Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Spellcast


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

Spellcast
'''Final (47/0/0); Origianlly scheduled to end 19:56, 13 November 2007 (UTC). Nomination successful. --Deskana (talk) 21:43, 13 November 2007 (UTC)'''

- It's with great pleasure I'm able to offer Spellcast to the community to serve as an administrator. since joining us in January 2007, he's got over 12,000 edits and has done some great work on 50 Cent and The Game (rapper) (not my favourite choice of music, but I won't hold it against him!). His admin experience is second to none; His tagging of pages for speedy deletion is excellent, and he always warns users that their article is going to be deleted, at least giving them an opportunity to improve the article so it meets the relative notability guidlines. At the time of this nom, he has a massive 451 edits to AIV, and I'm always confident that when I see his name against a report that it will lead to a block - I'm sure you would all agree that giving Spellcast the tools would lighten the load a bit for the current admins. In deletion discussions, I can see that spellcast is very knowledgeable about policy and would be excellent at determining the consensus in these. I can see that he will be an excellent sysop and I ask that you support this request.  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  18:38, 6 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Thank you Ryan, I accept. Spellcast 19:56, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:
 * 1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
 * A: Aside from articles, my biggest contributions involve AIV reports, AfD debates, applying speedy deletion tags, and proposed deletions. So I intend to patrol new reports to AIV and CSD, close AfDs older than five days, and delete uncontested PRODs. I also plan to clean out the image backlogs, especially Category:Orphaned fairuse images and Category:Rescaled fairuse images. With that being said, I intend to continue producing good articles.


 * 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
 * A: We are providing a free encylopedia, so I'm big on article writing. My best work is expanding four pages into good articles including 50 Cent, Through the Wire, and In da Club. The Documentary is also a current GA candidate. I've read that only 5000 of Wikipedia's two million articles have some sort of quality control, so the best I can do is write about topics I'm knowledgeable about. There are my 100+ image uploads with seven being acquired through copyright permission (and three currently awaiting response from the OTRS team). There is also my AIV and AfD contributions but article building is definitely one of the most satisfying things you can do here.


 * 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: No-one has ever caused me so much stress that it escalated into an RFC or third opinion. But you can't make over 6000 mainspace edits and not have some kind of content dispute. I've had disagreements but never a conflict that couldn't be resolved by talking with the person. That's not say it can't get irritating at times. One of the most difficult areas of Wikipedia is maintaining upcoming albums and discographies of mainstream pop/rap musicians. Too many people have a disregard for formatting or aren't familiar with citing sources. As a result, you come across things like poorly formatted tables, unsourced record sales, and fake track listings. Those pages always need long-term maintenance to make sure it's up to scratch.


 * 4. You see that another administrator has blocked an editor and you disagree with the block. What is the policy about unblocking and do you intend to adhere to it?--MONGO 07:04, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * A: The policy on unblocking is given in WP:BLOCK#Unblocking and WP:WW is also relevant. The first step to a wheel war is one admin undoing the actions of another without discussion, so I won't revert the block. The controversial cases are where blocks are undone without discussion. So I will immediately bring up the issue with the admin on his/her talk page and if we still disagree, I will bring it up at the administrators' noticeboard where I will attempt to gain consensus to unblock. Prevention is better than cure and the last thing we want is one of these depressing discussions.

General comments

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


 * Links for Spellcast:

''Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Spellcast before commenting.''

