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Final (26/0/0) ended 18:36 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Mushroom ( talk · contribs) – I think Mushroom should be an admin because he is very nice, and has joined many Wikipedia projects to help out the community! His contributions are very helpful, and he knows what vandalism and what it's not! He's also someone willing to explain his reasons for editing, and he's not afraid to help someone that needs help! VenomousNinja 03:02, 24 November 2005 (UTC) reply

• As VenomousNinja is fairly new, I'll throw my two cents into the nomination and note that Mushroom has been here since December of 2003, and a cursory review of his edit history indicates that he has participated in several improvement projects, including fixing bad links and bypassing redirects; also, he reverts anon vandals, and is very consistent about dropping a polite note on their pages afterwards. BD2412 T 03:36, 24 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept the nomination! Mushroom 18:36, 24 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Support

1. Support: Like I said in the nomination, he's very helpful, nice, and will help with alot of things! VenomousNinja 03:31, 24 November 2005 (UTC) reply
2. Support, looks good to me. Quentin Pierc e 19:14, 24 November 2005 (UTC) reply
3. Go on, then The Land 19:26, 24 November 2005 (UTC) reply
4. Support! BD2412 T 19:37, 24 November 2005 (UTC) reply
5. Support. If BDA is in favour, (s)he can't be bad. ナイトスタリオン ✉ 19:48, 24 November 2005 (UTC) reply
6. Support, I don't know much about this user, but (s)he seems to be OK, and I just want to support someone named "Mushroom" for adminship. — JIP | Talk 20:04, 24 November 2005 (UTC) reply
7. Support even though I once ate some bad mushrooms on a pizza and got really sick. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 21:13, 24 November 2005 (UTC) reply
8. Support seems like he make a good admin -- Rogerd 01:30, 25 November 2005 (UTC) reply
9. Support. utcursch | talk 03:37, 25 November 2005 (UTC) reply
10. Support MONGO 05:48, 25 November 2005 (UTC) reply
11. Merovingian 07:35, 25 November 2005 (UTC) reply
12. Support long term worthy contributor. (plus it doesnt hurt to have another inclusionist as an admin :P)   ALKIVAR ™ 07:54, 25 November 2005 (UTC) reply
13. Support Proto  t  c 11:01, 25 November 2005 (UTC) reply
14. Support DanielES15 He looks like he has good exeperience and he has helped with Wikipedia projects. 16:48(UTC), 25 November 2005
15. Support -- негіднийлють ^{( Reply | Spam Me! * )} 07:46, 26 November 2005 (UTC) reply
16. Support Izehar 22:56, 26 November 2005 (UTC) reply
17. Support Works hard around here! delldot | talk 06:20, 27 November 2005 (UTC) reply
18. Support, maybe more so because I like your name.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 12:42, 27 November 2005 (UTC) reply
19. Psilocybin support. El_C 12:55, 27 November 2005 (UTC) reply
20. Support Э нциклопедия * (talk) 22:57, 27 November 2005 (UTC) reply
21. Supporting mushroom, oh no Mushroom, a good editor. -- Bhadani 15:04, 28 November 2005 (UTC) reply
22. Support. Wow last 500 edits are stub sorting! Keep working hard and I like your user name. -- a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 20:39, 28 November 2005 (UTC) reply
23. Support as per BD2412. Silensor 22:22, 28 November 2005 (UTC) reply
24. Support - shows excellent janitorial skills. -- DS1953 04:13, 29 November 2005 (UTC) reply
25. Support. Job e 6 00:01, 1 December 2005 (UTC) reply
26. Support. nobs 06:34, 1 December 2005 (UTC) reply

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Questions for the candidate
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 think I would mainly help with fighting vandalism. These days, I see a lot of pages get vandalized and I can't do much, except reverting and warning vandals. I like to do this, and if you have a look at my contributions, a big percentage of edits is made of reverts, warnings, or adding the sharedip template to anon user pages. But I feel this isn't enough: vandals return, and I can't block them. As an administrator, I could do more: block vandals, protect pages, speedy delete nonsense, revert vandalism faster. I could also help with backlogs, WP:AFD and WP:CFD.

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

A. Usually, I don't make extensive edits to articles. I often fix red links, redirects, formatting, categories, unicode and so on. These may be minor edits, but I consider them important. I like lists: I'm the main editor of the List of GameCube games, and I did a lot of work on it. I also created five lists of Italian ministers: Interior, Foreign Affairs, Instruction, Justice and Defense, and I added succession boxes to the 80+ articles about people on these lists. Recently, I created the Agenore Incrocci stub, and I plan to expand it in the future. Since I'm Italian, I can also translate articles from the Italian Wikipedia: I'm currently in the process of translating my first "big" article, Andrea Zanzotto (compare with the small stub here). I will upload it when I have finished.

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 have never been in major conflicts with other editors and I've never participated in edit wars. If another Wikipedian tells me I've made a mistake, I try to correct it. If I think I was right, I discuss it with that person. I think the most important thing is to be open minded: a peaceful compromise can always be reached. Sometimes I feel stressed when dealing with persistent vandalism, but this is not a big problem for me, since I don't get angry easily. I don't like to revert edits of other (registered) users, and when I do this I try to explain my reasons, though sometimes I forget to. This happened with VenomousNinja, for example. I reverted one of his edits without giving an explanation, but then we talked [1], and now he's nominated me, so... :-)

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