Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Where 2


 * The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful request for adminship. Please do not modify it .

Where
Final  (103/0/0) ended 21:22, July 2, 2006 (UTC)

I am pleased to be able to nominate Where for adminship. He was nominated before, but showed great maturity when he decided that he wasn't experienced enough and didn't accept the nomination. Now I feel that the time has come for him to be promoted and that he can be fully trusted with an admin's tools - let me tell you how. Although he has only been contributing since December, in this time he has made many constructive edits and has shown a clear understanding of policy and of how to encourage the development of Wikipedia. Where has been seen voting on AfDs and vandal fighting all over the place, and he is an active member of Esperanza. Where has also written numerous user scripts, and performed much stub sorting. He also did extensive work in the conversion of List of open source software into a category for better navigation. It is my opinion that Where is ready and well-suited to being an administrator, and that he can only better serve the community by being one. &mdash;Xyra e l / 20:50, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Throwing in a co-nom for Where! He is very helpful and polite and has greatly contributed overall. Best of luck on your RfA! :) G .H  e  01:42, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept. -- Where 21:12, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Support
 * 1) The biggest support I've ever given (apart from possibly BD2412 and JoanneB). He's a wonderful user: kind, civil, helpful, useful. He's help me fix Linux repeatedy :P. I was thoroughly shocked when he said he wasn't an Admin and I'm honoured to have the first support. &mdash;Cel es tianpower háblame 21:18, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) I-wanted-to-be-first-to-support! &mdash;Misza 13  T C 21:20, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Easy Support yes Jaranda wat's sup 21:23, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support - Well, duh. no spam please --GeorgeMoney (talk) (Help Me Improve!) 21:24, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Beat-the-nom Support (he'll probably insert his as #1 anyway) A great user, knows exactly what he's doing and when to do it. Very civil. — Natha  n  ( talk ) / 21:30, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Support The nominator said it perfectly. In addition, I find it quite honorable that he declined his first nomination in April and opted to wait a couple months. joturn e r 21:33, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Support - Seems a very good contributor who needs the tools. No worries at all. Afonso Silva 21:57, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Support per nom. --Shizane 22:03, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) Where should I put my support? I guess here :)-- Kungfu Adam ( talk ) 22:52, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 10) Support. I have met Where on IRC. I have found Where to be a very good contributer, looking further through all he has done. Where would do well with the "janitor's closet". //Ae:æ 23:03, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. Good contributor, good communicator, will probably know when to not use the tools. RadioKirk (u|t|c)  23:08, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 12) digital_m e (TalkˑContribs) 23:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC) must... resist... the... urge... to... camp...
 * 13) Support per above. DarthVad e r 23:19, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 14) Support  Dure     ( T )[[Image:Skull and Crossbones.svg|15px]]( E )[[Image:Skull and Crossbones.svg|15px]]( C ) 23:21, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 15) Support--Jusjih 23:57, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 16) Support, it was about time to see this excellent candidate display on my list! Phædriel  ♥   tell me  - 23:59, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 17) A Where support. Not really sure what that is, so I'll just put strongest-possible-support instead!! :) G .H  e  01:19, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 18) Strong support Good answers to questions. Seems to be a model Wikipedian. Will sleep better at night knowing that Where's got the mop and bucket. FloNight   talk  01:25, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 19) Where do I show my support - that is the question -- Tawker 01:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 20) Support. Of course! I'd be surprised if the community rejected him as an admin.  fetofs  Hello! 01:43, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 21) Support This user kindly pointed out an error that I made, I got the vibe that he was a civil and well informed user. Yanksox (talk) 01:49, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 22) Support I'm always the last one to know. :( ILovePlankton 01:53, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 23) Support Wherefore art thou not already an administrator? AdamBiswanger1 02:14, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 24) Support per nom. Voice -of-  All  02:29, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 25) Support yes. &mdash; Khoikhoi 04:10, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 26) Supporting Where. Where knows where we know eachother from. :) ~Kylu ( u | t )  04:36, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 27) Support --Arnzy (whats up?)  05:26, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 28) Support. Insert obligatory where pun here. :) RandyWang (raves/rants) 11:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 29) Support.  Grue   11:47, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 30) M e rovingian { T C @ } 11:51, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 31) I honestly thought he already was one. SushiGeek 12:10, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 32) Support - Yes, it's the right time. -- Szvest 12:28, 26 June 2006 (UTC) Wiki me up&#153;
