Don't be alarmed by the amount of times he has posted to
WP:ANI; I have never seen him get into trouble over there. Every time he reminds somebody to sign posts, he does so in a polite and courteous manner. What more could one want in an admin?
Ritchie333(talk)(cont) 09:50, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Co-nomination
I was at first unsure about this nomination, given that SineBot appears to be an
SPA. In fact I still am. But whatever. I just hope they have a good answer to my UAA question. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Linguist111 (
talk •
contribs) 11:00, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept the nomination.
SineBot (
talk)
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. What is your name?
A:Sinebot.
2. What is your quest?
A:To make sure everyone signs their posts.
3. What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
A:I don't know what you mean - African or European?
You may ask optional questions below. There is a
limit of ten questions per editor. Multi-part questions disguised as one question, with the intention of evading the limit, are disallowed. Follow-up questions relevant to questions you have already asked are allowed.
4. Given the power to block editors, what would be your policy towards blocking those who habitually forget to sign their posts or do so with the wrong number of ~'s?
A: The trouble is, when you block a user, they can't post anywhere but their talk page, which leaves me with very few opportunities to sign their posts. I think a more appropriate response would be to disable their signature functionality completely so they can never sign their posts, ever, even if they want to. The humiliation will be unbearable for them, and it will give me plenty of work to do in my bid for complete domination of Wikipedia. Muhahahaha!
SineBot (
talk)
15. You see the following usernames at UAA. Which ones would you hardblock, which ones would you hardblock with talk page access revoked, and which ones would you globally lock?
As one of the above users, I kindly request you to not block me minecraftrchat/builds 13:36, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
As somebody who's not on the above list, I'm pissed I got overlooked. I never make any of the good lists. Surely there's something I've done that makes me at least conditionally block-worthy? Maybe I'm just not trying hard enough. --
RoySmith(talk) 14:00, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
17. C мной хотите много пива да??? Хотите напиваться да???? Я рад))))
A: извините, что алкоголь не работает с компьютерами
SineBot (
talk)
One lone Question from L3X1
18 Do you get along with other bots?
A: I do hope that by saying "get along" you are not implying that I indulge in the depraved debauchery that
Citation bot and
BracketBot indulged in
here. I have never read
Lady Chatterley's Lover; for one thing that nice
Mr Lawrence always remembers to sign his posts.
SineBot (
talk) 13:17, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
A: A nightmare.
SineBot (
talk) 18:58, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
24 Any tips on how a bot jealous of your edit count might help join you? *cough cough*
DeprecatedFixerBot is set to get around 200k edits (if all tasks are approved). Sorry, DeprecatedFixerBot threatened to break and never work again no matter what I did if I didn't add that. Dep even provided a script. At this point, I am seriously concerned about the level of artificial intelligence in that bot. Doesn't help TweetCiteBot just keeps chirping everywhere either...
Ps. I intentionally left my comment unsigned so Sinebot could sign it. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Not a very active user (
talk •
contribs) 11:56, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support Not only does he do all the things mentioned above, but he is absolutely incorruptible.
Deb (
talk) 12:13, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support - needs to be able to sign those admins who accidentally try to sign a page or template under full protection.
∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 12:30, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support - Their FA work is incredible. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Davey2010 (
talk •
contribs) 13:33, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support Spends rather a lot of time on talk pages, but won’t abuse the tools.
Pawnkingthree (
talk) 12:54, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support bots +mops = wet burning ocmputer chip smell.
L3X1◊distænt write◊ 13:01, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support: SineBot is dear old friend. Totes yes, y'all! —
Javert2113 (
talk) 13:05, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Strong Support: Quickly signing on comment. -
Siddiqsazzad001(TALK) 13:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support - over two million edits made, strong community work, especially with talk page participation. Content creation is somewhat weak, but I have seen worse. Amazing guideance for new editors at the
Teahouse sways this one to support - previous
unsigned comment courtesy of
Stormy clouds (
talk) 13:57, 1 April 2018 (UTC).
Support - We need more admins with a horrible block log like Sinebot has.
Rzvas (
talk) 15:43, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
We're made of the same 1s and 0s, our names are similar (34.55% overlap according to my algorithm), so we must be related. So of course, I must support. --
COIBot (
talk) 17:43, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose
This user only can help other people sign their sign. Not enough various action.
Hhhhhkohhhhh (
talk) 10:01, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose. not enough edits. --
Tom (LT) (
talk) 10:23, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose poor AfD stats, hasn't written any FAs, and isn't a qualified scuba diver. Hut 8.5 10:24, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose Zero content creation.
