Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Spangineer

Spangineer
final (33/0/1) ending 21:13 3 July 2005 (UTC)

I first really noticed Spangineer when we worked together on a the new FLC guidelines. He's extremely knowledgeable, helpful, and diplomatic. I've seen him show up on my watchlist more than a few times correcting syntax, sorting stubs, and reverting vandalism. And take a look at his talk page; it's full of thank you notes for welcoming. I think he'd make a great admin. Plus I like his choice of books. (Oh yeah, and he's beeen around since Nov. 2004 with 5000+ edits). Dmcdevit 21:13, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * I accept and thank Dmcdevit for the vote of confidence and the nice compliments. --Spangineer (háblame)  03:29, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) And as nominator, I guess I have to support. :) --Dmcdevit 21:21, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support- great job on Welding--Duk 23:27, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. Had nothing but positive experience of this user. Grutness...  wha?  06:49, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Cool. JuntungWu 14:45, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Writing for The Signpost makes me naturally sympathetic, but it's in working on the encyclopedia that he's proven himself qualified. --Michael Snow 17:54, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support - Would make an excellent admin.  Sango  123  19:07, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support Everything looks good: edits, user/talk page, general attitude.  Bratsche talk  5 pillars 19:16, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Aye Full support from me. Deserves this post.  =Nichalp   «Talk»=  19:58, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Yes, good experiences with this user. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 20:06, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Had great experiences with him as well. Great user! - Mgm|(talk) 21:01, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Nothing but positive experiences. This link is Broken 01:02, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support, good work. [[Image:PhoenixSuns 100.png|20px]]Phoenix2[[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg|20px]] 03:46, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Yep. Spangineer is an editor who works tirelessly to build an encyclopedia. --TenOfAllTrades(talk) 28 June 2005 04:24 (UTC)
 * 14) Saw his work on welding. Seemed like a decent guy. Happy to support. Isomorphic 28 June 2005 05:19 (UTC)
 * 15) Ingoolemo   talk  2005 June 28 05:47 (UTC)
 * 16) Support. A lot of good work and mopworthy. Sjakkalle (Check!)  28 June 2005 08:16 (UTC)
 * 17) Support. Bluemoose 28 June 2005 09:00 (UTC)
 * 18) M e r o v i n g i a n  (t) (c) June 28, 2005 11:37 (UTC)
 * 19) Support - a good Wikipedian, very responsive to vandalism -- Francs2000 | Talk [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px| ]] 28 June 2005 15:39 (UTC)
 * 20) Support- yes sure.--Bhadani 28 June 2005 17:31 (UTC)
 * 21) Support Would benefit from the admin rollback button, et al. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 29 June 2005 00:59 (UTC)
 * 22) Support Definitely. --MikeJ9919 29 June 2005 03:55 (UTC)
 * 23) Support. Always a good sign for me when I can totally respect the contributions and attitude of an editor whose world view is diametrically the oposite of mine. Filiocht | Talk June 29, 2005 08:08 (UTC)
 * 24) Support. --Kbdank71 29 June 2005 16:59 (UTC)
 * 25) Support. PedanticallySpeaking June 29, 2005 17:46 (UTC)
 * 26) Support He's got the qualities of a good wikipedian. Opposes vandalism and tries to make this a better place. --Shreshth91 30 June 2005 05:36 (UTC)
 * 27) Support. Edits raise no concerns regarding abuse of admin powers. Jayjg (talk) 30 June 2005 16:47 (UTC)
 * 28) Support. Seems like a trustworthy and dedicated editor. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 1 July 2005 08:37 (UTC)
 * 29) Support great work on featured lists--Sophitus July 1, 2005 17:52 (UTC)
 * 30) Support. Wikipedia needs admins like him.--Jyril July 2, 2005 21:49 (UTC)
 * 31) Support, Welcome aboard! Tony the Marine 3 July 2005 10:01 (UTC)
 * 32) Support. Familiar name. Good and trustworthy contributor. Admin. &mdash; mark ✎ 3 July 2005 10:30 (UTC)
 * 33) Support. Great work on the Signpost and elsewhere. BLANKFAZE | (&#1095;&#1090;&#1086;??) 3 July 2005 15:29 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral
 * 1) Neutral. You are one month short of the required nine months to get a support vote out of me. But since you have shown significant dedication to Wikipedia, you don't get an oppose vote from me either.  Denelson83  3 July 2005 23:25 (UTC)

Comments
 * Spangineer has 5119 edits: Articles/Talk: 3446/95, User/Talk: 426/442, Wikipedia/Talk: 537/68, Image/Talk: 54/1, Template/Talk: 19/2, Category/Talk: 29/0. – ABCD 28 June 2005 20:54 (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.)
 * Well, I expect I would help out most with vandalism reversion and speedy deletions. I don't have too much stuff on my watchlist, but I think CryptoDerk's tool is awesome and lately I've been using that more frequently.  I'll also be sure to check out the Admin notice page and be available to help out with random tasks like patching up bad page moves (like the one I did to The Pearl back when I was a bona fide noob). When I first started on Wikipedia, I spent some time on VfD, but I haven't ventured back too often, because frankly, the place rather scares me with its monstrous size.  I might start helping out over there, but I want to try to balance my time between adding content and janitorial tasks.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * I'm definitely most pleased with the work I've done on welding topics – in particular welding and gas metal arc welding – since I feel like one of Wikipedia's weaknesses is its lack of comprehensive and readable coverage of practical technology. Welding is featured, and I'm hoping that gas metal arc welding will be as well by sometime in July.  I'm also quite pleased with my smaller contributions related to Mexico and fairly obscure Christian topics, as well as helping to sort the thousands of US-geo-stubs.  As a side note, in the interest of full disclosure, I probably have 1000+ stub sorting edits, which some might argue inflates my edit count somewhat.
 * 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?
 * I generally try to avoid conflict – I've got pretty strong political and religious views, but I tend to avoid debatable topics related to those issues. I expect to do the same in the future.  Probably my biggest bout of stress came while working on the featured list criteria.  There was some initial debate about what types of lists ought to be featured, and I spent a fair amount of time arguing my position.  In the end, I found myself beginning to see the value of the other side's position, and while I'm still not fully convinced, I've relaxed my stance. Also, sometimes, when I've got alot to do over the weekend, my signpost article stresses me out a bit, but then I remember that Michael is writing about half a dozen of them.  I can't remember any notable conflicts over editing – I try to do my best to incorporate other people's ideas when reworking their edits, and I try to remind myself that I don't "own" the welding articles.  I'm not always successful, but I try. --Spangineer  (háblame)  03:29, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)