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| #Sarah nominated. ] <sup> ]</sup> 15:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC) | #Sarah nominated. ] <sup> ]</sup> 15:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC) | ||
| #Sarah nominated :) Plus my experiences with this user have been more than positive, and he's truly an excellent user. Has my complete trust. Speedy enmop. ] ] 15:11, 20 June 2007 (UTC) | |||
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VirtualSteve
Voice your opinion (talk page) (0/0/0); Scheduled to end 13:55, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
VirtualSteve (talk · contribs) - Steve has been an editor since mid-November 2005. Over the last year he has been a prolific, dedicated and hardworking editor, amassing in excess of 10,000 edits, with more than 4,700 in the mainspace and the rest well spread across all other spaces. With more than 1,400 user talk and more than 2,200 article talk edits, Steve has shown an excellent ability to communicate with his fellow editors, an attribute I find highly valued in potential administrators.
Steve is also an effective and experienced vandal fighter. He escalates appropriately through the full range of warning templates, as well as writing personal warnings when necessary. (eg: , , , , , , , ) and reports vandals at AIV (, , ).
Steve is loyal, trustworthy and dedicated to the project. He has provided valued assistance and support to myself and other Australian administrators. He takes the time to offer words of encouragement to established and new editors alike. He is a team player who I believe will become a valued and dedicated member of the admin team.
Steve has also been a prolific and dedicated editor to the mainspace, contributing 326 new articles, 13 DYKs and five Good Articles. Steve is intelligent, mature and reliable and I believe he has the knowledge and skills to make an outstanding administrator. I have no hesitation in asking the community to support Steve's request for adminship. Sarah 13:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC) Sarah 13:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
- I am very happy to accept this nomination.--VS 13:35, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages as an administrator. You may wish to answer the following optional questions to provide guidance for participants:
- 1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
- A: It is in my nature to be both a team player and to be truly committed to anything in life that I put my hand up for. In a nutshell that means that I will be constantly looking out to help out wherever the Admin tools are required. But to answer the question more pointedly - well I have a tendency to gravitate more to the growth aspect of Misplaced Pages and am particularly fond of knew and well referenced material that inspires both general readers and new editors to the 'pedia and so I would put my hand up to assist specifically at WP:DYK if Blnguyen, Howcheng, Carabinieri, and others in the DYK team would have me.
Similarly I'd also take a supportive role (inclusive of assistance that progresses as necessary from dispute resolution through to admin-based protection) of WP:GAC nominations and assessments.
With regards protection of the project as a whole, well as Sarah has been kind enough to indicate I watch constantly for one-off and recidivistic type vandals. I would be pleased to help with WP:AIV for those vandals that are not rehabilitated by the first couple or three caution/warnings and in this area I'd be looking at assisting with the removal of any backlogs as necessary. I also have a bent to do something about vandals (and as necessary established editors) who violate WP:NPA.
- A: It is in my nature to be both a team player and to be truly committed to anything in life that I put my hand up for. In a nutshell that means that I will be constantly looking out to help out wherever the Admin tools are required. But to answer the question more pointedly - well I have a tendency to gravitate more to the growth aspect of Misplaced Pages and am particularly fond of knew and well referenced material that inspires both general readers and new editors to the 'pedia and so I would put my hand up to assist specifically at WP:DYK if Blnguyen, Howcheng, Carabinieri, and others in the DYK team would have me.
- 2. What are your best contributions to Misplaced Pages, and why?
- A: A quick glance at my user page and the about me section will detail that I am an avid Aussie editor. I am a member of 4 Australian projects - and I am particularly proud of the assistance that I gave to get Riverina & Wagga Wagga to GA. But that said I can't help but get excited over the way that Misplaced Pages is a conduit for friendships across the world - so somehow (don't ask me how it just happened) I got involved in WikiProject Chicago some time ago and I have three GA assists there - even though I have never been to the Windy City. That's the joy of Misplaced Pages for me - an editor with the time and inclination can assist in the writing of a good article about anything that she or he is willing to do the research on.
