Voice your opinion on this candidate ( talk page) Final (205/2/3); Closed as successful by Andrevan @ at 07:36, 27 May 2011 (UTC) reply
Drmies ( talk · contribs) – I have been working with Drmies here for some time now. He is a great content contributor, having created many articles and done a great deal of cleanup of unreferenced BLPs - both in referencing and expanding those that can be, and in nominating for deletion those that do not meet notability standards. He is very active at WP:DYK, nominating not only his own articles, but other new articles he notices, and helping with the review process. He has two Good Articles to his credit, and has helped get a Featured List and a Featured Article promoted. While some editors pick a niche of content creation or fighting vandalism, Drmies slides well from one to the other, and having the admin toolkit will help with his work. He helps out new editors and veteran, and has a good sense of humor about it all. Ladyof Shalott 03:31, 20 May 2011 (UTC) reply
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:
Working with new editors and getting a DYK template on their talk page ( here, for instance) is really exciting. Occasionally I try to mediate a bit, and once or twice that worked (don't ask me for the diffs--I forget the good sooner than the bad). With the new DYK rules I'm also more active there; I try to tread lightly, though, and gladly gain advice from others. I try to be a team player.
I'm a writer of content, a copy editor, a proofreader, a supplier of references, though I admit I need all the help I can get reading my own copy (that's why I supply User:Mandarax with beer). If it hadn't been for the help of others (esp. Malleus), those two GAs wouldn't have happened, and the green children wouldn't have been promoted.
Whether any of my edits in the immediate future will be any good depends in part on what Keepscases has to ask, of course.
I was mildly unnerved over a discussion at User talk:Freakshownerd, which in hindsight was a confrontation floating in a sea of irony, and walked away from that one too. NeutralHomer and I used to duke it out, and I wasn't always as friendly as I should have been, but we worked it out and have reached agreement over some content/BLP issues on articles for TV stations (Homer, we still need to write that up!). I've had many article content disputes, and have learned from past experiences that sometimes it's best to walk away (though I feel strongly about BLPs): there's millions more articles, and one more bad article (bad in my righteous opinion, of course) won't matter much; my time and energy are better spent working on others. Wikistress is not fun; I try to avoid it by avoiding it earlier than I did years ago. In general, though, I have very pleasant interactions with many of the great editors here, and the good far, far outweighs the bad.
Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review their contributions before commenting.
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So, in at least that respect (of the scope of our BLP policy, that it extends to all pages in our project) I will be like many of them, yes. But I refuse to accept the premise that all or even most of the admins are on powertrips and lack self-awareness. I know at least one who is incorruptible, and I tried to corrupt her many times--but she may well be a supporter of an atheist group. Drmies ( talk) 19:18, 23 May 2011 (UTC) reply
Voice your opinion on this candidate ( talk page) Final (205/2/3); Closed as successful by Andrevan @ at 07:36, 27 May 2011 (UTC) reply
Drmies ( talk · contribs) – I have been working with Drmies here for some time now. He is a great content contributor, having created many articles and done a great deal of cleanup of unreferenced BLPs - both in referencing and expanding those that can be, and in nominating for deletion those that do not meet notability standards. He is very active at WP:DYK, nominating not only his own articles, but other new articles he notices, and helping with the review process. He has two Good Articles to his credit, and has helped get a Featured List and a Featured Article promoted. While some editors pick a niche of content creation or fighting vandalism, Drmies slides well from one to the other, and having the admin toolkit will help with his work. He helps out new editors and veteran, and has a good sense of humor about it all. Ladyof Shalott 03:31, 20 May 2011 (UTC) reply
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:
Working with new editors and getting a DYK template on their talk page ( here, for instance) is really exciting. Occasionally I try to mediate a bit, and once or twice that worked (don't ask me for the diffs--I forget the good sooner than the bad). With the new DYK rules I'm also more active there; I try to tread lightly, though, and gladly gain advice from others. I try to be a team player.
I'm a writer of content, a copy editor, a proofreader, a supplier of references, though I admit I need all the help I can get reading my own copy (that's why I supply User:Mandarax with beer). If it hadn't been for the help of others (esp. Malleus), those two GAs wouldn't have happened, and the green children wouldn't have been promoted.
Whether any of my edits in the immediate future will be any good depends in part on what Keepscases has to ask, of course.
I was mildly unnerved over a discussion at User talk:Freakshownerd, which in hindsight was a confrontation floating in a sea of irony, and walked away from that one too. NeutralHomer and I used to duke it out, and I wasn't always as friendly as I should have been, but we worked it out and have reached agreement over some content/BLP issues on articles for TV stations (Homer, we still need to write that up!). I've had many article content disputes, and have learned from past experiences that sometimes it's best to walk away (though I feel strongly about BLPs): there's millions more articles, and one more bad article (bad in my righteous opinion, of course) won't matter much; my time and energy are better spent working on others. Wikistress is not fun; I try to avoid it by avoiding it earlier than I did years ago. In general, though, I have very pleasant interactions with many of the great editors here, and the good far, far outweighs the bad.
Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review their contributions before commenting.
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So, in at least that respect (of the scope of our BLP policy, that it extends to all pages in our project) I will be like many of them, yes. But I refuse to accept the premise that all or even most of the admins are on powertrips and lack self-awareness. I know at least one who is incorruptible, and I tried to corrupt her many times--but she may well be a supporter of an atheist group. Drmies ( talk) 19:18, 23 May 2011 (UTC) reply