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NCurse

Voice your opinion. (55/0/2) Ending 12:29, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

NCurse (talk · contribs) – It's my pleasure to nominate NCurse for adminship. In addition to being an admin on the Hungarian Misplaced Pages and creating the Hungarian Wikiquote, since May he's racked up some 4000 edits on the English Misplaced Pages. During that time he's taken Portal:Medicine up to featured status, and co-ordinates Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Medicine and Misplaced Pages:Science collaboration of the month, amongst other things. He helps out new users and reverts vandalism (with appropriate warnings). Being a newpage patroller, he's certainly got a need for the tools. As an admin on another project, he's got experience dealing with difficult users, and can keep his head, even when other editors lose theirs. Let's be realistic here: NCurse has the basic level of trust required (a lot more than that, in fact) and previous experience as an admin. He's demonstrated dedication to this project with his featured portal and willingness and ability to co-ordinate wikiprojects. I can't think of any reason why he wouldn't be an extremely productive administrator.

• Edit count - in excess of 4000
• Time around - Active on Wikimedia projects for over a year, admin on hu.wiki for 7 months, active on en.wiki for 6 months
• Email enabled? - Yes
• Controversial userpage? - No
• Any blocks? - None
• Stupid signature? - No
• Edit summaries - 80% for major and 43% for minor, though I've asked him to enable that feature in My Preferences which forces the use of edit summaries, so that should rise to 100% for both as of today.
• Civil? Yep
• Personal attacks? - None
• Any edit warring? - None

-- Steel 12:29, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Co-nomination.

I had long hoped to be the one to nominate NCurse, but then he went looking for Admin coaching... darn. Anyway, I met NCurse while nominating Portal:Medicine, and have come to know him as a very gentle, kind and cheerful person. Furthermore, he'd make a great admin because:

1. He loves to clear backlogs (for real!).
2. He's very motivated and always willing to help.
3. He spots ways of making himself useful then boldly kicks into action (e.g. when he redesigned :WikiProject Medicine).

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 02:16, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I accept the nomination. NCurse _work 12:33, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

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 do you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Misplaced Pages backlog and Category:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A: I love removing backlogs. I shortpage and newpage patrol already, so CAT:CSD would be an obvious place I could lend a hand. I'd like to help more on Requested moves, stubs (I'm active member of Stub sorting project), WP:CFD and WP:RFI. Several times, I tried to help in debates ), as an admin, it'd be much easier to help if needed.

On enwiki, I've participated in about 1-2 dozens of AfDs. I must say as an admin on hungarian Misplaced Pages (since February), I had time to learn how to handle deletion tasks (you can see this on User:NCurse/Admin coaching). There were times when I had to close every kind of votes regularly (AfD, Speedy deletions, Images and Copyright violations). I know the policies, just after about a half thousand voting processes, I didn't start to participate more seriously here. NCurse _work 12:45, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

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

A: I'm really proud of Medicine portal which became featured after User:Stevenfruitsmaak and me started to work on it hard. I work so much on Medical genetics and Medicine wikiprojects (assessments take time), then coordinating Medicine and Science collaboration of the month means a big deal too.

I've contributed the most to the Melanoma article, mainly when it had a peer review. I've found plenty of references for the article, and uploaded 4 images with the proper tags (see above). I requested permission from the American Academy of Dermatology , and it seems now that I'll get more permissions for other images to upload (I recently got the positive answer from Danita Smith, the coordinator of their webpage). I'd like it to become WP:FA in weeks.

My most respected contribution was awarded with a barnstar for reorganizing Medicine WikiProject from this to this version. NCurse _work 12:45, 30 September 2006 (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:I have one conflict with User:Khaj on Melanoma talk page. Maybe not the best reference, but on the hungarian Misplaced Pages, I've had the possibility to deal with nearly every kind of vandals and conflict-makers. The community there is small so one bad, evil user can ruin the whole mood. No one can make me nervous or frustrated. No one can make me surprised. Just see my anon warnings, I never talk or answer "loudly". So now, after one year of using Misplaced Pages I can say honestly, I can deal with any kind of vandals. NCurse _work 12:45, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Question from Centrx

4. Can you point to some article contributions?

A: For example I've created Chromosome banding, American College of Medical Genetics or PSN2 gene. Some of my contributions are , , , . NCurse _work 20:12, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

General comments

• See NCurse's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool.

