Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Taxman

Taxman
Vote here (34/0/0) ending 18:13, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

While it would have been nice to be patient and wait for someone to notice my efforts, I believe I can be a more positive asset to the community as an administrator, so I thought I would be bold and self nominate. I registered initially in Aug of 2003, then lurked for quite a while getting to know the place, then really started contributing in April of 2004. I have a little over 2070 edits so far. - Taxman 18:14, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) &#8212;No-One Jones (m) 18:21, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC
 * 2) I come accross Taxman and his work every so often, and this guy has left a good impression on me. A courteous and diligent worker who is a real asset to Wikipedia. J OHN C OLLISON [ Ludraman] 18:28, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Support, but please make sure vandal hunting doesn't take too much of your time, I like your ideas on referencing and peer review much better. :-) [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 20:46, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) Yes. --Lst27 ( t a l k )  21:21, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) Certaintly. BLANKFAZE  | (&#1095;&#1090;&#1086;??) 21:32, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 6) I thought he was an admin, actually. Seems like a good guy. Andre ( talk )A| 02:10, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * 7) Michael Snow 03:25, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) I've seen so much good from Taxman. I had no idea he isn't an admin!   &rarr;I&ntilde;g&oacute;lemo&larr;   (talk)  03:58, 2004 Dec 3 (UTC)
 * 9) Taxman's work on Sealand was a model. Wholeheartedly support.Dr Zen 05:07, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 10) Tuf-Kat 05:48, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * 11) Cribcage 06:43, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 12) Strong Support. We may not always agree, but he's made some fine contributions. He's also a man of principle. GeneralPatton 06:54, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 13) Lupo 08:46, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 14) Yet another case where I am utterly surprised as to the candidate's real user level status. Strong support. Johnleemk | Talk 17:28, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 15) Sure. Everyking 22:10, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 16) Support. - RedWordSmith 19:41, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * 17) Sarge Baldy 21:59, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * 18) One taxman I wouldn't mind paying. :P -- Grunt 🇪🇺 23:43, 2004 Dec 4 (UTC)
 * * Smashes vase against wall*. Please, Grunt, everyone likes to have a wittiscism contest at RFA time, but don't lower yourself to the level of the mob... :-P J OHN C OLLISON [ Ludraman] 00:50, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) NOT AN ADMIN? WHAT? ;) [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/talk]] 00:53, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) Slowking Man 03:06, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. Proteus (Talk) 19:42, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) Should've nominated him myself. Ambi 04:12, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) 172 08:47, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 6) Support. Not aware of trouble, and meets my standards.  &mdash;Lowellian (talk)   09:04, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * 7) Support. PedanticallySpeaking 16:56, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) Support. Axl 19:55, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 9) Support. Taxman is very taxing on Featured article candidates, but I think that's a good thing :) -- Chris 73 Talk 02:55, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * 10) Fire Star 06:31, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. An invaluable asset to the WP.  -Sean Curtin 05:06, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * 12) Support. utcursch 12:21, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * 13) Support. Never really noticed you before, but after lookingthrough your contributions I see I should have. This is a good example of why we maybe need some mechanism for 'automatically noticing' good editors long overdue for adminship.  Thanks for noticing yourself and being bold enough to self-nominate.  Surprised that you aren't listed as a member at factcheck.  Your unreferenced FAs list interests me, how was it compiled? - User:Pedant
 * It was done by hand. I clicked through every one and saw if it had a references or similar section and noted my results.  Some are listed with no references but have inline citations, that will have to be considered too. As to factcheck, I had thought I had listed myself there initially. Not sure why I am not there now. - Taxman 16:47, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * 1) Support. A good user, worthy of adminship despite his username giving me nightmares. ;) Arminius 06:31, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) You have my vote :-) [[User:Squash|Squash (Talk)]] 07:37, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. ffirehorse 01:30, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Comments
 * Thanks all for the kind words and support. Some of you I guess I wasn't even aware knew much about me. - Taxman 06:03, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Taxman is really doing some good work making much-needed quality controls of articles over at the FAC. GeneralPatton 03:18, 5 Dec 2004 (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.)
 * A. Primarily more vandalism fixing. I have a couple hundred pages on my watchlist that I often find myself reverting the hard way for obvious vandalism.  But I would also entertain helping maintain protected pages and deleting pages when necessary.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. I tend to spread my edits around a lot, but I am proud of biodiesel and will soon whip it into shape for a FAC. I have also started a lot of articles in the finance and economics arena. I have been very active in the featured article candidate process, and would like to think my observations have led to significantly better articles. I also more or less maintain archiving the Peer Review page and plan to do more as an admin and with consensus of others.  Finally I am on a mission to help improve the status of references in featured articles and eventually promote it for all articles.  For that aim, I compiled a list of all FA's without references and will now work to help direct the effort to fix that important issue.
 * 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?
 * A. Certainly nothing where any tempers got out of hand (not on my end at least :). I spent a lot of ink trying to get the two polar opposite sides in the Sealand dispute to reach an NPOV middle ground and had some success.  I am also in respectful disagreement over whether FA's without references are fair game to nominate at WP:FARC