Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Caltrop

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Caltrop
Sorry, I forgot to add a statement of my intentions -- may I please beg extenuation due to holiday-itis?

Wikipedia is a wonderfully collegial place, I am continually delighted by the success of the project. I stay out of edit wars, repairing only overt vandalism, and work quietly on my interests of art and geography. Stubs? Not many -- only in the heat of creeping tangentialism. Follow-up is usually swift as I have access to many online databases and foreign language sources and can synthesize (not merely rewrite or paraphrase) rapidly.

I have joined many other Wikipedians by making a financial donation to the project. Days when the system is out or partially down are tiresome days for me. The power of other's fully-developed work in wiki hyperlinks deeply enriches the experience of writing articles.

Lately I have been recruiting volunteer photographers worldwide. They understand the project terms, and are eager to cooperate. Most are professionals and know the rules of image rights and permissions, as do I from my day job as a researcher for a Fortune 10 firm. My goal is to illustrate the articles requesting images as well as my own articles on sculptors, painters and geography. Yes I know that the project is "not a collection of images" but do not worry, I am using balance and discretion on this side project.

I am requesting adminship so that I may chiefly clean up my own messes - for instance, expunging misnamed, malformed, or incorrectly cited or hastily "righted" images (to coin a barbarous phrase). But also to aid in protecting the project which I have the highest ideals for.

Everyday, as I talk or write to historians, archivists, curators and artists and researchers, I spread the word about the project.

You can count on me to use adminship sparingly, rationally and collegially.


 * Support.
 * A basic statement of intention/credentials? Support --Jiang 22:07, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
 * My quick, unofficial count shows about 1450 contributions since June 5, 2002. I'll support --Raul654 01:34, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)
 * I geuss I will too. Support. Green  Mountain 22:59, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
 * Support Hemanshu 17:28, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree with Jiang that something more than the person just listing their name here is needed. Support. Angela. 21:08, Jan 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * No vote. Comment: I open the RfA page and check for adminship requests. I see a person who listed himself or herself with a link to his or her userpage, without providing any text. I find this strange. I agree with Angela that something more is needed than just putting a name. The userpage, created on June 2002 and updated one time on Dec 2003, does not contain much information, and the same applies to the talk page. The user has done many edits (1000<edits<1501). He has added some images and maps, too. His or her contributions seem to be useful, but I am not able to check all of them so I base my opinion on just some random checks of his or her edits. I have no reason to oppose adminship of this person, but because of the lack of information I cannot support him or her right now, and I feel a bit suspicious about why he or she didn't provide any introduction to himself or herself, both here and on his or her userpage, and I cannot understand why. He or she is welcome to provide more information and present his or her credentials and intentions (this does not imply that I will necessarily vote or comment again). With Best Wishes for Peace Profound, ... Optim 03:39, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC) ...