Oscarthecat (
talk·contribs) – OscarTheCat has been editing wikipedia for a long time and has a very high edit count. He also helped to solve what seemed to bee an insurmounable impass at the
Calvin and Hobbes article about external links. I think he would make a great administrator. -
Mike(talk)00:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Support An edit-countitis argument could be made for sure, but for me edit counts are just useful for the edits the actually represent. Looking through this user's contributions, there's enough quality and just enough quantity that I'm reasonably confident he'd make a good janitor. --
W.marsh22:18, 17 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Support. He actually has quite a few edits, if you consider that he has made very few edits to his user page, and more edits to wikipedia pages. He has obviously made more contributions to wikipedia articles than many people who have the same edit count. His proportional edit count is probably closer to 3500. He seems very well rounded, with nearly 300 wikipedia edits, and I am glad to support him.
Weatherman9000:28, 18 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Support. Good AfD contributions, good breadth of coverage, high percentage Mainspace edits. Have a mop. Also, I just worked on a play that had a character names Oscar that is a cat. This amuses me.
ËvilphoenixBurn!16:21, 18 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Support I was torn over this one, but I don't see a strong reason to oppose. He seems reasonable and criticising him for not knowing
WP:PROD, a proposed policy, seems like a pettifogging detail (I didn't know it, and recently put a prod article through AfD, with no harm done so far as I can see). With that said, the nomination was misleading and his signature is obnoxious to look at in the edit window, but these are frivolous reasons to oppose. –
Joke02:30, 24 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Support relaxed users are a valued resource. Competent and co-operative as far as I can see. Answers to the questions a little short, but to the point. Time isn't always important, but cluefulness is.
Rob Church10:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose Tenure is too brief for my confidence; plus, talk page suggests editor is still learning (he improperly reverted a prod removal yesterday.) Absolutely nothing wrong with having things to learn, but it indicates more time before adminship is a good idea.
Xoloz16:29, 18 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Right on the edge of my
minimum standards, but I'm tipped to oppose instead because of some comments on the nominee's talk page that indicate some learning of Wikipedia process is still needed. (Also I'm biased against disruptively flashy signatures, which in addition to the candidate, are being sported by many of the support voters.) —
Doug Belltalk•contrib01:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose after considering this for a couple of days and reviewing the comments I am going to have to oppose per Xoloz and Bell.
Trödel19:07, 20 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Nominator: I'd advise against saying the nominee has "very high edit count" and long tenure when facts are otherwise. Nominee: sorry, but please keep editing.
Jonathunder23:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose, majority of edits are marked as minor, and all the ones that aren't were done using popups. I didn't look at the content of each edit, so I'm not saying any of them were bad, but I've concluded that (a) you've made very few major edits, or (b) you've marked a bunch of edits as minor, when they weren't. Also an analysis of your edit distribution suggests comparatively low involvement in the project namespace (Wikipedia: and Wikipedia talk: pages), and an unfortunately low level of communication with other users. Can't support at this time, will reconsider in the future. — Mar. 24, '06 [15:27] <
freakofnurxture|talk>
neutral Not just yet. Reverting prod shows some need to expand his knowledge of how things work, but would probably support next time. --
nae'blis(talk)22:27, 23 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Neutral Seems to be a good contributor, but would prefer to see a bit more user talk interaction with others per Shreshth91. Good to see that the sig has been toned down though. --
Cactus.man✍10:45, 24 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Just a couple things I'd like addressed before I put up a vote. In your questions, the two things you said you would do if given sysop powers were to use Rollback and close AfD's. As one of those users who only wants to give out Adminship if the user could benefit, could you address why you'd want to gain Admin status instead of simply a Request for Rollback, as normal users can already close non-delete AfD's. Also, mind fleshing out the answer to number 3 a bit? It looks pretty much like something out of the Scouts Handbook without any personal examples in there. -
AKMask22:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Hi AKMask. As you say, the Admin status wouldn't be needed for the rollback side of things, so my answer to (1) is rather lacking. I've expanded it, together with (3), see below. --
OscarTheCattalk11:04, 18 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Edit summary usage: 92% for major edits and 99% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.
Mathbot21:23, 17 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Questions for the candidate
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:
A. I do a fair amount of
recent changes patrol at the moment, for which the rollback admin feature would undoubtedly be useful. I'd also continue to participate in afd discussions and eventually close off ones where reasonable concensus has been reached.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. I haven't created many articles, but I've done quite a lot of restructuring and tidying up of articles, in an effort to get them into a state suitable for consideration as a
Featured article. Such restructures/tidyups include
Calvin and Hobbes,
Playstation 3,
Xbox 360,
Nintendo Revolution. Recently, have been pleased with the progress made discussing the way forward with the Calvin and Hobbes article, in order to satisfy other contributers and at the same time follow
WP:EL policy.