I also love the problem solving aspect of this project and so I am very fond of WikiProject Riverina because it forced a number of editors to get their heads together and actually discover where the Riverina was. I think I helped a fair bit in that discovery - and I am going through a similar project now with regards Template:Sunraysia.
I've already mentioned DYK's - and yes okay call me a wiki-exhibitionist but there is a definite buzz with getting your article up for those few hours on the main page.
(PS I should like to add one other thing - which started off as an interest displayed on English Wiki but then because it got larger was moved to Commons and now resembles a total of over 260 images of which 95% are self taken.)
- A: A quick glance at my user page and the about me section will detail that I am an avid Aussie editor. I am a member of 4 Australian projects - and I am particularly proud of the assistance that I gave to get Riverina & Wagga Wagga to GA. But that said I can't help but get excited over the way that Misplaced Pages is a conduit for friendships across the world - so somehow (don't ask me how it just happened) I got involved in WikiProject Chicago some time ago and I have three GA assists there - even though I have never been to the Windy City. That's the joy of Misplaced Pages for me - an editor with the time and inclination can assist in the writing of a good article about anything that she or he is willing to do the research on.
- 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: Yes I have - but only two that stand out as a conflict beyond the occasional (well actually infrequent for me) disagreement of content or prose that all editors have. In the first instance I had a dispute with Rebecca when she still edited under the name of Ambi. The dispute (please don't cringe too much Beck) was about redlinks which I couldn't understand as being particularly important. From the aftermath I learned that new editors (me included) come to Misplaced Pages with baggage - positive baggage about neatness and prose style and information and bias etc - but baggage nevertheless. I learned to respect Rebecca and her style of editing and even more importantly I learned that newcomers should be treated slightly more courteously until they understand that wiki has its own rules/guidelines which are not attempting to totally conform the new editor but are attempting to get that person to think of the project as just that; a total worldwide project. I hope that some of the diffs that Sarah gave above show that I have taken that message to heart as I try firstly to reason with new editors that stray from the established guidelines.
I can tell you of the second conflict only by explaining what I learned first and that is I learned that at times someone who describes themselves the first time you meet them as a tyrant can turn out to be one of the most wonderful editors you will ever have the pleasure to work with especially when you apologise to that person after you explain that you didn't realise that they had changed their user name to Golden Wattle and they explain that they had only made an honest mistake when they edited a page you were interested in. I know that this detail is obscure but I guess it's my way of saying I have learned to respect administrators for what they are - dedicated volunteers who sometimes make minor mistakes - and to realise sometimes, despite my trying hard not to - I can be a jerk.
- A: Yes I have - but only two that stand out as a conflict beyond the occasional (well actually infrequent for me) disagreement of content or prose that all editors have. In the first instance I had a dispute with Rebecca when she still edited under the name of Ambi. The dispute (please don't cringe too much Beck) was about redlinks which I couldn't understand as being particularly important. From the aftermath I learned that new editors (me included) come to Misplaced Pages with baggage - positive baggage about neatness and prose style and information and bias etc - but baggage nevertheless. I learned to respect Rebecca and her style of editing and even more importantly I learned that newcomers should be treated slightly more courteously until they understand that wiki has its own rules/guidelines which are not attempting to totally conform the new editor but are attempting to get that person to think of the project as just that; a total worldwide project. I hope that some of the diffs that Sarah gave above show that I have taken that message to heart as I try firstly to reason with new editors that stray from the established guidelines.
General comments
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Discussion
Support
- Nominator support. Sarah 15:00, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
- Sarah nominated. Moreschi 15:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
- Sarah nominated :) Plus my experiences with this user have been more than positive, and he's truly an excellent user. Has my complete trust. Speedy enmop. Riana ⁂ 15:11, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Oppose
Neutral