Final (72/1/0) Ended 02:33, 2006-08-24 (UTC)
Deville ( talk · contribs) – Deville operates from New York City, and has contributed large amounts of work in cricket and US politics related topics, as well as participating in vandal-fighting and warning, high levels of disambiguating links, AfD discussion, volunteering as a mediation cabal member.
Seeing as Deville doesn't keep an extensive record of his activity like I do, I did a thorough dig of his contributions and found that he had spent a lot of time making sure that everybody who had represented the West Indies cricket team in international cricket had a Wikipedia article. Modelled along the lines of Sonny Ramadhin, George Challenor, I counted (possibly incorrectly) 77 such cricket bios, with appropriate use of templates and such. Deville also has an interest in writing material on the US congress, creating 13 articles along the lines of Louisiana's 1st congressional district for Louisiana and Arizona, and biographies of congressmen such as Jean N. Destréhan, Adolph Meyer (about 30 of these). Aside from this he has also spent time systematically cleaning and standardising articles by adding missing infoboxes, succession boxes, birth-death information for biographies etc.
He has a good understanding of WP:NPOV, the fundamental pillar of encyclopedic integrity, as seen by the following rewrite of a very hyperbole-laden biography of the cricketer Jermaine Lawson ( [1]) and also of content accuracy WP:V, removing unsourced information from List of city nicknames in the United States and United States presidential election, 2008 and a personal opinion here ( [2]). Secondly, an administrator is meant to be an ambassador for Wikipedia, and the civility, politeness, enthusiasm and encouragement that Deville brings to the project is amply evidenced ( [3]]). He has not engaged in edit-warring or disruption at all.
Deville can be seen engaging in calm, skillful and rational debate, on controversial and hotly disputed articles where POV pushing and inflamed tempers, such as Talk:9/11 conspiracy theories ( [4]), Talk:United States presidential election, 2008 ( [5]), Talk:Fox News Channel ( [6]), Talk:Fox News Channel controversies ( [7] [8]) , and a high profile sports event Talk:2006 FIFA World Cup ( [9]) where lengthy reasoning is often required with overenthusiastic fans who often have strong opinions on players/refereeing decisions which often find themselves making POV and OR edits. This is evidence that Deville will be able to manage any stressful or intricate article disputes that he would face as an administrator.
His AfD participation and nature of his comments show rational thinking, logic and commitment to quality debate, which would be required of an administrator in closing non clear-cut debates ( [10] [11], [12], [13]) and debates in which evidence and counter-evidence are frequently exchanged ( Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Democrat_Party_(United_States), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sark at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_religions_once_classed_as_cults).
He is patient is his dealings with other users, as evidenced by his service at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics ( [14]) and has taken up a MEDCAB case Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-08-02 American Hunters and Shooters Association.
He can be seen at Wikipedia talk:Notability (academics) discussing and formulating policy ( [15], [16], [17]) which show policy awareness, at WT:RFA ( [18]) and has a good understanding of image copyright ( [19], [20]).
