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Nlu

Final (58/0/0) ended 00:56 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Nlu ( talk · contribs) – Nlu has been an active contributor since July 26, 2005, and has amassed over 5,000 edits in that short amount of time. He is extremely active in fighting vandalism. He is a constant fixture at WP:AIV; indeed, I estimate that about a quarter of the AIV reports I've acted upon as an administrator have been submitted by Nlu. He understands well Wikipedia's policies on vandalism and blocking, and is cool and calm when dealing with vandals. It is my belief that, as Wikipedia continues to grow, vandalism will only become more of a problem, and we need more capable administrators that are able to quickly deal with vandalism in a calm and rational manner. Wikipedia would benefit greatly if Nlu had access to administrator capabilities. a ndroid 79 15:10, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply

I was just about ready to nominate this guy right now but Android79 beat me to it ;) so why not co-nom. Nlu is a outstanding and nice user who is very active in fighting vandalism and He is going to use his power very wisely. -- JAranda | watz sup 02:08, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I accept. I think Android79 has been overly generous in his description :-) (thanks), but I will do whatever I can to help. (Oh, Android79, you guessed my gender correctly. :-)) -- Nlu 23:12, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply

Support

1. Support as nominator. I hope I didn't step on anyone's toes with this nomination – you know he's a good candidate when three others say "Crap, you beat me to it." The sooner he gets the mop, the better! a ndroid 79 04:19, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
2. Strong Support I was planning on nominating him myself, but I got beat to it. Great user, I see him reporting vandals all the time at AIV. - Greg Asche (talk) 00:49, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
3. Support because it's almost quitting time. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 00:59, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
4. Support this would be a useful admin -- Doc ^ask? 01:01, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
5. Support, active vandal-whacker. Tito xd^{( ?!?)} 01:05, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
6. Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 01:34, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
7. Support MONGO 01:53, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
8. Late Co-Nom Support' Yes Yes Yes -- JAranda | watz sup 02:08, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
9. Support looks good... best of luck to you.   ALKIVAR ™ 02:28, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
10. Support Good editor -- Rogerd 02:39, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
11. Support Excellent work on articles about the Han Dynasty.-- Confuzion 02:44, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
12. Support R e dwolf24 ( talk) 02:46, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
13. Support, most definitely. Active RC-patroller, dedicated to keeping the Wiki clean of vandalism; calm; good editor. Antandrus (talk) 02:51, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
14. Support, excellent RC-patroller. Kirill Lokshin 03:23, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
15. Support I was going to nominate him soon if no one else did. I'm tired of blocking vandals for him; let him do it himself! :) -- Ryan Delaney ^talk 03:27, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
16. Support. Rob e rt ^{T | @ | C} 03:47, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
17. Support.-- Sean| Bla ck 04:04, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
18. Support Always seems to beat in reverting vandalism, so lets make it even easier for him to do so :-D. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk. 04:20, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
19. Needs the LART and bucket. Wikibofh 04:23, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
20. Support Wikipedia would clearly benefit by offering Nlu access to the administrator tools. — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 05:35, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
21. I-was-away-traveling-support -- ( drini's _vandalproof page ☎ ) 05:37, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
22. Support. This user is unlikely to abuse administrator tools. Christopher Parham (talk) 07:01, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
23. Support per Android79 and Aranda56. — JIP | Talk 08:19, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
24. Support - he isn't one already? -- Cel e stianpower ^háblame 09:00, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
25. Support -- pgk^{( talk)} 09:32, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
26. Support Polite vandal-fighters. Xoloz 14:22, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
27. Support -- Kefalonia 14:27, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
28. Support Will do an excellent job. Gator (talk) 14:31, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
29. Support Nlu deserves a mop and will wield it well. Alf ^melmac 14:51, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
30. Support Johann Wolfgang 17:56, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
31. Support. Nothing to really say here. -- Martin Osterman 18:07, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
32. Of course Ac e tic ' ^Acid 18:20, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
33. Support Fad (ix) 21:32, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
34. Has made a positive and levelheaded expression, so yes. R adiant _>|< 22:05, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
35. Support. We need an infinite number of level-headed administrators. Bahn Mi 23:04, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
36. Support. user has many quality contributions. was planning to nominate Nlu myself.-- Ji ang 23:42, 12 November 2005 (UTC) reply
37. Privat e Butcher 00:51, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
38. Support - excellent editor. -- Ixfd64 01:08, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
39. Support. One of the most active RC Patrollers around. Owen× ☎ 03:22, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
40. Support RfA cliché #1. -- Psy guy ^(talk) 07:04, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
41. Support Fir e Fo x ^-CVU- 12:03, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
42. Support. -- GraemeL ^(talk) 12:56, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
43. Support! Sango 123 (talk) 17:34, 13 November 2005 (UTC) reply
44. Hell Yes Good editor. - Loren 01:34, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
45. Support. Very constructive edits, will make a fine admin. PJM 02:27, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
46. Support.-- Dakota ^{t e} 05:23, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
47. Support MONGO 06:19, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
48. Support Ive always seen Nlu around. Oran e (t) (c) (@) 06:39, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
49. Support. -- Joann e B 16:17, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
50. Support. Admin tools will be helpful for RC patrolling. Jayjg ^(talk) 18:18, 14 November 2005 (UTC) reply
51. STRONG SUPPORT. A catastrophic malfunction in HTML Tidy happened. Nlu kept calm in this crisis. Martial Law 05:21, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply
52. Support -- The Minister of War 08:11, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply
53. Support. -- Essjay · [[User_talk:Essjay| Talk]] 21:25, 15 November 2005 (UTC) reply
54. Support A solid, and candid, Wikipedian who should administrate nicely; should probe more deeply before assessing a situation, however. Good luck! E Pluribus Anthony 07:00, 16 November 2005 (UTC) reply
55. Would benefit from being able to push the delete button himself, instead of filling up CAT:CSD. I've speedied a lot of articles he's tagged over the past few days, and can't recall seeing any that didn't meet the criteria. — Cryptic (talk) 17:04, 16 November 2005 (UTC) reply
56. Support Rex^{( talk)} 17:52, 16 November 2005 (UTC) reply
57. Support. the wub "?!" 21:14, 16 November 2005 (UTC) reply
58. Support impressive dedication to the project -- anetode ╔╝ 09:42, 17 November 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. Of the eight types of duties outlined by Wikipedia:Administrators, I see what I'd help with the most is reversion -- since that's what I do already and I feel that I have good judgment in deciding when to revert and when not to. I also think that I'd be active in deleting unwanted pages. Blocking and unblocking I also see myself doing quite a bit. The other duties I think I'd do a bit less, but I'll try to help, except that I think that for the time being I won't be doing much database queries or playing around with the interface. -- Nlu 23:17, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply

