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Natalya
Final (95/2/2) ending 19:31, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Barnstar Brigade, Natalya can be found resolving disputes and differences of opinon among editors, working on disambiguation link repair or at the help desk. Natalya is one of the respected editors among the community and I am a better editor because of her. Best of luck, Highway Rainbow Sneakers 16:32, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply
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- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I am truly honored to accept this nomination. -- Natalya 17:27, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support
- Beat the nominator support Looks good to me!--digital_me(t/c) 17:35, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Nominator was busy support Highway Rainbow Sneakers 17:36, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Wanted to beat the nominator, but got too tied up Support Excellent editor. --Srikeit(talk ¦ ✉) 17:52, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Appears to be a solid editor. Use of edit summaries to describe MoS:DP edits seems to communicate an awareness of and attention to Wikipedia's editing guidelines. Articulate answers to questions below. -- backburner001 17:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support solid contributor, very reasonable. older ≠ wiser 17:59, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, certainly. Sarge Baldy 18:22, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, of course! haz (user talk) 18:42, 26 May 2006
- Very Strong Support. Natalya is one of the friendliest users on Wikipedia.
HeShe has a deep understanding of Wikipedia policy, guidelines, and customs, as evidenced byhisher frequent contributions to the new contributors' help page. --TantalumTelluride 19:03, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]- No offence, but Natalya is a girl. Highway Rainbow Sneakers 19:06, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Yep - tis true! -- Natalya 19:08, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Um, I knew that. I just wanted to make sure you were paying attention. --TantalumTelluride 19:25, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Yep - tis true! -- Natalya 19:08, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- No offence, but Natalya is a girl. Highway Rainbow Sneakers 19:06, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. Have seen her work around, think she deserves it. (and yes, girls/women at wikipeida are often referred to as he, o well)-- Kim van der Linde at venus 19:18, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. The answers given to the questions below are very good. Rje 19:20, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support very civil and experienced. Also very fun to talk to if the subject is ginormous puffins. :P Master of Puppets That's hot. 19:53, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support per good answers to questions below and good work in various cleanup tasks. The informal mediation at the Good Articles page shows a very positive attitude and an ability to help people reach consensus. --Elkman 19:55, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support never seen this user, but I like the name... Grue 20:23, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- --Gangsta-Easter-Bunny 20:25, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- There is a consensus developing that voting icons should be kept off RfAs. See talk page. Stephen B Streater 09:06, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support; great answers and always a good user. smurrayinchester (Talk) 20:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support before it officially becomes a pile-on. Great work. I look forward to meeting you over on Petros471 21:06, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- The nominator said "active since January 2006", but I've seen Natalya around before that. Easy support. Redux 21:21, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong Support on WHEELS!!! Friendly user. Will be an asset to the project. Case Closed. --D-Day on WHEELS!!! 21:23, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Strongest possible support. Natalya is an extremely courteous Wikipedian, active on RC patrol, and the mediation at WP:GAN left me completely impressed. She has done a bulk of the boring, repetitive and thankless work of disambiguating pages, and has good contributions to the article namespace. I don't have any reservations as to her preparedness for the position. Titoxd(?!? - help us) 21:31, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. Looks good to me. Great contributor to the whole Wikipedia community and would benefit being admin. G.He 21:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support per G.He. —Khoikhoi
- Strong support. I was thinking of nominating her myself... --Tone 22:59, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. Great user. DarthVader 23:35, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Merovingian {T C @} 00:52, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support.Liked answers to questions.. :) Dlohcierekim 01:16, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, has made excellent contributions to disambiguation pages and MoS:DAB discussions. --Muchness 01:31, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Good user, good answers to questions. Garion96 (talk) 02:05, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support A great user. --Siva1979Talk to me 02:32, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - meets my standards -- Tawker 02:34, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. Quick study, well-rounded, shows a particular aptitude for communication. RadioKirk talk to me 02:53, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, great user, answers are excellent, she isn't one?? --e Ong 03:00, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Robert 03:34, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, definitely. Sango123 (e) 04:11, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support!! A great team-player and a positive force everywhere she goes. Kukini 04:39, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. A little low on edits, perhaps, but they do appear to be of good quality. As a huge plus, she appears to be a tireless contributer to one of the less-sexy aspects of editing (to some, at least). Although i have no personal experience of interaction with her, she seems like a solid candidate. Thats good enough for me. Rockpocket -talk- 06:54, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. Calm, rational editor with a gift for putting out flames and smoothing out troubles. Good answers to questions below. The extra buttons would be well used and used well by her. ➨ ]
