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Final (81/0/0) ended 06:15, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Kusma ( talk · contribs) – Kusma, a self-identified German mathematician living and working in Minneapolis, United States has been with us at Wikipedia since November 2005. Since then he has collected 6500 edits, and is famous for being his untiring work at Pages requiring translation, WP:PNT where he has racked up 360 edits in helping to analyze non-English texts, the vast majority being in languages with which he is not familiar, clearly a painstaking task. He has also achieved 400 edits at Portal:Germany, where he helps to maintain and collate progress on German related topics. Aside from all of this he has contributed many articles of his own to Wikipedia, mostly relating to mathematics and German-related content. He also combats vandalism and participates in admin-related work such as AfDs and chores such as dabbing pages, which is why the mop and bucket would be of great use to him and the community. His civility is remarkable, and his enthusiastic interaction towards other users, especially casual-passers and commenters, such as myself at WP:PNT is infectious and a testament to his high-level commitment and dedication towards the project, which is why I recommend Kusma to the wikipedia community for adminship. Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 00:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept, and thank Blnguyen for the kind words and the nomination. Kusma (討論) 06:13, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply

Support

1. Strong Support as nominator. Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 00:21, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
2. Support, strong editor, great contributor to WP:PNT, vandal-fighter, has noticeable presence in community, civil -- meets all criteria for me. -- Samir (the scope) 06:16, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
3. Support seems good.  Grue  07:04, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
4. Support-- Jusjih 08:06, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
5. -- Doc ^ask? 08:19, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
6. Pro, as they say over on de. Proto|| type 10:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
7. Support, no reason not to. Alphax  ^{τ ε χ} 11:43, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
8. Support, he's a great user. -- Ter e nc e Ong 12:02, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
9. Pro, natürlich. -- Sam Blanning (formerly Malthusian) (talk) 12:09, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
10. Support - Excellent contributions. Perfect canditate for adminship - Aksi_gr eat 13:18, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
11. Support: Good editor, deserves administrator priviledges. _-M ^o P-_ 13:34, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
12. Very Strong Support, obviously. I've worked with Kusma quite a bit in the German Translation community. A very knowledgeable, nice, and supportive user. Couldn't ask for a better candidate. -- Mmounties ( Talk) 13:45, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
13. Support JoshuaZ 13:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC). reply
14. Support. Good work. psch e mp | talk 14:44, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
15. Support this excellent contributor and kudos for his work on the German portal. -- Ghirla ^-трёп- 14:47, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
16. Support - Not much more needs to be said. Richardcavell 14:55, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
17. Support - Will be a fine admin. -- HolyRomanEmperor 15:04, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
18. Strong Support Wise and trustworthy editor. Xoloz 15:29, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
19. Support, obviously, with the puzzled "he isn't an admin yet?" look. Sandstein 16:11, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
20. Support Keep up the good work! -- S iva1979 ^{Talk to me} 16:12, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
21. Support; yes, absolutely. Antandrus (talk) 16:17, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
22. Support; per above. Looks promising. -- Ton e 16:36, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
23. It goes without saying × Meegs 16:44, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
24. Support, good guy. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 16:55, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
25. Support; from what I've seen at WP:PNT, eminently suitable A q uilina 17:03, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
26. Support per nom. Excellent candidate. - W e zzo (talk) (ubx) 18:28, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
27. Support For all your excellent work thusfar - I will point you to more work! - Articles needed from the German encyclopedia Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/de muhhhaaahhhahah!! A great candidate -- Reflex Reaction ( talk)• 18:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
28. Support, should make a fine administrator. Hall Monitor 19:10, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply

    Support, a brilliant user. -- HolyRomanEmperor 19:22, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply

    Vote struck, user already voted (see Support #17). Likely just an accident. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:09, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply

