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

Ianblair23

Final (57/0/0) ended 03:14, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Ianblair23 ( talk · contribs · count) – This wonder from Down Under has topped 11,000 edits since he began in December, 2004. This includes over 8,500 article edits, and hundreds of project space and talk space edits that show that he is a communicator, and a participant in work beyond article creation and maintenance. His interactions are courteous and positive. He is active in numerous Australia-related projects, and has created and/or polished countless articles relating to the places and institutions of that country, although his penchant for article creation is international (particularly when it comes to media, and to the Commonwealth Games). I would also note that, although his use of edit summaries was lacking early on, he has been rock solid in using them since September. I am pleased to nominate Ianblair23 for an adminship. BD2412 T 22:09, 9 November 2005 (UTC) reply

I most humbly accept BD2412's nomination. -- Ianblair23 ( talk) 00:44, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Support

1. Support. Always happy to support a fellow Aussie. fuddlemark ( fuddle me!) 00:58, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
2. STRONG SUPPORT Definitely, R e dwolf24 ( talk) 00:59, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
3. Support. A great contributor on many interesting topics, and a sensible admin candidate. Harro5 01:13, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
4. Support - and glad to see it's taken off before I even got here! BD2412 T 01:26, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
5. Support -- JAranda | watz sup 01:46, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
6. Support -- Rogerd 01:54, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
7. Support MONGO 02:29, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
8. Support Always good to have well-qualified sysops in under-represented time zones for mopping up when other admins are sleeping or otherwise occupied. Youngamerican 04:06, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
9. Support. KHM03 04:10, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
10. Support seems a worthy candidate, I trust BD, so you have my support on your nomination.   ALKIVAR ™ 04:38, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
11. Support - He seems like the perfect candidate, and his diffs reveal good editing skills. TDS ^{( talk • contribs)} 05:08, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
12. Support, unlikely to abuse admin tools. Christopher Parham (talk) 06:43, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
13. Support - Nothing indicates that he will abuse the tools and we need more admins. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 08:06, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
14. Duuude. -- Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 08:20, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
15. Support. Surprised he has 11k edits and is still not a sysop. Splintax (talk) 10:27, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
16. Support Good difs, lots of edits in lots spaces, fine on summaries. I like the attention paid to links and redirects. Marskell 10:40, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
17. Support about time! Gator (talk) 13:16, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
18. Support. Kirill Lokshin 13:19, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
19. Support Scïmïłar ^parley 15:01, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
20. Support. Oran e (t) (c) (@) 16:14, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
21. Support. -- NormanEinstein 16:32, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
22. Support. Thunderbrand 17:38, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
23. Support, per everybody. -- Sean| Bla ck 23:52, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
24. Support. I remember that the first interaction I had with Ianblair23 was to nominate one of his articles for deletion... he handled that case very calmly and civilly. I see that Ian has done a great deal of excellent work with Wikipedia, and I think his answers to Aaron's questions are great. I see no reason not to support. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:31, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply
25. Support. Thorough researcher, and has done a lot of excellent work on Australian articles. Cnwb 08:54, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply
26. Support. Deserves to have been made admin long ago. Ambi 09:03, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply
27. Strong Support for a wonderful contributor. In fact, nominating Ian was on my list of things to-do - and I certainly don't mind being beaten to it; he should have been one ages ago. -- Cyberjunkie | Talk 09:05, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply
28. She'll be right. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. - brenneman ^{(t) (c)} 11:24, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply
29. Support. Stickler for accuracy. -- Scott Davis ^Talk 11:44, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply
30. Suport. An excellent user. Courtious & thorough. -- Ian ≡ talk 13:57, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply
31. Support - good editor, thoughtful answers to questions. -- DS1953 ^talk 16:11, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply
32. Support Happy to support longtime editor. Xoloz 18:56, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply
33. Support as per nominator. Hall Monitor 00:21, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
34. Support User is level-headed, slow to anger and a good community participant (active on WP:AWNB). pfctdayelise 01:12, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
35. Support. Good edits, excellent understanding of WP. I just hope your movie to film quest is bot-assisted! :) Turnstep 02:04, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
36. Support, well deserved! -- Chuq 04:10, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
37. Happy to Support. -- Roisterer 04:57, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
38. Support. -- May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 07:51, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
39. Support -- valuable Aussie editor. - Longhair | Talk 09:11, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
40. Support, yep, I've seen him around and don't remember any bad experiences. Alphax  ^{τ ε χ} 13:01, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
41. Support: -- Bhadani 14:16, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
42. Support impressed by the answer to the curly questions also. Alf ^melmac 14:58, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
43. Strong support. Gee, that's the second strong support today. Good going! Alex Schenck (that's Linuxbeak to you) 15:00, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
44. Support A real Aussie battler who seems to be found everywhere. jnothman ^talk 15:34, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
45. Support Johann Wolfgang 18:00, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
46. Support. Nothing really to say that hasn't been said already. -- Martin Osterman 18:01, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
47. Support -- A Y Arktos (Talk) 23:57, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
48. Support. has amply demonstrated he knows what makes things tick around here. -- cjllw | TALK 03:58, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
49. Support. He has been here along time and has done well so he will know what to do. -- Dakota ^{t e} 05:34, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
50. Support. Sarge Baldy 06:30, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
51. Support - JCarriker 08:48, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
52. Support Not really necessary, but still support. -- The Minist e r of War ^(Peace) 16:44, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
53. Support. Piling on, but I see no reason for concern. Jayjg ^(talk) 18:15, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
54. Support and User:Splintax please fix your signature file for crying out loud. Silensor 23:11, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply

