Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Masamage


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Masamage
Ended (34/0/0); 17:48, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

- Masamage is a Wikipedian since June 2006, heavily contributing to Sailor Moon-related articles (at the moment, she can claim significant contributions to 3 good articles). I think we can trust this user with the tools. « Snowolf How can I help?»  12:13, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I'm honored, thank you. I accept this nomination.

Anyone examining my contribs and edit counts will immediately notice that most of my recent work is within a fairly narrow range; however, I have worked on a wide variety of articles, and continue to do so anytime something outside my "home" WikiProject catches my eye. I am very knowledgeable about Wikipedia's policies (from civility to MOS to image use) and try to stick to them above all else. I always look them up to find the text I'm referring to before I cite them, which is a good thing, because sometimes I find I've misremembered something and can then change my comments accordingly. --Masamage ♫ 17:35, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. You may wish to answer the following optional questions to provide guidance for participants:
 * 1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
 * A: A few months back I used to spend a lot of time poking around WP:AN/I for tasks a non-admin could help with, and also participated a lot in WP:AFD. As an admin I would go back to doing both, having much more to offer. I would also like to help out with WP:AIV, speedy deletion, and in particular WP:RM. RM always seems backlogged with things that are obviously a good idea and just need someone's attention.


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
 * A: I'm very proud of WikiProject Sailor Moon, which I founded and spend most of my Wikipedia time maintaining. It has turned a huge number of disorganized, haphazard articles into a much smaller number of much better articles. I do a lot of rewriting and a lot of citation-hunting, and I keep the main project page running so that people always have an up-to-date list of what needs to be done next. I start discussions on anything I do that might be controversial and try to deal with concerns according to policy. If people are concerned about what a change might look like, I often create test pages to show them. Sometimes we discard the whole idea, as with this section about image songs, which was an attempt to prose-ify a list, and which not used because we just got rid of the list altogether. I didn't put up any fuss about the work I'd put into that.


 * 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: I've had a lot of conflicts, yes, and I've never called anyone names or yelled at them. I recently got under someone's skin by telling them to "chill," but I think that's the rudest I've ever been to someone who was making me mad. I got a civility warning once for saying that I wouldn't vote for a hypothetical admin if I didn't think they could handle stress without flipping out and swearing at people. When it became clear that most of the people in that discussion were supportive of admins whose stress levels cause them to yell at vandals and other disrupters, I got very upset and stopped participating in WP:AN/I for a while. I don't think working hard is an automatic exemption from WP:CIV, so that's the standard I would hold myself to if I became an admin.

Optional question from Durova

 * 4. What would you do as an administrator about ideological or profit motive attempts to manipulate Wikipedia? Bear in mind this statement from Brad Patrick as well as this news story, this conference summary, this press release, and these blogs.  Durova Charge! 20:44, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, right off the bat I'm entirely in agreement with Mr. Patrick's statement. Wikipedia is no place for advertisements--monetary, religious, fanfictional, or otherwise. I'm not sure that being an administrator would give me all that much more power over it than I have now, though; I already list stuff for speedy-deletion. As an admin I could control the second part of that process, I guess, and be more involved in any wide-scale clean procedures that need to be done. Certainly I'd learn a lot more about how that works by talking to other admins and building consensus. --Masamage ♫ 22:55, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Optional question from JuJube

 * 5. As an administrator, how would you handle the deletion bureaucracy? This question generally refers to closing AfDs and speedy deletions. JuJube 22:55, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Very, very carefully. I take action on things that need to be done, but I hate having people mad at me, and that makes me pretty process-driven. I already try not to do anything that's likely to be controversial without making sure that everyone knows what's going on (merges, moves, etc); I'm sure that would apply to deletion procedures as well. --Masamage ♫ 23:07, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

General comments

 * See Masamage's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.


 * Links for Masamage:
 * Edit count and edit summary usage

''Please keep criticism constructive and polite. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Masamage before commenting.''

