Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Candidates/Queen of Hearts: Difference between revisions

Not to be confused with King of Hearts (no relation), who is already an admin!

Nomination

Queen of Hearts (talk · contribs · she/her) – Hello, I'm Charlotte, known here as Queen of Hearts. I joined in March 2022 as ClydeFranklin and started off as a vandal fighter. I later shifted towards closing XfDs, which is mainly what I do nowadays. I have had several people encouraging me to run for the last few months, including receiving an "admin without tools" award in February. I have three alternative accounts: Diverging Diamond (formerly had pending changes reviewer rights, which I resigned for lack of need), an AWB account, and a doppelgänger of my old username. I have never edited for pay. Charlotte (Queen of Hearts • talk) 00:58, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

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

1. Why are you interested in becoming an administrator?

A: I would mainly use the mop at the "lesser" XfDs – categories, redirects, and some miscellany – the former two of which are often backlogged. I would also process non-admin requests at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working, which is currently under control, but only has a handful of admins.

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

A: I am admittedly not as big on "content" as some others – I believe "gnomes" and other people who don't write can make a similar impact to Wikipedia as those who do, even if their work is less visible. That said, I have done some content, including three good articles – Richard Worley (police officer), Murders of Keona Holley and Justin Johnson, and Michael S. Harrison – and nine "Did you know?"s, but I am arguably more proud of my backend work, including closing over 2,000 XfDs and around 500 merge proposals according to edit summary searches, although the latter is harder to measure. I also helped found WikiProject AI Cleanup, which garnered me a mention in the press.

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 generally try (and think I'm pretty good at) avoiding high-stress areas and situations, but disagreement is inevitable. When someone indicates disagreement, I try to take a step back and politely and rationally explain my view.

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You may ask optional questions below. There is a limit of two questions per editor. Multi-part questions are disallowed, but you are allowed to ask follow-up questions related to previous questions.
Optional question from Thryduulf

4. Why did you choose to seek adminship via election rather than via a standard RFA?

A: @Thryduulf: I found the idea of being in a platoon of candidates an appealing way to reduce drama (although I didn't think there'd be this many!) and wanted to test out an experimental process. QoH 01:32, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Optional question from Conyo14

5. What topics do you enjoy editing the most (i.e. sports, politics, BLPs, science, etc.)?

A: @Conyo14: law enforcement (which all of my GAs are about) and BLPs (2/3 of my GAs) are probably my main areas. I also like to sometimes edit about politics. QoH 01:32, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Optional question from Ganesha811

6. Are there any areas of adminship you do not plan to participate in, due to unfamiliarity or lack of technical knowledge? If you later decided you wanted to help in these areas, what would be your plan to become an effective admin in those areas?

A: @Ganesha811: I know little about the more technical areas of the mop, requests for permissions, or responding to protection requests, to name a few. I do not currently plan on entering these areas, but if I did I would try to enter slowly by avoiding controversial situations and consulting trusted people in the area. (reping Thryduulf and Conyo14 since it doesn't seem like Echo liked my pseudo-signature.) Charlotte (Queen of Hearts • talk) 01:44, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Optional question from CFA

7. Can you provide an example of a conflict that you were recently involved in?

A: Hello, @CFA: one example that comes to mind is User talk:Queen of Hearts/Archive 9#Talk:Zog I of Albania#Requested move 14 March 2024, a contest of one of my RM closes. In this case, I agreed my close was inadequate and reverted it for someone else to close. Thanks, Charlotte (Queen of Hearts • talk) 20:36, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Discussion

• Links for Queen of Hearts: Queen of Hearts (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for Queen of Hearts can be found here.

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Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review her contributions before commenting.

QoH is very active on the discord server and always helpful. somehow she has some kind of photographic memory and is usually one of the first people to answer questions from both new and old hats. ... sawyer * he/they * talk 14:41, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

I'd be more frustrated and mad that they seem to almost always beat me to providing helpful links and advice if they weren't so kind and helpful lol. Hey man im josh (talk) 16:54, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

30,676 edits according to xTools, good mix of areas including 42.8% mainspace edits over the last three years. Also a mix of topics. Seems to be a lot of anti-vandal work. <silly>But no significant plant editing! So disrespectful to the most important of all Wikipedia projects. Four edits to List of hot dogs and only three edits to the Knotweed disambiguation page? And just reverts at that. I dunno. Going to be hard for the obsessive plant editor block to support this candidate.</silly> 🌿MtBotany (talk) 17:56, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

