Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Orderinchaos78


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Orderinchaos78
Final (67/0/2); Ended Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:07 UTC

- It is my pleasure to nominate Orderinchaos78 for the mop. This first-rate editor has been around since March 2006, accumulating over 9700 edits including 5200 in the article space. He has been active in many areas, and is heavily involved in a number of Australian WikiProjects.

OIC was one of the team that put together the successful Infobox Australian Place template project, which replaced numerous non-standard infoboxes with a single all-purpose box, and which is now used on over 3500 articles. He tells me that his edit count includes changes to over 700 articles (as well as some of the template coding) for that project alone. OIC recently had his first (of many, I'm sure) Featured Article promotion with Hamersley, Western Australia. He helped bring several other articles to GA, including Cullacabardee, Western Australia. For those who care, his edit summary usage has been at 100% for months; overall, it is about 99% for major edits and 80% for minor edits. A quick look at his contributions shows his involvement in many areas including being a regular participant at XFD discussions.

I have always found OIC's edits to be mature and well thought out. He nurtures newbies while showing a firmer hand when its needed. When he offers comments at discussion pages, his ideas are researched and thoughtful, rather than a simple Support/Delete vote.

&mdash;Moondyne 04:39, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:


 * Acceptance of nomination. Orderinchaos78 07:44, 6 March 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? Please check out Category:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
 * A: The main need for administrators and where I hope to be able to help most is in backlogged areas, such as managing Wikipedia's copyright obligations, clearing the speedy deletion backlog in areas where there is no contest, closing XfD debates, reverting obvious cases of vandalism (I maintain over 1,200 pages on my watchlist), in line with Wikipedia policies and consensus, and spotting obvious violations and patrolling new pages and recent changes. I have also helped with many non-sysop admin chores such as finding references for unsourced-tagged articles, ISBN numbers and fixing articles in need of repair, such as Collipulli, Chile.


 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A: I am most proud of Hamersley, which started as a stub and is now an FA, and Cullacabardee, which didn't exist and is now a GA. I've also assisted a number of articles in meeting FA or GA requirements, such as Canadian postal code and South Australian legislative election, 2006 (see my 4-6 January contributions for both), and have got countless stubs or cleanup-tagged articles to B-status. I found working on the Australian Places infobox project team enjoyable, and replaced over 400 manual infoboxes in Melbourne articles, and in several cases significantly improved the article's content as well (for example Balnarring, Victoria and Christmas Hills, Victoria).


 * 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 think anyone who's been here long enough has been in a few. When you think you are right, and someone else insists on replacing your version, especially if the final result appears inferior or POV, stress inevitably results. Rather than engage in a revert war I ask colleagues for a second opinion, while trying to engage the editor on the talk page. Two situations I have been involved in were Mooroolbark, Victoria and Talk:Indigenous Australians - the former resulted in the editor initially getting blocked then changing to a less aggressive, more cooperative style and working with us; the latter resulted in a long-term block of a POV editor. One I wasn't involved in but have assisted with was the Townsville/Thuringowa dispute between two good faith editors with very different views - I have been mediating their dispute and reviewing edits on related articles with both editors' cooperation.


 * General comments


 * See Orderinchaos78's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.


 * I value consensus over unilateral action, especially where controversial issues are concerned. Unilateral action, unless it's so obvious that anyone in the same position would have taken the same action, or is covered by a general understanding which reflects consensus anyway, risks alienating people who feel they "lost" the dispute.
 * Admins should never be closed-minded. While I will defend my point of view, if I am challenged on a decision or contribution and it's clear the other person is in the right, I'm happy to back down. The same applies if consensus goes against my point of view. The encyclopaedia being right is a far more important goal than myself being right, and in occasions such as the above I am able to learn something.
 * Policies and guidelines are there for a reason, and have been developed to effectively codify common sense. That being said, it is possible to become overly legalistic with policies and guidelines and it is important to keep common sense firmly in mind when applying policies/guidelines to determine an outcome. I see it as admins' and long-term users' role in a debate to educate users on policies and guidelines and how they apply, and owe a great debt to those who taught me as a wet-around-the-ears Wikipedian.
 * I don't believe blocks should be used punitively. The purpose of a block, in my view, is to prevent damage.
 * I avoid the terms "deletionist" and "inclusionist" as that implies an inflexible stance. You can't work with 1.5 million articles and *not* be flexible in your approach. I judge each case on merit in line with deletion criteria.

