Final (77/2/0); Closed as successful by WJBscribe at 05:59, 28 November 2008 (UTC) reply
Jclemens (
talk ·
contribs) – Jclemens is a phenomenal contributor whom I have had the pleasure of watching grow over the past four months. I first met Jclemens on the
Wasilla Assembly of God (WAG) page where he was dealing with one of the bigger
political POV pushers of this past election cycle. When we first met, I wasn't sure about Jclemens. The first time I went to his talk page was to issue
a warning! Wasilla AG is a totally non-notable church, that was in the news briefly because of Sarah Palin's former minister. The article was created primarily because
EricDiesel was trying to push an agenda and Jclemens tried to counter Eric's agenda. Jclemens didn't believe (rightly) that the article deserved to exist, but it was
in the news and survived an AFD. Unfortunately, when dealing with political articles during an election cycle, tempers are bound to flare an accusations are bound to be made. I questioned if
anybody who was involved with controversial political
articles this past year can pass an RfA. In fact, just two days ago, I told Jclemens
right now it would be easier for me to write a strong oppose than a strong nomination. So what has changed??? Jclemens handled himself in contentious areas better than most people involved politically charged articles this past fall. Because he was involved in such contentious areas, I didn't want to do him an injustice and not do due dilligence in investigating him. The fact that he worked in a stressful area where people are prone to throw labels and epitaths around should not be grounds for failing an RfA, I wanted to determine the validity of the possible allegations leveled against him. Reading through his talk page, the articles talk pages, the talk pages of those he communicated with was a monumental task. It was particularly challenging because of the political rhetoric that clouded the issues. Prior to making this nomination I spent a personal record of ten hours vetting him and I've come to see a person who is an absolute asset to the community and can be trusted with the tools. One thing that should be noted is that once EricDiesel (aka Tautologist) was blocked left the project, the people who remained were able to work together and garner consensus on many of these controversial articles, this was (IMO) in part due to Jclemens efforts.
Since we first met, Jclemens has worked on making the Wasilla AG worthy of wikipedia, which lead to one of his eight barnstars. Despite initially resisting the article, he brought it to a condition that he placed it up as a Good Article Candidate. I've been continually impressed with his growth and development.
While he does use Huggle, over 85% of his 12000+ edits are manual. Among his contributions Jclemens can count 4 DYKs, 4 GA's, and a Featured List. He is also an active GAR reviewer where he's reviewed 38 articles and participates in XfD's. But the things that really caught my attention are: 1) the 11 articles Jclemens saved at AFD. And 2) Jclemens is not afraid to help out where needed, he participates with Third Opinion. I reviewed a number of his 3O's and I really found them to be thoughtful and insightful.--- Balloonman PoppaBalloon 05:57, 21 November 2008 (UTC) reply
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Final (77/2/0); Closed as successful by WJBscribe at 05:59, 28 November 2008 (UTC) reply
Jclemens (
talk ·
contribs) – Jclemens is a phenomenal contributor whom I have had the pleasure of watching grow over the past four months. I first met Jclemens on the
Wasilla Assembly of God (WAG) page where he was dealing with one of the bigger
political POV pushers of this past election cycle. When we first met, I wasn't sure about Jclemens. The first time I went to his talk page was to issue
a warning! Wasilla AG is a totally non-notable church, that was in the news briefly because of Sarah Palin's former minister. The article was created primarily because
EricDiesel was trying to push an agenda and Jclemens tried to counter Eric's agenda. Jclemens didn't believe (rightly) that the article deserved to exist, but it was
in the news and survived an AFD. Unfortunately, when dealing with political articles during an election cycle, tempers are bound to flare an accusations are bound to be made. I questioned if
anybody who was involved with controversial political
articles this past year can pass an RfA. In fact, just two days ago, I told Jclemens
right now it would be easier for me to write a strong oppose than a strong nomination. So what has changed??? Jclemens handled himself in contentious areas better than most people involved politically charged articles this past fall. Because he was involved in such contentious areas, I didn't want to do him an injustice and not do due dilligence in investigating him. The fact that he worked in a stressful area where people are prone to throw labels and epitaths around should not be grounds for failing an RfA, I wanted to determine the validity of the possible allegations leveled against him. Reading through his talk page, the articles talk pages, the talk pages of those he communicated with was a monumental task. It was particularly challenging because of the political rhetoric that clouded the issues. Prior to making this nomination I spent a personal record of ten hours vetting him and I've come to see a person who is an absolute asset to the community and can be trusted with the tools. One thing that should be noted is that once EricDiesel (aka Tautologist) was blocked left the project, the people who remained were able to work together and garner consensus on many of these controversial articles, this was (IMO) in part due to Jclemens efforts.
Since we first met, Jclemens has worked on making the Wasilla AG worthy of wikipedia, which lead to one of his eight barnstars. Despite initially resisting the article, he brought it to a condition that he placed it up as a Good Article Candidate. I've been continually impressed with his growth and development.
While he does use Huggle, over 85% of his 12000+ edits are manual. Among his contributions Jclemens can count 4 DYKs, 4 GA's, and a Featured List. He is also an active GAR reviewer where he's reviewed 38 articles and participates in XfD's. But the things that really caught my attention are: 1) the 11 articles Jclemens saved at AFD. And 2) Jclemens is not afraid to help out where needed, he participates with Third Opinion. I reviewed a number of his 3O's and I really found them to be thoughtful and insightful.--- Balloonman PoppaBalloon 05:57, 21 November 2008 (UTC) reply
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:
Question from CIreland
Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Jclemens before commenting.