Support

 * 1) Support as nom, best of luck!  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  20:14, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) (ec)I like what I see. But a rap fan?! Not everybody's perfect, I concede that. :p.  Beat-the-nom support.  Maxim (talk)  (contributions)  20:15, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) An excellent user; Spellcast is great article-writer, MoS-editor, gives accurate reports to RFPP, and has provided many free images, including some really good ones for the articles related to the Pussycat Dolls and Danity Kane. He'll make a good administrator. Acalamari 20:20, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. Qst  20:34, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support Seen this user around as a legit editor. NHRHS2010  talk  20:48, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Support - excellent work on music articles. - eo 20:53, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Past experiences tell me this guy is an excellent editor. &mdash; H 2O &mdash;  22:08, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) Support For a few reasons. Firstly, Ryan thinks he is good, so chances are, he is good:) Secondly, he is active in admin areas. Thirdly, he has shown no signs he/she will abuse the tools or misuse them. Lastly, he likes 50 Cent:) Good luck!--SJP 23:12, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Support —DerHexer (Talk) 23:15, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) Support as nom.--Shadyaftrmathgunit 23:56, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 11) Awww. ~ Riana ⁂ 23:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 12) Support as we could use another expert in Hip hop with the mop.  Looks good - great edit count, and an astounding number of AIV reports. Bearian 00:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 13) Support - of course. Addhoc 00:38, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 14) Support - good range of edits especially in hip hop but also shows good grasp of policy. -- Rodhullandemu  (talk - contribs) 00:48, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 15) Support Great track and as per Acalamari.Pharaoh of the Wizards 01:18, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 16) Support Definitely! Great user. GlassCobra 01:23, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 17) Support - Per the nom, and the work on WP:AIV. Curt Wilhelm VonSavage 02:25, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 18) Support good 'pedia builder. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:34, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 19) Support: he's a great editor and will be a great admin.--Tasc0 05:17, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 20) Strong suppport. Maser  ( Talk! ) 08:38, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 21) Support Another potential admin who wants to clear backlogs? Yeah boy!  Jmlk  1  7  08:53, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 22) Support, no concerns. Neil   ☎  12:39, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 23) Support. A fine candidate. Kingturtle 14:35, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 24) Support. Experience in admin areas. Meets my standards. No indication of incivility on talk page. Lot's of barnstars. Lot's of other users seeking help.  Cheers, :) Dloh cierekim  16:57, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 25) Support as nom.--Prisonbreak12345 —Preceding comment was added at 19:07, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 26) Support Per nom. Cheers! Arcana imperii Ascendo tuum 20:52, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 27) Support I don't know Spellcast. But I do know Postguy. I can't remember if Postguy and I got along but I can remember us having some debates. CyclePat 23:26, 6 November 2007 (UTC) (Changed from Neutral)
 * Not sure how me nominating will give any indication of how Spellcast will, or will not be a good admin. (By the way, I was trying to help you get unblocked).  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  23:29, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * And to add, Postlethwaite's my last name.  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  00:51, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh! Yes! That's what we talked about. ;) Thank you Mr. Postlewaite! I trust you judgement and therefore trust you have nominated a good candidate. --CyclePat 23:23, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Support I offered to nominate a few months before, of course This is a Secret account 01:41, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support--MONGO 02:30, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support seems like a good vandal fighter. Carlossuarez46 02:53, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support - Questionable contributions to the mainspace aside ;), very strong editor. Will be an asset.  Lara  ❤  Love  04:47, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support No concerns here. A great editor as well. -- S iva1979 Talk to me 13:10, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Support per above. --Core desat 18:52, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Support per "no big deal", and no redflags.K. Scott Bailey 23:50, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Um, so Spellcast is not an admin? I actually thought he is. Support of course! Daniil Maslyuk 03:14, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Support Phgao 06:11, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support Qualified. -- Shark face  217  06:26, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. I don't remember where I encountered this editor, but I good a good impression from it. No apparent problems, good answers, so why not? Fram 09:27, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) I'm Mailer Diablo and I approve this message! - 08:00, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support as SC's a very clever editors whose ability to discuss is near unrivaled on Wikipedia. Hand this man a mop and work him ragged till he's a nub of a person! -- linca  linca  09:27, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 6) Support - experienced in all the correct areas. Good luck!  Lra drama 18:54, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 7) Support, user seems to have the needed background for this. VivioFa  teFan  (Talk, Sandbox) 01:48, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 8) Support John254 03:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 9) Support. Definitely. Extraordinary Machine 17:50, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 10) Support. It's about time. Oran e   (talk)  01:46, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 11) I should oppose, because he likes rap, but what the heck. Support. Tito xd (?!? - cool stuff) 19:22, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 12) Support a wonderful candidate. Has a wide range of experience through both wikipedia space and mainspace. AngelOfSadness  talk  21:27, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Neutral

 * The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.
 * The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.