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#'''Neutral''' MikeLynch didn't substituted {{tl|RfA/time}} template before transcluding his nomination to ]. This alone isn't enough to oppose, but it doesn't give me confidence to support. ] <sup><font color="#E3A857">]</font></sup><sub><font color="#008000">]</font></sub> 16:24, 14 January 2012 (UTC) #'''Neutral''' MikeLynch didn't substituted {{tl|RfA/time}} template before transcluding his nomination to ] . This alone isn't enough to oppose, but it doesn't give me confidence to support. ] <sup><font color="#E3A857">]</font></sup><sub><font color="#008000">]</font></sub> 16:24, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

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MikeLynch

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Nomination

MikeLynch (talk · contribs) – Hardworking editor, very active on moderating topics on the India notice board. He's an admin and a bureaucrat on the Sanskrit Misplaced Pages, a member of the Wikimedia OTRS team, member of the U.S. and Global Education Program's Ambassador Steering Committee and a Misplaced Pages Online Ambassador. As a Wikipedian, I trust him, I've met him in our meetups in the city and I believe he's very sincere and will take this right with responsibility. Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:36, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
Thank you for the nomination, I accept it. I believe I have acquired the required experience and trust of the community in order to serve as an administrator. I hope to discharge my duties well.

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: With the administrator tools, I intend to start out at RM and RFPP. Since I am fairly active at ITN/C, I will help out there as well. I also help in the info-en queue at OTRS, and hence would be using the admin tools to view deleted pages and revisions, as well as to delete revisions in violation of the BLP policy. However, I will not jump into anything too quickly, and will make sure to take time out to learn the workings of the administrative processes here.
2. What are your best contributions to Misplaced Pages, and why?
A: I started out in Misplaced Pages using by using tools like Huggle, and almost all my initial edits were related to anti vandalism. Later, I started out with more content contributions. Most of my edits are to India related articles, and I love working on Indian Education articles. To my credit, I currently have 1 GA, 3 DYKs (with more on the way), and around 4 ITN items. I would consider my best contributions are to List of colleges affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University and RVCE. Next on my radar is PESIT. Its always a challenge to develop Indian University articles neutrally, because sources are often scarce and a lot of searching is needed to find good sources.
I am also an OTRS member handling the info-en queue. I am an Online Ambassador for the US Education program, and am a Ambassadors Steering committee member. I also form a part of other projects like Abuse Response and Account creation, but I am less active there though.
Outside of English Misplaced Pages, I am a bureaucrat on the Sanskrit Misplaced Pages, an administrator on the Sanskrit Wiktionary, as well as a Special Interest Group chairman in Wikimedia India.
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: Yes, I have been in many conflicts in the past, and I have been civil in all such disputes. I have been in cases where I've faced a lot of WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT and tendentious editing, but have kept a cool head. I have taken part in discussions at AN/I, as well as with regard to pages like Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and 2008 Mumbai attacks. I have been a victim of trolling, especially in light of vandalism at Hosur. I am active in the India noticeboard, and have been in contentious debates, but I've kept my cool there as well.
I haven't been seriously stressed as such during debates, but there have been a couple of times I did get frustrated, but they haven't escalated into breach of wikiquette by me.
In the future as well, I will be calm and patient with disputes, and especially so, while handling new editors.
Additional question from StephenBuxton
4. Please can you look at the User:StephenBuxton/CSD Exercises and provide a link to a page with your answers? Thank you
A: I do not plan on going into handling CSDs, but nevertheless I have provided my take here. Lynch7 12:57, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Additional question from Salvio giuliano
5. What is your opinion of WP:NLT and how would you enforce it, as an admin?
A: I feel that the editing atmosphere should be as free and unconstrained as possible, and the NLT policy is one of the ways to ensure that. Further, it is important that legal matters get communicated through official channels, and not through public wikis.
Before reacting to any legal threat, I will see whether the person has a genuine concern (probably a genuine BLP concern). If it can be acted upon uncontroversially (as in the case of pure Libel), then I will remove the contentious material. If such a move by me would be controversial (For instance, if it had good verifiable sources), I would try and communicate with the user, explaining to him what his mistake was, and how it violated policy. If he is not satisfied, then I will ask him to contact the info-en OTRS team.
In all cases (irrespective of how good or bad his concerns are), I will ask him to retract his legal threat immediately, failing which I will block him indefinitely. Lynch7 15:20, 14 January 2012 (UTC)


General comments

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review his contributions before commenting.

Discussion

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Support
  1. Strong Support. A hard-working and trustworthy editor who deserves adminship. Being an admin (and bureaucrat) at the Sanskrit Misplaced Pages, he deserves the tools on en-wiki as well. --Bryce (talk | contribs) 13:32, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
  2. Support - seems a reliable choice. Johnbod (talk) 13:50, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
  3. Strong Support. Why not? — Abhishek  14:32, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
  4. Support No reason to think they'll misuse the tools. FeydHuxtable (talk) 15:56, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
  5. Support. Ruslik_Zero 15:57, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
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Neutral
  1. Neutral MikeLynch didn't substituted {{RfA/time}} template before transcluding his nomination to WP:RFA . This alone isn't enough to oppose, but it doesn't give me confidence to support. Armbrust, B.Ed. about my edits? 16:24, 14 January 2012 (UTC)