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ACBest

Voice your opinion (talk page) (1/4/2); Scheduled to end 17:07, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

ACBest (talk · contribs) - Hiya! Damon here!

Well, what can i say... I have been a user of Misplaced Pages for a few months, and have contributed a lot, and for those of you who fight the vandals, i have been vandal fighting for the last couple days, and got 2 vandals blocked.

I think I would be good as an admin, and I would make sure that I still kept Vandal Fighting.

I also have a good sense of humor, and I dont get ANGRY!

Please feel free to say yes or no...

Many thanks, Damon ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 17:07, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh yeah, i forgot to say - I tagged a lot of pics for deletion the other day as they had no FU rationale, so i keep a watchful eye for that too. ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 17:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Own nomination ;) ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 17:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages as an administrator. You may wish to answer the following optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

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

A: Just vandal fighting/blocking and picture deleting, if/when they need deleting.

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

A: Probably my best contributions are Vandal fighting, and my edits to Newark North Gate, and Lincoln Central

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: No, not that I can think of ;)

4. Why are your edits so frequently brusk and ill-mannered? If you alienate people now, how will you do as in admin?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.64.200.210 (talk • contribs) 17.21 28th July 2007 (UTC)

A Excuse me, but i believe you are only saying that because I reverted an earlier edit by you. ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 17:32, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

5.(optional) Over 700 out of your 2100 edits have been to a user page of some kind. Why so many? T Rex | talk 17:48, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

A They are all to my userspace mostly. So many as that was when i was less advanced, and was cleasring my page up almost non-stop. Now, more of my time is going into other stuff.

General comments

• See ACBest's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.

• Links for ACBest: ACBest (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)

Please keep criticism constructive and polite. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/ACBest before commenting.

Discussion

Support

1. Moral Support Too soon my friend. Two days of vandal fighting does not an admin make. Your answers to the questions are both honest but not full enough for me to understand enough about your need for admin buttons at this time. You may also find that turning on the auto prompt for edit summaries will help (it's in your preferences) as I feel admins need, more than others, to justify / describe actions through the summary. However your contributions look fine and your vandal reversion is deeply valued to this project. Remember also that blocking is preventative not punative. I hope to see more of your contributions and a future RFA, but sadly I suspect this will not be succesful at this time. Pedro |  Chat  17:43, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

   Um... I have done more vandal fighting in the past ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 17:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

   AC - can I make a quick brace of suggestions. 1) please don't feel the need to respond directly to every comment here (although your participation thorughout is of course encouraged) and 2) indent your responses with a hash and a colon (or many colons) to keep the numbering together - I've sorted the last ones out for you! Cheers! Pedro |  Chat  17:56, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

   OK, Thanks ;) ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 18:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose - not sure if this editor has enough experience to determine which admin tasks really need to be accomplished or what adminship really entails. Misplaced Pages:Bots/Requests for approval/ACBot requests a vague request for a bot account without specifying what it does or why it needs to be done. Also, the autograph book page just encourages people to use long, flowery, colorful signatures without adding content. --Elkman 17:44, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

   ACBot is to have a new request soon, and this time it will have more details! ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 17:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

2. Oppose - While you have over 2,000 edits to wikipedia, only 519 of them are on the mainspace. You say your main priority will be vandal fighting yet you have only 12 AIV reports. You seem also to use summaries only about half of the time. You need more experience and then we'll see. Wikidudeman 18:08, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
3. Oppose - Too inexperienced. The goal of becoming an admin should be for the betterment of the encyclopedia, not just to hold the title. Lara♥Love 18:26, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

   I don't just want to hold the title... ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 18:31, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

   I just don't feel a 12 year old can have the maturity to be an admin. I also feel that if vandal fighting is going to be one of your greater areas of involvement as an admin, you should have more than a couple days experience with it. Lara♥Love 18:45, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

   I have more than a couple of days experience... I have done it in the past... ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 18:50, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

   AC - 1) your age does not bother me. 2) You stated yourself about the time that you had been helping out vandal fighting so you can hardly then argue against it whatever your contrib. history. 3) Ignoring my gentle (and transparent) note not to respond to every comment will not help you. Please, I do not want this RFA to be a negative experience for yourself. Feel free to approach me on my talk page if you wish. Pedro |  Chat  18:57, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

   Please no ageism. Just because you're x years old doesn't mean you're automatically smart, immature, stupid, etc. 13 year old, --(Review Me) R Contribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 19:01, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

4. Oppose - Not enough experience in my opinion. I would also like to see more detailed answers if there happens to be a next time you apply to be an admin. Best of luck in the future! DanThaMan17 18:54, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Neutral needs to use more edit summaries, more mainspace edits. I do applaud you for your work with images as it is something that many users even experienced ones look over. T Rex | talk 17:55, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
2. Neutral. I don't really know what to make of you right now. You seem a bit too inexperienced, so I won't support. Also, you know there's a setting that reminds you to add a summary, right? Go under the "Editing" tab in your preferences, and it should be the last box at the bottom. J-stan 18:54, 28 July 2007 (UTC)