'll say it again: Support.-- May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  17:56, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. Phaedriel  17:59, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support. &mdash;Kirill Lokshin 18:08, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support freestylefrappe 18:22, 30 December 2005 (UTC).
 * 14) King of All the Franks 18:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Obviously. &mdash; Nightstallion (?) 18:36, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Honored to support. Mature, honest, responsible. Never makes excuses. A ton of multifarious edits. Experiance in the Wikipedia namespace. What's not to like? -- Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde - archive 19:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support. PJM 19:16, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Easy Support good editor.Gator (talk) 19:47, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support Fad (ix) 19:51, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support --JuanMuslim 1m 20:14, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support Good user Knowledge Of Self | talk  20:16, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support . F.a.y. تبادله خيال /c 21:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support. Remember all that convincing you did to get me to change my vote to support?(I love it when candidates defend themselves). No oppose votes so far? I envy you, thanks to Boothy443. Voice of  All (MTG) T 21:49, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support Seen this user doing good work.--Alhutch 22:01, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support. Been seeing him around a lot lately, thought he already was one. Tufflaw 22:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Support, of course. - Mailer Diablo 22:26, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 27)  ε  γκυκλοπ  αίδεια  *  22:52, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) I'm a little miffed I got here so late, but, as last time, I give my full support. Anonym's a trustworthy guy with a well-leveled head. Dmcdevit·t 23:01, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support. 172 23:57, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Easy decison.--Sean|Bla ck 00:12, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 31) Support, as last time. Chick Bowen 00:41, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 32) Support--MONGO 00:49, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 33) Support; good editor and likely to be a good admin. Antandrus  (talk) 00:53, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 34) Support --HappyCamper 00:55, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 35) Support. First someone without a name, now an anon. Who's next? (oh no, that's right... Who's already an admin). Grutness...wha?  01:02, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 36) Support -- Dedicated wikipedian. Has recently diversified the kind of articles he's involved in, which is a welcome change. I hope he will discharge his admin responsibilities in the most neutral manner. deeptrivia (talk) 01:03, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 37) Support again.  --rogerd 01:17, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 38) Support - Garion96 (talk) 01:26, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 39) Support Great editor and vandal fighter. xaosflux  Talk / CVU 01:47, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 40) Support This one is going to get a bit lengthy. AE's answer to my question was a bit puzzling, as I was looking for an article which history would tell me much about how he interacts with other users. However, I asked the question I asked and got the answer I deserved. From my interpreation, AE feels very strongly about article writing and improvement, even on articles that don't attract large amounts of controversy. While I on the otherhand, tend to be smack dab in the middle of it, which led to my confusion While I believe a large portion of responsibility of adminstration is dispute resolution, an equally large part is making sure wikipedia doesn't fall apart from neglect either. We need all sorts of administrators, so I strongly support AE's nomination.--Tznkai 01:50, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 41) Support. It's my pleasure to support a great candidate and I'm very pleased to see this nomination doing so well. SlimVirgin (talk) 03:54, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 42) Support --Terence Ong Talk 04:19, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 43) Support now. -- Francs2000 [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px| ]] 04:26, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 44) Support And don't change the name. KillerChihuahua?!? 04:55, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 45) Everyking 05:07, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 46) Support. Excellent editor. -- Natalinasmpf 08:32, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 47) Support -- MicahMN | μ 08:53, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 48) Support. Increasingly good work; adminship should be no big deal.  +sj + 09:36, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 49) Oppose until user gets a name. I mean, support. &mdash; J I P | Talk 10:16, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 50) Anonymous Support.