Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Oleg Alexandrov

Oleg Alexandrov
Final (56/0/0) ended 03:55 September 25 (UTC)

– Oleg Alexandrov has over 14,000 edits since he joined us in December of 2004. Since then, he has been a wonderful contributer, especially in math related articles, and has also participated in many Wikipedia: related discussions. In fact, I first met him when he proposed to trim down the template. Thus, Oleg Alexandrov is a great Wikipedian deserving to become an administrator. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 16:11, 18 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
 * I accept, thank you (the pompous note above nonwithstanding :) Oleg Alexandrov 16:21, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) I should probably support, shouldn't I? Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk  16:22, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Would prefer 15,000 edits, but what the heck. Support. Jonathunder 16:30, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Major support - This is the first time I can honestly say, "I thought he already was one...". Anyone else with me here? --Celestianpower hab 16:34, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) CryptoDerk 16:42, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Wholeheartedly. Oleg is an applied mathematics postdoc at UCLA, who has made many excellent contributions to Wikipedia. He has been a tireless contributer to the Mathematics project. He created and has been one of the principle authors of the Manual of Style (mathematics). He was a cofounder of the PlanetMath Exchange project, setting up the original lists of PlanetMath articles for that project (nearly 4000 articles), creating an automated conversion tool, as well as contributing significantly to the content review and merge work of the project. He is a Perl magician and is the creator-owner-operator of Mathbot, the bot who helps to maintain the lists:  list of mathematical topics and list of mathematics categories, and in its spare time periodically spellchecks all the math articles on Wikipedia. He will make a great admin. Paul August &#9742; 16:45, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * For the sake of truth at all costs, I did not write the Manual of Style (mathematics), but rather forked it off from the WikiProject Mathematics page, and did some polishing on it. I did not state that clearly when I did my first edit to that style manual, so for better or worse the "creator" of the style manual title will haunt me all my life (or till the Wikipedia servers get wiped off by aliens, whichever comes first). Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 07:21, 20 October 2005 (UTC))
 * 1) Support -- I've only had one encounter with Oleg, but I was very impressed by his diplomacy. -- Avocado 16:49, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support.  --MarkSweep &#x270D; 17:07, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Administratorize Martin  17:10, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) <  Journalist C./ Holla @ me! 
 * 5) Support. Oleg will make a great administrator. Jaxl | talk 18:39, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Absolutely. This could have happened much earlier. Dmcdevit·t 18:47, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Believe me we've been trying, but like a coy maiden playing hard to get, he plead "I'm not ready";-) Paul August &#9742; 16:27, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Support. Tireless contributor to the article namespace, and has a cool head. What else do we want? Tito xd 19:22, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Absotively, Posilutely Support.  I can't believe you're not an admin already. Nandesuka 20:20, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support I have seen him making many sensible suggestions on afd discussions and other places --TimPope 22:08, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Let $$x$$ be $$support$$ for Oleg Alexandrov. It follows that, $$x \rightarrow \infty$$— encephalon εγκέφαλον  00:25, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. My cabal has advised me to support. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 02:35, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Oh heck yeah! Support. --Fire Star 03:22, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) He isn't one? He ought to be. Septentrionalis 03:24, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Indeed. El_C 03:34, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Support. By the way, weren't you an admin already? I always thought you were one. --cesarb 04:00, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support. utcursch | talk 05:13, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. Sensible nomination. --CSTAR 05:18, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support. Very strong and experienced candidate. Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:13, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support of course. -- Hoary 07:28, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support an excellent member of the set of mathematics editors. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 08:42, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support. We need more mathematician admins! Owen&times; &#9742;  11:54, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support: Good amount of time, a ton of work, reasonableness, and I can count to 20, if I take off my shoes! Geogre 15:40, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Extremely Strong Oppose! Not enough edits by a long shot; try again when you reach 50,000. Oh, wait, he has three times as many as I do? Well, then, grudgingly support. ; - ) -- Essjay ·  Talk 17:26, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Shiver me timbers, I thought he already was one! the wub  "yarr!"  21:19, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support Stewart Adcock 21:36, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support Will make fine admin. Alf melmac 22:01, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support. NatusRoma 00:17, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support. Usually I stay away from politics.  And I think Oleg will have enough support not counting mine.  I just want to show my appreciation for what he has done so far.  I'm sure he will do greater things as an admin.  (I thought he was one already. :) Giftlite 00:51, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support. Exceptional and dedicated user, will make a fine admin. --HappyCamper 02:40, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support. Tons of work, all of it good, plus he has a handy bot that makes WP:AFD/Old a more pleasant place to hang out. -Splash talk 03:05, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support. Oleg is an ideal candidate for adminship.  &mdash;Lifeisunfair 05:45, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Support I see this name a lot on my watchlist. Solid contributions. Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 16:10, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support. Of course!   Ral  315  02:57, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support. &infin; Who ? &iquest; ?  04:08, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support as per MarkSweep (#7) above. FreplySpang (talk) 04:53, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Support - someone I was going to nominate myself, botmeister but also a good guy in seeking consensus, and has undertaken two major projects. Charles Matthews 12:34, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 31) Support. unsigned by User:Phils
 * 32) Support. Per above comments. Carbonite | Talk 15:25, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 33) Support Same thoughts as everyone above. Bratsche talk 21:05, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 34) Support Amren (talk) 00:49, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 35) Support. I was thinking of nominating him myself.  Someone beat me to it.  -Lethe | Talk 01:29, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 36) Support' Tuf-Kat 03:25, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 37) Support Another fine user that I see all over the place. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 05:29, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 38) Support without reservation. Has in a short time made himself an indispensible member of the WP mathematics effort, and one of the few admin nominations I've looked at where it's clear that the conferring of adminship powers will be put to use (and, naturally in a way that benefits WP).  Charles Stewart 18:59, 22 September 2005 (UTC) (slightly edited)
 * 39) Support. Pavel Vozenilek 20:33, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 40) Support Seems to be a good user, might as well support. The Fascist Chicken 21:34, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 41) So! You are the owner of Mathbot! I guess I have no choice but to support! Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 05:40, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 42) Support--Jusjih 08:25, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 43) Strong support Stewart Adcock 15:09, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 44) Support The good stuff. Joke137 18:36, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 45) Support. Looks good to me.  --Alan Au 04:29, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Comments

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 read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. I plan to help with closing AfD discussions. Sometimes there is a big backlog in there. Oleg Alexandrov 16:37, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. I originated several articles, but I am most happy with my contributions to level set method which I translated from German, put more content, and added a picture which I think explained what that stuff is all about. The reason I am most happy about it is because I love to find simple explanations for complicated things. :) Oleg Alexandrov 16:37, 18 September 2005 (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. I had some arguments over at manifold with MarSch. He made an abstract and formal math article into a more abstract and more formal one. Instead of quietly settling the issue at the talk page, I chose to do some public ranting at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics. That did not result in an edit war, and eventually a lot of mathematicians joined in making manifold a much better article, but I wish I were more detached on the matter. Also, in my first month or two I had some arguments with Linas and Andrewa (no edit wars), till I learned how to deal with issues here. That promted me to decline an offer for adminship in April, and ever since I tried to learn to be patient, wait a while for things to cool down, discuss things on talk pages, and try to involve others in the matters. Oleg Alexandrov 16:37, 18 September 2005 (UTC)