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Cool3 (talk · contribs) – Well, this is a self-nomination. I decided to nominate myself a few moments ago while patrolling recent changes when my pop-ups stopped working for some inexplicable reason. Having already had a failed experience with godmode light, I resorted to reverting "the long way". Then, after tagging a page for speedy deletion, I realized that I would have a much easier time serving wikipedia with administrator tools (see later question answers). Anyway, I first edited on October 16, 2005. Because of my employment contract, my editing was limited to AfD until March 1, 2006 when I began editing articles and really became involved. In the ensuing time, I have done my best to supplement my intial AfD work with anti-vandal work and solid article writing. Cool3 20:17, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: As I self-nommed, I naturally accept. Cool3 20:42, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

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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 voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Misplaced Pages backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A: I will never forget my initial time on Misplaced Pages when I contributed solely to AfD. During that time, I observed many discussions in which a consensus formed and went undisputed, the minimum time expired, and yet no administrator had the time to delete the article for days. So, I certainly plan to spend a lot of time on AfD, deleting or keeping article as per community consensus. To avoid bias, I would not delete articles where I had been a part of the discussion.

More recently, I have become involved in anti-vandal work. I definitely imagine greatly expanding my contributions in this area. As mentioned above, I would love to be able to easily revert vandalism with one click. Additionally, I would use, albeit cautiously, my blocking capability to deal with persistent vandals. Of course, I would also occasionally supplement my anti-vandal work with page protection, when absolutely necessary.

Furthermore, I can imagine helping to update DYK, but I might wait to become involved in that until I have a bit more experience. In a way similar to my anti-bias AfD strategy, I would allow another admin to evaluate any article I wrote for posting rather than post it myself. Finally, I anticipate speedy-deleting the occasional page, and, naturally, I would try to respond to the requests of other users.

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

A: Well, it seems normal that I would be proud of the featured article Michael Woodruff. I began the article while on wikibreak, and took it from a one-sentence stub up to its current state. I think that its progression is an excellent example of how stubs can serve Misplaced Pages.

I am also proud of the first article I edited River Gee County. Despite having no prior knowledge on the topic, and having great difficulty locating sources, I expanded River Gee County from a stub into a decent article. To list just a few more, I am proud of my three DYK articles: Creigh Deeds, Egyptian land reform, and Peggy Stewart. Finally, I am proud of my ant-vandal contributions.

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

A: I got into a little trouble over the article Peggy Stewart as demonstrated by its talk page. Most of the problems stemmed from by lack of elaboration in the original version, leading to allegations of non neutral point of view, and some accuracy disputes. When one user declared "the article did not deserve to be listed in the "Did you know" column", I became somewhat defensive. However, I basically kept my cool and I think that the article ended up better after the critical attention it received. I may have been a little curt in some of my responses, I think that everyone ended up happy.

In the future when meeting with conflict, I will use the same strategies that I use in work and in life. First of all, I won't "sweat it". Conflict is a part of life and is inevitable. The best solution to any conflict, then, is to remain polite with the other person and attempt to continue in an amicable relationship while sorting out the source of conflict and reaching a resolution that can make everyone happy. After all, no one is ever 100% "right" in an argument. So, politeness and cooperation are the key.