Final: 104/1/2. Closed as successful by WilliamH ( talk) 17:36, 15 May 2013 (UTC) reply
Mkdw ( talk · contribs) – I'm pleased to be able to offer up Mkdw for your consideration as an administrator. Whilst I'd seen him around, I only really became aware of him when he asked me if I'd consider adopting him - I declined to do so "officially", since he was already more a more-than-competent editor, but I kept a casual eye on his editing after that and liked what I saw. Recently he suggested he might think about running for adminship at some point in the future, so I took a closer look to see which areas he would need to improve in before filing an RFA. My verdict was that he's perfectly ready for the bit right now, and so I'm putting him forward.
Mkdw has been here since 2006, generally editing gnomishly but still managing to get Vancouver, History of Solidarity and Portal:Vancouver to Featured status, and getting James Gwyn to GA pretty much single-handed. He's worked in a wide range of areas, from CSD ( his Twinkle CSDs have only been logged since December, but there's still enough red there to paint a London bus) to AFC to ANI to numerous other three-letter acronyms, generally pitching in wherever a helping hand is needed. In his interactions with other editors, I've found him to be courteous, thoughtful and thorough in his explanations, willing to defend his position but also capable of re-assessing it and learning from new information. In short, I can think of few people who would be better suited to the tools; he's got bags of CLUE and I have no qualms about recommending him to the community as a sysop. Yunshui 雲 水 09:56, 8 May 2013 (UTC) reply
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WP:AFC. In fairness, I think Pingpong123q was given a lot of
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. Using that alone as my basis, I would definitely say there are non-neutral articles on Wikipedia. To directly answer your question, I have not heavily been involved nor have closely followed much of the politics around the community. I think the most controversial article where neutrality was disputed, and I was involved, was back in 2007 regarding Hollywood North and whether the term applied to Vancouver, Toronto, or all of Canada. Even then that was not really a major controversy. I'm not very political regarding issues on Wikipedia and don't closely follow the various spheres of influence affecting the community. Sorry to again have a bit of a non-answer on this one, but I'm really not very knowledgeable about this subject matter. Having been away for such a long period of time and having not been active in any of those types of discussions because my time has been mostly focused in other areas is the main reason for that. The closest I could come to commenting at all would be to say that I read a Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review his contributions before commenting.
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Worse though, is for that same admin who also opposed to spend time reverting good edits." <shrug>. -- Stfg ( talk) 08:50, 14 May 2013 (UTC) reply
Final: 104/1/2. Closed as successful by WilliamH ( talk) 17:36, 15 May 2013 (UTC) reply
Mkdw ( talk · contribs) – I'm pleased to be able to offer up Mkdw for your consideration as an administrator. Whilst I'd seen him around, I only really became aware of him when he asked me if I'd consider adopting him - I declined to do so "officially", since he was already more a more-than-competent editor, but I kept a casual eye on his editing after that and liked what I saw. Recently he suggested he might think about running for adminship at some point in the future, so I took a closer look to see which areas he would need to improve in before filing an RFA. My verdict was that he's perfectly ready for the bit right now, and so I'm putting him forward.
Mkdw has been here since 2006, generally editing gnomishly but still managing to get Vancouver, History of Solidarity and Portal:Vancouver to Featured status, and getting James Gwyn to GA pretty much single-handed. He's worked in a wide range of areas, from CSD ( his Twinkle CSDs have only been logged since December, but there's still enough red there to paint a London bus) to AFC to ANI to numerous other three-letter acronyms, generally pitching in wherever a helping hand is needed. In his interactions with other editors, I've found him to be courteous, thoughtful and thorough in his explanations, willing to defend his position but also capable of re-assessing it and learning from new information. In short, I can think of few people who would be better suited to the tools; he's got bags of CLUE and I have no qualms about recommending him to the community as a sysop. Yunshui 雲 水 09:56, 8 May 2013 (UTC) reply
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:
{{
help-me}}
requests, and assisting editors build their articles at
WP:AFC. In fairness, I think Pingpong123q was given a lot of
rope. I would have been happy to have assisted them in any way, but after the 7th or 8th CSD tag and warning, and the edit warring at Colombo City despite attempts to explain, a threshold was passed. At that point TParis' block was warranted. I may have opted for a 24-48 hour block to allow the editor to take a breath and read through their talk page, but it was a very persistent pattern where an indef block for mass promotion, edit warring, and disruption was understandable.{{
NPOV}}
. Using that alone as my basis, I would definitely say there are non-neutral articles on Wikipedia. To directly answer your question, I have not heavily been involved nor have closely followed much of the politics around the community. I think the most controversial article where neutrality was disputed, and I was involved, was back in 2007 regarding Hollywood North and whether the term applied to Vancouver, Toronto, or all of Canada. Even then that was not really a major controversy. I'm not very political regarding issues on Wikipedia and don't closely follow the various spheres of influence affecting the community. Sorry to again have a bit of a non-answer on this one, but I'm really not very knowledgeable about this subject matter. Having been away for such a long period of time and having not been active in any of those types of discussions because my time has been mostly focused in other areas is the main reason for that. The closest I could come to commenting at all would be to say that I read a Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review his contributions before commenting.
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Worse though, is for that same admin who also opposed to spend time reverting good edits." <shrug>. -- Stfg ( talk) 08:50, 14 May 2013 (UTC) reply