Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kourosh ziabari


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Kourosh_ziabari
Final(0/8/1); closed per WP:SNOW by Dureo (talk) 13:24, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

- Kourosh Ziabari (Persian: کوروش ضیابری) is a 1991 Iranian born journalist, blogger and writer. His birthplace is Rasht, located in northern Iranian province of Guilan from a religious, cultural family, both his father and mother journalists.

He started learning English as a foreign language when he was 8 years of age; thereafter he learnt the essentials of journalism from his parents and became a junior journalist as columnist in local magazines of Guilan. Kourosh's first book has been published when he was 11, a simple translation from English into Persian, named "A house on the hill" written by Elizabeth Laird.

During his college times, Kourosh tried to learn Arabic and Italian languages, in addition to a little Deutsch and Turkish fluency he gained.

Passing 8 years of his journalistic experience, over than 200 pieces of articles, interviews, columns and blog posts have been published by Kourosh, putting him into the rank of highly active Persian journalists. His second book also has been published in 2007, when he dispatched a collection of his interviews with 7 contemporary authors of Iranian new generation of literature, called the book "7+1".

Along with college studies and working for national newspapers, he used to manage several sections in Daneshmand scientific magazine such as "Scientific websurf", furthermore, he wrote partly articles and reports for non-Iranian newspapers and websites.

As a graphic designer he also designed websites, banners and graphical ads for several occasions, the announcement poster of national congress of Iranian mystic poet Mevlana's 800th birth anniversary the most predominant of them. He currently manages the Persian project of "Helloyahoomail.net", a national Iranian movement against the immoral Yahoo removal of Iran's name from its countries list.

His struggles and efforts to counter the American-controlled Persian Gulf renaming project were also considerable, pushing cyber pressure on Google Earth, National Geographic and other media counterfeiting the historical name.

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?
 * A: I'd like to take part in the administration section of Iran-related articles, edit them neutrally and vanish any bias against or in favor of Iran as a disputed country. Also I am interested in editing the culture-based articles, expanding the sphere of literature, arts and friendship in Wikipedia, regardless to any type of political tensions.


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
 * A: as an Iranian, I have the most sufficient and adequate conditions and information to introduce the outstanding scientists and cultural personalities of Iran such as Ferdowsi, Mevlana, Avicenna, Farabi and Hafez Shirazi. So my best contributions will be about the ancient Persia, Iranian lifestyle and any cultural issue relating to Persian Gulf region.

If I become an administrator, I will stop counterfeiting the historical facts about Iran according to archaeological standards and antique documents I have.


 * 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?
 * A: Fortunately, I have not had any experience of conflict with other users, but I will behave on scientific bases and prove my claims clearly if any tension occurs. But I think that there will be no stress on me if an editing conflict occurs.

Candidate comment: It is necessary to add that I have made most of my contributions under my IP, not logged in by username. I am not much that newbie to Wikipedia and I hope that I can be successful as an admin if you trust me a bit!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kourosh ziabari (talk • contribs) 11:42, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

General comments

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Discussion

 * Erm, seems to be a newbie's mistake, this RfA... Are you trying to create an article?  weburiedoursecrets  inthegarden  09:32, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment I think we can WP:SNOW this I'm afraid. If someone who hasn't commented wants to do the paperwork please. Pedro : Chat  13:08, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) Oppose I'm really sorry, but I'd recommmend you withdraw this request. With under 100 edits and some deeply concerning answers to the questions this RfA will not pass. Pedro : Chat  09:32, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose, really does sound like a misplaced request - there is little hope of this passing with your lack of experience (due to the answers and nom statement, not just the underpar edit count). Sorry.   weburiedoursecrets  inthegarden  09:33, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose More experience needed. Epbr123 (talk) 09:49, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) Sad oppose -- Sorry Kourosh but you need to work a little more on admin tasks before you come to Rfa. Might I recommend some areas such as WP:AIV, WP:XFD, WP:AFD, WP:AN, WP:ANI and WP:HD. Although I don't believe you would vandalise articles you need to demonstrate to the wikipedian community that you would make a good administrator first. I will be sure to support if you work on the afore mentioned articles. Regards --Cameron (t|p|c) 10:19, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 5) Strong Oppose: I guess you came to a wrong shop. You dont need admin rights to create good articles. Your major contribution till now is the article about yourself Articles for deletion/Kourosh Ziabari --  TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) - 10:22, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 6) Regretful Oppose, create some good articles and come back in a few months, and you may stand a better chance of passing. Lankiveil (speak to me) 11:49, 14 May 2008 (UTC).
 * 7) Oppose from me too I'm afraid. Certainly not "never" for adminship, but certainly not "now" either. In short, lack of experience and exposure. --Jza84 | Talk  12:17, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 8) Oppose per the above reasons. -- S iva1979 Talk to me 12:46, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Neutral

 * 1) Fnord -- Gurchzilla (talk) 12:23, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
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