Discussion


Support
 * 1) « Snowolf How can I help?»  supports this candidate for adminship, as he is confident that this user won't do anything stupid with the tools (added on 12:41, 13 May 2007 (UTC))
 * 2) Support John254 18:04, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support A good spread of edits across the main spaces; a responsible editor who is active in at least one Wikiproject too. I don't believe that this editor would abuse the admin tools. (aeropagitica) 18:29, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support seems to have what it takes. -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:33, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. A great WikiProject steward. --  Denelson83  19:13, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Hai! Excellent work at the SM project (which she founded), 9000+ edits for those who focus on those things, great knowledge of Wikipedia policies and all in all a very good candidate for adminship. No-brainer, give her the tools, she won't misuse them. Raystorm 19:16, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Support, kokoro kara. alanyst /talk/ 19:17, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) SupportWP:RM does need more admins-- Agεθ020 ( ΔT  •  ФC ) 19:55, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Support. Prior experience indicates this user is diligent, helpful, and level-headed. Many contributions to the project, good awareness of policy and ability to work with others. I've yet to see any reason we wouldn't want to give her a few extra buttons. – Luna Santin  (talk) 20:05, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) Support, Masamage has has all was done her best to make Sailor Moon Pages the best and always given me helpfull advise I would have left because of this ID hopping Vandle if she didn't help me keep my cool she would be a great Admin ♥Eternal Pink-Ready to fight for love and grace♥ 20:48, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 11) Support Being also a Sailor Moon fan, I've worked with Masamage on many occasions am at surprised at how civil she is in her interactions with others, especially with ones who want to pick a fight with her over the whole Sailor Moon thing. As an admin, her civilised demeanor would serve the project wonderfully. JuJube 22:42, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 12) Support - despite our recent "conflicts", I think this user would make an awesome admin! ~ G1ggy!  Reply 00:28, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 13) Support per the answer to my question above. Other factors also look like this editor would be fine with the tools.  Durova Charge! 01:14, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 14) What is Sailor Moon, anyway? I support. -- Y not? 03:36, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 15) Support seems to be a good user to become and admin. Captain panda  03:51, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 16) Support Someone so involved needs to become an admin; should have happened already! Jmlk17 04:23, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 17) Support Good worker, involved, should do great things with the bit. – Rianaऋ 04:47, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 18) Support Masamage seems like an ideal candidate for adminship. She does a good job editing and interacts well with the community. — An as  talk? 13:45, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 19) Rettetast 19:40, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 20) Support: User has a great amount of experience and edit summary usage is also good, just 1% away from 100% in minor edits. Don't see anything wrong, should make a fine administrator.   Or f e <font color=#000000>n    <font color=#FF0000> User Talk | <font color=#000000> Contribs 21:00, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 21) --U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. 02:34, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 22) Support - Cometstyles 14:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 23) I'm Mailer Diablo and I approve this message! - 18:30, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 24) Support per Luna, Riana, Durova, and for good measure Mailer, on general principles since that was a cool support !vote format. Georgewilliamherbert 20:37, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 25) Support I like what I see here and am going to support Masamage. Acalamari 22:54, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 26) PeaceNT 14:12, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 27) Support Yeah she deserves it. she works so hard! Also would probly be in trouble a number of times if she hadn't helped out.. YES GIVE IT TO HER!--Lego3400: The Sage of Time 15:57, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 28) Support - Masamage is an editor truly deserving of admin position. <font face="Papyrus"><font color="Green">The Hippie  03:17, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 29) Support I don't see any reason not to. James086 Talk &#124;  Email 09:30, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 30) Nice bunch of edits - even if limited within a field or two at times. Seems ready for adminship. Support-- VS talk 11:43, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 31) Support -- ♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪  walkie-talkie  12:23, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 32) Default support. —AldeBaer 12:43, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 33) Terence 14:15, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 34) Support - I'm jumping in a bit late here, but I only just remembered I forgot to vote on this RfA. Anyhow, support per all above. Wal  ton  <sup style="color:purple;">Need some help?  16:13, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral
 * The above adminship 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.
 * The above adminship 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.