Final (39/0/1) ending 19:38
26 August2005 (UTC)TheCoffee (
talk·contribs) - This is a self-nomination. I've been contributing to Wikipedia since December 2004, mostly working on
Philippine-related topics. I've made 7772 edits, 6061 (78%) of which are in the article namespace. I've been around for quite a while, and though I don't claim to have read every page in the Wikipedia namespace, I have a pretty good understanding of our procedures. Previously I hoped to accumulate good edits and hope that somebody would nominate me eventually, since it seemed to me there's a certain lack of good form in coming here and having to promote yourself. But today I found the {{backlog}} tag on both
WP:IFD and
WP:PUI, and I want to be one of those people that can do something about it. I trust people will based their vote on my record than by who presents it to them. :) --
Coffee 19:38, 19 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support - I've seen you around and you've always been civil but the thing that really made me nominate you is your answers to the questions. IMO, They were really well written and portrayed your point really well. This shows diligence as a writer and there is no doubt in my ming that you would use the mop well. Good luck! --
Celestianpowerhab 20:08, 19 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Sumasang-ayon I mean, Support. Yes, you're more than qualified plus we need more Pinoy admins. :-D --
Chris S. 20:32, 19 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support! He's a great editor, answered the questions very well (2000 pages on your watchlist?! Wow!), and he's given me a lot of help with Philippines-related articles. Plus, his contributions for the cities articles are a very huge task for one non-bot editor to do. I was somewhat surprised to find he wasn't an admin. --
Idont Havaname 21:05, 19 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support, wonderful contributor.
Hall Monitor 22:23, 19 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support anyone with 2,000 articles on their watchlist and that does not have an ax to grind gets my vote. We need more of those around.
≈ jossi ≈ 22:27, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
He's Not Already One?
Dmcdevit·
t 00:24, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
Support. Had an opportunity to check out his work, and was quite impressed. Liked his measured answers to the candidate questions. Good luck!
Friejose 17:00, 22 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Strong support for calm contributors. -
RoyBoy800 18:15, 22 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Your editing looks very nice.
Bratschetalk5 pillars 03:24, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
Support. Should be given super powers. :)--
Noypi380 13:41, 23 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. What an impressive candidate. This should have been done long ago.—
Encephalon |
ζ 14:26:29, 2005-08-23 (UTC)
Support, (I wish I had thought of a coffee-related user name....)
Func(
t,
c,
@,
) 03:31, 24 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Hi
User:Pvenegas, I hope you do not mind my striking through your comment. The RFA for User:TheCoffee ended on August 26, 2005, and he is now an administrator. This RFA is not accepting votes any longer. Should you wish to congratulate Coffee, his Talk page is
here. Kind regards—
Encephalon |
ζ 06:44:27, 2005-09-01 (UTC)
Oppose
Neutral
Excessive off-topic ranting by myself moved to
[1]SchmuckyTheCat 06:55, 22 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Comments
Questions for the candidate A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
A. There are over 2000 pages on my watchlist, and I'd certainly like the rollback tool to combat vandalism and keep these articles clean. I occassionally do
New page patrol and I've often wished for the ability to delete on sight, and the ability to block persisent vandalizers. Mostly I'd want to help with administrator work on pages where a backlog develops, like
WP:IFD and
WP:PUI.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. Here's a few...
I spent a great deal of work in June/July creating 1000+ simple articles for
cities and municipalities in the Philippines based on census data. This way, newbies writing about their hometown have some framework to work with, and we won't have to keep adding stub tags and categories to these articles anymore. Of the 1617 cities and municipalities, I've added locator maps to about a third of them so far, and I'm still working on them..
I've also done a lot of work improving the articles for
Presidents of the Philippines. They were patchy when I first came to Wikipedia, but I've expanded them all to decent articles. I've also given them a standard set of templates, with an infobox, a footer navigation template, and a succession box.
I've done quite a bit of work on
Rubik's Cube, even to the extent of pulling out my scrappy digital camera and taking pictures of my cube (and feeling like a total dork). One day I'd like to go all out on that article and get it to Featured Article status.
