Voice your opinion Scheduled to end 16:42, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Adambro (talk · contribs) - Hi, I'm Adam. I first starting editing Wikipedia August 2004, between then and December 2006 I made a small number of contributions where I found articles I was reading that I could contribute to. From December 2006 onwards, I've taken a much more active role in Wikipedia and have found many different ways in which I can contribute when not writing article content. In particular, I enjoy fighting vandalism and find it very satisfying to know that my efforts are helping to protect the great work of my fellow contributors.
I do however, have a much wider experience than just vandal fighting. I partake in XFD discussions, monitor new pages, search for free images, and of course write content whenever I can. I feel the diverse range of activities I get involved in has given me a good understand of policy.
Whilst I'm slightly apprehensive about putting myself forward for adminship, I look forward to hearing the opinions of other editors, and I'm sure whatever the outcome, I'll have some useful feedback to improve my contributions further. Adambro 15:26, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. You may wish to answer the following optional questions to provide guidance for participants:
- 1. What admin work, if any, do you intend to take part in?
- A: I've spent a fair amount of my time on Wikipedia fighting vandalism and patrolling new pages and so these are certainly areas which I'm familar and would feel in a position to use the administrative tasks. I've also got my eye on the administrative backlog and would try to help with this where I could.
- 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
- A: Hopefully, I can be pleased of all of my contributions, but I do accept it is possible that I have made some mistakes and in those situations I've appreciated the assistance of other editors in highlighting appropriate guidelines or better approaches to problems.
- I am particularly pleased with my contributions to Grayrigg derailment. This article was a major news item at the time it was created and it was important to ensure that despite the rapidly changing circumstances that the article quality was maintained as additions were made. I've made a large number of edits to the article and feel that the addition of the photograph of the crash and my drawing showing the ___location are both of significant value. I spent time searching for an appropriate photograph and seeking permission from the photographer.
- I nominated the article for Good Article and it was successfully promoted. I'm proud of the contributions I've made and feel that they have aided its progression to GA status.
- 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
- A: I think it is important to recognise on Wikipedia that what makes the project great is the diverse backgrounds of our contributors. We all have something different which we can add and topics which we are more familar with. This does of course mean that there are also many different opinions and so it is inevitable that disagreements will occur.
- It is important when differences of opinions turn into disputes to look to the guidelines for assistance. They are of great importance to Wikipedia but I do of course appreciate that they shouldn't be considered as being set in stone and I shouldn't allow them to prevent me from making positive contributions.
- Whilst I have always regretted seeing discussions turn into arguments, often a case where editors try to get their point across by shouting the loudest, I do feel that attempting to resolve such arguments has helped develop my understanding of the guidelines and policies and how these work in practice.
- Ultimately, Wikipedia would suffer if I allowed myself to get stressed out about the project and so if I felt the quality of my contributions is suffering then I would take a break from editing or find different tasks to work on.
- General comments
- See Adambro's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.
Please keep criticism constructive and polite. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Adambro before commenting.
Discussion
Support
- Support - Has been very active in the last 5 months and with over 6700 Edits, he has good mainspace and user talk Edits...--Cometstyles 15:47, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Support - Experienced user w/ a clean block log. A vandal fighter indeed. -- FayssalF - Wiki me up ® 16:08, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Support A good candidate, no problems... Majorly (hot!) 16:15, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Edit-conflict Support Just browsed through your recent contributions and I see good things. You have done some great article work and have a fair understanding of the policies. Would've only liked to see a higher project-space count, though. —Anas talk? 16:17, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Support Good guy, level headed, trustworthy enough to know how to use the mop. -- Jreferee 16:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Support - a good editor and participates well in admin area's. Best of luck! My only concern is that you haven't got a wiki-project endorsement, but I suppose I can overlook that! Ryan Postlethwaite 16:50, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Oppose
Neutral