Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Sjakkalle

Sjakkalle
final (46/1/0) ending 11:06 17 June 2005 (UTC)

Sjakkalle has been with us since March 2005 and has amassed about 3200 edits. He's a well-rounded editor with a willingness to do janitorial tasks, and I think he'd greatly benefit from administrative powers. Ferkelparade &pi; 11:10, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Candidate please indicate acceptance of the nomination here

Thanks! I accept the nomination. Sjakkalle (Check!)  12:26, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Of course, as nominator I support! -- Ferkelparade &pi; 11:11, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) After watching him in action tonight during my first big RC push, Strong support would be too weak. --FCYTravis 11:13, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Active in opposing vandalism, and would do well with a mop. Mel Etitis ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 11:22, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Good at keeping vandals in check. Support! Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 11:55, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. El_C 12:05, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support. Rje 12:34, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support - Guettarda 13:46, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Obvious support. Sjakkalle has impressed in many ways, but I think the deciding factor for me was his moderation in the face of personal attacks on VfD. Oh, and the fact that he likes chess ;). --Scimitar 14:12, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Support Zzyzx11 (Talk) 14:42, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support, definitely. Another use of the tired "I thought he already was one!", though I guess I should have figured out that he's only been closing the keeps on VfD... Mindspillage (spill yours?) 14:53, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. Mopworthy. --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 15:10, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support --JeremyA 15:10, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support, anti-vandalism is great, and the article writing is a plus too. --Spangineer (háblame)  15:12, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support &mdash; Xezbeth 16:24, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support. A assiduous courteous editor. --Theo (Talk) 16:46, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support. Shanes 17:18, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support. I seem to have run into Sjakkale on several occasions - I nominated for deletion two articles whose VFD debate is mentioned on his user page, and I also put Queen's Gambit Accepted on the suggestions page for DYK (diff). Might disagree with him on some VFD topics but he's a good author and knows Wikipedia principles - very much deserves to be an admin. David | Talk 21:05, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Not an admin already?  Ingoolemo   talk 23:20, 2005 Jun 10 (UTC)
 * 19) support Joyous 23:52, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support. JuntungWu 03:53, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) RickK 05:15, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support. SWAdair | Talk  05:28, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support.  Grue  13:20, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support. Very good at detecting subtle vandalism -- Natalinasmpf 14:31, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support. Although we may need to establish a rota for VfD closers before long so we don't clobber one another. :) Kelly Martin 15:52, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Support. Hedley 18:52, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support. Thue | talk 21:04, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support. You deserve to be promoted to adminship because of your dedication to the project.  Good luck Marine 69-71 04:05, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support. JYolkowski // talk 16:57, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Support =Nichalp (Talk)= 08:04, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * 31) Support. I've seen Sjakkalle doing various RC Patrolling activities and closing VfDs. This person would make a valuable admin. --Deathphoenix 14:20, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 32) Support. -- Hoary 16:05, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)
 * 33) Support. Bratsche talk  5 pillars 17:41, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * 34) Support. And the mop goes to... -- BD2412 talk 02:46, 2005 Jun 14 (UTC)
 * 35) Support. --Kbdank71 16:19, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 36) Support. Easy decision. utcursch | talk 06:05, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * 37) Support Lectonar 12:12, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 38) Support. SlimVirgin (talk) 14:36, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * 39) Support --Xcali 23:10, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 40) Support.--Essjay ·  talk 00:44, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * 41) Support. &rarr;  Jarlaxle  Artemis   03:29, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * 42) Having just seen Sjakkalle chasing up a vandal, it seems an excellent time to vote support... Shimgray 12:49, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 43) Strong Support great work on VfD Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 13:50, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * 44) Support. A &#1080; D &#1103; 01D  TALK  EMAIL  18:40, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * 45) Support. Edit history indicates responsible adminship likely. Jayjg (talk) 20:43, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 46) Support. the wub (talk) 09:30, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:35, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Would you mind giving a reason for your vote? -- Ferkelparade &pi; 07:49, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Because Boothy443 has opposed every adminship request on this page without reason, I have left him a polite comment/suggestion on his user talk page that he either provide reasons for his opposition or withdraw his votes. Flcelloguy [[Image:Bass clef2.gif|25px|Cello today?]] Give me a note! Eighth note (crop).gif Desk  21:30, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Neutral

Comments
 * For those interested, edit counts are: Main 1257 / 154, Wikipedia 1142 / 45, User 185 / 521, Category 5 / 1, Image 3 / 0, Template 0 / 2, Total 2594 / 793 (grand total 3317). Edit summary usage is 100% on articles, 99% overall. Demi T/C 17:18, 2005 Jun 10 (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 read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. VfD debate closing, RC Patrol and New Pages Patrol are the chores I intend to participate most in. I have done a bit of all three, even closing VfD debates where a keep, merge or redirect result is undisputed, but since I have not been an administrator I have stayed away from the debates where a result hangs in the balance. Especially NPP can be done more effectively with the mop. For instance, without the mop I have occasionally inadvertantly recreated articles while tagging them for deletion.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. I have thoroughly enjoyed creating articles related to chess openings. When I started here the chess opening article was in need of some overhaul. Through the cooperative work by myself and User:Neilc it became a reasonably good and tidy article. (User:Quale then made it into a really good article.) Much of this cleanup work consisted of splitting out individual chess openings to there own articles, and several of the articles in Category:Chess openings were made by me. I have no particular favorite among them, although Queen's Gambit Accepted made it to the main page on the "Did you know?" template. Sorry, but none of this is featured.
 * 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 will deal with it in the future?
 * A. Well... when Ferkelparade nominated the TCS Victory article I created as an newbie anon, it was quite stressing... But I think that was a blessing in disguise (well for me at least) because without that nomination, I would never have been introduced to the inner workings of Wikipedia. I probably would have created that one article and left!
 * Joke aside, the most stressed I have been with another user was with User:Eyesopen at a VfD debate. What I did then was give a firm message on his talkpage, make a personal log of the incident in case it became needed later, and inform some of the other users who have dealt with him (I informed two of the Jehovah's Witnesses contributors as late as yesterday, June 9). At present, I cannot say for sure whether or not that will turn into an RfC, but I hope it won't.
 * In general I think it is worth going to great lengths to avoid filing RFCs against other users, and when due, this includes saying nice things about and to the user one is having a dispute with! I have seen, and participated in, a few RFCs and only once can I say that the outcome of it was happy. Sometimes RFCs are a neccesary evil, but they cause a load of distress.
 * I haven't been in any major edit conflicts over articles, but then again the main subject I like working is chess, and this is fairly uncontroversial and I have been blessed with having very good and pleasant-to-work-with co-contributors on these articles.