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've been involved in discussions over edit conflicts in the past, where I've found that starting a line of discussion with everyone concerned has definitely helped reach a concensus.
Update - I'll quote the
Calvin and Hobbes article again (done a lot of edits on this one), where we'd reached a standstill with external links. I wanted to reduce the ever-growing list of fan site external links, others wanted to add to it. After much discussion we made use of references within the article, which referenced content of note within the fan sites (see
Talk:Calvin_and_Hobbes#External links redux). By doing this, it became clear which fan sites had content of note. More discussion on there since has now started, where we're aiming for a concensus on how to reduce the content of the article by moving character profiles to other articles. Other than that, haven't been involved in any conflicts, either during my time as
User:Oscarthecat or my anonymous edits (varying IP addresses) prior to that. Done some edits on
Nuclear power which is sometimes tricky, given the POV balance needed on the page. Happy to say that my edits there get accepted, and not immediately reverted (article seems to be watched/edited by many people with very strong opinions for/against Nuclear). --
OscarTheCattalk11:04, 18 March 2006 (UTC)reply
A considerable number of administrators have experienced, or are close to, burnout due to a mixture of stress and vitriol inherent in a collaborative web site of this nature. Do you feel able to justify yourself under pressure, and to not permit stress to become overwhelming and cause undesirable or confused behaviour?
Hi Robchurch. Yes, there's always going to be some conflicts on a site like this. Don't foresee a problem justifying my comments/edits/actions, I'm quite a relaxed type of chap. Answer kind of continued below.
Why do you want to be an administrator?
Didn't have a particularly strong desire to become an admin, in fact I'm quite happy continuing with edits and rc patrol and the like, which I've been doing for a few months already. A co-contributer to an article nominated me, I'm happy to respond and see through the nomination process. If I get elected, then being admin will no doubt help out with rollbacks and rc patrol, and lead me gradually into other areas of wikipedia. If I don't, so be it, no big deal, I'll continue as before.
In your view, do administrators hold a technical or political position?
It's not one or the other, it's both. I see it as being political (keeping to the middle ground, keeping concensus and POV balance) with the technical ability to take suitable actions where necessary.
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either
this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.
Oscarthecat (
talk·contribs) – OscarTheCat has been editing wikipedia for a long time and has a very high edit count. He also helped to solve what seemed to bee an insurmounable impass at the
Calvin and Hobbes article about external links. I think he would make a great administrator. -
Mike(talk)00:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Support An edit-countitis argument could be made for sure, but for me edit counts are just useful for the edits the actually represent. Looking through this user's contributions, there's enough quality and just enough quantity that I'm reasonably confident he'd make a good janitor. --
W.marsh22:18, 17 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Support. He actually has quite a few edits, if you consider that he has made very few edits to his user page, and more edits to wikipedia pages. He has obviously made more contributions to wikipedia articles than many people who have the same edit count. His proportional edit count is probably closer to 3500. He seems very well rounded, with nearly 300 wikipedia edits, and I am glad to support him.
Weatherman9000:28, 18 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Support. Good AfD contributions, good breadth of coverage, high percentage Mainspace edits. Have a mop. Also, I just worked on a play that had a character names Oscar that is a cat. This amuses me.
ËvilphoenixBurn!16:21, 18 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Support I was torn over this one, but I don't see a strong reason to oppose. He seems reasonable and criticising him for not knowing
WP:PROD, a proposed policy, seems like a pettifogging detail (I didn't know it, and recently put a prod article through AfD, with no harm done so far as I can see). With that said, the nomination was misleading and his signature is obnoxious to look at in the edit window, but these are frivolous reasons to oppose. –
Joke02:30, 24 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Support relaxed users are a valued resource. Competent and co-operative as far as I can see. Answers to the questions a little short, but to the point. Time isn't always important, but cluefulness is.
Rob Church10:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose Tenure is too brief for my confidence; plus, talk page suggests editor is still learning (he improperly reverted a prod removal yesterday.) Absolutely nothing wrong with having things to learn, but it indicates more time before adminship is a good idea.
Xoloz16:29, 18 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Right on the edge of my
minimum standards, but I'm tipped to oppose instead because of some comments on the nominee's talk page that indicate some learning of Wikipedia process is still needed. (Also I'm biased against disruptively flashy signatures, which in addition to the candidate, are being sported by many of the support voters.) —
Doug Belltalk•contrib01:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose after considering this for a couple of days and reviewing the comments I am going to have to oppose per Xoloz and Bell.
