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Nat

Voice your opinion (talk page) (28/5/3); Scheduled to end 00:25, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Nat (talk · contribs) - Nat, formerly Nat.tang, has been editing Misplaced Pages since 2006 and has been substantially active for the last five months. He has acquired experience in all the major administrative pages, such as WP:AIV, WP:ANI, and WP:AN3. He also has dealt extensively with the dispute resolution process and knows how to keep a cool head. I was impressed by how he handled this situation at Talk:Ontario general election, 2007. Nat removed an external link from a newer user to a blog site, then defended his decision based on the external link policy without biting and without assuming bad faith. There are two reasons to see a potentially outstanding admin from this kind of discussion. First, Nat demonstrated the necessary balance between respecting another user and enforcing policy. Second, and no less important, he took leadership of a complicated situation.

Nat has received two editor reviews: Misplaced Pages:Editor review/Nat.tang (June 2007) and Misplaced Pages:Editor review/Nat.tang 2 (September 2007). These reviews, together with his userpage and contribution log, should give you a good idea of what Nat likes to do. I don't expect that Nat will cause any problems with the additional tools we should give to him. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 00:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


Second nomination

Nat (talk · contribs) has shown himself to be both vigilant against blatant vandals, and able to deal evenly and firmly with unreasonable users, such as in the case with TingMing (talk · contribs). When TingMing began a pattern of disruptive and POV-pushing edits, Nat and several other editors began to engage TingMing. TingMing's behavior was far from civil, yet Nat continued to seek a reasonable dialogue with TingMing, seeking to establish understanding and consensus, even whilst reporting TingMing as a suspected sockpuppeteer. As User:Shalom has said, Nat has proved his own familiarity with the various admin tools, has repeatedly demonstrated that he has a calm and reasonable approach, even when dealing with difficult situations, and has a commitment to upholding the standards and quality of Misplaced Pages. Hopefully this evidence, combined with that of Shalom, will prove Nat to be an outstanding candidate for adminship. --Folic Acid 13:10, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I, nat, humbly accept this nomination. 02:11, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Misplaced Pages as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
A: Admin/sysop work I would like to be involved are the following:
  • Protecting pages when an edit war has broken out, if a user has requested that his user page (not his usertalk page) be semi-protected, if a blocked individual is misusing the {{unblock}} template, to prevent the recreation of pages that have been deleted per policy and its fate has been discussed by the community, and if a great deal of vandalism has occurred (unless there is only one vandal and that vandal has been previously warned, then I will block him/her and will not protect as to not make good contributors suffer the consequences of the individual's actions).
  • Unprotecting pages when a edit war has been resolved, if the community has decided to have a protected page recreated, and if a user wishes to have his/her userpage unprotected (this excludes banned and indef. block users).
  • Blocking users that clearly violate Misplaced Pages's policies and principals, such as committing acts of vandalism, breaking the three revert rule, making legal threats, committing acts of sockpuppetry, and just not being very nice to others. Before I take any sysop action against an individual, I will ensure that the individual has been clearly and thoroughly warned.
  • When deciding on a XFD, I will clearly look through the discussion, the points and the arguments that have been brought up, weight them and then ensure that the "X" does not violate policy, and then I will make my decision.
2. What are your best contributions to Misplaced Pages, and why?
A: I feel that my best contributions to this online project are are some of the templates that I have created namely template:Infobox UofT College (which thanks to KFP (talk) and Anomie (talk), for helping me with codes and the whatnots, it now work fine), Template:Infobox ontario election and Template:Infobox monarchy. I am also quite proud of my contributions to Ontario general election, 2007.
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 have been in several conflicts in the past that have caused me stress, particularly a certain, now indef blocked, user named TingMing. How did I deal with it? Well, I attempted to discuss and sort out the conflict between TingMing and several editors, such as myself. Well we talked and talked, but each time it seemed like we were talking to a wall, and often he would uses our words and twist them so that he can use it against those he perceived as a threat. In the end, some of the other editors became fed up with him/her and decided to open an ArbComm case against TingMing. The end result was he/she was blocked indef for disruptive editing, personal attacks, sockpuppetry and last but not least, vandalism. How will I deal with such a situation in the future? Well, I would first find out what is the conflict between me and the other editor; then discuss the situation and try to find a compromise; if the other editor feels that any of my actions or comments had offended them, I will apologize; if none of the discussion work out, I will find other means such as mediation or arbitration, but only as a last resort.
4. Would you be willing to add yourself to Category:Misplaced Pages administrators open to recall if promoted? Why or why not?
A: I would be willing to add myself to the recall list if promoted as I believe that my actions should be scrutinized, even if I am not promoted. If I am promoted, and misuse the tools, then I would be open to a recall RfA to determine if the Community will trust me with the tools. I see this as an important way to keep the sysops accountable, and to remind them that it was with the blessings, if I may call it that, of the Community that they were given the tools. Why should someone have the tools when they have misused them and essentially betrayed the community's trust? They shouldn't. I believe that if it is the community that gave an individual the privilege to use the tools, it should be the community that removes that privilege if that individual misuses it.
5. Can you explain why you chose to issue a uw-legal to Maxwellgold instead of some other template? An examination by the involved admin couldn't find any evidence of legal threats (nor could I) and I wanted to understand if you still think that was the best course of action. Ronnotel 01:13, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
A: Well, my decision to issue {{uw-legal}} to Max Gold on June 16, 2007 was based on . If one continues to look at the later edits, he/she will notice that the IP editor and Max Gold are either the same person or they have some sort of close working relationship. Looking back at the situation, I admit I could have issued the warning only to the IP editor or the other editor who had originally posted the message: instead of issuing the notice to Max Gold, however, assuming that the editor is in fact Max Gold, Representative of Nico Demonte (ASCAP), I felt that my actions were appropriate. I admit that it was not the best course of action, and I regret taking that action. I also admit I overlooked some of Max Gold's comments and because of that, I issued a warning that should have never been issued to Max Gold. However, I believe that my actions after issuing the warning (i.e. corresponding with him through his talkpage and by email) were appropriate.

