Final (73/0/1) Ended 23:30, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Melchoir ( talk · contribs) – Melchoir has a deep and thorough knowledge of the systems and subsystems contained within Wikipedia. He has made a large number of edits within the encyclopedia, and has many more scattered around on the talk pages of users who have asked and received useful and constructive help and advice. He is an efficient and skilful newpage patroller, and an extremely helpful welcomer of new users (including, earlier this year, myself). His contribution record singles him out as a totally dedicated and committed member of the Wiki community, and will make a superb admin. I cannot praise him too highly. Vandals, beware!-- Anthony.bradbury 21:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC) reply
Conomination by Blnguyen
I would also like to nominate Melchoir. I offered him a nomination back in August, but fell a bit out of the loop since I tried to go on wikibreak and got pre-empted, so this is a bit late. Melchoir has been around for almost a year and is active primarily in editing the mathematics and physics branch of Wikipedia. He has created some 16 articles and around 20 more stubs, in the areas of flora, fauna, pure mathematics, theoretical physics and music. Aside from this he has grealty expanded and improved Maraschino cherry, Center of mass, Three cards problem, Addition, Equation, Dirac adjoint, Gamma matrices and Algebraic structure. All of which show a good understanding of referencing and NPOV, as demonstrated amply in three DYK selections. He has also worked on 0.999... for bring it pass FA, and also did a clean-up and maintenance of to FAs Medal of Honor and Able Archer 83 to prevent them from being delisted from FA. What stands out most in these articles beyond the sheer number and amount of text is that many were pure mathematics technical articles which require an extremely high level of precision of choice in the words and terminology. Not only the standard POV, but every word needs to be carefully chosen so that a completely wrong meaning does not come from it as a result. Thus his contributions are even more skillful and of higher magnitude than at first glance.
In terms of procedural knowledge, Melchoir has a good understanding of DYK process ( [1], [2]), and is particularly excellent in AfD process. He has an extremely high rate of discussion in AfD, with detailed commentary and frequently returns to a given AfD to respond to alternative opinions and to convince and reach a conclusion over the article ( See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Max kubiak, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Three_cards_and_a_top_hat, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/World_Wide_Web_War_I, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Robert_Baden-Powell's_sexual_orientation). He is one of the foremost adherents to the maxim that AfD should be a discussion with respect to policy, NPOV, etc, and would be one of the most wise people to make a judgment on sticky AfDs where sheer counting is not sufficient, but rather weighing up the arguments. As can be seen from his work on articles, discussing content, and FARs and FACs and on various Project forums, he is particularly good at this.
Melchoir is very skillful at discussing content and style issues, weighing up the pros/cons logically to get the best and fairest outcome in templates ( [3], [4], [5]), and in policy naming [6], big [7], [8], creating Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (schools) conventions. This extends to policy proposals also [9], [10]
In terms of content, he frequently discusses content well with others - for maths ( [11], [12], Talk:0.999... - [13], [14]) and in particular for FAR Wikipedia:Featured_article_review/Medal_of_Honor, and FA Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/0.999.... These are the most illustrative examples. He has over 2000 article talk edits and none of these are taggings - they are all discussions. He is always patient objective, calm, polite and rational. This is important as admins need to be cool and remain rational under fire, even when others do not.
His work at the Reference desk ( [15], [16] Wikipedia:Reference_desk_archive/Science/February_22-28_2006#Most_numerous_particle), shows that he is never unwilling to explain things to others and help them out. This is important as administrators need to clearly and at times patiently and extensive explain their actions. (He has at least 20 more topics in the archives which he explained thoroughly in maths, science and miscellaneous, but I didn't include all of them).
In a more technical sense, he is one of the very small minority who understand image policy well ( [17], [18], [19], [20]). This is important as most image deletions are due to 10-20 admins, a very uneven workload distribution. He reverts vandalism and warns vandals ( [21], [22]), and has a thorough understanding of the pillars of encyclopedic integrity - POV [23], OR [24] [25], sources [26], ad-spam [27], and copyvio [28].
