Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/HorsePunchKid


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

HorsePunchKid
Final (49/0/1) ended 10:30 30 November 2005 (UTC)

– HorsePunchKid is a really helpful and sensible guy, I want him to be an admin because I think the community would be better off if he was. He already does many admin things such as reverting and warning vandals, and would greatly benefit from the various admin buttons. For those who care; he has almost 3000 edits, has been around a long time and never fails to leave an edit summary! Martin 15:15, 22 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Accepted! &mdash; HorsePunchKid &rarr;&#x9F9C; 2005-10-23 07:29:32Z

Support Oppose
 * 1) Support Exlibris 03:31, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Strong support of courses! Martin 10:35, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support nothing but good experiences with this user.  A good vandal fighter, I think he can live up to the high expectations of an admin.  -- malo (talk)/(contribs) 10:48, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support but are you the kid that punches horses or the kid that was punched by a horse? CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:55, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. A good and experienced wikipede and a ruthless vandal fighter.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  11:26, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support, yeah. Looks good as far as I've looked through his contributions. [[Image:Flag of Austria.svg|15px]] ナイトスタリオン ✉ 11:33, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support per nom.Gator (talk) 13:09, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support Joke137 15:39, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Support, this user is unlikely to abuse admin tools. Christopher Parham (talk) 16:45, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support, I thought he was an admin for sure. Tito xd (?!?) 17:44, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support per everyone's favourite cliche. --Cel e stianpower hablamé 18:08, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support Kefalonia 18:36, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support per nom. BD2412  T 19:02, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support On condition you stop making it too easy for the kids to do their homework ;-). David D. (Talk) 21:27, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support, needs more time? Are you crazy? Fahrenheit   Royal  e  21:27, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support Per nom -- Vile  Rage  ( Reply  |   C  |  Spam Me!  *   ) 21:51, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support. Make it be known on the record that Martin stole this nomination from me, and then went and took the corny support statement I was going to use, grrr. HorsePunchKid is always helping people on the Help desk, and becoming an admin will expand his scope there. He also fights vandalism and leaves some of the best edit summaries going around. Lastly, he's a good bloke, great have around.--Commander Keane 23:20, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I actually asked him about adminship about 2 weeks ago, it was just a strange coincidence that you mentioned it to him while I was writing the nomination! spooky Martin 23:29, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that Martin, despite checking I somehow missed that.--Commander Keane 07:16, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Support will be a good admin --Rogerd 00:38, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support RfA cliche no. 1.--Sean|Bla ck 01:28, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support with pleasure. Tom e rTALK 01:31, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. Edits a diverse range of articles in a professional way. Will do great as admin. Full support!! deeptrivia 02:50, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support MONGO 03:16, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support pgk( talk ) 07:39, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support saw him fighting evil vandalism on Aishwarya Rai, even when he did not know the language it was in. --Gurubrahma 08:53, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support, and I don't do this often - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 10:01, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Orange Furry Alien Support go the musicabal (tinc) Alf melmac 11:03, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support:--Bhadani 14:32, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 11)  Oran   e    (t)   (c)   (e-mail)  15:57, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Absolutely. Jacqui ★ 16:00, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support. Good interactions, fine edit summaries, cool head, experienced, good WP knowledge. Turnstep 21:40, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support - will make a fine admin. PJM 05:23, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support absolutely, --cj | talk 05:56, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Merovingian 07:29, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support my interactions have always been friendly. I see no reason why this user shouldnt be given the chance to shine.  ALKIVAR &trade;Radioactivity symbol.png 07:51, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support. Very friendly and helpful; active RC patroller. Hope you're not still punching horses. &mdash; Knowledge Seeker &#2470; 10:41, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support. All I've seen of him was good. - Mgm|(talk) 12:51, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support. -- DS1953 18:09, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support notable good egg. Hamster Sandwich 23:45, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support Seen this editor around --Jaranda(watz sup) 18:50, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support Izehar 22:56, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support. El_C 12:55, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) support William M. Connolley 13:40, 27 November 2005 (UTC).
 * 26) Support! good interactions with this user in the past.--Alhutch 17:11, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) STRONG SUPPPORT WITH THREE P'S. Энциклопедия*   (talk) 22:57, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support. Contribution history looks good, will make a fine admin. --Alan Au 22:11, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support as per nominator. Silensor 22:30, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Support. Oops, I forgot, we're not supposed to pile-on. ;-)  --hydnjo talk 17:35, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 31) Support. [insert cliché here]  Hall Monitor 22:30, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 32) Support. Job  e  6  [[Image:Peru flag large.png|20px]] 00:01, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) Neutral needs a little more time. EddieSegoura 13:24, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Although vote is neutral, I would like to say that this account was created November 18, 2005. Fahrenheit   Royal  e  22:29, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * It's even more ironic than you think. Check out this Rfa Requests_for_adminship/EddieSegoura_2.David D. (Talk) 22:51, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Man, I always get dates wrong, I can't read. He's done 2 RfA's now? Good God, he hasn't even been here for 10 days. He can't even join Esperanza. That is one special user right there. Quentin   Pierc  e  01:44, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * I'm just curious, but would you mind explaining your user name? It's very interesting. :-) Flcelloguy (A note? ) 17:53, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I get asked this pretty often—often enough that I wish I had some clever story to go behind it. Maybe I'll write one someday! But in truth, it's just some silly nickname from high school that has absolutely no meaning, as far as I'm aware. Or maybe it was just a joke I never got... I'll have to think on that. Anyway, it's my online pseudonym, which works well because it is, if nothing else, unique. :) &mdash; HorsePunchKid &rarr;&#x9F9C; 2005-11-26 04:58:30Z

