Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Demi


 * The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful request for adminship. Please do not modify it.

Demi
Final (56/0/0) ended 05:45 25 November 2005 (UTC)

– I have been here for a little over a year, editing with varying degrees of activity. Once or twice people have offered to nominate me for adminship (probably to stop me bugging them to perform admin tasks), but as I recently encountered a few situations where admin privileges would have been useful, I thought I would do it myself. Demi T/C 15:17, 17 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: This is a self-nomination. Demi T/C 15:40, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Duh with a capital D! Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 15:43, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Keep. Notable, verifiable, extensively sourced, and widely linked to.  BD2412  T 15:51, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support not an admin? Unbelievable.  Grue   16:07, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. Looks like a valuable admin. Arguably we're under-represented with admins who want to use their powers to restore articles with value and unblock accidentally blocked users. The Land 16:13, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Sigh. RFA cliche #1.  Maybe it's because you look like User:Denni.  I should know better than to make assumptions by now. &mdash;Cryptic (talk) 16:23, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) As one of the people who has previously offered to nominate him, of course I support. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 16:28, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 7)  Support And glad to do it, engaged and intelligent. Rx StrangeLove 16:31, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Extreme "It's a travesty that he isn't one already" support --Cel e stianpower háblame 16:46, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Support, of course. Antandrus  (talk) 16:48, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support no brainer.Gator (talk) 17:41, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) merge into Denni. Wait, wrong page. Er, support. Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 17:48, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Extreme Support of course --Jaranda(watz sup) 18:13, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support --FireFox ™ 18:49, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support. Thunderbrand 18:52, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support I also like your comments on your userpage regarding Questionable or Offensive Images--MONGO 19:31, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support. My compliments for your extensive and clear use of edit summaries, particulalry the quality! And about the images: just ask Toby, no? The Minister of War 21:19, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Speedy Promote, patent awesomeness :)--Sean|Bla ck 22:07, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support: I honestly assumed Demi already was one. Jonathunder 23:08, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support. Whaaat Demi's not already an admin. Jtkiefer T  23:15, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support --Rogerd 23:45, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 00:00, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support, will be an invaluable addition to the . Always glad to support someone who will really benefit from the tools. Rje 00:34, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support looks like a good candidate. Matthew Brown 00:38, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) n00b support &#8766; Mrs. Kutchner has been extremely helpful to me as I slowly begin to navigate my way through the underbelly of Wikipedia, and is a very level-headed individual to boot. → Ξxtreme Unction {yak ł blah } 02:11, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support, very helpful user, extra points for the selfnom. Bishonen|talk 02:14, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Merovingian 05:49, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support. Good contributor. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:30, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support. Experienced user with strong contrib's. Marskell 10:29, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Abso-bloody-lutely, support. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 14:02, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Support --Duk 17:23, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 31) Undelete, this article was improperly speedied, clearly asserts notability, and is identified as one of the essential subjects of Wikipedia by the WP:1.0 team. Huh? Oh, shoot, this is RfA... Support, same reasons: clearly notable, as I see him often in Wikipedia, and has been identified as an essentially good editor by everyone above and me. Tito xd (?!?) 18:17, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 32) Support, passes the lightning admin test, and sometimes helps out resolving disputes (my 2 criteria). Kim Bruning 20:49, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 33) Support: this user is unlikely to abuse admin tools. Christopher Parham (talk) 20:58, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 34) Support: It's great to see someone wait a bit and then ask when the toolset is actually useful. Geogre 21:22, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 35) Support. Per above, I think Demi would make a good admin; also a bit shocked you're not one.  Ral315 (talk) 21:52, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 36) Support. People like Demi make me wonder if we should have a WP:CSD-esque speedying for noms, he absolutely deserves it, he's helped me several times after asking on IRC. And oh yeah, his helpfulness that i've seen waives my opinion of the negative aspect of self-noms here. Karmafist 22:45, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 37) Support: --Bhadani 16:35, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 38) Support - fine answers to the stock questions, good edit history - perfect candidate. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 17:17, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 39) Un Demi, s'il vous plâit. &mdash; J I P  | Talk 18:31, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 40) Support --pgk( talk ) 18:33, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 41) Support. El_C 23:40, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 42) Support. -Splash talk 03:19, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 43) Support. See no issues here. Jayjg (talk) 07:36, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 44)  Oran   e    (t)   (c)   (e-mail)  Make Céline Dion a FA! 00:56, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 45) Desperate, clamoring support an eminently reasonable fellow, a great Wikipedian, and OMG he's not already an admin?! Babajobu 04:58, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 46) Support. -Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 08:43, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 47) They put a gun to my head and made me Support, those bastards. Fahrenheit   Royal  e  17:07, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 48) Support. No coercion was necessary here.  Hall Monitor 17:38, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 49) Yeah. JFW | T@lk  01:47, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 50) Support! Sarge Baldy 03:35, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 51) Support. Yet another obvious case. --MarkSweep (call me collect) 05:58, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 52) I-thought-he-was-an-admin-already Support --VileRage ( Talk | Cont ) 06:06, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 53) I would like it known that I was the fifty first person to vote in support of Demi. I would also like an explanation why this did not happen months ago?! Thryduulf 08:30, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 54) Support. Obvious admin fodder. --GraemeL (talk) 16:41, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 55) Duh. - Mailer Diablo 23:52, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 56) Support Kefalonia 18:31, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

