Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Mschel


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

Mschel
Final (0/1/6); Withdrawn 01:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

- Since I joined Wikipedia in September 2006, I have been working to keep Wikipedia clean, uncluttered, relevant, and free from vandalism. I am a prolific vandal fighter, and I have amassed over 3000 edits in my efforts to improve Wikipedia. I have also successfully nominated a large number of useless pages for deletion. I enjoy the convenience, accuracy, and comprehensiveness of Wikipedia articles, and I am interested in contributing to Wikipedia to a greater degree by becoming an administrator. I already have experience with the sysop tools, through serving as an admin on Search Wikia.

I realize that some users may oppose me solely because of my age, but I believe that it is maturity, not age, which should determine eligibility for adminship. If I am granted adminship, then I will use the tools, to the best of my abilities, to improve our encyclopedia and benefit other users. - M s c h e l 22:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

After careful thought and consideration, I have decided to accept this nomination. - M s c h e l 22:51, 3 April 2007 (UTC) I withdraw my nomination. - M s c h e l 01:19, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

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 participants:
 * Questions for the candidate
 * 1. What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with?
 * A: I do not intend to confine myself only to certain functions of Wikipedia; however, I will start out by sticking mainly to the AIV and CSD.


 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A: There is no particular edit that I would single out, but I am proud of my long record of carefully and tirelessly reverting vandalism, and nominating unnecessary pages for deletion.


 * 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 have never been in an edit conflict with another users. The closest I have ever come to this was one instance in which I mistakenly reverted a legitimate edit as vandalism. This was resolved quickly once I understood the intentions of the user. I am not particularly worried about any POV conflicts in the future, as I tend to focus mainly on technical contributions to Wikipedia, including wikification, cleanup, grammar fixes, and reversion of vandalism.


 * Optional question 4 from Viridae Talk  You have stated you want to help with WP:AIV. Under what circumstances may an IP be banned if they are reported for vandalism. Lets assume they have had several warnings in the past, starting 3 months ago and these warnings have several times culminated in a 4th level warning (bv, test4 or uw-v4), the most recent of these being 2 days ago. 15 minutes ago they vandalised again, inserting childish stuff into the text. The vandalistic edits are coming every 5 minutes or so (give or take). Would you block them and for how long?
 * A: I would block the IP for 24 hours. - M s c h e l 00:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Optional question 5 from Viridae Talk  You also stated you want to help out with CAT:CSD. Under what circumstances can an article be deleted for not being notable?
 * Could you be more specific? - M s c h e l 00:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)


 * General comments


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



Please keep criticism constructive and polite.

Discussion

Support

Oppose
 * 1) Oppose "Amassed over 3000 edits" is not true as of this moment (2976). "Successfully nominated a large number of useless pages for deletion" doesn't appear to be the case either, and the past few CSD attempts had their articles either expanded or redirected, not deleted. Edit count is quite important for this user, yet he has made insignificant contributions besides reverting vandalism. Also made 2 support !votes on two separate RfAs (1 2), hinting at a lack of care in considering them. –Pomte 00:31, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * When a page I nominated for deletion is deleted it will no longer be shown in my contributions. That is why I now have less then 3000 edits and why you do not see my contributions to the CSD. In my last 500 contributions I only found one page that I nominated for deletion and that was not deleted. When I nominated the page for deletion all that was on it was a stub tag. A couple minutes later the author added some content and I removed the speedy deletion tag. As far as the two support votes goes, I looked over the users twice. I just absentmindedly forgot that I had already voted for them. - M s c h e l 00:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) Neutral You appear to be a prolific vandal fighter. Practically all of your last 500 edits to the mainspace are reverts to vandalism and your user Talk edits corresponds with a similar number of warnings issued.  I see little in the way of actual article contributions and opinions expressed and backed up with policies and guidelines in the Policy space.  I don't think that you're a bad editor by any means, just that you need to expand your range a little to encompass more than vandal fighting. (aeropagitica) 23:14, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Neutral The speedy deletion nominations are good and your edit count suffers somewhat by making them. The vast majority of edits in the last month, none at all in January and only a few in December.  Come back in a couple months and I could support.  Age is not a factor to me. - Dan D. Ric 23:19, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Neutral Whilst vandalfighting is a fantastic help, it is not what this website is about. Your answer to question 2 should be where you put your proudest achievements (articles), not really your vandal efforts - vandalfighting is rather easy (I have done it/do it myself) and it boosts up your edit count. Have you ever started an article, or expanded one? I'm not looking for a featured one, or a good one, but looking at answer 2 you don't appear to have written anything.  Majorly  (o rly?) 23:20, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Neutral I have to agree with Majorly. Your vandal-fighting is excellent, but you should do some article-writing. I do a lot of vandal-fighting, but I also have a variety of articles in which I help write. Help edit a few articles, as well as get more edits in the Wikipedia-space, and I think more users will be glad to support you next time. :) Acalamari 23:47, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Neutral excellent work in vandal fighting, but no article writing and relatively weak answers. — An as  talk? 00:01, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Neutral you're a good hard worker, but you probably just need a little more time to establish yourself. Try writing/expanding an article or two when the vandals aren't around. Your answers to questions are still slightly weak, which shows me that you lack some experience. You also have few contributions to project-space, which could suggest lack of knowledge of policy (of course, it could mean that you spend a lot of time reading, but no-one can prove that! :p) In all, come back in a few months after participation in XfDs, article writing, maybe even have a look around FAC and PR, and I would gladly support then. – Riana ऋ 00:54, 4 April 2007 (UTC)


 * 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.