Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kcordina


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

kcordina
Final (46/0/1) ended 12:37, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

– I nominate myself for adminship following 6 months of significant (in my opinion) work on wikipedia. In that time I've been involved in many aspects of wikipedia - adding content to articles, improving the quality of articles, merging many hundreds of articles from the merge backlog, copyediting, contributing to AFD, helping out at the mediation cabal, and plenty of vandal fighting. I now feel that I have a good grasp of wikipedia policies and the way things work, and that I am now sufficiently competent here to make a valuable contribution using the additional tools available to admins. Kcordina Talk 12:16, 18 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Self nomination accepted. Kcordina Talk 12:35, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) First to Support. Looks fine to me. --Ton e  12:39, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Beat-the-nom-support (grin). Radio  Kirk   talk to me  12:57, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Wellrounded, sufficient edits and time. Doing good things. :) Dlohcierekim 13:11, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support.  It looks like you've been doing plenty of mopping already, and you don't even have the mop yet.  It's time to fix that.  --Elkman - (talk) 13:16, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. Mackensen (talk) 13:29, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Support--Jusjih 13:31, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Support. A trustworthy editor who has shown more than a little skill on the patrols. Rje 14:05, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Support you + mop = better Wikipedia -- Tawker 14:06, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) Support Excellent work at the mediation cabal. Due for the mop. --Srik e it ( talk ¦  ✉  )  14:12, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 10) Support, ticks all the boxes for me. Stifle (talk) 14:27, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 11) Support, an asset to the project, perfectly qualified for the mop. P h a e d r i e l  ♥   tell me  - 14:29, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 12) Support, experienced with Wikipedia processes. - Tangot a ngo 15:57, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 13) Support D G X  16:24, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 14) Hockey fight pile-on support. Looks qualified enough for me. -→ Buchanan-Hermit ™ /!?  16:47, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 15) Support. I take it back, he's the very model of a modern wikipedian. Buck</b><b style="color:green;">ets</b><b style="color:grey;">ofg</b>✐ 17:03, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 16) Support, of course. - Mailer Diablo 17:14, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 17) OH WAIT IT WAS DELETED :(  Anyway, support. --Rory096 19:15, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 18) Support No problems here. -- S iva1979 <sup style="background:yellow;">Talk to me  19:32, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 19) Support your last 500 contribs really span a lot of activities - merges, AfD, AIAV, rvv(+warnings!), even transwiki. :-O Definitely one suitable for the mop. Kimchi.sg 19:35, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 20) Support. Your self-nom statement is an understatement of the work you have done. DarthVad e r 22:21, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 21) Support Good job.--Osbus 23:20, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 22) Support Robust, Hardworking editor abakharev 23:36, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 23) Support. &mdash; Khoikhoi 00:57, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 24) Support very good.<span style="border: 1px; border-style:solid; padding:0px 2px 2px 2px; color:white; background-color:darkblue; font-weight:bold">ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 01:08, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 25) Support, no worries. <FONT STYLE="verdana" COLOR="#000000">Dei</FONT><FONT COLOR="#FF3300">zio</FONT> talk 01:17, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 26) Oppose, too liked Nah, just kidding.. Support. <font color="#0000FF">WerdnaTc@bCmLt 01:32, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support No alarm bells after a review of this editor's work. -→ Buchanan-Hermit ™ /<font color="darkgreen" size="1">!?  02:11, 19 May 2006 (UTC) Duplicate vote
 * 1) Support please - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 02:46, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support, prime candidate. Wholehearted support. Gateman1997 06:59, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support no evidence that this editor will abuse admin tools.--MONGO 12:03, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support, despite a bit of misgivings based on what Grouchy McGrouch said below :)  <font color="#007700">Proto  <font color="#555555">||   <font color="#007700">type   14:22, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Support, per Cyde. (Lack of interest in spending time in the internal structure of Wikipedia is a good thing.) — Cuivi é  nen T, Friday, 19 May 2006 @ 20:01 UTC
 * 6) Support User could use the tools. We need more admins paying attention to copyright issues and this candidate has the necessary knowledge and attitude to do that work. JoshuaZ 21:04, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Support I'm totally impressed with what I've seen of this user. --<font color="Maroon">Alphachimp  <font color="Blue">talk  22:00, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Support I was impressed by this editor when I came across his very first edit at Enduro. --BillC 23:20, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) Support, great user. --Ter e nce Ong 04:08, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 10) Support, civil in his dealings with other editors. Has a calling for what he wants to do with the encyclopedia, and understands that not all editors can do those things. Ted 20:59, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 11) Support <font color="#0047AB">Joe I  04:25, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 12) Support Looks good to me. Kukini 14:29, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 13) Support -- Jay  (Reply)  19:14, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 14) Support, has helped Wikipedia in many ways and could do even better things to help with admin tools. <font color="#0000FF">Roy <font color="#FF0000">boy cr ash <font color="#FFFFFF">fan [[Image:Flag of Texas.svg|30px]] 21:32, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 15) support no reason to oppose. --Bachrach44 03:31, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 16) Weak support, minor concerns not worth opposing for. — May. 24, '06 <tt> [10:21] < [ freak]|[ talk] ></tt>
 * 17) M e rovingian { T C @ } 00:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 18) It's your birthday... so here's the mop!- President [[Image:Tux.png|10px]] G a  n  g  staEB -01:42, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 19) Support Sarah Ewart (Talk) 05:16, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 20) Support A favorable disposition. --Shultz IV 07:18, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral
 * 1) Mehhh, lack of project talk edits shows little interest in policy. -- Cyde↔Weys  06:07, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Comments

