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TomStar81

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• Co-nomination

I am nominating TomStar81 for adminship as this is overdue. I have worked closely with him for about a year, in Milhist, where we are both coordinators. He is sensible, thoughtful and trustworthy, with a direct but civil manner. He is good at finding consensus, and then implementing it.

Tom has been around since September 2004, racking up over 17,000 edits. His first RfA became hopelessly derailed with a dispute between two editors, and Tom honorably withdrew his nomination. His second attempt followed very shortly afterwards but this, he acknowledges, was a mistake as it was far too soon for the dust to have settled from the first. However, this was nearly a year ago and we have since all moved on.

Tom is an excellent content editor, and despite his famously idiosyncratic spelling, has contributed to ten featured articles (mostly about the US Navy). He has also nominated a dozen images for featured status, and accumulated many shiny things. He is mostly active in the Ships and Military history wikiprojects. He has been an active and enthusiastic Milhist coordinator since August 2007. He came third in the last coordinator elections, which indicates a high degree of community trust.

I don't imagine Tom will change his spots and become a world-class vandal blocker or a AfD/CSD enthusiast. I expect he'll mostly do low-key routine backroom stuff, tidying as he goes about his regular editing. Additionally, he'll be good at helping with the increasing number of disputes involving POV-warriors.

--ROGER DAVIES  03:57, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

• Co-nomination

I am honored to offer up a co-nom for TomStar81. He is the one of the first if not the first editor that I became in contact with after I began to edit here just under a year ago, and if it were not for him, I do not know if I would still be writing or improving the occasional article. As mentioned above, he has many Featured Articles and Featured Pictures (noms) to his name, along with a few GAs and DYKs, which means he also is a recipient of one of Durova's Triple Crown's. I have collaborated with Tom on a few articles which have gained some status:

• USS Illinois (BB-65) was originally put to FAC by myself but once I encountered some issues that I could not deal with on my own, Tom stood in and took him upon himself to get the article to Featured status. Without him, I do not believe this article would be where it is today.
• USS Texas (BB-35) was expanded by Tom before I even registered an account, but with my gentle nudge, we successfully navigated a Good Article nom and we are almost ready to take the article to FAC.

Tom has always welcomed questions with good well-thought-out and reasoned answers and I do not remember him ever being uncivil. Both of these qualities are ones that I expect from an admin. I trust Tom's judgment so much that I granted him rollback rights in January of this year, and I have not seen him use those rights incorrectly. I do not expect that Tom will use the tools everyday, but I believe that he will use them properly when he deems necessary, as I do. -MBK₀₀₄ 04:49, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I humbly accept this nomination. TomStar81 (Talk) 06:03, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

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: To a certain degree, vandalism prevention, since we have all encountered that problem here at some point. Outside that the two likely areas for admin related work will be afd and RC patrolling; in the case of the latter, for blocking vandals at or beyond the last warning and deleting csd-tagged articles that pop up when I happen to catch them.

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

A: I still consider my best contributions to Misplaced Pages to be my featured articles and pictures, as these represent the most elite and highest regarded articles and audio visual media on the encyclopedia.

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: By far the conflict over editting that caused me the most stress was the virutual anihilation of nearly all the old Command & Conquer pages at the hands of Proto (now Neil (talk · contribs). He and I had gunfights over that, and it took me alot of time to come to grips with it. The memory of the whole incident still bothers me, but with time I have come to reliase I was in the wrong in attempting to save the pages, and though I remain disappointed with the deletion of the articles I recongnize that it was and remains for the best. More recently, I had an unpleasent encounter with BQZip01 (talk · contribs) during the second FAC for the article USS Illinois (BB-65), this time over the issue of notability as it related to an incompleted ship. As a show of good faith for BQZip01 and others who had reservations about the article, I nominated it at afd to settle the notability issue, but the whole incident still leaves something of a bad taste in my mouth. I have kept my distance from BQZip01 since then, more as a self imposed measure to keep from doing something I may regret later (being uncivil will not help reestablish good relations, and I one day hope to).

Additional questions from Icewedge

3.5 What is the difference between a block and ban?

A.

4. Under what circumstances should a page be given semi-protection or full-protection?

A.

General comments

• See TomStar81's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.

• Requests for adminship/TomStar81
• Requests for adminship/TomStar81 2
• Requests for adminship/TomStar81 3

• Links for TomStar81: TomStar81 (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/TomStar81 before commenting.

Discussion

Support

1. Support as co-nom. -MBK₀₀₄ 06:08, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
2. Support, I've "known" TomStar81 (and his "famously idiosyncratic spelling" :-) for about as long as I've been on Wiki; he is a solid content contributor and a civil, collaborative editor. Happy to support. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 06:14, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
3. Support as co-nom. --ROGER DAVIES  06:17, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
4. Support - Solid. Wisdom89 _{(T / )} 06:22, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
5. Weak Support for now. It'll take me a bit longer to go through my review of this candidate because he has 17,000 edits, but I wanted to get my current thoughts down before I fall asleep. Anyway, TomStar81 is an excellent content builder, but according to Q1 he wants to work with vandalism, AFD, and RC patrol. Going through his contribs, he has exactly three edits to AIV, and one of those was adding his sig to his previous edit. Depending on what I find tomorrow when I have more time to go through his contribs, my !vote could change. Useight (talk) 06:24, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
6. Support Tom is a great editor and I am very pleased to support his nomination. In particular, I'd like to highlight the extent to which Tom seeks to gain consensus when writing articles or discussing issues. A particularly good example of this is that he nominated the article USS Illinois (BB-65) for deletion shortly after he sucessfully guided it through a FAC as several of the editors who commented on the FAC stated that they didn't believe that uncompleted ships deserved to have articles and Tom wanted a ruling one way or the other. Based on this behaviour I think that there's no danger that he will miss-use the admin tools. Nick Dowling (talk) 06:43, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral