Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Benc

Benc
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Benc, or Ben, has been with us for around three months and in that time has shown himself to be a friendly, reliable user with a good nature. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 22:53, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, Neutrality. I accept the nomination. (For the curious: I have 4,000 edits or so.) &bull; Benc &bull; 23:34, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Neutralitytalk 22:53, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) GeneralPatton 23:03, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) An obvious one!--Bishonen 23:43, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) For sure. &mdash;Stormie 23:50, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) Michael Snow 00:05, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 6) Yep. David Remahl 00:27, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 7) I kinda miss my old user name, but... what the heck. ;-) func(talk) 05:11, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) Conti|&#9993; 16:17, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)
 * 9) 3 months + 4000 edits + good nature = my support. ;) -- Grunt 🇪🇺 17:07, 2004 Sep 21 (UTC)
 * 10) Geogre 18:52, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC) Pretty clear eyed and even tempered, very trustworthy.
 * 11) Jwrosenzweig 21:25, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC) Given Ben's intelligent contributions and wise perspective, I was sure he'd been here much longer than 3 months -- wholehearted support.
 * 12) ffirehorse 22:00, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 13) Support. --Lst27 23:59, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 14) ugen64 00:36, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * 15) EDGE 07:01, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC) -- He jumped the gun on my edit of Pirate Radio, and this displeased me, but he was very nice and friendly after he realized what a horrible mistake it all was. I like nice and friendly people.
 * 16) Ambi 07:04, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 17) Yes. {&#9398;&#8469;&#940;&#8475;&#8505;&#8500;&#628; } 10:20, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 18) Very much so. -- Merovingian &#1124; Talk  10:44, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * 19) By all means. &ETH;&aring;&ntilde;&eta;&yuml;&szlig;&ocirc;&yacute; | Talk 12:07, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 20) My interactions with him have been positive.  Seems stable. - Nat Krause 16:02, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 21) Support. Jayjg 20:25, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 22) Absolutely. Antandrus 15:00, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 23) Hard working, level-headed, works well with others and requires three personal sandboxes. Um... Yes.  SWAdair | Talk  07:49, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 24) Sure. --Pgreenfinch 16:19, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 25) CryptoDerk 04:17, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * 26) squash 11:12, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * 27)  – Andre ( talk )  21:35, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 28) -- orthogonal 03:09, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 29) Met Benc a number of times, and found a person with a good deal of initiative. Support all the way! &bull;  &rarr;  I&ntilde;g&oacute;lemo  &larr;&bull;  04:34, 2004 Sep 27 (UTC)
 * 30) About damn time. I can hardly think of a better candidate for adminship.  blankfaze |  (&#1073;&#1077;&#1089;&#1077;&#1076;&#1072;!)  07:16, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 31) Doing good work. PS original signature JFW | T@lk  23:19, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) Oppose.  Don't appreciate personal attacks on the motives of people making VfD listings.  RickK 19:27, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

Neutral


 * 1) Although I've seen nothing but good contributions from Benc, he's only been active for two months despite signing up in December 2003. Moreover, most of his edits are minor "formatting" or "management" edits, such as adding categories.  This isn't bad, of course; willingness to do such administative work indicates that Benc will be a very productive administrator.  But it prevents me from getting an comprehensive view of Benc's dealings with content-related matters.  As such, I am neutral.  Acegikmo1 02:55, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) Changing my vote to neutral. RickK 04:51, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) I concur with Acegikmo1. -JCarriker 05:59, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)

Comments

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. Have you read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list?
 * A. Yes.
 * 2. Are you interested in, and do you think you'll have some time to perform, the chores that only sysops have access to do, to help keep Wikipedia up to date?
 * A. Yes.
 * 3. If you become a sysop, which sysop chore or chores (WP:VFD, recent changes, watching for vandals and vandalism, responding to editor requests for assistance, any other) do you especially think you would be able to help with.
 * A. Responding to general requests for assistance. I would also like to help out with VFD maintenance if needed, and its oft-neglected sister pages (TFD, CFD, etc.)
 * 4. In your opinion, what article have you contributed the most succesfully and helpfully to?
 * A. If I have to pick one, it would have to be anarchist symbolism because it's grown the most, despite its being no stranger to controversy.
 * 5. In your opinion, what has your best contribution to the running and maintenance of Wikipedia been? (i.e., have you reverted a bad stretch of vandalism, done extensive work categorizing articles, helped mediate a dispute?)
 * A. I do a fair bit of grunt work (disambig wikilinks, refactor talks, categorization, etc.). But my most visible contribution would probably be Guide to improving articles. Yeah, it's a little idealistic and introspective, but I like it all the same. :-)
 * 6. 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. I don't shy away from controversial topics, just controversial edits. As a personal rule, I always stop editing and take it to the talk page after the first revert. The several times this has happened, I have never failed to reach a compromise within several days. I will continue to do so.