Kingboyk (
talk·contribs) – It is both a pleasure and a privilege to nominate a serious and dedicated user like Kingboyk for adminship. He has been with us since September '05, and throughout these months he has proven remarkable ability to discuss and achieve consensus and agreements wherever he contributes. Today, Kingboyk has amassed over 3,400 edits, perfectly distributed among namespaces, and has deep knowledge of Wikipedia's policies and procedures. He is a thoughtful and sensible voice in
AfD, where he is actively involved; one can hardly browse this project without constantly stumbling upon his thoughts, and often you simply can't help but to agree with his solid positions. As an editor, he has also provided us with top notch material at many articles, specially regarding
The Beatles and the excellent
Apple Corps. Being a programmer, Kingboyk is also performing significant work in order to improve the Mediawiki software with hopefully soon-to-become official enhancements (although you'll have to ask him for further details on the subject if you're interested, as understanding such technical issues is way out of my league!)
But, most important, I have only good things to tell of his kind, civil and all around extremely friendly attitude - I simply invite everyone to check his Talk Page and browse through his many contributions to corroborate this. IMHO, this is the most important quality in an admin, and I'm convinced that we'll have an excellent and valuable mop-wielder in him. Phædriel♥tell me -
14:40, 24 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Sneak in before this is official ... Kingboyk is that good. I first ran into this editor during AfD discussions of various
Category:micronations articles. What could have been a contentious exchange turned into a collaboration on refining criteria:
Category_talk:Micronations#Comments_on_criteria_sought. (you can see him in action from the AfD discussions linked from there) His constructive, consensus seeking and gentle editing style is just what we need in an admin, in my view. Plus, anyone that dear Phaedriel nominates is aces in my book. Happily support!
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Lar:
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c16:25, 24 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Support -- I usually prefer candidates to wait a little longer for adminship, but in this case, I'm making an exception. An outstanding user, with dedication to the project that speaks for itself. -
Longhair16:48, 25 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Support, could have sworn I supported a lot earlier when I read this and looked at your edit history, guess I never got around to it though.
VegaDark04:22, 2 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Weak oppose. 91% of edits have been since early January 2006. ~2.5 months seems a bit low for an adequate understanding of Wikipedia process to have been obtained. Furthermore, while Kingboy has considerably more edits in the WP namespace than I do, most are
WP:AFD or relating to the ArbCom elections. A great user, but some things just have to come with a bit more experience, in my humble opinion. --
tomf688{
talk}22:47, 26 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Something's a little whacked with the formatting of this RfA, hitting the vote here link brings you to someone's sandbox...
Ifnord03:22, 26 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Tried to fix that. Hope I got it right, it's hard-ish to test an edit link in preview... I think it's because Phaedriel and Kingboyk were working on this to get it right before going live (as they should have, see the
Guide to requests for adminship) and missed the sandbox move back?
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Lar:
t/
c03:29, 26 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Yes, sorry about that, it was pointing to Phaedriel's sandbox. Of course as I don't vote on my own RFA I didn't notice :) It's fixed now. --
kingboyk12:57, 26 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Edit summary usage: 100% for major edits and 100% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.
Mathbot16:45, 25 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Questions for the candidate
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:
A. As a reader and editor wiki has been a journey for me. As a reader I often start at a page of interest, clicking links and tidying up as I go, never knowing where I might end up. As an editor, I started off by creating (fairly lame) stubs on my local area, until my confidence grew and I realised it really is okay to edit 'important' articles. I think my journey as an admin will be the same, should I be given the mop, bucket and badge.
Initially, adminship will help me with the editing and janitorial duties I already carry out. I've found myself unable to move pages when a redirect already exists at the target, spotting a blatant vandal in realtime and having to post to the noticeboard while s/he rampages their way through the site, and finding a backlog of 82 pages at
Category:Candidates for speedy deletion and not being able to help out - as I write, the backlog is over 50. As a new admin I also expect to close
AFD debates, easing myself in by starting with those which have a very clear concensus.
Beyond that it's the wiki journey again.
