final (54/1/1) ending 07:51, 6 August 2005MarkSweep (
talk·contribs) has been with us since 9 April 2004 and has amassed 6084 edits. He is often cool-headed and fair in various contentious issues. I didn't realize that he is not already an admin until I him "reverting linkspam" on a largescale without the rollback feature. This user has done a lot of work in reverting vandalism (especially lately with all the
GrandCru socks) and will surely benefit from adminship.
Jiang 07:51, 30 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
Thanks, Jiang. I accept. --
MarkSweep 14:42, 30 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support Whenever we have disagreed MarkSweep is dedicated to using discussion and policy to find a solution.
SchmuckyTheCat 16:53, 30 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support - He's a productive guy. --
Chris 18:36, 30 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. He added a nice bit of badly-needed sanity to the whole Sollog mess, and does good work both editing and resolving problems.
Mindspillage(spill yours?) 20:06, 30 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support; a truly excellent candidate. Contribs and talk pages all show what I like to see.
Antandrus (talk) 21:29, 30 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support, MarkSweep should have a broom.
Wyss 00:53, 31 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Excellent editor, will certainly be an excellent administrator.
Wile E. Heresiarch 04:24, 31 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. There may be disagreements over content issues, but anyone can see when someone is using his head and not his heart when attemting to find a solution out of sticky issues. Marksweep is clearly one of them. ;)--
Huaiwei 07:10, 31 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Has demonstrated ability to remain cool under pressure. -
Loren 07:47, 31 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. I agree with Hoary :) --
Dmcdevit·
t 07:50, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
Support, clearly qualified and would be a valued admin.
Gblaz 20:53, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
Support, this user meets my criterion of not being a vandal.
kmccoy(talk) 02:38, 1 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support, well-qualified. Glad to know he isn't a vandal, too. ;)
Hall Monitor 18:21, 1 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support Solid user. I don't know if you were aware of this or not, but this nomination was vandalized the other day. A sockpuppet added around 13 fake votes in opposition. I reverted them and posted the sockpuppet on
WP:VIP. He was banned the following day. He (or she, I don't know for sure) demonstrated great hatred towards both you and your nominator,
User:Jiang.
Ryan 16:24, August 2, 2005 (UTC)
we haven't met, so this may be a sheep vote.
dab(ᛏ) 18:25, 3 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Sopport. I've been running into him on the mathematical articles and I saw that he was very helpful, so I'm confident he will be a good admin.
Jitse Niesen (
talk) 23:40, 3 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. I've been favorably impressed by his handling of some intransigent editors. --
Antaeus Feldspar 04:22, 4 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Although I resent his fraudulent use of my name, Support because he's a fine Wikipedian. -
Mark 04:54, 4 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. What nonsense. I should not have to vote for this. I'd vouch for him but I'm not sure he wouldn't actually have to vouch for me instead. Fellow
Sollog editor.
JRM ·
Talk 17:39, 4 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support, I missed this vote earlier. Good editor.
Func(
t,
c ) 06:10, 5 August 2005 (UTC)reply
:-O What do you mean he wasn't one already! -
David Gerard 06:16, 5 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. I've seen this chap around a lot; particularly the whole
Sollog thing, which I was part of as well. In fact, I ditto his comments about maturation etc; I started off quite combatative and mellowed myself, so I feel a supernatural... connection with this man, a... subperceptual cognitive harmonisation.-
Ashley Pomeroy 18:00, 5 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Very good and supportive editor, I honestly thought he already was an admin.
JtkieferT |
@ |
C ----- 05:56, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
Eeek. Almost missed this one. Support.
Kelly Martin 06:05, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
Oppose
Oppose - I am fully aware I am outnumbered here, however I would like to point out that MarkSweep opposed my application of removing personal attacks and did not file an RfC or anything on the matter, but simply went straight for a
requestion for arbitration "against" me where he made biased generalizations about my communication instead of taking a full look into my handling of communications by others. --
AI 00:47, 1 August 2005 (UTC)reply
A. I'd like to get more actively involved in RC patrol, and would be happy to help with anything urgent on
WP:ANI, which is already on my watchlist.
Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion and
Category:Redundant images need to be cleaned out regularly, which I'd be happy to help with.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. Most of the articles I've edited are group efforts that I cannot take credit for. I like the current state of our
Sollog article. One thing I can take full credit for is a featured picture, namely
Image:Lens aperture side.jpg.
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 learned more than I ever imagined from the Sollog affair. I was a relative newbie when I casually put a VfD tag on the
Sollog article. The next two weeks were a period of rapid aging/maturation, depending on how you want to look at it (and the whole thing was far from over after two weeks). I've learned a lot from the senior folks involved in the Sollog affair about NPOV, keeping calm, firefighting, when to use carrots and when to use sticks, etc. My main regret is that we all indulged the genuine trolls for too long. Trolls and vandals don't cause stress for me; those problems are more or less trivial. The stress-inducing cases are editors who could play a useful role, but for one reason or another don't. If there is even a slight chance that they are interested in contributing in a constructive way, they deserve all the help and patience in the world. But if it's clear that they've decided to play by their own rules, I haven't hesitated to request admin assistance in the past. On Wikipedia, I believe in
Fixing Broken Windows – not for any ideological reason, but because problems do very often get worse unless they are addressed in their early stages. Related to this, I'm currently involved in an ongoing arbitration case which I initiated (I don't want to turn this into a soapbox, so I'll leave it at that).
final (54/1/1) ending 07:51, 6 August 2005MarkSweep (
talk·contribs) has been with us since 9 April 2004 and has amassed 6084 edits. He is often cool-headed and fair in various contentious issues. I didn't realize that he is not already an admin until I him "reverting linkspam" on a largescale without the rollback feature. This user has done a lot of work in reverting vandalism (especially lately with all the
GrandCru socks) and will surely benefit from adminship.