General comments

Please keep criticism constructive and polite. Remain civil at all times. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Nat before commenting.

Discussion

Support

  1. Support, just reviewed Nat's contributions. He seems keen to help out here, and seems to have a reasonable head on his shoulders. -- Samir 04:21, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  2. Support A great editor. Unlikely to abuse admin tools as well. --Siva1979 04:34, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  3. Support as nominator. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 11:38, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  4. Support Multilingual, lots of experience, conta Jmlk17 who I'm not surprised at all to see opposing "per experience". * Aillema 11:40, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  5. Strong Support Appears to be a great, reasonable guy. I am sure will act very responsbiy. Would make a great admin no doubt. Sinhala freedom 12:07, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
    Just curious.. but would you mind spelling out exactly what qualities of the candidate endears him to you so much? I assume you're basing your opinion on some past interaction with the user. Or is it? Sarvagnya 09:41, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  6. Strong Support per my second nomination above. --Folic Acid 13:10, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  7. Support Rlevse 14:12, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  8. Support with caveats: Nom has adequate time and contribs. User’s talk page does not reveal any obvious disqualifier in terms of civility or knowledge of areas of interest. Regretably, nom’s Editor review does not provide much illumination into nom’s qualifications. I would caution user to become more familiar with fair use image policy and to go slow where user subpages are concerned. In a quick survey of the last 500 edits, I see no reports to AIV. I see welcomes, but no CSD or Not Notable notices. I see little participation in XFD. (Please provide dif's if I missed anything.) I would caution the nom to ease into the Admin role and not be too bold. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 14:17, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  9. I'm Mailer Diablo and I approve this message! - 14:24, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  10. Support. Clearly experienced. RyanGerbil10(C-Town) 14:59, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  11. Support Looks good. Hiberniantears 16:40, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  12. Clearly a decent editor. Acalamari 16:51, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
    Strong Support Hopeshopes 17:38, 26 September 2007 (UTC) Note from EVula: User has been indefinitely blocked for vandalizing various RfAs. Striking comment. EVula // talk // ☯ // 18:56, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  13. Support because his name's Nat. Oh, no, not really. Because he's done well here and isn't likely to abuse the tools. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 18:02, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  14. Per Shalom. —  18:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  15. Support Looks just fine to me. Captain panda 21:29, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  16. Support — satisfying contribs. Looks like the opposers have come down with an acute case of 'conutitis. They should really consult their doctors before their condition gets worse :-) --Agüeybaná 21:54, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  17. Support - fine editor and oppose reasons aren't convincing. Addhoc 23:59, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  18. Support —] 01:16, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  19. Neutral, leaning toward Oppose Get involved with more mainspace edits and WikiProjects. After considering this greatly, I am now supporting this RfA. :) Crassic 01:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  20. Support As per Addhoc and his work in the last 5 months has been Satisfying.Pharaoh of the Wizards 02:05, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  21. Strong Support. Looking through his recent contribs, this is one of those editors whose day-to-day work keeps Misplaced Pages running smoothly. Fighting vandalism, fixing templates, correcting typos and making minor edits - without it, Misplaced Pages would be a mess. While I sympathise with the view that admins should have substantial mainspace contribs, I don't think we should reject someone who's willing to help with the many backlogged cleanup tasks, and who has a genuine need for the tools (in vandal-fighting). His answers to the questions suggest a sufficient knowledge of policy, and all in all, he's a satisfactory candidate. If he doesn't pass this time, he should pass easily 3 months from now. Walton 12:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  22. Support. 3,000-plus edits, check, mainspace work, check (UofT), vandal-fighting, check, no concerns, check. Bearian 19:08, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  23. Support. --Hirohisat 01:23, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
  24. Support I don't see anything wrong with you. Cheers,JetLover (Report a mistake) 03:08, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
  25. support Very cool headed editor who is more than willing to comprimise. Has some very good edits and is very active. Give him the mop Watchdogb 12:27, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
  26. Support I don't see anything wrong with the editor and he seems to be reasonably experienced. -Icewedge 16:53, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
  27. Support - No real reasoning, as to why I shouldn't. --Тhε Rαnδom Eδιτor 20:15, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
  28. Support (ooh - nice symbol) - no issues here. I'm actually impressed with Q5, as this editor is not afraid to either learn from his mistakes, nor admit to them. That's important. Admins are not infaillibe - Alison 21:13, 28 September 2007 (UTC)


