Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Martyman


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

Martyman
final (78/2/0) ending 01:23 20 February 2006 (UTC)

– I have decided to nominate myself for adminship as I feel I could be a more useful member of the community with access to the admin tools. I have been a contributor to Wikipdia since October 2004, although I had a pretty extensive wikibreak for part of 2005, due to real life issues. I have been back editing on a daily basis since around September 2005. Over my time here I am proud to have helped create several featured articles, the two that stand out to me are Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory and Lake Burley Griffin both of which I was the major contributor on. I have also been active in uploading maps, diagrams and photos to many articles. I am an active member of WikiProject Canberra, welcome newcomers and occasionally help out at the science reference desk. Recently, I have become more interested in helping out with Untagged Images, and of course dealing with the ever present vandalism, both of which would be easier to accomplish with rollback and speedy abilities. --Martyman- (talk) 00:33, 13 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: self nomination --Martyman- (talk) 01:22, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) I don't see anything from a first glance that tells me he will abuse admin powers, so, why not. NSL E (T+C) 01:36, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support --Latinus (talk (el:)) 01:52, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Strong Support - Martyman has done great work on the ACT through the WikiProject Canberra, has a great spread of edits over all name spaces and great fighter of vandalism. I'm very happy to give my support to this great Aussie editor. -- Ianblair23 (talk) 02:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support great work so far. KI 02:01, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Support has made significant contributions in article and wikipedia namespaces, will make a great admin.--nixie 02:32, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) I have been working with Martyman and others on 3D Illustrations which is coming along nicely (anyone interested in commenting or helping drive this guideline from proposed to accepted, please chime in on the talk page there). We were working with a user who meant well but whose communication style was not quite the same as most of us expect. Martyman got a little frustrated at one point which he shared with me, but taken as a whole I feel his conduct in the entire matter (determining there is a problem, consulting with others about what could be done, leading the discussion on the guidelines, doing a lot of the spadework to create new templates, working with other users, etc) is just the sort of consensus driven approach we all should be using. So I strongly Support this nomination. I think he'll make a fine admin, and with the admin powers, he'll be able to make image cleanup much more efficient. ++Lar: t/c 02:58, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) *Comment Warning: The patience and progressive discussion over at 3D Illustrations is just insane. If only more discussions were like this! &#126;MDD4696 04:49, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Strong Support Deserves to be an admin. Keep up the good work! -- S iva1979 Talk to me 03:05, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) Support Nacon Kantari   e |t||c|m 03:08, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 10) Support looks like he could use the admin tools for awesome. Savidan 03:32, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 11) Like the answers to questions, as well as edit spread and intentions. support.  aa  v ^ 03:33, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 12) Support — M o e   ε  04:33, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 13) Support Great work on the 3D thing. psch  e  mp  |  talk  04:35, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 14) Support friendly and helpful candidate - should be a good admin. Grutness...wha?  04:52, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 15) Support If Marty is willing to extend himself further it is a good thing for WP. Garglebutt / (talk) 04:59, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 16) Support Has done great work on the Canberra Wikiproject. Capitalistroadster 05:23, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 17) Support, seems like a happy little Vegemite. J I P  | Talk 07:03, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 18) Strong Support for a trustworthy, dedicated and constructive Wikipedian whose contributions, particularly his map-making and alike, have been invaluable. I can only imagine his efforts increasing upon adminship. Well-deserved, :) cj | talk 08:53, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 19) Support. A very hard-working and dedicated user; go for gold! Brisvegas 09:10, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 20) Support.  Phædriel   ♥ tell me - 22:19, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 21) Support, unlikely to abuse admin tools. Christopher Parham (talk) 22:58, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 22) Support, ColumbusCrew29 23:12, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 23) Support &asymp; jossi &asymp; t &bull; @ 23:40, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 24) Support --brianherman
 * 25) Support - Very active and dedicated Australian contributor.Blnguyen 01:01, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 26) Support Geoff/Gsl 01:08, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 27) Support abakharev 01:25, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 28) Ambi and I had it all worked out ... then you had to go and ruin it by self-nominating ahead of time! Oh, well, support, for certs. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 01:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 29) Support. Seen this user around, good impression. And he's Australian! enochlau (talk) 03:16, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 30) Support, of course. - Mailer Diablo 03:26, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 31) Support I encountered Martyman by chance on 3dnatureguy's talk page. His work is a good example of how patience and persistence can lead to a good outcome. Walter Siegmund (talk) 03:43, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 32) Support --Duk 04:44, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 33) Support Dedicated to the project and a helpful guy. &#126;MDD4696 05:31, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 34) Support looks good.--MONGO 07:36, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 35) Support. No problems at all. Raven4x4x 09:34, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 36) Support now, since it kept crashing last night. Very good and helpful contributor. JPD (talk) 11:12, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 37) Support fine example of a dedicated and helpful user, also a tireless contributor to the WikiProject Canberra. Gimboid13 11:35, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 38) Support I've seen him around, and my recollections are all positive. --Scott Davis Talk 13:17, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 39) Support what scott said. 