Jiang 07:51, 30 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
Thanks, Jiang. I accept. --
MarkSweep 14:42, 30 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support Whenever we have disagreed MarkSweep is dedicated to using discussion and policy to find a solution.
SchmuckyTheCat 16:53, 30 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support - He's a productive guy. --
Chris 18:36, 30 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. He added a nice bit of badly-needed sanity to the whole Sollog mess, and does good work both editing and resolving problems.
Mindspillage(spill yours?) 20:06, 30 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support; a truly excellent candidate. Contribs and talk pages all show what I like to see.
Antandrus (talk) 21:29, 30 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support, MarkSweep should have a broom.
Wyss 00:53, 31 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Excellent editor, will certainly be an excellent administrator.
Wile E. Heresiarch 04:24, 31 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. There may be disagreements over content issues, but anyone can see when someone is using his head and not his heart when attemting to find a solution out of sticky issues. Marksweep is clearly one of them. ;)--
Huaiwei 07:10, 31 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Has demonstrated ability to remain cool under pressure. -
Loren 07:47, 31 July 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. I agree with Hoary :) --
Dmcdevit·
t 07:50, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
Support, clearly qualified and would be a valued admin.
Gblaz 20:53, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
Support, this user meets my criterion of not being a vandal.
kmccoy(talk) 02:38, 1 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support, well-qualified. Glad to know he isn't a vandal, too. ;)
Hall Monitor 18:21, 1 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support Solid user. I don't know if you were aware of this or not, but this nomination was vandalized the other day. A sockpuppet added around 13 fake votes in opposition. I reverted them and posted the sockpuppet on
WP:VIP. He was banned the following day. He (or she, I don't know for sure) demonstrated great hatred towards both you and your nominator,
User:Jiang.
Ryan 16:24, August 2, 2005 (UTC)
we haven't met, so this may be a sheep vote.
dab(ᛏ) 18:25, 3 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Sopport. I've been running into him on the mathematical articles and I saw that he was very helpful, so I'm confident he will be a good admin.
Jitse Niesen (
talk) 23:40, 3 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. I've been favorably impressed by his handling of some intransigent editors. --
Antaeus Feldspar 04:22, 4 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Although I resent his fraudulent use of my name, Support because he's a fine Wikipedian. -
Mark 04:54, 4 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. What nonsense. I should not have to vote for this. I'd vouch for him but I'm not sure he wouldn't actually have to vouch for me instead. Fellow
Sollog editor.
JRM ·
Talk 17:39, 4 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support, I missed this vote earlier. Good editor.
Func(
t,
c ) 06:10, 5 August 2005 (UTC)reply
:-O What do you mean he wasn't one already! -
David Gerard 06:16, 5 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. I've seen this chap around a lot; particularly the whole
Sollog thing, which I was part of as well. In fact, I ditto his comments about maturation etc; I started off quite combatative and mellowed myself, so I feel a supernatural... connection with this man, a... subperceptual cognitive harmonisation.-
Ashley Pomeroy 18:00, 5 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Very good and supportive editor, I honestly thought he already was an admin.
JtkieferT |
@ |
C ----- 05:56, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
Eeek. Almost missed this one. Support.
Kelly Martin 06:05, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
Oppose
Oppose - I am fully aware I am outnumbered here, however I would like to point out that MarkSweep opposed my application of removing personal attacks and did not file an RfC or anything on the matter, but simply went straight for a
requestion for arbitration "against" me where he made biased generalizations about my communication instead of taking a full look into my handling of communications by others. --
AI 00:47, 1 August 2005 (UTC)reply
A. I'd like to get more actively involved in RC patrol, and would be happy to help with anything urgent on
WP:ANI, which is already on my watchlist.
Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion and
Category:Redundant images need to be cleaned out regularly, which I'd be happy to help with.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. Most of the articles I've edited are group efforts that I cannot take credit for. I like the current state of our
Sollog article. One thing I can take full credit for is a featured picture, namely
Image:Lens aperture side.jpg.
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 learned more than I ever imagined from the Sollog affair. I was a relative newbie when I casually put a VfD tag on the
Sollog article. The next two weeks were a period of rapid aging/maturation, depending on how you want to look at it (and the whole thing was far from over after two weeks). I've learned a lot from the senior folks involved in the Sollog affair about NPOV, keeping calm, firefighting, when to use carrots and when to use sticks, etc. My main regret is that we all indulged the genuine trolls for too long. Trolls and vandals don't cause stress for me; those problems are more or less trivial. The stress-inducing cases are editors who could play a useful role, but for one reason or another don't. If there is even a slight chance that they are interested in contributing in a constructive way, they deserve all the help and patience in the world. But if it's clear that they've decided to play by their own rules, I haven't hesitated to request admin assistance in the past. On Wikipedia, I believe in
Fixing Broken Windows – not for any ideological reason, but because problems do very often get worse unless they are addressed in their early stages. Related to this, I'm currently involved in an ongoing arbitration case which I initiated (I don't want to turn this into a soapbox, so I'll leave it at that).