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

A. I am most proud of my Han Dynasty-related article edits -- most of it expanding the emperors' articles and adding other figures' articles, including empresses and important officials. (I had done minimal editing to Han Dynasty itself, since the article was already well-written and well-fleshed out.) For examples, see Emperor Ming of Han, Empress Zhao Feiyan, and Huo Guang. I feel that while, prior to my arrival, English Wikipedia already had a good amount of information on Chinese history, much of it can be improved on by expansion and by correction and removal of incorrect information. That's what I've aimed to do during my time here. (I must admit that I've probably spent much more time on anti-vandalism efforts than on editing the last few weeks, and I'm hoping to get back to editing soon.) I've added a moderate number of baseball-related articles, and occasionally I've added/expanded articles in other fields. For me, accuracy/impartiality are important, and that's what I try to concentrate on when it comes to these other fields; adding information is not as important for me. -- Nlu 23:22, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply

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. The most stress comes from dealing with suspected vandals who might or might not be true vandals. Dealing with true vandals is easy; revert their changes and request blocks. Dealing with people who appear to be vandals but you're not sure about is harder, and occasional leads to issues. The situation dealing with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Allen Wood, for example, caused the subject of the article to vandalize my user page with racist insults and led to, an administrator getting on the cases (unjustified, in my opinion) of me and Jeffrey O. Gustafson. I deal with it by remembering that this is a collaborative effort, and that the entire theory behind Wikipedia is that having everyone's input is important. I must say that I am much more of an advocate than mediator personality-wise, but I'll try to be more of a mediator in the future. -- Nlu 23:29, 11 November 2005 (UTC) reply

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