Final (42/0/0); Originally scheduled to end 22:05, 21 November 2007 (UTC). Nomination successful. -- Deskana (talk) 22:16, 21 November 2007 (UTC) reply
Nikki311 ( talk · contribs) - Ladies and Gentleman, I present to you Nikki311. She has been with us for one year, and is very active in editing and maintaining our Professional Wrestling articles. Right off the bat, people are going to notice that, proportionally to her 16,300+ edits, she does not have that many Wikipedia Namespace edits. For many this may be a deal breaker, but allow me to try to persuade you otherwise...
As noted, she frequently deals with articles dealing with Professional Wrestling and, without hyperbole, we desperately need administrators in that area. As a preface, let me explain why: Our professional wrestling articles are very high traffic. They are frequent targets for vandalism and trolling. Many of the edits are from hit-and-run editors that don't care about the goals of our Project, that are more concerned with adding rumors and speculation and opinion than they are with keeping articles neutral, verifiable, sourced, and copyvio free. Professional Wrestling articles frequently need semi-protection and protection from editing because of these hit-and-run edits, and also frequently have images and other media on them violate are non-free content policies; indeed, anecdotally, Wrestling articles are second only to articles on musicians and bands in terms of abuse of non-free media and outright copyright violation. This is not indicative of all our regular Wrestling editors, who lately have really begun to step up to an impressive degree, its just that the bad outweighs the good and its a hard fight.
So why Nikki? Scrolling through her edits, certain things become immediately clear: she has a track record of quality editing (including major contributions to one featured article). She understands and appreciates the goals of our Project first, and can evidently identify and excise misinformation. While adminship is not needed to continue doing this, her pre-existing knowledge of the subject and proven ability to identify vandalism and, more importantly, misinformation and rumors, gives her a leg up on protecting pages where needed and blocking trolls and vandals where needed. She also has a keen understanding of our image policies, which is also desperately needed.
So, unlike many candidates who have very general experience in vandal fighting or participating in various processes, Nikki311 has very specific experience in a very specific area of editing that desperately needs administrators who have knowledge of the subject and a willingness and a desire to use the necessary tools to maintain the quality and integrity of our Project. Thank you for your consideration. Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 09:44, 14 November 2007 (UTC) reply
Co-nomination from Nahallac Silverwinds
Well Jeffrey just about took all the words out of my mouth! To start off by echoing what Jeffrey has said, the Pro Wrestling area of Wikipedia sorely needs more admins, especially due to the constant vandalism, trolling and image copyvio issues it has. Regardless of issues this area of Wikipedia has, Nikki is an excellent, experienced Wikipedian who has shown time and time again that she understands Wikipedia policy as it relates to verifiable accurate information, quality sources, citations, trolling, vandalism, article protection, image policies, GA and FA processes and just about anything else that I've ever seen cross her path. She has earned this Rfa in her own right.
When she is not overly familiar with something, Nikki will do her best to learn about it and help others understand the issue as well. She explains things thoroughly and always tackles heated debates (between other people, because I've never once seen her start or even propel an inappropriate conversation/flame fest/etc.) with an open mind, clear and rational thought, sound reasoning and never a cross word - she is always civil.
Nikki is a huge proponent of referencing and citations and has been instrumental in getting a myriad of pro wrestling-related articles sourced and cited. In addition to the prose re-writes, and the spelling and grammar enhancements that she also performs regularly, the amount and quality of referencing that Nikki has brought to these articles has greatly increased their value to Wikipedia. What's even better is that I've seen her strive-for-excellence attitude seemingly rub off on a number of people in the Pro-Wrestling WikiProject, myself included. This has definitely aided in the complete turn-around of WP:PW to a project we can be proud of.
While Nikki is quite capable of turning an article around on her own, she works extremely well with other editors in collaboration projects and always has ideas and pointers to assist other people with their own article improvements. In this way, she has not only been a driving force behind several GAs that she has personally edited ( Candice Michelle, Nora Greenwald, Trish Stratus to name a few), but also in quite a few that she has given constructive criticism to in a peer-review manner.
