Oleg Alexandrov (
talk·contribs) – Oleg Alexandrov has
over 14,000 edits since he joined us in December of 2004. Since then, he has been a wonderful contributer, especially in
math related articles, and has also participated in many Wikipedia: related discussions. In fact, I first met him when he proposed to trim down the {{welcome}} template. Thus, Oleg Alexandrov is a great
Wikipedian deserving to become an administrator.
Flcelloguy |
A note? |
Desk 16:11, 18 September 2005 (UTC)reply
Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
Wholeheartedly. Oleg is an applied mathematics postdoc at UCLA, who has made many excellent contributions to Wikipedia. He has been a tireless contributer to the
Mathematics project. He created and has been one of the principle authors of the
Manual of Style (mathematics). He was a cofounder of the
PlanetMath Exchange project, setting up the original lists of PlanetMath articles for that project (nearly 4000 articles), creating an automated conversion tool, as well as contributing significantly to the content review and merge work of the project. He is a Perl magician and is the creator-owner-operator of
Mathbot, the bot who helps to maintain the lists:
list of mathematical topics and
list of mathematics categories, and in its spare time periodically spellchecks all the math articles on Wikipedia. He will make a great admin.
Paul August☎16:45, 18 September 2005 (UTC)reply
For the sake of truth at all costs, I did not write the
Manual of Style (mathematics), but rather forked it off from the
Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics page, and did some polishing on it. I did not state that clearly when I did my first edit to that style manual, so for better or worse the "creator" of the style manual title will haunt me all my life (or till the Wikipedia servers get wiped off by aliens, whichever comes first).
Oleg Alexandrov (
talk)
07:21, 20 October 2005 (UTC))reply
Extremely Strong Oppose! Not enough edits by a long shot; try again when you reach 50,000. Oh, wait, he has three times as many as I do? Well, then, grudgingly support. ; - ) --
Essjay ·
Talk17:26, 19 September 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Usually I stay away from politics. And I think Oleg will have enough support not counting mine. I just want to show my appreciation for what he has done so far. I'm sure he will do greater things as an admin. (I thought he was one already. :)
Giftlite00:51, 20 September 2005 (UTC)reply
Support without reservation. Has in a short time made himself an indispensible member of the WP mathematics effort, and one of the few admin nominations I've looked at where it's clear that the conferring of adminship powers will be put to use (and, naturally in a way that benefits WP).
Charles Stewart18:59, 22 September 2005 (UTC) (slightly edited)reply
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. I originated several articles, but I am most happy with my contributions to
level set method which I translated from German, put more content, and added a picture which I think explained what that stuff is all about. The reason I am most happy about it is because I love to find simple explanations for complicated things. :)
Oleg Alexandrov16:37, 18 September 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. I had some arguments over at
manifold with
MarSch. He made an abstract and formal math article into a more abstract and more formal one. Instead of quietly settling the issue at the talk page, I chose to do some public ranting at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics. That did not result in an edit war, and eventually a lot of mathematicians joined in making
manifold a much better article, but I wish I were more detached on the matter. Also, in my first month or two I had some arguments with
Linas and
Andrewa (no edit wars), till I learned how to deal with issues here. That promted me to decline an offer for adminship in April, and ever since I tried to learn to be patient, wait a while for things to cool down, discuss things on talk pages, and try to involve others in the matters.
Oleg Alexandrov16:37, 18 September 2005 (UTC)reply
Oleg Alexandrov (
talk·contribs) – Oleg Alexandrov has
over 14,000 edits since he joined us in December of 2004. Since then, he has been a wonderful contributer, especially in
math related articles, and has also participated in many Wikipedia: related discussions. In fact, I first met him when he proposed to trim down the {{welcome}} template. Thus, Oleg Alexandrov is a great
Wikipedian deserving to become an administrator.
Flcelloguy |
A note? |
Desk 16:11, 18 September 2005 (UTC)reply
Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
Wholeheartedly. Oleg is an applied mathematics postdoc at UCLA, who has made many excellent contributions to Wikipedia. He has been a tireless contributer to the
Mathematics project. He created and has been one of the principle authors of the
Manual of Style (mathematics). He was a cofounder of the
PlanetMath Exchange project, setting up the original lists of PlanetMath articles for that project (nearly 4000 articles), creating an automated conversion tool, as well as contributing significantly to the content review and merge work of the project. He is a Perl magician and is the creator-owner-operator of
Mathbot, the bot who helps to maintain the lists:
list of mathematical topics and
list of mathematics categories, and in its spare time periodically spellchecks all the math articles on Wikipedia. He will make a great admin.
Paul August☎16:45, 18 September 2005 (UTC)reply
For the sake of truth at all costs, I did not write the
Manual of Style (mathematics), but rather forked it off from the
Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics page, and did some polishing on it. I did not state that clearly when I did my first edit to that style manual, so for better or worse the "creator" of the style manual title will haunt me all my life (or till the Wikipedia servers get wiped off by aliens, whichever comes first).
Oleg Alexandrov (
talk)
07:21, 20 October 2005 (UTC))reply
Extremely Strong Oppose! Not enough edits by a long shot; try again when you reach 50,000. Oh, wait, he has three times as many as I do? Well, then, grudgingly support. ; - ) --
Essjay ·
Talk17:26, 19 September 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Usually I stay away from politics. And I think Oleg will have enough support not counting mine. I just want to show my appreciation for what he has done so far. I'm sure he will do greater things as an admin. (I thought he was one already. :)
Giftlite00:51, 20 September 2005 (UTC)reply
Support without reservation. Has in a short time made himself an indispensible member of the WP mathematics effort, and one of the few admin nominations I've looked at where it's clear that the conferring of adminship powers will be put to use (and, naturally in a way that benefits WP).
Charles Stewart18:59, 22 September 2005 (UTC) (slightly edited)reply
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. I originated several articles, but I am most happy with my contributions to
level set method which I translated from German, put more content, and added a picture which I think explained what that stuff is all about. The reason I am most happy about it is because I love to find simple explanations for complicated things. :)
Oleg Alexandrov16:37, 18 September 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. I had some arguments over at
manifold with
MarSch. He made an abstract and formal math article into a more abstract and more formal one. Instead of quietly settling the issue at the talk page, I chose to do some public ranting at
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics. That did not result in an edit war, and eventually a lot of mathematicians joined in making
manifold a much better article, but I wish I were more detached on the matter. Also, in my first month or two I had some arguments with
Linas and
Andrewa (no edit wars), till I learned how to deal with issues here. That promted me to decline an offer for adminship in April, and ever since I tried to learn to be patient, wait a while for things to cool down, discuss things on talk pages, and try to involve others in the matters.
Oleg Alexandrov16:37, 18 September 2005 (UTC)reply