 * 33) Support, friendly user, a great Esperanzian, a very civil user, deserves to get the tools. --Ter e nce Ong (Chat 12:53, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 34) Absolute Support without reservations per Tawker Werdna (talk) 13:08, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 35) Very, very late support as nominator :) &mdash;Xyra e l / 13:37, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 36) Definite Support passes my RFA criteria. Familliar with sysop tools because of the Test Wiki.   Anonymous_  _Anonymous  13:46, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 37) Support amazingly active seeing as the user registered at the end of 2005, also a furious vandal fighter. Even though I don't like the users method of leaving a message on a talk page informing the user that the user has replied on their talk page which seems a bit silly.-- Andeh 14:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Good point. In the future, I will paste the full messazge on both my talk page and the other user's talk page. Thanks for pointing that out! -- Where 15:17, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Just reply on the users talk page, not both! ;)-- Andeh 16:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Support, with a lot of confidence that he'll do well. --JoanneB 15:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support, seems like an excellent contributor, and a friendly personality. Wikipedia needs more candidates like this one!Abcdefghijklm 16:06, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) I was too slow to nominate support. Petros471 16:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support -- Jay  (Reply)  17:58, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 18:27, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Support per above -- Will Mak  050389  18:28, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Support per nom. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;   &spades;  18:43, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Hell yeah Where! Computerjoe 's talk 19:13, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) Yes ma'am - CrazyRussian talk/email 19:32, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 10) Where do I put my support? Where2 now? --Lord Deskana Dark Lord of YOUR OPINIONS 20:30, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. Great vandal fighter, great contributions. --Fang Aili talk 21:11, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 12) Support ON WHEELS!!!! For all reasons mentioned. -- D -Day I'm all ears How can I improve? 21:28, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know what the "on wheels" is about. Making fun of Willy, aren't you?Myrtone03:32, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah... ILovePlankton 04:23, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It's a time honored tradition. I'm not the only one to have used this. (Besides, anything with multiple exclamation marks after it is automatically funny. Period!!!) -- D -Day I'm all ears How can I improve? 18:03, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * And grammatically incorrect ;-) Iola k</b> ana |<sup style="color:orange;">T  23:59, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * You mean "uncorrect." ;) -→ Buchanan-Hermit ™ /<font color="red" size="1">?!  01:21, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Support why not? Looks good. -Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 21:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) (Insert stupid "Where?" pun here support) --Mr. L e fty Talk to me! 21:57, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Looks like an extremely helpful admin candidate.  (aeropagitica)    (talk)   21:59, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Avalanche pile-on support. Clearly interacts well with others and has the skills to be an admin. Brisv e  gas  00:28, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Support Good luck! <font color="#4169E1">cøøkiə Ξ <font color="#4169E1">(talk) 01:22, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Support -AMK152 03:46, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Support DVD+ R/W 04:17, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Oppose, needs more talk page edits as well as one ore two more months of experience Weak support, oh well, I think I can make an exception this time due to the user's high amount of experience :) --<b style="background:red; color:#FFFF00;">TBC</b> TaLk?!?  05:02, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) Where do I support? --Nearly Headless Nick 09:55, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 10) Can't believe I didn't see this sooner support Not only a very infomred and reliable user, a very nice one as well. Th e Halo (talk) 11:03, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 11) Support looks good to me, good luck to you. Gryffindor  16:10, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 12) Support, of course. Great contributions! - Tangot a ngo 16:22, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 