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# As nominator <span style="font-family:sans-serif">— <span style="font-weight:bold">[[User:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:black; font-style:italic">MusikAnimal</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:green">talk</span>]]</sup></span></span> 18:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC) |
# As nominator <span style="font-family:sans-serif">— <span style="font-weight:bold">[[User:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:black; font-style:italic">MusikAnimal</span>]] <sup>[[User talk:MusikAnimal|<span style="color:green">talk</span>]]</sup></span></span> 18:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC) |
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# Incredible vandalism fighter, tireless for five years. In an ideal world all of our administrators would have written longer articles on major topics, participated extensively in AfD, etc. etc. etc., but sometimes well-lopsided is as good as well-rounded, and I trust that Widr will work on the parts of the encyclopedia that he knows best and take some of the admin responsibilities for vandalism fighting off admins who'd rather work on other parts of the site. -- [[User:Mscuthbert|Michael Scott Cuthbert]] <small>[[User_talk:Mscuthbert|(talk)]]</small> 18:24, 18 March 2016 (UTC) |
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Widr
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Nomination
Widr (talk · contribs) – Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you User:Widr for your consideration as an administrator. I've known and worked with Widr for over two years. With over 200,000 contributions, 250+ articles created, it's safe to say his experience and hours put into the project is beyond what many of us may ever achieve. A quick glance at his talk page archives demonstrates his calm manner and ability to work with new users, even when faced with the most fierce of backlashing vandals. Meanwhile a 96% accuracy rate at AfD shows a strong understanding of policy.
On the counter-vandalism front, Widr is one of the best in the fleet. I work roughly during the same hours as he does, and can attest to the accuracy of his AIV reports. Not having the block and protect buttons is a detriment to the project as it transfers the workload to other admins, when Widr is perfectly qualified to handle it himself – while also lending a much needed hand in processing others' reports. That makes him a net-positive, but I think as an admin he'll far exceed that classification.
Given the nature of his work, Widr has a very high automated edit count in the mainspace. I used my own tool to compute the stats and have posted them on the talk page. I want to point out that if you discount the counter-vandalism numbers from STiki, rollback, and Huggle, we're looking at 12764 total edits. That brings his non-automated contribs percentage to 66% in the mainspace, a quite respectable figure. That aside, the 100,000+ counter-vandalism edits profoundly confirm his dedication and diligence in protecting the wiki. This is what the admin toolset is primarily for, and I envision Widr's propserity in this regard will be nothing short of prolific.
Overall I believe Widr will be a fine addition to admin squadron. I don't worry about him exercising tools in areas he's uncomfortable with; his interests are well-defined, only his potential is hampered without the additional toolset. Thank you for your time — MusikAnimal talk 15:59, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Thank you for the kind words, MusikAnimal. I'm happy to accept. Widr (talk) 17:51, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:
- 1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?
- A: I will mainly focus on AIV. That's the area I have been working in and around for most of my time here, and the one that is usually backlogged and always in need of extra eyes. I expect to visit UAA and RFPP occasionally, partly because some of the reports at AIV will have to be dealt with at other venues and partly because I already visit them frequently. Generally I'm not likely to jump head-first into unknown waters, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't one day be tempted to operate out of my comfort zone.
- 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
- A: I'm happy to have been able to create some kind of coverage for several Finnish actors, singers, bands and other subjects who deserve a little bit of recognition in this project too, even if those articles have mostly remained more or less stubbish so far. Other than that, my contributions tend to be gnome-like fixes here and there, nothing spectacular enough to be raised above the rest of my maintenance work. I believe that preserving the current quality of content is equally important as creating new quality content, so to me it only seems logical that I have also filed over 2000 vandalism reports at AIV during my years here.
- 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: Apart from occasional misunderstandings that come with the territory when dealing with vandalism, I have not been in conflicts. This is largely because I avoid such situations and have never been drawn to unnecessary drama. Like for most volunteers, Wikipedia is just a hobby for me, something that I often do while I'm doing ten other things at the same time. I can see no reason to stress over a hobby. In real life, and online too, I always think before I act (or press preview before I hit the save button), which also significantly reduces my chances of getting into conflicts.
You may ask optional questions below. There is a limit of two questions per editor. Multi-part questions disguised as one question, with the intention of evading the limit, are disallowed. Follow-up questions relevant to questions you have already asked are allowed.
Discussion
- Links for Widr: Widr (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
- Edit summary usage for Widr can be found here.
Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review their contributions before commenting.
Support
- As nominator — MusikAnimal talk 18:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
- Incredible vandalism fighter, tireless for five years. In an ideal world all of our administrators would have written longer articles on major topics, participated extensively in AfD, etc. etc. etc., but sometimes well-lopsided is as good as well-rounded, and I trust that Widr will work on the parts of the encyclopedia that he knows best and take some of the admin responsibilities for vandalism fighting off admins who'd rather work on other parts of the site. -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 18:24, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
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