On a very superficial level, I'm proud of creating the 600,000th article in the English Wikipedia. ;)
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'm not confrontational, and I don't often edit topics that are controversial and likely to provoke edit wars. (Let people with strong opinions wrangle over those and hammer them into NPOV). But I did get into a small dispute with an anonymous user over a single line in an article a month ago. There were some back and forth edits and he started throwing
personal attacks at me, though I was being completely civil. It was especially frustrating because he didn't seem to have a grip on what Wikipedia is all about, if you get my meaning. I just pointed him towards the appropriate Wikipolicy pages and tried to hammer out a compromise wording for the article. I've run into a few other conficts from time to time, but I find most of them can be resolved by keeping a cool head,
assuming good faith, and reminding others to do the same. An encyclopedia that anyone can edit won't work unless we be nice. :)
Final (39/0/1) ending 19:38
26 August2005 (UTC)TheCoffee (
talk·contribs) - This is a self-nomination. I've been contributing to Wikipedia since December 2004, mostly working on
Philippine-related topics. I've made 7772 edits, 6061 (78%) of which are in the article namespace. I've been around for quite a while, and though I don't claim to have read every page in the Wikipedia namespace, I have a pretty good understanding of our procedures. Previously I hoped to accumulate good edits and hope that somebody would nominate me eventually, since it seemed to me there's a certain lack of good form in coming here and having to promote yourself. But today I found the {{backlog}} tag on both
WP:IFD and
WP:PUI, and I want to be one of those people that can do something about it. I trust people will based their vote on my record than by who presents it to them. :) --
Coffee 19:38, 19 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support - I've seen you around and you've always been civil but the thing that really made me nominate you is your answers to the questions. IMO, They were really well written and portrayed your point really well. This shows diligence as a writer and there is no doubt in my ming that you would use the mop well. Good luck! --
Celestianpowerhab 20:08, 19 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Sumasang-ayon I mean, Support. Yes, you're more than qualified plus we need more Pinoy admins. :-D --
Chris S. 20:32, 19 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support! He's a great editor, answered the questions very well (2000 pages on your watchlist?! Wow!), and he's given me a lot of help with Philippines-related articles. Plus, his contributions for the cities articles are a very huge task for one non-bot editor to do. I was somewhat surprised to find he wasn't an admin. --
Idont Havaname 21:05, 19 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support, wonderful contributor.
Hall Monitor 22:23, 19 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support anyone with 2,000 articles on their watchlist and that does not have an ax to grind gets my vote. We need more of those around.
≈ jossi ≈ 22:27, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
He's Not Already One?
Dmcdevit·
t 00:24, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
Support. Had an opportunity to check out his work, and was quite impressed. Liked his measured answers to the candidate questions. Good luck!
Friejose 17:00, 22 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Strong support for calm contributors. -
RoyBoy800 18:15, 22 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Your editing looks very nice.
Bratschetalk5 pillars 03:24, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
Support. Should be given super powers. :)--
Noypi380 13:41, 23 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. What an impressive candidate. This should have been done long ago.—
Encephalon |
ζ 14:26:29, 2005-08-23 (UTC)
Support, (I wish I had thought of a coffee-related user name....)
Func(
t,
c,
@,
) 03:31, 24 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Hi
User:Pvenegas, I hope you do not mind my striking through your comment. The RFA for User:TheCoffee ended on August 26, 2005, and he is now an administrator. This RFA is not accepting votes any longer. Should you wish to congratulate Coffee, his Talk page is
here. Kind regards—
Encephalon |
ζ 06:44:27, 2005-09-01 (UTC)
Oppose
Neutral
Excessive off-topic ranting by myself moved to
[1]SchmuckyTheCat 06:55, 22 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Comments
Questions for the candidate A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
A. There are over 2000 pages on my watchlist, and I'd certainly like the rollback tool to combat vandalism and keep these articles clean. I occassionally do
New page patrol and I've often wished for the ability to delete on sight, and the ability to block persisent vandalizers. Mostly I'd want to help with administrator work on pages where a backlog develops, like
WP:IFD and
WP:PUI.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. Here's a few...
I spent a great deal of work in June/July creating 1000+ simple articles for
cities and municipalities in the Philippines based on census data. This way, newbies writing about their hometown have some framework to work with, and we won't have to keep adding stub tags and categories to these articles anymore. Of the 1617 cities and municipalities, I've added locator maps to about a third of them so far, and I'm still working on them..
I've also done a lot of work improving the articles for
Presidents of the Philippines. They were patchy when I first came to Wikipedia, but I've expanded them all to decent articles. I've also given them a standard set of templates, with an infobox, a footer navigation template, and a succession box.
I've done quite a bit of work on
Rubik's Cube, even to the extent of pulling out my scrappy digital camera and taking pictures of my cube (and feeling like a total dork). One day I'd like to go all out on that article and get it to Featured Article status.
On a very superficial level, I'm proud of creating the 600,000th article in the English Wikipedia. ;)
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'm not confrontational, and I don't often edit topics that are controversial and likely to provoke edit wars. (Let people with strong opinions wrangle over those and hammer them into NPOV). But I did get into a small dispute with an anonymous user over a single line in an article a month ago. There were some back and forth edits and he started throwing
personal attacks at me, though I was being completely civil. It was especially frustrating because he didn't seem to have a grip on what Wikipedia is all about, if you get my meaning. I just pointed him towards the appropriate Wikipolicy pages and tried to hammer out a compromise wording for the article. I've run into a few other conficts from time to time, but I find most of them can be resolved by keeping a cool head,
assuming good faith, and reminding others to do the same. An encyclopedia that anyone can edit won't work unless we be nice. :)