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Haukurth

Requests_for_adminship/Haukurth|action=edit}} Vote here (3/0/0) ending 20:19 November 1st (UTC)

Haukurth (talk · contribs) – Haukurth is one of those contributors who dedicate themselves to maintaining the quality of a certain field on Misplaced Pages, and in Haukurth's case it is Norse mythology, where he not only creates and expands articles, but also checks existing articles for errors. He has been with us since 2003-07-22 and since many users feel that edit counts is what counts, he has 2862 edits. Some will probably feel that this is not much for such a long time user, but he puts a lot of work on checking primary and secondary sources in order to maintain accuracy, and he has written Hrafnkels saga, a featured article. This is clearly a case of quality before quantity and he is a user I would trust with admin powers.Wiglaf 20:19, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

I gratefully accept the nomination. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 21:04, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Support

1. Support, since I am nominating him.--Wiglaf 20:23, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
2. Support. KHM03 22:10, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
3. Support, and authority in Norse matters, great contributor and Wikipedian. Shauri smile! 22:22, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
4. Support. I know this editor personally and I am certain that he will be a dedicated and reliable admin. I also think the history of his actions on Misplaced Pages recommend him highly. Edinborgarstefan 22:28, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
5. Support. –Hajor 23:14, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
6. Support. ≈ jossi fresco ≈ t • @ 23:35, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
7. Support Good at what he does.--Sean Black | Talk 23:44, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Comments

• >95% of the user's contributions have been in this calendar year. Recommend that people considering this RfA not hold number of edits vs. time on the project as against the July, 2003 inception of this nominee's presence here, but rather vs. January, 2005. Average number of edits per day over last 30 days is 19.6. Uses edit summaries 81% of the time, 87% over last 500 edits. --Durin 20:38, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)

A. I'd like to be able to speedy delete pages when doing RC-patrol. I'd also like to be able to move pages to locations with edit histories to sort out redirect jungles (of course discussing anything controversial before moving). A rollback button would be really nice since I monitor a bunch of pages for vandalism. If the community trusts me with adminship I would also do my share of work in clearing out backlogs in copyright violations, requested moves etc. I don't think I'll use the blocking option for a while. I feel I'd need more experience first and I don't want to block anyone unless I'm absolutely sure I know what I'm doing.

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

A. I'm happy with Hrafnkels saga, which I wrote and shepherded through the FAC process. I have some other favorites enumerated on my userpage but what I'm really proudest of is the Images from Norse mythology category, which I've contributed a lot to. I like adding images and tidying up their categories and licensing information.

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. The first I remember is a disagreement with User:Reddi on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction over how to classify vials of botulinum in the context of weapons of mass destruction. I think we managed to resolve that amiably in the end. I've participated in some debates on the Wikien mailing list, the hottest one was on the ban of User:Amalekite. The debate can be found in the mailing list archives and on Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy. That was certainly stressful to me and in the end I had to defer to a majority opinion I did not fully agree with. Most recently I've participated in debates, votes and revert wars (see the history of Úbeda) on the representation of German, Spanish and Old Norse names on Misplaced Pages.

I think the most important thing in any conflict is to try and avoid being sucked in completely and keep going back to what really makes Misplaced Pages fun - writing articles. Over 90% of the edits made by a typical contributor are noncontroversial and unambiguously improve the encyclopedia. It's easy to fall into the trap of spending disproportionate amounts of energy debating the remaining <10%.