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#'''Support''' Good answer to Q1. Shows you will need the tools & will use them wisely --[[User:Ageo020|<font color="#2A52BE">'''Agεθ020'''</font>]] ([[User talk:Ageo020|<font color="#E49B0F">'''ΔT'''</font>]] • [[Special:Contributions/Ageo020|<font color="#E52B50">'''ФC'''</font>]]) 19:59, 17 July 2007 (UTC) |
#'''Support''' Good answer to Q1. Shows you will need the tools & will use them wisely --[[User:Ageo020|<font color="#2A52BE">'''Agεθ020'''</font>]] ([[User talk:Ageo020|<font color="#E49B0F">'''ΔT'''</font>]] • [[Special:Contributions/Ageo020|<font color="#E52B50">'''ФC'''</font>]]) 19:59, 17 July 2007 (UTC) |
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#'''Strong support''' as Tra's nominator. I would have been here earlier, except that I was having lunch. [[User:Acalamari|Acalamari]] 20:04, 17 July 2007 (UTC) |
#'''Strong support''' as Tra's nominator. I would have been here earlier, except that I was having lunch. [[User:Acalamari|Acalamari]] 20:04, 17 July 2007 (UTC) |
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#::<small>Pshhhhhh.... you eat when you should be contributing to Wikipedia ? I question your dedication </small>''':)''' </humour></small> <small><span style="border:1px solid #0000ff;padding:1px;">[[User:Pedro|<b>Pedro</b>]] | [[User_talk:Pedro|<font style="color:#accC10;background:#0000fa;"> Chat </font>]] </span></small> 20:10, 17 July 2007 (UTC) |
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Tra
(talk page) (4/0/0); Scheduled to end 19:37, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Tra (talk · contribs) - To those in the community of Wikipedia, I present to you, Tra, as a candidate.
Tra has been here on Wikipedia since October 2004, though he has been active mostly since May 2006. In that time, he has made almost 5000 edits to different areas of the project. Among those 5000 edits, he has over 1500 to the mainspace and over 1250 in the Wikipedia-space. He also has edits to categories, help pages, images, over 400 edits to templates, and even edits to the MediaWiki talk.
He is a member of Wikipedia: WikiProject Big Brother, and has worked hard on articles relating to Big Brother. He has also worked on articles such as Chewing gum, Guernsey, Lord of the Flies, and Nikki Grahame. Tra has both done article-writing and vandal-fighting, so he is experienced with both of those activities.
Besides edits, Tra has a lot of experience with policy. He has been active a lot at Wikipedia: Village pump (technical), Wikipedia: Village pump (proposals), and Wikipedia: Request an account. Plus, Tra has created highly useful user scripts and worked with them. With his personality, he is well-mannered, and he is great with the newcomers, which I know from personal experience. All my interactions with Tra have been positive, and in my early days, Tra was patient and kind to me.
Tra is a brilliant editor, and he will make a brilliant administrator. Upon receiving the tools, I am completely confident that he will make great use of them. Acalamari 02:03, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept. Tra (Talk) 19:38, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. You may wish to answer the following optional questions to provide guidance for participants:
- 1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
- A: In Wikipedia:Request an account, there are various situations when administrator access is required. The most common one is creating accounts that have been flagged by the software as too similar to another username (but where the the other username has no or very few edits that were some time ago, reducing the chances of a conflict). Periodic deletion of the page's history (for privacy reasons) and adding links to the page from various system messages when required are also times where sysop abilities would be useful.
- Administrator access would also be useful for when a system message or highly-used, protected template needs to be updated. I have occasionally before had to use {{editprotected}} to ask for changes to system messages and I have also noticed that there is often a few requests pending in Category:Wikipedia protected edit requests so being able to answer them would also be useful. Generally, I would start with minor and uncontroversial changes to pages with lower visibility and where a change would cause a more significant impact on the wiki (such as rewording a high-visibility page like Template:Disambig), I would wait for a consensus to develop before implementing these changes.
- These are the types of activities that I can see myself doing mainly in the near future. I might also, once I am more experienced, move on to do other activities such as history merges and requested moves. When reverting vandalism, the rollback tool would be useful (even though it is only a little bit faster than javascript) and if necessary, I would be able to block vandals which again, would be faster than reporting then to WP:AIV and having another admin deal with them.
- 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
- A: A lot of this has been covered in the nomination. I would say, in terms of article edits, I have contributed quite a lot to various Big Brother related articles (1, 2, 3) and their related pages with edits such as re-writing pieces of text ([1] [2]), making minor format changes ([3] [4]) and adding in pieces of information as they become available ([5] [6]). A lot of my article edits have been vandalism reversions, as I have previously watchlisted a few pages that are often vandalised, such as previous series of Big Brother and articles such as Chewing gum and Lord of the Flies which often tend to attract vandalism as well.
- In the Wikipedia: space, I have helped to construct the page Wikipedia:Request an account and its related subpages and templates (1, 2, 3, 4) to allow it to work more efficiently. I also help to handle requests made there. I have also participated on various village pumps where I have helped other users to sort out problems involving complex wiki-syntax etc.
- I am quite proficient in template syntax, ParserFunctions and other wiki syntax, and I have been been able to use this ability to help make and maintain templates.[7] I also have some knowledge of javascript, which I have used to make a few javascript tools and to help me fairly repetitive edits to pages such as fixing the sortkey for pages in a category.
- 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: Fortunately, I haven't been involved in any major conflicts, outside of the usual disputes that occur over things like article content and how something should be formatted. I find it often helps to pause a bit and look at the whole situation, and I often find that the opposing side to you has some very valid points which can persuade me to take their viewpoint. With that in mind, I find it's often easier to be flexible and to change my mind depending on the opinions that I see and I'm willing to make a change to a page supported by a consensus of editors even if I personally would disagree with it. Tra (Talk) 19:38, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
General comments
- See Tra's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.
- Links for Tra: Tra (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
- I probably should mention, since someone's bound to ask, the lack of contributions in 2005 and early 2006 is due mainly to the fact that I had begun to lose interest in Wikipedia back then, although I later became more interested in Wikipedia and consequently resumed editing in May 2006. The one and two-week gaps in editing that I've had recently are due to me being either busy or away from the computer. Tra (Talk) 19:38, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Please keep criticism constructive and polite. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Tra before commenting.
Discussion
Support
- Support nom beating or otherwise. I'll be honest - I can't stand Big Brother and think it's about the worst load of tosh on telly. However Your Q1 answer is superb - referencing areas that are commonly not cited in Q1 of RFA and backed up by history. Your contribs and dedication are outstanding, your civility and helpfullness is evidenced across your edits. Just remember - when this RfA passes we're watching you! :) Pedro | Chat 19:51, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
- Support - I see nothing in the contribs to dissuade me, and your count shows a diversity of spaces editted. A fine candidate. Hiberniantears 19:55, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
- Support Good answer to Q1. Shows you will need the tools & will use them wisely --Agεθ020 (ΔT • ФC) 19:59, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
- Strong support as Tra's nominator. I would have been here earlier, except that I was having lunch. Acalamari 20:04, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Oppose
Neutral