Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Shimgray

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Shimgray

Requests_for_adminship/Shimgray|action=edit}} Vote here (33/0/0) ending 20:32

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept. Thanks. If anyone has additional questions, I may well be travelling this weekend, so please forgive any delays.

talk | 21:44, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply

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1. Michael Snow 20:33, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
2. Support, seems sensible, level-headed, and able to resolve disagreements peacefully. Friday (talk) 21:55, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
3. Good editor. Martin 21:59, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
4. Supppppport. ~~ N (t/c) 22:01, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
5. Support! Surprised he wasn't one.--
   Talk 23:47, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply
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6. Support; concur with nominator. (Indeed, I hadn't realized he wasn't one until the comment about not being able to edit the Main Page.) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 00:20, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
7. Support good editor --Rogerd 00:27, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
8. Support -Greg Asche (talk) 03:09, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
9. Support. El_C 04:14, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
10. Support - Guettarda 04:17, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
11. Support per above; also, I trust Michael's judgment. Remember to use edit summaries, though. Ral315 (talk) 05:24, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
12. Support. Very fine contributor. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:04, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
13. Support
    t c 09:22, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply
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14. Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 11:02, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
15. Support Good editing, knowledge of WP. Thanks for answering the questions in detail. Turnstep 13:23, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
16. Support because there's an aeroplane on the runway. CambridgeBayWeather 16:22, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
17. Support Private Butcher 18:58, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
18. Support, per nominator. JoanneB 06:40, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
19. Strong Support. Great guy, has my trust (Yes, I've been watching from afar). Redwolf24 (talk) 08:10, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
20. Support Dlyons493 Talk 12:03, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
21. Support GraemeL ^(talk) 12:28, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
22. Support. -- Essjay · Talk 13:24, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
23. Oran e (t) (c) (@) 14:21, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
24. JYolkowski // talk 17:24, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
25. Support. He could use a rollback button to help with his mass RvV's. - Kookykman (talk • contribs)
26. Support fine candidate. Alf ^melmac 18:18, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
27. Support. Admin tools would help vandal fighting, see no reasons for concern. Jayjg ^(talk) 18:32, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
28. Support: Lots of time on project, consistent in his work to understand policy and to follow it. Geogre 20:52, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
29. Support - You mean they're not an admin already? Thryduulf 22:55, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
30. --JAranda | watz sup 01:39, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
31. Support. -- DS1953 ^talk 00:04, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
32. Oh yeah, like a Twix commercial. (That means support.) – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 02:03, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
33. Support. +sj + 03:36, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
34. Support. Cheers. · Katefan0^(scribble) 15:57, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Neutral

Comments

• Regardless of the outcome of this RFA, please improve your use of edit summaries. Last 500 edits, 56% usage, 67% over last 5,000 edits. --Durin 22:13, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am rather atrocious at remembering edit summaries, I confess... every now and again I kick myself to try and improve, but it slips. In mitigation, a lot more of the article space edits are summarised than the overall figure, which is where it's more critical. I will try and keep it in mind, though; thanks for the reminder.
    talk | 22:32, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply
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1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)

A. Michael mentioned above that I had commented about editing the main page; this was a throwaway comment, but it is something I'd find very useful. I'm an inveterate copyeditor and text-fiddler, and I'd like to think I could help keep these high-profile sections presentable - as it is, having to go via someone else is a hassle for all parties. (Especially when you see the change up, and you realise it would really look better with the comma there, so you go back, and... um, yes.)

There've been a few vandals & spammers I've chased up at length in the past - none recently, I confess - and the ability to slap the persistent ones with a day-long block would simplify matters greatly. As it is, by the time I figure out how to ask someone, they've ususally done a few more and got blocked... never hurts to be faster. I've done Recent Changes patrolling a few times, but it's a bit inefficient without rollback, and extra productivity is A Good Thing.

I closely watch

WP:AN

(& /I), but there's no shortage of admins there...)

I suspect there's a few admin tasks I haven't considered I'd be happy to set to, but understandably I can't say much about those. Working on copyright issues, something we keep needing to tighten up, would probably be rewarding. I've seen at first hand the problems due to people there being vastly overworked, and lessening the backlog would help.

2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A. My article contributions are mostly

list of national legislatures

)

I expect to be rather pleased with

freedom of information legislation

- I have a lot of very useful information to hand, having just finished what I believe to be the most current comprehensive survey of FOI laws - but I've only got around to getting to grips with it today and fear I may suffer burnout on that particular subject, after a summer of researching!

Oh, and a few months back I embarked on trying to purge

ASIN

codes - nasty proprietary things with no bibliographic use - from Wikipedia; a bit contentious, but a lot of them got done, and the next wave is really waiting for me to get around to running some database queries on a recent dump and thus having a "hitlist" to work on. I estimate I removed at least half, with the help of a couple of other users. Not a very obvious help to the project, but I feel it's one of the better things I've done - there is a big hole in the wikien-l archives from 8th to 14th August, so I can't point to most of the comments there, but some of it still makes me rather pleased.

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. I got on

here

), poked around for a day or three to determine consensus here (and on the mailing list, though they were pretty strongly in favour). I think I did everything possible to defuse the situation - not that I needed to, Kaldari was a lot less aggrieved than I originally feared! - and reach a suitable consensus. I think the discussion page is evidence enough for this; it's where most of the debate went.

That's certainly the most contentious thing I can think of; a couple of moments of heated tempers when someone was Clearly Not Getting It, but I do try to avoid those and we're only human. There's a chap who keeps posting semi-nonsense questions to

WP:RD/M

who gets me (and others!) wound up - he knows he's messing around, since he's deleted old, answered questions and then re-added them - but since he keeps changing IP, we can't contact him... stress, that one, rather than conflict. Readers of that page no doubt know who I mean...

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