Wikipedians, please consider appointing Deville to administrative duties. Blnguyen | rant-line 02:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC) reply
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
Can Andeh please clarify whether s/he actually meant to write "weak support" or actually meant to record a vote under the Oppose heading? It needs to be fixed up one way or the other. Metamagician3000 10:16, 17 August 2006 (UTC) reply
Last 5000 edits. Voice-of-All 01:10, 18 August 2006 (UTC) reply
Viewing contribution data for user Deville (over the 5000 edit(s) shown on this page) (FAQ) Time range: 148 approximate day(s) of edits on this page Most recent edit on: 1hr (UTC) -- 18, Aug, 2006 || Oldest edit on: 3hr (UTC) -- 22, March, 2006 Overall edit summary use (last 1000 edits): Major edits: 100% Minor edits: 100% Average edits per day: 12.04 (for last 1000 edit(s)) Article edit summary use (last 579 edits): Major article edits: 100% Minor article edits: 100% Analysis of edits (out of all 5000 edits shown on this page and last 20 image uploads): Notable article edits (creation/expansion/major rewrites/sourcing): 1% (50) Significant article edits (copyedits/small rewrites/content/reference additions): 2.48% (124) Superficial article edits (grammar/spelling/wikify/links/tagging): 58.68% (2934) Unique image uploads (non-deleted/reverts/updates): 19 (checks last 5000) Superficial article edits marked as minor: 84.19% Special edit type statistics: All edits to deletion pages: 13.6% (680 edit(s)) Marked XfD/DRV votes: 2.46% (123 edit(s)) Article deletion tagging: 0.24% (12 edit(s)) Edits to "copyright problems" pages: 0% (0 edit(s)) Page (un)protections: 0% (0 edit(s)) Edits to RfAs: 1.8% (90 edit(s)) Marked RfA votes: 1.48% (53 support vote(s)) || (21 oppose vote(s)) Page moves: 0.12% (6 edit(s)) (3 moves(s)) Page redirections: 0.02% (1 edit(s)) User talk warnings: 1.58% (79 edit(s)) Breakdown of all edits: Unique pages edited: 3651 | Average edits per page: 1.37 | Edits on top: 6.9% Edits marked as major (non-minor/reverts): 41.44% (2072 edit(s)) Edits marked as minor (non-reverts): 51.24% (2562 edit(s)) Marked reverts (reversions/text removal): 7.16% (358 edit(s)) Unmarked edits with no summary: 0.16% (8 edit(s)) Edits by Wikipedia namespace: Article: 68.7% (3435) | Article talk: 5.96% (298) User: 0.58% (29) | User talk: 5.2% (260) Wikipedia: 18.72% (936) | Wikipedia talk: 0.58% (29) Image: 0.18% (9) Template: 0.06% (3) Category: 0% (0) Portal: 0% (0) Help: 0% (0) MediaWiki: 0% (0) Other talk pages: 0.02% (1)
Username | Deville |
---|---|
Total edits | 14,482 |
Distinct pages edited | 11,935 |
Average edits/page | 1.213 |
First edit | 13:33, August 29, 2005 |
(main) | 12,452 |
Talk | 371 |
User | 88 |
User talk | 356 |
Image | 24 |
Template | 13 |
Template talk | 2 |
Category | 18 |
Wikipedia | 1,117 |
Wikipedia talk | 39 |
Portal | 2 |
Final (72/1/0) Ended 02:33, 2006-08-24 (UTC)
Deville ( talk · contribs) – Deville operates from New York City, and has contributed large amounts of work in cricket and US politics related topics, as well as participating in vandal-fighting and warning, high levels of disambiguating links, AfD discussion, volunteering as a mediation cabal member.
Seeing as Deville doesn't keep an extensive record of his activity like I do, I did a thorough dig of his contributions and found that he had spent a lot of time making sure that everybody who had represented the West Indies cricket team in international cricket had a Wikipedia article. Modelled along the lines of Sonny Ramadhin, George Challenor, I counted (possibly incorrectly) 77 such cricket bios, with appropriate use of templates and such. Deville also has an interest in writing material on the US congress, creating 13 articles along the lines of Louisiana's 1st congressional district for Louisiana and Arizona, and biographies of congressmen such as Jean N. Destréhan, Adolph Meyer (about 30 of these). Aside from this he has also spent time systematically cleaning and standardising articles by adding missing infoboxes, succession boxes, birth-death information for biographies etc.
He has a good understanding of WP:NPOV, the fundamental pillar of encyclopedic integrity, as seen by the following rewrite of a very hyperbole-laden biography of the cricketer Jermaine Lawson ( [1]) and also of content accuracy WP:V, removing unsourced information from List of city nicknames in the United States and United States presidential election, 2008 and a personal opinion here ( [2]). Secondly, an administrator is meant to be an ambassador for Wikipedia, and the civility, politeness, enthusiasm and encouragement that Deville brings to the project is amply evidenced ( [3]]). He has not engaged in edit-warring or disruption at all.
Deville can be seen engaging in calm, skillful and rational debate, on controversial and hotly disputed articles where POV pushing and inflamed tempers, such as Talk:9/11 conspiracy theories ( [4]), Talk:United States presidential election, 2008 ( [5]), Talk:Fox News Channel ( [6]), Talk:Fox News Channel controversies ( [7] [8]) , and a high profile sports event Talk:2006 FIFA World Cup ( [9]) where lengthy reasoning is often required with overenthusiastic fans who often have strong opinions on players/refereeing decisions which often find themselves making POV and OR edits. This is evidence that Deville will be able to manage any stressful or intricate article disputes that he would face as an administrator.
