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David.Mestel

Voice your opinion (1/0/1); Scheduled to end 15:41, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

David.Mestel (talk · contribs) – David Mestel is a fine Wikipedian: Been here since October 2005, with major activity beginning around March 2006, and about 3,500 edits. He's done a lot of vandal reversion and AIV work, some AFD and DR work, and, notably, he's reported on arbitration cases in progress for the Misplaced Pages Signpost for over five months (the most recent edition can be found here. His close observation of arbitration cases clearly shows his grasp of policy, given the number of policies that are cited in any given arbitration case. He's even got some article writing in there as well. I've watched David over the last five months, and I feel he's worthy of adminship. Do you? Ral315 (talk) 23:56, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: With thanks, David Mestel 15:41, 12 January 2007 (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 ] and the administrators' reading list.

A: Blocking persistant vandals rather than letting them continue until an admin looks at AIV. In a similar vein, helping deal with AIV requests. Reviewing speedy nominations, and deleting them if appropriate, and perhaps prodding or AfDing them if not. Closing AfDs after five days, probably sticking to relatively uncontroversial ones at first, but then perhaps branching out as my experience of closing grows. Also looking at AN/I, and giving sanity checks on others' actions, etc.

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

A: My Arbitration Reports for the Signpost. I think it's important that the community is engaged with all levels of the dispute resolution process, and being able to read a one-paragraph case summary rather than having to trawl through pages of evidence certainly makes that easier. I also wrote an article on Roman litigation which I rather like.

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

A: Well, I've done some advocacy, which obviously involves conflict situations, but none particularly in my own name, as it were (just to be clear, I would never, never use the tools in a case in which I was involved, or in which I was advocating). I regard formal dispute resolution as the last step to be taken if negotiations break down irrepairably.

General comments

• See David.Mestel's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.

Discussion

Support

1. Support. Let's go out on a limb. His contributions seem solid, and his arbitration reports show dedication to the encyclopedia's community aspect. His answers are short, but sweet. I find Ral315 to be one of our more "conservative" administrators, and if he feels this candidate is suitable for adminship, and after looking through the contributions, I am inclined to agree. RyanGerbil10(Упражнение В!) 16:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose - I have gotten the impression that David isn't really familiar enough with policy, especially with regards to WP:NOR. Guettarda 16:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Neutral. You seem like a good user who's very active in the wikispace part of it, but you need to improve the content aspect of your game, as you have relatively few mainspace edits.--Wizardman 15:50, 12 January 2007 (UTC)