Username	Kcordina Total edits	5092 Distinct pages edited	3601 Average edits/page	1.414 First edit	11:24, December 6, 2005 (main)	3440 Talk	277 User	113 User talk	675 Image	5 Template	14 Template talk	3 Category	83 Category talk	2 Wikipedia	463 Wikipedia talk	15 Portal	2  G .<font color="#666666">H  e  00:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC) All user's edits. Voice -of-  All T 23:38, 18 May 2006 (UTC) User contributions --Viewing contribution data for user Kcordina (over the 4935 edit(s) shown on this page)-- (FAQ) Time range: 134 approximate day(s) of edits on this page Most recent edit on: 23hr (UTC) -- 18, May, 2006 Oldest edit on: 15hr (UTC) -- 6, December, 2005 Overall edit summary use: Major edits: 88.5% Minor edits: 99.75% Article edit summary use: Major article edits: 95.51% Minor article edits: 99.92% Average edits per day (current): 36.82 Notable article edits (creation/expansion/rewrites/major sourcing): 3.91% (193) Unique pages edited: 3347 | Average edits per page: 1.47 | Edits on top: 13.72% Breakdown of edits: All significant edits (non-minor/reverts): 25.98% Minor edits (non reverts): 47.96% Marked reverts: 21.2% Unmarked edits: 4.86% Edits by Wikipedia namespace: Article: 67.5% (3331) | Article talk: 5.49% (271) User: 2.27% (112) | User talk: 13.17% (650) Wikipedia: 9.08% (448) | Wikipedia talk: 0.3% (15) Image: 0.1% (5) Template: 0.28% (14) Category: 1.68% (83) Portal: 0.02% (1) Help: 0% (0) MediaWiki: 0% (0) Other talk pages: 0.1% (5)
 * See Kcordina's (Talk ▪ Contributions ▪ Logs ▪ Block Logs) contributions as of 00:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC) using Interiot's tool:
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Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer 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: I would like to help out getting on top of the backlog of copyvio problems, with which admin tools would be very useful. I do a lot of recent changes patrolling and the improved rollback would make that easier.  I feel it is particularly important that requests on the intervention against vandalism page are dealt with quickly and I would like to take a share of that work.  I am also happy to be involved as required to help people out in any area I feel competent in.


 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A: The majority of my work on wikipedia has been of the mop-and-bucket type. For example see my contributions for the large number of merges I've performed.  I have contributed a lot to articles relating to Patent, particularly to Patent, Patent prosecution and patent application, taking them from heavily overlapping poorly strucutred articles to, hopefully, a good consistent set of articles.


 * 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 was a party in a conflict that arose when I was trying to help out resolve some problems with an article (see User_talk:kcordina and the pages linked therefrom). This was resolved following discussion and explanation to the parties.  This highlighted to me how important it is to explicitly explain every aspect of work on articles as it is all too easy for edits to be misconstrued.  I have also contributed to the mediation cabal, and examples of cases I have worked on are Caroline Cox, Baroness Cox, Calvary Chapel, Alex Jones and Ayumi Hamasaki.  I fully intend to continue work in cabal as I think it is an excellent route to resolving conflict.

Question from JoshuaZ

1 You mention in your answer to question 1 above using your admin tools to help out with copyvio issues. What have you done that gives your prior experience with copy right issues on Wikipedia?


 * I first came across the copyvio issue when I found the Arda Peak article listed as needing copyediting. Upon looking at that page and investigating further it turned out that there was a potential copyvio issue with this and many hundreds of other articles related to it, all of which were created by User:Apcbg (see User_talk:Apcbg).  Two things struck me about what was happening - firstly, there was a potentially huge (in terms of number of articles) copyvio issue, which if not resolved could lead to the loss of lots of potentially good articles.  So, I set about tackling this in two ways - firstly, I got agreement from other editors that we felt the permission to use was genuine (the ticket number from wikipedia had not yet arrived so we needed to be clear in our own minds), then began editing the articles to indicate the copyright permission (see this diff), and to re-write the articles to remove the copyvio.  It also became apparent that User:Apcbg was being treated pretty harshly due to the lack of formatting of the articles (see the stream of comments asking him to change on his talk page and application of tags to articles, but almost zero help in teaching the user how the articles should be improved, or any effort doing so.  So, I stepped in and offered to help out.  A few months later we had a set of articles free of copyvio and in a good wiki format to be built on.

Anyway, that was a bit of long waffle, but hopefully it shows the way I like to work. In future on the copyvio issue I'd like to be more pro-active in resolving issues and ultimately removing copyvio work. Being active in this manner is difficult without the tools to finalise the issue if the material does need to be removed.

Hopefully the fact that I'm an intellectual property attorney in real life will help me arrive at good decisions. ;-) Kcordina Talk 08:11, 19 May 2006 (UTC)


 * The above 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.