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Valereee

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Nomination

Valereee (talk · contribs) – Valereee is a stalwart of the encyclopedia. She's a no-nonsense, get on with the job type of editor and it shows in her work. She's interested in food and drink and has written several articles on the topic including the good article Cincinnati chili, and is a regular at Women in Red. Looking through her talkpage, I can see plenty of examples of her being polite and welcome to anyone wanting to ask questions, and her general standard of conduct is excellent. More recently, I've seen her taking an active interest in the Did you know area of the main page, which is an area of the project where we're frequently starved for admins.

Having had more spare time recently to commit to the project, Valereee feels she's now in a position to be able to make use of the tools. We need some more sensible and compassionate admins who are good communicators, and hopefully this is a good example of one. Ritchie333 21:29, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Co-nomination

I can't recommend Valereee highly enough. She has excellent skills writing and researching articles. She stays calm and cool when making her arguments on Misplaced Pages and she communicates well with other editors. I've been so impressed with her research! There are times that I'm going to look for a reference for an article and Valereee has already found and added the reference herself! I'm really glad that Valereee will have more time to devote to Misplaced Pages and is ready to step up. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:41, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

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Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: One of the areas that often makes me think "wish I could help" is DYK. I’ve often watched the hours tick by with five or six full preps and zero full queues and wished I could help; simple nagging doesn’t feel at all helpful. There are likely other tasks at Admin backlogs that fall into the same category: things I’d be happy to do as long as figuring out how to do it without breaking anything seems likely. In general one of the things I love most about WP is its collaborative & generally collegial nature. I’d like to be able to help content contributors just trying to keep their heads down and get on with their work deal with disruption, or respond to other requests for assistance. I would genuinely enjoy being someone people could ask for help. To me this feels like collaboration. My primary goal is to contribute in ways that don’t cause more work for others but instead make others’ volunteer hours more effective.

I’d like to be able to help more at AfD, which actually feels very collaborative to me. Sometimes I think for a poorly-sourced article with promise, an AfD nomination can be very productive for that article, and if handled well can also be really helpful for newer editors who have an article nominated. I actually get a nerdy thrill when an article like Yongfeng chili sauce gets nominated and I think it has more promise than the nominator thought it did (no disrespect meant to good-faith nominators; I’ve researched multiple AfD’d articles and ended up ultimately in agreement with the nom, but it’s fun to see if I can find sources that will go to proving notability for a subject.) In general assessing arguments to determine consensus/no consensus feels like collaboration to me, whether at AfD or other collaborative debate areas. I’d also like to help with refund to userspace for those who think they’d like to try to keep working on a deleted article without pressure.

2. What are your best contributions to Misplaced Pages, and why?

A: I’m quite proud of Marjorie Paxson (awaiting GA review), Dorothy Misener Jurney, and Marie Anderson, three not-even-redlinked women who were quite notable and influential in their field, women’s page journalism, which has really only been recognized as important by academics in the past eight or ten years. I’m thrilled with Zhang Dongju, but not because I created it. I heard a story on NPR about a new archeological discovery, and I just jumped off a cliff writing it, and it immediately got tagged for notability, and another editor who’d come in to add the subject’s name in Chinese started pulling up Chinese sources. To me, this is the part of Misplaced Pages I love the most: I took a chance and moved to article space before I was 100% sure, and another editor followed the thread, and we ended up with an article. I love that. I took Cincinnati chili from a pretty rough article to GA, and I’m working on taking it to FA; it’s at peer review now. I created The Tempestry Project and took it to GA, and I’ve created quite a few articles that I’ve taken to DYK. I’m also quite proud of all the gnomish work I’ve done over many years now. I’ve fixed a lot of typos and grammatical errors and made a lot of small rewordings to improve clarity or reduce awkwardness, and I feel this kind of work is extremely valuable, and I’m proud of doing it. I’ve worked with a lot of COI editors, including hostile ones like at Talk:Lee Siegel (cultural critic) and very well-intentioned ones like at Talk:Vegan studies, and I try to treat them with kindness and patience while still making sure their COI doesn’t affect the article, and I’m proud of that.

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: I actually think possibly my strongest qualification is temperament. I’m hard to offend (you have to be actively trying to offend me, and even then I’m more likely to find it funny than to become upset). I assume good faith probably to a fault, my patience might actually be 98th %ile, I’ll apologize if there’s any chance I was even slightly in the wrong, and if I lose a debate or a third opinion goes against me I can move on, though I might take the article off my watch list if it’s something that’s going to continue to bother me. I try really hard to understand others’ points of view, even when they’re behaving badly, and I’ve found that when I respond to someone who is behaving badly by not escalating, often they’ll rise to expectations. This isn’t to say I don’t engage often in vigorous debate on talk pages or make the occasional salty remark, or that I’ve never made a bad decision when dealing with conflict. But most often the conflict I’ve had with other editors tends to take the form of long discussions on talk pages. I’m aware that these tools would increase the likelihood of conflicts not easily resolved by simple discussion.

4. Can you explain why you were inactive in 2016-2017?

A: Between 2016 and 2018, we sold a house we’d been in for 17 years, moved to a rental, bought a small elderly house, put on an addition that doubled its size, moved from the rental into the new place, and renovated the rest of it while living there. I didn’t edit much; if I did see a gnomish edit that needed to be made, I didn’t log in.

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