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Wifione

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Nomination

Wifione (talk · contribs) – I have been an editor since April 2009. My contributions are relatively modest, compared to some of the other much respected and outstanding editors active on Misplaced Pages. There have been some months when I have been able to contribute to my satisfaction; but there have been many more when I have not been able to do so. Although I’ve created a few articles and am an autoreviewer, my contributions with respect to new articles are again modest as most of the 250 odd new articles I’ve created are stubs and I have only two dyks. I feel passionate about contributing on the Help Desk and whenever possible, have tried to my best extent to assist users with respect to their queries. I also contribute on the tool server as an accountcreator. Additionally, apart from gnomish work, I also have a fair exposure to new page patrolling. I’ve nominated articles for speedy deletion and have also tried and saved some from deletion. In my last hundred csd nominations that I counted in my previous 1000 edits, three must have been rejected by administrators. On and off, I report inappropriate user names to UAA too; in the last fifty reports, forty seven or so were blocked. ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ 17:29, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: At the start, I should wish to base my administrative work on the experiences that I have had till now; in other words, new page patrolling along with assessment of speedy deletion nominations. I would also attempt to gain experience at UAA under the guidance of other experienced administrators. At the same time, although I have nominated a few articles at AFD, I still don’t feel confident of being able to close those discussions that sit on the fence – and that’s one area I’d really like to get involved into in the future, as time progresses and I become a more confident administrator.

2. What are your best contributions to Misplaced Pages, and why?

A: I feel very proud (I hope this is not taken negatively) about both my csd nominations and uaa reports. I do know that there’re many better contributors than I am and more sincere ones too; yet, I feel that working in these two areas, I am contributing my mite to our project along with the others towards creating a better project. At the same time, I also feel very enthusiastic about the articles I have created. I know many of them are currently stubs – as most are articles on obscure villages for which RS is not as easily available. Still, I am trying to get them on to the project and create a community/group that works towards adding more village articles and improving those that exist. To that extent, I’ve very recently started WikiProject Villages – I know a clearly amateur attempt – though I do hope to structure this project much better in the coming future to progress the encyclopedic documentation of villages on Misplaced Pages. I hope in a few months, this comes out successfully.

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: More than a year ago, I was brash and unmindful of the various pillars of editing on Misplaced Pages and jumped into removing statements and references from an institutional article. As unmindful about being particularly civil with opposing editors, I ensured push came to shove resulting in one particular opposing editor, who was later warned of an impending block due to continued harassment on me, hauled me up to the SPI notice board. I was churlishly infuriated, leading to further editorial dispute with the editor. Thinking about it right now, I have to say it was pretty embarrassing. But I think I have learnt from that experience quite considerably and in one perspective, it has also been extremely advantageous as editorial disputes at that time enforced upon me the need to understand all the imperative policies and guidelines of our project. More importantly, I learnt to let go, be civil and contribute more proactively to the project in many other areas since then. A more recent case – though I won’t call it editorial conflict – was when I was suspended from the ACC tool server for incorrectly creating two user accounts. I accepted my mistake and seconded the correctness of my suspension – as I was clearly wrong. Since then, I am thankful to the ACC administrators for having allowed me to regain ACC tool server access.

General comments

• Links for Wifione: Wifione (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for Wifione can be found here.

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Discussion

Support

1. Support (need to research a bit more, but don't expect to change the vote)--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:43, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral