Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Durin


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

Durin
Final (61/0/0) ended 22:17 3 October 2005 (UTC)

– What isn't there to like about Durin? He's an RC Patroller... always uses edit summaries... friendly guy... he's gone out of his way to make edit graphs for RfA nominees (also thanks to him I found out I once made 470 edits in one day), he's been here since March of 05, so a fair 7 months time, and he has over 4000 edits (though I had to count them the long way as Kate took down her counter) He's a great guy, always doing his part to improve the wiki, showing he's willing to do dirty work, and I think he's proved that he can handle the tools. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 22:17, 26 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I humbly accept. And here my wife was expecting me home...now she'll have to wait while I answer the questions :-) Minor comment; I've actually had contact with Wikipedia since July of 2004, and became a registered user in March of 2005. --Durin 23:28, 26 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Redwolf24 ruined my marriage! R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 23:32, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Red, u a male or female? :) =Nichalp «Talk»=  10:19, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Support Oppose
 * 1) 101% Support. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 22:17, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support Ryan Norton T 22:19, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support - go, Durin, go. Now I could recite the old cliché but I won't for the timebeing. --Cel e stianpower hablamé 22:20, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support (Could someone please explain how the hell the "lesbian" meme got started?) Does good work. N (t/c) 22:22, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. And yeah, what's up with the "extreme lesbian support" votes of recent? A lot of users seem to be using that mantra now. Tito xd 22:27, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support, good user. Christopher Parham (talk) 22:42, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support KHM03 23:42, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support &mdash;mmm... thought Durin was one. →Jo urna list  >>talk<<
 * 9) Support. Andre ( talk ) 00:55, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support. Kirill Lokshin 01:23, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support BTW i hate pedophiles. Job  e  6  [[Image:Peru flag large.png|20px]] 02:02, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support should make a good admin. Alf melmac 06:21, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support CambridgeBayWeather 09:40, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support; good RC patroller and the answers given below are very thorough. Rje 10:57, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Extreme fake lesbian intended to stimulate heterosexual males support! I just wanted to say that somewhere. &mdash; J I P | Talk 11:23, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) El_C 11:51, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support =Nichalp  «Talk»=  13:50, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support. A solid editor and a vigilant copyvio hunter. Owen&times;  &#9742;  15:32, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support Mairi 16:48, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support. Thunderbrand 17:49, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support, I thought he already.. you know. DDerby (talk) 19:10, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support Private Butcher 19:17, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support I think we all know Durin knows what makes a good editor and what makes a good admin. In fact, he knows it in more quantifiable detail than anyone else.  Support, if only for making me daydream for a couple of days about making some kind of machine-learning algorithm to predict which RFAs will pass and which will fail.  Support even more for talking about the importance of edit summaries. Jdavidb 20:05, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support &mdash; see below. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk |  WS 20:45, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support - Guettarda 21:23, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Support, good work with the RfA graphs, me likey them. feydey 21:49, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support. Friday (talk) 21:53, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support. Very strong contributor.  I especially love his graphs.  I think he will make a fine admin judging by his work on RC. Johntex\talk 23:11, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support. Absolutely. Jaxl | talk 23:26, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Support. An asset to the community and an extraordinary person. Shauri Yes babe?  23:44, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 31) Support Another good pick by Redwolf24. Ac  e  tic  ' Acid  00:51, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 32) Support Ann Heneghan (talk) 11:04, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 33) Yep. I would support a candidate like this 92% of the time; 99% over the last 30 days.  TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:58, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 34) And here goes my edit number 6400 to Support Durin: for Durin’s contributions, as also assertion on the user page “I am neither a deletionist nor an inclusionist”. --Bhadani 15:03, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 35) Support Everything that I've seen of Durin around Wikipedia is excellent. Bratsche talk 20:47, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 36) Support Astrotrain 21:24, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 37) Extreme Atheist Support! Meets my standards. You'll do well with the mop and bucket. :-) --WikiFanaticTalk Contribs 17:30, 28 September 2005 (CDT)
 * 38) Support. Good to see him on RC patrol. He gets the job done. &asymp; jossi &asymp; 00:07, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 39) Support. I've crossed his path while doing RC patrol, too.  Always efficient and accurate.  Definite Admin material.  >:  Roby Wayne  Talk &bull;  Hist 03:38, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 40) Support--Cyberjunkie | Talk 06:27, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 41) Extreme male lesbian support (I'm male, and I like women). Durin has shown a willingness to take on maintenance tasks. --Deathphoenix 14:31, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 42) Support Johann Wolfgang 19:42, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 43) Support Good choice. Good luck! Hamster Sandwich 21:07, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 44) Sup No reason to do otherwise. Tintin 23:50, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 45) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Extreme Phroziac support! -- ( &#x263A; drini &#x266B; | &#x260E; ) 02:05, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 46) Me too! Me too! -- Essjay ·  Talk 03:33, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 47) Support. --RobertG &#9836; talk 05:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 48) Support Proto t c 12:30, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 49) Support, of course. Shimgray | talk | 14:22, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 50) Support.