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Deryck Chan

Voice your opinion (9/0/0); Scheduled to end 23:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Deryck_Chan (talk · contribs) - Deryck has been at Misplaced Pages since May of 2005 (originally under the username Deryckchan). He has written or reworked many articles relating to Hong Kong and recently passed his 5,000th edit. Deryck is always civil (his last example of incivility was apparently in July of 2005; I searched and didn't find anything more recent). Flag of Hong Kong and Hong Kong are two articles which Deryck has helped bring up to Featured status. He is already an administrator on the Cantonese Misplaced Pages.

Deryck had one earlier nomination in October of 2005, here, which failed because he was "too green" and because he advertised that RFA. He's certainly learned a lot since then, and I have found his questions and ideas thoughtful during our work together. His e-mail, of course, is enabled.

Considering Deryck's background (already an admin on another language edition, can keep his cool, and a great editor), I would trust him with the tools. Firsfron of Ronchester 00:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I, Deryck Chan, hereby accept Firsfron's nomination. First of all, I'd like to thank Firsfron for sparing time to draft his nomination despite having thousands of pages on his watchlist to take care of; my fellow Hong Kong Wikipedians who helped me a lot in writing articles and organizing various other projects, both on Misplaced Pages and in real life. Second, I'd like to explain my current contributions. I usually write Hongkong- or scitech-related articles, and sometimes help out in WP:IFD to assess bot-added nominations. --Deryck C. 06:13, 23 February 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 participants:

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 administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A: I will help assessing deletion and protection requests if I become sysop. Having unstable and slow internet access, especially after the December 2006 Taiwan Earthquake which damaged most connections between Hong Kong and America, I cannot respond to vandalism activities quickly, therefore RC patrol is hardly my way. However, being a scientific person, I am able to handle logical arguments, which is what deletion and protection requests require - strong and unbiased logical judgement. Moreover, being a Hong Kong Chinese and therefore an ethnic and cultural minority on the English Misplaced Pages, I can take a more neutral stance when judging debates between sides from different backgrounds. In addition, currently being an administrator of the Cantonese Misplaced Pages, I am familiar with these sysop-specific operations. Therefore, deletion and protection are the chores I will join if I become sysop.

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

A: The "reproduction article series" pleased me most. Starting from a Science Collaboration of the Week (now WP:SCOTM) on Reproduction (now Biological reproduction), along with many other editors, we found the need to split and reorganize various related articles, and link them up through {{main}} templates. After the collboration week, all the articles were properly linked to each other and organized into levels, from a main article to tens of child articles. I was especially pleased to see the articles about reproduction such organized, since without reproduction can no men be survived; without reproduction can no knowledge be passed.

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: Conflicts come in certain different forms. When another user reverts my edit with an explanation, I assume good faith, rewrite the idea and make another edit proposing the rewritten version. Then I leave a message on the talk page and the other editor's talk page in attempt of a personalized dispute resolution. However, if the other editor is anonymous, it is most likely that I bring up the issue to other editors or even WP:AN, because anonymous users are hardly traceable. In case another editor is against my personal behaviour, I make an apology on talk pages and user talk pages. I confronted all these situations before and I am confident that I will do better and better in the future.

General comments

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

Please keep criticism constructive and polite.

Discussion

Support

1. Support I see nothing terribly wrong here, the nominee seems like a good editor and the experience with the Cantonese Misplaced Pages is excellent experience. I lend my support. --Ozgod 06:30, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
2. Support as nom. Firsfron of Ronchester 07:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
3. Sure, why not? Awyong J. M. Salleh 08:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
4. Seems like a fair candidate who's long overdue. Ral315 » 08:10, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
5. Support - BJ 08:18, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
6. Support after all, adminship is no big deal... The Rambling Man 08:53, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
7. Support per experiance. BuickCenturyDriver (Honk, odometer) 08:54, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
8. Support--Jusjih 09:03, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
9. Support no problems here. - Anas 09:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
10. Support Terence Ong 恭喜发财 10:15, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral