I hereby nominate
Vague Rant to be an administrator. He's done very good work with copyvios, as well as some stuff with VFD. He has 3033 edits as of this writing, and has been contributing since
July 1,
2004. He's been quite active since
July 31. I've talked to him on IRC, and he's a very decent guy, and I think that he'll be a great help to Wikipedia if he's an admin. -
Frazzydee|
✍ 01:30, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Support. I'm very impressed with how much work the vagrant does in keeping our encyclopedia free of copyrighted materials. Now if only we could figure out how to stop people from just dumping web sites into articles... —
Knowledge Seeker দ (
talk) 22:43, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Support. You have a very impressive list of supporters here. Keep up the good work. -
Taxman 04:12, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)
Support, definitely. Great user, never had a bad experience with him. [[User:Premeditated Chaos|
User:Premeditated Chaos/Sig]] 05:01, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Support, truly respect his work.
PlasticBeat 18:26, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Another support vote for this great contributor will not hurt.
JFW |
T@lk 21:14, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
It's always good to have more reliable people willing to work on VfD-and-related maintenance. -
Aranel ("Sarah") 21:30, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Obvious. Strong support. Everything I have seen is good.
Antandrus 02:05, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
This point may be moot, but I'm givin' the Rantster the Official Lucky 6.9 Holy Mother of support!! -
Lucky 6.9 23:30, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Support. Seems to fit right in --
Chris 73Talk 05:42, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)
Oppose
Ollieplatt 08:25, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC) Until Rhobite withdraws his vote.
That's no valid reason to oppose!
utcursch 12:35, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)
Ollie, could you please judge candidates on their own merits and NOT on who supports them. thanks.
Kingturtle 23:53, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Neutral
Comments
I make a lot of minor edits. Therefore, my edit count may be deceptive. -
Vague |
Rant 01:53, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)
Rhobite is the subject of a Request for Comment for abusing his admin powers, should he vote in those circumstances?
Ollieplatt 08:25, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
RfC's do nothing but call the community's attention to an issue and asks for feedback. Even if there was a problem that is no reason he could not vote, and it's rude to project whatever you have against Rhobite onto someone else "just because".
→Reene✎ 08:37, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)
For the record, Rhobite voted here before Ollieplatt created the (currently uncertified) RfC. The RfC (against a voter, not the candidate) is only an allegation and clearly has no conceivable bearing whatsoever on Vague Rant's fitness for adminship. To disregard a candidate's track record and vote against them because you don't like someone who voted for them is mind boggling.
SWAdair |
Talk 11:08, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Rhobite is not the subject of an RFC - the RFC was deleted uncertified -
David Gerard 20:39, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I can confirm that, having been the person who deleted it after it was uncertified after 48 hours. Ollieplatt would do well to give proper criteria for voting on admins. His vote as it stands is invalid, and will be treated as such. -
Ta bu shi da yu 05:16, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I don't know how relevant this is, but I was actually nominated for Adminship (and made an Admin) while the subject of a (later rejected) RfC. Being mentioned at RfC isn't in and of itself any cause for concern, though of course it doesn't hurt to investigate the circumstances. -
Aranel ("Sarah") 21:30, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Questions for the candidate A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
A. As Frazzydee mentioned above, I report a lot of copyvios, which I find, for the most part, via
Special:Newpages, which means I also come across a lot of speedy candidates. I'd do the obvious deletion of them, and I'd also be willing to work on
Wikipedia:Copyright problems and
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. I could make a generic remark about the rollback feature here, but it's nothing you're not already aware that I will do.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A.
Tony Sheridan and his album My Bonnie were both articles inited by me, and I'm unsure of which I like more. A lot of work went into the researching of My Bonnie, while I think Sheridan displays probably the highest quality of writing I've done here. I'd like to see them get some editing done by other people, though. It seems no one's noticed them, yet. I also liked my changes to "
Jealous Guy", where I added some info on its grounding in the Get Back sessions
[1]. I was trying to get it to mirror Wikipedia's excellent article on "
Yesterday", and while I don't think I achieved that quality, I definitely think my contributions greatly improved "Jealous Guy". I'm really more of an editor than a writer however, and I do a lot of cleanup (not
Wikipedia:Cleanup, just
Special:Randompage and clean style).
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 will deal with it in the future?
A. I had a minor bit of conflict on Autobiography, but it was soon sorted. I've, of course, had a bit of trouble with the copyvio side of things--it seems people aren't so impressed when their hard work copying and pasting comes to nothing. I've tried to help with explaining the process by leaving messages on users' talk pages and placing a boilerplate on the top of my user and talk pages to help with queries.
