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GTBacchus ( talk · contribs) – This is a self-nom. I've been a Wikipedian since January, 2003, but wasn't very active for the first year or so, due to travel, life, etc. I now have about 5000 main namespace edits (albeit many of them minor - stub-sorting, fixing wikisyntax, etc), and I've become quite familiar with Wikipeida's policies and customs. I think I'm a good Wikipedian. I fight vandalism, and I'd been doing manual rollbacks for over a year when I realized that administrators have a button for that, and that's how they can do it so quickly. I do a lot of work in stub-sorting, which, for me, tends to branch out into wikifying and expanding articles on one hand, and participating in AfD discussions on the other hand. If I am given the administrator mop, I will use it to fight vandalism, to close AfDs that have reached 7 days, and I suppose it might come up that I would block vandals, but I don't really see that as a major activity for me. I tend to be more of the mind that if you talk to someone as a human being, and give them more respect than they're giving themselves by vandalizing or trolling, then they'll either rise to the occasion or else go away. Maybe I'm an optimist. I believe in Wikipedia; have I shown through my participation that Wikipedia should believe in me enough to give me keys to the janitor closet? I really have no idea how this RFA will go... rather than ramble any further, I'm going to answer those questions now. Thanks for reading what I have to say, and for considering me for an admin position! GTBacchus( talk) 05:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC) reply
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Final (41/1/0) ending 05:02 December 21, 2005 (UTC)
GTBacchus ( talk · contribs) – This is a self-nom. I've been a Wikipedian since January, 2003, but wasn't very active for the first year or so, due to travel, life, etc. I now have about 5000 main namespace edits (albeit many of them minor - stub-sorting, fixing wikisyntax, etc), and I've become quite familiar with Wikipeida's policies and customs. I think I'm a good Wikipedian. I fight vandalism, and I'd been doing manual rollbacks for over a year when I realized that administrators have a button for that, and that's how they can do it so quickly. I do a lot of work in stub-sorting, which, for me, tends to branch out into wikifying and expanding articles on one hand, and participating in AfD discussions on the other hand. If I am given the administrator mop, I will use it to fight vandalism, to close AfDs that have reached 7 days, and I suppose it might come up that I would block vandals, but I don't really see that as a major activity for me. I tend to be more of the mind that if you talk to someone as a human being, and give them more respect than they're giving themselves by vandalizing or trolling, then they'll either rise to the occasion or else go away. Maybe I'm an optimist. I believe in Wikipedia; have I shown through my participation that Wikipedia should believe in me enough to give me keys to the janitor closet? I really have no idea how this RFA will go... rather than ramble any further, I'm going to answer those questions now. Thanks for reading what I have to say, and for considering me for an admin position! GTBacchus( talk) 05:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC) reply
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A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters: