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Revision as of 18:12, 17 April 2009
ChildofMidnight
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Nomination
ChildofMidnight (talk · contribs) – I'd like to present ChildofMidnight for RfA. Since joining in November 2008, he's racked up over seventeen thousand edits. He's a proficient vandal fighter, making sure to leave warnings. This is a highly trustworthy user, who would be a positive force with the mop. DougsTech (talk) 00:51, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
ChildofMidnight's edit stats using "wannabe Kate" tool as of 00:57, 10 April 2009 (UTC):
- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia 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?
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- 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
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- 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?
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- Additional question from iridescent
- 4. Explain in your own words what's going on here (permalink in case it archives during this RFA; it's currently live on ANI)?
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- Additional question from FlyingToaster
- 5. Given that DougsTech is arguably the most controversial user in recent RfA history, what led you to specifically ask for his nomination?
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- Additional questions from — Ched : ?
- 6. Given the link that Iridescent has posted, you've obviously attracted a following of dissenters in a short time. How would you be inclined to wield the admin. block powers should you become involved in a heated debate? Feel free to comment on both content debates and conversations on users talk pages.
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- Additional questions from — rootology (C)(T)
- 7. What are your views on WP:BLP? Specifically, do you feel that the current usage of BLP to protect these articles is too strict, too lenient, or just right, and why?
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- 8. Do you support any form of controls on editing, such as Flagged Protection, Flagged Revisions, or any variant? Why, or why not?
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- 9. What is the most valuable type of editor on Wikipedia?
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- 10. If a user has a strong personal opinion or belief on something--politics, religion, anything--should you be able to detect any of that in the actual "Article" space edits of a user? Why, or why not?
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- 11. Related to the preceding question, do you have any areas you have edited on this or any other Wikipedia username ever that you are especially passionate, fervent, or ideological about in real life? Will you be willing to list these here and publically vow to not use your admin tools in ANY capacity on these topics, and make that binding somehow, such as Administrator Recall?
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- Followup question from roux
- 12. - in light of FlyingToaster's question, can you please explain this diff, specifically the fact that you are, quote, "counting on you and at least one or two of your meat puppets to support me", especially considering that user is currently banned? Please likewise explain this and this (particularly, quote, "and how I haven't been blocked yet is in fact a bit of a mystery truth be told").
Questions from GlassCobra
- 13. As an administrator, you will come across some extremely vulgar language and often come under attack for your actions. You will most likely have to deal with some fairly troublesome users. The users you block will sometimes ask to be unblocked. Please review the very NSFW scenario outlined at User:Xeno/RFAQ and describe how you would respond to the IP's request to be unblocked.
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- 14. Under what circumstances would you voluntarily give up your adminship/run for reconfirmation?
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- 15. You see that another administrator has blocked an editor and you disagree with the block. What would you do?
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Questions from Grsz11
- 16. Under what circumstances would you block an editor on an article that you were involved with?
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- 17. Under what circumstances would you protect a page that you have been involved with?
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Question from Scjessey
- 18. Would you consider blocking an editor who accused another editor of homophobia? (diff)
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Question from Wikidemon
- 19. You recently commented about a block, and the blocking administrator, on the page of a blocked user.[1][2] Do you stand behind those comments, and how would you handle the situation if you came upon it as an administrator?
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Question from Collect
- 20. Some have cast you as being partisan in political articles. Would there be any possibility that you would keep the administrator hat off when dealing with such articles, or at least refrain from using it in any conceivably partisan manner?
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Question from ϢereSpielChequers
- 21. Do you think we have enough admins?
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General comments
- Links for ChildofMidnight: ChildofMidnight (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
- Edit summary usage for ChildofMidnight can be found here.
- Promote ChildofMidnight (bureaucrats only)
- No more questions plzkthx. Let's hold off asking more questions for now. CoM's got a slew to work through and this hasn't gone live yet. Thanks! FlyingToaster 16:12, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
- Toaster, I don't mind the questions, if that makes a difference. They all seem like good ones so far. I'm a bit busy at the moment so won't get a chance to address them or proceed with the nom immediately, but I welcome anyone who wants to raise a question. I defer to your judgement, though, if you think allowing additional ones is inappropriate at this time. Cheers. And thanks to everyone for taking the time to drop in and take an interest. ChildofMidnight (talk) 20:44, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
- It is perfectly okay for any candidate running for any election on Wiki not to answer or ignore to given questions that s/he considers inappropriate, baiting, insulting, uncontructive etc.--Caspian blue 00:59, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/ChildofMidnight before commenting.
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