This vote was made after the deadline:
 * 1) Support. utcursch | talk 03:37, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Comments
 * Do you have an email id set? Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 05:48, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I do. Demi T/C 14:36, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Are you a he or a she? Just curious since some people have called you a he/she. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  07:57, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I am a he, and I recognize that my feminine username will lead folks the other way--but no worries, I've never minded much about the pronouns. I don't mind being called he, she, or, as you have it, "he/she" (grin). The genesis of my username is too desperately geeky to explain, but it's not related to the name Demi. Demi T/C 09:11, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
 * It can't be that geeky considering that we have rabid Star Wars fans, rabid Star Trek fans (careful they bite), and that's only two categories of users. Jtkiefer T  04:12, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think sex, gender, race, or anything else like that matters. Demi could be a cute little literate chipmunk from Alpha Centauri, a genetically engineered clone of Shakespeare&Einstein&Newton&Socrates, or something inbetween, and it doesn't matter. What matters is the text we see, and this text doesn't have any sex or gender associated with it, nor does it matter. --Durin 14:22, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Though you'll only back a literate Centaurian chipmunk for admin if they're over 25, Durin? The Land 15:27, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * A) "25" had nothing to do with who I would vote for, it had to do with who I would nominate. B) It is no longer a standard of mine. But, I guess we're not allowed to evolve, eh? I admitted my error and moved on. I guess you're not willing to move on. Oh well. --Durin 15:40, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I wasn't aware you'd changed your view on the matter. Apologies. The Land 15:50, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I just wanted to say to everyone how gratified and appreciative I am to their participation and support. Thank you all so much! Demi T/C 16:48, 24 November 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 check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
 * A. Well, a lot of my editing has been done in association with cleaning out the Wikipedia cleanup categories, so it's fair to say I'm attracted to backlogs, and I would take turns at those associated with WP:CP and the various deletion pages. A few times I have noticed articles like Witty worm, The Boatniks and Bobinogs get speedied, it would be nice in those cases to be able to view the deleted page to see if real articles can be made from them. I have helped revise blocks for legitimate users caught by autoblocks or IP blocks, and it would be nice to be more responsive in this area. I've also tackled the occasional technical and formatting task, so it would be useful to correct edits in the interface if necessary.


 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. I would say I'm pleased with my overall contributions more than any particular piece, though I find turning deleted or otherwise "hopeless" substubs into real articles, such as with Witty worm, very satisfying. I'm happy about cases where I've been able to "unbite" a newbie or otherwise help out a fellow Wikipedian, even if it's a one-character edit. I believe in the "free" aspect of Wikipedia, so am pleased with having generated free media such as spoken Wikipedia articles and photographs.


 * 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. Yes, I have edited contentious articles such as those related to Adolf Hitler, and conflicts have arisen over the proper usage of the &#123;&#123;Spoken Wikipedia&#125;&#125; template. My first and default reaction in almost any kind of conflict is to gather the opinions of other participants--I figure the more people looking at an issue and offering input, the better. Civility is very important to me, and if I feel myself getting upset about things, a break is in order.


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