've seem him around, great editor. Agnte 14:15, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 40) Support, good user. --Ter e nce Ong 14:38, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 41) Support. --Adrian Buehlmann 15:31, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 42) Support. He does good work -- Goddess of War 18:24, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 43) Support, although it looks like he doesn't need any more. :) - UtherSRG (talk) 20:55, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 44) Support, unlikely to abuse tools. Hiding talk 21:11, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 45) Support - Great contributor. Sango  123   (talk)  01:46, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 46) ε  γκυκλοπ  αίδεια  *  02:43, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 47) Support. Mushroom (Talk) 03:09, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 48) Support --AySz88 ^ -  ^  03:52, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 49) Support. Oh! mommy, can I please jump on that bandwagon.-- May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  05:25, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 50) Support Xhysa 06:47, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 51) Support. utcursch | talk 10:28, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 52) Support great contributor with a good variety of edits. Definetly deserves it--Looper5920 10:58, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 53) Support Definitely knows what he is doing and calmly argues his case. Pally 12:38, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 54) Support SoLando (Talk) 13:42, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 55) Support: --Bhadani 14:50, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 56) Support - no problems here. Essexmutant 16:55, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 57) Support good editor --rogerd 20:22, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 58) Support. —Kirill Lok s hin 03:02, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 59) Support--Jusjih 03:53, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 60) Support - has done good work on ACT and with maps and will be a good Admin. --Bduke 07:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 61) Support. I cannot think of someone more suited. Ambi 07:58, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 62) Support - good work —Quarl (talk) 2006-02-16 08:43Z 
 * 63) Support.--Ugur Basak 12:14, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 64) Support. Good contributions.-- Dakota ~   °  19:01, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 65) --Jaranda wat's sup 19:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 66) Support user has made a significant contribution towards removing unlicensed/unsourced images from wiki. This job would be made much easier with the delete option. Give em the mop!  ALKIVAR &trade;[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 21:21, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 67) Support. User makes good contributions to the AU wikiverse. Will be a good admin. -- Ian &equiv; talk 00:40, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 68) Support. — FireFox • T • 10:34, 17 February 2006
 * 69) Support. I can find no reason to object. --Ashenai 13:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 70) Support. Looks good. Krashlandon (e)  22:37, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 71) Support Mjal 02:02, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 72) Support. --Darwinek 09:38, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 73) Support. Martyman is a genuine saint. --Alecmconroy 19:08, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 74) Support. --Malthusian (talk) 01:13, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 75) Support - strong work on the mainspace, as evidenced by the plethora of high-quality Canberra articles, but also good contributions behind the scenes, on the reference desk, for example. --bainer (talk) 11:11, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 76) Support. Will likely make good use of tools. Jayjg (talk) 14:12, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 77) Support good editor with extra involvment in projects. Should be good admin. FloNight   talk   23:33, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 78) Support. -- M @  th  wiz  20  20  23:35, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 79) Support. The fact that you're from Canberra was mighty off putting for me, but then I compared that to Tasmania, and then compared Tasmania to New Zealand, and finally came to the conclusion that Helen Clark isn't very attractive. So, based on that, I'll support you. Your being a great and committed contributor didn't really factor into the decision much. Harr o 5 06:02, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) Martyman would not be a good choice, as most of his edits are really disguised vandalism. To make him an administrator would be a mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Biff loman9 (talk • contribs) 16:50, 15 February 2006
 * 2) *Comment:Users 5th contribution, account was 8 hours old when made. ++Lar: t/c 23:59, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose - Recently, I had an image that the OrphanBot had problems with. The OrphanBot notified me of the problem image, but the image was already gone.  Apparently it had been deleted shortly after OrphanBot detected the image, without giving me a chance to review the image and make any corrections needed.  I went to CLW to explain my position, a few minutes later I had a message from MartyMan which in essence said that I should've known the image was a problem even though I had no notice about the image and I had quite honestly forgotten about the image among the several thousand other things I had submitted to Wikipedia over time.  As a result, I have serious concerns over this person's ability to perform administrative duties in a fair and impartial manner.  Also, I think this matter is between me and CLW and that he had no business involving himself at this junction.  Perhaps later if it proceeded into mediation or arbitration it would've concerned him.  These are two reasons why I am opposing his candidacy at this time. JesseG 03:57, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * It appears it is somehow now an offense to join in a public conversation and try to explain why a problem may have occured. I can see no problems with my post to your talk page, you have totaly over reacted. --Martyman- (talk) 04:13, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I will not withdraw my vote at this time, pending the outcome of the dispute resolution process on Wikipedia. At this time I have requested informal mediation, but I will make a formal case out of it if I feel that there is a need to do so. JesseG 05:10, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * This RfA was due to close several hours ago so you will not get a chance to withdraw your vote later. This is a very big fuss to be making over the deletion of one untagged image (which I had nothing to do with). --Martyman- (talk) 05:17, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Neutral

