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Neelix

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (2/3/1); Scheduled to end 18:57, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Nomination

Neelix (talk · contribs) – I have been editing since March of 2006. I am the 39th editor by article count and the 110th editor by edit count. I have made more than 100,000 edits, more than 90,000 of which are live edits to articles. I have created over 4000 articles and uploaded over 800 images. For the past few years, I have not seen the need for me to become an administrator because there is so much work that needs to be done that does not require administrator tools. Nonetheless, the backlog at Misplaced Pages:Requested moves has been an impediment to the general development of the project for some time now, so I am requesting adminship so that I can help lighten the load of administrators currently working on that backlog. Neelix (talk) 18:39, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

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: My primary concern is to deal with the backlog at Misplaced Pages:Requested moves. I would also like to be able to move articles over redirects with page histories so that I don't have to bring uncontroversial moves to 'Requested moves' each time.

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

A: I translated the Carabane article from the French Misplaced Pages into English and was then successful in causing it to achieve featured status. Nonetheless, the majority of my work on Misplaced Pages is organizational, so I consider the best of my work to be the creation of a large number of well-needed disambiguation pages over the years.

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 was blocked for a few hours a while ago because an administrator believed that my account had been compromised. I had created a significant number of redirects to an article that dealt with profanity. The redirects were profanity themselves, which I believed to be appropriate considering that they were redirecting to an article about profanity. While I still believe that they were valid redirects, they were deleted. I was unblocked as soon as other editors realized that my account had not been compromised. I did not attempt to recreate the redirects because community concensus appeared to be against their recreation. I also recall dealing with a stressful situation last year outside of Misplaced Pages and I was therefore insufficiently curtious in my relations with another editor on Misplaced Pages. When another editor informed me that I was not being considerate, I apologized and took a break from editing for a few days. If I encounter stressful situations outside Misplaced Pages in the future, I will likely do the same, but as a preventative measure.

Questions from FASTILY

4. Would you ever take it upon yourself to, without any warning whatsoever, indefinitely block a registered user?

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5. During your duties as a sysop, you come across an article about an upcoming film. You note that someone has uploaded a screenshot from that upcoming film and that it is quite obvious that this image has never been published elsewhere. What is your course of action? Note that I'm not looking for a specific answer (e.g. this file violates such and such policy), but rather how you yourself would deal with this hypothetical situation.

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Additional optional question from Highspeedrailguy

6. If you were repeatedly attacked by another admin, what would you do?

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Additional optional questions from Armbrust

7. Write a convincing oppose rationale against yourself for this RfA, and then write a convincing rebuttal on how you have addressed the concerns in your oppose.

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8. Should Foo (disambiguation) be moved to Foo if Foo is redlink or a redirect to the dab page? And if moved should the dab page be deleted?

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9. If there was one thing you could change about Misplaced Pages (a new policy, or a new guideline, or something else entirely, for instance), what would it be, and why?

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10. How likely would you be to close AfD discussions, if at all?

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11. Do you think this question is really optional? Why?

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Additional optional question from NuclearWarfare

12. Why the hell have 8 (well, 9 now) questions have been asked three hours into the nomination?

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Additional question from Keepscases

13. As an administrator, would you be interested in being involved with others' future RfAs? Why or why not?

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General comments

• Links for Neelix: Neelix (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for Neelix can be found here.

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review his contributions before commenting.

Discussion

• Posted edit stats on talk page. Armbrust _Contribs 19:21, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Eleven questions already? The RfA's only been open for about 30 minutes. —Soap— 20:24, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Heheh, I came here and was like, "Why isn't the candidate answering questions?" Then I saw the tiestamp. Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:41, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Support

1. Support I offer you my support. --Highspeedrailguy (talk) 19:49, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
2. Support - Very good article contributions! Reaper Eternal (talk) 20:40, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

   Support Impressed by contribs. Baseball Watcher 21:28, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

   Moving to neutral because of what Fastily is saying. Baseball Watcher 23:15, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose. Concerns with breadth of exposure. While your article contributions are certainly sound, I am concerned by your low number and lack of frequent edits in the Misplaced Pages and User talk namespaces. With regards to your Misplaced Pages namespace contributions, I would like to see work outside of AfD. I've taken into account that you only wish to work in moves, but IMO, it is necessary that admin candidates be well-rounded, with some degree of experience in most fields pertaining to administrators (e.g. XfD, AIV, ANI, RFPP, CSD). The sysop toolset comes as a complete package, and campaign promises to remain within a certain discipline can quickly drift off into the sidelines when one is presented with the entire toolset. With regards to your edits in the User talk namespace, I feel that the number of edits you make to the mainspace is largely disproportionate to the number of edits you make in the user talk namespace. The ability of an sysop to communicate on a frequent basis is essential and I'm not seeing nearly as much activity from you here as I would like to see. Alas, I feel you're on the right track to adminship, but are not yet ready. Sorry. Sincerely, FASTILY 21:18, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
2. Over 100,000 edits ... and less than 1,000 of them to the project or projectalk namespaces? I'm open to being convinced that this is not necessary, but it's rather worrying. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 23:54, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
3. Oppose. Largely per Fastily. Although the number of your contributions is impressive, I am concerned you do not have enough evident experience in AIV, ANI, RFPP, CSD etc. or in counter vandalism work. Whilst I appreciate you want to work in a specific area, I too feel the admin bit is a complete toolset. I generally do not support admin candidates that do not have experience in counter vandal work—per my criteria. Pol430 talk to me 23:57, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Neutal I am impressed with your contribs but I also noticed of the lack of edits in the Misplaced Pages and User talk namespaces. In this case I agree with what Fastily is saying and this why I am here in neutral. Good luck! Baseball Watcher 23:20, 24 February 2011 (UTC)