- Darwinek 11:17, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 51) Support  Sceptr e  ( Talk  ) 12:30, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 52) Support, again. El_C 12:40, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 53) * Support Changing my vote as per Neutral section below. Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   14:03, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 54) Support Good editor will make good admin --rogerd 14:42, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 55) Support. Hey, a bandwagon this time! Palmiro | Talk 14:47, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 56) Support - he is not anonymous but well known! --Bhadani 16:02, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 57) Support. Yes, Anon deserves the admin tools this time around. – Bratsche talk 16:27, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 58) Support. Susvolans ⇔ 16:29, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 59) Support. waqas.usman ⇔ 22:13, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 60) Support AnnH (talk) 22:18, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 61) Support Yuber(talk) 07:16, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 62) Support Always polite, and I have not seen any POV issues since his last RFA. I think he deserves it this time.  Ban e  s  08:56, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 63) Support Although I'm troubled by the "Anonymous Editor vs. Babajobu" commentary that's been made here as well... Votes should be based on an individual editor's merits, not on whether or not a vote for one admin candidate will balance out a vote for another, or that if one votes for one the should also vote for the other.  It doesn't "weird me out", but it does strike me as an expression of a rather poor grasp on what's going on here on RfA...  Tom e rtalk  09:25, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 64) Support Izehar 15:53, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 65) Support Will make a great editor. -- Jbamb 17:44, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 66) Support He's the only anon editor I listen to :-) The tally here is indictative of when Wikipedia works. I was at the last rfa and it was clear that he often got a bit too far into the fray, regardless of whether he was right or not. He's learned since then to mellow out while keeping his high quality contributions from the looks of things. Congrats, my friend. You've earned it. karmafist 19:02, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 67) Support, for the same reasons as in his previous RFA. Tito xd (?!? - help us) 21:46, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 68) Support. In the few instances when he is too impulsive he proves to be reasonable... and that's just to harp on his most negative traits. gren グレン 22:07, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 69) Support; same reasons as I supported his previous RfA. Jayjg (talk) 22:10, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Because you are an arbitrator and not a "simple admin", I'd like to know what are these reasons? :
 * "I think that Wikipedia would benefit from multiple POVs." The problem, as should have been clear if one looks at his contributions, are not his pov, but his pov-warring, edit-warring, deletions, and much more similar behaviour.
 * "I find Anonymous Editor generally reasonable in discussion, and don't see any reason to think he would abuse his admin privileges." Would you also have said this if he had been edit-warring in the articles that you edit? Maybe not, you may just not have looked carefully at his edits. But as a general comment: It seems that wiki-cliques and wiki-politics are too important. I have never seen so much politics and wiki-clique behaviour as in the AE RFA's. You may also wish to read some similar comments: As regards your reply, fair enough, though it's a bit of a strawman to say you think that multiple POVs should be represented in Wikipedia. I've certainly never felt differently, nor, presumably, do more than one or two of the oppose voters. It's a question of how he'll deal with his own POV in exercising his admin powers on related articles: responsibly, or not? On that question, we'll agree to disagree. Babajobu 17:55, 27 October 2005 (UTC) I confess I didn't understand your comment in your support vote either. You seemed to be saying that because some of the opposers were "bigoted nutters" (to borrow Baba's phrase) you felt obligated to support. Yet you said you are concerned about AE's POV. Is it right to make someone whose POV is so blatant an admin simply because some dispicible opinions were expressed in opposition to him? I don't mean to stir up tzures with you, but I was surprised by the reaction. --Briangotts (talk) 17:07, 27 October 2005 (UTC) Thanks for your response. I don't agree with your conclusion in this particular case but I now have a better understanding of your reasons.--Briangotts (talk) 17:50, 27 October 2005 (UTC) --Kefalonia 16:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Support Wisesabre 02:16, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support Switch to support, see below.  --Wgfinley 02:33, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support --Spasage 05:43, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) s.u.p.p.o.r.t.(s.) (perhaps it means - Someone Unable to Please all People Over Really Touchy umm... Subjects) Deserves it, as he is willing to fall off the POV-NPOV tightrope, and show us all how its done. Smmurphy(Talk) 06:32, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. utcursch | talk 07:01, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Support William M. Connolley 11:47, 2 January 2006 (UTC).
