Final (122/21/6); Closed by X! on 20:23, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Tim Song ( talk · contribs) – I will keep this brief, contrary to my natural inclination to use too many words. Tim Song is a dedicated user, contributing to both mainspace and the internal operations of Wikipedia. Tim Song is an active checkuser clerk, so naturally the tools would help there. He has also contributed greatly to Articles for creation and stub maintenance. The user also actively works in other helpful maintenance, up to and including counter vandalism work and helping new users. I am confident that Tim is ready to further assist in maintaining the encyclopedia with expanded use of the tools available. Keegan ( talk) 05:26, 4 March 2010 (UTC) reply
Tim Song contributes extensively at DRV and I have always been extremely impressed by his calm and respectful demeanour and the sensible policy based approach that he takes to reviewing deletions that places a premium on preserving content and helping new users through the DRV process. What I like is that he will often spend time after a deletion has been endorsed trying to guide the user through creating an acceptable userspace draft. I looked at nominating Tim for adminship a couple of months back but he asked me to wait. Coming in late to the RFA gives me an opportunity to comment on some of the opposes and I wanted to ask those opposing for lack of mainspace contributions to consider the following. We rightly consider candidates with limited mainspace experiences more carefully because writing effectively in mainspace is hard and admins need to be sensitive to this and have an understanding of how uncaring and discouraging deleting content that someone has spent time and energy working on can be. I genuinely believe this isn't an issue with Tim Song - he seeks to preserve content where he can, he works with new users to help them do userspace drafts and is sympathetic and helpful. He is the least bity editor I regularly interact with. Spartaz Humbug! 18:49, 5 March 2010 (UTC) reply
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For BLP AfDs in general, my view is that one really ought to do one's best to discern the rough consensus - just because the consensus is not easily determined does not necessarily mean one cannot discern a "leaning" from the AfD. If the AfD appears to lean towards delete - even though there is arguably no consensus - I would close it as delete. But if there is a thorough lack of consensus, then "no consensus" would be the only possible option. As to what I would do on a no consensus, I would default to whatever the policy provides for at the time of the closure (currently keep).
DYK is important in several ways. It provides recognition in a fairly lightweight process, and therefore serves as a good incentive to create new articles of a reasonable quality, and to expand existing short articles - in short, the creation of new content. Further, by placing links to newly created articles on the main page along with an (ideally) attention-grabbing hook, it encourages our readers to read and perhaps improve them, and become editors rather than just readers.
Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Tim Song before commenting.
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However, I am concerned about the very speed with which Tim Song picked up Wiki-culture, and with the fact that he has never to my knowledge expressed a controversial view. There's a nasty, suspicious part of me that thinks that if I, knowing what I know now, created a new account specifically in order to become an admin, its edits would look a lot like Tim Song's.
My previous remark is unfair, because if Tim Song is innocent of this there is no way for him to prove it; and it utterly fails to assume good faith; so I cannot in good conscience oppose this, but I am afraid I'm too suspicious to support.— S Marshall Talk/ Cont 16:07, 8 March 2010 (UTC) reply