FINAL (83/1/1); closed 18:09, 16 August 2008 (UTC) by EVula
Paul Erik ( talk · contribs) - This editor has been around since January 2007, during this time he has amassed over 12 thousand edits spread through many areas of Wikipedia. A dedicated content builder he has created dozens of article some of which are quite sizable. Civility is no weak point either and he is well able to handle himself calmly in a dispute.
His best work (outside of the article space of course) is at AFD where he has contributed too what must be hundreds of deletion debates and performed many correct non-admin closures. He puts a great deal of thought into his votes and has not in a long time used any of the arguments at WP:AADD. Something that I found quite impressive about his work at AFD is that he consistently works to save articles from deletion (a list of article that he believes he has saved by cleaning them up and adding sources can be found here) and when he votes keep in an AFD, he actually works on the article afterwords. He also has a strong background in anti-vandalism work although he seems to have slowed down recently (of his 71 AIV reports the last one was two months ago). He does not a prolific amount of experience in other areas but of what I looked at he seems to know what he is doing; as far as I could tell every single one of his RFPP and UAA reports were actioned upon and I have yet to find a CSD tag of his that was declined.
If Paul become an admin I would expect he will continue to work quietly and unobtrusively in the background steadily helping to chip away at the admin backlogs. He has shown consistent good judgment and more than enough clue. No problems here. - Icewedge ( talk) 06:13, 9 August 2008 (UTC) reply
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