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Alison

Voice your opinion (17/0/1); Scheduled to end 04:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Alison (talk · contribs) - Nomination: I have decided to nominate Alison for adminship because I feel she could do a great job with the administrative tools. Until a few hours ago, her username was actually Ali-oops, but she made a decision to change her name.

Alison is an active vandal-fighter, and her user page is semi-protected as a result. Alison has many contributions to Misplaced Pages, including setting up Misplaced Pages: WikiProject Irish Maritime; and she has contributed greatly to articles involving Ireland, pharmaceutical, and LGBT issues. Her Misplaced Pages-edits include her input on WP:RFCN, WP:AIV, and WP:AN/I; as well as input on several WikiProjects; not including the one she set up. She has been here since 2004, and very recently passed the 7000 edits mark. Alison is level-headed, and likes working with other users; she is also extremely friendly, and has a sense of humor; qualities I think more admins should have. Acalamari 17:12, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Co-nomination: Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I am able to co-nominate Alison to become an administrator, I actually encountered her when she reverted some vandalism on my userpage, at the time I thought she was just another one of those RC patrollers, but after delving deeper into her contributions, she is also a very accomplished editor. During correspondence with people, she tries to add a bit of humour into the wiki - something which is all to often lost here. Her wikipedia space contributions are also very good, and she is always very reasoned in her arguments - most probably because of her excellent knowledge of policy (which has probably come because of her length of time on and dedication to the project). Alison would use the tools extremely well, although I doubt very much that it would change her, it would only add to the work she is able to carry out Ryanpostlethwaite contribs/talk 18:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Accept - Alison 04:18, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Right now, I'm on Editor review. As there are some important comments over there, I'm going to keep going at both for the moment. Adding it here so people are aware and can view its content for themselves.

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:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
A: I spend a lot of my time on WP reverting vandals and have been involved in this since I started here. As admin, I'd spend quite some time monitoring WP:AIV, WP:RPP and clearing admin backlog. I'm a bit of a wikignome (un)fortunately and that kind of work I find to be very satisfying. Lately, I've been contributing on WP:RFCN where I've found it fascinating as it's an excellent place to see subjective interpretation of policy in action. I also regularly patrol Lupin's Recent IP Edits and revert vandalism where I can. Everyone gets fair notice and not always simple boilerplate {{uw-test}} text. I like to take the opportunity to help someone who may be just new at editing. I love to help where I can and my edit history tends to show that I readily get involved in all sorts of issues.

I've not been as active on WP:AN/I as I'd like to be. In the future I can see that changing, admin or otherwise.

2. Of your articles or contributions to Misplaced Pages, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A: I recently spent a gruelling few hours straightening out all the citations and references on the Transsexualism article, as well as providing journal citations for critical areas. I'm proud of the way it looks and reads now. Also, I worked hard on the recent Steve Stanton article (which, incidentally made DYK shortly after. The collaboration involved in rapidly bringing that article to fruition was intense and highly enjoyable. For me, the pleasure is in working together with others & this is why I focus my article creation work on Irish and Pharmacological matters where editors work closely together. Recently, I created WP:IMAR which, though in its infancy, is up and running already. We are planning targetting articles for GA status and having a COTW. Starting a project that other editors enjoy and contribute to has been amazing!
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: Yes, I have. I was deeply involved in dealing with the RMS troll back last year. A blocked user created an entire range of socks and began hitting controversial articles and edit warring again and again and again for months on end. I found myself becoming frustrated by the endless reverting/reporting/discussing and spent little time on article creation. To counter that, I set myself a target of a certain quantity of article creation and improvement just to 'come down' from reverting Robert's vandalism. Ultimately, RMS gave up.
Recently, due to my work on reverting vandals, my userpage became a vandal magnet . When that got sprot'd, they turned to my talk page . I don't stress on it any more - in fact, it shows I must be doing *something* right! :)
It needs to be pointed out that I ended up in conflict with one of the main editors of the Steve Stanton article. This has been resolved now & details can be found about that on my current editor review.
General comments

Please keep criticism constructive and polite.

Discussion

Support

  1. First to get here support. I have seen Alison around doing great work and believe she'll make a fine admin. Most experience in vandal areas but has enough XfD contribs to show understanding of deletion policy. Will use the tools well. WjBscribe 04:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  2. Support - Indubitably, one of the greatest uses here, based on Talk responses, XfD contribs, and dispute resolution. ALTON .ıl 04:52, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  3. Support Seems have very well-rounded contributions and a good attitude. John Reaves (talk) 04:55, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  4. Unabashedly Support. Alison would make an ideal admin, and her ability to find good venues of compromise and a lack of arrogance and hostility are traits that I think all editors should aspire to. She exhibits a perfect balance of boldness and discretion. - WeniWidiWiki 05:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  5. Support. Never had the pleasure but all the boxes appear to be ticked, and good editors good admins usually make. Best of luck! Rockpocket 06:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  6. Support++ ~ trialsanderrors 07:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  7. Support, excellent editor, no concerns. Seraphimblade 07:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  8. Support works for me --Herby 07:52, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  9. Out-of-the-box support The Rambling Man 07:53, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  10. Support - But of course. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 07:58, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  11. Support. The kind of editor who will make a great admin. auburnpilot talk 08:02, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  12. Support May I compliment you on the thoughtful and tolerant way in which you dealt with a difficult problem relating to User:Manopingo. Clearly will be a great admin.--Anthony.bradbury 08:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  13. Support without any reservations, a fine user, will make a fine sysop. --Matthew
  14. Strong support as co-nom, great user Ryanpostlethwaite contribs/talk 09:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  15. Support should be fine. Good luck! Majorly (o rly?) 10:37, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  16. Support definitely admin material. - Anas 11:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  17. SupportWill be a great administrator. Good luck. --Meno25 11:53, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

  1. I can't recall every interacting with you before a few days ago, but I found those interactions very off putting. Ryanpostlethwaite was revealed by me to have plagarized. The identified problems were addressed, which is a good thing; however, I was surprised by the way you jumped to his defense. Your attitude suggested you thought it all no big deal. No, I don't think one should "presume innocence" when it comes to the question of whether or not there were additional acts of plagarism. Clearly that is a circumstance that warrants close scrutiny and investigation of past contributions. (For the record, after investigation I don't think there were other problems, but it is not something to just assume away.) And later you were the first to defend him again when I mentioned that I would give his future edits closer scrutiny, as if his being "contrite" was more than enough reason to ignore the past pattern of bad behavior. I am stunned that the community would promote someone (i.e. Ryan) who had recently committed plagarism, and quite disappointed that some members of the community, including yourself, seem to act as if plagarism is no big deal. Dragons flight 05:58, 14 March 2007 (UTC)