Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/NSLE


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

NSLE
Final (71/1/2) ended 06:00, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

– I'd recently met NSLE, on Vandalism IRC, and always thought he was an admin. I've seen him a lot on AfD, always seems to have sound judgement. He's always courteous, and I've never seen him lose his cool. Good use of edit summaries, and he's got 2,040 edits to his credit at the time of this writing. He's always active it seems in the RC Patrol room, and I for one, would love to see more active admins there ;] -- негідний  лють  ( Reply  07:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I met NSLE recently in regards to the Eddie Segoura incident, and if it weren't for him, Eddie would have been seen as a policy violator rather than as a poor newcomer who didn't know what was going on. He almost was, but NSLE was the guiding force in making sure his mistakes were clarified to others and to Eddie so we could all move on. If that's not adminship personified, I don't know what is. karmafist 07:17, 2 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I gladly accept this nomination, it is an honour.  NSLE  ( 讨论 + extra ) 07:28, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Support. Great guy, per me ;] -- негідний  лють  ( Reply  07:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support per that second, handsome nominator. karmafist 07:18, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Strong Support per nomination. Very great guy, would be a great admin. -- RattleMan 07:24, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support, yeah. [[Image:Flag_of_Europe_and_Austria.svg|20px]] ナイトスタリオン ✉ 07:38, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Strong Support Absolutely, fine editor. I also noticed the recent kindness Karmafist mentioned, and agree that it shows the best adminship qualities. Xoloz 07:47, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support good egg for sure.--MONGO 08:21, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support --  A dam1213 Talk + 08:37, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Rock on--Sean|Bla ck 09:39, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Merovingian 12:52, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support after getting to the bottom of it all, but note that IRC is not Wikipedia. Proto t c 12:57, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support - He's not one already? --Cel e stianpower hablamé 13:05, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support &#8766; Thought he was an admin. → Ξxtreme Unction {yak ł blah } 13:14, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support if he's not an admin, he should be one. Izehar 13:55, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support. I usually look for a minimum of three months here, but NSLE is a fast learner. I've seen him everywhere; he knows what he's doing, and will make a great admin. Owen&times; &#9742;  13:58, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support - I sense that the force is strong in this one. BD2412  T 14:18, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support Per all of the above.  Ban e  s  17:44, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support LordViD 18:00, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support Astrotrain 18:54, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support, I know him! I know him! Great user, assumed he was an admin just because I was too lazy to find out if he was or not. Quentin   Pier  c  e  21:05, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, I'm expecting my payment soon. Just letting you know I didn't forget. Wait...I mean no shady emails and talk messages going on here. Quentin   Pier  c  e  21:12, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Support Good User --Aranda 56) 21:37, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support FreplySpang (talk) 21:58, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Good janitor, give him the big push broom! xaosflux T/C 00:54, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support Handled the EddieSegoura incident quite well. Definitely worthy. --Wikiacc (talk) 01:14, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support good editor. --Vsion 02:08, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support I was also quite impressed with how he dealt with Eddie --Rogerd 02:19, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support great editor. Olorin28 03:42, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support Seen him/her around on IRC frequently. Johann Wolfgang 03:56, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) That's hot. Mike H. That's hot 06:15, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) ^ Copyright vio, ok Mike? Miss Hilton will see u in court. N.E way, Support.  Oran   e    (t)   (c)   (e-mail)  06:33, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. &mdash;Wayward Talk 07:43, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support. Seen this user around before. :) --Andylkl [ talk! 07:46, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support Good anti-vandalism work, should use mop well. Alf melmac 07:54, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support Handled things very well with Eddie. -Colin Kimbrell 08:15, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support Good vandal fighter in training. :) --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 10:45, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support Some very high quality edits and being a vandal fighter without sysop isn't fun (I'd like to see your rv edit summaries be rvv when referring to vandalism, but the rollback function should help). Despite short term, already a familiar face. jnothman talk 13:56, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support Good work. -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 14:23, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support -- tomf688 {talk} 14:30, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support Good contributions. One minor concern I have is that almost all edits in the project namespace are for AfDs or RfAs. Branch out a little... Mindmatrix 18:49, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support. I'm frankly amazed at how much he's done here in such a short time.  