    Not really Splintax's fault - HTML tidy is offline. BD2412 T 04:03, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply

    I disagree. If you're going to have an annoying fancy .sig (not that I intend to imply anything about your annoying fancy .sig, BD2412, which is a very fine annoying fancy .sig indeed) you can at least take the time to learn how to do it properly. fuddlemark ( fuddle me!) 15:23, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply

55. Support too. *drew 08:39, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply
56. Support -- POY 19:35, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply
57. Support. the wub "?!" 21:20, 16 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Oppose

Neutral

Xoloz 08:22, 10 November 2005 (UTC) Won't vote until all Aaron's questions are answered, obviously. Xoloz 08:22, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Please sign your acceptance. Thanks. Turnstep 13:32, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Changed to support. Turnstep

Comments

There is no doubt from looking at your contributions that you're a hard worker. Thanks to examining your contributions I'm also happy to now know about The Disneyland Memorial Orgy. I'd like some further drill-down on your answers, though, as well as some fresh questions:

1. What has been stopping you from participating in WP:AfD, WP:CfD, etc. until now?
2. When you say that you'd use rollback in fighting trolls, can you explain how a bit more?
3. You say that you haven't had conflict, but can you give some examples of positive and co-operative interactions with other users?
4. How comfortable are you with Wikipedia (not main) space, and how familiar you are with the policies relevant to admin powers?
5. How do you interpret WP:IAR and when can you imagine that you would use it?

brenneman ^{(t) (c)} 01:53, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply

A few curly questions there Aaron, but important ones.

1. Well nothing has stopped me from participating in these activities; I just haven’t been a regular. I have voted in the past and I’m familiar the policies. I have worked on articles up for deletion to get it up to a higher standard, North Sydney Girls High School and Getaway come to mind. However, if the topic is rubbish, vanity etc. then clearly it deserved to be deleted. -- Ianblair23 ( talk) 02:51, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply
2. The rollback function is one of the best tools that are available to admins. This tool is invaluable in the fight against vandals and trolls. I would like to start patrolling WP:RC more and this tool would most definitely help. However, this tool must be used with caution when reverting newbie edits as this might put them off side thinking that their edits are not worthy. To prevent this, I feel that the use of {{ test}}, {{ test2}}, etc. on their userpage and/or a mention of why revert occurred on the article's talk page is necessary. -- Ianblair23 ( talk) 08:12, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply
3. My talk page shows plenty of examples of positive interactions with other users especially fellow Australian contributors. -- Ianblair23 ( talk) 08:28, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply
4. I feel very comfortable editing and working in the Project space, having already made several hundreds edits. In regard to the policies relevant to admin powers, I have read the administrators' reading list and I will enforce policies where appropriate. I can assure you, I will not abuse my admin powers. -- Ianblair23 ( talk) 06:57, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply
5. One of the reasons why Wikipedia has been such a huge success and will continue to be huge success is the enforcing of the rules and policies under which it was established. Four of the five pillars of Wikipedia are WP:NOT, WP:NPOV, WP:GFDL and WP:WQT, with the fifth being WP:IAR. The way I interpret WP:IAR is that if any rules are getting in the way of the betterment of this encyclopaedia then do not just blatantly follow it but do what is the best for Wikipedia. Now this does not mean that admins or anyone else can use this as a way make up rules, but if genuine bureaucracy and red tape is hindering the project then IAR may be used. I like the final the sentence in the policy the most: "The spirit of the rules is more important than the letter". -- Ianblair23 ( talk) 06:33, 11 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 would most certainly help clear the backlog on Requested moves. I would also like to work on WP:AfD, WP:CfD, WP:TfD and the like. The rollback feature would most definitely help me in fighting vandals and trolls where I come across it and I would be very happy to help users with any problems they may have. -- Ianblair23 ( talk) 00:42, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply

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

A. Being from Australia, I have worked on alot of Australian related material. I'm really pleased on progress I have made on the TV Week Logie Awards, the Australian version of the Emmys. I have also created several articles on Australian television programs, worked on List of Australian television series and created the template {{ Logie Awards years}}

I have also done alot of work in regard to Australian schools. I broke up the List of schools in Australia into the 8 pages "List of schools in state/territory". I'm working hard on List of schools in New South Wales (the table that hopefully will be used on all the other state pages). I also created the categories "Schools in state/territory" and the stub {{ Australia-school-stub}}

I also created articles for most of the 38 Local Government Areas in the Sydney metropolitan area. I also created pages for most of the suburbs in the City of Blacktown and created the template {{ Sydney Blacktown suburbs}}

I'm also very active on the Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians notice board and I regularly add to and check Wikipedia:New articles (Australia).

However, I have also done alot of work on more universal topics. Currently, the List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic is up for nomination to become a featured list. Also I have done alot on the Commonwealth Games and will be very active during the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia next year.

In addition to all that I also partake in alot of maintenance work fixing redirect links. In particular correcting links from "Title (movie)" to "Title (film)" of which there is a massive amount. -- Ianblair23 ( talk) 00:13, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply

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’m very pleased to say that I have never been in any conflict with any other user. I’m a very rational, calm editor and not the kind of guy that loses his cool easily. I always assume good faith and most certainity never bites the newbies. -- Ianblair23 ( talk) 00:24, 10 November 2005 (UTC) reply

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