The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful request for adminship. Please do not modify it.

Final (79/1/0) ended 01:07, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

GraemeL ( talk · contribs) – Fellow Wikipedians! Now that User:JoanneB has, how shall we say, been nominated for adminship, I nominate GraemeL as a new admin! He has been around for almost three months now, and in that time, he has been a really good and experienced Wikipedian, fighting vandalism and somewhat active on WP:AFD. I wish he should be made an admin. — JIP | Talk 09:41, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I accept the nomination. -- GraemeL ^(talk) 13:43, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Support

1. Extreme nominator support! — JIP | Talk 09:42, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
2. Support Fir e Fo x ^-CVU- 13:50, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
3. Support Tintin 13:53, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
4. Extreme "Oh look, the other one I was waiting for" support - brilliant user/vandalwhacker. -- Cel e stianpower ^háblame 14:00, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
5. Support pgk^{( talk)} 14:01, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
6. Extreme Support with Sprinkles. Good vandal fighter, never personally seen him lose his cool. -- Syrthiss 14:03, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
7. Support. But of course. Shimgray | talk | 14:11, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
8. Support!. An excellent editor who truly understands how WP works. Owen× ☎ 15:12, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
9. Support!. Kirill Lokshin 16:03, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
10. Support, unlikely to abuse the admin's toolbox. Christopher Parham (talk) 16:09, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
11. Support he's Scottish (knows what he's doing - and when he doesn't, he asks) -- Doc ^ask? 16:12, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
12. Support Privat e Butcher 16:41, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
13. Support Seen his good work around, doesn't loose his cool! -- Reflex Reaction ( talk)• 16:42, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
14. Support Cool Wikipedian, for sure! Xoloz 16:47, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
15. Support Use the blocking option with wisdom and restraint. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 18:22, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
16. I'm-back-from-my-travel-support -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 18:35, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
17. Support - levelheaded - and good with humour too! -- HappyCamper 19:13, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
18. Support -- Francs 2000 19:15, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
19. Support, I have seen enough of this user to be absolutely sure that he'll be a capable, courteous admin. Oh, and all of the above, too :-) Joann e B 19:16, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
20. Support seen user around and has always been on the ball. Gator (talk) 20:49, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
21. Oran e (t) (c) (@) 21:08, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
22. Extreme I-just-had-a-Reese's-peanut-butter-cup support -- Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 22:20, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
23. Support, now when's Vilerage gonna run...? R e dwolf24 ( talk) 22:39, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
24. Support Excellent RC patroler -- JAranda | watz sup 22:41, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
25. Strong Support Great vandal fighter. Will make great admin. -- Psy guy ^(talk) 23:14, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
26. Support Will be good admin -- Rogerd 23:27, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
27. Support, seen GraemeL in action and believe him to be very adminable. - feydey 23:46, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
28. Support-- Sean| Bla ck 00:15, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
29. Support - diligent RC patroller, needs a mop. Also, good attitude. FreplySpang (talk) 00:29, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
30. Support as an apology for all the messages intended for me he gets on IRC :> --  grm_wnr Esc 02:38, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
31. Support - seen good things. BD2412 T 03:26, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
32. Support. Yamaguchi先生 03:50, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
33. Support - great vandal fighter, and has helped me out with reverting multiple occurrences of vandalism on a page. As he said in his answers to the questions, he's already doing admin tasks, so it makes sense to make him an admin. -- Idont Havaname 04:05, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
34. Support Not sure what more there is to add, at this point. — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 04:17, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
35. Support. PJM 04:45, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
36. Support I thought I already voted here. GraemeL totally deserves it, he helps fight back vandals all the time. - Greg Asche (talk) 04:54, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
37. Support. Rob e rt ^{T | @ | C} 04:57, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
38. Support.Thought he was already.-- Dakota ^{t e} 05:07, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
39. Support-- MONGO 06:15, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
40. Support. -- Alan Au 06:17, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
41. Support. An active vandal fighter. jni 07:30, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
42. Support Hail Eris! -- anetode ¹ ² ³ 07:49, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
43. Support. Seen plenty of good work here. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:05, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
44. Support - looks like a good egg Brookie: A collector of little round things 08:27, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
45. Support. Aye. encephalon 09:37, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
46. Support. A very good editor and vandal fighter. Mushroom 11:31, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
47. I hate exams. Alphax  ^{τ ε χ} 14:52, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
48. Support A user who drives me nuts because he is forever reverting vandalism seconds before me. I assumed he had the rollback all this time. (I'm sure I'm not alone there.) Ban e s 15:41, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
49. Support Per above. -- Martin Osterman 15:56, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
50. Support. A fellow vandal fighter that is super-active and pays attention to detail. Most deserving! ≈ jossi fresco ≈ t • @ 17:31, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
51. Support. Some good VF, and generally good input. jnothman ^talk 17:52, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
52. Support. No reason for concern, and admin tools would be helpful in vandal fighting. Jayjg ^(talk) 18:24, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
53. Support. Blackcap | talk 20:55, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
54. Support per above. Silensor 23:07, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
55. Support. KHM03 04:01, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply
56. Support per nomination. Edits to military articles are always of the highest quality. Megapixie 04:35, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply
57. Strong how-on-Earth-it-took-me-so-long-to-notice-this support! Another great vandal-whacker. Tito xd^{( ?!?)} 04:46, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply
58. Support. Though I think its clear you do a damn fine and fast job of reverting without Rollback! The Minister of War 09:13, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply
59. Support. Live an learn; he told me about the substing...-- Lectonar 16:19, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply
60. Support clearly better at fixing html than me :) -- TimPope 18:27, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply
61. Without reservation. -- Essjay · [[User_talk:Essjay| Talk]] 21:22, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply
62. Support; RC patrols a ton, have had only positive experiences with him. Was going to support earlier, but he wasn't at 3 months yet :) Ral315 (talk) 02:29, 16 November 2005 (UTC) reply
63. Extreme can't-believe-I-haven't-voted-yet support! fuddlemark ( fuddle me!) 03:34, 16 November 2005 (UTC) reply
64. Support. I didn't support earlier, because I thought I had already supported! utcursch | talk 06:11, 16 November 2005 (UTC) reply
65. Support. Lots of vandal whacking, almost always uses edit summary. Adminship would be really useful for this person because fighting vandalism is a big part of their job. delldot | talk 15:40, 16 November 2005 (UTC) reply
66. Support. the wub "?!" 21:01, 16 November 2005 (UTC) reply
67. Support. sure, good user. Jtkiefer ^{T | C | @} ---- 23:19, 16 November 2005 (UTC) reply
68. Support. Had several good experiences with this user. Also trust the opinion of numerous other supporters. - Mgm| ^(talk) 23:21, 16 November 2005 (UTC) reply
69. Support and allow for organic development. Bahn Mi 05:19, 17 November 2005 (UTC) reply
70. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 08:38, 17 November 2005 (UTC) reply
71. Support Often seen reverting vandalism.-- Alhutch 19:03, 17 November 2005 (UTC) reply
72. Support. Excellent communicator. Joyous | Talk 03:10, 18 November 2005 (UTC) reply
73. Support. of course. Dlyons493 Talk 21:18, 18 November 2005 (UTC) reply
74. Do I have to really put my reasons support. per all above and good contributor «» Who ?¿? ^meta 02:38, 19 November 2005 (UTC) reply
75. Support. But can we do something about his first name's spelling? ;-) -- Nlu 21:19, 19 November 2005 (UTC) reply
76. Support. El_C 23:28, 19 November 2005 (UTC) reply
77. Support, and only just in time! A good user, good editor and good admin-to-be. - Splash ^talk 03:27, 20 November 2005 (UTC) reply
78. Support Izehar 23:47, 20 November 2005 (UTC) reply
79. Support - I am not supporting twice – am I ? -- Bhadani 14:01, 20 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Oppose