- Support: As someone who spreads goodwill throughout WP, it looks like she will be an asset as an Admin. Stephen B Streater 11:11, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Without reservation, Natalya is a supurb admin candidate (there's been a few on RfA of late hasnt there?) Strong support indeed. -- Banez 12:29, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support--Jusjih 14:19, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support looks good. ShortJason 14:44, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak support changed from neutral. Computerjoe's talk 15:59, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I thought she was already an admin! Civil, dedicated, I'm sure she would handle tough situations very well. I liked her answers too, they back up her great record.-- The ikiroid 16:18, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Enthusiastic Support. Tons of good edits, and the answers to the questions clinch it. Clearly a thoughtful asset to Wikipedia. Pass her a mop. --HughCharlesParker (talk - contribs) 16:21, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support The Gerg 16:29, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Jay(Reply) 17:34, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong support - she has some very good people skills, enabling her to handle conflicts very well and deflating them before they get a chance to heat up. That, and the fact that I think she's been 'around' enough to get a good grasp on policy and the places and people to go to if she has dobuts, makes me very confident to support her. --JoanneB 17:53, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Natalya is a extremely good contributor, with lots of good edits to her credit. She has also displayed calm and level headedness. With such peerless qualities, she deserves to be an admin. Jordy 18:00, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Plain old support - she deserves it. Phaedriel ♥ tell me - 18:18, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. Meant to do this last night. Has always been polite and insightful on talk. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 20:44, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Superfragilisticexpialidocious support -
Diabolical(Heh heh!) Excellent editor. Kilo-Lima|(talk) 20:50, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply] - Support ]
- Strong support - she is really, really lovely. She kind of has this aura of civility, good practice and niceness that you don't get often. She's always patient, considerate, helpful and friendly to everyone and makes a much better Esperanzian than I am or ever will be. She really does put the rest of us to shame. Now, we're going to corrupt her by handing her the AdminPowersTM. How awful of us. --Celestianpower háblame 22:19, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, why the fuck not? robchurch | talk 01:45, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Looks like an excellent user. Meets my specifications, and I would trust with admin tools. ~Linuxerist]
- Support. I only have positive things to say about this user. RyanGerbil10 02:40, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- wat's sup 03:38, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 04:24, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Great user, excellent potential for admin, good luck! gidonb 04:27, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. Looks like a good candidate. Nephron T|C 04:42, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Oh yes please! Big fan.;-) —Encephalon 05:06, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong support. What is there to say? She'll make a great one. ]
- Support avec plaisire - ]
- Strong Support I've seen only good things from this user. Friendly and committed to the project. The Halo (talk) 10:40, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Happy-Birthday-why-isn't-she-yet?-support! ]
- Support Captainj 14:51, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- --ⁿɡ͡b talk 15:02, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support OMIGAWDAGURL- I mean... Looks like an excellent editor. *cough* Yes... :) Should make for a great admin. Staxringold 17:50, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - This lady owns the Esperanza alert page (uh, in a good way). Encouraging and helpful to others. She'll do well with admin tools. Tijuana BrassE@ 18:39, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support of course.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 01:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Super strong suppport. Incredible asset and will make good use of the tools. .:.Jareth.:. babelfish 02:17, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Does a responsible all round job, including detailed attention to e.g. disambiguation link repair Tyrenius 02:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- --GeorgeMoney T·C 05:46, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Per Robchurch... among others. More candidates like this one please!™ Support ++Lar: t/c 06:05, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. -]
- Support: --Ahonc (Talk) 08:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support--blue520 09:06, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support – will make a great administrator – Gurch 10:27, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support X 14:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support: --Bhadani 16:35, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support You've got the respect of some hard-to-please people behind you already. My standards are pretty light in comparison. ~Kylu (u|t) 00:22, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, I've seen good and friendly work. +sj + 03:40, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Nobleeagle (Talk) 05:19, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Piling On Support excellent editor, well worthy of mopping up MLA 09:33, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support! Very friendly person. --Fang Aili talk 13:09, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Lapinmies 18:22, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support per nom. Royboycrashfan 20:40, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support: good editor. Jonathunder 20:47, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Joe I 22:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support the lemon picture on her user page sold me (just kidding; good candidate) — ßottesiηi (talk) 23:48, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support per RjE. Kalani [talk] 09:00, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Big green plus sign image. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 21:26, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support - Calm, cool and collected. Knows how to calm down nasty Esperanzans when necessary. --Richard 06:30, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support I thought she was already (a great) admin. --Zoz (t) 13:02, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. Not a lot of edits, but well-rounded. --]
- Extremely Strong Support Natalya is an extremely friendly member. She made me decide not to leave this project. We need admins who bind the Wikipedian community together. Without the wikipedia community, this project would be doomed. Anonymous_anonymous_Have a Nice Day 12:54, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose
- Not enough experience for me. SushiGeek 01:37, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Useless oppose, just doesn't meet my standards of experience. Stifle (talk) 00:06, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral
Neutral leaning support some more experience, edit and time wise, and I'll be happy. I would love to see more experience in the Image and Template namespace. Computerjoe's talk 19:23, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]- Changed to Weak support. Computerjoe's talk 15:59, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Doesn't pass Mailer Diablo 16:39, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- May I ask what aspect she fails? Highway Rainbow Sneakers 21:04, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Likely that I haven't worked towards getting at least one article to FA status, as the standard is stated. -- Natalya 21:10, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Do you fail 1FA if you wrote an entire FAC article by yourself, but can't get it promoted because the community doesn't respect you and makes a mockery of your FAC? Highway Rainbow Sneakers 21:12, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I presume you are referring to the frustrations of trying to get Mailer Diablo 14:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I presume you are referring to the frustrations of trying to get
- Do you fail 1FA if you wrote an entire FAC article by yourself, but can't get it promoted because the community doesn't respect you and makes a mockery of your FAC? Highway Rainbow Sneakers 21:12, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Likely that I haven't worked towards getting at least one article to FA status, as the standard is stated. -- Natalya 21:10, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- May I ask what aspect she fails? Highway Rainbow Sneakers 21:04, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Neutral an exceptional part of the community, seems very friendly and approachable, and a great facilitator with respect to dispute resolution. I just would have liked to have seen her edit more substantially in the mainspace in terms of article content. I see that as an important part of understanding content as part of the encyclopedia. Thanks -- Samir धर्म 12:25, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
- There's not much activity on AfD/CfD/TfD. I didn't find any, to be precise. Pavel Vozenilek 22:42, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- See Natalya's edit summary usage with Mathbot's tool.
- Here's a report on your edits from Interiot's Tool 2:
Total edits 2482 Distinct pages edited 1324 Average edits/page 1.875 First edit 11:36, 19 December 2004 (main) 1086 Talk 107 User 124 User talk 438 Image 8 Template 4 Template talk 3 Category 5 Wikipedia 437 Wikipedia talk 270--digital_me(t/c) 17:34, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
- 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.
- A: I know that as an administrator, there are many unexpected situations that come up that require administrator intervention. Of the many expected situations that also require administrator help, there are a number of things I look forward to assisting with. One is keeping up with violations listed at New contributors' help pagethat require administrator assistance.
- A: I know that as an administrator, there are many unexpected situations that come up that require administrator intervention. Of the many expected situations that also require administrator help, there are a number of things I look forward to assisting with. One is keeping up with violations listed at
- 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
- A: I am very proud of my edits to aid in the Manual of Style for disambiguation pages regarding the style and function of the pages. I also work at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links, where links to disambiguation pages are corrected to link to the correct article. Additionally, I often keep track of articles from Special:Newpages requiring disambiguation assistance, so that the problems can be quickly and easily corrected. Disambiguation pages aid in the navigation of Wikipedia, and I am happy that I am able to make this navigation clearer and easier for everyone. Additionally, I am very pleased with Quint (fire apparatus), which was the first "real" article that I created and completely wrote.
- A: I am very proud of my edits to aid in the
- 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
- A: Like almost every other contributor, I have certainly been in disagreements with other users. However, I attribute my calm attitude and drive for compromise to the fact that not one of these disagreements has escalated into anything notable. When reverting vandalism and working on disambiguation pages, there are always conflicts of ideas. I feel that in situations where both parties are trying to work for the best (and even when it may not seem like it), discussing before acting provides the best solutions, and I will always discuss things with any users that disagree with or have questions about any of my actions.