Oppose

  1. Oppose Just not quite enough experience yet. This is not to say you don't have any, but I would prefer if you had more experience in admin-related areas. Jmlk17 06:15, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
  2. Oppose Not enough experience. Just 1200 for the Mainspace, only 394 for the Misplaced Pages and 61 for the Misplaced Pages talk. Seems you have to get involve more into some projects. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ 06:35, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
    What's wrong with being involved in projects? He has 3658 total edits.Rlevse 14:11, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
    Sorry, my mistake. It should be Seems you have to. Thanks for pointing me out that :-) --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ 15:32, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
    Yey for Editcountitis! ;) —— Eagle101 15:42, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
    :D --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ 05:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
    I'm not discouraging him but what I want to say is adminship candidates, especially they are new comers in the scene, they have to learn a lot of qualities from the admins like Black Falcon. Unlike Nat, when Black Falcon was nominated for adminship he too was only actively editing for five months. But during those five months he was working in policy discussions, XfDs, WikiProjects, vandal fighting, detail for templates and articles, authored for a featured list, del sorting, authoring for quite number of articles, featuring a portal and he had substantial number of mainspace edits too. Excluding those he very highly interacted with non-admin closures of XfDs and even stayed neutral when resolving disputes in Sri Lanka related pages wining the hearts and minds of all parties. But in Nat's case, if you just hop into his RfA nom and to his contributions list, what I can say is that he was only active in the areas such as AIV, ANI, AN3, RPP and RfA. Unfortunately when comparing his past work over administrative and maintainece pages, I do not see any specialty with Nat and other ordinary wikipedians. People have to learn that the mop is not a fancy dress. Seems that Nat has a clear record in here, so I'm asking him to hop into Misplaced Pages:Requests for adminship/Black Falcon, have an idea how to get ready for the adminship as a newcomer and get ready like that. Then I will nominate you to the RfA next time. Good luck --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ 05:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  3. Oppose - might very well be a nice guy, but his mainspace edits are far from impressive. Lot of it seems to be either minor edits or reverts. Couple that with the fact that the article he says he's quite proud of, looks quite messy to me. Many of the articles he's edited or the ones at the 'top of (his) watchlist' have blogs and sundry non-WP:EL links under "external links". They also have substantial MoS and style issues. Misplaced Pages is not a bureaucracy and nothing impresses me like article writing/creation and article improvement. Dont see evidence of any work on dyks/GA/FA either. Also, seems to be lacking in non-article space like others have pointed out. Sadly, cant support this nom just yet. Sarvagnya 10:00, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  4. Weak Oppose While I commend Nat for getting involved in a tricky issue, I'm just not impressed with his response to Q.5. Uw-legal is a strong charge and should only be used on the accounts that are actually at fault. While his actions may have seemed appropriate to him at the time, I would like to see a bit more circumspection after the fact. Ronnotel 11:30, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
    Comment I agree, that could have been handled better. Rather than laying on a template, I would have tried to engage the user in conversation on his talk page. Also, simply removing Max's post may have inflamed the matter. I would have explained that this is a Wiki, and that he could not censor content by demanding some sort of ownership of the article. Nat did go on to try to explain things to the user after the template. However, there was an implicit legal threat in Max's notes. So while I agree he should be more understanding of others lack of understanding, I can also understand using the template. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 14:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
