Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/DropDeadGorgias

User:DropDeadGorgias
DropDeadGorgias has over 1600 edits since 5 Mar 2003 (with increased activity from February of 2004), has shown interest in issues like featured articles and deletions, and would benefit from having admin abilities. In my opinion, this user shows good judgment and an even temperament, and would make a fine administrator. --Michael Snow 19:41, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * I accept, and it's an honor just to be nominated. BTW, this gender neutral stuff is really annoying. I'm a dude. I'll put a note on my page.... - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:04, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) I know I'm not the first to say this, but I love the username. --Michael Snow 19:41, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) Hear, hear -- both to the compliment on the username and Michael's assessment of DDG's suitability. :-)  Strong support. Jwrosenzweig 19:48, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Finally someone I'm familiar with to vote for. An excellent choice. BCorr | &#1041;&#1088;&#1072;&#1081;&#1077;&#1085; 19:50, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) He/she is not already an admin?!?!?!?!?!?!  Seriously, this is a big surprise to me!  Strong support.  blankfaze |  (&#1073;&#1077;&#1089;&#1077;&#1076;&#1072;!)  20:02, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) I thought you already were an admin. Jeez! :)--Neutrality 20:29, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 6) Gzornenplatz 20:31, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)
 * 7) Quadell (talk) 20:52, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) Great contributor GeneralPatton 22:50, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 9) Lst27 23:30, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 10) 172 02:22, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 11) David Cannon 02:36, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 12) Cribcage 04:24, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 13) Graham  &#9786; | Talk 08:04, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 14) Unbelievable. I thought you were already an admin. Johnleemk | Talk 11:59, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 15) Support from the gender neutral Warofdreams 13:32, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 16) older &ne; wiser 13:51, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 17) Kim Bruning 15:55, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC) Good edits, and good skill using the wiki.
 * 18) Merovingian  &#9997;  Talk  16:25, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
 * 19) David Gerard 22:12, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 20) Elf-friend 22:20, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 21) In my interactions with this editor, I have been deeply impressed by his commitment and lack of stubbornness. I feel he is both responsible and committed. - Mark 07:52, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * 22) jengod 19:10, Aug 1, 2004 (UTC)
 * 23) Benc 02:24, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 24) Decumanus 03:25, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 25) Chris 73 | Talk 04:11, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 26) T&#949;x  &#964;  ur&#949;  21:11, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 27) theresa knott 21:35, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * 28) Catbar (Brian Rock) 02:10, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Comments
 * Looking through DDG's history, it's clear he or she is a hard-working user who has added much to WP. It looks like heshe lost hisher temper here, but the matter was quickly resolved equitably between them. Quadell (talk) 20:52, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters, if you care to respond:
 * 1. Have you read the section on Administrators?
 * A. Yes - DropDeadGorgias (talk)
 * 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. Yes - DropDeadGorgias (talk)
 * 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 would be able to help with watching recent changes, executing deletions and removing failed deletions on vfd, and responding to editor requests. - DropDeadGorgias (talk)
 * 4. In your opinion, what article have you contributed the most succesfully and helpfully to?
 * A. Hmm, my interests are all over the board, so there are some silly articles that I've done a lot of legwork for (COBRA Organization), and there are some more substantial articles, like Gmail, and The Library of Babel. The most tedious thing I ever did was disambiguate all of the mathematicians on Mersenne prime, which is harder than it sounds because most mathematicians only go by their first initials. - DropDeadGorgias (talk)
 * 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. I have done a lot of work to bring some literature articles up to speed, particularly those of latin american and japanese authors. I also fleshed out a lot of the information on tropicalismo, and the related artists. - DropDeadGorgias (talk)
 * 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. I'd like to think that I've been pretty level headed about resolving conflicts. I recently had a misunderstanding with User:Tannin about thumbnailed images on Hard disk, which seemed like it was almost going to escalate into a revert war, but we were able to come to a solution that met both of our needs with the new image markup.  I don't really get into revert wars, because after the first few reversions I make it a point to resolve the issue either on the article talk page or the other user's talk page before editing again.  If that proved unsuccessful, I'd probably escalate to RFC, but I haven't had to resort to that yet. - DropDeadGorgias (talk)
 * Thanks and good luck!