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Kelly Martin

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Kelly Martin (talk · contribs) - Kelly Martin's record of top-class service to the English Misplaced Pages is without parallel. Joining in December 2004, Kelly was first nominated for adminship by Kat Walsh, and passed in June 2005: following this, and a long record of hard work, good judgment and clear thinking, Kelly was appointed the arbitration committee by Jimmy Wales. During this time, she also held checkuser and oversight privileges, and carried out her duties with great distinction and dedication. Few of us here can hope to do so well.

Kelly resigned her sysop, checkuser and oversight privileges during the Giano kerfuffle of yesteryear. I was otherwise engaged at the time and have never really learnt what this was all about, but it seems largely to consist of most of Misplaced Pages losing their collective rag after a particularly bitter and controversial RFA. Regardless, there seems to have been no suggestion from anyone that Kelly abused her powers or made any actions out malice. By the looks of things, she simply got tired of the ridiculous drama (please pardon me if I get anything wrong here: I seem to have been busy writing List of major opera composers and completely missed all the fun).

Anyway, I believe Kelly has a great deal more to contribute to the English Misplaced Pages, and for our sakes she should have sysop buttons while she does so. I do not think it to our advantage that Kelly's qualities of original thinking combined with superb analytical abilities should be confined to her blog. A Misplaced Pages with Kelly Martin as an ally and sysop is far more likely to be a better Misplaced Pages than one without. Enough time has passed. We can forget the divisive drama over petty matters that wasted so much time, and focus on reconciliation and healing ourselves as a community. I ask you to remember all the good that Kelly has done for us, and to welcome her back to the fold. She deserves no less. Moreschi 09:34, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Co-nomination - Danny CMoreschi has said it all, but I want to add a comment here in support of this nomination. Kelly is a person who is not afraid to speak her mind. Through thick and thin (and there was a lot of thick) she stood up for the core principles of Misplaced Pages and the Free Culture movement, always in a very well thought out and consistent manner. As an admin, she will not be afraid to take on the most daunting tasks. She has done it before, and after a long break, it seems like she is willing to do it again. She deserves our support. Danny 14:14, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Co-nomination - Riana Kelly notes on her userpage that she is looking for three fools – I am delighted and honoured to join this group. Moreschi and Danny have already done a great job here – I’ll just tack my bit on the end. Few have given as much to Misplaced Pages as Kelly Martin has. At heart a copyeditor, over the past years she has held almost every access level given to users here, and has indicated through hard work and dedication that she can be trusted to perform these duties admirably and efficiently. Her actions are marked with the sort of sensibility, intelligence, humour, forthrightness and clear thinking that one would desire to see in all users, let alone our administrators.

The circumstances that led to Kelly’s voluntary desysopping last year are probably largely unclear to the average Wikipedian. Suffice to say there was plenty of bad behaviour on all sides, and Kelly’s decision to ask for desysopping was widely regarded as the right thing to do. Since then, she has been somewhat inactive over Wikimedia projects but has constantly kept up with our developments, our little disasters and our triumphs, via her blog. Even a cursory reading of this shows that her ability to analyse the trends in the community are unparalleled, and would only serve us well should she have the sysop bit to help her out.

Is Kelly perfect? No. We all know about the userbox extravaganza, the trials with Giano, the Zordrac controversies; even the contentious “WikiProject endorsements” at RfA earlier in the year. Do any of these incidents – isolated incidents spaced over thousands of actions – make her a bad user? Hell no. When Kelly’s good, she’s damn good.

In Kelly’s first RfA, Tony the Marine said “There is no reason what so ever to oppose a contributor who has shown that he or she is already an asset to Wiki and would make a great administrator.” I ask you all to consider that. Thanks, ~ Riana ⁂ 20:11, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, I did say that I would consent to allow the community to discuss the merits of a nomination if three fools could be found to make a joint nomination. It seems that we have three volunteer fools, and I certainly would not care to go back on my word. Therefore, I consent to the nomination. Kelly Martin (talk) 20:22, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

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General comments

• See Kelly Martin's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.

• Requests for adminship/Kelly Martin
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Discussion

Support

1. As nom. Moreschi 13:28, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
2. ~ Riana ⁂ 13:29, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
3. Ditto. Danny
4. Support — I view 3 nominations as prima-facie evidence of good judgement. —] 13:41, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Will go sideways again. Matthew 13:32, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Neutral