Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Nilfanion


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

Nilfanion
Final (117/0/1); Ended Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:00 (UTC)




 * Nomination by Lar
 * Nilfanion is an admin on Commons (info there: user page talk • contribs • count • logs • page moves • block log • email ) and has been thinking about standing for admin here for a while. Nilfanion is an editor's editor.. If you look at his contribs you'll find some pretty impressive mainspace stuff. Nilfanion has been primarily active in the Hurricanes topic area... for all you WP:1FA fans, he has brought not just one, but two articles he started to WP:FA status: 2003 Pacific hurricane season and  Hurricane Irene (2005). He was also instrumental in working on  Hurricane Katrina when it really needed it (this is 90%+ his work), Katrina is probably one of our most viewed articles in that topic. If that wasn't enough, he's also brought Image:Global_tropical_cyclone_tracks-edit2.jpg to featured picture status, and regularly uploads images to Commons (with 2000 images to his credit, no less). If you need a track or satellite image done, he's your man. (see User:Nilfanion) His work as an admin on Commons has been exemplary, with a lot of great work on copyright, organization of things, helping users, editing templates and the like, and no major issues. I expect the same will be true of his adminship here... I've worked with him closely there and find him a joy to work with. He is always ready to help out, and has been friendly and cheerful every time. When he's on IRC, which is often, he is very responsive when people need help. I'll let him speak to exactly how he wants to help out here but I think he'd be a fine addition. See the talk page where I have pasted counts for his work here, and on Commons. ++Lar: t/c 03:00, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Co-nomination by Coredesat
 * Lar pretty much covered all the bases in his nomination. Nilfanion is an extremely diligent editor, and is a huge asset to the Tropical Cyclone WikiProject, bringing his extensive Commons experience to the table in several areas, ranging from creating hundreds of storm track maps to sorting through image copyright issues, and also spending days trying to perfect a calendar feature on Portal:Tropical cyclones. He has constructive editing experience in almost all the namespaces on both Wikipedia and Commons, and is also experienced in recent changes patrol, ANI, AFD, and IFD. As Lar stated, Nilfanion is almost always available when you need him, whether on IRC or on wiki, and he is very civil and friendly, and a great editor to work with. I think he's a great candidate for adminship. --Coredesat  08:45, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:00, 1 January 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 voters:
 * Questions for the candidate
 * 1. What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog and Category:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
 * A: Unsuprisingly as an active Commons admin, I intend to work heavily on the many backlogs and duties associated with images here: Including CATs NL, NS, WP:IFD, WP:PUI and WP:CP. I plan to pay particular attention to CAT:NCT and CAT:NC, both tasks where dual-admin status is beneficial. I also plan to assist with CAT:ORFU and CAT:REFU, which have no direct parallel on Commons, but are important parts of maintaining the images here. Asides the work with images, I intend to help with all WP:CSD tasks and copyright issues in articles.


 * Aside these deletion-related activities, I will help with WP:AIV and general anti-vandal work when needed. I want to work on WP:RM and history-merging, both fairly unpleasant but nonetheless important tasks; I've seen several instances where these tasks have been required as part of my work in WikiProject Tropical cyclones. I'd also like to help DYK refreshing and other main page tasks; having the Commons mop is helpful here.


 * In addition to dealing with tasks here on en.wikipedia, access to Special:Undelete will make my duties on Commons easier. When admins here correctly delete images under CSD I8, the Commons version of the image should have all of the sourcing info. However, en admins (even ArbCom members) sometimes forget to check the sourcing info is correctly transferred before deleting; leading to the image being listed on commons:CAT:U. On ocassions when working on the Commons backlog, I've had to call for en.wp admin assistance on IRC to deal with these images. Also, I intend to volunteer for OTRS duties at some point in the future; gaining admin experience here will make me more effective at that task.


 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A: Most of my major work on wikipedia is within my activity in the Tropical cyclones WikiProject, which is one of the most active of all WikiProjects. I'm pleased of my personal article writing accomplishments (including 1 FA and 8 GAs on storms from the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season), but I'm more proud of the trail-blazing effect writing those articles had, which led to other editors producing many more high-quality articles. The acheivement I am proudest of is this FP mentioned by Lar above, not least because this discussion, suggests it might help to save lives in India and Bangladesh.


