Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Tariqabjotu 2/Nominations

– Tariqabjotu (previously Joturner) has been editing Wikipedia since July 2005, and highly actively since December 2005. He is primarily active in editing Islam and Current events articles, as well as helping in the GA process.

He has been responsible for one FA, Mosque, and is responsible for the current state of the Portal:Current events, following a comprehensive overhaul. He is also a major contributor to Moscow, Capital Area Food Bank, 2006 and Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy, Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina disaster relief, Abraj Al Bait Towers, List of caliphs, 2006 labour protests in France, April 2006 in science, Montgomery Blair High School and a very impressive map Image:Cartoonmap-key.png. He is heavily active in updating the current events and date articles such as February 2006, etc.

He shows initiative and understanding of collaboration and organistaion, having been responsible for the formation of two WikiProjects: WikiProject Prophets of Islam, WikiProject Current events.

In portal space he has created Portal:Current events/Middle East, Portal:Current events/Redesign and the contents therewithin such as Portal:Current events/More events, Portal:Current events/Calendar, etc and was instrumental in the success of the redesign, canvassing suggestions for improvements and discussing the changes effectively -

He also takes part in the grunt work, such as substituting off fair use Olympic rings

Tariq is familiar with policy issues having created a few policy notice templates: Merge-multiple, Split-apart, Fuir, POV-check-section, FailedGA, GAnominee, Policy-change-warning, Cleanup-restructure,PD-Finland. Aside from this, he has made many technical template tweaks to improve their usability, such as Template:Infobox Holiday. He is also active in forumlating naming conventions, and is very adept at explaining his philosophies and proposals to other users and floating a policy proposal Copyright review.

He has a good understanding of image policy and tagging  and in particular the fair use policy as shown by this and this.

He has a good understanding and application of POV and WP:OR  policy, which are the fundamentals of encyclopedic integrity.

He keeps his personal convictions at all times separate from his editing and can be seen pushing for NPOV on these Islam MOS guidelines  and further explanations to other Muslim editors with regards to the Muhammad cartoons.

Despite editing very highly edited, and emotive religious topics such as Mosque, Ramadan, Allah and Qur'an. he is always calm, rational and NPOV, staying directly on topic even when others are being irrational, hostile or emotive -

He discusses AfDs appropriately, rather than "voting", and the attached examples (, Articles_for_deletion/524_East_72nd_Street, Articles_for_deletion/Muslim_athletes, Articles_for_deletion/Islamic athletics, Articles_for_deletion/Islamic_entertainment, Articles_for_deletion/List of Muslim Islamic jurists) show that there should be no POV concerns whatsoever in his conduct in debates as a participant or a closing admin.

He is active in reverting vandalism and spam, and warning and reporting the offenders appropriately.

The edit counter shows that he has 250+ edits to Main Page/Errors and 200+ at WP:RM, so allowing him admin powers will substantially lessen the embarrassing gaffes on the main page as well as speeding up the move backlog.

He has a very calm temperament, explaining himself well at all times, is always polite and friendly in a tough area, and all the housekeeping requirements such as signature, userpage, email and edit summaries are in order.

The previous RfAs are at Requests for adminship/Joturner, Requests for adminship/Joturner 2 and a declined one Requests for adminship/Tariqabjotu - I feel that the issues raised then about POV, etc can be shown to not be a problem. Furthermore his conduct shows that he holds his own behaviour to a very high standard. Thus I am asking the community to approve Tariq's candidacy.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:23, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Erstwhile opposer co-nomination. I just wanted to add my little two cents to this ridiculously exhasutive nomination by Blnguyen. I was in the opposer camp the last time Jordan/Tariq stood for adminship, and I must admit that working alongside him since then has proven that I was  totally wrong. I have unconditional trust in this user's judgment and I abrogate my earlier words absolutely. It's election day, baby! I am - crz crztalk and I approved this message. 03:09, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Co-nomination by Samir धर्म : Tariq's work here since he started editing in July 2005 has been nothing short of exceptional (as Blnguyen has well described). However, what has stuck me most has been his judgment and maturity, which has been best exhibited in how he deals with the oftentimes contentious issues involved in the articles he edits. He has an exceptional understanding of policy, and interprets the same in an always neutral fashion. I see Tariq as an administrator who can take a lead role in the amicable resolution of disputes, and do so in a fair and unbiased fashion. Samir धर्म 05:30, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Co-nomination by Aguerriero: I am glad the day is finally here when I can stand up in support of this candidate. Like crz, I once opposed Tariq's candidacy. Since then, virtually every interaction I have had with the candidate have proven his maturity, terrific judgment, and best of all, his outstanding dedication to this project. I have no doubt that he will make a terrific administrator, and I vouch for him. -- Aguerriero  ( talk ) 14:36, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Co-nomination by Bhadani: I feel privileged to co-nominate Tariqabjotu. The nominator and other co-nominators have said everything about him and very little has been left untold. Still I would love to add that I found him a real asset for the project; a mature and composed person displaying utmost civility and most appropriate style of interaction. We certainly require more administrators having these attributes to keep the show going-on on healthy lines and gain further depth and reliability. --Bhadani 16:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Co-nomination by Computerjoe: I haven't dealt much with this user since he changed his username (which is in no way related). I've co-nominated him in previous a previous RfA, and although I have been somewhat absent from the Wikipedia of late, from the links Blnguyen provided and a glance at his contribs I see he's only improved. I have never had any negative experiences with this user. Computerjoe 's talk 17:22, 8 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Thank you very much to all those who nominated me; your statements and support comments are greatly appreciated. I accept. --  tariq abjotu  01:26, 10 November 2006 (UTC)