Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Malathion

Malathion
final (45/1/0) ending 06:49 10 August 2005 (UTC)

- Anyone who has been on RC patrol or has been on IRC has definitely seen this guy around. He's been here since August 26, 2004 (almost a year now) and has really kicked it up the past couple of months. He's friendly, warns users a lot more than I do and most definitely will wear down [rollback] button. I'm sure he has already worn out a couple of mice clicking to revert and a couple of "{", "d" and "}" keys speedying nonsense and vanity and other non-Wikipedia pages for deletion. He's also really nice and helpful and would (in my humble fool opinion) make a great administrator in the mediation aspects. So based on that, I hereby declare my nomination for Malathion to be let onboard the Wikipedia adminship. Sasquatch&#08242;&#08596;T&#08596;C 06:49, August 3, 2005 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept the nomination. Thanks. :-) --malathion talk 06:54, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Support, of course, per reasons above. Sasquatch&#08242;&#08596;T&#08596;C 06:51, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Damnit!!! I just wrote IM FIRST!! ~ with speed... but then a conflict came and sasquatch beat me and... yeah who cares. Redwolf24 06:51, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Nice vandal wacker. --Exir KamalabadiLeave me a note! 07:00, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Merovingian (t) (c) 07:08, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Good RC patroller, the project will benefit from him having the extra buttons. Dan100 (Talk) 10:37, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Cool. JuntungWu 11:18, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Martin (Bluemoose) 13:22, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) dab (&#5839;) 18:05, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Supporting. Denelson83 18:29, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support. Though reluctantly: this will mean I have far less to do on RC/NP patrol, and what else am I going to do with a Friday night? :) Splash 18:33, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. Fire Star 19:24, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support as per reasons already stated. Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 20:38, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support so that Splash may enjoy his weekends. :) Hall Monitor 20:43, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support. Sterling work. Flowerparty talk 23:45, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support. Good crop of noms this week! -- BD2412 talk 00:36, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support. The more the merrier; the cabal gets lonely sometimes... -- Essjay ·  Talk 01:03, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support. A finer vandal-fighter there has rarely been. Helpful and enthusiastic. Fernando Rizo T/C 02:20, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) --Jusjih 02:50, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support per IRC cabal. kmccoy (talk) 03:10, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support. Joyous  (talk) 03:59, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support - why isn't he already one!? Rob Church 04:51, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support- JCarriker 06:11, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support - Sango  123  15:07, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support (especially since his views interest me).--Cyberjunkie | Talk 15:15, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support - I thought he already was an admin! - ulayiti (talk)  17:18, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) BRIAN 0918   20:44, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support, a vital part of our community, participates in VfD, and tags articles. Worthy of admim powers. &mdash; Stevey7788 (talk) 22:48, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support, good user. :) Func( t, c ) 23:10, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support WP can always use another high-caliber janitor. :-) Tomer TALK  01:19, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Could do fine work with the M-16 recoilless nuclear Gatling mop - David Gerard 06:12, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 31) Support --Briangotts (talk) 14:34, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 32) Support. Carbonite | Talk 21:26, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 33) Support Harrumph! MicahMN | Talk 00:05, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * 34) Support. No question. SlimVirgin (talk) 02:22, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * 35) Support. Great vandalfighter. Yelyos 05:10, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * 36) Support. -Willmcw 20:09, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * 37) Support. Good work so far, will put tools to good use. Jayjg (talk) 06:20, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 38) Support. Dedicated on RC patrol. -- M P er el ( talk 03:08, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 39) Support. Very fine all-round contributor. Sjakkalle (Check!)  10:49, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 40) Support. FreplySpang (talk) 10:51, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * 41) Support. Wikipedia will benefit with rollback in his hands. Bratsche talk  5 pillars 14:41, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * 42) Support. freestylefrappe 19:02, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * 43) SupportD. J. Bracey (talk) [[Image:Flag of California.svg|25px]] 20:44, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 44) Support DS1953 06:28, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * 45) Support FeloniousMonk 01:40, 10 August 2005 (UTC) I have full confidence in Malathion.

Oppose
 * 1) --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 04:30, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Neutral

Comments
 * For those who want numbers Kate says about 1800 edits as of this RfA (not counting the countless speedy tags). Sasquatch&#08242;&#08596;T&#08596;C 06:55, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Update: That's 2120 in the closing minutes, or about 320 since this RfA was launched. Rob Church 02:25, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

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 read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. I've spent a lot of time on RC patrol lately, so I expect that being a sysop would allow me to resolve serious vandalism problems, or delete nonsense articles, without having to beg someone in #en.wikipedia.vandalism to do it. I am also very interested in helping to close VfD's if and whenever there is a backlog.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. My first major Wiki project was doing great deal of reorganizing and rewriting of Bobby Fischer. It just missed FAC, but I'm still pretty happy with the improvements I was able to make to it. I'm also working on improving bio stubs of a lot of chess players. I started the WikiProject: Moral philosophy recently, and I'm working on several rewrites of moral philosophy articles that I feel are in very bad shape. Outside of the article space, I wrote a lengthy (attempted) explanation of Wiki philosophy to Christopher Rose (because I was afraid that such a distinguished and well-educated scientist would be scared away by our unorthodox ways) on his talk page.
 * 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. Being a regular RC patroller makes my userspace a regular target of vandalism. Mostly, I revert and ignore it, because such users are generally blocked soon anyway. I was involved in a successful RFC and RfA against over Libertarianism, which has been resolved successfully . I've also been involved in some heated debate over the Race and intelligence article and I'm happy to think that some of my comments there have helped to cool things down, or explain one point of view to the other camp  . However, in the future I would like to concentrate more on trying to resolve disputes, so that everyone can get on with making an encyclopedia.