Trödel19:07, 20 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Nominator: I'd advise against saying the nominee has "very high edit count" and long tenure when facts are otherwise. Nominee: sorry, but please keep editing.
Jonathunder23:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Oppose, majority of edits are marked as minor, and all the ones that aren't were done using popups. I didn't look at the content of each edit, so I'm not saying any of them were bad, but I've concluded that (a) you've made very few major edits, or (b) you've marked a bunch of edits as minor, when they weren't. Also an analysis of your edit distribution suggests comparatively low involvement in the project namespace (Wikipedia: and Wikipedia talk: pages), and an unfortunately low level of communication with other users. Can't support at this time, will reconsider in the future. — Mar. 24, '06 [15:27] <
freakofnurxture|talk>
neutral Not just yet. Reverting prod shows some need to expand his knowledge of how things work, but would probably support next time. --
nae'blis(talk)22:27, 23 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Neutral Seems to be a good contributor, but would prefer to see a bit more user talk interaction with others per Shreshth91. Good to see that the sig has been toned down though. --
Cactus.man✍10:45, 24 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Just a couple things I'd like addressed before I put up a vote. In your questions, the two things you said you would do if given sysop powers were to use Rollback and close AfD's. As one of those users who only wants to give out Adminship if the user could benefit, could you address why you'd want to gain Admin status instead of simply a Request for Rollback, as normal users can already close non-delete AfD's. Also, mind fleshing out the answer to number 3 a bit? It looks pretty much like something out of the Scouts Handbook without any personal examples in there. -
AKMask22:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Hi AKMask. As you say, the Admin status wouldn't be needed for the rollback side of things, so my answer to (1) is rather lacking. I've expanded it, together with (3), see below. --
OscarTheCattalk11:04, 18 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Edit summary usage: 92% for major edits and 99% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.
Mathbot21:23, 17 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Questions for the candidate
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:
A. I do a fair amount of
recent changes patrol at the moment, for which the rollback admin feature would undoubtedly be useful. I'd also continue to participate in afd discussions and eventually close off ones where reasonable concensus has been reached.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. I haven't created many articles, but I've done quite a lot of restructuring and tidying up of articles, in an effort to get them into a state suitable for consideration as a
Featured article. Such restructures/tidyups include
Calvin and Hobbes,
Playstation 3,
Xbox 360,
Nintendo Revolution. Recently, have been pleased with the progress made discussing the way forward with the Calvin and Hobbes article, in order to satisfy other contributers and at the same time follow
WP:EL policy.
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've been involved in discussions over edit conflicts in the past, where I've found that starting a line of discussion with everyone concerned has definitely helped reach a concensus.
Update - I'll quote the
Calvin and Hobbes article again (done a lot of edits on this one), where we'd reached a standstill with external links. I wanted to reduce the ever-growing list of fan site external links, others wanted to add to it. After much discussion we made use of references within the article, which referenced content of note within the fan sites (see
Talk:Calvin_and_Hobbes#External links redux). By doing this, it became clear which fan sites had content of note. More discussion on there since has now started, where we're aiming for a concensus on how to reduce the content of the article by moving character profiles to other articles. Other than that, haven't been involved in any conflicts, either during my time as
User:Oscarthecat or my anonymous edits (varying IP addresses) prior to that. Done some edits on
Nuclear power which is sometimes tricky, given the POV balance needed on the page. Happy to say that my edits there get accepted, and not immediately reverted (article seems to be watched/edited by many people with very strong opinions for/against Nuclear). --
OscarTheCattalk11:04, 18 March 2006 (UTC)reply
A considerable number of administrators have experienced, or are close to, burnout due to a mixture of stress and vitriol inherent in a collaborative web site of this nature. Do you feel able to justify yourself under pressure, and to not permit stress to become overwhelming and cause undesirable or confused behaviour?
Hi Robchurch. Yes, there's always going to be some conflicts on a site like this. Don't foresee a problem justifying my comments/edits/actions, I'm quite a relaxed type of chap. Answer kind of continued below.
Why do you want to be an administrator?
Didn't have a particularly strong desire to become an admin, in fact I'm quite happy continuing with edits and rc patrol and the like, which I've been doing for a few months already. A co-contributer to an article nominated me, I'm happy to respond and see through the nomination process. If I get elected, then being admin will no doubt help out with rollbacks and rc patrol, and lead me gradually into other areas of wikipedia. If I don't, so be it, no big deal, I'll continue as before.
In your view, do administrators hold a technical or political position?
It's not one or the other, it's both. I see it as being political (keeping to the middle ground, keeping concensus and POV balance) with the technical ability to take suitable actions where necessary.
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either
this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.