Discussion (for expressing views without numbering)

• I would trust NCurse with admin tools. – Chacor 12:41, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Support

1. Support - an excellent and valuable contributor whom I have worked closely with on medical projects. Helpful, courteous, will do a great job as an admin! InvictaHOG 12:55, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
2. Support. I've been impressed with NCurse's dedication to the medical area of the project and have no hesitation in supporting his RfA. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 13:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
3. Support Have full confidence that NCurse would be a great admin, from what I've seen of this user. --Aude (talk) 13:13, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
4. Support per Aude. Addhoc 13:50, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
5. Support per Aude. íslenskur fellibylur #12 _(samtal) 13:59, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
6. Support I have nothing to add. Rock on. -- Kicking222 14:39, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
7. Support been a co-admin on huwiki for 6 months now, worked with him 10 months, a perfect admin, sometimes a workaholic editor. Misplaced Pages will find a new asset in him. --Burumbator 14:45, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
8. Support wholeheartedly, he's an excellent admin on Hungarian Misplaced Pages & Hungarian Uncyclopedia, always helpful and can keep a cool head; and he is also a valuable contributor both here and on HuWiki. Plus he has a good sense of humour. :) – Alensha   14:44, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
9. Very Strong Support per nom. Rama's arrow 15:00, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
10. Support we've been co-admins for several months and I always wondered his calmness, patience and the workload he is able to cope with. Excellent choice :) - Serinde 15:09, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
11. Support per nom. Michael 15:24, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
12. Support. Being both friendly and technically capable since our first encounter, I have been amazed with the huge amount of work NCurse does for the Misplaced Pages projects to which he contributes, and had assumed he was an admin on en from the outset. In particular he has been singlehandedly responsible for establishing the medical genetics Wikiproject and I feel his successful adminship would further assist his work on this Wikiproject as well as the Wikiproject medicine. --apers0n 15:25, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
13. Support per nom. Very civil and would use admin tools well. Hello32020 15:52, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
14. Support He's a hard-working, dedicated editor and admin. AttishOculus 15:59, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
15. Support Another excellent candidate for adminship. (aeropagitica) 16:04, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
16. Support per nom; excellent contributor in every respect. Kirill Lokshin 16:21, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
17. Support per nom. Looks incredibly qualified to me. Dina 16:46, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
18. Support - one of the few sane people on huwiki. // Gargaj 17:25, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
19. Support. - Mailer Diablo 17:28, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
20. Support: He is one of the two best admins on Hungarian Misplaced Pages (and good admin&contributor in other projects, too). No doubt. ♥♥♥: Gubb  ✍    2006. September 30 17:51 (CEST) 17:51, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
21. Awesome Hungarian Support. A very established editor in his own right. He has the capabilities, intelligence and experience to be an excellent administrator on the English Misplaced Pages. --Nishkid64 17:54, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
22. Support A proven user who is unlikely to abuse admin tools. --Siva1979 18:05, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
23. Strong Support I've had nothing but great experiences interacting with NCurse. He'll make a great addition to our admin corps. alphaChimp 18:12, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
24. Support per above. —Khoikhoi 18:18, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
25. Strong Support - per all the above --T-rex 18:31, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
26. Support --VinceB 19:44, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
27. Support. I've seen plenty of positive contributions from NCurse and no negative or questionable ones.--ragesoss 21:15, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
28. Support, scores 21 on my admin assessment scale. Keep on rollin' -- Lego@lost Rocks Collide! 22:15, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
29. Support great organizer and prolific contributor. Opabinia regalis 21:30, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
30. Support great contributor. I have seen him before and he does a great job as a wikipedian. Also, he has experience as an adminin other wikis. --Esteban F. 22:17, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
31. Support Hardworking, knowledgeable, pleasant, will make a great admin. Sandy 22:36, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
32. Beat the nom! --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 22:40, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
33. Support only good, no bad. Istvan 22:56, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
34. You know I completely forgot that I'm supposed to support this. -- Steel 23:15, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
35. Support. I have never run into this user in my editing, but the contributions look good, and the answers are just fine. Good luck! Firsfron of Ronchester 23:49, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
36. Support looks like a good candidate.-- danntm _C 01:31, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
37. Support.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 02:16, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
38. SupportJoshuaZ 02:50, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
39. Support definitely. Level-headed and contributes well -- Samir धर्म 05:49, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
40. Support. Easily meets my criteria for the work on the English Misplaced Pages ALONE! Minor grammar mistakes don't concern me, the meaning always seems clear, which is all that matters. Grandmasterka 05:54, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
41. Support - meets criteria and yeah, I know this is a pile on but I'm making it -- Tawker 05:56, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
42. Support - a good candidate.-- thunderboltz 06:25, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
43. Support --Terence Ong _{(T | C)} 10:43, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
44. Support Good editor, will make good use of the tools.--Húsönd 17:36, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
45. Support He's been one of the most active contributors and an excellent admin in the Hungarian Misplaced Pages, and he has been rather active here as well. I have no idea where finds the time to do all this simultaneously, but I have no doubt that he is qualified. --DHanak :-V 20:26, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
46. Support per above (although with a heavy heart, because that means he will have less time on huwiki :,-) --Tgr 20:29, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
47. Support - Nyikita 21:07, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
48. Support seems to be an intelligent, hard-working, valuable contributor. That, and some Magyar pride, makes me vote for NCurse! :) K. Lastochka 22:11, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
49. Merovingian - Talk 23:41, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
50. Support. Seems completely trustworthy and is obviously qualified. Markovich292 23:44, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
51. Support. Good answers and demonstrated need of sysop tools. Plus, anyone who loves clearing backlogs should really get the mop. -- Merope 00:34, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
52. Support positive experiences with him Jaranda 01:02, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
53. Strong support. His dedication to the encyclopedia, as well as his positive demeanor, can be grasped from the amount of work he has dedicated to WP:1.0. No doubts here whatsoever. Titoxd 01:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
54. Support. A good article writer, among other things. -- RM 01:55, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
55. Support. A good all-around editor, and has done a lot of good work for medical articles, especially now that I've been too busy to maintain MCOTW. — Knowledge Seeker দ 02:44, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

