Malathion (
talk·contribs) - Anyone who has been on RC patrol or has been on IRC has definitely seen this guy around. He's been here since August 26, 2004 (almost a year now) and has really kicked it up the past couple of months. He's friendly, warns users a lot more than I do and most definitely will wear down [rollback] button. I'm sure he has already worn out a couple of mice clicking to revert and a couple of "{", "d" and "}" keys speedying nonsense and vanity and other non-Wikipedia pages for deletion. He's also really nice and helpful and would (in my humblefool opinion) make a great administrator in the mediation aspects. So based on that, I hereby declare my nomination for
Malathion to be let onboard the Wikipedia adminship.
Sasquatch′↔
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C 06:49, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept the nomination. Thanks. :-) --
malathiontalk 06:54, 3 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support
Support, of course, per reasons above.
Sasquatch′↔
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C 06:51, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
Damnit!!! I just wrote IM FIRST!! ~~~~ with speed... but then a conflict came and sasquatch beat me and... yeah who cares.
Redwolf24 06:51, 3 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Though reluctantly: this will mean I have far less to do on RC/NP patrol, and what else am I going to do with a Friday night? :)
Splash 18:33, 3 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support, a vital part of our community, participates in VfD, and tags articles. Worthy of admim powers. —
Stevey7788 (
talk) 22:48, 4 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Support, good user. :)
Func(
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Support WP can always use another high-caliber janitor. :-)
TomerTALK 01:19, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
Could do fine work with the M-16 recoilless nuclear Gatling mop -
David Gerard 06:12, 5 August 2005 (UTC)reply
For those who want numbers
Kate says about 1800 edits as of this RfA (not counting the countless speedy tags).
Sasquatch′↔
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C 06:55, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
Update: That's 2120 in the closing minutes, or about 320 since this RfA was launched.
Rob Church 02:25, 9 August 2005 (UTC)reply
Questions for the candidate A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
A. I've spent a lot of time on RC patrol lately, so I expect that being a sysop would allow me to resolve serious vandalism problems, or delete nonsense articles, without having to beg someone in
#en.wikipedia.vandalism to do it. I am also very interested in helping to close VfD's if and whenever there is a backlog.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. My first major Wiki project was doing great deal of reorganizing and rewriting of
Bobby Fischer. It just missed FAC, but I'm still pretty happy with the improvements I was able to make to it. I'm also working on improving bio stubs of a lot of chess players. I started the
WikiProject: Moral philosophy recently, and I'm working on several rewrites of moral philosophy articles that I feel are in very bad shape. Outside of the article space, I wrote a lengthy (attempted) explanation of Wiki philosophy to
Christopher Rose (because I was afraid that such a distinguished and well-educated scientist would be scared away by our unorthodox ways) on his
talk page.
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. Being a regular RC patroller makes my userspace a regular target of vandalism. Mostly, I revert and ignore it, because such users are generally blocked soon anyway. I was involved in a successful RFC and RfA against
Alfrem (
talk·contribs) over
Libertarianism, which has been resolved successfully
[1]. I've also been involved in some heated debate over the
Race and intelligence article and I'm happy to think that some of my comments there have helped to cool things down, or explain one point of view to the other camp
[2][3]. However, in the future I would like to concentrate more on trying to resolve disputes, so that everyone can get on with making an encyclopedia.