29. Support. This user seems very capable. JHMM13 ( T | C) 20:15, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
30. Support Good work! Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 21:06, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
31. Support -- Jay( Reply) 21:08, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
32. Support, from one Minneapolis resident to another. (Actually, I live in Bloomington, but close enough.) -- E lkman - ^(talk) 21:10, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
33. Support good editor. Dlyons493 Talk 21:36, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
34. Support, knowledgeable and civil. -- Thorsten1 22:54, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
35. Support Moe ε 23:08, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
36. Support, another notch in the string of great candidates as of late, deserving of mop + bucket. Weatherman90 00:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
37. Support, should be just fine. ProhibitOnions 00:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
38. Support. Solid contributor. Matt Yeager ♫ ( Talk?) 00:57, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
39. Cliché support - I thought he already was one! — Kimchi.sg | Talk 03:19, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
40. Support: Good editor, see no reason to the contrary. TimBentley (talk) 03:45, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
41. Support good editor -- rogerd 03:54, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
42. Support especially after seeing how he handled the Kopernikus problem. Agathoclea 06:10, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
43. Support, of course. - Mailer Diablo 06:18, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
44. Support, great contribution to mainspace and wikispace both. Shyam ^{( T/ C)} 07:12, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
45. Support this nomination. Yamaguchi先生 07:33, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
46. Support well deserved.-- Looper5920 08:40, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
47. Weak Support barely makes it. -- Masssiveego 09:04, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
48. Support: Ahonc ( Talk) 13:35, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
49. Strong support, does great work at Portal:Germany and in translation. Angr ( talk • contribs) 15:17, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
50. Support along the lines 'not-an-admin-yet? I thought he was...'. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 16:45, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply
51. Support Great contributor. Covington 04:29, 2 April 2006 (UTC) reply
52. Support. Great Wikipedian. - Tangot a ngo 10:36, 2 April 2006 (UTC) reply
53. Support. He isn't an admin already? Wow. SushiGeek 19:17, 2 April 2006 (UTC) reply
54. Support. Looks good. — Rebelguys2 ^talk 21:26, 2 April 2006 (UTC) reply
55. Support, great job at Georg Forster, helpful mediator, very experienced and active in Wikipedia Sciurinæ 23:03, 2 April 2006 (UTC) reply
56. Support - nice hardworking editor, should be a good admin abakharev 23:38, 2 April 2006 (UTC) reply
57. Definitely Support Space Cadet 00:57, 3 April 2006 (UTC) reply
58. Support Jitse Niesen ( talk) 02:28, 3 April 2006 (UTC) reply
59. Support. Would make a great admin. — TheKMan ^talk 05:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC) reply
60. Support Capable and I second the "polite" part, even when we don't always see eye to eye. I like that signature. Gets my support, good luck. Gryffindor 08:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC) reply
61. Support - Good editor and nice guy. -- CBDunkerson 10:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC) reply
62. Support -- Ugur Basak 14:33, 3 April 2006 (UTC) reply
63. Support, agree with Mmounties. Olessi 18:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC) reply
64. Support. -- DS1953 ^talk 18:44, 3 April 2006 (UTC) reply
65. Support ( S). — FireFox • T [19:35, 3 April 2006]
66. Supportof course. Jedi6 -(need help?) 19:38, 3 April 2006 (UTC) reply
67. Support per nom and recommendation from Mmounties. — Doug Bell ^{talk• contrib} 23:11, 3 April 2006 (UTC) reply
68. Support No evidence that admin tools will be misused-- MONGO 00:50, 4 April 2006 (UTC) reply
69. Support for good record, good recommendations. -- Fire Star 01:53, 4 April 2006 (UTC) reply
70. Support™. -- Rory 0 96 02:59, 4 April 2006 (UTC) reply
71. Strong support per nom and recs. Joe 04:35, 4 April 2006 (UTC) reply
72. Support Sarah Ewart ( Talk) 11:48, 4 April 2006 (UTC) reply
73. Support Pavel Vozenilek 13:05, 4 April 2006 (UTC) reply
74. Support -- HappyCamper 00:01, 5 April 2006 (UTC) reply
75. -- Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 00:05, 5 April 2006 (UTC) reply
76. Unlikely to abuse admin tools. Christopher Parham (talk) 05:57, 5 April 2006 (UTC) reply
77. Support Fine editor, will be an even bigger asset to the community when armed with a mop. -- Cactus.man ✍ 07:58, 5 April 2006 (UTC) reply
78. Aye, why not. Hiding talk 21:46, 5 April 2006 (UTC) reply
79. Supporting a fellow Minnesotan... kmccoy (talk) 04:28, 6 April 2006 (UTC) reply
80. Support, {{ RFA cliche 1}}. Conscious 04:42, 6 April 2006 (UTC) reply
81. Support StabiloBoss 15:13, 6 April 2006 (UTC) reply

Oppose

Neutral

Comments

• 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. Mathbot 06:30, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply
• See Kusma's edit count and contribution tree with Interiot's tool.

