Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Joshuarooney


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Joshuarooney
Final (0/5/0); Closed by AGK (contact) at 19:17, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

- I understand that people set standards for adminship, and I may not meet these standards, if I were to say that I was blocked for a lenghtly period of time - most people would turn away, however, during my block I decided to request unblock, which was granted. Before I was blocked, I mostly reverted vandalism, warned rouge users, fixed typos - mostly little things, that was two years ago; now, I have been granted rollback rights, which I have used to revert vandalism and make good of my mistakes.


 * I accept this RFA

I urge voters to look past the time I went "off the rails", and to bear in mind that I was given rollback permissions, something that requires a level of maturity which must affect this RFA.

Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:
 * 1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
 * Mostly vandalism reverting, blocking said vandals, deleting marked pages, also, I hope to be able to use my experience to aid in dispute resolution and, to apply for a position on the Arbcom


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
 * I am not sure, I think mostly my vandalism reverting, this is an integral part of becoming an admin and is in my opinion the duty of any registered editor


 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * Yes, I have, It resulted in me getting blocked, but because of this I can use my experience to better any admin actions that I might make, for example using the ability to block other users - well, having been blocked myself, I can use benefit of the doubt to give people a second chance, this is only an example though.

General comments

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Oppose

 * 1) No. Rudget . 18:27, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, Joshua. I am afraid I have to reluctantly oppose your request at this time. It is not because you “went off the rails” as you put it. That was long in the past and everyone has the opportunity to learn from their mistakes. However, have less than 300 edits, less than 100 in the past 18 months. That is usually not enough time or exposure for the community to get a good feel about how you would react in various situations and how your judgment would be exercised when called upon. As such, it is very unlikely that the community would be willing to extend its trust to you at this time, and you may wish to consider a voluntary withdrawal. If you have learned from your past and are willing to help the project, I am sure that after a short time of active editing you will be more able to be opined upon by the community. Good Luck. -- Avi (talk) 18:34, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Oppose &mdash; I view self-noms as prima facie evidence of power hunger. Kurt Weber ( Go Colts! ) 18:35, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Strong Oppose - Not nearly enough editing experience, plus you have shoddy edit summary usage. Come back in about 2,000 edits or so, and work on your edit summary usage.  I recommend this nom either be withdrawn by candidate or  closed per WP:SNOW.  ArcAngel (talk) 18:49, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose - I'm sorry I haven't even bothered to view your stats as I am not happy with your answers to the questions. Perhaps next time you should put more thought into the answers and spend a bit more time contemplating them. There is no rush, sorry! --Camaeron (talk) 19:10, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Neutral

 * The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.
 * The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.