PeterTheFourth (
talk) 10:42, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose. This discussion seems to have gone off on a weird tangent. --
RoySmith(talk) 10:45, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
@
RoySmith: to go even further on a cotangent, I feel SineBot has taken up too much responsibility myself. We really should consider a CosineBot to make it easier to check the work.
Cp678(
T•
C•
G•
E) 12:42, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
That seems like circular reasoning to me. --
RoySmith(talk) 12:55, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
@
RoySmith: Circular reasoning can be circumvented by simply remodulating SineBot into SquareBot. Thus my arguments now have some edge to it.
CyberP(
talk) 15:24, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose Per Hut 8.5 and RoySmith, I just can't cosine this. ~ Amory(
u •
t •
c) 11:11, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support – per SPA concerns. LinguistunEinsuno 11:17, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose A bit robotic for an admin, they need a human touch. --
Emir of Wikipedia (
talk) 12:12, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose - Not enough edits for my liking. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Davey2010 (
talk •
contribs) 13:34, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Why is 0 = 1? Cos 0 = 1. Therefore oppose. However, I would be willing to change my mind if this user does cosines as well, cos 0 = 1.
epicgenius (
talk) 13:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
But cosines are sooooo derivative.
SineBot (
talk) 14:20, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
That is a sin of the most negative level, and you know it.
epicgenius (
talk) 15:57, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose took more than 1.57 seconds to answer my question
Galobtter (
pingó mió) 13:24, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Strongest Oppose if there are more adminz I will be less appreciated. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Hypn0toad (
talk •
contribs) 13:39, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose This bot doesn't know how to work out a sine.
Pkbwcgs (
talk) 15:12, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
I don't need to, I get my
tailor to do it for me :-P
SineBot (
talk) 15:30, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Strong oppose: I have been very concerned about
SineBot's disruptive editing behavior for a long time, in particular their persistent blatant disregard of
WP:TPO (
[1][2][3]). I find it extremely frustrating to have to manually revert their
WP:PROXY edits for banned users every time since they are evidently incapable of being slower with their approach, but instead edits indiscriminately and creates a lot of mess. Instead of adminship, I am very close to proposing
topic ban for SineBot on all edits relating to
signature, broadly construed.
Alex Shih (
talk) 16:11, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose for long history of sockpuppetry. The sockmaster is
this user. Also, too prone to going off on tangents. --
Tryptofish (
talk) 18:42, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Yes, there has been a wave of them. --
Tryptofish (
talk) 18:55, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose I can't believe you'd even consider requesting for adminship with only 11 years of editing and barely 2 million edits. I strongly suggest closing this right away to avoid humiliation, and not coming back until at least 20 more years of editing and 3 million more edits. Haven't you seen the results of other RfA candidates? Regards, --
SkyGazer 512talk / contributions /
subpages 19:01, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Neutral
Awaiting responses to Questions 5 to 187, but it does surprise me to see this particular nominator sponsoring a candidate that has made only about 1% of its edits in mainspace, and many of those are not content creation but merely granting a spurious validity to mistaken edits by humans. Despite the high edit count I have yet to see evidence of a broad skills base
: Noyster (talk), 10:54, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Neutral Sine Bot is very effective but will park here since sine bot seems to be a one-trick editor and needs more varied experience. Advise waiting at least until next April 1 to re-apply if more varied experience can be gained.
Donner60 (
talk) 11:00, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Speedy neutral – not sure how I feel about the answer to the UAA question. LinguistunEinsuno 11:18, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Neutral - hard-working but I'm concerned by the lack of content-creation experience.
Cordless Larry (
talk) 11:52, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Neutral - hard-working but I'm concerned by the lack of content-deletion experience.
Legacypac (
talk) 12:24, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Neutral hard-working but I'm concerned by the lack of content-creation then content-deletion experience, when realising the article they wrote is crap, they didn't delete it nor create it. Black hole in WMF servers, @
Brion VIBBER: help??????
talk to !dave 12:36, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Neutral per Question 5/10 - The answer is 6. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Davey2010 (
talk •
contribs) 13:38, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Why was six afraid of seven? Because seven eight nine. Why did seven eat nine? Because you need three squared meals a day.
epicgenius (
talk) 13:21, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Will you look at that, signbot is doing admin related work already! (Signed above post) --
TheSandDoctorTalk 17:20, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either
this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.