Being a bit of a tropical cyclone enthusiast myself, I've seen much of his work, and it's good stuff.  I also know him from outside Wikipedia, and while I'll freely admit that we've had our differences on occasion, I also know that he is well suited for the job. Pedriana 21:09, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support. El_C 00:27, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support. Redwolf_24 05:09, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support. He's acted like an admin whenever our paths have crossed. He should stop pretending. &mdash;Bunchofgrapes (talk) 05:24, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support. per nom.-- Dak ota   t    e  ''' 07:07, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support, of course. - Mailer Diablo 13:27, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) My watch stopped, that's why I'm late support.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  16:14, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support awsome guy! Vulcanstar6 04:23, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support --pgk( talk ) 07:45, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support, NSLE is a good editor. &mdash; J <font color="#00CC00">I <font color="#0000CC">P | Talk 08:50, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Support. Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me 08:57, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 31) Support: good editor, will very likely be a good admin! --Joann e B 11:55, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 32) Support, good editor. --Terenceong1992 12:10, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 33) Support. Good contributor. Sjakkalle (Check!)  13:19, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 34) Support, per nominator. Crotalus horridus 15:17, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 35) Support. Edit history seem reasonable, no cause for concern. Jayjg <small style="color:darkgreen;">(talk) 21:48, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 36) Support. I could've sworn you were an admin! :o Mo0 [ talk ] 23:40, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 37) Support. Every contrib that I've seen from him has been quite good. Carbonite | Talk 02:48, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 38) Support, how come I hadn't seen this one? Tito xd (?!? - did you read this?) 05:02, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 39) Support  ε  γκυκλοπαίδεια  *  (talk)  15:45, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 40) Support per above Izehar (talk) 16:28, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 41) Absolutely. &asymp; jossi fresco &asymp; t &bull; @ 22:34, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 42) I suppose Even though you left the harsh "Screw you" edit summary on Wikisand and blocked me, I have found it in my heart to support you here. Acetic Acid 06:25, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * You had that coming! :P NSLE  ( T + C + CVU ) 06:33, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Support AnnH (talk) 10:46, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support. the wub "?!"  19:05, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Good egg. Probably not crazy. (The second sentence is comedic relief). Hamster Sandwich 06:31, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. PJM 06:58, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. Bluefox 07:31, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) SNFA. The Land 10:29, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Extreme wossname support. Likes all the right football teams. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 00:46, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support. -- DS1953 01:22, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Support - Gladly. <font color="#00008B">Sango <font color="#008000">123 <font color="#00008B">(talk)  01:28, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support. But Arsenal rocks Liverpool's socks! – ugen64 02:20, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Late vote: Oppose
 * 1) Yes. NSLE's good.Go for it!Tan Ding Xiang 陈鼎翔 04:40, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
 * <S>Oppose based on these diffs  .  Revert someone's changes to their own user page, when what they are posting is neither a personal attack nor against Wikipedia policy, is both poor etiquette and newbie biting-y.  I don't care what possible sockpuppet of who he might be. Proto t c 12:22, 2 December 2005 (UTC) Hmm.  I should have researched this one a bit more.  Withdrawn. Proto t c 12:31, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. We don't need more admins. NSLE's dedication to reverting vandalism is highly commendable, but as we can see, adminship is not critical for this. Most vandalism going uncaught would remain uncaught if everyone had the rollback feature. AfD backlog is not critical at this time - if and when it appears, we can always start voting support on new RFAs. Vandal blocking is often quickly done, and if it isn't, an admin is always on hand and easily contacted. 202.58.85.8 07:21, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * This is a proven vandal IP who has been disqualified and temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia for disruption of the Requests for Adminship page and its subpages and for continued WP:POINT violations. --LBMixPro&lt;Sp e ak 08:30, 6 December 2005 (UTC)