 * 7) Personally I don't like your user name but I don't think your nomination will fail anyway. --JuntungWu 14:33, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Support I looked at the discussion on Talk:Jesus and didn't find anything that troubled me. His last 2000 edits show improvement (never bad) in the use of edit summaries. --Walter Siegmund (talk) 20:58, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) Support - Wasn't even aware of the vote till I saw thiss message on Karl Meiers talk page. --Irishpunktom\talk 00:09, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 10) Support. Mushroom 01:17, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 11) Support - Guettarda 02:35, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 12) Support, as before. -- M P er el ( talk 08:16, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 13) Support - maybe you could change your username to Non-anonymous editor. :) - ulayiti <font color="#226b22"> (talk) 11:42, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Or Nonymous editor... :-) Tom e r<sup style="font-variant: small-caps; color: #129dbc!important;">talk  14:42, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) I would have voted oppose, but the oppose votes are pure POV push so I am unwilling to do so. The user's name is not acceptable for adminship, and I request that he have it changed before I change my vote to support. "You have been blocked by Anonymous Editor?" Hipocrite - &laquo; Talk &raquo; 17:31, 4 January 2006 (UTC) Support realized that I requested a name change on previous RFA and user agreed. Hipocrite - &laquo; Talk &raquo; 17:33, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support - --Lee Hunter 21:49, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Snakes 06:33, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) NSL  E  ( T + C + CVU ) 06:38, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) SupportBYT 11:47, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Support -- PRueda29  / Ptalk29 / Pcontribs29 19:18, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Support. the wub "?!"  20:27, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Support. A good player to have in the fold. --Jay (Reply) 23:09, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) Oppose I strongly urge everyone to closely look at his contributions before voting. A selection of diff's is still at Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship/Anonymous_editor. He said that he now staid away from edit-warring (and indeed he did less edit-warring recently), but I don't know how much of this is motivated by political reasons. I think that a user who has done such a large amount of pov-warring and edit-warring as AE has done in the past (check his contributions and the link  should take up a new user name if he absolutely wants to become an admin. I'd say the same to Willy on Wheels, or to any other user who has been disruptive in the past. I don't think it would better the image of Wikipedia, if there are admins that have a history of pov-warring. Of course AE likes to blame this on other users (and there may have been also bad behavior among some other editors), but this can not mask the fact that AE himself did a lot of pov-warring, blankings and much more such behaviour. He also has a "wiki-clique" behaviour, a history of unacceptable behaviour and he has a strong political bias (for example in the Kashmir debate). AE has already rollback priveligies (he used them shortly after his first RFA), and I think the best way is to let him use these rollback privelegies, as they can be easier undone if he would abuses them. To summarize, no, I don't think that users who in the past did pov-warring, edit-warring, deletions/blankings, and similar would make good admins, though he should be allowed to use his rollback privelegies as long as they're not abused. Some of his disputed behaviour can be found in the following articles (there are many more):
 * Talk:Terrorism_in_Pakistan (relevant discussion on AE's behaviour)
 * Talk:Kargil War
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Nichalp&diff=prev&oldid=24988801 "A problem user", relevant comment
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anonymous_editor&diff=prev&oldid=24700752
 * Talk:Terrorism_in_Kashmir
 * Terrorism in Kashmir
 * Terrorism in Pakistan
 * State terrorism
 * Islamic invasion of India
 * Lashkar-e-Toiba
 * Genocides in history
 * Kargil War
 * See Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship/Anonymous_editor for more details. --Kefalonia 13:33, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Kefalonia you really can't mention this every time I have an Rfa especially when much of it was already stated as false. Also I have improved since then and have doubled my edits and worked on so many different articles staying away from these type of contentious articles. Sorry, but it really is bad faith when you mention the same things this Rfa that you did the last time. Can you please show something current or edits that are POV that I have made since my last Rfa rather than mention the same things over again to try to convince people.
 * It's clear that my POV differs from yours, but bringing up very old discussions is not friendly, esecially when you are keeping evidence against me on your user page or when you have contacted other editors to clearly vote against me., ,.