AfD record: 85.70% match rate, n of 49. 14 keep !votes to 23 delete !votes. Mildly subjective comment: well, I'm writing one of these since I'm writing one for everybody, but QoH is more interested in the other XfDs so I hope someone else can fill in some more detail there. As for AfDs, her stats are good; maybe the low overall participation would give someone pause since she's interested in closing XfDs, but for that I'd refer folks back to the candidate's answer to Q2. Concerning the !votes themselves, I spot-checked many and wouldn't call any of the ones I saw "vote stacking", though I didn't find any that were in depth or any that turned the discussion. tl;dr: look at QoH's other stuff. -- asilvering (talk) 18:47, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

I have often seen Queen of Hearts at the RM backlog, and from what I can tell, she is an excellent closer. I also think more closers for some of the less popular XfDs would be helpful, considering things like CfD and RfD often end up at WP:CR. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 20:35, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

GAN & FAC notes. I took a look at QoH's GA record; they have five nominations and five reviews -- nice to see as many reviews as nominations. Some inactivity led to a fail of two of their noms, and they have a pending GA review which has been open for three months -- would be nice to see that closed, though GAN has slowed down a lot and that's not that unusual. The reviews I looked at seem reasonably thoughtful. A couple of minor comments at FAC, again making them a (very minor) net contributor. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:47, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

"Contributors of WikiProject AI Cleanup also remove AI-generated images that are anatomically incorrect, intentionally misleading, or an inaccurate portrayal of the information in the article. "While I'd like to think Wikipedians are decent at detecting and removing AI content, there is undoubtedly a lot that slips through the cracks and we're all volunteers," added Queen of Hearts, another founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup." ← from an article about editors who volunteer their time to hunt down AI-generated hallucinations and hoaxes, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 05:08, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

• QoH already stated that multiple people encouraged her to run. Just wanted to note that this included multiple offers of nomination as well (at least me and josh). Small suggestion to QoH: could you add archives navigation to your talk page? Makes it easier for people to search old conversations if their memory isn't what it used to be. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 14:27, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

  @Femke,  done Charlotte (Queen of Hearts • talk) 21:55, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

  No matter the outcome of this election I'd still be willing to do so if necessary in the future, and I'm more than happy to state that publicly. Hey man im josh (talk) 19:03, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

  Do what, nominate someone? (sorry if the tone of this question sounds wrong, I'm just a bit confused) Aaron Liu (talk) 20:31, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

• An excellent closer at WP:CFD who frequently takes care of discussions which have been sitting for weeks past their closing time. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:26, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Declined speedies

• U1 en:User:Queen of Hearts/sandbox 2024-01-10T17:48:43Z
• U1 en:User talk:Queen of Hearts/DISCUSSION BELOW THIS LINE 2023-10-16T06:06:08Z
• U1 en:User:Queen of Hearts/Boxes 2022-11-27T00:26:13Z

Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:54, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: did someone actually decline a U1 on a user's own subpages?! How is this possible? SerialNumber54129 11:31, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

The script picked up this edit Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:35, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: Seems a misnomer to call those declined. Entries at RFUD show that two of those pages were deleted and then refunded (Diff/1181940955, Diff/1151256067) and the other is just a test edit for salting, hardly declined. UpTheOctave! (8^va?) 11:42, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

I run this script on every RfA candidate, and have for years. However, I don't have time to evaluate nearly 35 candidates, so I thought I would just put up the script output without comment, and let other people evaluate it on their own merits. As you have correctly concluded, the three entries here are nothing to worry about. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:48, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

What script? Is it picking up on blue pages that were once tagged? SerialNumber54129 11:52, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

User:Ritchie333/badspeedies list.py I assume ? (So basically a script that displays all speedies that are viewable by non-admins) :) Sohom (talk) 12:30, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

@Sohom Datta: cool, could you run it me? Looking for false positives. SerialNumber54129 12:41, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

@Serial Number 54129 Unsure if you meant "for me" or "on me", User:SodiumBot/badspeedies is what it gave for your account and User:SodiumBot/badspeedies 2 is what it gave for all candidates :) Sohom (talk) 13:22, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

• It does not seem like QOH employs a measured and contemplative thought process before acting. I was recently at ANI and an arb made accusations about me. QOH voted to sanction me in every proposal (ANI link). Also QOH had this strange request in March 2024 and it seems overly dramatic, Seems like attention seeking and begs the question, why can’t QOH just control their use of the tools without administrative removal? And why post requests at the high visibility drama board (ANI) instead of following the procedure outlined at perm? One week later QOH went back to ANI to request rights be restored. Again, why not follow procedure outlined at perms If you wish to have any of your permission flags (except administrator) removed, you should contact an administrator.. Lightburst (talk) 20:48, 24 October 2024 (UTC)