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Jreferee

Voice your opinion (talk page) (8/0/0); Scheduled to end 20:57, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Jreferee (talk · contribs) - It is my pleasure to nominate Jreferee to become an administrator here. He is an excellent article writer, and his close to 2,000 mainspace edits consolidate that fact (note - these are just about all content additions, not your run of the mill vandalism reverts). This shows his excellent understanding of our inclusion criteria. Jreferee was a very important player in Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment/Assessment Drive, helping to assess a lot of biographical articles, again, showing he understands what is important for an article - an administrator should know this, we are often expected to mediate content disputes, and without article knowledge, we would simply act as a hindrance rather than a help. He's a strong contributor to Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard, showing he is able to act against important BLP violations - at present however, he is limited by not having admin tools to protect pages and block violators. What I like about Jreferee are his active contributions to the help desk, helping new users to navigate their way around which shows a tendancy of Jreferee to always help people wherever he can, again, an important trait of an administrator that must respect our newer users at all times. I feel I have to mention in this nomination Jreferee's previous RfA which was unsuccessful in March. If anyone wasn't aware, Runcorn used sockpuppets in this discussion, which put the count out of the bureaucrats' discretion - if they had not commented, who knows, Jreferee may have been an admin already. It's important not to dwell on that issue, and when commenting on this RfA, you should look at whether Jreferee is right for adminship now, not was he before. I hope you can help me give this fine user the tools. Ryan Postlethwaite 20:57, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Co-nomination: (Mostly word-for-word copy of my nom from the first RfA) Jreferee is one of the most spectacular editors I have encountered in my time with the project. Since joining Wikipedia in October 2006, Jreferee has made great improvements to many parts of the encyclopedia, such as WP:DYK, WP:BLPN, WP Biography Assessment Drive, article mediation and a number of articles, and has participated in many activities that admin tools would be useful for (AIV, XfD, DRV, among others). From the moment I met Jreferee in January 2007, I knew he would be a great Wikipedian, who would even be greater as an administrator. I've waited a few months to nominate Jreferee only because other users oppose admin candidates who they feel are inexperienced. I feel Jreferee has demonstrated his experience and knowledge on Wikipedia (both articles and on policy) since the time he got here. Jreferee has demonstrated a great deal of responsibility and leadership in many of the activities he participates in, such as article writing and discussion, writing a simplified DYK policy to elucidate the mysteries and intricacies behind "Did you know...", leading the effort at WPBiography Assessment Drive to launch a drive to assess as many of the 130,000+ biographical articles still in the assessment backlog (by the way, feel free to help out this great cause). Jreferee has demonstrated a thorough knowledge for policy (and some policy writing), a good deal of XfD participation and WikiProject participation and even a bigger amount of article writing. Also, as Ryan mentioned, Jreferee could definitely use the tools to block BLP violators and protect pages in cases of BLP issues. P.S. If you want to know more about Jreferee, check out his userpage (what a coincidence? I could have sworn that was my userpage. ) where he has detailed many of the things he has done on Wikipedia. Nishkid64 (talk) 21:33, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Thank you. I accept. -- Jreferee (Talk) 23:40, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]


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 do you intend to take part in?
A: The new tools will help me address all the concerns at the BLPN board and ANI board. Right now, I can only address some of the concerns since I am unable to protect an article or block a user as the situation may dictate. I have addressed vandalism whenever I've run across it in articles and plan to use the tools to address matters at AIV and RFPP. With the tools, I plan to start closing XfDs and DRVs, clearing backlogs, provide sysop chores to DYK.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: I think my one of my best contributions is the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article that I wrote for WikiProject Biography ten days after my first Wikipedia edits. It still is there and I often provide a link to it on Biography talk pages when assessing Biography articles. I also am pleased with my success towards holding myself to a particular sourcing standard for articles. I do like to develop new Biography articles and post them as B class articles using in-line references after most sentences in the article. The articles in which I'm most happiest include Bradley Willman, Douglas A. Warner III, Disco D, and David Jack Holt. I also have provided significant content expansion and the organization structure to the Wikipedia:Did you know project page, the WikiProject Biography Spring 2007 Assessment Drive project page, and this project's page.
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 do not believe I have had any conflicts over editing since my first RfA that stand out. However, two stood out prior to my first RfA and were brought up in that RfA. In the first instance, I had a dispute with Rebecca in November 2006, which was a little over a month after my first edit on Wikipedia. This subsequently included CJ when she tried to mediate the matter. Basically, I responded poorly to Rebecca's edit summary in reverting my post in an article she created. In the second instance, Tractorkingsfan rightlyfully was upset when I implied in a March 2007 ANI post that he and another editor may be the same person without really justifying such a statement. The incident I was reporting was not directly related to Tractorkingsfan and, on reflection, I should have merely report the incident in the ANI board rather than advocate for outcome. My March 2007 RfA#1 provides more details on both these matters, but I believe that they have accepted my apologies and that we all put the matter behind us. From my November 2006 conflict, I've learned be more tolerant of newcomers to Wikipedia since their perspectives of how things should be handled inside Wikipedia largely will be from outside of Wikipedia. Since that time, if I do not understand the reasons why one of my edits were reverted, I usually try to discuss the matter with the person making the reversion to try to come to an agreement on the best course of action.

General comments

RfAs for this user:

Please keep criticism constructive and polite. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Jreferee before commenting.

Discussion

Support

  1. Support as co-nominator. Nishkid64 (talk) 23:18, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Strong support as nominator. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:41, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Strong support I supported last time, I'm strongly supporting now. Jreferee is an excellent user. Acalamari 23:44, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support per noms, candidate's overall record, and the fact that he should have passed last time. Newyorkbrad 23:47, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Strong Support valuable user, understands what the tools are for. — OcatecirT 23:49, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support I supported on the previous RfA and I think that this user as only gotten better since then. Captain panda 23:50, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Strong Support, should've been an admin last time. (Then again I was a nom last time, so maybe that's biased.)--Wizardman 23:56, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Edit-conflict support (that must be a good sign, right?): Valuable contributions at WP:BLP/N, AfD's, and elsewhere, and I think the tools would be useful for what he does. MastCell Talk 23:57, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Neutral

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