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Keith D

Voice your opinion (talk page) (8/1/2); Scheduled to end 22:05, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Keith D (talk · contribs) - Keith D has been editing Misplaced Pages since September 2006, during which time he has made over 17,000 edits, including 10,000 to mainspace. He is mainly involved in WikiGnome activities, tidying articles within the scope of WikiProject Yorkshire, but has also been a main contributer to the Good Article, KC Stadium. He has participated in numerous XfD discussions, and has made over 20 reports to WP:AIV. Keith D is an experienced, polite user who would make good use of the tools to protect articles within his areas of interest. Epbr123 15:03, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept the nomination. Keith D 21:05, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

I am honoured to be nominated in this way and hope that if I am elected will be able to serve the community and repay the trust put in me.

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

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

A: I would continue to be active in the area of fighting vandalism that is a constant attack on the good work of many of us. I think that the tools offered would allow me to provide a quicker and more efficient response to acts of vandalism. I would probably also help out with backlogs in such areas as renaming which often build up waiting for an admin to attend to.

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

A: Probably the work with Doonhamer on the KC Stadium article, mentioned in the nomination, bringing it up to GA status. Hopefully Kingston upon Hull will follow once we have tracked down sources. Another significant achievement is to get article stubs, with infoboxes, for all of the East Riding of Yorkshire locations. The absence of these articles being one of the main reasons I got started on Misplaced Pages and hope that they will be a significant resource when expanded.

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: I think that conflict is inevitable especially when dealing with persistent vandalism. Though conflict with established users is something I try to avoid, if possible, though run ins with the currently banned user Andy Mabbett are probably the most stressful I have had to deal with. As to dealing with the situation I would hope that I would step back after a while and let other more experienced editors deal with the problem, but as an admin I may not have that luxury.

Optional question from Keepscases

4. Do you have any plans to edit Misplaced Pages while in the nude? Keepscases (talk) 19:02, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

A: Unsure of the relevance of the question - but to put your mind at rest it is no. Keith D (talk) 20:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

General comments

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

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

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Keith D before commenting.

Discussion

Support

1. Keith has been a tireless background worker for my school's article, which is unfortunate enough to be repeatedly vandalised. I have thanked him alot for this, but I am sure he would do a greater job for the rest of Misplaced Pages by becoming an administrator Mrjingjing 19:34, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
2. Support as nom. Epbr123 (talk) 23:26, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
3. Support. An excellent editor who can be trusted with the mop. Master of Puppets 00:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
4. Support A hard working man from the Broad Acres is good enough for me. Nick mallory (talk) 00:16, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
5. Support. Good edit count. Good luck. Malinaccier (talk • contribs) 01:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
6. Strong support Redrocketboy 03:07, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
7. Support I feel quite comfortable concluding that the net effect on the project of the candidate's being sysop(p)ed should be positive. Joe 05:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
8. Support Good edit count. Unlikely to abuse admin tools. --Siva1979 12:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
9. Support Has the qualifications. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 17:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
10. Support He looks like a good user. Unlikely to abuse admin tools Dustihowe (talk) 18:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose Lack of wikipedia edits or procedural involvement.--Dacium (talk) 03:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

   The nomination says he has '17,000 edits, including 10,000 to mainspace', how many do you want exactly? Nick mallory (talk) 04:19, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

   He does have only 117 project space edits, and I don't know that it's unreasonable to submit (even as I would not) that the record of project space contribution does not provide a basis sufficient from which to draw firm conclusions about the candidate's familiarity with policy. Joe 05:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough, if that's what Dacium meant. Nick mallory (talk) 06:24, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Neutral the number of project space contributions does not provide a basis sufficient from which to draw firm conclusions about the candidate's familiarity with policy (thanks Joe) ~Sasha Callahan _(Talk) 07:32, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

   You can find familiarity with policy in areas other than project space. 82.19.1.211 (talk) 12:36, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

   I understand your point, but I can't gauge his familiarity because of his lack of WP namespace edits. Remember, I'm not saying he shouldn't be an admin because of this, but I'm saying I can't support without a sufficient number of edits to the WP namespace (and their talk pages). ~Sasha Callahan _(Talk) 16:39, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

2. Neutral - as above and I'm a little troubled by the lack of involvement in the Misplaced Pages namespace, where most admins do their work. — Rudget _{contributions} 15:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)