1. Boothy443 cause no adminship should be without opposition :) (then again not like it matters on this one)   ALKIVAR ™ 06:16, 16 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Neutral

Comments

• Your email id is set, yes? Alphax  ^{τ ε χ} 14:52, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Yes, it is. -- GraemeL ^(talk) 16:13, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A. I do a significant amount of RC patrol and admin functions would help me do this more effectively; The ability to speedy delete articles that I have to flag at the moment. The ability to fix copy and paste moves. The ability to block problem users and unblock where appropriate, or where collateral damage is unacceptable. I already close speedy deletes at AfD, where an admin has deleted the article, but forgotten to close the related AfD entry. I would extend this to more general closing of AfD discussions. I would also help to monitor WP:AIV.

2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A. My prose is not particularly riveting. I tend to either be too terse, or waffle on, and so I do not do much article writing. However, I do work to clean up (wikify and format) articles that I get involved with through AfD or copyvio flagging. The best of these is probably 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. I picked it up as a copy and paste copyvio at Second Canadian Division and was contacted by the author on my talk page. I processed it through the confirmation of permission process, then worked on the article. I finally merged it to its current location, where there was a much shorter existing article on the same subject.

3. 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 how will you deal with it in the future?

A. I've been involved in a few minor conflicts, generally over link spamming and one over the merging of Ned (Scottish) with Chav. I feel that all of these were dealt with in a courteous manner. I sometimes get stressed on RC patrol, but I recognise when this is happening, and a half hour break has always been enough to reduce my stress levels.

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