User:MBisanz/AC
Candidate statement
Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:
- 1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?
- A: There are a couple of areas I've identified that I'd like to take part in:
- First, I think there is a backlog at WP:AFDthat I could assist with in closing articles per community consensus.
- Second, I'm a grad student and keep odd hours. I've seen situations where a user need the immediate intervention of an admin, such as WP:CSDand protect pages undergoing edit wars, pending community discussion.
- Third, some of our noticeboards seem to be underused and/or under-monitored (ANI, I'd try and make myself available to either comment, or more seriously, delete blatantly inappropriate content (more applicable of COIN than UPH/HD).
- 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
- A: Well my best contributions would be over at WP:NFC.
- As far as new content creation, I've written some short articles, improve others through wikifying, etc. I have 1 DYK so far and hope to work on more. I feel I'm better at content manipulation (arrangement, splitting, re-writing) than I am at creation, so I tend to focus in that area.
- Also, I've authored a couple of proposals, the most noteworthy of which to be approved was a change to Wikipedia:Upload (with User:Remember the dot's help) that encourages users to better comply with our copyright policies. Also, I re-designed the top nav-bar used on admin pages to reduce AN/ANI traffic hopefully.
- A: Well my best contributions would be over at
- 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: Sure, almost everytime I try to save a major noticeboard page me and MediaWiki have it out :) Seriously though, I don't think I've been involved in anything that would be a significant conflict (at least nothing that caused me stress or lack of sleep). Have I and other editors disagreed over material?; yes, have we stopped respecting each other or seeking dialogue?; no. In particular, at WP:MEDCABand have a couple of cases under my belt, so I think I can handle everyday wiki-admin-conflict.
- A: Sure, almost everytime I try to save a major noticeboard page me and MediaWiki have it out :) Seriously though, I don't think I've been involved in anything that would be a significant conflict (at least nothing that caused me stress or lack of sleep). Have I and other editors disagreed over material?; yes, have we stopped respecting each other or seeking dialogue?; no. In particular, at
Statements look good.
Non-admin stuff
I've created some article
looks good
Admin stuff
Well I have Rollback and have used it maybe half a dozen times. I proposed the most recent change to the top navbar of
IMHO this fuss over rollback is silly. All it does is let you do in one click what regular users do in 3. Plus some of the wiki addins give users defacto rollback. But for RFA purposes, when should you use rollback? -- (the correct answer is also silly to me but)
Rollback should only be used for clear, undisputable vandalism. It should not be used in a content dispute or for comments that while removalable, aren't clear vandalism (POV, BLP, etc).
that's the politically correct answer, now what do you really think?
I think Rollback can work in certain other situations. I've used it on my own edits when i do something stupid (like re-prodding an already declined article). Also, I think it has the potential to be used in broader contexts, say when an editor keeps reinserting the same BLP issue or if an editor banned from an area decides to start violating that ban. Outside of that, I really don't see a problem with clicking undo and trping "POV-P" or "RVV". I have a nice 3 year old computer and am by no means a "power editor" so the ability to use scripts or pre-load stuff, really doesn't apply. MBisanz talk 04:20, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Prior coaching
User:Academic Challenger was my first coach and provided a good sounding board when I had questions on how to respond to a user or how to handle a difficult situation. AC was not that experienced with image editing, so as I expanded into corporate logo FURs, he wasn't as able to help there, but was very helpful in reviewing some of my proposals for improvements to the software.
What did he say you still needed to work on?
He didn't say. It was more of a hands-off coaching of asking a question when I had one.
Ask me whenever you need too
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I think you should expand your admin areas a bit. Take a look at
Cases
See this diff
Always check their block log first, this happens a lot! If they have an RFCU tag showing, check that too
When I got to this, action already taken--2 named accts indef (by other admins), IP one week (by me), but your idea of a RFCU is well within the reasonable here.
Jehochman had closed this saying he blocked and tagged all, but he didn't, I had to finish it, including blocking the master, fixed his sloppy work. Yes, most of this was in deleted contribs, so you couldn't do a full check on this til you are an admin.
These were already blocked and tagged too, but one had two tags, which you can do with only one, so I fixed that. Correct that 217 should be blocked as an admitted sock, but I wouldn't hesitate to block 117 (if he weren't already) as if you look at his confirmed sock cat, it's full of socks, so he's a clear abusive puppeteer. It was also still open so I archived it.
SOMETIMES YOU GET THIS, check it out: Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/RobJ1981 what are your thoughts on the outcome of this case? were you surprised the submitter was the bad guy?
- Actually I'm not that surprised that the submitter was the bad guy, maybe that he was a sock, but the first giveaway was "I'm a regular editor and need to avoid on-wikipedia harassment from possible socks or proxy editors." Thats what we have OTRS, private emails, etc for. The second flag was 195 diffs. An experienced user should be able to make their point in under 100 diffs (Arbcom's limit). And I know DGG and if he says some of the diffs were wrong, then I'm going to trust his word. Overall a fishy submission to me. Not fishy enough to make the connection to the submitter being a sock (maybe a vandal or real-life adversary), but def not actionable as an SSP report. MBisanz talk 21:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
New round
How many edits do you have now? What do you feel you need to work on prior to RFA? Well I owe Keilana these CSD examples:
- V e records A7
- Axioms-the building blocks of Mathematics G1
- Bhagwan Baba G12
- Ellie Gray G12
- Trevor MacDonald Band A7
And here is my Interiot:
- Category talk: 5
- Category: 7
- Help talk: 3
- Help: 6
- Image talk: 2
- Image: 595
- Mainspace 4848
- MediaWiki talk: 1
- Portal talk: 1
- Portal: 6
- Talk: 274
- Template talk: 16
- Template: 10
- User talk: 758
- User: 145
- Wikipedia talk: 175
- Wikipedia: 744
- avg edits per page 1.30
- earliest 04:03, 21 July 2005
- number of unique pages 5829
- total 7596
I'd like to learn a bit more of
I'm also sort of "busy" over at User:East718/DFUI/Logos fighting a losing battle to sort and save as many fairuse logos as can be saved. Gaaa! another 5,000 just got tagged. MBisanz talk 23:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
You've got plenty of edits for RFA. I suggest you learn a little about COIN and Abuse reports and then go for it. Let me know if you have questions.
- Well lets see, read over Abuse Reports and figured out they really don't matter unless there is a blaring notice on a users talk page. And I personally disagree with the COI policy to the point that I'll probably limit myself to commenting on cases and not actually using admin powers in them. Gonna take a stab at updating my candidate statement MBisanz talk 03:30, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- Well I'm about to tackle a large project with Betacommand which should take about a week or so. Maybe a mid-February RFA would be good. Looking at Wikipedia:RFA#Rjd0060's RFA, do you forsee any similar problems, vis-a-vie his four opposes? MBisanz talk03:37, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- Well I'm about to tackle a large project with Betacommand which should take about a week or so. Maybe a mid-February RFA would be good. Looking at
Who/What is BC? — Rlevse • Talk • 19:30, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- 19:32, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I'm ready to go up whenever my coaches all give the ok. MBisanz talk 18:53, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
- You're ready, IMHO. I'm sorry I haven't been more active, but I'd be happy to write a conom.