Please keep criticism constructive and polite.

Discussion


 * See Orderinchaos78's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.

Support
 * 1) Hesperian 06:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Strong Support - excellent skills shown - across projects - a dexterity very useful found in most good admins SatuSuro 06:17, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) cj | talk 06:37, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Strong Support wonderful contributor who will wisely use the mop Gnangarra 06:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Strong support - Super contributor. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:47, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Support. Michael 08:08, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Strong support Orderinchaos78 has helped me a lot in my development as a Wikipedian, in particular with referencing and Wikiquette, and is very patient with newbies and participates in the Adopt A User program. This knowledge has equipped me to research what will become several articles on the Wheatbelt region. DanielT5 08:25, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) Very strong support I can't believe I haven't thought of this before. Whenever I made an error, OIC usually appeared with constructive criticism/advice. Auroranorth (WikiDesk) 08:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Support Great looking contributions to various areas of Wikipedia. Seems to be calm and willing to backdown when necessary.  I think the candidate will make a great and responsible admin. John Reaves (talk) 08:35, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) Strong Support Before I continue, I will disclose that I have personally known Orderinchaos78 for a number of years. Having said that, he has been shown to bring the same amount of dedication he applies in real life to his involvement on WP. He is an exceptional candidate who brings both expertise and a level head to the table. He is a wealth of knowledge, and his help with various issues including article construction, templating, and research has personally worked with me to achieving the first of what I hope will be many articles at B class and above. I certainly hope the rest of the WP community takes the time to give his RFA due consideration. thewinchester 09:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 11) Extremely Strong Support - Quality editor, helped me alot, would make a quiality admin SMBarnZy 10:03, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 12) Support. PeaceNT 11:08, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 13) Support -- have worked along this editor and found them to be a mature level-headed operator. A worthy candidate for adminship and one I'd have nominated myself sooner or later. -- Longhair\talk 11:25, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 14) Support. Orderinchaos is a very thoughtful editor who perhaps should have been nominated at an earlier stage. The answers, and particularly his general comments, reveal an attitude most becoming of a candidate for adminship. Rje 11:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 15) Terence Ong 11:36, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 16) Support. I was very impressed with his role in the Infobox Australian Place template project where he gathered together a huge database of information and then applied it across many hundreds of articles. But the icing on the cake was the significant expansion of a number of those articles on the way through then coming back time and again to manage vandalism and patiently negotiate editorial disputes. A most conscientious contributor and always a pleasure to deal with.--Melburnian 11:44, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 17) Support. Sure, good attitude, considers consensus in controversial cases and helpful. skip (t / c) 11:45, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 18) Strong Support definitely! - An as Talk? 12:25, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 19) Support Seems to be doing a good job..-- Cometstyles 12:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 20) Support - very impressive contributor. Will make a good admin. --Dweller 12:35, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 21) Support - The project really could do with more editors like Orderinchaos78 and will definitely benefit from his adminship. SeanMack 13:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 22) Support - I see ample contributions to Wikipedia pages and mainspace articles, so I feel you will indeed have use for the tools. --Ozgod 13:45, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 23) Support The candidate appears to understand deletion well, which covers most of the reason why they're requesting adminship; granting this user the tools will help to clear out AfD backlogs when they develop, improve redundancy in TfD closing, and increase the number of people who can contribute to DRvs without having request temporary undeletions. --ais523 13:48, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 24) Support Garion96 (talk) 14:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 25) Support. Coemgenus 15:10, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 26) Support. I first came across this user when nominating an article of his to DYK. He'd make a fine job as an admin.  