Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Karmafist


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

Karmafist
Closed (53/2/0) ended 00:51, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

is a very qualified user, and I'm surprised that he isn't an admin yet. Kate's edit tool puts him at 2,359 edits; he has been around since August 9th, 2004, and while some users who are newer may have more edits, I feel that Karmafist truly deserves adminship. --WikiFanaticTalk 00:51, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Allow me to elaborate on that nomination... Karmafist is a funny guy, he knows policy, and is all around friendly. He gave me, Essjay, and a few others a barn to store our vandals that we would face as admins. He started the barnstar eaten by a bear thing IIRC, and there's basically no reason to oppose. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 01:27, 5 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here.

I accept the nomination. Karmafist 01:02, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Support, as nominator. --WikiFanaticTalk Contribs 19:51, 4 October 2005 (CDT)
 * 2) Support There's a flurry of good candidates lately :) Ryan Norton T 01:10, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. Noticed user and always noticed judicious participation. Marskell 01:20, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 01:27, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support --JAranda'' | yeah 01:48, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk |  WS 01:51, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support I like the bear-ate-the-barnstar barnstar. freestylefrappe 02:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support What, you mean he isn't one? I think we need to have a BarnRaising. Bratsche talk 03:34, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Support. Usual cliché. --Carnildo 03:57, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support Molotov (talk) [[Image:Flag of California.svg|25px]] 05:16, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. utcursch | talk 06:28, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Cool. --JuntungWu 11:17, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support CambridgeBayWeather 11:19, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support Xoloz 12:00, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support →Jo urna list  >>talk<<  15:21, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Apoyo Español Extremo (Extreme Spanish Support) Fir  e  Fo  x  16:19, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support, per above. Just make sure to use more edit summaries :)   Ral  315   WS  17:10, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support. Friday (talk) 18:48, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support Great, helpful editor. Ban  e  s  18:57, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) support Private Butcher 19:12, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support seen him around many times doing cleanup tasks IIRC. -DDerby- (talk) 19:21, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support, definately - a good wikipedian. It's... Thelb4! 20:20, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support.  Rob e  rt  21:43, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support, don't expect to abuse admin powers. Christopher Parham (talk) 21:54, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support, nice guy, should make a good admin ... if'n he uses edit summaries! --fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 21:59, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Everyking 23:15, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Extreme Esperanzian Support! Tito xd (?!?) 01:25, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support no big deal --Rogerd 02:26, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Barn Star Bear Support! El_C 02:43, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Extreme Acidic Support Thank you for providing your explanation at WP:MC. You've educated me on something I was unclear about. I'll never make such poor judgment again. Ac  e  tic  ' Acid  06:03, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 31) Extreme deutsche Unterstützung! --Merovingian (t) (c) 10:51, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 32) Äärimmäinen suomalaistuki! &mdash; J I P | Talk 15:24, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 33) Support - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 15:35, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 34) Support - because what goes around mops around. -- BD2412 talk 17:40, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 35) Support Sounds good to me :-) Gryffindor [[Image:Flag of Austria (state).svg|20px]] 22:57, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 36) Support. No reason not to. ≈ jossi fresco ≈ 01:59, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 37) Support. With over a year of observing Wikipedia, this guy oughta know the ropes by now. Denelson83 02:41, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 38) Support As I later read all the answers to the questions below, I see that Karmafist regrets our encounter in the George W Bush article...as do I. At that time, we were both relatively new here and politics got in the way of our mutual desire to build a better article. I'll take this opportunity to apologize for anything I may have said to force Karmafist to not edit the Bush article and to wish him well in what appears to be an almost absolute concensus in favor of adminship.--MONGO 09:02, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 39) '''Support. Should make a good admin. Carbonite | Talk 12:54, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 40) Support. We can make good use of another fully equipped ninja-sitter. --Fire Star 15:47, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 41) Support!!! De ryc  k C.  17:09, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 42) Support as per the cabal (which does not exist).  Hall Monitor 19:08, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 43) Support thought s/he was one.  Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 01:12, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 44) Support =Nichalp «Talk»=  11:04, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 45) Support. --Bhadani 14:19, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 46) Support the musicabal (which also doesn't exist) Alf melmac 16:06, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 47) Yo. Grutness...  wha?  22:25, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 48) Support Looks good to me - and has worked in some heated areas.  Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   12:01, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 49) Support, Karmafist is the enemy of vandals. --Cool Cat Talk 13:37, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 50) Support because it's good for my karma. DS 13:38, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 51) Support Is it too late to hop on the Karma bandwagon? Hope we don't get pulled over by the Karma Police for being too full:>--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 19:50, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 52) Support, of course!!! Obvious admin candidate to me.  >:  Roby Wayne  Talk •  Hist •  E@ 20:37, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 53) Support, for calling Tony Sidaway a jerk. ;). Just kidding. Support on general principle.--Scimitar parley 16:54, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * Oppose for no good reason --Carnildo 03:57, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You see this?Molotov (talk) [[Image:Flag of California.svg|25px]] 05:16, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) --Boothy443 | comhrá 06:36, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose Changed my vote, after I have realised that he has added this in my archive, where he calls another administrator a jerk. Fadix 03:02, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) *Groan. This was a comment given in sympathy from the Coolcat discussion, where I believed Fadix thought that I was trying to butt heads with him where I was actually trying to tell him that getting into a shouting match with Coolcat(who often seemed to be goading Fadix and his friends), wouldn't solve anything. I suppose no good deed goes unpunished. Karmafist 04:09, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Am not sure that he will make good judgements when Wikipedia policies are concerned. I may have had only few intereactions, and this, in a same page with him, but what I have seen there doesn't satisfy me. Fadix 21:49, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * To help out those in the dark here, the page Fadix is talking about is here. It was basically a tit for tat between Coolcat and several people who were concerned with Coolcat, and I believed that Fadix was hurting himself by making it seem like a vendetta case, and that it ultimately went against precedent regarding user pages here and here. The second of which I was somewhat disturbed by, but it's not up to me to ignore Wiki-law. If I disagree with those laws, I can propose changes and ask others to do so by discussion. It wasn't my intent to offend Fadix, but i'm proud that he considered himself a Neutral rather than an Oppose despite the fact that my opinion was apparently offensive to him. Karmafist 14:16, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I can't vote oppose, because one pages is not enough. See this in positive light. I've voted for three cases if my memory doesn't fail me, and I opposed two of those, so you're the only neutral. I still maintain you were wrong, but this is entirly another story. :) Fadix 17:57, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Comments Questions for the candidate
 * Neutral That is to say, I don't vote to oppose, ever. I had an unpleasant run in with Karmafist in the George W Bush article way back, although I may have pushed him to behave differently than he normally does. In that I have not run across him again until now, that is all I have to go on, without an exhaustive search of his edit history, which, for the most part looks solid. I would recommend more article talk in the future as that is one area that seems a little weak.--MONGO 08:54, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Will make a great admin but I cannot support his various beliefs and behaviors. Andre ( talk ) 02:22, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Use of edit summaries overall is 31%, 53% over the last 500 edits. I think this person will make a good admin, but I'd like very much to see use of edit summaries be much higher. --Durin 16:15, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This has stuck in my craw for the past few days, and as you can see here, my summary usage for the past 100 edits, not including this one, has been 95%. Karmafist 23:52, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

