Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Dmcdevit

Dmcdevit
final (38/1/1) ending 13:29 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Dmcdevit is a hard-working contributor who specializes in the Transwiki process and cleanup related to that, but has also worked with the Stubsensor Cleanup Project - and of course wrote several articles in the meantime. He would be a worthwhile addition to the admin team. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 13:30, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

(for those who want numbers, WP:KATE says about 5k edits).


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
 * Thank you for the kind words! I accept more humbly than anyone else has ever accepted (yep, think about it). My one request here is that people ignore all rules nominees try to make at the top with their acceptance. --Dmcdevit·t 20:04, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Support Long overdue, I've found him helpful in the past, and he could do his cleanup work better with the admin extra buttons.  NoSeptember -  13:52, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support.  Cooperative user who has done hard work in Transwiki, but has broader experience.  -   BanyanTree 17:08, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) It doesn't get any hotter than this. Mike H (Talking is hot) 18:51, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support Give this guy adminship already gkhan 19:00, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) El_C 19:38, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support. Wile E. Heresiarch 00:52, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support Very active doing cleanup and janitorial work. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:49, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Supoort yes indeed. Grutness...  wha?  02:06, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Support, great work on transwikis and other janitor tasks, and could make good use of admin tools--nixie 04:10, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support goes around doing lots of good stuff and doing it well. Plenty of time spent in the areas of WP that admins are needed in most. Admin tools in his hands will speed along the improvment of Wiki wonderfully. -Splash 05:38, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. Excellent janitor. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:03, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support - Guettarda 16:47, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support. --Scimitar parley 16:54, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support Only had good experiences so far--Sophitus 17:30, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support. He's a very good janitor, gives useful (though short) edit summaries, has done nice work with Transwiki, and has shown good interactions with other users.  He's not an admin?  Let's fix that! --Idont Havaname 22:00, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support Stirling Newberry 05:20, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support, why not. --Sn0wflake 05:23, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Most definitely – top notch editor. --Spangineer (háblame)  10:52, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) M e r o v i n g i a n  (t) (c) 11:15, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Yep! Dedicated to making WP better. &middot; Katefan0(scribble) 15:48, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support  WBardwin 16:51, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support Stewart Adcock 21:50, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support. utcursch | talk 10:14, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support- I thought he was one already. --Bhadani 11:00, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support. All together now – I thought he was one already! A &#1080; D &#1103; 01D  TALK  EMAIL  13:15, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Cool. JuntungWu 14:52, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support - RFA Cliché no. 1 definitely applies here! Thryduulf 15:42, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) SupportBluemoose 21:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support. Hall Monitor 23:46, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Support, on the condition that the nominee teaches me the mythical secrets of the transwiki process. -- BD2412  talk 01:22, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Absolutely, help welcome! You could start out at transwiki (though it is general and overly complicated). And I'll always answer any questions that you have to the best of my ability, even in excruciating detail. :) --Dmcdevit·t 01:40, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks - a good place to start, indeed. The questions will come soon enough. -- BD2412 talk 20:53, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Support excellent member of the wiki-community. Poli (talk &bull; contribs) 03:29, 2005 July 21 (UTC)
 * 2) Support - shows good judgment & clear dedication to Wikipedia. Gblaz 17:53, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. Looks like a great contributor. Sorry it took so long to get you nominated. - Taxman Talk 20:49, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. Great work, showing good judgement. Feydey 00:43, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support Shows good judement and does great work on wikipedia -- Jtkiefer 04:16, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support. Baaaa... Fire Star 04:24, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support. Dmc? You didn't tell me you were up for an adminship. Shame on you. Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame. :-) --Woohookitty 06:07, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support. Mackensen (talk) 12:11, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:38, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * May I ask why you are in opposition of Dmcdevit receiving adminship? Hall Monitor 23:46, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Because Boothy is onto us - admins are 3vil hypnotized tools of the Cabal that is taking over the world, and Boothy wishes to save Dmc from the same dire fate. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 07:54, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) Neutral. Two months short of my personal threshold for supporting potential admins. Denelson83  21:11, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Comments

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. Lately, I've found myself tagging a lot of speedy deletes, especially when going through the transwiki log and finding either recreations, or articles with VfD decisions to transwiki and delete, but were never deleted after being transwikied. I certainly see myself helping out with speedies, and any closing XfD backlog. I'm sure Theo and Radiant and any other admins I've been asking to do chores for me will want me off their backs. And I know I'll find other places to help out too.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. Well, I guess there is of course the transwikiing job, and you can take a look at the transwiki log (which is in dire need of more helpers!) and its archives for an idea of the sheer amount of definitions moved and then subsequently cleaned up. Article-wise, I'm more of a stub-starter than an FA producer, but the one article I've worked most extensively on, actually the one that I found Wikipedia because of, and so some of the early anon edits are mine, is Black Death. I got a little burnt out on the topic after an extensive peer review, and so I haven't done some needed touchups necessary to bring it up to FA status. I do, however, have one featured list, list of countries where UN peacekeepers are currently deployed and one soon to be FL (no objections on the nom as of yet), list of UN peacekeeping missions. And other stuff, too.
 * 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 tend not to be in situations where there will be conflicts. However, as the single transwikier-to-Wiktionary for a time, there have been some minor tussles with editors ignorant of the transwiki process (a common afliction) who were afraid tagged articles were going to be deleted when they're simply duplicated. I can't think of any other conflicts, but I think the way to resolve any of them is to talk it out calmly, hear out all opinions and be willing to compromise.