For reference: Lar stood for adminship ( Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Lar) using the regular process and was promoted 8 May 2006.
Nomination started on 10:58, 8 February 2006 (UTC).
Discussion will last for four days after that (until 10:58, 12 February 2006 (UTC)).
A straw-poll will last for three days after that (until 10:58, 15 February 2006 (UTC)).
Lar ( talk · contribs), if you accept the nomination, please sign here:
With the understanding that this isn't a REAL nomination (if it passes I will decline to serve at this point as I haven't the necessary experience. But I have high hopes for comments, both positive and negative, being offered as if it were real, because I will benefit from the comments), I accept ++ Lar: t/ c 12:50, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
The following section is intended to allow editors unfamiliar with the nominee to make an informed decision regarding promotion. Any editor is welcome to make additions, make changes, or remove items, as long as they are unbiased and verifiable. Harmonious editing is essential, and use of the talk page highly recommended. Please do not sign any comments in this section. Diffs are strongly encouraged, and presentation of items in chronological order is preffered.
(Initially written by Lar, Others should feel free to expand/correct/elaborate as needed, Lar will not make further changes, the community will decide where this ends up.)
Lar (Larry Pieniazek) has been editing since 8 June 2005.
Lar has had 6 articles that he authored make it to WP:DYK status( [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]) while still managing to be primarily a m:metawikipedian. His involvement in the Wikipedia namespace started with the deletion discussion on Checkerboard Nightmare and he scuffled with several other editors during the course of that discussion and the subsequent WP:RfAr.
Lar has been active in many proposal discussions including Wikipedia:3D Illustrations, Wikipedia:Proposed policy on userboxes (where he instigated a refactoring effort and tried hard to keep discussion on track), and Wikipedia:Wheel war among others. He is a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Bridges, and many of his articles contributed so far have been related to bridges or bridge architects. Although he is an active participant in WP:AFD only one of his articles has ever been nominated, Pghbridges.com. It survived but Lar was chided for not assuming good faith by the nominator in a somewhat acrimonious exchange that spilt over from the article's AfD page and talk page to several other user pages ( User_talk:JzG/Archive5#Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pghbridges.com) among others, something he never apologised for.
Somewhat controversially, he has taken the stand that it is useful to catalog his beliefs on his user page.
Non Wikipedia experience:
He has previous organizational and online experience including a long and somewhat checkered history as a community activist in the
LEGO hobby, having been an administrator at
LUGNET (all the administrators resigned at once to protest lack of involvement by the owners), a moderator at
BrickWiki:BrickLink (forced out after losing confidence of the owner), one of the key organizers of
BrickWiki:BrickFest, and a founder of
BrickWiki:ILTCO (a LEGO train club umbrella organization) and
BrickWiki:Guild of Bricksmiths (a guild for custom kit designers). He is one of the top 3 or 4 contributors at
BrickWiki, a mediawiki based resource for all things LEGO, having authored (or stolen adapted from here) many of the templates in use there, although he declined to serve as an admin. Lar has been active online since the 1980s. He ran a dialup
BBS from 1990 to 1994 and was president of a 700 member PC club for several years during that period. He also moderated several discussions on the IBMPC conferencing disk (an internal discussion resource at
IBM) and administered IBMEDS, another one. Professionally he is a IT consultant and system architect, involved with many clients, often acrimoniously, where he has to use his facilitation skills to determine the needs and desires of diverse constituencies.
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For reference: Lar stood for adminship ( Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Lar) using the regular process and was promoted 8 May 2006.
Nomination started on 10:58, 8 February 2006 (UTC).
Discussion will last for four days after that (until 10:58, 12 February 2006 (UTC)).
A straw-poll will last for three days after that (until 10:58, 15 February 2006 (UTC)).
Lar ( talk · contribs), if you accept the nomination, please sign here:
With the understanding that this isn't a REAL nomination (if it passes I will decline to serve at this point as I haven't the necessary experience. But I have high hopes for comments, both positive and negative, being offered as if it were real, because I will benefit from the comments), I accept ++ Lar: t/ c 12:50, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
The following section is intended to allow editors unfamiliar with the nominee to make an informed decision regarding promotion. Any editor is welcome to make additions, make changes, or remove items, as long as they are unbiased and verifiable. Harmonious editing is essential, and use of the talk page highly recommended. Please do not sign any comments in this section. Diffs are strongly encouraged, and presentation of items in chronological order is preffered.
(Initially written by Lar, Others should feel free to expand/correct/elaborate as needed, Lar will not make further changes, the community will decide where this ends up.)
Lar (Larry Pieniazek) has been editing since 8 June 2005.
Lar has had 6 articles that he authored make it to WP:DYK status( [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]) while still managing to be primarily a m:metawikipedian. His involvement in the Wikipedia namespace started with the deletion discussion on Checkerboard Nightmare and he scuffled with several other editors during the course of that discussion and the subsequent WP:RfAr.
Lar has been active in many proposal discussions including Wikipedia:3D Illustrations, Wikipedia:Proposed policy on userboxes (where he instigated a refactoring effort and tried hard to keep discussion on track), and Wikipedia:Wheel war among others. He is a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Bridges, and many of his articles contributed so far have been related to bridges or bridge architects. Although he is an active participant in WP:AFD only one of his articles has ever been nominated, Pghbridges.com. It survived but Lar was chided for not assuming good faith by the nominator in a somewhat acrimonious exchange that spilt over from the article's AfD page and talk page to several other user pages ( User_talk:JzG/Archive5#Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pghbridges.com) among others, something he never apologised for.
Somewhat controversially, he has taken the stand that it is useful to catalog his beliefs on his user page.
Non Wikipedia experience:
He has previous organizational and online experience including a long and somewhat checkered history as a community activist in the
LEGO hobby, having been an administrator at
LUGNET (all the administrators resigned at once to protest lack of involvement by the owners), a moderator at
BrickWiki:BrickLink (forced out after losing confidence of the owner), one of the key organizers of
BrickWiki:BrickFest, and a founder of
BrickWiki:ILTCO (a LEGO train club umbrella organization) and
BrickWiki:Guild of Bricksmiths (a guild for custom kit designers). He is one of the top 3 or 4 contributors at
BrickWiki, a mediawiki based resource for all things LEGO, having authored (or stolen adapted from here) many of the templates in use there, although he declined to serve as an admin. Lar has been active online since the 1980s. He ran a dialup
BBS from 1990 to 1994 and was president of a 700 member PC club for several years during that period. He also moderated several discussions on the IBMPC conferencing disk (an internal discussion resource at
IBM) and administered IBMEDS, another one. Professionally he is a IT consultant and system architect, involved with many clients, often acrimoniously, where he has to use his facilitation skills to determine the needs and desires of diverse constituencies.
The poll isn't open yet. Please wait a couple of days, and join the discussion above.