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{{User|E. Brown}} – E. Brown has been very active in the area of hurricanes and storms in Misplaced Pages. He has also created many articles on past hurricane seasons, and as of ] has 1,731 edits. I've also observed that he also helpfully answers many questions from other people. In my opinion he deserves adminship. -- ] <sub>(])</sub> <sup><]></sup> 06:35, 18 October 2005 (UTC) {{User|E. Brown}} – E. Brown has been very active in the area of hurricanes and storms in Misplaced Pages. He has also created many articles on past hurricane seasons, and as of ] has 1,731 edits. I've also observed that he also helpfully answers many questions from other people. In my opinion he deserves adminship. -- ] <sub>(])</sub> <sup><]></sup> 06:35, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

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E. Brown

Requests_for_adminship/E._Brown|action=edit}} Vote here (15/5/4) ending 05:22 27 October 2005 (UTC)

E. Brown (talk · contribs) – E. Brown has been very active in the area of hurricanes and storms in Misplaced Pages. He has also created many articles on past hurricane seasons, and as of October 18 has 1,731 edits. I've also observed that he also helpfully answers many questions from other people. In my opinion he deserves adminship. -- NSLE (Communicate!) 06:35, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Accept

Support

  1. Support as nominator, btw. -- NSLE (Communicate!) 00:19, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Support, agree with nominator (just tone down the language a bit every now and then). Titoxd 05:29, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  3. Support, agree with nominator, the most informed person I have ever met on the history of hurricanes. --Holderca1 13:55, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  4. Support He is worthy--Xiphon 15:03, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  5. Support I have to agree with all of the above comments, Eric has made many fine contributions to this site. Banes 15:17, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  6. Support. He seems civil and highly knowledgable. His edit history looks pretty good, plenty of edits, and plenty of edit summaries. Overall good candidate.Voice of All 15:22, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  7. Support. I'll take a solid Wikipedian who's new to adminship over a proto-admin who's not so much about the encyclopedia-writing any day. — File:Ontario trillium sig.pngmendel ☎ 19:16, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  8. Support. Does a lot of work on hurricanes to the detriment of, say, everything else, but seems informed, intelligent, active, and well-spoken, and frankly that's good enough for me. Lord Bob 19:44, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  9. Support. I like that he has tons of "article talk" edits, for me it means that he plays well with others (or maybe not, but still discusses things rather than rushing into edits). Sebastian Kessel 20:22, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  10. Support I was pretty set to oppose due to low wikipedia namespace edits until I read his comment below. That swayed me, I'd rather have a dedicated contributor who did a bit of admin work once in a while than one who did none at all. He deserves it. -Greg Asche (talk) 20:43, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  11. Support, despite lack of WP-space edits, because of his commitment to discretion. That's something we could use a bit more of around here.--Scimitar 20:58, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  12. Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 23:52, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  13. Support, per GregAsche. No doubt he will not abuse admin powers. Christopher Parham (talk) 03:25, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  14. Support. From a look at his contributions, an extremely good editor, and that is good enough for me. Tintin 05:11, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  15. Yes, please. Lack of wikipedia namespace edits indicates a healthy reluctance to be dragged into interminable pointless disputes. Lupin|talk|popups 12:31, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

  1. Oppose, no edits to wikipedia, most edits to the same pages, not a lot of variety. If this person's just working on hurricane and storm articles, do they really need admin powers? Private Butcher 18:16, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Oppose Very Very few Misplaced Pages edits if any --JAranda | watz sup 20:02, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  3. Sorry, but oppose per lack of experience in Wikispace (<50 edits in WP, zero in WP talk). Please join some discussions at FAC, RFC, ANI or (shudder) AFD and see what it's like. Radiant_>|< 22:40, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  4. Lack of Project edits indicates lack of experience in adminstrative areas. I'm willing to change my vote to neutral if you began voting on some AfDs and RfAs for the remainder of the week. But I think it's too soon to support someone with so little participation in the sysop-related areas. Acetic' 03:57, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  5. Oppose per above. Simply not enough Wiki edits. Marskell 16:48, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Neutral

