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#'''Support'''. An excellent candidate. Content contributor, civil (despite dropping the F-bomb nine hours ago), and has a good grasp of policies and procedures. There are some sizeable gaps in editing history, but this is a volunteer project and real life gets hectic at times. [[User:Useight|Useight]] ([[User talk:Useight|talk]]) 15:52, 29 March 2009 (UTC) |
#'''Support'''. An excellent candidate. Content contributor, civil (despite dropping the F-bomb nine hours ago), and has a good grasp of policies and procedures. There are some sizeable gaps in editing history, but this is a volunteer project and real life gets hectic at times. [[User:Useight|Useight]] ([[User talk:Useight|talk]]) 15:52, 29 March 2009 (UTC) |
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#'''Support''' - a good candidate with no problems I can see. The answer to his absence is understandable and no reason for any concern. I cannot share the concerns of Wisdom's oppose; admins are perfectly allowed to perform admin actions within the scope of their interests, as long as they are not involved in the dispute that needs administrative intervention. Regards '''[[User:SoWhy|<span style="font-variant:small-caps; color: #AC0000">So</span>]][[User talk:SoWhy|<span style="font-variant:small-caps; color: #35628F">Why</span>]]''' 16:36, 29 March 2009 (UTC) |
#'''Support''' - a good candidate with no problems I can see. The answer to his absence is understandable and no reason for any concern. I cannot share the concerns of Wisdom's oppose; admins are perfectly allowed to perform admin actions within the scope of their interests, as long as they are not involved in the dispute that needs administrative intervention. Regards '''[[User:SoWhy|<span style="font-variant:small-caps; color: #AC0000">So</span>]][[User talk:SoWhy|<span style="font-variant:small-caps; color: #35628F">Why</span>]]''' 16:36, 29 March 2009 (UTC) |
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#'''[[User:Majorly|<span style="font-family:verdana; font-size:10pt; color:#6B8AB8">Majorly</span>]]''' [[User talk:Majorly#t|<span style="font-family:verdana; font-size:8pt; color:#6B8AB8">talk</span>]] 16:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC) |
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Paxse
Nomination
(talk page) (13/2/0); Scheduled to end 12:14, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Paxse (talk · contribs) – I recently discovered Paxse when looking at highly active contributors. He is a real gem, in his lengthy Wiki-life, he has created over a dozen DYKs and has a nice healthy 63% article space contribution rate. But, wait, he is also a maintenance worker with over 780 accounts created through WP:ACC. He is very active in WP:WikiProject Cambodia and has helped to fill out our coverage of a systemically under-represented area of the encyclopedia. Through his work with ACC, and RecentChanges Patrol, I am confident Paxse has the requisite knowledge of policy to perform as an administrator. MBisanz talk 23:13, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
- Co-nomination from Syn
I first came across Paxse some time ago with ACC, and I was very impressed. Mbisanz has said much of what I would have already, so I don't want to repeat it. I first asked him about running about a month or so ago, and he declined. He said he had some things to work on first, and I saw no problem with this. I believe he has what it takes to be a proper admin (patience, intelligence/clue, etc) and think he is ready. Synergy 20:57, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Thanks very much to Matt and Syn for the nomination - I'm happy to accept.Paxse (talk) 12:14, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
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?
- A: If I get the bit, I’ll definitely use the extra flags in my work at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cambodia where we have few active admins. This would mostly be pagemoves, some page deletions, some restoring and then sourcing of deleted content (where appropriate and discussed with the deleting admin), occasional page protections, (Cambodia intermittently requires brief protection from IP vandalism) and the odd repeat vandal who needs a short block.
- However, I’d really like to find an admin shaped niche to work in regularly. I’ve noticed a couple of areas where admins seem to be in short supply. One is helping to deal with potential and actual socks at WP:SPI. This sounds like interesting work requiring careful review of evidence and good judgement. I contribute a bit to WP:DYK and I feel a little guilty for not contributing more than just articles for others to review. There seem to be times when no-one is around to check and update the queues to post on the main page. I’d like to learn the process and put myself down to help out with updates.
- If this nomination is successful, I’ll find myself a willing mentor in one of these areas to help me learn the ropes and then try to help out long term. Nixeagle and Synergy have offered to coach me on sockpuppet investigations at WP:SPI. I plan to approach one of the regular DYK admins to ask for mentoring in the same way.
- These days a backlog at WP:AIV, WP:AN3 or WP:RM seems to be generally only 4/5 requests long and XfDs are closed pretty promptly. I’m happy to help out with these areas if required but they are generally very well patrolled. That’s why I think I could be more useful in one of the more under served areas.
- 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
- A: I'm pleased with the work I've done at WP:CAMBODIA. I've been a member since the project started. Since then, I've kick started the assessment system, welcomed many new Cambodia editors, tagged and assessed a good 1500 articles, got various bot assisted lists going, referenced dozens of articles, expanded many micro-stubs, added GIS location data and tried to come up with some standard layout and content for geography articles. I've created 22 Cambodian articles and a couple of hundred redirects to improve linking [1]. However, I'm not alone in all this and many other editors have done excellent work on Cambodian articles.
