Final (183/42/16); ended 17:00, 1 January 2019 (UTC) Maxim(talk) 17:00, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
JJMC89 ( talk · contribs) – Please take some time out of this last week of the year to consider granting me access to the administrator tools. Since starting to edit in 2015 as a vandal fighter, I have accumulated over 160,000 edits. I'm an ACC admin nearing 10,000 accounts created ( public record), a bot operator, and an OTRS agent.
Some of you may not know me since I don't go out of my way to make myself known. I'm a no fuss, no muss kind of guy who just wants to do the job. I am asking the community for access to the tools because I would like to help, and the recent RfA trend isn't promising.
Disclosures: If granted the tools, I will enable 2FA. I have never edited any Wikimedia projects for pay. My other accounts (bots) are listed on my user page.
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the main purpose of Wikipedia is creating new content." No. That is just one of the "main purposes" here. Another one is the equally important article maintenance. Ensuring that the almost 5.8 million articles already created have been properly written, and formatted, and sourced, and are copy-vio free, etc., etc., along with keeping them vandal free and neutral during disputes. And that's just a few of the many myriad tasks limited to admins. Even if this editor never creates another article, do you really beleive he can't perform many of the the other admin-only tasks, to the benefit of the project? Or, let's keep this short and simple, if made an admin, do you think he will abuse, neglect or be incompetent with the tools as require having them revoked? (and therefore necessitate an 'oppose' !vote?) Please give all this some consideration before you lean all the way to oppose. Thanks - wolf 04:43, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
My RfA is the one thing that I can control the timing of on Wikipedia, and I have the extra time to dedicate to RfA this week.I'm sorry, this just doesn't feel like something that the candidate has made a priority. Although I've not gone through an RFA, I've had enough similar experiences to understand how stressful and un-fun it can be, and I understand the desire to see it over as quickly as possible. However, this is the one week where you need to be accessible and engaged, and I just haven't seen that with this candidate. That being said, I am definitely not opposing, because ultimately I'm perfectly fine with them having the tools. CThomas3 ( talk) 20:36, 31 December 2018 (UTC)