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Addshore 2

Voice your opinion (talk page) (14/0/1); Scheduled to end 18:45, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Addshore (talk · contribs) - This is an unusual candidate, further to the post I made at WT:RFA , offering to nominate unusual candidates.

Addshore has a lot of edits and had an unsuccessful RfA some months ago.

I've reviewed the RfA and the concern that most bothered me regarded lack of proper interaction with other users; something I have always taken very seriously when considering admin candidates.

While Addshore still clearly spends a lot of time working in areas that don't need large amounts of debate, a read through the user's talk page reassured me that they are perfectly capable of reasonable, thoughtful, civil dialogue with irritated others and is flexible enough to change their own behaviour as a result.

We need more admins and while this one is not a serial FA producer, nor an AfD junky, I trust Addshore. --Dweller (talk) 15:59, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Co-nom by Dendodge (talk · contribs): I have only ever had good experiences with Addshore. He is a prolific contributor, with a clear understanding of Wikipedia policy, and I have no reason to believe that he will misuse the tools, either on purpose or accidentally. In fact, I'm surprised he isn't already an administrator! He appears to have fixed the issues raised in his previous RfA, and no new ones have come up, to my knowledge. Therefore, I am honoured to have Addshore as my first admin nominee. DendodgeTalkContribs 18:20, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
Accepted ·Add§hore· Talk/Cont 17:21, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?
A: I plan to do all of the basics (WP:AIV WP:CSD WP:UFAA WP:RFPP e.t.c) I also plan to keep an eye on Category:Administrative backlog and help out with anything listed there that I think that I could help with. For example now Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion. I also hope to move towards closing AFD's e.t.c. I also plan on expanding on my technical side and taking a bigger part in WP:OP with trying to get rid of the almost constant backlog on the page. I also hope to be able to help all users with the little tasks which admins sometimes get asked to do (User page protection, content recovery). I also hope to be able to develop, bug fix and enhance huggle for the admins on en.wiki that use it.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: Well one of my major contributions, as with virtually everyone these days is reverting vandalism. I'm pleased with how much I have reverted and how many mistakes I have not made. I'm also pleased with the templates I have made and the articles and stubs that I have created. I'm also pleased with my work on User:Addbot my bot which does various tasks around Wikipedia. I'm also pleased with my small works on huggle helping Gurch whenever I can. I also do work on WP:ACC and the relevant tool server pages approving new users to use the tool and creating new accounts for those that request them. I feel this is a good contribution as it is helping new users to start on their ways through Wikipedia. I try to help out on the help desks whenever I can for the same reason and welcome those I feel I should. And again I think the adoption process is valuable and useful so I help out there as well.
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 have not been in an editing conflict before but as i think is probably similar with almost every user on Wikipedia there are defiantly users that have caused me to be stressed. I try to talk to people that stress me and try to settle our differences but if tat fails ill normally just log off and go and do something else. In the future I plan to deal with stress in exactly the same way as now.

General comments

RfAs for this user:

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Addshore before commenting.

Discussion

Support
  1. Nom --Dweller (talk) 16:04, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Nom --DendodgeTalkContribs 18:20, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support -- Addshore is quite knowledgeable about Wipipedia. He also adopts a lot of new users, something that's sorely needed. --Sultec (talk) 18:26, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Strong support Excellent vandal-fighter who will make a fantastic administrator. Good luck! PeterSymonds (talk) 18:44, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Strong support - Do I trust this user to use the admin tools carefully and thoughtfully? Yes. [ roux ] [x] 18:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Strong support Have worked with him extensively and he clearly understands what is required of being an administrator. MBisanz talk 18:46, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support. Most concerns from the last RfA have been addressed; user now has much more experience in many more Wikipedia arenas. Oh, and as long as you never type "e.t.c." as an abbreviation for "et cetera" again. :-) Tan | 39 18:51, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Coming out of Wikibreak support - user has plenty of clue. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 18:55, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  9. I've seen him around I guess. Seems like a solid editor, contributes only for the good of the encyclopedia, not for self=gain. —Ceran♦(Sing) (It's snowing in NJ already!) 19:21, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Huggle. Synergy 19:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support. Has been around since Dec 2005 and has over 34000 edits with over 14000 mainspace and see no misuse of tools as per track.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 19:25, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support - I was neutral last time as I was on the fence over one or two issues, after reviewing you again I am happy that these issues have resolved themselves, hence I am supporting. I have no concerns that you will abuse the tools and you have experience where it counts, I note that you have now been very active for the past eight/nine months. I was particularly impressed by your adoption work, you clearly have a good knowledge of Wikipedia and you are not afraid to share it. Camaron | Chris (talk) 19:26, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Support. I think, as noted above, that the candidate has sufficient clue to be a good admin. I'm not seeing a whole lot to be concerned about, frankly. Good luck, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 19:28, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Reasonably sane. Tombomp (talk/contribs) 19:30, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Support Dlohcierekim 19:35, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose
Neutral
  1. Neutral - hate to be the first user not to support, and I'm willing to change my mind. Can't oppose because the user seems trustworthy and in need of the tools for the good of the project, and I do think he should become an admin one day. However, I also can't support because there is virtually no article-building experience, and entirely too many automatic/script-assisted edits. The user should consider doing some research about subjects he's interested in and writing articles—even if he spends only half the time he does now fighting vandals, he'll still be a very effective vandal fighter, but also likely a great author and content contributor. -- Ynhockey (Talk) 19:32, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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