His email, userpage and edit summaries are all in order. All in all, we have a great candidate, and it is an honour to nominate Melchoir for adminship. Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 02:24, 13 October 2006 (UTC) reply
Of course! Melchoir 22:40, 12 October 2006 (UTC) reply
...oh wow, Blnguyen makes me sound even better than I think! Melchoir 02:56, 13 October 2006 (UTC) reply
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:
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Melchoir's editcount stats summary as of 04:49, October 13 2006, using Interiot's tool. (aeropagitica) 04:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC) reply
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Final (73/0/1) Ended 23:30, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Melchoir ( talk · contribs) – Melchoir has a deep and thorough knowledge of the systems and subsystems contained within Wikipedia. He has made a large number of edits within the encyclopedia, and has many more scattered around on the talk pages of users who have asked and received useful and constructive help and advice. He is an efficient and skilful newpage patroller, and an extremely helpful welcomer of new users (including, earlier this year, myself). His contribution record singles him out as a totally dedicated and committed member of the Wiki community, and will make a superb admin. I cannot praise him too highly. Vandals, beware!-- Anthony.bradbury 21:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC) reply
Conomination by Blnguyen
I would also like to nominate Melchoir. I offered him a nomination back in August, but fell a bit out of the loop since I tried to go on wikibreak and got pre-empted, so this is a bit late. Melchoir has been around for almost a year and is active primarily in editing the mathematics and physics branch of Wikipedia. He has created some 16 articles and around 20 more stubs, in the areas of flora, fauna, pure mathematics, theoretical physics and music. Aside from this he has grealty expanded and improved Maraschino cherry, Center of mass, Three cards problem, Addition, Equation, Dirac adjoint, Gamma matrices and Algebraic structure. All of which show a good understanding of referencing and NPOV, as demonstrated amply in three DYK selections. He has also worked on 0.999... for bring it pass FA, and also did a clean-up and maintenance of to FAs Medal of Honor and Able Archer 83 to prevent them from being delisted from FA. What stands out most in these articles beyond the sheer number and amount of text is that many were pure mathematics technical articles which require an extremely high level of precision of choice in the words and terminology. Not only the standard POV, but every word needs to be carefully chosen so that a completely wrong meaning does not come from it as a result. Thus his contributions are even more skillful and of higher magnitude than at first glance.
In terms of procedural knowledge, Melchoir has a good understanding of DYK process ( [1], [2]), and is particularly excellent in AfD process. He has an extremely high rate of discussion in AfD, with detailed commentary and frequently returns to a given AfD to respond to alternative opinions and to convince and reach a conclusion over the article ( See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Max kubiak, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Three_cards_and_a_top_hat, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/World_Wide_Web_War_I, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Robert_Baden-Powell's_sexual_orientation). He is one of the foremost adherents to the maxim that AfD should be a discussion with respect to policy, NPOV, etc, and would be one of the most wise people to make a judgment on sticky AfDs where sheer counting is not sufficient, but rather weighing up the arguments. As can be seen from his work on articles, discussing content, and FARs and FACs and on various Project forums, he is particularly good at this.
Melchoir is very skillful at discussing content and style issues, weighing up the pros/cons logically to get the best and fairest outcome in templates ( [3], [4], [5]), and in policy naming [6], big [7], [8], creating Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (schools) conventions. This extends to policy proposals also [9], [10]
In terms of content, he frequently discusses content well with others - for maths ( [11], [12], Talk:0.999... - [13], [14]) and in particular for FAR Wikipedia:Featured_article_review/Medal_of_Honor, and FA Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/0.999.... These are the most illustrative examples. He has over 2000 article talk edits and none of these are taggings - they are all discussions. He is always patient objective, calm, polite and rational. This is important as admins need to be cool and remain rational under fire, even when others do not.
His work at the Reference desk ( [15], [16] Wikipedia:Reference_desk_archive/Science/February_22-28_2006#Most_numerous_particle), shows that he is never unwilling to explain things to others and help them out. This is important as administrators need to clearly and at times patiently and extensive explain their actions. (He has at least 20 more topics in the archives which he explained thoroughly in maths, science and miscellaneous, but I didn't include all of them).
In a more technical sense, he is one of the very small minority who understand image policy well ( [17], [18], [19], [20]). This is important as most image deletions are due to 10-20 admins, a very uneven workload distribution. He reverts vandalism and warns vandals ( [21], [22]), and has a thorough understanding of the pillars of encyclopedic integrity - POV [23], OR [24] [25], sources [26], ad-spam [27], and copyvio [28].
His email, userpage and edit summaries are all in order. All in all, we have a great candidate, and it is an honour to nominate Melchoir for adminship. Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 02:24, 13 October 2006 (UTC) reply
Of course! Melchoir 22:40, 12 October 2006 (UTC) reply
...oh wow, Blnguyen makes me sound even better than I think! Melchoir 02:56, 13 October 2006 (UTC) reply
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:
Question from Malber ( talk · contribs)
Question from Radiant
Melchoir's editcount stats summary as of 04:49, October 13 2006, using Interiot's tool. (aeropagitica) 04:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC) reply
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