Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/ContiE

ContiE
I had the pleasure of working with ContiE to drastically improve Continuum (computer game). After doing some research on his contributions, I discovered that he has been a Wikipedian since May 2003, and has almost 3000 edits. I am impressed by his attention to detail, his neutrality, and his willingness to do messy tasks like Wikifying pages and cleaning up redirects and disambiguation pages. I feel that ContiE would make an excellent admin and an asset to the Wikipedia community. ContiE has accepted this nomination. --Slowking Man 03:10, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)


 * I accept the nomination. --Conti|&#9993; 04:12, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Merovingian  &#9997;  Talk  05:44, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) blankfaze | (&#1073;&#1077;&#1089;&#1077;&#1076;&#1072;!)  06:18, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Definitely support! -- orthogonal 09:23, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) Strongly support. Neutrality 14:58, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) Support.Arminius 22:37, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 6) Absolutely. &bull; Benc &bull; 22:49, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 7) Gzornenplatz 23:33, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) Acegikmo1 03:54, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 9) Guanaco 04:03, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 10) I smell a grunt worker.. excellent candidate for adminship. -- Grunt (talk) 23:44, 2004 Aug 15 (UTC)
 * 11) Looking over the contribs, I see nothing bad & lots of good. Stormie 02:36, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * 12) What Stormie said. Zocky 03:45, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 13) Andre 07:29, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 14) Geogre 17:05, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC) A cleaner rather than a pugilist. What a welcome change.
 * 15) David Cannon 10:59, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC) Sounds like a good candidate to me.

Comments 2753 edits as of this time. -- Grunt (talk) 23:19, 2004 Aug 15 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters, if you would kindly respond:
 * 1. Have you read the section on Administrators?
 * 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. I think I will spend more time on WP:VFD and WP:CP when I'll become an admin, to help (and delete/redirect/merge) when needed.
 * 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. I already look through recent changes regularly for suspicious edits and vandalism, mark articles as stubs, wikify them etc.. Reverting vandalism quickly will be a very handy tool for me. I also will visit votes for deletion and copyright problems more frequently as I mentioned above.
 * 4. In your opinion, what article have you contributed the most succesfully and helpfully to?
 * A. I almost solely do minor chores like wikifying articles, fixing links and reverting vandalism. My biggest work in this respect was to sort the people in Category:People (and its subcategories) by their surname.
 * 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. See above. Also, a while ago I came across an anon I now call the "sneaky vandal guy", who adds sneaky vandalism to a few sites. I now have these articles in my watchlist and do a fact check everytime an anon adds something to one of these articles. Some vandalism was in these articles for weeks before I removed it.
 * 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. Yes. I have been in a little conflict about the category Birmingham, England. In my opinion, the category is overcategorized, the creator of the category disagrees strongly though. I've put this case to request for comment after no consensus was reached and now started a poll on which articles should be removed from the category. In the future I'll ask at RFC first when I can't reach any consensus on my own, I think it is a good way to get some neutral opinions.

Thanks and good luck!