Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ta bu shi da yu 1

Ta bu shi da yu
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This small fish has been swimming in our big pond since June 2004 and already has accumulated way over 5000 edits. He's been working hard trying to get Exploding whale featured, and has shown to be a good researcher (see Strathfield). Very active on Featured article candidates and other places, especially Australian topics, and communicates well with other Wikipedians. Also has a keen eye on suspected copyright violations. I trust him and I think he'd make a fine admin. Lupo 07:00, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Wow, such nice things said about me =) I accept this nomination. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:22, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Can we extend the deadline on this one, to ensure that consensus is reached? func(talk) 19:31, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't know. That could raise a lot of controversy. Best wait and see if things are more clear in the next 16 hours. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 14:39, 2004 Oct 18 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Lupo 07:00, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) Support.  RickK 07:01, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Acegikmo1 07:12, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) Yep, great guy. [[User:Rhymeless|Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 07:15, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) Go Ta. Hopefully he won't explode like oh so many overworked whales before he gets in. ZayZayEM 08:07, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC) (I do get a vote don't I?)
 * 6) Support of course. {&Alpha;&nu;&#940;&rho;&iota;&omicron;&nu;} 08:24, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 7) Definitely! &mdash;Stormie 09:40, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) Was about to nominate him myself. Ambi 09:45, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes, definitely. Sjc 10:13, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) Very active. Warofdreams 10:20, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) Can't believe he wasn't one already! Chuq 10:43, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 3)  &#8475; yan! |  Talk  11:20, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) I thought he was already, he defintely deserves to be however. - Aaron Hill 11:22, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) Of course, absolutely. func(talk) 12:13, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 6) &#8212;No-One Jones (m) 12:58, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 7) Deserving.   – Quadell (talk) (help)   13:10, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * 8)  – Andre ( talk )  14:14, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * 9) I was also thinking about nominating him. Rhobite 14:24, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * 10) Michael Snow 15:54, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 11) Fire Star 16:25, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Wow, I thought he was already a sysop. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 18:51, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 18:53, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) [[User:Noisy|Noisy | Talk]] 19:07, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Netoholic @ 19:17, 2004 Oct 12 (UTC) -- Meets all the right requirements, and had all the right answers. Go find more candidates like him!
 * 4) Geoff/Gsl 22:33, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) Tuf-Kat 23:39, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * 6) Absolutely. --Lst27 00:26, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 7) Yes a thousand times over. --Slowking Man 00:49, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) Great research, advocacy, leadership. Yes please. --xoddam 01:57, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 9) He's good--I've noticed him around too. Fine choice. Antandrus 02:00, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 10) Mmmhm. blankfaze | (&#1073;&#1077;&#1089;&#1077;&#1076;&#1072;!)  02:45, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 11) Chris 73 Talk 03:51, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes, support. - Nickj 04:16, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) Support.  &mdash;Lowellian (talk)   19:53, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) Strong support, does very sexy work. Sarge Baldy 01:05, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * Row! - Ta bu shi da yu 01:30, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) Mackensen 02:56, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) -JCarriker 16:34, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) &#x00b6; &#x273;&#x209;&#x010d;&#x1e29;&#x00e5;&#x1e3d;&#x1e57; | [[User talk:nichalp| &#x2709; ]] 20:24, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) Wow. Nice to see such a gung ho user. CO GDEN  20:26, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) I could've sworn I put this vote here already, but I guess not. To repeat what I (apparently have not) said: I always thought he'd been around for much, much longer than this; he impresses me with his strong knowledge of the 'pedia. Strongly support. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 21:31, 2004 Oct 14 (UTC)
 * 6) Geogre 00:49, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) (I'm not voting twice am I? Thought so.)
 * 7) Absolutely. How could I not vote for someone who's so familiar with the featured-article quality standards that he managed to get exploding whale featured? We need more admins like him: committed to quality, a leader who is strong but civil. &bull; Benc &bull; 00:55, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) Sure, seems like a good editor to me. Everyking 02:02, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 9) --Jiang 04:48, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 10) Jwrosenzweig 05:19, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) I arrive too late to say anything complimentary about TBSDY that hasn't already been said, other than that if we had a Featured contributor candidates page, I'd nominate him. :-)
 * 11) Tim Ivorson 08:03, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 12) 172 09:50, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 13) +sj + 10:42, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) The worth of a school is not determined by the size of its fish.
 * 14) Filiocht 12:46, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC) A true wikipedian
 * 15) CryptoDerk 15:54, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * 16) TBSDY isn't an admin yet? Time to fix that! Dedicated, experienced, calm, contributes well to a wide range of articles as well as being active "behind the scenes"&mdash;a real class act.    &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 17:13, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 17) Emsworth 22:08, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 18) David Cannon 23:19, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC). A belated, but emphatic, vote of support for an excellent candidate.
 * 19) --Roisterer 02:57, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC) . A very proactive contributor and a boon to the Australian pages (amongst others).
 * 20) (With no oppose or neutrals, it seems pointless, but just in case...) Mpolo 19:29, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * 21) I've seen this user's hard work everywhere. Excellent contributor. Strongly support. ffirehorse 20:21, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 22) It may be overkill at this point, but support. Jayjg 18:45, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

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.)
 * I think I may find blocking vandals useful. However, I'm going to try my best not to make this my first port of call, as I'd prefer to think that articles are done in good faith. The rollback feature looks interesting, but then here too I may not use it that often unless I can see obvious vandalism. I've worked out (over a period of time) that it's best to take something to the talk page first and then discuss it. I'd like to make peace between warring parties also, so I'd kind of like to see if I'm any good at arbritration. I guess I'm most interested in the ability to restore from what vandals have mucked up, especially on Australian articles as I'm quite involved in there. The only thing I can also say is that it looks like a lot of these admin powers are there for "last resort". Kind of makes me nervous that I don't use them incorrectly when I start out at admin'ing! - Ta bu shi da yu 09:26, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * Sure! Personally, I've worked pretty hard at fixing up the exploding whale to get it to featured articles. I'm in the middle of editing the Strathfield article to make it what I call a "featured suburb" (not entirely an accurate name, but I worked out this idea before I realised that the term suburb is not as appropriate as area). For this I've actually gone to the State Library of NSW and refernced material, plus I've borrowed books from the local library. I participated in the first Australian Collaboration of the week and helped the editors (amongst them Ambi, who did the vast majority of the work) get it to featured article status. The article was Cyclone Tracy. The two projects I've started on Wikipedia is WP:ACOTW and WikiProject Sydney.
 * Further: I've also gone through all the March 1 "what links here" articles and added them to this date. I have far too much time on my hands. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:04, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * 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?
 * One article I liked working on was Windows XP, I attempted to NPOV it and I think this largely succeeded. I managed to annoy a few people along the way, though I think that was part of my learning process. Now I know what not to do! I've also had a few disagreements with Adam Carr, but both he and I worked this out together and now there are no hard feelings. Hmmm... you might as well know so I'll be completely honest and say I went a bit overboard with comments to Denni, something I'll have to watch in future.
 * That all said, however, I think I'll be OK in an admin position because I'm going to make it a personal rule not to take admin action in articles that I'm heavily editing. For those articles I'll be asking another admin to help out. This seems to be the most common trap admins get into. Also, I'll be happy to try mediating between parties and resolving issues of POV in articles.
 * Lastly, I kind of think that being an admin won't change me that much (I hope not anyway!). I fully intend to keep editing as per normal.
 * Ta bu shi da yu 09:26, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)