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Hog Farm

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (23/0/0); Scheduled to end 17:06, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Nomination

Hog Farm (talk · contribs) – I am delighted to introduce Hog Farm for RfA! The user is a fantastic editor, who has very quickly become one of the best contributors on my radar. A prolific content creator, producer of over 50 Good Articles and several A and FA class articles. A winner of the prestigious Editor of the Week award, adminship seems like the natural progression. However, Hog Farm is not only a great content editor, they have a great contributions history in general, with a history of CSD tagging, and over 30% of edits to the Misplaced Pages space. I've had the pleasure of working with Hog Farm for over a year now and have never had a bad word to say about them with a great temperament, despite also being willing to pick up difficult jobs. I hope you agree they are very much suited for adminship. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski 15:45, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Co- nomination

I've known Hog Farm for going on a year now, and have been very impressed by their contributions to date. In addition to a staggering output of Good, A, and Featured articles, they have become a prolific reviewer of content, involved in FAR, and elected as a co-ordinator of the military history project. On the administrative side, Hog Farm has competently !voted in numerous XfD discussions, been involved in CAT:NN cleanup and, more recently, scrutinizing hundreds of geo-stubs. HF has demonstrated that he can work collaboratively, write good content, competently act in a wide range of areas, and shown immense growth since beginning editing. I'm honored to co-nominate him for adminship and I hope you will join me in supporting his request. Eddie891 _Work 14:37, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I humbly accept this nomination. I have never, and never will, edit for pay. I have no other accounts, although I did IP edit for about two or three months before registering an account. Hog Farm _Bacon 17:05, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: Mainly closing AFDs and keeping Category:Expired proposed deletions maintained. If backlogs arise, I'd also give WP:RFD, WP:AIV, and WP:RFPP some attention, but AFD and PROD would be my primary focuses.

2. What are your best contributions to Misplaced Pages, and why?

A: I'd have to say the two articles I got the four award for: Landis's Missouri Battery and Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment. Landis's Battery was one of the first articles I ever wrote from a redlink, so it was a really good feeling to see it recognized as a Featured Article. Slayback's Regiment is a little more polished though, and Battle of Little Blue River is one of my better overhauls of existing articles - it looked like this before I started work, and is a much more comprehensive and better cited article now. Content creation is just pretty addictive.

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

A: I haven't had any big stress incidents, although I've had my fair share of little ones. An example from a couple days ago is this discussion, where it was insinuated that I'm not a productive user. Talk:M-144 (1937–1939 Michigan highway)/GA2 is another example of where there was a little bit of minor conflict. The most stressing experience I've ever had onwiki was at ], which was back a little over a year ago.

From my experience, there's three things to keep in mind when having such issues. The first is not to take it personally. Once your blood is up, the quality of discourse really drops off, and it takes intelligent and civil discussion to create quality encyclopedic content. The second is that you shouldn't always reply immediately. The kneejerk response almost always seems suboptimal after further thought. And third, sometimes you just need to drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass.

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Additional question from Bibeyjj

4. Hi Hog Farm! I've had a look at your general edit trends using XTools. I was just struck that 8.2% of your edits have been reverted or deleted at some point. Do you know why this percentage is so high? Bibeyjj (talk) 17:30, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

A: @Bibeyjj: - While I can't see my deleted contributions to know what they are, I think what those are are from AFD/PROD/CSD tagging. When you nominate an article for AFD/CSD/PROD/RFD, a notice is then placed on the article itself. If the article is then deleted, that contribution is deleted as well when the article goes. If you nominate for AFD or PROD through Twinkle, then Twinkle also adds a notice to the article's talk page, and if the article is deleted, the talk page goes as well. So the vast majority of these I believe are edits nominating pages for deletion where the page was then later deleted. Although I have a fuzzy memory of one edit being revdelled because I put the copyright violation revdel request tag on the article before removing the copyright violations, so since the edit placing the revdel request was to a version containing copyright violations, it also had to be revdelled. Hog Farm _Bacon 17:55, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Additional question from Garnarblarnar

5. As an administrator who wants to be active at AFD, what do you think will change in comparison to your "non-admin closures"? Garnarblarnar (talk) 18:03, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Additional question from Ritchie333

6. Hi, best of luck in the RfA. Following up on question 3, I had this discussion recently which tangentially relates to the conflict you had on the Michigan Highway article. As you can see, there are two different viewpoints over whether or not having an opinion on a subject, or how a group of articles should be organised, might be considered WP:INVOLVED. What are your thoughts on that? Ritchie333 18:16, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

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Additional question from Barkeep49

7. Your participation at AfD looks great and I was just commenting that we could use another admin or two who would regularly work AfD. Can you give an example of a close you've done where the discussion could be described as contentious? Thanks, Barkeep49 (talk) 18:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

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Discussion

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Support

1. Support as nom Eddie891 _Work 17:12, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
2. Support huge support for a fantastic editor as nom. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski 17:12, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
3. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 17:18, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
4. Support. Lots of interactions, nothing to say but good things. - Dank (push to talk) 17:21, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
5. Strong support, I am very pleased to see this RfA! Hog Farm is a content creator who is well versed in deletion policy, and wants to help out in an administrative capacity. I've seen enough of their contributions at RfD, AfD, and PROD that I am more than confident that they will do an excellent job. I wish you all the best! -- Tavix 17:24, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
6. Support, trusted user. NASCARfan0548 ↗ 17:26, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
7. Support. Seen HF around AfD many times, and they clearly have an excellent grasp of deletion policy. No qualms about having them help out in an administrative capacity in that area as well. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 17:27, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
8. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 17:31, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
9. Support - I'm familiar with some of their great work. Would be a perfect admin--NØ 17:32, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
10. Support, excellent content creator but also always level-headed in discussion - Dumelow (talk) 17:33, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
11. I was considering offering a nomination myself. Vanamonde (Talk) 17:33, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
12. Support precious editor. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:36, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
13. Support. Having checked talk page entries and past edits, I can see that Hog Farm is a reliable user with a good track record. Bibeyjj (talk) 17:41, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
14. Support seen them around, no concerns. Spicy (talk) 17:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
15. Support Don't have to think twice. Le Panini 17:58, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
16. Support- Has a clue. No concerns from me that the candidate would break the project. Good luck.   Aloha27  talk  18:02, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
17. Support I have wondered why they were not an admin yet. I have only seen great work from them. Z1720 (talk) 18:03, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
18. Support - I have seen Hog Farm's edits pop up a lot in the past year, working hard to clean up hundreds of settlement articles in California. Hog Farm collaborated with several other editors, and was very thorough and showed good judgement. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:15, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
19. A quality contributor, to be sure. Will make a welcome addition. El_C 18:16, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
20. Support Meets my criteria easily.--Wehwalt (talk) 18:35, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
21. Support will be a net-positive to the project. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 18:41, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
22. Support without hesitation. Chetsford (talk) 18:48, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
23. Support. Hog Farm is one of only a few non-admins here whose judgement I'd automatically be inclined to trust. Despite him only having been around Misplaced Pages for less than 2 years, he's been a very good content creator. Based on the nominators' statements, I'd also say he has a good handle on admin fields such as deletion policy. Epicgenius (talk)

Oppose

Neutral

General comments

• Bibeyjj I'm obviously not Hog Farm, but as he can't see them I thought I'd weigh in. Looking at their last 1500 deleted edits, which takes me back to 20 February 2020, virtually all are tagging pages for deletion. Eddie891 _Work 17:36, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Eddie891, thank you for checking this - that makes more sense now! Bibeyjj (talk) 17:40, 14 January 2021 (UTC)