Comments


 * Edit summary usage: 99% for major edits and 89% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits outside the Wikipedia, User, Image, and all Talk namespaces. Mathbot 01:30, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * See Martyman's edit count and contribution tree with Interiot's tool.



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 be interested in helping out with Copyright problems, Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. I will also continue to watch pages for vandalism and would be happy to help out with RC patrol. I get frustrated at the moment when I follow recent changes and after manually reverting find I have been beaten to it by an admin. --Martyman- (talk) 01:22, 13 February 2006 (UTC)


 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. I am proud to have helped develop the Canberra wikproject which has been very successful in focusing the development of articles related to Canberra. I am very pleased with all of the featured articles I have edited. Some featured articles to which I have contributed include Lake Burley Griffin, Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory, History of the Australian Capital Territory and Flag of Australia.
 * While it has been a learning experience and sometimes frustrating, I am happy with my recent efforts to develop a guideline for the inclusion of 3D illustrations into wikipedia articles.
 * As part the effort of dealing with untagged images on wikipedia, I am always happy when an editor I contact asks for help with learning more about which tags are appropriate . --Martyman- (talk) 01:22, 13 February 2006 (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 how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A. Yes, hasn't everyone? I do get stressed when I have a conflict with another editor. I have generally found that if you step back from the situation a bit it never looks as serious as it at first seemed. Discussion can help in many cases where it often turns out to be a simple misunderstanding or difference of opinion. My recent dealings with User:Cigammagicwizard is an example of where a young editor started behaving abusively for little reason, but through discussion they calmed down and learned a bit more about wikipedia in the process (as shown by and later ). I admit I have not yet found the perfect solution for dealing with persitant anonymous trolls, unless you count trying to ignore them. I try to never resort to insulting other editors, tempting though it would be at times. ;-) --Martyman- (talk) 01:22, 13 February 2006 (UTC)


 * 4. How would you respond if another admin undid one of your admin actions without discussing it with you first (e.g. (un)blocking, (un)protecting, (un)deleting)? H e rmione1980 00:48, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * A. I would assume the other admin would provide a reason for undoing my action, and if the reason seemed valid I would take it on board and try not to repeat whatever I did that needed to be undone. If there was no reason given or the reason did not seem to fit with my interpretation of the policy, I would first try to discuss the reversion with the other admin on their talk page. If that showed no sign of helping matters I would ask for input from another admin, either by asking one/some of the admins I know or via the Administrators' noticeboard. --Martyman- (talk) 00:57, 15 February 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.