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ScottDavis

Requests_for_adminship/ScottDavis|action=edit}} Vote here (29/0/0) ending 13:37 3rd November, 2005 (UTC)

ScottDavis (talk · contribs) – ScottDavis is a committed contributor who has done much good work over his 10 months at Misplaced Pages. With over 5,300 edits in every namespace, users can be assured of his dedication and extensive interaction. Scott's work on Australia-related articles has been invaluable, and he has taken the Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight under his wing -- in fact, he revived it. He is frequently seen combating vandalism, so extending admin capabilities to Scott would be very worthwhile in that regard. I can attest to his integrity; in his time here, I have never seen him be anything other than polite and constructive. This clearly is a case of he should have been one months ago. Cyberjunkie | Talk 09:49, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
I Accept the nomination. --Scott Davis 13:37, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Support

  1. Strong Support as nominator.--Cyberjunkie | Talk 09:50, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Strong Support as seconder(!)--vcxlor 10:07, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  3. Support per nomination. JPD (talk) 12:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  4. Support Martin 14:15, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  5. Support --JAranda | watz sup 14:33, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  6. Support because there's a mini-blizzard. CambridgeBayWeather 14:39, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  7. Mop-itize this guy. --Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 15:12, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  8. Support. oh, and Merovingian, where are the colors? I miss them :) Oran e (t) (c) (@) 15:20, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  9. Support About time we had another southern-hemisphere interested admin--Xiphon 18:01, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  10. Support--User:AYArktos | Talk 19:44, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  11. Support, as per nomination. Carioca 19:46, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  12. Support- Astrotrain 20:05, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  13. Support as per sitting in my chair and seeing that this person should be an admin. Private Butcher 20:26, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  14. Support -- a very worthy consideration for adminship. -- Longhair | Talk 20:39, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  15. Support Geoff/Gsl 21:56, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  16. Support Snottygobble | Talk 22:36, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  17. Support Looks good. Dlyons493 Talk 22:42, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  18. Support a level headed editor, should make a good admin.--nixie 23:30, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
  19. Support. Kirill Lokshin 00:04, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  20. Strong support. Ambi 01:21, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  21. Support.--cjllw | TALK 01:31, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  22. Support -- Nickj (t) 04:00, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  23. Support. El_C 04:18, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  24. More than happy to Support. He has been an active contributor to Australian articles. --Roisterer 05:59, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  25. Support -- Ian ≡ talk 07:24, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  26. Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 11:12, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  27. Support - I think Scott Davis would be a fair and objective administrator (if he wants to take on the role). - Diceman 19:10, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
  28. Support from across the Tasman. another goody. Grutness...wha? 00:29, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  29. Support - shameless piling on! :-D  BDAbramson 00:59, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Support fellow vandal buster! Give him the keys to the janitor's cupboard. ≈ jossi fresco ≈ t • @ 04:23, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Comments

Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
A. Certainly combatting vandalism. While I rarely monitor Recent Changes, I do keep a wide range of articles on my watchlist (every page I edit gets at least a few days on my watchlist, most get quite a bit longer), and frequently find vandalism on less well-known articles as well as the high-profile articles. I will help other users with whatever problems they have, particularly where moving articles to better names is blocked by non-null histories in a redirect at the proper name. I expect I will also become involved in Categories for deletion/renaming, as I consider accurately categorising all articles to be important.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Misplaced Pages, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A.
  • Murray River crossings is an article I researched and created from scratch. I also wrote most of Rail transport in South Australia. I ensured that all Governors of South Australia have articles, and intend to do the same for Premiers of South Australia.
  • As my nominator said, I've revived the Australian Collaboration, mostly as I was sick of seeing the same article stated as collaboration of the fortnight for several months! I'm pleased to see that editors are responding to the collaboration changing regularly.
  • In general, I tend to make sure articles meet some minimal standard for naming and basic information, particularly for country towns in Australia. This is because I enjoy travelling around the country and visiting the places I have read or written about.
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 don't stress easily, and tend to back off rather than let myself feel stressed. One conflict I have been involved with started from a new contributor adding anti-immigration bias in the Australia article. He/she found strong opposition, and was encouraged to leave it out of the main article (which was on the point of becoming featured at the time), and consider contributing to Immigration to Australia instead. This immediately reduced the level of the conflict between that editor and other more experienced editors. The next stage was that I tended to act as mediator and rather than revert each contribution, I tried to find something valuable, and massage it to a more NPOV perspective. By interacting with the user, I encouraged him/her to provide references for their claims. I believe the outcome is reasonably neutral, but still allows the other contributor to present their main point that immigration may increase the cost of housing. The article could still do with a better writer than me going through it and tidying up the prose though. I have also been in other lower-level conflicts and found that assisting contributors to find the right article to add a particular view to may be the difference between a revert war and all parties being satisfied.