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. Fighting vandalism is a high priority. Adminship would make the process more efficient and leave me more time to either be constructive or watch more pages for vandalism. Many of the categories in the backlog list do not require admin functions to deal with; among the ones that do, I'm most interested in the transwiki process. I try to divide my time equally between creation (adding or improving content) and destruction (removing vandalism, participating in deletion discussions, and such). With the added responsibility of adminship, I would expect to be more involved in the destructive aspect.


 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. It's probably all too clear from my user page that I'm a music nerd (among other forms of nerdship). The series of barbershop-related articles you'll see there is something I'm pleased with, though none are terribly exciting, even to me! However, I believe them to be generally interesting and the topics well worth documenting encyclopedically. My contributions of photographs and diagrams are probably more interesting, though I've been slow to get my photos onto the Commons.


 * There are some rather extensive copy-edits I've done that I'm vaguely proud of, in a way that only people who enjoy proofreading are likely to understand. ;) Also, I am generally pleased when I can save an article from deletion by improving it, though the results have never been particularly interesting. This, to me, falls under the topic of not biting the newbies, which I believe often requires action rather than restraint.
 * Please don't oppose me on the basis of my photo of myself! :)


 * 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 have not yet archived my talk page since joining, and I'm sure it evidences some of my more contentious edits. The one that probably holds the record for the ratio of bytes of discussion (several kilobytes, I'm sure) to bytes changed (one character) is the whole Blackface "affect" issue. I'll leave the interpretation up to you, though I'm happy to comment on it if need be. More recently, there is the continued vandalism of Adolf Hitler by Hans Rosenthal (search for "ROHA" on the page). I thought we might be able to come to some constructive agreement, but obviously I failed.


 * Stress is not an issue. I'm not exactly the most cool-headed person around, but I can redirect stress energy toward more creative ends. In any case, I tend to agonize over my own words: By the time I hit the submit button, I've cooled down and thought through what I'm saying and how it might be (mis)read.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns or if you would like me to elaborate upon any of the points above. Thank you, Martin, for the nomination and kind words! &mdash; HorsePunchKid &rarr;&#x9F9C; 2005-11-23 07:24:10Z


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