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ST47

Voice your opinion (5/0/0); Scheduled to end 23:17, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

ST47 (talk · contribs) - I am very pleased to nominate this user for adminship, he is a dedicated vandal/spam fighter who I respect very much. This user has amassed over 10,000 edits and is email enabled. I have seen this user frequently at the AIV and I find that his reports are accurate. This user also has a high percentage of edit summaries, something that is often overlooked. ST47 is also a good contributer to the wikispace. All in all I find that this user has greatly improved since his last RFA (s) and it is time to give em' the mop. I have no doubt this will be a good admin, Cheers. ~ Arjun 22:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Co-nomination from Yuser31415 (talk · contribs)

Arjun01 pretty much said it all. However, I'd like to doubly recommend this user for adminship. He has massive contributions toward fighting spam and vandalism, both essential and very useful characteristics. He is always civil and calm, and with over 12,000 edits he has a large amount of experience. I believe he would serve the community excellently as an administrator.

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Thanks to you both for the nominations, I accept. ST47Talk 23:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Before I answer any questions, there are a few things I want to say. First, about my previous RfAs. First, I believe not that I jumped the gun and did it way too early to gain the community's trust. I have improved my civility and understanding of policy since my second. I declined my 3rd nomination a few weeks ago because of school, I just didn't have enough time because of several not-quite-midterms. (I passed them all, yay!)

Arjun01, thank you so much for the nomination! I'd just like to note a few more things: I have had 2 previous RfAs (1|2), and one nomination(here), I run 5 bots, STBot, who does categorization and template work using AWB, STBotD, who does interwiki stuff daily, STBotT, which tags (or will tag, once it is approved, currently in trial) new pages without categories or wikilinks, and SWMTBots 5 and 6, who watch about 100 wikis each for vandalism, I am registered for VP, AWB, and Spamda (a great tool), and I'm always on IRC to help out. I run 2 audio streams for WikiCast, which is a free-content audio broadcast, I am subscribed to unblock-en-l and I watch CAT:RFU, even as a non-administrator. For more information on off-wiki stuff, visit User:ST47/WhatIDo, there's an editcounter on my userpage, and my archives are linked as well. ST47Talk 23:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

And a few links:

• Edit Counter
• User:ST47/WhatIDo
• Email is EN.WP.ST47 on gmail
• ST47 on IRC
• STBot|D|T
• User talk:ST47/TOC - a partial talk archive directory
• My SWMTBots

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Misplaced Pages backlog and Category:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A: I can contribute in many areas, many of which I already have some experience in. I have an account on the test wiki, so you can be sure I won't mess any blocks up and end up blocking 0.0.0.0/0, which is a good thing for any administrator to avoid doing. I have XfD experience, both closing to get an idea of how to do it, the process, and contributing to discussions. I have some CSD experience, which you can't see from my contribs, but the mass talk page exodus of early January 2007 was my fault. Requested moves, requests for page protection are both harmless areas where I can get the feel of deletion and protection. I'd stalk AIV on the IRC feed, and I am always available on IRC, or through my email, which I may have mentioned earlies, but is EN.WP.ST47 on gmail. I would be active on the various Administrator's Noticeboards, which I already watch a few times a week, and the mailing lists, especially unblock-en-l. I can help just about anywhere the backlog is, and in time-sensitive areas, especially the Requests for Unblock, where there are live people why want something fixed.

2. Of your articles or contributions to Misplaced Pages, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A: Well, getting 1,000 talk pages speedied was fun :D Mostly I just enjoy doing maintenance work and cleanup. I've also removed a few large groups of spam links to myspace and flickr, and I try to stay on the lookout for typos. I like my idea for User:STBotT, which it the one who looks through new pages and tags them for maintenance, which helps cleanup people.

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

A: A few weeks ago, there was something weird going on with STBot, probably involving the category->article list maker, which resulted in a block against the bot, bot not a dispute as much as having to clean up stuff. I attempted mediation earlier this year, I won't be trying that again - I find it amazing that there are people who feel so strongly that they would argue their point so strongly to fix up an article. I have a few other subjects of edit warring on my watchlist, and I hate when they do that, it definitely isn't helping the wiki. Stress-wise, after my last RfA I stormed off, one could say, but that was 3 months ago now. I try to avoid conflicts, I suppose, my opinion being, if they feel so strongly about, that, perhaps they're right, and that helps, and then I can go and get something done rather than get in to an argument about whether the third sentence of the second paragraph of Microsoft is really written from the Neutral Point of View.

Optional question from ST47 (talk · contribs)(do I get to answer my own question?)

4. You've been here for months, made thousands of edits, and devoted hundreds of hours to Misplaced Pages without pay or and tangible reward. Above you said why you wanted to be an admin, but why do you want to be a Wikipedian? What was your motivation for joining, and for staying?

A: Well, ST47, that's a great question. I first joined because I noticed a few errors around the place, but then was inactive for a while. In August of last year, I was working on another wiki, mostly cleanup and vandal patrol, and I realized that I was bored. I came to Misplaced Pages "just for 15 minutes", and was instantly amazed at the rate of edits on recent changes. I logged in and started reverting by hand. In time, I realized that there were easier ways, and I got popups and requested access to VP (I think I had to apply twice). Eventually, I got on IRC and got access to AWB, started running bots, and recently began work on spam cleanup (I am approved for the beta of m:Spamda) and some new RC tools (WP:TWINKLE). I suppose I just want to have a place to go and feel welcome and like I am helping someone.

General comments

• See ST47's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.
• Please see this user's past rfa's here 1, 2, 3 (declined). ~ Arjun 22:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Please keep criticism constructive and polite.

Discussion

Support

1. Nominator support. You are a great user who would benefit Misplaced Pages even more as a sysop. Yuser31415 23:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
2. Strong Support. Beat the nom support :P -- Heligoland 23:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
3. Support Beat nom too (well, one of them)! AZ _t 23:33, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
4. Nominator support :) ~ Arjun 23:35, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
5. Support Another excellent candidate for the mop and bucket. A good all-round editor. (aeropagitica) 23:38, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
6. Support Per nom. --Dirk Beetstra 23:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
7. Support Great Vandal Fighter. Wikipedians contribute to Misplaced Pages in different ways. We should give adminship to everyone qualified and willing; no matter what way they help Misplaced Pages.--Natl1 (Talk Page) (Contribs) 00:06, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose The lack of article writing is a concern, as well as the civility issues brought up during the previous RfA. I'll be the first to admit that I had a tough go of scrutinising the candidate's contributions given the enormous amount of automated edits, so if I misread the answer to Q2 or missed some article writing or successful mediations, I'd appreciate if someone pointed me in the right direction. gaillimh 23:51, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Neutral