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Sadly, yes. One particularly nasty conflict was with [[User:Wiarthurhu]] - who twice ended up with indefinite blocks - but aside from that, all other conflicts have been mercifully mild and could be fixed with "don't feed the trolls" technigues - just stop talking and reverting for a couple of weeks - then go back and fix the problem - and usually, the problem goes away quite naturally. Fortunately, my interests have not been in the most controversial areas such as politics and religion. However, I do not seek adminship for these reasons. I'm happy to let mediators deal with that. I'm more concerned with doing jobs that directly improve the encyclopedia but which require admin privilages. |
Sadly, yes. One particularly nasty conflict was with [[User:Wiarthurhu]] - who twice ended up with indefinite blocks - but aside from that, all other conflicts have been mercifully mild and could be fixed with "don't feed the trolls" technigues - just stop talking and reverting for a couple of weeks - then go back and fix the problem - and usually, the problem goes away quite naturally. Fortunately, my interests have not been in the most controversial areas such as politics and religion. However, I do not seek adminship for these reasons. I'm happy to let mediators deal with that. I'm more concerned with doing jobs that directly improve the encyclopedia but which require admin privilages. |
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:'''100% Optional Question 4.''' Why do you not feel the need to write a longer nomination? It's difficult to decide how to vote if you won't really attempt to sway me to by pointing out why you think you should be an admin. Right now, I'm not convinced you really do if you don't want to write a longer nomination. --[[User:Deskana|Lord Deskana]] <small>[[User talk:Deskana|(swiftmend!)]]</small> 17:00, 13 November 2006 (UTC) |
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* I tried to get an editor review - but as you can see [[Wikipedia:Editor review/SteveBaker]] has been there for several months with no responses. |
* I tried to get an editor review - but as you can see [[Wikipedia:Editor review/SteveBaker]] has been there for several months with no responses. |
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* I've been editing Wikipedia for a year and a half and I have 3,100 edits - but more importantly, 1,700 within the main namespace. |
* I've been editing Wikipedia for a year and a half and I have 3,100 edits - but more importantly, 1,700 within the main namespace. |
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SteveBaker (talk · contribs) – This is a self-nomination SteveBaker 16:22, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
This is a self nomination - and (unsurprisingly) I accept it!
- Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
- 1. What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog and Category:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
- A:
I'm willing to provide several hours per week working whichever admin backlog is the most pressing. Right now, I think speedy deletion and requested moves are the most pressing needs - but I'm prepared to be flexible if the demand is elsewhere.
- 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?
- A:
I did almost all of the work on Mini - taking it from a near-stub and culminating in a front page featured article. I'm also pleased with my work in transforming both Automobile and Computer from fairly disorganised articles that overlapped the content from other articles - to articles designed from the top-down to be 'gateways' to other articles that provide the majority of the content. This is surprisingly difficult because people become very attached to the long descriptions of things that are already covered (or should be covered) by daughter articles. Possibly the most pleasurable thing is creating new articles and watching them grow and flourish through the work of others. It's an almost magical thing. So a simple article like Tire code (which started out as a 10 line section in another article that I turned into a full article) has grown vastly beyond my knowledge on the subject.
- 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:
Sadly, yes. One particularly nasty conflict was with User:Wiarthurhu - who twice ended up with indefinite blocks - but aside from that, all other conflicts have been mercifully mild and could be fixed with "don't feed the trolls" technigues - just stop talking and reverting for a couple of weeks - then go back and fix the problem - and usually, the problem goes away quite naturally. Fortunately, my interests have not been in the most controversial areas such as politics and religion. However, I do not seek adminship for these reasons. I'm happy to let mediators deal with that. I'm more concerned with doing jobs that directly improve the encyclopedia but which require admin privilages.
- General comments
- I tried to get an editor review - but as you can see Wikipedia:Editor review/SteveBaker has been there for several months with no responses.
- I've been editing Wikipedia for a year and a half and I have 3,100 edits - but more importantly, 1,700 within the main namespace.
Discussion
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- Oppose. Not enough experience in admin-related tasks, such as XfD, vandalism, or requested page moves. Good contributor, but needs more experience in these areas. Also, I'd recommend for you to use edit summaries more often. --Wafulz 17:01, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
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