 * I'm also the driving force behind the WikiProject's newsletter and do other numerous other minor backstage tasks for the WikiProject, which I am all happy with to some extent. Outside of the WikiProject, I have developed a workable review system for Flickr images, which has to some extent safeguarded thousands of images used in Wikimedia projects.


 * 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: When I first started actively editing, the Tropical cyclone wikiproject was engaged in a major, long-lasting debate as whether the less significant storms of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season were worthy of articles. Whilst personally I remained fairly calm through this debate, several of the editors involved held very strong views. I worked calmly and civilly with all the involved partiesm whilst at the same time working on the debated articles. The resulting change in philosophy in the project eventually led to many more high quality articles. I have maintained the same attitude, working calmly and civilly with the other editors, throughout my activity and hope to continue to be able to do so in future.


 * Question from CJ King for candidate.
 * 4. Imagine this situation: You are on RC Patrol and you see a new image has been uploaded off of the Internet. It's the cover for the latest CD for one of your favorite bands. The uploading editor has failed to give any of the required information for the picture. You would really like to see it kept, but the editor fails to add anything to the image page, and it falls to you to delete the image. What will you do? You have given the editor numerous warnings. And this image isnt on Commons, and you have had a really bad time finding it on the internet.-- C  J   King  23:05, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, if the image was a cover of the latest CD of one of my favourite bands, the lack of sourcing would be moot, as I would be able to provide it myself ;) In general, if it was an album cover of a generic band, my decision to delete or not would depend on if I can identify a relevant article from the information provided (if one existed). If there was an article and that had a similar image I would delete the questionable image in preference to the existing one. If there was no similar image in the article I would edit the image's page appropriately and add it to the article, securing its fair use claim and not deleting it. If the information provided by the uploader was insufficient to identify a relevant article or there is no appropriate article, I would delete the image (being prepared to undelete if they give me more info). As for the user, I would tell them they really have to provide adequate information with uploads or they may be blocked in future; in this scenario I wouldn't block at this point, but if the problem continued I would give a short block, report to WP:AN and monitor the user closely.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:00, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Optional question (or questions) from —— Eagle 101 (Need help?)
 * 5. As Wikipedia grows, and its search engine ranking increases, this is causing some people to use Wikipedia for search engine optimization, and to generally promote their website. Spam has almost doubled in little over 2 months. This information was derived from watching Linkwatcher's (IRC bot) output as it sits in #wikipedia-spam, a channel on the freenode IRC network. The core policies and guidelines dealing with spam are WP:SPAM, WP:EL, and WP:RS. An open ended question, what is your view on how severe spam is, and why? What is the purpose of External Links? Should we be allowing every myspace, youtube, blogspot, ect links into Wikipedia, Or should our standards be a bit higher then that? If so, how high?
 * I only have limited experience regarding spam links on-wiki, so I don't have the knowledge to be able to gauge how bad it currently is. To better understand I went into the IRC channel and participated in some of the activity there. From what I saw there and from the information above, as well as my own experience, I think its likely that spam will become a major problem this year, and is already more than a mere nuisance. The purpose of external links is to provide further information and sourcing on the topic, not to advertise products; this is an encyclopedia after all.


 * We certainly should not allow all Myspace and Youtube links to stand, but there are occasions where these may be genuinely useful, so a blanket ban is a mistake. At the least, these links have to be examined to ensure they are not copyright violations, as these sites have a serious problem with this. I feel links to these sites are generally not necessary, as if the article meets relevant notability guidelines other sites considered reliable will make these links redundant. If we are not restrictive, we end up with articles like this one; there are so many links there that the useful are swamped out and hard to locate. Having that much degrades the quality of the article leading to both make the reader feeling unsatisfied and a requirement for serious editorial effort to judge what is useful and clean-up.

