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Reaffirmations of adminship

See Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for adminship/Archive 27 for a discussion of SethIlys's reaffirmation and the reaction thereto. The general agreement after that was that voluntary reaffirmations were to be prohibited. The only way to do one now is to voluntarily resign one's adminship and run again, an act which is likely to result in failure because people tend to see this as being flighty or unrpredicable, and not in a good way. Kelly Martin (talk) 20:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

re:Admin votes

Yes, any user can add questions for the candidate and it wouldn't matter if you were an admin or not. It seems to be important to phrase them in a carefully-neutral or positive-leaning light regardless of the expectation regarding the answer. I have myself challenged additional questions on RfAs when I think they are badly asked; the nominee still answered them, but with a (hopefully) freer hand. Asking about IAR is an interesting idea. I think you will usually get "I will apply it carefully and only where absolutely needed" rather than "yeah, I'll shoot first and ask later" but you might at times weed out a candidate whom you might not otherwise oppose. It might also yield some interesting philosophical answers that give insight into a candidates reasoning processes. But don't ask it on every RfA, or even every RfA you plan to participate in — I imagine there are some RfAs where you will already know that you are going to support. When an editor has gone through a phase of blanket-asking a new question, they have usually been bitten for it before long, but not when the question has only been asked judiciously. -Splash 06:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

I thought I'd add that I sometimes ask a candidate additional questions, frequently asking about IAR and sometimes about other things, especially when I'm undecided about a candidate or if the outcome is in doubt at the time I get to the RfA. Sometimes the answer will help others make up their mind even if it doesn't help me. But I'm an infrequent participant at RfA. Kelly Martin (talk) 20:38, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Answers to your quesions

Good day Xoloz! I have answered your questions on RfA. Thanks for the time! --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 12:16, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Coolness. Thanks for your support, and moreso for your excellent question! --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 12:39, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Tomf688's RfA

Well, it seems I'm now an administrator. I wanted to thank you for your vote of confidence, and, as always, feel free to drop me a line at any time. --tomf688 01:00, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Google stuff

Please revisit Misplaced Pages:Miscellaneous deletion/Wikipedia:Articles which are number one for one word Google searches (whoa what a long title). I've found and added some similar pages, so please check if your vote stands. Radiant_>|< 22:05, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi, Xoloz. Thanks for the barnstar! I'm not sure what it was about yesterday that meant I got easily riled; there's really no excuse to get annoyed about what is, at the end of the day (and indeed, most other times of the day) just a website. Your citation in the barnstar is appreciated — it is also a challenge to be lived up to. -Splash 12:28, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: Admin

I appreciate the sentiment, but with my edit count (under a thousand, which surprises even me!), it would be a waste of everybody's time. Thanks for the thought, though. Lord Bob 22:47, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Success!!! Thanks for your support! --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 08:04, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Success. Just not the normal kind Thanks for your neutrality! Can I stop mimicing the section above me now? Whew.

Really, I appreciate that you came and said your piece when it would perhaps have been easier to simply stay away. Thank you.

I hadn't realized just how blind I am to race, to be frank. I recall that when the fur was flying with N75, he was sure that I had done it to hurt him. Not only had I never even considered his heritage, I actually find it hard to keep something like that in my head. It just slides away, like a fried egg off a cast iron skillet. My mental classifications run more towards "taller than me" (aka almost everyone) or "has more hair than me" (umm, that would again be almost everyone.) After all the hysteria last time, I had actually forgotten he was black.

I notice that you used a different contruction for that in the RfA, but I'm going to stick with my local varient. The american way is a bit forced to me. I'm greenish pink, isn't that a colour? But I digress. How unusual.

So, thank you again, I'd hope that you continue to feel free to tell me when I screw up! - brenneman 13:32, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Haukur's RFA

Thank you for supporting my nomination till the end. I think I have never had as much praise piled on me in only six words. Your kind words were one of the things that kept me going throughout. Thank you for finding me worthy of your trust. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 20:33, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

PRueda29 RFA

Thanks you for your support! I really appreicate it. PRueda29 13:36, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

This is just a brief note to thank you for your support vote on my successful RfA. See you around Misplaced Pages! — Phil Welch 22:03, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Johann Wolfgang's RfA

Thank you for voting on my RfA. I realize that I have not been here long, however other users said I would do just fine as an administrator, so I followed their advice. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

Johann Wolfgang [ T ...C ] 03:41, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

G'day Xoloz. I just wanted to let you know that I have answered the questions that Aaron posted on my RfA. I hope that I can secure your vote. Cheers -- Ianblair23 (talk) 10:55, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Durin RFC

just wanted to let you know that as per the consensus on the talk page I have archived and locked the RFC. Jtkiefer ----- 22:17, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: The Devil's Panties

I appreciate the help. Despite being around Misplaced Pages in some capacity or another for a few years, I am not fully familiar with every intricacy of it yet and made that mistake. The addition of the characters was not part of my initial page creation but I am going to make a point to go back through and clean up and possibly weed out any that seem incendiary and possibly limit the section to include only those that recur throughout the comic as a whole. Thanks again. TheMonkofDestiny 06:46, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

User:Xoloz/Schools

I've seen a lot of stubs on schools kept and subsequently not touched or at least not seriously expanded for over 3 months. New people may well have a page creation phobia, but very little improving seems to be done too. How does that figure into your argument on schools? - Mgm| 14:20, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

I'd like to see a school task force as well. But I'm afraid the "minimum acceptable level" needs to be determined so hard work on improving an article isn't thrown down the drain by a nomination after it being cleaned up. Also, I don't see why some people say why very crappy articles should stay when admins can easily resurrect an article should someone be interested in starting work on it. I agree that articles can be expanded and cleaned up but some articles are just beyond help.

I would for example delete "George W. Bush is the president of the United States" without shedding a single tear because that is a substub definition. Anyone who'd research the subject and create an article on the subject would VERY easily get this information and thus nothing would be lost by starting a new article from scratch.

And I'm sorry, I'm not that much of a wiz with matchsticks and rubber gloves. Although it's probably pretty clear, I wouldn't mind if that was the case. Sorry to disappoint you there. - Mgm| 18:09, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

• So perhaps the Bush example isn't the best, but it was the substub thing I wanted to get across. I'm sure you can find similar examples in school articles. - Mgm| 22:10, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Thumbs up to a co-alumnus

Of no importance whatsoever, but I just happened to note you cast two votes on RfA's in the same direction as me (MONGO and Ann Heneghan). I don't usually vote on those, but occasionally when I know an editor (for good or for bad). Clicking on your page, I saw you got a minor graduate degree at my Ph.D. school (UMass); but then a real grad degree elsewhere :-). And that you are a good leftie and a feminist, per your user page. So I figure it all merited a smile and a friendly hello. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 05:47, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Just wanted to thank you for taking the time to respond to my RfA. I appreciate the comments and will work on improving my community interaction. .:.Jareth.:. 16:37, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Joseph Lister

Hi - thanks for letting me know about the AfD. I have commented there but otherwise abstained. My interpretation of the google news search results suggest it is the reporting of a tragedy and not highlighting a shift in community feeling about school trips or caving. Regards--A Y Arktos 20:22, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Re:Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_adminship#Halibutt

Is controversial bad? And what exactly is controversial? Most of the objection raised by Cryptic and Radiant have been addressed. You may want to read Halibutt's responces there - to me they prove that he is a trustworthy person. Not perfect, no - but who among us has never erred? That he can ackowledge his mistakes, apologize and learn from them is to me a sign of a good editor - and a good person. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:37, 16 November 2005 (UTC)