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DarthVader

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DarthVader (talk · contribs) – This is a self nomination. I joined wikipedia at the end of June 2005. I have decided to try to run for adminship so that I can help out by clearing some of the backlogs and to help out with AfD. I have not been extremely active over the past couple of months due to having to study for tests and exams, but I will be more active after my exams are over. However, I have participated in AfDs a few months ago, and I have more than 2000 wikipedia namespace edits. I feel that I am quite experienced with wikipedia's policies and that I would be able to do a good job helping out with the AfD process. DarthVader 12:06, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept. DarthVader 12:36, 6 October 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 will mainly help out by closing AfDs. I am quite experienced with the AfD process. I will also help out with speedy deletions and PRODs. I am very familiar with the deletion process and policies.

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

A: I admit that I don't have a huge amount of contributions to the main namespace. I helped to get List of Ashes series featured. My main contribution to wikipedia is really to the AfD process.

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 really haven't been in any major conflicts or had to deal with any stress. The only two conflicts that I've been in were on the same page, USSA, but unrelated to each other. An anonymous IP address put a PROD tag on the USSA disambiguation page. I disagreed with the PROD tag, and removed it and told the person on his talk page. The anonymous user then tried to re-add the tag and Gwernol removed it, and so Gwernol and I explained the policy to the anonymous user on his talk page and the article's talk page. The user then understood the policy and did not readd the PROD tag. The other minor conflict was due to my silly mistake of calling an edit vandalism when it clearly wasn't vandalism (although it perhaps shouldn't be in the article). The edit by JustPhil was a bit unusual and I suspected that it was a bit strange, although vandalism certainly wasn't the correct word in any way at all. JustPhil was not worried at all, and I apologised to him as soon as I realised my major mistake. I do hope that I can be forgiven by the community for this incident which happened back in June.

General comments

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Discussion (for expressing views without numbering)

Support

1. Support. Don't see any reason not to, have seen editor in the past and left with no concerns about approach.ALR 13:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
2. Support. His contributions being sporadic, even if they were, which they certainly are not (except for two breaks for about 5 days each in September, I see no breaks in editing. Where do you see this?), doesn't change that fact that he has over 2,000 edits in projectspace, which, looking at the content of them, show that he has a significant amount of experience in how the project runs. Editing and using admin tools is voluntary, you can't hold that against a candidate. This user has quite a bit of AfD experience, though it might not be recent, and would most likely make a pretty good admin. I see no reason to think otherwise. --Rory096 14:00, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
3. Support. Didn't contribute very much in September, but was a very regular and active contributor for a several months prior to that. Most users need to take breaks from Misplaced Pages from time-to-time due to other events in our lives, and so I don't hold that against him. Strong record of Misplaced Pages space contributions (though whether or not this RfA passes, I'd like to see a better balance between main space and Misplaced Pages space contributions in the future). Zaxem 14:12, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose. Wants to do AfD work, but has a grand total of one AfD discussion edit in the last two months, a speedy keep to a withdrawn nomination. Without having any recent examples to refer to, and without having objective information as to when he feels closure is appopriate, I'm not comfortable supporting giving the tools over given his area of desire. I do suggest participating in AfD again once you have more time, getting some recent edits in, and trying again then. --badlydrawnjeff talk 12:53, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
2. Oppose - Sparodic contribs, if you wont be able to regularly contribute and/or do sysop tasks why would you require sysop tools now? thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 12:57, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

   Please point me to these sporadic contribs. I just don't see it. --Rory096 14:31, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

3. Oppose as above - I'd welcome another RfA in 4-5 months when you've got a continuous track record. --Mcginnly | Natter 13:20, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
4. Oppose per Jeff. WP:SNOW, the Force is not with this rfa. People Powered 13:55, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
5. Oppose - the aim of Wikipedians is write an encyclopedia. Everything else is secondary. Basically too few article edits, and for that matter, user talk - how well will you interact with other users? No. Sporadicness (is that a word?) of edits also a minor concern. Moreschi 14:14, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Sporadicity, Moreschi? :) — riana_dzasta _{wreak havoc|damage report} 14:21, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Neutral

1. I think you need more time with a consistent track record. I see no standout reason for opposing, but nothing here turns me on enough to support. — riana_dzasta _{wreak havoc|damage report} 14:21, 6 October 2006 (UTC)