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Daveydweeb

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Nomination by Spawn Man (talk · contribs)

Daveydweeb (talk · contribs) – This user is basically anawesome editor. He helps out in all forms of Misplaced Pages & is always civil. Daveydweeb knows the site's protocol & would make a great administrator. I don't need to say much about this user, his efforts should do the rest of the talking. Thanks, Spawn Man 02:04, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Co-nomination by riana_dzasta (talk · contribs)

If Spawn Man doesn't mind, I'd like to co-nominate Daveydweeb for adminship (because I've been saying I will for a long time). Daveydweeb previously contributed under the name RandyWang, until concerns about the nature of his username came up in his last RfA. The other major concern which arose was misuse of speedy deletion tags; other editors were concerned that David tagged articles too hastily, and did not warn article creators enough. However, he is currently undergoing admin coaching from Yanksox, and even a quick overview of that page shows that he is willing and able to learn from past mistakes, and that his recent attempts at new page patrolling have been non-controversial and following policy.

Daveydweeb has over 4500 edits under his belt, well-distributed across the namespaces. His contributions to projectspace are particularly impressive - he is an active participant in AfD and WikiProject Computer and video games. He has also given multiple helpful editor reviews , regularly gives his opinion at RfAs , and is one of the Misplaced Pages Weekly podcasters, where - if you take a listen </plug> - he has consistently shown his ability to discuss policy, procedures and happenings in a calm and rational manner.

David doesn't do much recent changes patrol anymore, as his focus appears to have shifted to NPP. However, judging by his previous reverts , I have no doubt that he would be able to handle this aspect of adminship. As for other mainspace contributions, Daveydweeb has a good article under his belt with Personal computer game; thus he can appreciate this aspect of editing, and how hard it can be for contributors to raise articles to such high standards.

David's interactions with other users are unfailingly polite , civil and friendly , and while he has a sense of humour, I've never seen him cross the line. He welcomes new users , helps them out , and is willing to explain policies .

As for the paperwork - 100% edit summary usage, short signature, non-controversial userpage, talk page archiving.

I think all the problems from David's last RfA have been worked on and improved on, and I see no reason why he should not make a very fine administrator. He shows knowledge of policy, civility, and understands the fundamentals of NPOV, NOR, BITE and our deletion policies. David would make a diligent and helpful admin, and I'm sure he will continue to be an asset to the encyclopedia. riana_dzasta 07:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I very gratefully accept. Thank you. :) Daveydweeb (/_review!) 08:06, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Quick statement from Daveydweeb

As Riana notes above, I had a previous RfA that was ultimately unsuccessful for various reasons. The first, the matter of my username, has obviously been fixed.

The second, my involvement at speedy deletion, has been a major focus of my efforts in the recent past. The first part of the problem was simply that I took a whack-a-mole attitude toward new content, preferring to immediately tag it with {{db-nonsense}} and leave it to be deleted by someone else without warning the user. Since then, I've taken some time to improve my habits as much as possible through admin coaching with Yanksox, who has been very helpful on a number of matters (see my answer to question 3). The {{prod}} tag is now much more useful to me than it ever was, and I generally give article creators enough time to expand their articles before deciding on what should be done with them.

To address the second point of opposition surround my deletion habits -- namely, that I implicitly bit new users by failing to warn them of deletion tagging -- I now take the time to warn the creator of every good faith article that I mark for speedy deletion, as a matter of courtesy to the user and in the hope of preventing the creation of additional deleteable articles. Beyond that, I often try to remind other users to do so (and sometimes other things as well), usually with excellent results. I believe my attitude toward deletion has been totally overhauled, and is now much better suited to adminship.

-- Daveydweeb (/_review!) 08:06, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

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 voters:

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: First and foremost, I'd like to help with clearing out C:CSD as necessary. This category often exceeds 100 items in need of administrative consideration, and can take a great effort to clear out again. Since much of my experience is in this area, I'd anticipate helping to keep the number of items in this category down to a reasonable level.

Secondly, I'd like to make myself useful closing AfD debates. I spend a fair amount of time at WP:AFD/T, and try to maintain a fairly constant presence there; I believe I now have quite enough experience to help with closing out older deletions and any which need speedy attention.

Thirdly, and if I'm not exhausted by then ( :) ), I intend to keep an eye on WP:AIV and WP:ANI and make myself available when necessary. While blocking users and chasing down sockpuppets would not be the focus of my activities, I recognise that a speedy response to such things is often necessary and would be willing to provide one.

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

A: Yes, of course! I'm torn between being proud of my contributions to Personal computer game, which raised it to good article status, and depressed that it still has so far to go. As happy as I am with that article, it still has a few issues which need to be dealt with in order to raise it to featured quality; it's something I will be forever working on, but I really like doing so.

As well as that, I'm very happy with my previous contributions to editor review. In the past I challenged myself to respond to every single request for review and was successful in doing so, until the lead-up to my final school exams a couple of months ago. I'm pleased that I was able to contribute to this exercise and would dearly love to continue with it, time permitting.

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: Absolutely, and I want to draw !voters attention to two of them in particular:

First and most importantly, one of my earliest experiences at Misplaced Pages was when I had what could be described as "a bit of a tiff" with User:Xino, regarding his use of copyvio material, "owning" of articles and the like, all of which ended with his indefinite blocking when the case was taken to ArbCom. From that, I gained a pretty good experience in distancing myself from arguments on Misplaced Pages, and I've taken away from it my knowledge of dispute resolution and ability to distance myself from disagreements on Misplaced Pages without too much difficulty.

More recently, I came across User:Nunh-huh, an admin, who I don't believe reacted well to my inappropriate tagging of Mock Duck with {{db-repost}} (only the conversation as I was directly involved is shown in that diff, but it continued for a bit afterwards). I initially responded in what I'm sure was a reasonable manner when he pointed out (correctly) that I'd misused the tag, and asked for the advice of Yanksox and the administrator who originally deleted the article in question. When User:Chacor took it to RfC because of Nunh-huh's unfriendly replies, I responded as shown at that page and on the talk; while I believe my initial handling of the dispute was passable (not great), I'm unhappy that I became as worked up as I did when it was taken to RfC. In the future, I would attempt to distance myself further from the dispute -- I broke the golden rule of waiting a few hours to cool down before responding to formal dispute resolution process, and have resolved myself not to do that again.

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1. Nominator support - Of course I'm going to support. :) Spawn Man 02:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

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