 * People who I have had conflicts with before have mended their disputes with me, why can't you as someone who I've never really had one with? Thanks -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 14:07, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Why should I not mention it if you have not dealt with the issues in an acceptable way? Your claim that much of it was stated as "false" is just another example of your dishonesty. You say that you were less involved in edit-warring, (while there was not a complete absence of bad editing behaviour, compared to your previous edits there was an improvement, and I don't have the time to again check your contributions, but all voters should), but I don't know to which extent this was politically motivated. The problem is NOT your pov, the problem is how you handle your pov. Your large amount of edit-warring, pov-warring, deletions, and similar were the problem, not your pov itself. --Kefalonia 15:43, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * (To Kefalonia) WEll for the first time I went to those articles, do you in their current form call them NPOV . Terrorism in Pakistan has been prevalent since the 1980s , 90% of all reported terrorist activities worldwide were located in Pakistan , Islamic conquest of South Asia(Ever heard of Christian conquest of America) , The cause of the war was infiltration of Pakistani soldiers (do you see any Siachen war , or RAW financed bombings or RAW agents captured in Pakistan kind of articles) . Sorry dude , but the voters should also see if there is any kind of Pakistani POV on these articles or not , or are they just Indian propaganda . An admin's job is to keep things NPOV , not Indian POV . F.a.y. تبادله خيال /c 13:51, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I would probably have dithered voting as my opinion was somewhere between oppose and neutral, but Farhansher's comments among a few others have leaned me more on oppose given the kind of editors who probably might have supported anon. His statements on the Kargil War and terrorism in pakistan clearly shows that he believes any irksome fact that seems to be showing Pakistan in poor light despite being fully backed by sources has to be wrong. The kind of users who haven't taken the time to read the sources but jump to conclusions of POV are in line with anon's style of editing. This is the kind of prejudiced editors who assume that anything that looks bad has to be Indian propaganda.
 * 1) Oppose &mdash; Openly engages and starts revert wars with several friends over anyone daring to link to articles or sites that criticise Islam with disruptive users like Yuber who break their RfAs - bad conduct, not suitable to be an admin. POV-supporting, cliqueish behaviour.
 * &mdash; Deletes comment by Yuber for help on a revert war to hide his behaviour - "Thanks."
 * &mdash; "Christianity is a dying fad" - believes in superiority of Islam over other religions - also makes a lot of edits to the "Jesus" article (for example, recently removed the "Christianity" template from it), which with comments like those can't be well meaning.
 * Messages left about this behaviour and prompt deletion/changing of comments:
 * (user mistakenly thought he was an admin already, but all the same..)
 * &mdash; Changes other user's comment title to draw less attention to his POV-pushing on Islam-related articles
 * To quote Babajobu, in Anonymous' last RfA: "his worrying commitment to advancing his POV on Wikipedia." -- Mistress Selina Kyle  (  Α⇔Ω ¦  ⇒✉  )  13:36, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Please provide a diff for the user saying that Christianity is a dying fad. I don't see it in the diff you gave above. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 23:47, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * (I'm not going to search through every contribution to find the exact one, but AE didn't deny saying it so yeah.) -- Mistress Selina Kyle  (  Α⇔Ω ¦  ⇒✉  )  15:34, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I absolutely deny ever saying anything like that. I work on both Christianity and Islam articles and would never say anything like that. Also the user who I told to take his discussion to another talk page had been talking about something completely unrelated to wikipedia. He/she's been talking to me since the beginning and really his/her discussion was never legitimate to wikipedia but for other reasons, so I moved it to another user's page who was willing to discuss an issue unrelated to wikipedia. That's all, and surely nothing to argue about. Thanks -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 17:23, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 1)  strong oppose I have been involved in numerous revert wars and conflicts with this editor . This guy is an Islamist and he is a member of a group of editors which continuously patrols Islam related sites to delete, white wash or revise any insertion that portrays his ideology unfavourably. He colludes with a number of other editors , including Yuber, BrandoYusuf and others to gang up on pages to impose their points of view by strength of numbers. If other editors have experienced impartial contributions , then this has not been evident to me in my experience.User:CltFn, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * There is nothing wrong with calling upon other users to assist the user in editing a page or watching it. (This is unlike calling on other users to stuff an afd, or an RFA as this one). Let me remind the community that CltFn is a person who thinks "Wikipedia is being invaded by Islamists" and I hope the community will take his vote with a pinch of salt. -- Natalinasmpf 17:53, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I find these comments made by CltFn both immature and offensive. ε  γκυκλοπ  αίδεια  *  21:22, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * FINALLY, people are challanging oppose votes that have no merit and are in bad faith instead of just attacking the candidate if they respond to any oppose votes. We need more people like you. Voice of  All T 22:57, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * A pinch? I'd suggest a barrelfull.