- I'm proud to have worked with the WP:ACC team to survive the great UK ISP debacle of 2008. Together we dealt with 800+ account requests in 10 days - one hell of an effort. This was definitely not my work alone, ACC stalwarts like Matt, Maedin, Nukewar, Isabell, Neuro, terrillja and many others worked like trojans during December. Stwalkerster and Prodego managed the team and kept our jury-rigged interface from melting under the strain.
- The work I'm personally proudest of is my work on Cambodia geography articles. This is a long term project of mine to create, reference, expand and illustrate articles on the major geographic features of Cambodia. This year I've been working on the 185 articles under Districts of Cambodia. I plan to photograph each district during my travels around the country (I have a commons account for this [2]) and expand all the districts to at least a start class. To date I've managed to get 20 of the district articles on the front page via DYK - there should be a few more this week. I'm planning to get all the district, provincial and town articles looking like Kang Meas District, (which used to look like this [3]) or Koh Kong (city), which used to be on WP:shortpages and looked like this [4].
- 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: In three and a half years? ;) of course. Only rarely though and nothing very major. The only 'notable' dramaz I can remember was with Domer48 in June 2007. There was much back and forth between Domer and I on our talk pages - see link to my talk archives here over an AfD debate. Eventually, we resolved it quickly through discussion and parted on amicable terms. Since then, I deal with potential conflict initially by apologizing (this is often very effective at diffusing conflict), then by discussion and explanation. If that doesn't work, I'll walk away and do something productive. If I'm stressed by the wiki, then I need a break. I think one of the secrets to surviving wikidrama and maintaining your sanity is a good sense of perspective. This is only a virtual world and nobody will take away your birthday if they don't like your edits.
- Optional question from SoWhy
- 4. Your edit history shows huge gaps between November 2007 and October 2008, where you went from 2000 edits/month to 0 edits/month for 11 months. Are you willing to explain this (apparently) sudden drop in contributions and can you predict whether that will occur again?
- A: It's fair question - I was anticipating it before the Bald One brought it up. My daughter was diagnosed with cancer in August 2007. This initially dropped my contribs significantly, then got me offline for quite a while when she started surgery. It was a big shock for the family and for my other kids and understandably Real LifeTm trumped wiki for quite some time. I came back late last year. To answer the second part of your question, yes it could happen again. Wiki-life is great fun, but it should never be more important than family. I plan on sticking around for at least another ten years, but during that time there could be gaps for family reasons, health reasons or just for sanity breaks ;) Cheers, Paxse (talk) 16:18, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
General comments
- Links for Paxse: Paxse (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
- Edit summary usage for Paxse can be found here.
Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Paxse before commenting.
Discussion
Support
- Support Candidate appears to be solid and should be a net positive.--Giants27 T/C 12:36, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support - Clueful editor with varied experience. Will be a benefit. Frank | talk 12:36, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support Long on contributions; short on drama. No worries. --RegentsPark (My narrowboat) 12:38, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support -He is great guy, excellent contributor and has an excllent way of staying away from wikidrama. My only concern is that on occasions he is absent for a great deal of time and that his interest towards the project may waver. For instance he left for a whole year between November 11, 2007 and October 27, 2008. Since however he seems to have become a very consistent editor and seems to have taken encouragement from somewhere that the project is worthwhile.Not sure why he needs the tools though, although he may find them useful for certain tasks, I hope it won't affect his development of the Cambodian districts!. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:58, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support - trustworthy editor. PhilKnight (talk) 13:32, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support, looks great. No concerns. ~ mazca t|c 13:36, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support - Can't beat the noms, can't beat the edits, can't beat the value of this editor having the bit. — Ched ~ (yes?)/© 13:38, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- "Nukewar" ;) approves of this user. NuclearWarfare (Talk) 15:00, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support Good experiences with this trustworthy editor, no reason for concern. FlyingToaster 15:18, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support - Nothing but good experiences. — neuro(talk)(review) 15:31, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support - excellent contributor. Jd027 (talk) 15:33, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support he's an excellent contributor with a lot of experience. FrehleySpace Ace 15:49, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support. An excellent candidate. Content contributor, civil (despite dropping the F-bomb nine hours ago), and has a good grasp of policies and procedures. There are some sizeable gaps in editing history, but this is a volunteer project and real life gets hectic at times. Useight (talk) 15:52, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support - a good candidate with no problems I can see. The answer to his absence is understandable and no reason for any concern. I cannot share the concerns of Wisdom's oppose; admins are perfectly allowed to perform admin actions within the scope of their interests, as long as they are not involved in the dispute that needs administrative intervention. Regards SoWhy 16:36, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Majorly talk 16:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Oppose
- Oppose - Editor feels it's appropriate to use protection and block functions in a Wikiproject where they are heavily active. Wisdom89 (T / C) 13:21, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Er, yes, of course he does; admins are expected to use their tools to protect Wikipedia from disruptions in all areas of the encyclopedia - except, of course, to further their position in in a dispute, which is not the same thing at all as blocking users who disrupt pages within the scope of one's project. Sandstein 15:48, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- What's wrong with that? If he said he didn't want to use blocking at all that wouldn't attract opposers, but saying he won't use it in a certain area does? Strange IMO.--Pattont/c 15:52, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
- Oppose Too many administrators currently. DougsTech (talk) 16:23, 29 March 2009 (UTC)