- I have been involved in the disputes of other users, sometimes being requested to give a third opinion or outside idea. I recently assisted in an informal mediation at the Good articles project. The discussion is currently in the process of wrapping up, and while no large actions were taken, I am happy that I was able to aid in the understanding of disagreeing parties, and help to calm down the situation. I look forward to doing so in the future, and have learned much from the experience.
Questions from HighwayCello
- 1. You come across an editor who has migrated through dozens of video game character articles and resized the image and removed the caption. The vandal has done with harmful intent to all the articles twice in one day, the first time 8 hours prior, and the second, 30 minutes before you noticed. The vandal has received two single warnings despite the widespread vandalism, one for the first round, and another just as the editor stopped editting. What would be your course of action?
- A. I would first leave a {{test3}} or {{test4}} warning on the user's page, depending on what warnings had been used previously. I would also leave a more detailed message regarding what the problem with modifying the images is, as they may not be actually aware why they should have stopped (as opposed to blanking pages and replacing them by writing 'WIKIPEDIA SUXX0RS' or 'I <3 poop', which is obviously harmful). I would then monitor their edits immediately after, to see if they continued or not. If they were to continue with the image resizing and caption-deleting, I would block them, with the time depending on if there were any previous blocks. If they did stop, I would probably keep them on my watchlist for a bit to make sure they didn't continue in the near future. And of course, revert their changes.
- 2. You are viewing the page for a Fair Use image and you notice that it links to several user pages. You view the first user page and notice that the user has severl custom userboxes with fair use images as well as a fair use image gallery. What would your course of action be initially? What would your course of action be if the user didn't remove the images?
- A. Since Policy section. If they did not remove the images, I might make suggestions of possible replacements (in an attempt to be helpful), but if they still refused, I would delete them, giving clear explanation of why it was done. If they persisted in repeatedly putting them back on, after warning them about what they are doing, it would likely constitute a block.
- A. Since
- 3. Is there any particular reason you haven't contributed or wrote a Featured article? Is it something you are against, or have you never gotten around to it? Do you not feel you have enough knowledge to do so?
- A. I have the highest amount of respect for Featured Articles, the articles which are candidates, and those who work on them. Certainly I am not against them, if anything I would push for them! When it comes to contributing to a Featured Article. I would say that I've "never gotten around to it". However, I have been keeping my eye on two articles in particular that I think would be good to work up to Featured Article status, both of which I have some knowledge of and an interest in. One of them is Nertz, and while it definitly has a lot more information that could be added, as well as references, I think it would be very promising.
- A. I have the highest amount of respect for Featured Articles, the articles which are candidates, and those who work on them. Certainly I am not against them, if anything I would push for them! When it comes to contributing to a Featured Article. I would say that I've "never gotten around to it". However, I have been keeping my eye on two articles in particular that I think would be good to work up to Featured Article status, both of which I have some knowledge of and an interest in. One of them is
Optional Question from AmiDaniel
- 1. Have you, either in your interactions with users or in editing, made any decisions that you regret? How were these mistakes brought to your attention, and how did you respond? Please cite specific examples where possible.
- A: There are always silly things that I, and probably everyone else, regret doing when we're editing, like leaving out a period or misspelling something (and not catching it before saving the page), but those are all easily corrected. I can think of a couple instances where I really did regret what I did. However, once realizing that I should have done something different, I immediately acted to remedy the situation, and both times things turned out okay.
- The first situation occurred during the created a second section, where the editors discussed their own solutions. This worked out much better, and led to large amounts of productive discussion.
- The second situation occurred during my interactions with a user just days ago. I had been working with assuming of the good faithin that situation.
Question from ShortJason:
- 1. How do you feel about User:ShootJar/ProtectionProposal? ShortJason 23:09, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- A: It is an interesting proposal, and obviously one that took a lot of time to craft. However, I feel that its usefulness may be hard to show, and that it would be rather difficult to enforce. The edit count requirements may not prevent users from vandalising, especially if it is an often-used IP. And while keeping track of blocks is a good idea, I can already see a large number of situations arising where people would have been incorrectly blocked or had the blocked removed, and therefore will need to be approved for editing these pages, which may turn out to be more hassle then help. While the current page protection policy is not perfect, no policy ever is, and it does a pretty good job.
Question from Kilo-Lima:
- 1. What would you prefer? ]
- A: Hmm... this is certainly a tough one. ;) I've had ]
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.