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HorsePunchKid

Requests_for_adminship/HorsePunchKid|action=edit}} Vote here (6/0/0) ending 10:30 30 November 2005 (UTC)

HorsePunchKid (talk · contribs) – HorsePunchKid is a really helpful and sensible guy, I want him to be an admin because I think the community would be better off if he was. He already does many admin things such as reverting and warning vandals, and would greatly benefit from the various admin buttons. For those who care; he has almost 3000 edits, has been around a long time and never fails to leave an edit summary! Martin 15:15, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Accepted! —HorsePunchKid→龜 2005-10-23 07:29:32Z

Support

1. Strong support of courses! Martin 10:35, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
2. Support nothing but good experiences with this user. A good vandal fighter, I think he can live up to the high expectations of an admin. -- malo /_(contribs) 10:48, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
3. Support but are you the kid that punches horses or the kid that was punched by a horse? CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:55, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
4. Support. A good and experienced wikipede and a ruthless vandal fighter.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 11:26, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
5. Support, yeah. Looks good as far as I've looked through his contributions. File:Austria flag large.png ナイトスタリオン ✉ 11:33, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
6. Support per nom.Gator (talk) 13:09, 23 November 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 check out Category:Misplaced Pages backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A. Fighting vandalism is a high priority. Adminship would make the process more efficient and leave me more time to either be constructive or watch more pages for vandalism. Many of the categories in the backlog list do not require admin functions to deal with; among the ones that do, I'm most interested in the transwiki process. I try to divide my time equally between creation (adding or improving content) and destruction (removing vandalism, participating in deletion discussions, and such). With the added responsibility of adminship, I would expect to be more involved in the destructive aspect.

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

A. It's probably all too clear from my user page that I'm a music nerd (among other forms of nerdship). The series of barbershop-related articles you'll see there is something I'm pleased with, though none are terribly exciting, even to me! However, I believe them to be generally interesting and the topics well worth documenting encyclopedically. My contributions of photographs and diagrams are probably more interesting, though I've been slow to get my photos onto the Commons.

There are some rather extensive copy-edits I've done that I'm vaguely proud of, in a way that only people who enjoy proofreading are likely to understand. ;) Also, I am generally pleased when I can save an article from deletion by improving it, though the results have never been particularly interesting. This, to me, falls under the topic of not biting the newbies, which I believe often requires action rather than restraint.

Please don't oppose me on the basis of my photo of myself! :)

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 not yet archived my talk page since joining, and I'm sure it evidences some of my more contentious edits. The one that probably holds the record for the ratio of bytes of discussion (several kilobytes, I'm sure) to bytes changed (one character) is the whole Blackface "affect" issue. I'll leave the interpretation up to you, though I'm happy to comment on it if need be. More recently, there is the continued vandalism of Adolf Hitler by Hans Rosenthal (search for "ROHA" on the page). I thought we might be able to come to some constructive agreement, but obviously I failed.

Stress is not an issue. I'm not exactly the most cool-headed person around, but I can redirect stress energy toward more creative ends. In any case, I tend to agonize over my own words: By the time I hit the submit button, I've cooled down and thought through what I'm saying and how it might be (mis)read.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns or if you would like me to elaborate upon any of the points above. Thank you, Martin, for the nomination and kind words! —HorsePunchKid→龜 2005-10-23 07:24:10Z