Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Arwel Parry

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Arwel Parry
I've been here since the end of January, and have only managed to be involved in one edit war (with Eloquence over date formats in 10 Rillington Place). I'm not the most prolific author, but those I do write tend to be quite, um, encyclopaedic (see most of the denomination articles off British coinage for example, or British banknotes (the interest in money comes from not having much!)), and I've also got a bit of a spelling fetish, hence quite a lot of minor typo edits. I'm also the sole admin over on cy.wikipedia. Arwel 14:20, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
 * Support. I'm sure Arwel would be a great admin. Angela 15:26, Oct 9, 2003 (UTC)
 * Support. Coins, stamp, spelling fetish. Good things. --Menchi 21:53, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
 * Also support - Hephaestos 21:59, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
 * Support - just recently I had occasion to notice Arwel's attention to detail and was most impressed. Jwrosenzweig 22:09, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
 * Oppose: Sysops shouldn't get into edit wars.However, if Eloquence votes to support, I will toggle my vote to support. --Uncle Ed 22:22, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
 * Ah, the joys of irony! My point being that as I've only been in 1 edit war, I don't go looking for them (and I didn't start that one). As the outcome was that we got date formats made a user preference, I think I can safely claim that most people were happy with the result of it :) Arwel
 * So you're asking that Eloquence (and probably most sysops, myself included) be de-opped for being involved in an edit war? We look for good behavior with the hope that this good behavior continues when one is a sysop. Deteriorating behavior once a user gains this status should not be permitted. --Jiang 23:01, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
 * Edit wars can't always be avoided, sadly, for example, when not reverting a certain change for too long would mean that work that has already been done needs to be done again. In any case, I don't see that as sufficient reason to oppose Arwel's sysop status.&mdash;Eloquence 10:50, Oct 10, 2003 (UTC)
 * Support: a solid contributor, I'me surprised he isn't one already G-Man 22:56, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
 * Support. I've known Arwel elsenet for quite a while, and he's sensible and calm. (As a side note, if we de-sysop'd everyone who's ever been in an edit war, there'd be almost no sysops left, and Ed wouldn't be one of them. I probably wouldn't either.) Vicki Rosenzweig 23:16, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)
 * Support. About 1000 edits going back to February. Re: edit wars, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone" Fuzheado
 * Support. Looks good.Ark30inf 05:37, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)
 * Aye. -- sugarfish 06:38, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)
 * Support. *blush* Ah, the sadness of irony! :-( I utterly misconstrued Arwel's point and hereby reverse my hasty vote. I can already feel Treebeard's eyes on me... --Uncle Ed 14:21, 10 Oct 2003 (UTC)