1. Seems like a great user, but 944 mainspace edits out of 4071 isn't really very much. Also doesn't seem to have a very firm grasp on English, as demonstrated by adding s to the end of words (1-2 dozens of AfDs) and the lack of words like an and the in his answers to the questions.  Jorcoga  03:51, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

   Well, I guess there are users who just write articles all the time and users who are more interested in other things. NCurse works with WikiProjects a lot, that might explain why his Misplaced Pages-namespace count is so high -but that's a plus, no?

   His English is far from perfect, but more than sufficient for admin tasks, in my opinion.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 23:42, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

   A1 level english is not required for admin tasks. Trust me on this.Geni 00:34, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

   Answer to Steven Fruitsmaak: It is good to have a high Misplaced Pages namespace count, I'll admit that. I'm more interested in the maintenance side of things, but at least my mainspace count (even if it is low, but you don't see me running for adminship(I'd get withdrawn within the first hour or so)) is higher than all my other counts(which it should be). Answer to Geni: My point is, people who use this as a reference only (meaning can't see the little edit tag) are going to look at his article edits and think, what a substandard resource. I'm never going to use this again. This could drive away potential contributors.

2. Neutral per Jorcoga. I'm a bit concerned, but I'm not concerned enough that I'm going to oppose. 1ne 05:02, 1 October 2006 (UTC)