— enceph alon  18:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 51) 99% Support I'll borrow Redwolf24s extra 1% from that vote to make it an even 100% . &infin; Who ? &iquest; ?  18:53, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 52) Support. -Splash talk 20:33, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 53) This list is so long :P Fir  e  Fox  T  C 20:34, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 54) Support. I've found Durin's contributions to be well-reasoned and helpful. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 21:11, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 55) Support, this person would make a terrific admin. Hall Monitor 22:24, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 56) Support Good janitor--Rogerd 05:52, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 57) Support excellent editor --Saluyot 14:21, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 58) Support Have come across him often and always found him trustworthy.   Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   21:50, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 59) Even More Extreme Lesbian Support Even though i'm not a lesbian, or a woman for that matter ;-) Durin's Chart is insanely cool. Karmafist 00:16, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yay, I'm number 60! --Merovingian (t) (c) 05:44, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Support - and I am at 61. --MissingLinks 08:03, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Durin, You'll need to provide an email id before I support. :) =Nichalp «Talk»=  08:38, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * :-) I had the e-mail id in there, just had the "Disable e-mail from other users" box checked. --Durin 13:27, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for enabling it. <font color="#0082B8">=Nichalp <font color="#0082B8">«Talk»=  13:50, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) I was just thinking of nominating him myself. I would have a strong support, but in the interest of fairness, I'm voting neutral until he accepts and answers the questions. Flcelloguy | A note?  | Desk |  WS 22:26, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) * This user is evidently so good he doesn't even need to answer the questions!!! LOL!! Ryan Norton T 23:07, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Very funny :-) Personally, I'd like to see all RfA voters hold their votes until an admin nominee has a chance to answer the questions. C'est la vie :-) --Durin 23:28, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Vote changed to support. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk |  WS 20:45, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * For those of you who want the figures I often give on other nominations for the purposes of my own nomination; as a registered user, I've used edit summaries 85% of the time. In the last 500 edits, it's been 98.8% of the time. As a registered user, I've averaged 22 edits per day, 31.5 for contributing days. I don't do charts for nominees over 2,000 edits (I have >4,000) so I'm not doing one for myself unless someone really wants one. --Durin 23:46, 26 September 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. I have a particular interest in helping Wikipedia with copyright violations. I've placed a very large number of articles in copyvio status. When I look at Special:Newpages, I work from the bottom up. In so doing, I tend to find the copyright violations that others skip over while tagging for speedy, or tagging for AfD (though I catch a number of those too). I'd like to work on the backlog of copyright violations in articles. Similarly, the recent change in policy regarding nosource images has left a huge backlog of more than 10,000 images that need to be retagged or deleted (see Category:Images_with_unknown_source). That is a huge backlog that needs a lot of work. Also, while I enjoy fostering new users (examples 1, 2) I would not be afraid to use blocking capabilities where appropriate, but would probably tend towards shorter blocks than average for an admin. I think it is important to foster new users along; even if they are vandals they can sometimes be brought along to be great editors (example 3).
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. There are a few things of which I am especially pleased:
 * I've made substantial contributions in United States Navy related articles. In particular within that set of articles, I've been working on de-stubbing articles on the entire Spruance class of destroyers. Gathering that information has been time intensive, but I feel such work as that is necessary for a complete encyclopedia article. This was an important class of destroyers during the Cold War and it's been very neglected.
 * While doing work on stub-sorting, I became aware of the absence of a stub that covered horseracing. My initial estimates of the helpfulness of such a stub did not stun anybody into accepting the new stub :-) So, I created a subpage to generate data on a notional stub to cover the topic. You can see the result of that effort here. That work resulted in the creation of horseracing-stub which now has more than 280 articles.
 * Working arduously over a span of many days, I managed to reduce the sport-stub category by several hundred articles. I now have a list (maintained outside of Wikipedia) by which I can rapidly compare what articles I have checked in that category vs. what articles are currently in the category to quickly identify articles that I need to review for stub sorting.
 * As most users who frequent WP:RFA are aware, I've been doing edit count analysis charts for those admin nominees with less than 2,000 edits. I just received two negative comments about that effort today (and I hope my explanations ease concerns with those two users), but I've received many rave reviews of the effort, including a barnstar for graphic design (4). I was also invited to consider contributing to Wikipedia Quarto as a result (5). My main point in doing the charts is to bring some fairness to the process for nominees with less than 2,000 edits. In observing the discussion in the RfAs where I've done charts, I'm noticing a trend of people discussing points raised or refuted by the charts; I think this is beneficial to Wikipedia.
 * Others reviewing this RfA might want to have a look at User:Durin/Contributions and User:Durin/AfD-RfD-CfD-TfD.
 * 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 never been in an edit war; such an effort is fruitless. I have been in debates on various points and feel I have handled it appropriately. For example, I had a debate about fair use with User:DreamGuy (see discussion). Another example of a debate I had was regarding the Gordon Springs, Georgia article (see discussion). In both cases, and indeed in all cases where I feel there is disagreement, I'm willing to either not make a change or leave the decision to someone else who can view the facts of the matter from above the trees, as it were. As I note on my User:Durin/Conflict management subpage, editing Wikipedia isn't life or death; a hug from my daughter is far more important to me than whether or not a decision on Wikipedia goes the way I think it should. I'm a firm believer in eventualism and not having control of my edits once I click the "Save page" button on articles. For every user on Wikipedia, there's another viewpoint.
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