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Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (2/0/1); Scheduled to end 18:45, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Nomination
Beeblebrox (talk · contribs) – Well, it's been three months since I filed my first RFA, which went down in flames because of a very unfortunate edit summary I had left only a few weeks before submitting my RFA. The community was very worried that this poor choice might represent a pattern that would result in my biting users with the power of admin tools backing me up. It was a fair objection, although one incident does not make a pattern, I was essentially asked to prove it by going three months without making a similar error. I believe I have done that. In the intervening three months I have had a few close encounters with trolls, been the subject of personal attacks, and dealt with numerous new users, and nothing like the incident that sunk my first RFA has occurred. In brief, the reason I stated at my first RFA for wanting to be an admin is that almost every single time I ask for an admin to do something, they do it. I figure that means I have the judgement necessary to wield the mop myself, and I can reduce the admin workload in the areas I work by eliminating the middleman. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:45, 23 August 2009 (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 administrative work do you intend to take part in?
- A: At first, I would restrain myself to the areas in which I already have a good amount of experience, namely speedy deletion, vandal fighting and problematic usernames. I would very slowly wade into Articles for Deletion as well, only closing the more obvious cases for the time being.
- 2. What are your best contributions to Misplaced Pages, and why?
- A: I made a point at my first RFA of mentioning that I don't have a lot of bright and shiny things to point at because I tend to focus on new and neglected articles. That is still the case, and what I plan to continue doing whether or not this RFA succeeds. However, fate has handed me two opportunities in the last three months to learn about some of these processes. There was a wildfire in my area and I created Shanta Creek fire and successfully pulled a DYK out of it. During the Good Article sweeps, my adopted hometown's famous Eagle Lady was put on hold. I took a look at the list of problems and decided to tackle them, and the article retained GA status as a result of my efforts.
- 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: It's pretty darn rare for me to actually feel stress over something from Misplaced Pages, my one infamous incident aside. If you are going to edit here, you have to accept that you are sometimes going to find yourself in conflict with other users, and sometimes, no matter how right you just know you are, things are not going to go your way. Usually, if I find myself on the losing end of a debate over an article I will simply not edit the debated content anymore. If I thought the article shouldn't exist at all and it ends up being kept, I take it off my watchlist.I try to make WP:STICK and WP:BRD my guiding principles.
Optional question from Keepscases
- 4. When is the last time you told a lie? What were the circumstances, and do you regret it?
- A:
General comments
RfAs for this user:- Links for Beeblebrox: Beeblebrox (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
- Edit summary usage for Beeblebrox can be found here.
Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Beeblebrox before commenting.
Discussion
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- I just looked over my own stats again, and it occurs to me that some might wonder why I have so many user talk edits. This is because I deal with new users a lot, either welcoming them or giving them the unpleasant news that the article they just created qualifies for speedy deletion. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:15, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- Editing stats posted at the talk page. –Juliancolton | 19:20, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Support
- Solid editor that has established he can be trusted with the tools. A fleeting lapse of imperfect judgment should not be held against him. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 19:09, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- Yep, I trust him. I can only attribute that troublesome edit summary to the presumed presence of Beeblebrox's belly button. –Juliancolton | 19:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Oppose
Neutral
- Not entirely convinced that the concerns from RfA 1 have been addressed completely. Will watch the RfA and possibly support or oppose later. iMatthew at 19:15, 23 August 2009 (UTC)