--Sean|Bla ck 22:42, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry to intervene, as being the nominator, but I feel the urgency to state that, at the exception of Encyclopedist, terms ending by ist; like Islamist, Zionist, Extremist, Materialist, Communist, Capitalist, Cabalist (even as a joke), Americanist (sic), Nazist (sic), Tribialist (sic), KingKongist (also sic) and the list may reach n are ADVISED to be avoided. I'd say this user is a POV pusher in all Islam-related articles and mean something interesting to other wikipedians. Or just to make the statement maker feel "less thirsty", in this case, one can use the term Islamic rather than Islamist. Wikipedia is no forum (sic) guys! I think before we have to fix POV problems in wikipedia, we should definitely fix the ist syndrome . If we have POV problems, we also have RfCs, RfArbs and all what start an R! But we have no place for ists. We need peace and not make the paths full of muds! You see that this Rfa and the one below are set to do that, nothing apart that and ists are never welcommed! I hope I said everthing I wanted to say and with clarity! Cheers -- Szvest 22:52, 31 December 2005 (UTC)   Wiki me up&#153;
 * Sorry again! By the way commentator, take this advice, clean up the mud you got on your Frontpage! It looks a bit out of taste, I mean uglist! <font style="background: orange">Sorry again!&#153;  The comment is outdatedist. The commentator had already cleand up their doorstep. I like that change and I support it!  Wiki me up&#153;
 * I stated my case as I see it and I stand by it. Based on my interaction with this editor anonymous user, I see nothing that leads me to believe he will be an impartial editor in regards to the pages he pushes his POV on. --CltFn 23:35, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * A simple question CltFn. Islamist POV or Islamic POV or just POV? Cheers -- Szvest 04:53, 1 January 2006 (UTC)  Wiki me up&#153;
 * FayssalF, I have already told you my conclusions based on the interactions I have had with this user. Why do you not disclose while you are at it that you yourself have very often sided with AE in various edit conflicts , though I do not hold that against you , its just that I may question your impartiality in this matter. Cry foul to the masses all you want , it won't change what I have observed in the interactions I have had. The POV that I have observed is Islamist. --CltFn 23:28, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) * Oppose I definitely don't think a candidate should be stating what people can or can't bring up when voicing their right to vote. This user has only been here since May, there's a couple of accounts of edit warring and "meltdowns" as recent as two months ago.  I believe that more time in the project and interaction with the community to get a better handle on how to avoid edit warring and meltdowns is merited before one becomes an admin and two months of good behavior out of a total of 7 months editing is not a long enough track record for me.  I encourage you to keep working together with other editors to achieve balance in editing and avoid the warring. --Wgfinley 02:39, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) ** Same comment in the Rfa below! Weird! ;) Thanks for the vote Wgfinley. And also thanks for your words about the move for reconciliation between two wikipedians. I am not sure about any existing guideline or policy explaining when or how to nominate wikipedians for adminship. Anyway, I am glad someone opposed so I can express myself (as truster and trustee), to say that only a few of Wikipedians (including admins) take care of what's going on on Islam-related articles. I nominated both (monitored if you want) users for adminship to make a balance and not to abuse their positions. I had a lot of talks in private with both users (refering to the nomination below) to make sure that both nominators become aware of the policies (though I am sure both of them went maybe once to a 3RR stuff) . I got their words. If not, the RfArb is there to judge if someone is abusing their power. I trust Anonymous editor as much as I trust Babajobu . Please, blame me if once you'd ever encounter any default. Cheers -- Wiki me up&#153;