Michaelas10   (Talk)   15:24, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 27) Support. Acceptance of Consensus seems to have contributed to Orderinchaos78's composed, sensible interactions with others. With Orderinchaos78's all-around, good participation, it seems very likely that he will use his mop to Wikipedia's advantage. -- Jreferee 19:44, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 28) Support — S.D.  23:22, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 29) Support He's been here for almost a full year (if not already) and has an administrator's watchlist! He seems to hang out in admin areas and would put good use to the admin bit. Cbrown1023 talk 00:18, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 30) Support--Heywool 00:22, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 31) Support as per User:Melburnian, good constructive interactions with reform of the infobox template for Australian places --Golden Wattle talk 00:32, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 32) Support looks excellent.-- danntm T C 00:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 33) Support - an excellent admin candidate. -- MarcoTolo 03:16, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 34) Support per all of the above. Thanks for serving. --A. B. (talk) 03:36, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 35) Support per above. --Meno25 05:03, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 36) Support per nom and answers.  Voice -of-  All  17:52, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 37) Support per everyone above, and there are so many good candidates at the moment ... Yuser31415 19:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 38) Support -- Agεθ020 ( ΔT  •  ФC ) 21:31, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 39) Support Great attitude and approach to consensus and decision-making, and I have in the past appreciated his fine work on templates and projects. --Canley 00:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 40) Support Need I say anything? --The preceding comment was signed by Us  e  r:Sp3000  (talk•contribs) 02:21, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 41) Support as nominator. Crikey, I forgot - thanks Blnguyen! &mdash;Moondyne 02:34, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 42) Support Looks good to me.  S h a r k f a c e  2 1 7  02:39, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 43) Support May you continue to create "order in chaos" in the future as an admin. Captain  panda   In   vino   veritas  03:38, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 44) Strong Support Excellent answers, particularly the balanced opinions expressed in the "general comments" section above. Seems wise and prudent. Prepare the bucket, please.  Pig mandialogue 05:45, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 45) No choice but Support. Causesobad → (Talk) 13:18, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 46) Strong Support He has the most important qualities required of an Admin. Not usually given to voting, but I could not withhold my support in this case. - Fred 15:28, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 47) Support --  FayssalF  - Wiki me up ®  18:04, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 48) Support. Dorange 01:17, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 49) Support looks good to me, personally I don't think that inexperience is an issue with this one. James086 Talk  07:30, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 50) Yes! Support. He has made some great contributions within Perth related articles, and he'll probably do a good job using the admin tools, looking at his answers. RaNdOm26 11:37, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 51) support --dario vet (talk) 16:46, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 52) SupportGood contributer, will make a great Admin. Cheers, Dfrg.msc 23:04, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 53) Support, this user's work with templates alone means that he deserves to be recognised, the rest of his good work is merely icing on the cake. Lankiveil 07:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC).
 * 54) I'm Mailer Diablo and I approve this message! - 11:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 55) Support! —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-11 00:24Z 
 * 56) Support seems to be doing good work. IronGargoyle 05:05, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 57) Support. Clichéd, but still true ... I thought you already were an admin. -- Black Falcon 07:11, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 58) Support. --old man 10:54, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 59) Support per above. Just Heditor review 15:41, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 60) Support a good candidate --Steve (Slf67)talk 22:21, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 61) Support per above. —dima/s-ko/ 03:59, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 62) Support - for the record. - Richard Cavell 07:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 63) Support, the work done in replacing manual infoboxes in the Melbourne articles as part of the WP:IAP project was monumental, and all with fine attention to detail. Will make a fine admin. ◄  §ĉҺɑʀκs  ►  11:06, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 64) Support. WjBscribe 15:15, 12 March 12 2007 (UTC)
 * 65) Support --Astrokey 44 15:50, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 66) Support - I've seen some of his work before, and I must say, he is a fine member. Arrowhead1 15:52, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 67) Support, this guy looks llike he can provide order in chaos (...okay, that was lame. He'll make a great admin though)-- Wizardman 16:34, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral
 * 1) Neutral. Could use more experience in area where admins frequent as there are very few edits in Wikipedia space and Wikipedia talk space. The other activities lead me to believe that Orderinchaos78 would be a good admin with more experience. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon joe 07:08, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Neutral leaning towards Support-per Nihonjoe. --TeckWiz Parlate Contribs@ 21:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
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