I know I'm forgetting something I was thinking about last night because there are just so many good things to say about this editor. While Nikki is already an example Wikipedian, she will be that much more valuable and the Wikipedia community will only be enhanced by promoting her to admin. Thanks, -- Naha| (talk) 16:41, 14 November 2007 (UTC) reply
Thank you so much for the kind words! I accept. Nikki311 20:03, 14 November 2007 (UTC) reply
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Final (42/0/0); Originally scheduled to end 22:05, 21 November 2007 (UTC). Nomination successful. -- Deskana (talk) 22:16, 21 November 2007 (UTC) reply
Nikki311 ( talk · contribs) - Ladies and Gentleman, I present to you Nikki311. She has been with us for one year, and is very active in editing and maintaining our Professional Wrestling articles. Right off the bat, people are going to notice that, proportionally to her 16,300+ edits, she does not have that many Wikipedia Namespace edits. For many this may be a deal breaker, but allow me to try to persuade you otherwise...
As noted, she frequently deals with articles dealing with Professional Wrestling and, without hyperbole, we desperately need administrators in that area. As a preface, let me explain why: Our professional wrestling articles are very high traffic. They are frequent targets for vandalism and trolling. Many of the edits are from hit-and-run editors that don't care about the goals of our Project, that are more concerned with adding rumors and speculation and opinion than they are with keeping articles neutral, verifiable, sourced, and copyvio free. Professional Wrestling articles frequently need semi-protection and protection from editing because of these hit-and-run edits, and also frequently have images and other media on them violate are non-free content policies; indeed, anecdotally, Wrestling articles are second only to articles on musicians and bands in terms of abuse of non-free media and outright copyright violation. This is not indicative of all our regular Wrestling editors, who lately have really begun to step up to an impressive degree, its just that the bad outweighs the good and its a hard fight.
So why Nikki? Scrolling through her edits, certain things become immediately clear: she has a track record of quality editing (including major contributions to one featured article). She understands and appreciates the goals of our Project first, and can evidently identify and excise misinformation. While adminship is not needed to continue doing this, her pre-existing knowledge of the subject and proven ability to identify vandalism and, more importantly, misinformation and rumors, gives her a leg up on protecting pages where needed and blocking trolls and vandals where needed. She also has a keen understanding of our image policies, which is also desperately needed.
So, unlike many candidates who have very general experience in vandal fighting or participating in various processes, Nikki311 has very specific experience in a very specific area of editing that desperately needs administrators who have knowledge of the subject and a willingness and a desire to use the necessary tools to maintain the quality and integrity of our Project. Thank you for your consideration. Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 09:44, 14 November 2007 (UTC) reply
Co-nomination from Nahallac Silverwinds
Well Jeffrey just about took all the words out of my mouth! To start off by echoing what Jeffrey has said, the Pro Wrestling area of Wikipedia sorely needs more admins, especially due to the constant vandalism, trolling and image copyvio issues it has. Regardless of issues this area of Wikipedia has, Nikki is an excellent, experienced Wikipedian who has shown time and time again that she understands Wikipedia policy as it relates to verifiable accurate information, quality sources, citations, trolling, vandalism, article protection, image policies, GA and FA processes and just about anything else that I've ever seen cross her path. She has earned this Rfa in her own right.
When she is not overly familiar with something, Nikki will do her best to learn about it and help others understand the issue as well. She explains things thoroughly and always tackles heated debates (between other people, because I've never once seen her start or even propel an inappropriate conversation/flame fest/etc.) with an open mind, clear and rational thought, sound reasoning and never a cross word - she is always civil.
Nikki is a huge proponent of referencing and citations and has been instrumental in getting a myriad of pro wrestling-related articles sourced and cited. In addition to the prose re-writes, and the spelling and grammar enhancements that she also performs regularly, the amount and quality of referencing that Nikki has brought to these articles has greatly increased their value to Wikipedia. What's even better is that I've seen her strive-for-excellence attitude seemingly rub off on a number of people in the Pro-Wrestling WikiProject, myself included. This has definitely aided in the complete turn-around of WP:PW to a project we can be proud of.
While Nikki is quite capable of turning an article around on her own, she works extremely well with other editors in collaboration projects and always has ideas and pointers to assist other people with their own article improvements. In this way, she has not only been a driving force behind several GAs that she has personally edited ( Candice Michelle, Nora Greenwald, Trish Stratus to name a few), but also in quite a few that she has given constructive criticism to in a peer-review manner.
I know I'm forgetting something I was thinking about last night because there are just so many good things to say about this editor. While Nikki is already an example Wikipedian, she will be that much more valuable and the Wikipedia community will only be enhanced by promoting her to admin. Thanks, -- Naha| (talk) 16:41, 14 November 2007 (UTC) reply
Thank you so much for the kind words! I accept. Nikki311 20:03, 14 November 2007 (UTC) reply
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:
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Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Nikki311 before commenting.