 * 3) *After some conversations with Anonymous and Babajobu I'm switching my vote to support. I trust the concerns have been duly noted and will be considered as an admin.  --Wgfinley 02:33, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Strong oppose. He obviously doesn't respect important wiki-policies such as NPOV, and I am very sure that he will indeed abuse his adminship to enforce his views and ideas in articles re Islam. I feel that it's sad to see the amount of support votes he has recieved here, but ufortunately I can't say that I am that surprised. -- Karl Meier 22:02, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Oppose. I still feel he should have taken more time before attempting to do this again. I don't give that much importance to editcounts but even if did I wouldn't be convinced by the fact that more than half his edits are not on articles but on talk pages etc. A sign that he argues more than he edits, maybe? Idleguy 05:20, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * For the record, he didn't attempt to "do this again", Szvest nominated him, he accepted. Also, using talk pages indicates communication, not argument.  I'd rather support someone who discusses their edits on talk pages any day, than have to put up with the frustrating users who think that edit summaries are sufficient and talk pages unnecessary.  Tom e r<sup style="font-variant: small-caps; color: #129dbc!important;">talk  14:57, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The idea is to contribute more to articles and not otherwise. Generally I found a ratio of 5:1 in terms of article edits to talk page edits. In his care there is more talk than article edits vis a vis other editors' stats, so I thought I'd point that out. Idleguy 07:44, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) oppose. I am not convinced that AnonymousEditor2 is capable of keeping POV out of his/her work. I don't like some of the behaviors he/she has exhibited. I realize people can change, and I encourage them to do so. Maybe I will support this user at a later date. Kingturtle 20:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose My objections about POV pushing and edit-warring from his last RfA haven't been fixed. -Greg Asche (talk) 05:41, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Neutral
 * Neutral Leaning towards support. I havn't interacted with AE recently (and would highly suggest a name change in the future to avoid mass newbie confusion if AE becomes an admin) but I recall likling him a great deal. I'd like an answer to question four before I procede however.--Tznkai 18:11, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Good comment. I maybe would suggest  Known editor ;) Seriously, Tzn got a point. Admins should carry a good example. -- Szvest 19:53, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I have trouble imagining what that confusion would consist of. Would they think he was an anonymous editor?  He is an anonymous editor.  I really don't see a problem with AE's username. Chick Bowen 00:57, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Think of the newbies--Tznkai 01:50, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral, has shown some improvement in maturity, and I am inclined to support. However, I would like to ask if you would continue doing things like replacing "Jammu and Kashmir" with "Indian held Kashmir" (eg ) marking your edit as "rv POV", while replacing "Pakistan occupied Kashmir" or "so-called Azad Kashmir" with "Azad Kashmir", marking it again as "rv POV" (eg, ), or would make an effort to be more neutral and responsible with issues in which you clearly have a strong POV? deeptrivia (talk) 18:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * PS: Apart from this concern, however, I'm all for support. I hope this will be addressed. deeptrivia (talk) 21:44, 30 December 2005 (UTC) Changed to support
 * Hi. I have never tried to replace Jammu and Kashmir with anything or Pakistan-held Kashmir with anything; those are reverts. The examples to which you are referring actually have me reverting other pov by anonymous editors. I have always tried to keep the proper names, but it really isn't fair when the Indian version is replaced with the actual name (Jammu and Kashmir) and the Pakistani version says "Pakistan-occupied Kashmir". Can you show me an example of where I actually changed it and it wasn't a revert. Both I and user Deepak Gupta keep an eye on this  to keep the article as neutral as possible. I haven't really added or removed anything from Indian or Pakistan related articles and certainly nothing that was pov since my last Rfa. I have no POV on the issue, I have just seen that many of these articles are very disputed and there are anonymous editors who will come along and try to POV it. Thanks -- a.n.o.n.y.m   t 00:35, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure anon, it's quite possible to miss it while reverting. I prefer using Azad Kashmir and Jammu and Kashmir, but am sometimes irritated by POV-pushers. I would change my vote to support. Cheers :) deeptrivia (talk) 00:57, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks DT. You have also improved a lot. :) -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 01:05, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks to you too!:) deeptrivia (talk) 01:07, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Neutral I supported the previous nomination, had supported above and still think he will be a good admin but I feel that removing comments from a potentially highly-charged RfA was very inadvisable for his own sake and generally disappointing. See      Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   00:04, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Comments


 * Edit summary usage: 99% for major edits and 100% for minor edits. Based on the last 100 major and and 100 minor edits outside the Wikipedia, User, Image, and Talk namespaces.


