Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Chrisbrl88


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Chrisbrl88
Final tally (0/3/0). Closed by HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   at 10:29, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:


 * 1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?


 * A: I intend to revert vandalism wherever I see it, help to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles in any way I can, assist new users in becoming acquainted with Wikipedia, and to participate and assist in any way I can.


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?


 * A: I don't really know that I can choose a best contribution. Most any time I need information on a particular topic (whether it's practical or I'm just enjoying reading through the articles) I tend to look it up on Wikipedia. If, in the course of researching something, I see something that is out of place or can be improved, I do my best to work on it. I have been using Wikipedia for a long time now and I am not even really sure how many edits I've made. It's safe to say I've learned a lot and improved drastically as far as my utilization of Wikipedia's standards go, though.


 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?


 * A: I can't recall any time I have been in an edit war or had a conflict of any kind with another Wikipedia user. I tend to think of it as a democracy.

Oppose

 * 1) Oppose It seems that the instructions were not followed when setting up this RFA page. It is very important for Admins to be able to follow tedious instructions to get things exactly correct. Checking further I find that the candidate only has a few contributions, and has been inactive until April this year. A new article has not been created yet. Chris has not yet used the move button. There are plenty more things to try before being an admin. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:24, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * By active I mean basically busy. Although Chris has been around for year, there are few recorded contributions before this year.  I would count an average of 10 edits per day as active.  Or huge edits may count too, if several paragraphs were added in one edit. The main thing is to try out lots of different activities to know what can be done here. I will let Chris know what may be useful to get the experience required, but it will require a large commitment of time. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:38, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Excellent, I love the answer to Q1, but you don't need admin tools for that. Being an admin doesn't give you any special status. If you want to revert vandalism, spend some time on special:RecentChanges and then apply for rollback rights- I'll grant them if you make a few good reverts :) HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   09:53, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) per Graeme Bartlett. The inability to even initiate the RFA properly shows serious ineptitude in my opinion. Sorry, but you're just not suitable at the moment. Big  Dom  10:00, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Neutral

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