Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Minimac

Minimac

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (0/0/0); Scheduled to end 08:47, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Nomination

Minimac (talk · contribs) – OK. I am going to try and nominate myself for adminship here. I've been around since October 2009, and since then have made over 10,000 edits. I spent lots of time doing admin related activies including rollback, page protection requests, AFD, reporting bad usernames (Including a spam username too. [1]) and I hope the tools will help me here. In terms of deletion I've done a terrific job recognising that Breut Carmen was a hoax article, and also that the Whoa Nellie Deli was kept as not being an advertising article. In terms of demonstrating my understanding policies I have created 20 articles and have done 2 GA Reviews too. I hope the community agrees. Minimac (talk) 08:00, 11 September 2010 (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 would like to take part in WP:RFPP, WP:AIV and also have a look at the deletion backlog category, where I can challenge, or support the deletion. I may also want to have to go at the unblock requests. Speaking of removal of editing privileges I once had my rollback rights revoked in early January, but since then, I have given an appropriate reason for my actions and thus, had the right restored by an admin.

2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?

A: In terms of the encyclopaedia I have recently started to work in the sections category of the Wikipedia backlog. I think my expansion of lead sections may have been the most notable of them all, because lead sections generalise the points about the subject for example what makes the person notable, and what actions did he/she do. In terms of writing all the articles I created are stubs. My writing skills are not as good as some of the other users around the community. I'm also proud of my GA Reviews too, because it give other editors an idea of what points I have concerns with have to be sorted.

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: I have only been in a couple of minor disputes but I haven't shown any uncivil responses or been in any disputes which relate to stress. I had a little dispute with User:Lambtron about what maintenance templates should be kept in the Crossfit article while it was already semi-protected, which was eventually resolved. I had my proposed edit in the Berkhamsted article reverted by another editor, and while the reverter discussed the action on the talk page, I didn't respond. Sometimes I feel that it's better not to respond if you don't know what to say. The most recent one I joined into was a dispute related to an infobox in one of the featured articles (Don't know which one it was, I will try to find it soon). I once re-added it, but then supported the removal as being unsourced. In terms of stress, the only big stress I usually have is vandals after I revert their actions. The vandal that caused me the biggest stress was 24.215.121.145 in which after it vandalised Kevin Gallant it also vandalised my userpage, which I've never discovered before. Next time I get into such a big stressful state I will try to get of the computer and talk a walk outside or something like that.

General comments

• Links for Minimac: Minimac (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for Minimac can be found here.

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Discussion

• I don't know how to add edit stats, could someone help me here (If possible?) Minimac (talk) 09:13, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
  • It'd help if you created User:Minimac/EditCounterOptIn.js first, with whatever content you like. sonia♫ 09:22, 11 September 2010 (UTC)