13) Support, meets all the important criteria. Roy A.A. 16:53, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 14) Support A great user. -- S iva1979 <sup style="background:yellow;">Talk to me  17:22, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 15) Peer Pressure Support Everyone's doing it! On a more serious note, this user would make a great addition to the ranks of administrators, and I have no doubts at all about how he will act. Good Job! <i style="background:#cc1100; color:white;">Thetrutbelow</i> 18:33, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 16) Support &mdash; Vildricianus 21:13, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 17) support of course, where is a valuable editor and would do good work with the mop Benon 01:15, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 18) Support per nom. Kimchi.sg 02:36, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 19) I do believe so. -- Cyde↔Weys  04:01, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 20) Support -- light darkness (talk) 04:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 21) Support - can't find a reason to oppose, great user and will be a great admin. --WinHunter (talk) 09:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 22) Broken laptop support Will (message me!) 11:39, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 23) Support -- TonyM <sup style="color:orange;">ｷﾀ━( °∀° )━ｯ!!  11:44, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 24) Support  Jo  e  I  14:31, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 25) Support. Looks good. Jayjg <small style="color:darkgreen;">(talk) 16:36, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 26)  Rob ert  12:18, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 27) Support. Good luck! :) íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 13:47, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 28) Strong support Extremely friendly, always happy to help. -- 9  cds (talk) 14:14, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 29) Support per nominator. Polonium 18:58, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 30) Support - Sensible and reasonable Wikipedian. SilkTork 02:09, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 31) Support --Ixfd64 03:50, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 32) support.Blnguyen | rant-line 04:45, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 33) Let's see if we can get 100 supports support Good editor. GangstaEB (talk • contribs • [/wiki/User:Interiot/Tool2/code.js?username= count] • ice slides) 13:19, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 34) More candidates like this one please!TM  + +Lar: t/c 18:39, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 35) Support Good vandal fighting, and always deserve it. Not only Vandal Fighting, also He demonstrates kindness. *~Daniel~* 02:01, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 36) Why not? — <font color="CD2626">The King of Kings 02:32 July 01 '06
 * 37) Where? Why? When? How? Support? -→ Buchanan-Hermit ™ /<font color="red" size="1">?!  07:55, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 38) Oojiwagga support. Yes indeed. --  Bane s  16:23, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 39) Support. --Randy Johnston (‽) 17:56, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 40) Support Is helpful and kind, and I reckon Where would be able to do much more good with the admin tools. -- JD [ don't talk|email ] 18:21, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 41) Support - Would make a great admin.  Sango 123  18:46, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 42) Cleared for ADMINSHIIIIP!! Thank goodness I got back from my vacation in time to vote --<font color="#000000">Pilot| <font color="#0000FF">guy 20:22, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 43) Support Cmon 9 more and its the 100 club for you!!! TruthCrusader 20:24, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 44) Support. Tito xd (?!?) 20:40, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 45) Support will make good use of the tools. --Alf <sup style="color:green;">melmac 23:42, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 46) Support - Iola <b style="color:#50C878;">k</b> ana |<sup style="color:orange;">T  23:59, 1 July 2006 (UTC) (I hope I haven't voted twice!)
 * 47) Support Sarah Ewart (Talk) 13:01, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 48) —  Fire Fox  14:36, 02 July '06
 * 49) Support - to try to help the user get WP:100 ;) ... in all seriousness, I see no reason not to trust this user with the tools. BigDT 16:18, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 50) Support - After review, all evidence points to the expectation of an exemplary example of exacting execution of admin responsibilities. -- Avi 17:07, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 51) 100th support. Where is completely trustworthy, and will be an excellent admin.-- §hanel  18:21, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 52) Just-missed-the-100th-Support – Gurch 18:27, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 53) Last-chance support. This may actually become an unanimous RFA! :O.  On another note, does anybody else think it's funny that the RFA's title is Where2?-- A  c19  83fan  19:44, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 54) Just-missed-the-RfA-closure-Support! I believe 101 102 (edit conflict!) users have said more than enough, we may have to employ a headshinking device after this landslide. Congrats :) - Gl e n 19:48, 2 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose


 * Neutral


 * Comments

User's last 5000 edits. Voice -of-  All  21:40, 25 June 2006 (UTC) Time range: 149 approximate day(s) of edits on this page Most recent edit on: 21hr (UTC) -- 25, Jun, 2006 || Oldest edit on: 23hr (UTC) -- 28, January, 2006 Overall edit summary use (last 1000 edits): Major edits: 97.72% Minor edits: 100% Average edits per day: 42.51 (for last 500 edit(s)) Article edit summary use (last 319 edits) : Major article edits: 98.76% Minor article edits: 100% Analysis of edits (out of all 5000 edits shown of this page): Notable article edits (creation/expansion/rewrites/sourcing): 0.16% (8) Small article edits (small content/info/reference additions): 1.3% (65) Superficial article edits (grammar/spelling/wikify/links/tagging): 11.9% (595) Minor article edits marked as minor: 78.79% Breakdown of all edits: Unique pages edited: 3672 | Average edits per page: 1.36 | Edits on top: 28% Edits marked as major (non-minor/reverts): 65.18% (3259 edit(s)) Edits marked as minor (non-reverts): 7.96% (398 edit(s)) Marked reverts (reversions/text removal): 25.68% (1284 edit(s)) Unmarked edits: 1.18% (59 edit(s)) Edits by Wikipedia namespace: Article: 35.14% (1757) | Article talk: 0.34% (17) User: 8.72% (436) | User talk: 42.02% (2101) Wikipedia: 11.72% (586) | Wikipedia talk: 0.36% (18) Image: 0.34% (17) Template: 0.38% (19) Category: 0.92% (46) Portal: 0% (0) Help: 0% (0) MediaWiki: 0% (0) Other talk pages: 0.06% (3) Username	Where Total edits	5575 Distinct pages edited	4101 Average edits/page	1.359 First edit	21:02, December 26, 2005 (main)	1952 Talk	24 User	527 User talk	2300 Image	18 MediaWiki talk	2 Template	32 Template talk	4 Category	54 Wikipedia	643 Wikipedia talk	19
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 * See Where's (Talk ▪ Contributions ▪ Logs ▪ Block Logs) contributions as of 21:38, 25 June 2006 (UTC) (Source*) using Interiot's tool*:



Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * Questions for the candidate
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
 * A: Initially, I would like to work on WP:CP, as I think the lag time is too high. While doing that, I would simultaneously be monitoring WP:AIV using my AIV notification tool, which pops up a firefox window on WP:AIV right after a non-admin makes an edit in it. I would do this since it is important that AIV responses be as quick as possible so that determined vandals do not have time to wreck more havoc on Wikipedia. I would later branch out to helping in other activities where there are shortages of admins, such as deleting untagged or unsourced images for which the requisite data cannot be found, but I would still have my AIV script running in the background.


 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A: I am pleased with my progress so far in converting List of open source software into categories. This involves both manually categorizing pages and writing stubs for programs that do not have articles. Although the work is far from complete, I found it pretty rewarding to see people referring to some of the categories I populated on the Portal:Free software page.


 * 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:The only conflicts that I had that I can think of are when I had two disagreements with Whoermaster over various matters in the Jewfro article (now merged into Afro). In both of them, I felt that there were many civility breaches on the other party's side, but I still tried to be polite and reasonable (I believe I was successful in this area). The first problem was that that Whoermaster kept on adding biased material and jokes into the Jewfro article. I discussed my objections with Whoermaster, but I sought a third party opinion when the situation did not improve. This incident cumulated with many editors coming in and helping to keep the Jewfro article within Wikipedia policy. I later had another problem when Whoermaster tried to go against the spirit of an AFD; however, this was resolved in a second AFD.


 * Naturally, I have had other disagreements with Wikipedia editors. However, these have not escalated to the level of a “conflict,” as the discussions stayed friendly and amicable (example).


 * If I have any conflicts in the future, I will remember that my experience has shown me that in almost all instances, all parties in a wikiConflict act in good faith. As a result, I will follow the 1 revert rule (when possible) and be courteous. I will also keep an open mind, and note that there is a distinct possibility that I am wrong; after all, anybody else's opinion is just as important as mine. If the conflict does not seem like it will be resolved soon, I will ask other editors for a third party opinion.


 * The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.