Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/PNiddy


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

PNiddy
Final (2/9/3); Closed per WP:SNOW 19:47, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

- I am a very powerful contributor here in Wikipedia. Now, I have over 500 consecutive edits today and I am very proud of myself. What I do is I reported inappropriate users to WP:UAA so they can get either blocked or unblocked to change their username. Plus, I gave smiles and an award to every user who contributed to Wikipedia. Right now, since I have 500 contributions, I am going to nominate myself an administrator (also known as a sysop). --  PNiddy  Go!  15:58, 25 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I have now over nearly 508 edits this year.

Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. You may wish to answer the following optional questions to provide guidance for participants:
 * 1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
 * A: I like to block inappropriate users (from WP:UAA and from the User Creation log). I reported many inappropriate users to that page. I think I have many reports now. But however, I should look over their contributions to look out for vandalism. When a user has contributions that includes vandalism (not counting new ones), I call it a "vandalism-only account".


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
 * A: My contributions are that I edit Wikipedia since May 2007. And I think I am very proud of myself now. I got my first Barnstar (Thx Thewikidude!!), and I smile administrators to make them very amusing. I also got an idea, thanks to Phoenix15. It is called "The Golden Wiki". When I give out The Golden Wiki to sysops, it means that I gave an award for doing a great job on blocking and protecting.


 * 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: Not many users cause me stress. But I will be very happy in the future and make it better for everyone in Wikipedia.

General comments

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


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Discussion


Support
 * 1) Moral Support - Clearly an enthusiastic user, but not experienced enough yet. Although vandal-fighting is good, you need some experience in other areas such as deletion discussions; some more article-writing contributions would also be beneficial to your candidacy. I suggest you withdraw now, and try again in a few months. WaltonOne 19:01, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Moral Support - First, you need more experience. Edit count isn't everything, but it is a somewhat reliable indicator of experience. Second, you should work on some article writing. If you write a particularly good new article, it may be featured at Did you know, or you can work on featured articles and Good articles. Another thing you may want to do is join a Wikiproject; there are many out there that would welcome your help! As admins are involved in deleting and protecting pages, getting involved in deletion debates may be helpful, as it will help you learn deletion policy. As for your reports to WP:UAA, keep it up, and try to work on a higher success rate. I know you mentioned vandal-fighting, that is also important, keep that work up too. A couple more things, first, keep an eye on the RfA process and the talk page, and you'll get a good idea of how the process works. Don't let the failure of your RfA get you down, just keep working on the encyclopedia, and remember what Jimbo said about adminship: "It's no big deal". Finally, you may want to submit an editor review. The page there will give you an idea of what they are like and how they are run. If you have any questions about my suggestions or something, please do not hesitate to email me or go to my talk page, I would be pleased to help you. Good luck! Regards, Ne ra n e i   (talk) 19:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) 510 or so edits is not nearly enough experience. Sorry.Rlevse 16:30, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose. Sorry, 500 edits indicate insufficient experience; the lower bound is usually around 3'000. Also, Wikipedia is not a social networking site: smiling at people is not what we look for in admins. What we do look for is at least some article writing experience as well as participation in admin-type tasks, such as deletion discussions. Vandalism reverts and UAA reports aren't quite enough. Please do try again some months from now. Sandstein 16:31, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose Not enough project activity, would like to see successful activity in locations like WP:AIV as an indicator of how you would block vandals. —  xaosflux  Talk  16:37, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Oppose: I really don't wish to be too harsh, but you're spending too much time reporting fairly innocuous usernames, supporting motto of the day and other fairly unimportant stuff, when you really need to be editing the encyclopedia and building the project. This shows when you look into the breakdown of your edits, almost 3 edits to the Wikipedia namespace for every 1 edit to the actual encyclopedia. You also appear to have completely the wrong outlook on editing Wikipedia. Your nomination statement is worrying, "I am a very powerful contributor here in Wikipedia" is completely incorrect, you're no more or less powerful than any other contributor here. "I have over 500 consecutive edits today and I am very proud of myself" - edit count isn't everything and any nomination that boasts about edit count deserves to fail, quite frankly. "What I do is I reported inappropriate users to WP:UAA so they can get either blocked or unblocked to change their username". This does appear to be about all you're interested in and looking through, I see a fairly good accuracy, say, about 80%, but that's still too low for an administrator. Users having picked an unfortunate username in good faith are users just like you or I, and they need to be treated with care and compassion to make sure we don't loose them. "I gave smiles and an award to every user who contributed to Wikipedia" - that's not what we are about, you should be editing because you enjoy it, not because you want to be an administrator or want someone to give you a barnstar. The same goes for everybody else. Finally, I'm rather concerned that you've not investigated the RfA process and appear quite unfamiliar with the de facto requirements, somewhere around 3,000 edits and a good spread of edits across the namespaces. I also see a lack of participation in other administrative areas, such as deletion, page protection and such, so whilst I'm not keen on giving you the ability to block users, I'm completely against you having the ability to delete or protect pages. I'd hope you take the comments here onboard and return after several months, perhaps when someone else thinks you should be an administrator. Nick 16:41, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Suggest Withdrawl there's no way this will pass, people can easily find half a dozen reasons to oppose from your lack of experience and your nomination and questions alone. You should withdraw this now, and try again in some months -- lucid 17:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Oppose - While I'm loathe to give them too much weight, at least one of the 'Motto of the day's you suggested shows an aggressiveness I'm not comfortable with. Specifically, "If you destroy a bus's windows, you'll be suspended" with links to vandalism and the blocking policy.  That might be true, to a certain degree, but it's certainly not the root ideal of the project. - C HAIRBOY  (☎) 17:08, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Withdraw Save yourself more pain, withdraw you're request. While you may think 500 is alot, come back when you have at least 6 times that many mainspace edits.-- Kkrouni  /こかるに  /Ккроунл  /ΚκρΩυνι  18:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * That seems a little excessive - I only had about 1700 mainspace edits (about 4000 total) when I passed RfA. WaltonOne 19:01, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Withdraw Not ready. Get involved in improving articles, and try again in several months.  Mi r a n da   18:23, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose - Aww that was really cute! It really was. But that's where the praise ends I'm afraid. The answers to the questions are very vague and waver from the point. You need much more, I repeat much more experience all-round, especially mainspace and Wikipedia space. You're obviously enthusiastic. Keep it up and improve! :-)  Lra drama 19:31, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) Neutral to avoid pile-on. I'd suggest withdrawing. ~Kylu ( u | t )  17:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) [[Image:Symbol neutral vote.svg|15px]] Neutral suggesting withdrawal Definitely not ready. – Animum  17:06, 25 August 2007 (UTC) 
 * 3) Neutral - Gently suggest withdrawl I'd strongly urge you to review the comments left here, to review some various RfAs (both successful and not), and to watch the RfA page for several months, reviewing issues that are brought up, and seeing how the entire process works, before you nominate yourself again. Good luck! Ariel ♥ Gold 17:37, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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