Don't be alarmed by the amount of times he has posted to
WP:ANI; I have never seen him get into trouble over there. Every time he reminds somebody to sign posts, he does so in a polite and courteous manner. What more could one want in an admin?
Ritchie333(talk)(cont) 09:50, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Co-nomination
I was at first unsure about this nomination, given that SineBot appears to be an
SPA. In fact I still am. But whatever. I just hope they have a good answer to my UAA question. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Linguist111 (
talk •
contribs) 11:00, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept the nomination.
SineBot (
talk)
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. What is your name?
A:Sinebot.
2. What is your quest?
A:To make sure everyone signs their posts.
3. What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
A:I don't know what you mean - African or European?
You may ask optional questions below. There is a
limit of ten questions per editor. Multi-part questions disguised as one question, with the intention of evading the limit, are disallowed. Follow-up questions relevant to questions you have already asked are allowed.
4. Given the power to block editors, what would be your policy towards blocking those who habitually forget to sign their posts or do so with the wrong number of ~'s?
A: The trouble is, when you block a user, they can't post anywhere but their talk page, which leaves me with very few opportunities to sign their posts. I think a more appropriate response would be to disable their signature functionality completely so they can never sign their posts, ever, even if they want to. The humiliation will be unbearable for them, and it will give me plenty of work to do in my bid for complete domination of Wikipedia. Muhahahaha!
SineBot (
talk)
15. You see the following usernames at UAA. Which ones would you hardblock, which ones would you hardblock with talk page access revoked, and which ones would you globally lock?
As one of the above users, I kindly request you to not block me minecraftrchat/builds 13:36, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
As somebody who's not on the above list, I'm pissed I got overlooked. I never make any of the good lists. Surely there's something I've done that makes me at least conditionally block-worthy? Maybe I'm just not trying hard enough. --
RoySmith(talk) 14:00, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
17. C мной хотите много пива да??? Хотите напиваться да???? Я рад))))
A: извините, что алкоголь не работает с компьютерами
SineBot (
talk)
One lone Question from L3X1
18 Do you get along with other bots?
A: I do hope that by saying "get along" you are not implying that I indulge in the depraved debauchery that
Citation bot and
BracketBot indulged in
here. I have never read
Lady Chatterley's Lover; for one thing that nice
Mr Lawrence always remembers to sign his posts.
SineBot (
talk) 13:17, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
A: A nightmare.
SineBot (
talk) 18:58, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
24 Any tips on how a bot jealous of your edit count might help join you? *cough cough*
DeprecatedFixerBot is set to get around 200k edits (if all tasks are approved). Sorry, DeprecatedFixerBot threatened to break and never work again no matter what I did if I didn't add that. Dep even provided a script. At this point, I am seriously concerned about the level of artificial intelligence in that bot. Doesn't help TweetCiteBot just keeps chirping everywhere either...
Ps. I intentionally left my comment unsigned so Sinebot could sign it. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Not a very active user (
talk •
contribs) 11:56, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support Not only does he do all the things mentioned above, but he is absolutely incorruptible.
Deb (
talk) 12:13, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support - needs to be able to sign those admins who accidentally try to sign a page or template under full protection.
∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 12:30, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support - Their FA work is incredible. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Davey2010 (
talk •
contribs) 13:33, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support Spends rather a lot of time on talk pages, but won’t abuse the tools.
Pawnkingthree (
talk) 12:54, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support bots +mops = wet burning ocmputer chip smell.
L3X1◊distænt write◊ 13:01, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support: SineBot is dear old friend. Totes yes, y'all! —
Javert2113 (
talk) 13:05, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Strong Support: Quickly signing on comment. -
Siddiqsazzad001(TALK) 13:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support - over two million edits made, strong community work, especially with talk page participation. Content creation is somewhat weak, but I have seen worse. Amazing guideance for new editors at the
Teahouse sways this one to support - previous
unsigned comment courtesy of
Stormy clouds (
talk) 13:57, 1 April 2018 (UTC).
Support - We need more admins with a horrible block log like Sinebot has.
Rzvas (
talk) 15:43, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
We're made of the same 1s and 0s, our names are similar (34.55% overlap according to my algorithm), so we must be related. So of course, I must support. --
COIBot (
talk) 17:43, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose
This user only can help other people sign their sign. Not enough various action.
Hhhhhkohhhhh (
talk) 10:01, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose. not enough edits. --
Tom (LT) (
talk) 10:23, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose poor AfD stats, hasn't written any FAs, and isn't a qualified scuba diver. Hut 8.5 10:24, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose Zero content creation.
