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Alkivar

Requests_for_adminship/Alkivar_3|action=edit}} Vote here (5/1/1) ending 22:13 November 7, 2005 (UTC)

Alkivar (talk · contribs) – Jonathan Cary has been actively contributing to Misplaced Pages since June 2004. Since Alkivar joined the Misplaced Pages project, he has successfully raised 2 articles to WP:FA status, contributed a wealth of NASA-related documents to Wikisource, and a number of photographs as either public domain or GFDL. Aside from article development, Alkivar also spends a fair amount of time interacting on AFD, RFA, and reverting vandalism. According to Kate's edit counter, he has accumulated approximately 7,000 edits, roughly 15% of which are to the project and project talk namespace. Alkivar has proven to be an invaluable contributor and someone I trust would make fine use of the admin tools and with that I give him my full support. Hall Monitor 22:13, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Previous nominations: 1, 2
Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
I accept this 3rd nomination, and hope this time that the community finds me ready.  ALKIVAR™ 23:04, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Support

  1. Support as per nominator. Hall Monitor 23:07, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
  2. Strong Support Third time the charm ;) --JAranda | watz sup 23:19, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
  3. Support Good editor. I always take note when I see that sig. - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 00:00, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
  4. Support, a very allround user and good guy, already active in admin-type stuff. I quote myself from last time round: "not a great diplomat, but I believe he has learned a lot from the conflicts he's been in, and will be a better admin for them." Come on, are we going to keep doing this until he's Kofi Annan? Bishonen | talk 00:04, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
  5. Support I'm able to overlook the past incivility if you can promise it won't happen when you are an admin. Admins are and should be held to a higher standard of conduct, they are the face of Misplaced Pages. Also had good experiences with his user. -Greg Asche (talk) 00:08, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
    I believe my actions since my last nomination should speak to my change of conduct, but if you require a promise: "I hereby promise to not be uncivil when dealing with other users"  ALKIVAR™ 00:33, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
  6. Sensible. Recent conduct has been fine. JFW | T@lk 00:49, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

  1. Has a still recent history of incivility. Strong oppose. Andre (talk) 00:01, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
    Could you please point out some examples. Jobe6 00:06, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
    So that everyone may make an informed decision, please WP:CITE examples of your concerns between Alkivar's second nomination and now. Hall Monitor 00:09, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
  2. Oppose. The low usage of Edit summaries is bad enough, but the fact that this was already brought up on his previous RfA but didn't affect his behaviour one bit is indicative of his old I'll do things my way and the rest of you can bite me attitude that doomed his two previous nominations. Civilized behaviour is not just about avoiding calling people "morons", it's also about following the rules and customs of this community. Owen× ☎ 00:25, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
    you will note that the "morons" comment was left prior to my second nomination, please look at my behaviour since that point.  ALKIVAR™ 00:29, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
    That's correct. To clarify, both the "morons" and the "bite me" comments wre prior to the second nom. My comment was solely about your usage of Edit summaries since the second nom. Owen× ☎ 00:57, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Neutral

  1. Neutral for now at least. Jobe6 00:06, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Comments

  • Regardless of the outcome of this RfA, please improve your use of edit summaries. Overall use is 34% over the last 5,000 edits, 41% over the last 500 edits. --Durin 23:21, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Wow, that is actually lower than mine was, but it was not hard to get up for my last hundred edits :).Voice of All 23:33, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
      • EEK! I didn't realize it was quite so low, I tend to not put an edit summary on a minor edit (but I'm bad about remembering to click the "this is a minor edit" box). I promise I will work on this in the future.  ALKIVAR™ 00:26, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

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. Well i've spent time following RC and marking copyvio/spam, not to mention simple vandal fighting. Rollback would simply make this process easier.  ALKIVAR™ 23:04, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
2. Of your articles or contributions to Misplaced Pages, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. Well i'm most proud of Colditz Castle as I did the majority of the work on that turning it into a Featured article that made the main page. I spent a lot of effort getting Graffiti through the FA process and also saw it featured on the main page.
Recently I have been working on Unclean animals (on PR now) and List of units using the B-26 Marauder during World War II (which I hope to have run through Featured Lists soon) and B-26 Marauder which I aim to have on PR for a run sometime in December. I've extensively reworked Warez (which failed its first run at FAC, but I hope to renominated in December).
I've turned several minor stubs into really good articles: Crazy Legs (diff), Rock Steady Crew (diff), Carswell Air Force Base (diff) and Richard Marcinko (diff).
I've also completely written from scratch several articles i'm proud of: Horace S. Carswell, Jr., Eli Thomas Reich, and Henry Chalfant  ALKIVAR™ 23:04, 31 October 2005 (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. Certainly, but I feel I've learned from my past mistakes, and I aim to do better in the future. As far as stress goes, I've received personal attacks from anonymous vandals, legal threats, and email threats from anon users because I tried sticking to policy in not allowing clear copyvio and webspam. Sure it bothers me, I wouldnt be human if it didnt, but I try my best to not go out and antagonize them, and give them a fair hearing even when that photo is obviously not {{fairuse}}.  ALKIVAR™ 23:04, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
4. Your last two nominations were rejected, mainly because the community saw 'civility issues'. Specifically, please show one or more situations where you could have been more civil in the past, and show one or more disputes since your last RFA where you have acted civilly. -- Ral315 (talk)
Well I can only think of the fact that I've had several anonymous users complain about my work on Warez (Talk:Warez#Criticism_on_Alkivar) and List of warez groups (because I keep reverting their webspam). I have tried my best to respond to each and every one of their criticisms and involve neutral third parties to mediate any significant disputes.  ALKIVAR™ 00:26, 1 November 2005 (UTC)