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Netsnipe ( talk · contribs) – self nomination
I've been editing Wikipedia since October 2003, but I haven't considered myself a real Wikipedian until this year. It is with some irony that one of my oft-quoted lines on Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion is "you are only notable when others are writing about you, not when you decide to write about yourself". However, over the last fortnight whenever I've been on #wikipedia or #vandalism-en-wp requesting urgent assistance to clear a backlog on WP:AIV, people have continually asked me why I wasn't an administrator yet. So here I am humbly asking for a bigger mop and bucket because I feel that I am ready to take on more responsibilities around here.
Deep down I believe that information wants to be free and I feel that it's my duty to make sure that this place doesn't fall apart while this great project tries to document everything worth writing about known to humanity. It's a sad indictment on human nature whenever people try and sabotage this noble endeavour by vandalising it and trying to hijack it for use as billboard and soapbox. Nevertheless, "many hands make light work" and I would like to contribute my dedication to the administration here. -- Netsnipe (Talk) 14:52, 27 August 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:
While on recent changes patrol, I also fact check sources provided in contentious contributions to ensure that they are indeed
Wikipedia:Reliable Sources. For example, upon noticing an edit accusing
John Dugard of being an anti-semite by
Zeq (
talk •
contribs) I discovered that the source he was providing was a partisan newsletter
selectively citing from official United Nations' reports. In attempt to further expand the article recently, I've also uncovered a potentially
fake source (statement proved genuine by
email). Other examples of my source checking include uncovering the use of biased sources in articles such as
IG Farben Building and the
Korean War.
I do realise and recognise that my major shortcoming is that as an encyclopedia, I haven't been writing as much new material as I should be, since fighting link spammers and verifying sources is very time consuming. In the past I have only contributed when I've seen a major omission (eg Roman Catholic Church. United Nations Security Council veto power) but I hope that since I've joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia, I can make more contributions along the lines of Australian constitutional crisis of 1975. At the moment I am also cleaning up the biography of former Nigerian military ruler Ibrahim Babangida which had recently been trampled over by edit warring since he announced a bid for a presidential election next year.
I also recognise that all people including myself have inherent biases and whenever I feel that I am coming across a brick wall I will ask others to take a look and see if they can provide a third opinion.
As for stress, I have enough to deal with in real life to get stressed on Wikipedia! = P But anyway, I can always de-stress by just hanging out with the community on #wikipedia IRC and on Wikipedia:Esperanza and maybe, just maybe start working on that great Featured Article one day.
Question from Andeh.
Question from (aeropagitica) (talk)
Question from Andeh
Optional Question from Yanksox
Statistics for all user's edits. Voice-of-All 21:38, 27 August 2006 (UTC) reply
Final (66/4/3) Ended 19:27, 2006-09-03 (UTC)
Netsnipe ( talk · contribs) – self nomination
I've been editing Wikipedia since October 2003, but I haven't considered myself a real Wikipedian until this year. It is with some irony that one of my oft-quoted lines on Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion is "you are only notable when others are writing about you, not when you decide to write about yourself". However, over the last fortnight whenever I've been on #wikipedia or #vandalism-en-wp requesting urgent assistance to clear a backlog on WP:AIV, people have continually asked me why I wasn't an administrator yet. So here I am humbly asking for a bigger mop and bucket because I feel that I am ready to take on more responsibilities around here.
Deep down I believe that information wants to be free and I feel that it's my duty to make sure that this place doesn't fall apart while this great project tries to document everything worth writing about known to humanity. It's a sad indictment on human nature whenever people try and sabotage this noble endeavour by vandalising it and trying to hijack it for use as billboard and soapbox. Nevertheless, "many hands make light work" and I would like to contribute my dedication to the administration here. -- Netsnipe (Talk) 14:52, 27 August 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:
While on recent changes patrol, I also fact check sources provided in contentious contributions to ensure that they are indeed
Wikipedia:Reliable Sources. For example, upon noticing an edit accusing
John Dugard of being an anti-semite by
Zeq (
talk •
contribs) I discovered that the source he was providing was a partisan newsletter
selectively citing from official United Nations' reports. In attempt to further expand the article recently, I've also uncovered a potentially
fake source (statement proved genuine by
email). Other examples of my source checking include uncovering the use of biased sources in articles such as
IG Farben Building and the
Korean War.
I do realise and recognise that my major shortcoming is that as an encyclopedia, I haven't been writing as much new material as I should be, since fighting link spammers and verifying sources is very time consuming. In the past I have only contributed when I've seen a major omission (eg Roman Catholic Church. United Nations Security Council veto power) but I hope that since I've joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia, I can make more contributions along the lines of Australian constitutional crisis of 1975. At the moment I am also cleaning up the biography of former Nigerian military ruler Ibrahim Babangida which had recently been trampled over by edit warring since he announced a bid for a presidential election next year.
I also recognise that all people including myself have inherent biases and whenever I feel that I am coming across a brick wall I will ask others to take a look and see if they can provide a third opinion.
As for stress, I have enough to deal with in real life to get stressed on Wikipedia! = P But anyway, I can always de-stress by just hanging out with the community on #wikipedia IRC and on Wikipedia:Esperanza and maybe, just maybe start working on that great Featured Article one day.
Question from Andeh.
Question from (aeropagitica) (talk)
Question from Andeh
Optional Question from Yanksox
Statistics for all user's edits. Voice-of-All 21:38, 27 August 2006 (UTC) reply