PeterTheFourth (
talk) 10:42, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose. This discussion seems to have gone off on a weird tangent. --
RoySmith(talk) 10:45, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
@
RoySmith: to go even further on a cotangent, I feel SineBot has taken up too much responsibility myself. We really should consider a CosineBot to make it easier to check the work.
Cp678(
T•
C•
G•
E) 12:42, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
That seems like circular reasoning to me. --
RoySmith(talk) 12:55, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
@
RoySmith: Circular reasoning can be circumvented by simply remodulating SineBot into SquareBot. Thus my arguments now have some edge to it.
CyberP(
talk) 15:24, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose Per Hut 8.5 and RoySmith, I just can't cosine this. ~ Amory(
u •
t •
c) 11:11, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Support – per SPA concerns. LinguistunEinsuno 11:17, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose A bit robotic for an admin, they need a human touch. --
Emir of Wikipedia (
talk) 12:12, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose - Not enough edits for my liking. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Davey2010 (
talk •
contribs) 13:34, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Why is 0 = 1? Cos 0 = 1. Therefore oppose. However, I would be willing to change my mind if this user does cosines as well, cos 0 = 1.
epicgenius (
talk) 13:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
But cosines are sooooo derivative.
SineBot (
talk) 14:20, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
That is a sin of the most negative level, and you know it.
epicgenius (
talk) 15:57, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose took more than 1.57 seconds to answer my question
Galobtter (
pingó mió) 13:24, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Strongest Oppose if there are more adminz I will be less appreciated. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Hypn0toad (
talk •
contribs) 13:39, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose This bot doesn't know how to work out a sine.
Pkbwcgs (
talk) 15:12, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
I don't need to, I get my
tailor to do it for me :-P
SineBot (
talk) 15:30, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Strong oppose: I have been very concerned about
SineBot's disruptive editing behavior for a long time, in particular their persistent blatant disregard of
WP:TPO (
[1][2][3]). I find it extremely frustrating to have to manually revert their
WP:PROXY edits for banned users every time since they are evidently incapable of being slower with their approach, but instead edits indiscriminately and creates a lot of mess. Instead of adminship, I am very close to proposing
topic ban for SineBot on all edits relating to
signature, broadly construed.
Alex Shih (
talk) 16:11, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose for long history of sockpuppetry. The sockmaster is
this user. Also, too prone to going off on tangents. --
Tryptofish (
talk) 18:42, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Yes, there has been a wave of them. --
Tryptofish (
talk) 18:55, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Oppose I can't believe you'd even consider requesting for adminship with only 11 years of editing and barely 2 million edits. I strongly suggest closing this right away to avoid humiliation, and not coming back until at least 20 more years of editing and 3 million more edits. Haven't you seen the results of other RfA candidates? Regards, --
SkyGazer 512talk / contributions /
subpages 19:01, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Neutral
Awaiting responses to Questions 5 to 187, but it does surprise me to see this particular nominator sponsoring a candidate that has made only about 1% of its edits in mainspace, and many of those are not content creation but merely granting a spurious validity to mistaken edits by humans. Despite the high edit count I have yet to see evidence of a broad skills base
: Noyster (talk), 10:54, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Neutral Sine Bot is very effective but will park here since sine bot seems to be a one-trick editor and needs more varied experience. Advise waiting at least until next April 1 to re-apply if more varied experience can be gained.
Donner60 (
talk) 11:00, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Speedy neutral – not sure how I feel about the answer to the UAA question. LinguistunEinsuno 11:18, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Neutral - hard-working but I'm concerned by the lack of content-creation experience.
Cordless Larry (
talk) 11:52, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Neutral - hard-working but I'm concerned by the lack of content-deletion experience.
Legacypac (
talk) 12:24, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Neutral hard-working but I'm concerned by the lack of content-creation then content-deletion experience, when realising the article they wrote is crap, they didn't delete it nor create it. Black hole in WMF servers, @
Brion VIBBER: help??????
talk to !dave 12:36, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Neutral per Question 5/10 - The answer is 6. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Davey2010 (
talk •
contribs) 13:38, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Why was six afraid of seven? Because seven eight nine. Why did seven eat nine? Because you need three squared meals a day.
epicgenius (
talk) 13:21, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Will you look at that, signbot is doing admin related work already! (Signed above post) --
TheSandDoctorTalk 17:20, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either
this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.