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Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs) - Admin Coaching is more than just learning about policies and procedures, if that were all there was to it, then there is no way that H20 should ever have been my coachee. H20 knows more about policies and guidelines than I ever will. He is instrumental in so many areas that most already think he is an admin and those who don't are wondering why go through coaching? Why would Balloonman, who opposes the notion of using coaching to "polish off resumes" accept H20 as a coachee?
To know the answer you have to look at H20's history. H20 has had four failed RfA's:
- The first one failed primarily due to inexperience.
- The second one failed because of his essay Misplaced Pages:Template the regulars and posting of private conversations.
- The third one died due to the allegation of collusion involving good articles. There were other issues such as changing his name and his views on who should/should not be an admin. But those later points probably would have been overlooked if not for the Good Article fiasco.
- Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Dihydrogen Monoxide 2 was killed due to an incivilility at an RfB, an editor review and concerns about lack of maturity/poor judgment. It was also hampered by the fact that it was your fourth RfA in less than six months!
In other words, I was dealing with an excellent candidate who knows policies/guidelines, but tended to make stupid mistakes. I preached a mantra to him Civility, Responsibility, and Maturity. I wanted people to see him as somebody they could trust. This, IMHO, is a harder thing to do for an admin coach than getting somebody to write articles or learn policies and procedures. Once a person is labeled as immature with civility problems, it is a difficult to get a person to "grow up" in the eyes of the community. But the fact that he has those labels here is ironic as he is a 'crat over on Misplaced Pages Commons. But to work on his image here, I asked H20 to live by the mantra, Civility, Responsibility, and Maturity. To this end I have treated H20's Coaching as an extended editorial review. On a regular basis I have provided him with direct and immediate feedback on how his action have/have not lived up the mantra I've preached. He's faltered some.
For example, a few months ago he had a an off wiki incident that lead to the temporary departure of a wikipedian, he has since resolved the issue an anticipates a strong support from that person. He's also spoken his mind related to a recent incident that lead to the desysopping of the the_undertow. But both of these incidents were off wikipedia. His on wiki-edits have been admirable. One of the things that I asked him to do was to show he had it in him to be an admin by participating in adminly areas---such as ANI. He's done just that. But not only at ANI, but in a number of editorial areas.
H2O is committed to this project. He only wants to see it succeed and has it's best interest at heart. He is a solid contributor with more FA/GA's than I have fingers. He knows policy and guidelines better than almost anybody I've ever met. H20 has proven himself to be worthy of the trust demanded to receive the tools.Balloonman (talk) 03:51, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
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