    I'm not even sure I can see an implicit legal threat in the cited comment. I wonder whether Nat may have been influenced by the edit summary into believing that one had been made without reading the material carefully. Needless to say, I'm confused but willing to be convinced by a succinct argument. Ronnotel 15:11, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
    Ok...I might have been influenced by the edit summary, however, if you would direct your attention to the last paragraph, and I quote:
    "I demand that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing information derived from the Nico Demonte’s biography, and all copies, including electronic copies, of same, that you deliver to me, if applicable, all unused, undistributed copies of same, or destroy such copies immediately and that you desist from this or any other infringement of Nico Demonte’s copyrighted works, information, images, reputation, and recordings. If you do not immediately publish the requested retraction, and cease and desist from tortuous interference and making false and malicious comments about Nico Demonte, his copyrighted works, biography, recordings, likenesses, and reputation, we will file suit against you. Please govern yourself accordingly. If I have not received an affirmative response from you by January 1, 2006, indicating that you have fully complied with these requirements, we shall take further action against you."
    you would find the threat. Granted, it wasn't the User:Maxwellgold account that left that message and the message was two years old, however, if you look at the patterns and the text contributions between Max Gold and the IP, they are, as I've said in my answer to question 5, they are either the same person or they have a really close working relationship of some sort, in other words, they are probably part of the same organization. I admit it wasn't the best course of action, however, I believe that the actions I took (i.e. issuing the warning, explaining and discussing the situation to Max Gold through his talkpage as well as email, etc.) were appropriate. nat 17:04, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
    But this is what's confusing me. The section you quoted appears to come from a completely different person - Anna Astley(?) - with whom Max Gold appears to be disassociating himself. How can the text you've outlined be used to justify a legal warning against Max Gold or his putative IP-account? Can you show me an edit in which either account makes a threat? Ronnotel 17:11, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
    Oppps...I just read that part...Well, from looking over his comments one more time, I guess I overlooked some of the statements he made. I now admit issuing the warning was a mistake and I regret making that decision. Thank you for pointing that out to me. nat 17:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
    Thanks for admitting your mistake - a very important attribute in an admin. However, it took you until your third try (this is your RfA, for gosh sakes, wake up) so I'm afraid I won't be able to switch my vote. I do have high regard for your work and hope to able to support in the future. Ronnotel 17:32, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  5. Oppose as per user Ronnotel. Sorry, friend. Scarian 19:23, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
  6. Oppose. I've worked with Nat, I think he's a really nice and great guy, but as the first opposer pointed out, he doesn't have enough experience. I think he needs some more mainspace edits, and some more time. GreenJoe 22:45, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
  7. Oppose For all the usual reasons. I was hard pressed to find one single edit that actually built an article. Very short-time on the project. OrangeMarlin 23:25, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Neutral

  1. Neutral, you've made some good edits to articles on Canada/Ontario politics, but I'm not sure you're that well-versed in image guidelines - I've recently had to delete some fair-use images of politicans that you uploaded, some of whom had free alternatives. Morgan695 19:53, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  2. Neutral leaning weak support The issuing of a {{uw-legal}} was not appropriate when sockpuppetry was not confirmed. The candidate has apologised but I am not sure that I can support while I think that something like this could happen again, then again, I have no particular evidence to expect that it may. GDonato (talk) 22:03, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  3. Too little experience I fear. Try again in about a month, and I will support. Dreamy !$! 00:53, 28 September 2007 (UTC)