Question by --Foundby 16:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)


 * #Say an Anon user vandalizes, what would be the first step you would take? (I am not an admin but I usually send them the Welcome anon vandal template lol) --Foundby 16:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Under typical circumstances I would revert the vandalism (obviously) and use test1-n, or a more specialized template if appropriate. If the anon continued to vandalize I would increase the level of the warnings until a block became necessary. The length of the block would depend on the nature of the vandalism and what the IP is: an undetected open proxy would be indef blocked, whilst an AOL IP would only receive a short anon-only block.--Nilfanion (talk) 18:49, 7 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Would you encourage them to get an account when you give them the first warning? From my experience once they have an account they don't vandalize, because they think the Wiki community cares for them? --Foundby 20:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC)


 * General comments


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


 * Those who want to view 's edits may do so through Interiot's Wannabe Kate tool. To see his excellent edit summary usage, refer to this tool. Yuser31415 04:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * If you want to just see the numbers and save load on the poor overworked server, see the talk page: Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship/Nilfanion, where both his en:wp and commons totals are already there from this very tool. ++Lar: t/c 19:58, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Discussion

Support
 * 1) Support Absolutely no reservations about how well this user will handle their Wikipedia mop. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 00:04, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Beat-the-original-nominator support as co-nom. That'll be the last cliche from me... :P --Coredesat  00:07, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support-Beat the noms (well before the edit conflict w/ Cordesat)! --TeckWizTalk Contribs@ 00:08, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Beat-1-nom-support Coredesat is too fast :( Canadian -Bacon 00:09, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Beat-the-Lar-Support I knew someone would get their nom in on 0:00 UTC :) Happy New Year. Mart inp23 00:30, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Of course... (hehe 00:00? buncha geeks!) - crz crztalk 00:45, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Lar's-beaten-again-support Yes, we need more image admins. and champagne .-- Hús  ö  nd  00:53, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) Support, and I beat LAR! Yay, I beat Lar here! Oh, and I support due to the obvious meeting of standards.  S h a r k f a c e  2 1 7  01:07, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Support its all been said already, Gnangarra 01:38, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) 0:00 Support. Anyone who decides to accept their nomination at exactly 0:00 of January 1, 2007, truly deserves to be an administrator. Plus, he's someone who I definitely trust will make a good admin. =)  Nish kid 64  01:57, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. Great user. RyanGerbil10 (Упражнение В!) 02:00, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 12) Edit-conflict Support My first edit and first support of 2007! I see no problems with this application for administrator. (aeropagitica) 02:01, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 13) Strong Support This is one of those RfAs where you either have to write a long comment on how good a candidate is, or a short one saying he's a really good one. This is the latter. Happy New Year. ← A NAS ''' Talk? 02:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 14) Yes, most certainly. Daniel.Bryant [ T · C ] 02:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 15) Yes. Per Nishkid64.  J o rco g a  Yell!   03:41, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 16) Strong support - a brilliant candidate for adminship. Happy New Year! Yuser31415 04:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 17) Support. Michael 04:32, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 18) Support looks good, and happy new year from UTC-5.-- danntm T C 05:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 19) Support. G .H  e  05:28, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 20) Support, without reservation, great user. Terence Ong 06:04, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 21) Support passes my criteria †he Bread 06:09, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 22) Support and, Happy New Year. :) Nimbat230 06:21, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 23) Support without any qualms whatsoever. - BanyanTree 06:41, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 24) Support. I'd love to know what that pagemove vandalism thing was, it sounds funny. -Amarkov blahedits 07:21, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 25) 100% support. Responsible editor whose contributions are extremely valuable to Wikipedia and Commons. - SpLoT | '07 (*C*+u+g) 07:56, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 26) Support no reason to oppose or be neutral. Just H 08:02, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 27) Support. Everything looks good. Prolog 08:37, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 28) Support Good Knowledge of the project. Definitely deserves tools. Happy New Year! Alex43223Talk 09:31, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 29) I'm Mailer Diablo and I approve this message! - 12:02, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 30) Support Eli Falk 12:09, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 31) Support! -- Majorly  ( Talk ) 12:17, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 32) 'Support - good devoted editor, good commons admin Alex Bakharev 13:01, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 33) Support. Great contributor, so why not?  Insane <font color="906C5A">phantom 13:06, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 34) Support per nom. —sd31415   (sign here)  13:46, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 35) Support. His splendid contributions speak for themselves, and dual adminship on Wikipedia and Commons will probably help with many image-related tasks. Sandstein 13:52, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 36) Support --<font color="darkblue" face="comic sans ms">teh <font color="steelblue" face="comic sans ms">tennis <font color="seagreen" face="comic sans ms">man  15:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 37) Definitely. Max S em 15:09, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 38) Support His history is simply fantastic. Total trust.Ganfon 15:54, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 39) SupportI support him.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">HIZKIAH (User &#149; Talk) 16:45, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 40) Support, his experience with images and the Commons will clearly allow him to assist with many backlogs that require administrator help. The combinations of all the experience makes him to be a very promising administrator. -- Nataly a  17:02, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 41) Support - Good image experience. - cohesion 17:07, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 42) I am not Mailer Diablo and I approve this message. - Darwinek 17:31, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 43) Support No problems here. -- S iva1979 <sup style="background:yellow;">Talk to me  17:56, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 44) Support - he's only been around a few months, but certainly contributed to his area of expertise; in addition, lots of user talk edits, which is highly suggestive of a communicative user; finally, he didn't nominate himself, which earns extra kudos for me. Good luck mate, you've won me over. <font color="#ff9900">Dåvid ƒuchs (talk &bull; contribs) 18:04, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 45) Strong Support No problems with this user.-- PrestonH  | talk  |  contribs  |  editor review  | 18:33, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 46) Support Great editor, who could contribute to the project even more with administrative tools. Hello32020 18:48, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 47) Support. Great nom, great answers to questions, and I'm sure will make a great admin as well. ^ demon [omg plz] <em style="font-size:10px;">19:01, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 48) Strong Support now that that has been clarified, I think that this user is going to be a great admin. &mdash; Arjun  19:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Um, why do people not tell me when they are going to accept so I can get in an early support instead of a johnny-come-lately? I should withdraw my co-nom and oppose, honestly... :) ... More candidates like this one please!TM support, per the eloquent (and handsome!) conominators. ++Lar: t/c 19:58, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Strong Support - per above --T-rex 20:46, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support per everyone above. Going to be a great administrator.  —<b style="color:#333333;">bbatsell</b>  ¿?  21:02, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support --W.marsh 21:07, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Thought he already was one. --Rory096 21:27, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support Wikipedia will benefit even more with you as an user. Good luck. Rettetast
 * He already is a user :P Mart inp23 23:20, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Support - extremely well qualified candidate, no concerns. Newyorkbrad 21:35, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Strong support - about time :) Hurricanehink ( talk ) 23:16, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Looks very good. Happy New Year!  Dar-Ape 23:49, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support per the above. Looks like he will be a fine admin. --- <font color="#BB45AA">The Bethling (Talk) 00:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support per responses to standard inquiries. Tom e r<sup style="font-variant: small-caps; color: #129dbc!important;">talk 01:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Oh crap I was supposed to nominate him support. Nilfanion is an excellent user - in spite of him registering an account and jumping right into the mother of all debates within WP:WPTC, he has shown to be quite a responsible, coolheaded user. He has excellent knowledge of image policy, due to his level of interaction at Commons and here. He also is responsible for several featured articles, most prominently the slightly-infamous Hurricane Irene, and was instrumental in getting Hurricane Katrina featured. While we not always agree on everything, I cannot think of a single reason why he should not get sysop privileges. Tito xd (?!?) 01:26, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Support obviously has the experience, seems to me to be a good guy.-- C  J   King  01:59, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) Support everything's great here.  T ennis   Dy  N  ami  T  e  (sign here) 03:03, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Support Jaranda wat's sup 03:35, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. Barry zito 03:31, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Note to Crat the above user has 1 edit...this one. &mdash; Arjun 03:53, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The user has also been indef blocked as he seems to be trying to impersonate Barry Zito. --W.marsh 04:34, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Support users with a history of good judgment who contribute significantly in mainspace. Opabinia regalis 05:52, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support, and I would like to apologize to Nilfanion for stealing his idea to create this tropical storm map ;-).  Dragons flight 06:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Nacon kantari  06:16, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Strong Support - great user! RaNdOm26 07:58, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Erm... Wait... You mean... He's not? Миша 13 10:16, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Support —Quarl (talk) 2007-01-02 10:47Z 
 * 7) Sounds good to me.  &gt; R a d i a n t &lt;  11:56, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) Support. Singopo 12:47, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Support - shoo-in. Metamagician3000 13:03, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) Support. Extremely well qualified. Coemg e nus 15:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. He seems qualified, and he is already a very successful editor.--Yannismarou 16:07, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 12) Support WP needs more admins, and this is clearly a solid candidate. Oh, insert storm joke here, and imagine it's a really funny one. - C HAIRBOY  (☎) 16:43, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 13) Any friend of lar's....--Docg 18:56, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 14) Support - per Doc, really :o) Guy (Help!) 00:37, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 15) Support. -- DS1953 <sup style="color:green;">talk 00:42, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 16) Support, I have no problems with anything. Great balanced edits. -- Wizardman 00:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 17) Support—Ryūlóng ( 竜龍 ) 00:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 18) Last minute pile-on Support. Per above. IronDuke  02:13, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 19) Support John254 03:44, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 20) He's not already? --InShaneee 04:00, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 21) Support. Oh yeah.  Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me 08:12, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 22) Support a great candidate --Steve (Slf67)talk 08:24, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 23) Abso-fuckin'-lutely. --Nearly Headless Nick 09:16, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 24) Strong Support --Extranet (Talk 11:17, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 25) Admin, was, already, you know the rest. --Slowking Man 12:38, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 26) Yet another support. yandman  13:15, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 27) Support  DVD+ R/W 15:42, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 28) Support -- Tawker 15:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 29) Cyde Weys  15:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 30) Support its a shame that WP:SNOW can't be used in a situation like this. <font face="comic sans ms">James086Talk 16:38, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 31) Support --Spartaz 19:29, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 32) Support. Cta~ patent nonsense! 20:27, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 33) Support because I think that this user will be a good admin, as this user has the experience (from the Commons), is trustworthy, will have a genuine need for the tools, and will further the interests of Wikipedia by being an Administrator. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 21:52, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 34) Category 5 Support ~ trialsanderrors 23:48, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 35) Support Bwithh 00:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 36) support --dario vet ^_^ (talk) 08:03, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 37) Support - looks fantastic, would be a great admin. JoeSmack Talk 14:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 38) Support adding the deciding support :) TSO1D 16:03, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 39) Support. Appears to be an excellent candidate. Just a shame I missed out on casting the 100th support vote... WJBscribe (WJB talk) 17:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 40) Support - Seems to be a very good admin candidate, from what I saw 0% chance of abuse of admin tools. Well reasoned replies to all questions. Please give this guy the mop already! —— Eagle 101 (Need help?) 20:08, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 41) Support - Already trusted on the Commons, experienced, etc., etc... ~ Booya Bazooka 20:57, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 42)  Voice -of-  All  21:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 43) Support --Tone 23:17, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 44) Support, Looks fine to me. Yaf 03:24, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 45) Support Good candidate, solid answers to questions. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  15:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 46) Support, looks fine. Yao Ziyuan 01:18, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 47) Support Seems like a good candidate. Dionyseus 07:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 48) Support looks great, per Mr Lar. Good-luck, Nilfanion. Sarah 09:12, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 49) Support me gusta. --Iriseyes 21:59, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 50) Support Great editor. Resounding Support. Get on it! Dfrg.msc 1 . 2 . Editor Review 22:18, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 51) Support per nom(s). --Oden 01:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 52) Support, no concerns. Christopher Parham (talk) 07:54, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 53) Support he answered my questions eh, looks like he will be a good admin :) --Foundby 20:30, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 54) Last minute hurricane rocking Support.  JungleCat    Shiny! / Oohhh!  23:05, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Oppose
 * Oppose until clarified Clearly an awesome user but does the link to commons in your signature count as an external link? Please let me know. &mdash; Arjun  15:27, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure that it only counts as an external link when it has this little icon. I could be wrong, though. -Amarkov blahedits 16:50, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It's just an interwiki link, not an external link.  Nish kid 64  18:33, 1 January 2007 (UTC)



Neutral
 * 1) Neutral: I believe an admin should be more patient and have better judgement. No links are needed, I believe Nilf knows what I'm talking about, but I won't oppose, because that would be a detriment to the project. Just voicing a view that he can still improve. – Chacor 11:45, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * By no means an objection, Guy. Nilfanion should know which incident I'm referring to, and the incident does not involve anyone else. I have no qualms with him becoming an admin, otherwise I would have opposed, but I strongly believe there is still room for improvement when it comes to handling such incidents. On a side note, I find it highly inappropriate to use such a template - even if meant in jest - on a long-standing editor who has a right to voice his or her opinion. EOD, move along now. – Chacor 05:16, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Fairy nuff. Guy (Help!) 22:17, 3 January 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.