Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ulayiti

Ulayiti
[ Vote here] (29/1/0) ending 13:01 8 September 2005 (UTC) - This is a self-nomination. Ed Poor mistook me for an admin the other day, so I decided to try and actually become one. I've been a registered user since July 2004, but I've only been editing actively since April this year. I now have a bit more than 2,000 edits, with 1,200 of them on the article namespace (plus lots and lots of speedy tags). I've been active with all sorts of things having to do with Wikipedia maintenance, such as RC patrol, fighting vandalism, welcoming new users and helping them around, and participating on VfD and RfA. Having admin tools at my disposal would make a lot of this much easier. I'm confident that I'm familiar enough with policies and guidelines to become a responsible and useful admin. --ulayiti (talk)  13:01, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Well, it's a self-nomination, so obviously I'm going to accept. :) - ulayiti (talk)  13:23, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) Support Looks good. Acetic  ' Acid  13:38, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support strongly! Over 200 vandalized pages reverted in the last week alone, not counting numerous nonsense pages speedy-deleted away. This guy is a vandal-fighting machine...imagine what he can do for us with the Rollback and Block buttons enabled! We need more people like Ulayiti. Owen&times;  &#9742;  15:49, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Merovingian (t) (c) 18:05, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support freestylefrappe 18:16, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support Rje 19:03, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support We need more vandal fighters...Amren (talk) 20:21, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support Friday (talk) 21:49, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support,  R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 23:37, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Yup. N (t/c) 01:20, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support. Seems like an excellent vandal fighter. Andre ( talk ) 02:35, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support SMOOTH! Ryan Norton T 06:58, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support. Evil Monkey&#8756;Hello 09:07, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support. &mdash; J I P | Talk 09:19, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support =Nichalp   «Talk»=  14:09, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) --Jusjih 03:50, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) BRIAN 0918  &bull; 2005-09-3 04:05
 * 17) Fire Fox T  C 16:00, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support. Sam Hocevar 17:15, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support. I trust a mop in his hands.  Bratsche talk 17:26, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support. Hand this user the rollback tool. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:32, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) I know him from IBscrewed, so I know he's a good one. Support. Mike H (Talking is hot) 02:06, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support, and not just because he reverted vandalism on my user page :) the wub  "?/!"  18:07, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support we need more inclusionist admins. Klonimus 04:30, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support. Meets my guidelines. Good vandal- and troll-fighter. android  79  17:46, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support. Excellent contributor. Sjakkalle (Check!)  11:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Support  V.   Molotov  [[Image:Flag of California.svg|25px]]  18:19, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support emphatically. Hall Monitor 20:27, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support. El_C 23:53, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support, Derktar 00:07, September 7, 2005 (UTC).

Oppose
 * 1) --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 03:18, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Neutral

Comments
 * What are the edits in "unknown namespace 100"? N (t/c) 01:20, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It's the Portal namespace - Kate's tool seems to have problems with that. I've left a note about this at Wikipedia talk:Kate's Tool. - ulayiti (talk)   (my RfA)  01:30, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * There is one opposing vote with no reason here. Is it valid? (I never oppose anyone's candidacy for adminship without a reason at any wiki site.)--Jusjih 03:50, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I see that you have not been a frequent visitor to RFA. Perhaps you should read Requests for comment/Boothy443. In short: that user opposes almost all RfAs to seemingly prove a point that "Admins are evil". Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:32, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * He has a right to do so, though. I mean, of course it would be nice to know specifically why he's opposing, but he's not violating WP:POINT or anything just because he doesn't say it. He says he has high standards for adminship, and he does sometimes support some exceptionally good candidates. And while I disagree with his view that he doesn't need to give a reason for opposing, I perfectly understand him and can accept that. - ulayiti (talk)   (my RfA)  13:20, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I did not visit RFA when I was very busy at Chinese Wikipedia as an administrator there, but I now come here sometimes. Thanks for your replies and explanations so I understand better now.--Jusjih 08:00, 9 September 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 read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. The main reason why I'm nominating myself is that I'd like to be more active in fighting vandalism. I'd find the rollback tool very useful, and the ability to block persistent vandals without having to go to WP:AIV would also be nice. I'd also like to help out with closing VfD debates and deleting speedy candidates. I'm somewhat of an inclusionist (not very extreme though), so you wouldn't have to worry about me deleting anything that could be useful in WP.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. To me, my most precious contribution is the article I wrote (mostly) on Turku, my hometown in Finland. It's been a FAC, and failed only because nobody turned up to copyedit it (so if anybody sees this and is interested, please do so). :)
 * 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. Persistent vandalism that I have no means to counter sometimes causes me a bit of stress, but I don't generally tend to be stressed. I recently had something of a conflict with User:Leistung, who accused me of systematically reverting all of his edits (see my talk page). I wasn't aware of doing this, since to my knowledge I was only reverting POV edits on the Adolf Hitler article. I think I was able to satisfactorily resolve the situation. There have been a few other conflicts, and I'm sure there will be more in the future, but I'm not the type to get mad about stuff like this, and I'll be able to resolve anything peacefully.