His AfD participation and nature of his comments show rational thinking, logic and commitment to quality debate, which would be required of an administrator in closing non clear-cut debates ( [10] [11], [12], [13]) and debates in which evidence and counter-evidence are frequently exchanged ( Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Democrat_Party_(United_States), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sark at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_religions_once_classed_as_cults).
He is patient is his dealings with other users, as evidenced by his service at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics ( [14]) and has taken up a MEDCAB case Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-08-02 American Hunters and Shooters Association.
He can be seen at Wikipedia talk:Notability (academics) discussing and formulating policy ( [15], [16], [17]) which show policy awareness, at WT:RFA ( [18]) and has a good understanding of image copyright ( [19], [20]).
Wikipedians, please consider appointing Deville to administrative duties. Blnguyen | rant-line 02:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC) reply
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
Can Andeh please clarify whether s/he actually meant to write "weak support" or actually meant to record a vote under the Oppose heading? It needs to be fixed up one way or the other. Metamagician3000 10:16, 17 August 2006 (UTC) reply
Last 5000 edits. Voice-of-All 01:10, 18 August 2006 (UTC) reply
Viewing contribution data for user Deville (over the 5000 edit(s) shown on this page) (FAQ) Time range: 148 approximate day(s) of edits on this page Most recent edit on: 1hr (UTC) -- 18, Aug, 2006 || Oldest edit on: 3hr (UTC) -- 22, March, 2006 Overall edit summary use (last 1000 edits): Major edits: 100% Minor edits: 100% Average edits per day: 12.04 (for last 1000 edit(s)) Article edit summary use (last 579 edits): Major article edits: 100% Minor article edits: 100% Analysis of edits (out of all 5000 edits shown on this page and last 20 image uploads): Notable article edits (creation/expansion/major rewrites/sourcing): 1% (50) Significant article edits (copyedits/small rewrites/content/reference additions): 2.48% (124) Superficial article edits (grammar/spelling/wikify/links/tagging): 58.68% (2934) Unique image uploads (non-deleted/reverts/updates): 19 (checks last 5000) Superficial article edits marked as minor: 84.19% Special edit type statistics: All edits to deletion pages: 13.6% (680 edit(s)) Marked XfD/DRV votes: 2.46% (123 edit(s)) Article deletion tagging: 0.24% (12 edit(s)) Edits to "copyright problems" pages: 0% (0 edit(s)) Page (un)protections: 0% (0 edit(s)) Edits to RfAs: 1.8% (90 edit(s)) Marked RfA votes: 1.48% (53 support vote(s)) || (21 oppose vote(s)) Page moves: 0.12% (6 edit(s)) (3 moves(s)) Page redirections: 0.02% (1 edit(s)) User talk warnings: 1.58% (79 edit(s)) Breakdown of all edits: Unique pages edited: 3651 | Average edits per page: 1.37 | Edits on top: 6.9% Edits marked as major (non-minor/reverts): 41.44% (2072 edit(s)) Edits marked as minor (non-reverts): 51.24% (2562 edit(s)) Marked reverts (reversions/text removal): 7.16% (358 edit(s)) Unmarked edits with no summary: 0.16% (8 edit(s)) Edits by Wikipedia namespace: Article: 68.7% (3435) | Article talk: 5.96% (298) User: 0.58% (29) | User talk: 5.2% (260) Wikipedia: 18.72% (936) | Wikipedia talk: 0.58% (29) Image: 0.18% (9) Template: 0.06% (3) Category: 0% (0) Portal: 0% (0) Help: 0% (0) MediaWiki: 0% (0) Other talk pages: 0.02% (1)
Username | Deville |
---|---|
Total edits | 14,482 |
Distinct pages edited | 11,935 |
Average edits/page | 1.213 |
First edit | 13:33, August 29, 2005 |
(main) | 12,452 |
Talk | 371 |
User | 88 |
User talk | 356 |
Image | 24 |
Template | 13 |
Template talk | 2 |
Category | 18 |
Wikipedia | 1,117 |
Wikipedia talk | 39 |
Portal | 2 |