Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Syrthiss


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

Syrthiss
final (21/0/0) ending 19:32 December 14, 2005 (UTC)

– I have been an editor here since July 15, 2005, starting with a simple edit to Talk:Battle of Grunwald. Since that time I have contributed to several articles, reverted vandalism, investigated copywrite violations, participated in AFD/VFD discussions, listed articles for AFD and speedy deletion, participated in voting on RfA, welcomed new editors, and in general contributed positively to Wikipedia. For the number crunchers, I estimate I have around 2300 edits with 99+% edit summary use. There have been a few times recently where having admin abilities would have been useful, so I felt I would take a step to request to become an admin. Syrthiss 19:05, 7 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: self-nomination. I accept for myself. --Syrthiss 19:29, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Support --pgk( talk ) 19:33, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support, unlikely to abuse administrator tools. Christopher Parham (talk) 19:53, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support -- Saikiri~ 20:26, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support Good user --Aranda 56 20:55, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support I'm biased (we've known each other ten years), but what the hell. I introduced him to wiki and now he's even more active than I am. :) --  Etacar11   21:04, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support I've interacted with this user often at the funhouse that is Recent Deaths, and have found him level-headed and of sound judgment. Certainly mop-worthy. Xoloz 21:48, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Merovingian 00:49, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support good editor --rogerd 00:52, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Crazy username (I am still trying to make sense out of it :) ), loves to tell people when they voted twice on their RfA's.  I say support  ε  γκυκλοπαίδεια  *   (talk)  02:35, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 10)  Oran   e    (t)   (c)   (e-mail)  02:51, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support everything looks fine to me.--MONGO 03:42, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support. &mdash;Kirill Lokshin 03:51, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support Looks U.S.A A-OK to me :-D Knowledge Of  Self  |  talk  04:54, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Sure. [[Image:Flag_of_Europe_and_Austria.svg|20px]] ナイトスタリオン ✉ 14:30, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support &#8766; Wikipedia will benefit from giving Syrthiss the mop and bucket. → Ξxtreme Unction {yak ł blah } 15:32, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support - Solid record. Sango  123   (talk)  23:30, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support: I see him around doing good things. A lot of vandal reversion and tagging, welcoming, and editting. Worn out as it may sound, I assumed he was an administrator. --Elliskev 00:37, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support hope to see you doing good work, but I am confident that you will.Gator (talk) 14:53, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support Martin 00:05, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support. El_C 04:39, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support, HGB 01:52, 13 December 2005 (UTC).

Oppose

Neutral

Comments
 * Anticipating the question - a time recently where I wished I had the ability to protect / unprotect the page was when Itzhak Rabin's picture appeared on the main page but the picture itself wasn't protected. I got to work, opened my browser and was greeted by a picture of a penis in place of Rabin.  It turns out it was fixed by the time I figured out it wasn't intended to be there and got to WP:AN to ask someone to fix it. :) --Syrthiss 19:45, 7 December 2005 (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 check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
 * A. I would continue to revert vandalism, and assist with closing out discussions in WP:AFD and WP:MFD. I would also continue to help with WP:AIV (at the moment I can only monitor that list and assist in reverting vandalism), cleaning out older vandal reports at WP:VIP.  I would also begin to look into things that I had previously shied away from such as Category:Articles to be merged and work to help resolve disputes on pages.


 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. I don't think any one of my contributions stands out well above the others, but I did enjoy working to wikify and copyedit Stiftsgården with User:Caesura. It was very rough when it first was created here, I assume as a translated page from the Norwegian Wikipedia. I think I'm best though with RC patrol and keeping oversight on my watchlist of articles for vandalism.  Since I am familiar with the articles on my watchlist, I can be a slightly better judge in my opinion of subtle vandalism on them than something I am completely unfamiliar with from WP:RC.


 * 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?
 * A. I have been in no major conflicts, luckily. I had some stress concerning an editor on Rosalind Franklin who I feel failed to assume good faith and remain civil to me, and in that case I walked away from the article and allowed the other editors to work with him.  I would continue to try and find a consensus in all disagreements, and seek outside help from other editors and admins in conflicts concerning articles I was involved with.


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