 * Over 6800 edits almost half in article namespace.
 * I'm kinda weirded out by what appears to be an "I'll vote for you if you vote for me" RfA campaigning in Babajobu's RfA immediately below. Not familiar enough with this editors history to put in a vote above either way, just a comment. - C HAIRBOY  (☎) 17:32, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * In AE's defense, we're in the process of mending fences from an old dispute...I don't see it as vote-jockeying so much as establishing where we're at. Babajobu 17:34, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually more like I am sorry so I'll sign; if you are sorry please sign too. :p You need to see the history of our conflicts for that. And thanks for the defense Baba. :-) -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 17:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually Chairboy, what is wierd is to experience moments of tensions instead of moments of peace. Neither AE nor Baba has needed the support vote from the other. The important thing is that there's no more weirdo stuff anymore. Cheers -- Szvest 17:46, 30 December 2005 (UTC) Wiki me up&#153;
 * That's cool, I guess. You're right, I don't know about the shared background, and I may not be the only one, so I'll leave this intact.  One thing, I think it's great that you two have mended fences so well, that's fantastic and should be commended. - C HAIRBOY  (☎) 18:01, 30 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Please see Usernames and User:ClockworkTroll/Name the Admin Candidate — Jeandré, 2005-12-30t23:37z
 * I don't find think it is a good idea for a future admin (Anonymous editor) to have the habit of quickly removing or reverting comments from his user talk page that he does not like, as he did several times at least (the diffs are in the evidence for oppose above). Also, removing the Christianity template from the Jesus page was not a good idea I believe, wonder how his faith will interfere with need to be neutral in disputes. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 23:54, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
 * A. Reverting vandalism, something which I already do as part of patrolling RC, protecting pages (that I haven't edited recently) and dealing with issues on the noticeboard. The admin rollback button would be great, making vandalism reversion a quicker process. Closing Afd's is also needed as mentioned by some admins during my last Rfa. Blocking and unblocking vandal users (this should speed up because I won't even have to report them to an admin) And of course I will do all the tasks I do now which are cleaning up new articles, wikifying links, pointing out suspected sockpuppets, and making sure that articles and sections are NPOV. I have also started to speedy delete tag pages which were created just as a blank page or as vandalism, and admin status will make it easier for for me. -- a.n.o.n.y.m   t 16:44, 30 December 2005 (UTC)


 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. Yes, I am pleased with many contributions, too many to name actually, but I will choose a few including some that I choose last time: Halaal, Isa, Iblis Egyptian National Library and Archives(about historical archives) and Gibson (about guitars). Also my contributions discussing issues over with other editors was also pleasing and reverting vandalism is very pleasing. -- a.n.o.n.y.m   t 16:44, 30 December 2005 (UTC)


 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A. Yes, in my last Rfa several were mentioned. My last Rfa was a disaster with much edit warring, sockpuppetry and more, but some editors made some good recommendations. These were due to me working on dangerous articles which are Religion and politics. No one is safe when working on those articles. I have dealt with all issues and resolved them. Since then, I have had no large edit wars except for once when a banned editor was using a sockpuppet to edit wikipedia. He was dealt with after I pointed him out for a sockcheck. I still work on dangerous religion and politics articles, but have moved on to editing historical articles, articles about music and bands and many more, so my edit warring is much less. We must remember that even if another editor has a different pov, they are still there to help with articles. As long as everyone keeps remembering policy we will be fine.I feel that Wikipedia is more helpful and fun to edit than it is stressful.  -- a.n.o.n.y.m   t 16:44, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 4 What article do you think shows the best totality of your behavior as an editor?--Tznkai 18:09, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh Tznkai, I have edited so many. Maybe the Isa article or my recent Egyptian National Library and Archives article contribs. I was able to work in peace and clean up and improve those articles a lot. :) -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 18:11, 30 December 2005 (UTC)


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