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 assume mostly protection, deletion, vandalism related issues and arbcom enforcement. Although i'd like to branch out into the other admin functions as well over time. Karmafist 01:25, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. There are several, in varying areas. Current Major League Baseball Players by Nationality in terms of sheer addition (37 edits on the article, 8 edits on the talk page, and i'm not done yet); the Missing Barnstar, the Barnstar that was eaten by a Bear, and the Barn Award in terms of Wikilove as well as possible welcoming new users(currently approaching 200); and Nashua, New Hampshire as well as Tony Massarotti in terms of the collaborative power of Wikipedia. Karmafist 01:25, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 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 will deal with it in the future?
 * A. I've had two big incidents in my opinion in my "wiki-life". One was awhile ago when I had just gotten my account and I got into a stupid and counterproductive argument with MONGO on George W. Bush. Since then, I can barely look at that article without feeling sick, so i've committed myself to staying away from it at all costs. I also had a small revert war on Red Eye(drug) due to my pride in establishing articles, which I resolved with some external assistance from I believe either Redwolf24 or Essjay or Longhair or somebody. Time heals all wounds though, and ultimately, just continuing to edit in other areas proved to be the best medicine. I also believe I have a few other minor flaws that I hope to work on, please contact my talk page to discuss these if you'd like. Karmafist 01:25, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
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