I hereby nominate
Vague Rant to be an administrator. He's done very good work with copyvios, as well as some stuff with VFD. He has 3033 edits as of this writing, and has been contributing since
July 1,
2004. He's been quite active since
July 31. I've talked to him on IRC, and he's a very decent guy, and I think that he'll be a great help to Wikipedia if he's an admin. -
Frazzydee|
✍ 01:30, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Support. I'm very impressed with how much work the vagrant does in keeping our encyclopedia free of copyrighted materials. Now if only we could figure out how to stop people from just dumping web sites into articles... —
Knowledge Seeker দ (
talk) 22:43, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Support. You have a very impressive list of supporters here. Keep up the good work. -
Taxman 04:12, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)
Support, definitely. Great user, never had a bad experience with him. [[User:Premeditated Chaos|
User:Premeditated Chaos/Sig]] 05:01, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Support, truly respect his work.
PlasticBeat 18:26, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Another support vote for this great contributor will not hurt.
JFW |
T@lk 21:14, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
It's always good to have more reliable people willing to work on VfD-and-related maintenance. -
Aranel ("Sarah") 21:30, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Obvious. Strong support. Everything I have seen is good.
Antandrus 02:05, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
This point may be moot, but I'm givin' the Rantster the Official Lucky 6.9 Holy Mother of support!! -
Lucky 6.9 23:30, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Support. Seems to fit right in --
Chris 73Talk 05:42, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)
Oppose
Ollieplatt 08:25, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC) Until Rhobite withdraws his vote.
That's no valid reason to oppose!
utcursch 12:35, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)
Ollie, could you please judge candidates on their own merits and NOT on who supports them. thanks.
Kingturtle 23:53, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Neutral
Comments
I make a lot of minor edits. Therefore, my edit count may be deceptive. -
Vague |
Rant 01:53, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)
Rhobite is the subject of a Request for Comment for abusing his admin powers, should he vote in those circumstances?
Ollieplatt 08:25, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
RfC's do nothing but call the community's attention to an issue and asks for feedback. Even if there was a problem that is no reason he could not vote, and it's rude to project whatever you have against Rhobite onto someone else "just because".
→Reene✎ 08:37, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)
For the record, Rhobite voted here before Ollieplatt created the (currently uncertified) RfC. The RfC (against a voter, not the candidate) is only an allegation and clearly has no conceivable bearing whatsoever on Vague Rant's fitness for adminship. To disregard a candidate's track record and vote against them because you don't like someone who voted for them is mind boggling.
SWAdair |
Talk 11:08, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Rhobite is not the subject of an RFC - the RFC was deleted uncertified -
David Gerard 20:39, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I can confirm that, having been the person who deleted it after it was uncertified after 48 hours. Ollieplatt would do well to give proper criteria for voting on admins. His vote as it stands is invalid, and will be treated as such. -
Ta bu shi da yu 05:16, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I don't know how relevant this is, but I was actually nominated for Adminship (and made an Admin) while the subject of a (later rejected) RfC. Being mentioned at RfC isn't in and of itself any cause for concern, though of course it doesn't hurt to investigate the circumstances. -
Aranel ("Sarah") 21:30, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Questions for the candidate A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
A. As Frazzydee mentioned above, I report a lot of copyvios, which I find, for the most part, via
Special:Newpages, which means I also come across a lot of speedy candidates. I'd do the obvious deletion of them, and I'd also be willing to work on
Wikipedia:Copyright problems and
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. I could make a generic remark about the rollback feature here, but it's nothing you're not already aware that I will do.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A.
Tony Sheridan and his album My Bonnie were both articles inited by me, and I'm unsure of which I like more. A lot of work went into the researching of My Bonnie, while I think Sheridan displays probably the highest quality of writing I've done here. I'd like to see them get some editing done by other people, though. It seems no one's noticed them, yet. I also liked my changes to "
Jealous Guy", where I added some info on its grounding in the Get Back sessions
[1]. I was trying to get it to mirror Wikipedia's excellent article on "
Yesterday", and while I don't think I achieved that quality, I definitely think my contributions greatly improved "Jealous Guy". I'm really more of an editor than a writer however, and I do a lot of cleanup (not
Wikipedia:Cleanup, just
Special:Randompage and clean style).
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 will deal with it in the future?
A. I had a minor bit of conflict on Autobiography, but it was soon sorted. I've, of course, had a bit of trouble with the copyvio side of things--it seems people aren't so impressed when their hard work copying and pasting comes to nothing. I've tried to help with explaining the process by leaving messages on users' talk pages and placing a boilerplate on the top of my user and talk pages to help with queries.