Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Aris Katsaris

Aris Katsaris
Final: (19/0/0) ending 17:09, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

I worked with Aris on Talk:Invisible Pink Unicorn and he helped admirably to develop a consensus for that article. He has over 4,000 edits and has been a strong contributor on topics relating to the European Union. I think he would make a great admin. Andre ( talk )A| 17:09, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)


 * Thank you! I accept. Up to two week ago I'd have probably refused, because I was stressed out with University chores and I didn't have a broadband connection either. Now that I've fullfilled all graduation requirements, my stress levels will be far more relaxed, my new ADSL connection is now working, and I'm willing to contribute enough time to the workings of Wikipedia. Aris Katsaris 18:17, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Andre ( talk )A|  17:09, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) &#8212;No-One Jones (m) 17:13, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Very Verily  17:20, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 17:36, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) As far as I can see, there's no reason to oppose. Lst27 (talk)  21:19, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 6) Right. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 22:35, 2004 Nov 11 (UTC)
 * 7) Joy &#91;shallot&#93;   22:46, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) Yeppers. ugen64 16:11, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 9) Isn't cable great? Support. Fire Star 16:56, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 10) Aranel ("Sarah") 19:30, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 11) "cable" or "cabal"? ;-) func (talk) 20:36, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 12) Another very fine choice for admin. Strong support.  Antandrus 05:57, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 13) Tuf-Kat 11:25, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * 14) Etz Haim 23:57, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 15) 172 05:06, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 16) dab 15:51, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 17) Taco Deposit | Talk-o Deposit 19:24, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC). I first came across him discussing Tolkien on Usenet, then on Wikipedia. A fine fellow.
 * 18) United in diversity! zoney &#09827; talk 01:26, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * 19) Sure. --Slowking Man 02:29, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Comments
 * Aris works on a broad range of articles and has a good grasp of what Wikipedia is all about; he accepts suggestions and answers stupid questions with equal graciousness. An excellent choice. -[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 19:30, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Big thanks to everyone who voted! :-) Aris Katsaris 19:24, 18 Nov 2004 (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 read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. Some of the more simple tasks initially (protecting pages in revert wars, trying to find a compromise between disputing parties, vandalism-watch). Soon, once I've gotten a good handle on the whole process I anticipate helping out with deletion processes.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. I am pleased with an image I made about the evolving structures of the EU -- Image:EU Structure History.png. It even helped *me* figure out the relationship and history of the EU, so I think that helps. Besides many matters concerning the European Union (heavily structuring Javier Solana, creating new articles where I've think they've been missing like Three pillars of the European Union, cleaning up articles like European Union law and EU treaties -- and contribution in many other EU-related articles), I also made contributions at structuring the hierarchy of Category:Fictional characters. My contribution at Communist state at was a major cleanup job that streamlined the article and removed numerous repetitions. I've also made contributions at matters relating to Tolkien and Harry Potter. Cleaning-up and restructuring jobs usually, as well as templates, where I've felt they could be of use and the like.


 * 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 will deal with it in the future?
 * A. Yeah, there've been two (recently even), which caused me a bit of a stress -- in History of Modern Greece, I recently got annoyed by the constant reversions to a version that had obvious flaws, and the complete failure of the reverters to explain each of the reverted points -- made me go off annoyed in the talk page. In Enlargement of the European Union factual mistakes and blatant POV and repeated reversions to such a clearly POV version, also recently stressed me out, and made me angry at Rudi in the talk page. The former dispute ended with the page being protected. In the latter I backed off, and let Zoney create a compromise version which I accepted.


 * Neither of the cases showed me at my best self. To my defense, in the last couple weeks I was stressed out during both cases by extra-Wikipedia events (namely university obligations, and in the last case extreme toothache as well :-). Both of these have now ended. I also let my anger show ONLY in the talk pages, not through edits, which I always try to explain rationally.


 * If I am made an admin, I promise to not let show anger to such an extent again and follow Wikiquette more closely -- and obviously to never use admin powers in articles I am intimately involved with. Aris Katsaris 18:17, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)