 * 1) Oppose, because Candidate is A. Already going around and thanking users for voting on his RfA prior to it closing, which I find to be poor form, and B. actually using a template to do this, and C. Not even bothering to type a user's name in, but using instead . I know BD2412's already going around and thanking users, but it at least seems like he's bothering to personalize each comment he makes, as opposed to just importing a templated form letter. I know this is probably being anal and nitpicky, but I feel administrators should have a strong understanding of policy, civility, and especially "wikiquette", and to me such actions make me question the latter pretty heavily. &Euml;vilphoenix Burn! 01:55, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * What exactly is wrong with pre-thanking? Secondly, why are you questioning this when countless others have used "templated form letters"? Thirdly, I'm not the first to use ... Anyhow, I thank you for taking the time to vote, and will keep what you said in mind.  NSLE  ( T + C + CVU ) 02:15, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Neutral


 * 1) It is a great honour? Great, do we really need more Commonwealth English-speaking admins on Wikipedia? Good grief. ;) Matt Yeager 01:25, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I speak Commonwealth English, as do most people from former British territories ;) NSLE  ( 讨论 + extra  CVU ) 01:36, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * What's wrong with speaking English like it's supposed to? I might just as well ask, do we really need more Merkin-speaking admins? &mdash; <font color="#CC0000">J <font color="#00CC00">I <font color="#0000CC">P | Talk 08:50, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Neutral: I'm neutral about this person right now.  Had a few rough encounters, but if we get along maybe next time My vote with be positive.  I'm hope to build My own reputation so I can try for this by Passover in April.  -- Eddie (Talk to Me) 04:22, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Comments
 * I have only been on the Wiki for about 10 weeks, and understand if I get opposed due to lack of time spent on the Wiki. I've got almost 450 Wikipedia-space edits, last I checked, and about 800 mainspace edits. NSLE  ( 讨论 + extra ) 07:39, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * While I realize I've yet to bother delving much into the matter of contributing to Wikipedia (I'm still doing some research on my hometown of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana at my local university archives so I can add something of substance on the subject), I feel that my personal experiences with NSLE are worth sharing. I've met him through various internet communities including Particracy and NationStates and he is one of the most warm, cordial, helpful, and personable people I've come to know.  His dedication to community-building and level disposition will no doubt be a great asset to the Wikipedia project, and he comes with my highest recommendations to you all. AngaelBoi 07:53, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * If that's the case, then go on and add your support to the list above. LordViD 09:49, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I was talking to AngaelBoi on IRC on a different channel, and I communicated to him that with his very low edit count (this was his third edit!), his vote would likely be discounted. As such, he offered to post a comment instead. NSLE  ( 讨论 + extra  CVU ) 09:52, 2 December 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 check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
 * A. I'm in the vandalism channel on IRC often, and often revert vandalism by hand. I'll fully help out in closing AfDs, and will use my power to block vandals when I see that they've repeatedly committed an offence after being warned with test. I've also got quite a bit of time on my hands, and would help with the backlog on certain areas.


 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. I created Hurricane Nora (1997) and Typhoon Longwang, and am part of two Wikiprojects (Tropical Cyclones and A1GP), and am very happy with both articles. I've also played my part in the EddieSegoura case, which I'm pleased to say has been closed after a long while.


 * 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. I tried to explain to the very best of my ability to EddieSegoura that a few of his edits had violated WP:NOT and various other Wikipedia policies, however, I do not feel that anyone has caused me stress. I've only been caught in a revert war with Stirling Newberry, and he accused me of asserting wiki ownership, and of behaving in bad faith. I must note that my reverts were back up by Jdorje and Titoxd, who himself was undergoing an RfA at that time. I tried to talk it out with him on our talk pages, but it ended when he gave up as the few of us (more than the two mentioned users) proved that there was consensus for the certain disputed text to be in the way it was.


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