Malo (
talk·contribs) – Malo has been a member of Wikipedia for more than a year now, and has been heavily active since August. In that time he has amassed more than 6,000 edits. Malo is a tireless vandal fighter. More appropriately, he's a vandal's worst nightmare. He's a vandal fighting machine with more than 25% of his edits in reverting vandalism. Just over the last two weeks alone, he has received 11 thank yous on this talk page (funny one
[1]) for vandalism reverts, and received multiple awards for his efforts. He is not afraid to step in and fight vandals on contentious, frequently vandalized articles such as
George W. Bush,
Adolf Hitler and
Scientology. In addition to reverting vandalism, he takes the time to place test messages on appropriate pages, having made more than 600 test message placements in his time here. This is an oft overlooked step even by admins, and can do much to help foster new users. He is calm with vandals (
[2],
[3],
[4]), frequently signs for others (especially anon-IPs) (
[5]) and often explains his reverts (
[6],
[7],
[8]). He has demonstrated willingness to generate and defer to consensus (
[9],
[10]), requests and uses sources for information (
[11],
[12],
[13]), and remains focused on
NPOV (
[14]). He also frequently thanks others for their efforts (
[15],
[16],
[17]). In his editing, he has used edit summaries 99% of the time. He has contributed extensively to
United States Navy articles, having made more than 1900 contributions in that arena. He has also uploaded more than 150 images and uses image tags appropriately. It's time to hand him the mop & bucket, as he's doing so much vandal fighting already and doing it very well. --
Durin 20:49, 13 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Thank you for the very well researched nomination, Durin, I accept. --
malo(tlk)(cntrbtns) 00:57, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support
Support per above. --
Durin 20:50, 13 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support per nom. --
pgk(
talk) 21:45, 13 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support per nom. Great vandal fighter
Olorin28 01:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support I could have sworn he had a mop already
File Éireann 01:08, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Strong support obvious to me.
Gator(talk) 01:09, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Definitely deserves to be an admin.--
Shanel 01:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Strong Support, Great vandal whacker! Calm editor, would mop in circles instead of back and forth! --
негіднийлють(
Reply|
Spam Me!*|
RfS) 01:37, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support, so he can stop posting to
WP:AIAV and do it himself :).--
Sean|
Black 01:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Wow - Support.
BD2412T 05:03, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Any nomination by Durin shouldbe good enough for anyone!--May the Force be with you!
Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 05:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support <Insert tired clich'e here> I really thoguht he was one.
KnowledgeOfSelf |
talk 05:44, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. All these great users are making me feel inadequate! Seriously, Malo has done nothing but good work here.
Raven4x4x 06:05, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Mass annihilates vandals but doesn't insult them. btw, my heart stopped for a second when I did not read the last four words in the previous support vote ;-) --
Gurubrahma 06:45, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support: --
Bhadani 06:55, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Good and responsible contributor.
Sjakkalle(Check!) 07:11, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Clear as crystal support. ナイトスタリオン✉ 11:23, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support - sounds like me. Or at least what I think I'm like :). Huge amounts of edits, very regular, and goes the extra mile. Way too many links in the intro to ignore.
Zordrac(talk)Wishy WashyDarwikinianEventualist 18:58, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support - thought he already was an admin.
Izehar (
talk) 19:56, 14 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support, people have to start telling me whether they're admins or not, because I really thought he was one.
Titoxd(
?!? -
did you read this?) 01:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Malo gets my support. We need more like him ("malo" means "bad" in Spanish, bad news for the vandals when he gains access to the flamethrower)
≈ jossi fresco ≈t •
@ 04:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support for all reasons stated above. I thought you were already one! :(
Mo0[
talk] 04:25, 15 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Malo + sysop mop = Bueno!--
cjllw |
TALK 05:19, 15 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Give him the flamethrower!
the wub"?!" 00:28, 17 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support. Does great work.
delldot |
talk 01:48, 17 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support; excellent work; often encounter him while on RC patrol.
Antandrus (talk) 05:40, 17 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Support, I was thinking of opposing him just because the Oppose part was looking really lonely. But I can't oppose a great editor like this.
Croat Canuck 06:10, 17 December 2005 (UTC)reply
Strong support: brilliant vandalwhacker, while I was on RCP last night, he was really active, and beat me to it 50% of the time Sceptre(Talk) 12:56, 17 December 2005 (UTC)reply
A. At the top of my list would be blocking presistant vandals as they often waste a great deal of other users time. I have often used
WP:AIV for requests of intervention, and I would also help there. You can almost always find me in the
WP:CVU IRC channel, even when not vandal fighting, and making other contributions. I would also be more interested in helping more with AfD's and checking through
WP:CSD. I am also interested in
WP:CV, as I feel that copyrights are too often overlooked, and must be addressed.
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
A. I have made a decent size list of some of "my articles" at
User:Malo/Contributions. Some of those that I am especially pleased with are my contributions to:
Henry Clay Drexler a person I knew nothing about before reading some old ship logs
Eugene - I turned this article from a redirect into a disambig page, and it has grown.
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. Yes, back in early October, I was randomly looking for articles that were flawed in some way or another and then I'd try to do my best to fix them or clean up in some way. One of these was
Henry Schlacks. I tagged this article for a {{
nn-bio}} tag and shortly there after
User:Kelly Martinleft me a message about it. This is not my proudest moment on wikipedia, let me tell you all. My response was not typical of my attitude, and in response I did accuse this admin of being biased due to her association with a Wikiproject. While the issue never escalated, it has been on my mind. In hind-sight, the experience taught me to keep a cool and level head and not to take such edits too personally. I am not free of all fault, however I take each mistake that I make and learn from it. This one incident has been the biggest stress of mine on wikipedia. I have dealt with other minor issues in regards to editing conflicts with other users, in which I am a fan of the
WP:1RR policy, as it helps to avoid unnecessary conflict.
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page. No further edits should be made to this page.