Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/DanielCD

DanielCD
Final (19/0/1) ending 22:09 31 August 2005 (UTC) - Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to present to you DanielCD. He has been editting since 22nd June 2004, and with 15,249 edits in that time he is clearly one of the most dedicated wikipedians among us. My personal interaction with him has been on the missing articles project, specifically, he does enormous volumes of quality work importing 1911 material. When I asked Daniel about adminship initially his response was I need to read up and see what being an admin entails, that is the sign of a level headed and trustworthy user! --Martin - The non-blue non-moose 22:09, 24 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Yes, I accept and look forward to continuing my contributions and maintenance efforts. --DanielCD 14:08, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Support. Martin - The non-blue non-moose 22:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support - good editor. -Satori (talk) 23:22, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Merovingian (t) (c) 06:07, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support - a good editor. - MPF 13:29, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support Vsmith 15:29, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Andre ( talk ) 18:03, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support - meets my standards. No reason to oppose whatsoever. --Celestianpower hab 21:26, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support &mdash;would make a very good administrator. I also liked his answers. Journalist C. [[Image:Smilie.gif|30px]] Holla @ me! 
 * 9) Support Stewart Adcock 10:42, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support. Having gone through his contributions, DanielCD seems to be a fine editor. Not at all sure how 14 months of experience qualifies as "insufficient time". Sjakkalle (Check!)  11:04, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support 14 months is a lot of time.  Grue  11:20, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support. Meets my guidelines. android  79  20:51, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support - He's a fine and responsible editor who will do a great job as admin JoJan 12:48, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support. He's been here for a long time and has amassed a large number of edits in that time.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91  ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  15:06, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support. El_C 17:54, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) with the old cliche - "you mean he isn't already one?" - Guettarda 19:24, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support, everything looks good here. Func( t, c, @,) 16:26, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support. Extremely sensible, heavy content contributions, good administrative skills. JFW | T@lk  21:13, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support Changed from Neutral. Acetic  ' Acid  11:49, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) Oppose for insufficient time on project.  Edits are important, but time on project is more important, as it takes a while to run into the variety of personalities and issues that the project offers.  Further, I do not see much activity on the admin-like pages (the deliberation pages).  I have no hesitation about the user's personality, but merely wish to see more time pass and more context established.  Geogre 21:47, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) D'oh! My sincerest apologies.  Geogre 15:33, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose per Geogre. freestylefrappe 04:46, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Oppose, two months is a little too raw. He hasn't faced a serious dispute as yet. I'd be more happy if he could gain some more experience here and garner some barnstars. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  07:30, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Daniel joined on June 24, 2004, not 2005. Acetic Acid 07:49, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm so very sorry. =Nichalp «Talk»=  09:35, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) Withholding Until more dialogue is established. I'll decide how to vote in the next few days. Thank you for taking time to answer my question though! Hamster Sandwich 05:16, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Neutral You meet the majority of my criteria, but I have a few reservations. First of all, you don't always use edit summaries. Second, your answer to the first question doesn't say much about the future. Sure, you revert vandalism now, but that doesn't tell us anything about what you will do with sysop rights. I'll support if the first question is either revised or explained further.  Acetic Acid  ( talk ) 13:44, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * No, I'm not absolutely exhaustive in my use of edit summaries. Who is? No one is perfect in that regard, and I've been working on using it as much as possible. And as for the future, I'll help out wherever help is needed. I'll help to initiate voting where it's needed on deletions and such, and help to apply the decisions that are made by user consensus. It will take some learning and doing some things I haven't worked on much up to now, but I'm up to it. --DanielCD 14:00, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Alright, let's see what you can do. Changed to support. Acetic  ' Acid  11:49, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * Question I would like to know, what percentage specifically (within 5%) would you consider to be consensus when closing a VfD or related function? Hamster Sandwich 20:37, 25 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I would like to see at least 75% as a rule of thumb. I'm usually pretty conservative when it comes to deletion. --DanielCD 03:49, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. Mostly janitorial stuff and watching for and reverting vandalism. I also patrol the plant articles a lot to add categories and fix and add taxoboxes.


 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?


 * A. Resurrection Fern is my favorite because I did it all, from the research to the photos. I have also taken several pictures and done articles for several types of Trilobites that I'm happy with. The Iamblichus (philosopher) article came from 1911 badly garbled, and I did a lot of research on that one, so much that a lot of the 1911 material is actually gone. I do a lot of work on the missing articles project, especially on garbled 1911EB entries. I look at it as a challenge to research foreign language titles and names and fix the article up good as new.


 * 3. 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 how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A. I've had some minor conflicts, but nothing in real depth. Everything seems to work out when you take the initiative to actually communicate with people, and that's what I try to do.