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:

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 have been doing some New page patrol, and I anticipate I would be doing more of that, since admin powers would obviously help with that for speedy deletion of test and attack pages. I also expect to be helping at *fD (I have been active at AfD, MfD, RfD and TfD and would of course limit myself to those in the beginning). I expect I should help with WP:CP, where I have reported many pages and sometimes felt sorry for the poor admins that have to deal with them. I have also done a little vandal-fighting recently, and the single-click rollback and the ability to block vandals instead of just warning and reporting them would certainly help with these, so I might expand my activities in RC patrol. I also enjoy moving, merging, redirecting and disambiguating, where admin powers could help me to delete redirects with history that block a move, or to merge histories of pages moved by cut and paste. Of course I won't do all of these things at once: I have had somewhat changing Wikipedia interests in the last couple of months, and I expect that to continue if I am granted admin powers.

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

A: Currently, I am most pleased with some things going on at Portal:Germany. Our announcement page is getting rather nice as more and more people are getting involved, we now have monthly-changing Selected articles and pictures of high quality, and of course there is my personal project: Portal:Germany/Anniversaries, a work in progress to display selected anniversaries for every day of the year. In article space, my work (apart from vandalism reversions and link repair) has been mostly limited to translating articles from the German Wikipedia, for example Elisabeth Church (Marburg), which was a Main page DYK.

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: My largest conflict to date was at Georg Forster, an article that I helped Alx-pl translate from the corresponding German article and that we really should finish preparing for FAC now. The dispute was about whether some rather insulting statements about Poles from his private letters should be included and how this issue should be adressed. After some unharmonious editing (one one day, I admit I actually did partially revert three times, although I think I can claim I was moving toward a compromise), the article has recently been quite stable. The good thing about this incident is that now the article is much better sourced than it would otherwise have been. This issue did not stress me too much, though. Sometimes, when I do get angry about something, I tend to write an emotional reply, then delete it instead of saving it and write a more neutral reply. (I started using this technique to stop myself from participating in Usenet flamewars). Or I just do something else, like fix some links for WP:DPL. Generally, leaving an issue alone (for example, by leaving an article while it is in the Wrong Version - the world won't end if it stays that way for a day) and doing something else (or going to sleep) helps me get a fresh perspective on things and to remember to assume good faith, which usually helps to ensure that debates don't get too personal and can stay focused on improving Wikipedia. Kusma (討論) 06:13, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply

Questions from JoshuaZ

1 Do you think your work translating articles has lead to any insight/knowledge that other admins might lack. If so please explain why.

I don't think translation work or WP:PNT maintenance gives me that much more of a special perspective than simply speaking some other languages and being able to compare articles and processes on this and other language Wikipedias. My work at WP:PNT (mostly consisting of housekeeping, guessing the language an article is written in, and nominating bad or untranslated articles for deletion) might have given me a somewhat special perspective on some parts of the AfD process, though: Foreign language articles often get lots of "delete, not English" votes at AfD, but when somebody then translates the article, they are usually (sometimes speedily) kept although the result of the vote is often "delete" because people don't watchlist the AfD to see if circumstances change.

2 Under what circumstances would you indefinitely block a user without prior direction from the Arb Com?

Only pure vandalism accounts, obvious impostors or inappropriate usernames should be blocked indefinitely on sight. If there is a trace of doubt about whether the user falls into one of these categories, I would not block indefinitely. Kusma (討論) 07:45, 31 March 2006 (UTC) reply

Questions Masssiveego

1. Any particular reason why there were zero edits for 6 months?

Not really. I just didn't get hooked on editing until last November (instead, I spent a lot of time reading Wikipedia, especially Special:Randompage). I might have fixed a typo or two while not logged in, but I don't really remember.

2. When is it fine to access Wikipedia from a open proxie?

Never, since policy prohibits it.

WP: NOP: "No restrictions are placed on reading Wikipedia"

Only never to editing Wikipedia. -- Masssiveego 09:04, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply

3. Can you delete an article that writes about a labor unrest as a speedy delete?

Sure, but only if it qualifies under CSD A6 (attack page) or CSD A8 (blatant copyvio). If there are doubts about the notability or truthfulness of the topic, they should be taken care of through AfD (or possibly WP:PROD), not speedy deletion. Kusma (討論) 05:12, 1 April 2006 (UTC) reply

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