WP:ANI and
WP:AN will be on my watchlist, and I'm ready to serve as time permits. I have made the acquaintance (and hopefully friendship) of some wonderful people here at Wikipedia, so I have no shortage of role models or people to turn to for help and guidance should I need it.
Please Note: I have had no internet access at home for a couple of weeks, so I have had to cut down on project namespace work and janitorial duties. My AFD activity, recent changes patrol and with your permission my new admin activities will resume when my connection is switched back on "early this week". Wikipedia is my main free time pursuit.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. There are several. As
Phædriel mentioned, I have cleaned up
Apple Corps (although it still needs more work), and I created the
Apple Corps category tree. The Beatles' Let It Be has benefited from a lot of my time -
Let It Be (album) has been cleaned, and
Let It Be (film) demerged into a very promising stub.
The KLF,
The Shamen and related articles are my current projects.
I'm proudest of my work on
Badfinger and
Cheltenham, since they have been good examples of collaboration. The recent huge improvement on
Badfinger (from a {{cleanup}} tag to - IMHO - potential Good Article candidate) has been largely the work of
User:ZincOrbie. I corresponded with him when he was an anonymous IP, encouraged him to create an account, and I've cast an editorial eye over his edits since then, chipping in when I can. We have a great new contributor and I'm proud of that.
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 rarely revert and rarely get reverted, but it sometimes happens. My policy is to
be bold initially, and provide a thorough edit summary, but if there's ever a reversion or disagreement it should go straight to the Talk page. I've edited some controversial topics such as
Disputed status of Gibraltar without any problems.
Conveniently,
Lar has already mentioned and linked to my most stressful moment here. My wiki journey took me from
Radio Caroline (an interest of mine) into the controversial area of micronations (not particularly an interest). I found duplicate material relating to
Sealand in numerous articles, which I cleaned up. I also happened upon a couple of articles which seemed to me to be deletion candidates. After some thought and discussion with an admin, I nominated them for deletion. This did cause a temporary 'hoo haa' but I stood firm in my assertions of good faith and endeavoured to work for the good of the encyclopedia, and as Lar noted it all worked out nicely in the end. --
kingboyk16:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either
this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.
Kingboyk (
talk·contribs) – It is both a pleasure and a privilege to nominate a serious and dedicated user like Kingboyk for adminship. He has been with us since September '05, and throughout these months he has proven remarkable ability to discuss and achieve consensus and agreements wherever he contributes. Today, Kingboyk has amassed over 3,400 edits, perfectly distributed among namespaces, and has deep knowledge of Wikipedia's policies and procedures. He is a thoughtful and sensible voice in
AfD, where he is actively involved; one can hardly browse this project without constantly stumbling upon his thoughts, and often you simply can't help but to agree with his solid positions. As an editor, he has also provided us with top notch material at many articles, specially regarding
The Beatles and the excellent
Apple Corps. Being a programmer, Kingboyk is also performing significant work in order to improve the Mediawiki software with hopefully soon-to-become official enhancements (although you'll have to ask him for further details on the subject if you're interested, as understanding such technical issues is way out of my league!)
But, most important, I have only good things to tell of his kind, civil and all around extremely friendly attitude - I simply invite everyone to check his Talk Page and browse through his many contributions to corroborate this. IMHO, this is the most important quality in an admin, and I'm convinced that we'll have an excellent and valuable mop-wielder in him. Phædriel♥tell me -
14:40, 24 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Sneak in before this is official ... Kingboyk is that good. I first ran into this editor during AfD discussions of various
Category:micronations articles. What could have been a contentious exchange turned into a collaboration on refining criteria:
Category_talk:Micronations#Comments_on_criteria_sought. (you can see him in action from the AfD discussions linked from there) His constructive, consensus seeking and gentle editing style is just what we need in an admin, in my view. Plus, anyone that dear Phaedriel nominates is aces in my book. Happily support!
++
Lar:
t/
c16:25, 24 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Support -- I usually prefer candidates to wait a little longer for adminship, but in this case, I'm making an exception. An outstanding user, with dedication to the project that speaks for itself. -
Longhair16:48, 25 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Support, could have sworn I supported a lot earlier when I read this and looked at your edit history, guess I never got around to it though.