  1. Neutral In looking over your edits, virtually all of them pertain to Hurricanes in one fashion or another. While I think your contributions there are probably second to none, I would need to see a lot more involvement in the type of janitorial chores expected of admins, and to use edit summaries with almost every contribution to help out RC Patrollers.--MONGO 08:30, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Neutral Although I dont entirely agree with the idea that you should engage in sysop chores before you are admin, I am curious whether or not you would actually enjoy doing the admin chores. You seem to be the kind of person which would much rather be a valuable contributor than having to do all the (necessary) boring work. Feel free to comment. The Minister of War 10:30, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  3. Neutral. Good editor, but more variety and involvement is needed. Here are a few good links: You could help out in the Untagged Images section, vote frequently on RFAs and participate on its talk page, vote on AFDs, make it a duty to watch the Recent Changes and revert vandalism, warn editors and report incessant vandals on Misplaced Pages:Vandalism in Progress. You could also watch and tag Special:Newpages. After familiarizing yourself with these, and continuing editing articles, you should be all set :). Oran e (t) (c) (@) 19:19, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  4. Neutral, as the Project namespace edit count is low. I don't see a need for a mop and bucket if most of what you're doing is hurricane stuff, and though I'm heartily against editcountitis, admins have to have edits in the Project namespace. But I don't think you'd make a bad admin either, merely that adminship seems unnecessary. Your edits are very good, and you have an abundance of edits in the Talk namespace, which is a good sign. I could easily support if there was evidnece of more sysop chores going on. --BorgHunter (talk) 12:24, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Comments

  • Minister, NSLE's nomination kind of caught me a little off guard. Most administrators (correct me if I'm wrong) sought the title or knew that they deserved the vote. Being an administrator was never a goal of mine. The reason I'm pursuing this is that a lot of people on the hurricane pages feel strongly in my favor. They have given me very encouraging feedback, including one who recently asked me when my page would be posted so that he could support me. I respect their opinions very much. Also, the reason I sounded apprehensive is that I didn't want to sound aggressive. I would use administrative powers when necessary, I wouldn't use them just to use them, because I don't think that's what being an administrator is all about. If I came across a prolific vandal, I would not hesitate to warn him, or block him if he had been warned at least twice before. If I came upon an article that contributed nothing and had little hope of being expanded into a worthwhile article, I'd delete it or put it up for deletion. I came across such an article once before and asked an administrator if he'd speedy delete it, which he did. I believe that an administrator should use a lot of discretion before using administrative powers such as speedy deletion and blocking. Should I be elected an administrator, that would be my philosophy: discretion. E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - my dropsonde 13:35, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • A chart showing this user's edits along with a total # of edits line and average edits per day line is available here: Image:EBrown-edits.png. I offer this not as a more refined version of editcountitis, but as just one tool to help evaluate an admin nominee with a somewhat low edit count on Misplaced Pages.--Durin 13:45, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Use of edit summaries is 30%, 37% over the last 500. Average edits per day is ~6, and gradually increasing over last 30 days; 13.8 per day over last 30 days. 1,036 edits in last 90 days (60% of total contributions). --Durin 13:45, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I'm not sure exactly what you guys mean by saying that I haven't made many edits in Misplaced Pages. I've made nearly 2,000 of them. E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - my dropsonde 03:01, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
A. Fighting vandalism, frequenting the deletion pages more, speedy deletion when necessary, that's mostly it. I would block a vandal if direly necessary.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Misplaced Pages, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. Yes, I am particularly fond of my private ventures Catastrophic Florida Hurricanes: 1900-1960 and Catastrophic Florida Hurricanes: 1961-present. I spent a lot of time researching them and I believe that I have introduced a new way of telling the facts to Misplaced Pages.
E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - my dropsonde 00:34, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
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. Yes, I have had two personal conflicts. Both were where I felt the other user was being childish and unreasonable and refused to listen to me when I tried to explain a misunderstanding. Other users have also had negative encounters with the same user. The other was with an anon user where I as politely as possible asked them to stop doing something and they thought I was being high-and-mighty (with the first mentioned user stirring the pot, so to speak). Those were the only two major ones. I've had disaggreements with other users before, but those two were the only ones that escalated.
E. Brown, Hurricane enthusiast - my dropsonde 00:34, 19 October 2005 (UTC)