Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Synergy

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Category talk:        9 Category:             14 Image:                1 Mainspace             6392 Portal talk:          1 Portal:               64 Talk:                 1185 Template talk:        14 Template:             25 User talk:            2249 User:                 582 Wikipedia talk:       537 Wikipedia:            3298 avg edits per page    1.81 earliest              19:47, 22 April 2006 number of unique pages 7961 total                 14371

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Wikipedia Review
I'd like to try to clear something up about this, as I mentioned in the oppose section. I do not contribute there. I don't even know who maggot3 is. You need a non free e-mail address to become a member, and I don't have one.  Syn  ergy 01:08, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * For the benefit of the tape: the above isn't true (the bit about the freemail address, not the bit about Syn's membership); if you don't provide a non-free email address, you need to prove your Wikipedia identity in some way (notify them of an edit you're going to make before you make it, for example) to prevent impersonation. – iride scent  01:10, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Please AGF, Maggot3 could be any one. Maggot3 is not the same as synergeticmaggot so impersonation may not be a concern on their end.  Heck, if somebody came to them wanting to use Maggot3, would they know that Synergeticmaggot existed?  I doubt it.--- Balloonman  PoppaBalloon 02:41, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Just clarifying – the above isn't me accusing Syn of being Maggot3, purely a correction on their ID verification procedures. (They allow freemail address from "high rank" wikipedians, as they understand why we're reluctant to give them identifying information). – iride  scent  02:46, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Understood, thanks for the clarification. I wanted to make sure that you weren't implying that Synergy was misrepresenting the ID Verification process to conceal his identity.  Lacking evidence to the contrary, we have to take him at his word that it isn't him.--- Balloonman  PoppaBalloon 03:34, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Civility
I'd like someone, possibly from the neutral section or at least a neutral observer, to show me the diff that everyone thinks I am being incivil in. AFAIK, I have never been warned for civility issues, yet I'd like to see what conversation was incivil, so I may reflect upon it.  Syn  ergy 03:33, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I have been wondering where they are coming from too, as far as I see you are just about a decent an everyone else. - Icewedge (talk) 06:31, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Last response
I won't be here when this RfAs time expires and its closed (I will be at work). I just have one last thing to say here. This is going to look really bad, but I am objecting to most of the opposition, and I believe I have good reason for doing so. I've found a number of the opposes to be without merit, or baseless. This is not to say they are not entitled to their opinion, and should be discounted but that they do not establish that I cannot be trusted with these new buttons. I won't even speculate the reasons why they have opposed this RfA. My general feeling is that they have not properly reviewed my contribs, and are probably not realizing they have made an error of judgement. Here now I would like to address these concerns:


 * Oppose number 1 (giggy): The oppose is based on a link to my article contributions, though lacks an actual comment on them. Also linked is oppose per Editorofthewiki; (the short version: I'm a policy wonk) and GlassCobra (I close XfD's too fast; didn't mention my dispute with Collectonian). I feel that these are non issues because regardless of how I view policies, there is no supporting evidence that I misuse them, or cannot be trusted because of my views (not to mention my answer to question 5d clearly shows a difference in my last RfA). Nor are there diffs provided that I have continued to close XfDs too fast. He later seems to think my answer to question 5d contradicts itself. I don't see how. I clearly said that IAR should be invoked rarely, if ever (Which means not very often), and go on to stipulate hypothetically how to use it, and how I think it gets used.
 * Re. your contribs; you may wish to read my 03:14, 6 September 2008 (UTC) comment, first sentence. I feel these are issues, even if you don't. Giggy (talk) 02:08, 13 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Oppose number 2 (iridescent): Again, there is the accusation that I have a "policy is there to be enforced" mentality (with no diffs). She claims to have gone through every AfD contribution of mine in August and convieniently ignores this delete, this delete, and this delete I initiated all from this month to further her point about my being an inclusionist, which I'm not but would make no difference if I were. All the while not showing one XfD closed wrong since my last RfA (besides the one I made mention of in my opening statement of this RfA). She then goes on to add to her rationale that I disagreed with a crat about optional questions...am I not allowed to do this? Lastly, she applies IAR to an article I created, accusing me of creating fancruft. This article she links meets our notability guidelines, which was the only reason I created it.


 * Oppose number 3 (Fut.Perf): While I did in fact show poor judgement on the semantic side of the debate (divining the nature of Lucyintheskywithdada's comments), most people did not know that the reason I brought this to his talk page was because he wanted a block/ban on Lucyintheskywithdada because their comments were very grave insinuations against my honor and integrity as a person and an editor. No, we don't block because of this. I was wrong in my approach but I was not wrong in my judgement of the full situation.


 * Oppose number 4 (EJF): I'm being opposed because of someone else's comments about another user who I do not even recall ever speeking to.


 * Oppose 6 and 7 I will lump together: These are accusations that I have abusive and incivil commentary (no diffs).


 * Oppose 9 (Miranda): I'm being opposed because I one day wish to help at USURP, and would need to delete edits to help out. And this somehow does not show a need for the tools.


 * Strong Oppose (jbmurray): For the most part, hes right. For some time I did not think I was wrong. But within a month, I agreed with another users observations at my editor review that I was wrong.


 * Oppose 12 (GlassCobra): This oppose is based on the fact that I shouldn't be closing XfDs. I have no topic ban, or sanction for XfDs. There are no diffs provided that show that I have not changed my ways. when I have. Yet he goes on to say that as far as my mainspace contribs are concerned I have a total lack of involvement in this area. Even though I have created a number of articles, helped to bring an article GA, and over 42% of my contributions are to the mainspace.


 * Oppose 13 (Deacon of Pndapetzim): He thinks that the issues in my previous RfA have not gone away, though not citing why. Overall, my fast XfD closures were what got me opposed last time, and I'm assuming he means those. Yet there is no mention of any XfD closures that were wrong since my last RfA.


 * Oppose 17 (Pmanderson): This is an odd oppose. The assumption to Xeno's question, was that I have blocked a user, and they are requesting unblock. From there, I assume someone notifies me, and I am to make a judement call. My judgment call was to give one last chance, so they can reform. I said nothing about reversing another admin (which is the more frowned upon action).


 * Oppose 22 (RyanPoss): He seems to misunderstand why I edited his Encyclopedia Dramatica article. And infers from there that I must have either been trolling or attempting to "out" editors. This was not the case at all. I used a template to propose the article for deletion giving my reason in the edit summary.

Many of these above opposing points are what others are looking to when opposing. While I know there is absolutely no way that my RfA will close favorably for me, I want this RfA to be future evidence of how a good request from an experienced user can go bad by the mere suggestion of doubt with no backing evidence. That is all.  Syn  ergy 19:00, 12 September 2008 (UTC) I know. tl:dr