VegaDark04:22, 2 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Weak oppose. 91% of edits have been since early January 2006. ~2.5 months seems a bit low for an adequate understanding of Wikipedia process to have been obtained. Furthermore, while Kingboy has considerably more edits in the WP namespace than I do, most are
WP:AFD or relating to the ArbCom elections. A great user, but some things just have to come with a bit more experience, in my humble opinion. --
tomf688{
talk}22:47, 26 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Something's a little whacked with the formatting of this RfA, hitting the vote here link brings you to someone's sandbox...
Ifnord03:22, 26 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Tried to fix that. Hope I got it right, it's hard-ish to test an edit link in preview... I think it's because Phaedriel and Kingboyk were working on this to get it right before going live (as they should have, see the
Guide to requests for adminship) and missed the sandbox move back?
++
Lar:
t/
c03:29, 26 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Yes, sorry about that, it was pointing to Phaedriel's sandbox. Of course as I don't vote on my own RFA I didn't notice :) It's fixed now. --
kingboyk12:57, 26 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Edit summary usage: 100% for major edits and 100% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.
Mathbot16:45, 25 February 2006 (UTC)reply
Questions for the candidate
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:
A. As a reader and editor wiki has been a journey for me. As a reader I often start at a page of interest, clicking links and tidying up as I go, never knowing where I might end up. As an editor, I started off by creating (fairly lame) stubs on my local area, until my confidence grew and I realised it really is okay to edit 'important' articles. I think my journey as an admin will be the same, should I be given the mop, bucket and badge.
Initially, adminship will help me with the editing and janitorial duties I already carry out. I've found myself unable to move pages when a redirect already exists at the target, spotting a blatant vandal in realtime and having to post to the noticeboard while s/he rampages their way through the site, and finding a backlog of 82 pages at
Category:Candidates for speedy deletion and not being able to help out - as I write, the backlog is over 50. As a new admin I also expect to close
AFD debates, easing myself in by starting with those which have a very clear concensus.
Beyond that it's the wiki journey again.
WP:ANI and
WP:AN will be on my watchlist, and I'm ready to serve as time permits. I have made the acquaintance (and hopefully friendship) of some wonderful people here at Wikipedia, so I have no shortage of role models or people to turn to for help and guidance should I need it.
Please Note: I have had no internet access at home for a couple of weeks, so I have had to cut down on project namespace work and janitorial duties. My AFD activity, recent changes patrol and with your permission my new admin activities will resume when my connection is switched back on "early this week". Wikipedia is my main free time pursuit.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. There are several. As
Phædriel mentioned, I have cleaned up
Apple Corps (although it still needs more work), and I created the
Apple Corps category tree. The Beatles' Let It Be has benefited from a lot of my time -
Let It Be (album) has been cleaned, and
Let It Be (film) demerged into a very promising stub.
The KLF,
The Shamen and related articles are my current projects.
I'm proudest of my work on
Badfinger and
Cheltenham, since they have been good examples of collaboration. The recent huge improvement on
Badfinger (from a {{cleanup}} tag to - IMHO - potential Good Article candidate) has been largely the work of
User:ZincOrbie. I corresponded with him when he was an anonymous IP, encouraged him to create an account, and I've cast an editorial eye over his edits since then, chipping in when I can. We have a great new contributor and I'm proud of that.
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 rarely revert and rarely get reverted, but it sometimes happens. My policy is to
be bold initially, and provide a thorough edit summary, but if there's ever a reversion or disagreement it should go straight to the Talk page. I've edited some controversial topics such as
Disputed status of Gibraltar without any problems.
Conveniently,
Lar has already mentioned and linked to my most stressful moment here. My wiki journey took me from
Radio Caroline (an interest of mine) into the controversial area of micronations (not particularly an interest). I found duplicate material relating to
Sealand in numerous articles, which I cleaned up. I also happened upon a couple of articles which seemed to me to be deletion candidates. After some thought and discussion with an admin, I nominated them for deletion. This did cause a temporary 'hoo haa' but I stood firm in my assertions of good faith and endeavoured to work for the good of the encyclopedia, and as Lar noted it all worked out nicely in the end. --
kingboyk16:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either
this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.