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Christopherlin

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Christopherlin (talk · contribs) – Christopher Lin has been actively contributing to Misplaced Pages since April 2004 and has accumulated over 5500 edits during that time. He founded Wikiproject Cycling and started the Cycling Portal. Christopher is an excellent contributor who deserves to be trusted with the mop and bucket. -SCEhardT 01:03, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I accept SCEhardt's nomination. --Christopherlin 06:06, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Support

1. Support as nominator -SCEhardT 06:16, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
2. Support for strong article-space contributions. David | Talk 10:24, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
3. Support per Dbiv. Mackensen (talk) 13:41, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
4. Support per Dbiv. --Siva1979 14:16, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
5. Support, yep. Proto||type 16:35, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
6. Support opposers' bar is too high (but I respect their opinions) Good enough.Gator (talk) 20:03, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
7. Support Great user, excellent potential for the adminship. gidonb 23:06, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
8. support: Excellent contributor dedicated to building an encyclopedia; good answers to the questions below, especially the line about improving the signal to noise ratio. Ombudsman 07:37, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
9. Support. Awesome candidate, ticks every box. Waggers 10:48, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
10. Strong support. Thoughtful, dedicated contributor; can be trusted to enforce community standards. Good answers. +sj + 19:45, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
11. SupportAxiomm 04:51, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Strong oppose for lack of project space edits. NSLE _(T+C) at 07:35 UTC (2006-02-27)
2. Oppose for now because of lack of wiki namespace edits --Jaranda 20:47, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
3. Oppose per PS2pcGAMER and NSLE above, heavy editor, but needs more process related participation. -- xaosflux /_CVU 03:02, 28 February 2006 (UTC
4. Oppose More Project namespace edits needed. DaGizza 07:28, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

I've clarified my answers to questions 1 and 2 below. Please see the 28 February additions. --Christopherlin 19:35, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Neutral. Excellent record of commitment, but needs more project space experience. pschemp | talk 08:26, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
2. Neutral per Pschemp. Essexmutant 10:42, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
3. Neutral per above. --Zsinj 14:32, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
4. Neutral 1xx edits in project space in over a year and a half just isn't enough. Apart from that, very good, hence neutral. --kingboyk 21:15, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
5. Neutral per Kingboyk. Stifle 23:19, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I've clarified my answers to questions 1 and 2 below. Please see the 28 February additions. --Christopherlin 19:35, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

1. Neutral per above. Naconkantari e|t||c|m 21:19, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Comments

• Edit summary usage: 99% for major edits and 100% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace. Mathbot 06:15, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
• See Christopherlin's edit count and contribution tree with Interiot's tool.

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Misplaced Pages backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A. I like increasing the signal-to-noise ratio of Misplaced Pages. As a regular user, I have cleaned up after vandalism and poorly-done good faith edits, brought new and lonely articles to a basic minimum standard, and dropped welcome messages on new users' talk pages. Making information easier to find and edit is one of my aims in editing.

I've also been applying categorization and naming conventions where I can. I anticipate primarily helping with CfD and RM. I've tagged articles as CSD and had them done so very speedily, so I want to return the favor, where CSD apply.

Other chores I can think of for short term include cut-and-paste move repair and merging edit histories. once I better understand the policies, I anticipate executing the deletion and protection processes.

Added 06.20, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to be able to update, clean up, dab, etc. the protected Main Page features, particularly links to dab pages and changes on TFA not reflected in the blurb.

Added 19.33, 28 February 2006 (UTC), response to issues raised by oppose and neutral votes

First, thanks for your concerns. Short answer about being experience with the process: "Not much experience, willing to learn."

"Reverting vandalism" for me mostly means keeping an eye on suspicious edits via the articles on my watchlist, and checking history for articles I read or random across. One recent example is

I don't RC patrol because it generally seems to have enough users there, admin and non-admin alike. I haven't voted in AfD/CfD because I find the consensus typically agrees with my intepretation of policies and guidelines. (Somewhere I read that if you agree with consensus, it's not necessary to vote, WP:NOT a democracy and all.)

"Executing the deletion ... processes" for me means keeping the speedies speedy (minimizing backlog), and (once I better understand the process) closing debates.

I hope this clarifies things. --Christopherlin

2. Of your articles or contributions to Misplaced Pages, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A. SCEhardt already pointed out WikiProject Cycling and Portal:Cycling. I'm glad the project has caught a lot of support. Through this, I found quite a few cycling articles from de: and fr: and linked these from the en: versions. This was complicated by my total lack of German ability.

As for non-cycling articles, Louisiana State University, like many Louisiana-related articles, lacked attention. The original, before Xj14y fixed it, had major POV and accuracy issues.

Does this question include Wikinews contributions? I've got one, if it does.

Added 19.33, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

I was very pleased with wikinews:Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students. It started as a simple list, much like several others popping up. I found a few that individual LiveJournal users were maintaining there. Decentralizing editing seemed like a perfect job for Wiki. What I did was make it much easier for dedicated users like Amvhoward and Ziasudra to grow this list. Anons added their own schools. I was pretty amazed at how quickly it grew to needing to be split into so many subpages.

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. I can't recall any conflicts or stressful situations on Misplaced Pages. The closest I can think of is keeping some fan speculation out of Dead Like Me for being original research, backed up only by "discussion on IMDb boards. I moved the passages to talk (twice) and explained why. That was pretty much it.

If you can think of a conflict I've had, ask me about it here.

Any other questions?