Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/TheCoffee

TheCoffee
Final (39/0/1) ending 19:38 26 August 2005 (UTC) - This is a self-nomination. I've been contributing to Wikipedia since December 2004, mostly working on Philippine-related topics. I've made 7772 edits, 6061 (78%) of which are in the article namespace. I've been around for quite a while, and though I don't claim to have read every page in the Wikipedia namespace, I have a pretty good understanding of our procedures. Previously I hoped to accumulate good edits and hope that somebody would nominate me eventually, since it seemed to me there's a certain lack of good form in coming here and having to promote yourself. But today I found the tag on both WP:IFD and WP:PUI, and I want to be one of those people that can do something about it. I trust people will based their vote on my record than by who presents it to them. :) --Coffee 19:38, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) BRIAN 0918  &bull; 2005-08-19 19:39
 * 2) Support - I've seen you around and you've always been civil but the thing that really made me nominate you is your answers to the questions. IMO, They were really well written and portrayed your point really well. This shows diligence as a writer and there is no doubt in my ming that you would use the mop well. Good luck! --Celestianpower hab 20:08, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Merovingian (t) (c) 20:15, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Sumasang-ayon I mean, Support. Yes, you're more than qualified plus we need more Pinoy admins. :-D --Chris S. 20:32, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support! He's a great editor, answered the questions very well (2000 pages on your watchlist?! Wow!), and he's given me a lot of help with Philippines-related articles.  Plus, his contributions for the cities articles are a very huge task for one non-bot editor to do.  I was somewhat surprised to find he wasn't an admin. --Idont Havaname 21:05, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Sarge Baldy 21:25, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support, wonderful contributor. Hall Monitor 22:23, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support anyone with 2,000 articles on their watchlist and that does not have an ax to grind gets my vote. We need more of those around. &asymp; jossi &asymp; 22:27, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) He's Not Already One? Dmcdevit·t 00:24, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support --Saluyot 01:10, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support, great contributor. --Migs 03:07, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) --Briangotts (talk) 04:56, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Strong Support very dedicated contributor Tony the Marine 05:50, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support Magalhães 06:23, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support. Thunderbrand 06:39, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support. *wakes up and smells the coffee* Redwolf24 07:10, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support Anyone who would become so undignified as to take pictures of a Rubik's Cube deserves adminship. Acetic Acid 07:28, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Strong support - Would make an excellent admin. Sango  123  14:27, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support.Journalist 15:06, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support, 2000 pages on your watch list, that must read like the recent changes page! Martin - The non-blue non-moose 18:41, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support, seems to be a fine editor. --Sn0wflake 18:54, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support, partly for those beautiful cubes! Flowerparty  talk 02:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support Hamster Sandwich 06:08, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Cool. --JuntungWu 08:48, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support. Again, better him than me. :-) seav 16:56, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Support. Perk up your wikipedian life with brewed coffee!--Jondel 02:01, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support. Jaxl | talk 02:10, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support - and sorry it took so long! -- DS1953 04:01, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support. I really like your work. --NormanEinstein 12:56, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Support. Nice work, experienced. Meets my standards.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91  ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  15:45, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 31) Support. Had an opportunity to check out his work, and was quite impressed.  Liked his measured answers to the candidate questions. Good luck! Friejose 17:00, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 32) Strong support for calm contributors. - RoyBoy 800 18:15, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 33) Support. Your editing looks very nice. Bratsche talk 5 pillars 03:24, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * 34) Support. Should be given super powers. :)--Noypi380 13:41, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 35) Support. What an impressive candidate. This should have been done long ago.— Encephalon |  &zeta;   14:26:29, 2005-08-23 (UTC)
 * 36) Support, (I wish I had thought of a coffee-related user name....) Func( t, c, @,) 03:31, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 37) Support FeloniousMonk 08:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 38) Support. Good participation. -- BD2412 talk 15:45, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 39) Support How could I oppose with a user name like that? [[Image:Cup of Coffee with foam.jpg|50px]]. Folgers - good to the last drop?  D. J. Bracey (talk) [[Image:Flag of California.svg|25px]] 16:46, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 40) Support User:Pvenegas 14:24, 1 September 2005 (UTC).
 * Hi User:Pvenegas, I hope you do not mind my striking through your comment. The RFA for User:TheCoffee ended on August 26, 2005, and he is now an administrator. This RFA is not accepting votes any longer. Should you wish to congratulate Coffee, his Talk page is here. Kind regards— Encephalon |  &zeta;   06:44:27, 2005-09-01 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral
 * 1) Excessive off-topic ranting by myself moved to  SchmuckyTheCat 06:55, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Comments

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. There are over 2000 pages on my watchlist, and I'd certainly like the rollback tool to combat vandalism and keep these articles clean. I occassionally do New page patrol and I've often wished for the ability to delete on sight, and the ability to block persisent vandalizers. Mostly I'd want to help with administrator work on pages where a backlog develops, like WP:IFD and WP:PUI.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. Here's a few...
 * I spent a great deal of work in June/July creating 1000+ simple articles for cities and municipalities in the Philippines based on census data. This way, newbies writing about their hometown have some framework to work with, and we won't have to keep adding stub tags and categories to these articles anymore. Of the 1617 cities and municipalities, I've added locator maps to about a third of them so far, and I'm still working on them..
 * I've also done a lot of work improving the articles for Presidents of the Philippines. They were patchy when I first came to Wikipedia, but I've expanded them all to decent articles. I've also given them a standard set of templates, with an infobox, a footer navigation template, and a succession box.
 * I've done quite a bit of work on Rubik's Cube, even to the extent of pulling out my scrappy digital camera and taking pictures of my cube (and feeling like a total dork). One day I'd like to go all out on that article and get it to Featured Article status.
 * On a very superficial level, I'm proud of creating the 600,000th article in the English Wikipedia. ;)
 * 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'm not confrontational, and I don't often edit topics that are controversial and likely to provoke edit wars. (Let people with strong opinions wrangle over those and hammer them into NPOV). But I did get into a small dispute with an anonymous user over a single line in an article a month ago. There were some back and forth edits and he started throwing personal attacks at me, though I was being completely civil. It was especially frustrating because he didn't seem to have a grip on what Wikipedia is all about, if you get my meaning. I just pointed him towards the appropriate Wikipolicy pages and tried to hammer out a compromise wording for the article. I've run into a few other conficts from time to time, but I find most of them can be resolved by keeping a cool head, assuming good faith, and reminding others to do the same. An encyclopedia that anyone can edit won't work unless we be nice. :)