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Cirt

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Cirt (talk · contribs) - It’s an honor to be the nominator of one of en:wiki’s most qualified candidates for RFA. Cirt is already an arbitrator at Wikinews, an administrator at Commons, and an OTRS volunteer. At Misplaced Pages he has contributed 11 featured articles, 26 good articles, 33 “Did you know” articles, 1 featured topic, and 11 featured portals (he’s the most prolific contributor of featured portals on this website). He has made over 38,000 edits to Misplaced Pages. In connection with his OTRS work, cross-project deletion work, and his AFD work it makes sense for him to have the tools at this project too.

Now you might be wondering, why didn’t an editor with qualifications this good get sysopped long ago? Two reasons. First, some of Cirt’s contributions are to controversial topics. It is darn near guaranteed that an editor who writes about Scientology and related subjects will step on some toes, no matter how polite he is or how many of those contributions result in featured articles. I don’t know much about those subjects but I do know he’s evenhanded: not only do the articles he works on consistently pass GAC and FAC, but he’ll intervene to revert vandalism, seek page protection, etc. regardless of what POV the disruption expresses. The second reason he’s hesitated to ask for the tools here is because this isn’t his first account and he collected some blocks before he started this account. I can guarantee you he did not change accounts to hide that block log. Please respect his privacy in that regard. It had to do with personal security and I was the administrator he turned to for help when the problem first occurred. His blocks had to do with edit warring—not incivility or any more significant concern—and he’s long since learned to open dispute resolution instead of violating 3RR. The most recent block occurred more than a year ago.

So in terms of an editor who got a rocky start and made healthy turnaround, I don’t know of a better example than Cirt. Two other WMF projects already trust him with the mop. Let’s do the same. Durova 19:59, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Co-nomination by weburiedoursecretsinthegarden

I think the only word in the English language to describe Cirt consists of only three letters: “Wow”. Perhaps that’s because I’m terrible at English. Or perhaps, as Durova has said extensively above, Cirt is actually too good an editor to describe in mere words.

It’s not often one gets the chance to nominate a good user for adminship – let alone a brilliant one. So, when a user like Cirt comes along, all activity is halted to write a nomination for them. I myself do not even feel qualified to nominate this calibre of editor for the mop, regardless of how big a deal it is. Many admins – perhaps even bureaucrats – do not have the credentials Cirt possesses – which is why he should obtain the almost iconic mop.

I first encountered Cirt earlier this year, on – believe it or not – featured portal candidates. I believe he had a nomination or three on the go then. At once, I saw the amount of work he put into those portals – not just a fly-over job, a work of art. Upon visiting his userpage, I saw just how many portals he had managed to get featured – some of which single-handedly – and gasped in shock. (That rarely happens to me, after seeing something on the internet.) I must say, this drove me to create and develop a portal of my own. That I did, and I owe it to Cirt’s example.

I don’t see much else I could say to top Durova’s nomination above. I do hope that you, the community, will not look upon Cirt’s early history and write him off for the tools that will only help him to help the project. We need more admins like this guy. weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 20:01, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

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 administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: I’d like to do some work in the administrative backlogs related to images, specifically CAT:NCT, CAT:NC, and CAT:NT. I have recently been doing some work on OTRS, and having the tools would certainly help with this. I would also love to help out with updating Did you know, I know it has been a recurring issue to find admins for that.

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

A: I think my featured work on Misplaced Pages stands as my best quality contributions to the project. I’d like to especially point out how fulfilling it has been for me to work on collaborative efforts with members of WikiProjects, including a featured portal with members of WP:TEXTILE, a featured article and featured portal with members of WP:OREGON, a featured topic and featured portal with members of WP:DOH.

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: As Durova notes, I have been in conflicts in the past with regard to Scientology and related topics. Those were mostly edit wars from my early days, and I delayed this nomination considerably in hopes of building up a track record that demonstrates I've put those mistakes behind me. Those pages where I once disputed are mostly GAs and FAs now.

What made the difference is that blocks had their intended effect on me: I, stepped back, and returned with a healthier outlook. Since the early days I've also discovered that dispute resolution is a better way of resolving differences between editors. I also trust in the community – and I have seen the dispute resolution process work very well and I especially find article content RFCs to be helpful. With any issue that crops up I always seek out an experienced administrator for advice, and I will continue to do so.

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• Links for Cirt: Cirt (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)

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