I had the pleasure of working with ContiE to drastically improve
Continuum (computer game). After doing some research on his contributions, I discovered that he has been a Wikipedian since May 2003, and has almost 3000 edits. I am impressed by his attention to detail, his neutrality, and his willingness to do messy tasks like Wikifying pages and cleaning up redirects and disambiguation pages. I feel that ContiE would make an excellent admin and an asset to the Wikipedia community. ContiE has
accepted this nomination. --
Slowking Man 03:10, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)
I accept the nomination. --
Conti|
✉ 04:12, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)
2. Are you interested in, and do you think you'll have some time to perform, the chores that only sysops have access to do, to help keep Wikipedia up to date?
A. I think I will spend more time on
WP:VFD and
WP:CP when I'll become an admin, to help (and delete/redirect/merge) when needed.
3. If you become a sysop, which sysop chore or chores (
WP:VFD,
recent changes, watching for vandals and vandalism, responding to editor requests for assistance, any other) do you especially think you would be able to help with.
A. I already look through recent changes regularly for suspicious edits and vandalism, mark articles as stubs, wikify them etc.. Reverting vandalism quickly will be a very handy tool for me. I also will visit votes for deletion and copyright problems more frequently as I mentioned above.
4. In your opinion, what article have you contributed the most succesfully and helpfully to?
A. I almost solely do minor chores like wikifying articles, fixing links and reverting vandalism. My biggest work in this respect was to sort the people in
Category:People (and its subcategories) by their surname.
5. In your opinion, what has your best contribution to the running and maintenance of Wikipedia been? (i.e., have you reverted a bad stretch of vandalism, done extensive work categorizing articles, helped mediate a dispute?)
A. See above. Also, a while ago I came across an anon I now call the "sneaky vandal guy", who adds
sneaky vandalism to a few sites. I now have these articles in my watchlist and do a fact check everytime an anon adds something to one of these articles. Some vandalism was in these articles for weeks before I removed it.
6. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and will deal with it in the future?
A. Yes. I have been in a little conflict about the category
Birmingham, England. In my opinion, the category is overcategorized, the creator of the category disagrees strongly though. I've put this case to
request for comment after no consensus was reached and now started a poll on which articles should be removed from the category. In the future I'll ask at RFC first when I can't reach any consensus on my own, I think it is a good way to get some neutral opinions.
I had the pleasure of working with ContiE to drastically improve
Continuum (computer game). After doing some research on his contributions, I discovered that he has been a Wikipedian since May 2003, and has almost 3000 edits. I am impressed by his attention to detail, his neutrality, and his willingness to do messy tasks like Wikifying pages and cleaning up redirects and disambiguation pages. I feel that ContiE would make an excellent admin and an asset to the Wikipedia community. ContiE has
accepted this nomination. --
Slowking Man 03:10, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)
I accept the nomination. --
Conti|
✉ 04:12, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)
2. Are you interested in, and do you think you'll have some time to perform, the chores that only sysops have access to do, to help keep Wikipedia up to date?
A. I think I will spend more time on
WP:VFD and
WP:CP when I'll become an admin, to help (and delete/redirect/merge) when needed.
3. If you become a sysop, which sysop chore or chores (
WP:VFD,
recent changes, watching for vandals and vandalism, responding to editor requests for assistance, any other) do you especially think you would be able to help with.
A. I already look through recent changes regularly for suspicious edits and vandalism, mark articles as stubs, wikify them etc.. Reverting vandalism quickly will be a very handy tool for me. I also will visit votes for deletion and copyright problems more frequently as I mentioned above.
4. In your opinion, what article have you contributed the most succesfully and helpfully to?
A. I almost solely do minor chores like wikifying articles, fixing links and reverting vandalism. My biggest work in this respect was to sort the people in
Category:People (and its subcategories) by their surname.
5. In your opinion, what has your best contribution to the running and maintenance of Wikipedia been? (i.e., have you reverted a bad stretch of vandalism, done extensive work categorizing articles, helped mediate a dispute?)
A. See above. Also, a while ago I came across an anon I now call the "sneaky vandal guy", who adds
sneaky vandalism to a few sites. I now have these articles in my watchlist and do a fact check everytime an anon adds something to one of these articles. Some vandalism was in these articles for weeks before I removed it.
6. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and will deal with it in the future?
A. Yes. I have been in a little conflict about the category
Birmingham, England. In my opinion, the category is overcategorized, the creator of the category disagrees strongly though. I've put this case to
request for comment after no consensus was reached and now started a poll on which articles should be removed from the category. In the future I'll ask at RFC first when I can't reach any consensus on my own, I think it is a good way to get some neutral opinions.