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WikipedianProlific

Voice your opinion (talk page) (11/0/0); Scheduled to end 22:50, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

WikipedianProlific (talk · contribs) - Hi everyone, I signed up to Wikipedia on July 9th 2006 after around 1 year of lurking as an IP editor. The first main article I contributed to was 1,3-Bisphosphoglycerate, at that time it was a stub. Alarmed at the sheer number of biochemistry stubs (an area that still lags behind others in development due to the small number of editors able and interested enough to edit it) I became involved in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Project, primarily drawing diagrams for the monthly article improvement drive.

Since then my main contributions to Wikipedia have been mostly diagrams and artwork. I’m extremely proud to say that I presently have 3 featured pictures and many other pieces uploaded. FPs are here, here, and here, a fourth is presently undergoing FPC nomination. Typically, a drawing takes anywhere from 2 to 15 hours to create, research can take even longer, consequently, my main page edit count is low for such an active user. After all, it only takes 2-3 edits to upload and add a diagram which maybe have taken me over 10 hours to draw. With this in mind, I request that you give my RfA special consideration as I think you will see that my edit count does not do my contributions justice.

I would finally like to acknowledge Rama’s Arrow, who over the past 4 months has exchanged some 20,000 words via email with me as an admin coach. Due to a regrettable incident on his part in April he has been desysopped following an arbcom hearing. I believe that none the less his advice was useful and for that he has my thanks. I’m confident that I’ve demonstrated over the last year that I have the knowledge, consistency, reputation and requirement to be trusted with the admin tools. Thanks for reading ;) Any questions please go ahead and ask. WikipedianProlific(Talk) 20:49, 25 August 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: There are several areas I want to widen my participation in and several new areas I want to get involved in. Of my current admin tasks I watch and patrol the admin notice boards (AN and ANI) helping out where I can. This is quite a new area for me but one I find suits my editing habits perfectly, as I am only online for fairly short bursts, but I can do many of these 10 minute bursts each day, as much as every one-two hours. I've actually found much of what goes on AN and ANI doesn't strictly require actual administrator involvement, so its been good to be able to get involved now. I hope I can expand on this and resolve queries where at present I am unable to. A new area I want to get involved in is images for deletion, especially copy-vios. I think its fairly clear why this would be appealing to me given my contribs. When I contribute to AfD, IfD and FPC I try to only do so where I have something new or alernative to add. I'm a strong proponent that these systems are not a voting process and are infact debates, therefore the best logical debate gets their desired outcome and not the biggest side. I hope as an administrator this is a concept I can continue to promote as well as expand on my participation in AfD. Another task I am looking forward to with the admin tools is the ability to add and remove protection to an image and also move it around while its protected, this also goes for page protection to although this is something I will enter into more gradually. I would also at some point soon like to try my hand at un-official dispute mediation though this doesn’t strictly require adminship but I think it certainly helps. On the few occasions I’ve tried to help resolve disputes I’ve found it enjoyable and the outcomes satisfying. Finally vandalism reversion, warnings and blockings, I patrol a fair number of pages already and some of my diagram contributions are vandalized on pretty much a daily-weekly basis, especially when featured pictures end up on the front page. I'm not a heavy handed person at all and so I wouldn't expect to see a high amount of blocks coming from me at all, I tend to prefer warnings, but protecting the integrity of the wiki is important, and in many cases I find vandals are actually often young individuals interested in editing wikipedia but are unsure of where or how to start and so they revert to childish contributions. Pointing these individuals in the right direction is very important in my opinion as some may go on to be genuine editors. I want to continue to expand on this as my contributions increase. However, in all honesty as I have suggested above, I do not foresee vandalism patrolling becoming the main part of my work as it has not been so far, I hope this will continue to be contributing artwork.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: Unquestionably my proudest achievements are my featured pictures above. Of those featured pictures the first, a diagram of a wasp, holds a special place for me. I really got (and still get) a big kick out of the thought that somewhere maybe a kid is researching about wasps on Wikipedia and will come across that diagram. I can imagine them showing their classmates, teachers, parents etc. and explaining what they’ve learnt from it. Now if that isn’t the point of Wikipedia I don’t want to know what is. Another aspect of it is that to have your work displayed on the front page of Wikipedia is the community making a statement of satisfaction with your contributions. Now I don’t do what I do for recognition, that’s not my motivation, but it is such a great feeling to have, I’m sure featured article writers must feel much the same.
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: Generally my line of work on Wikipedia keeps me away from excessive conflict as I am actively contributing 99% of my work offline. I do frequently get requests to adapt, amend or otherwise alter my images which can at times become frustrating, as changes can often be trivial or just wrong, and to change a diagram can often mean effectively redrawing it from scratch – that’s 10 hours of work down the drain. But I try to listen to people’s requests and do what I can. I have at times been quite outspokenly unhappy about our extensive use of the SVG format. However, an important thing for me is accepting and understanding policy, and SVG is policy right now. It’s a bit like the law of the land, you don’t have to agree with it but you do have to abide by it. The closest thing to an out and out conflict is with an editor whose name I shall not mention here over some personal comments and article related disagreements. We tried dispute mediation following a period of stepping back from the problem which had some (in my opinion) good results. I’m generally (not all the time but most) a non-confrontational person anyway and this is the way I hope to keep things (after all that approach has worked fairly well for over a year).

Optional question from Pheonix15

4.Could you please give an account of how you would deal with newcomers with innapropriate usernames, especially this one

General comments

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

Discussion

Support

  1. Very Weak Support - Seems to understand some of the admin work, but I think this user can do better with a bit more work with some inter-user work (You currently have 195 user talk edits). --Hirohisat (Apple) 22:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support; excellent answers to the questions, IMO, and very good participation with images. I'm also fairly satisfied with your mainspace work. I believe that your edit count is very low; it's less than 2000 edits in total, and you do not have much participation at the Wikipedia namespace. I suggest you get involved at XfD's and AIV and UAA and try again in the future, as I do not believe this RfA will be successful at this time. Yours, --Boricuaeddie 22:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Of course, I've been known to be wrong before... :-) --Boricuaeddie 22:09, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    Comment He makes a valid point in his answers, though - if you look at those edits, a lot of them are either huge single-edit complete article rewrites, or uploading of self-drawn artwork, each of which took the same time it would take you or I to AWB-recategorise 250 articles — iridescent (talk to me!) 22:13, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    That's why i supported. I think this user is an exception to the edit-count rule :-) --Boricuaeddie 22:14, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support Wikipedia space & talk edits may be low but in terms of mainspace content (which is what this whole project is about) about as close to a perfect editor as I've yet seen — iridescent (talk to me!) 22:05, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support. I was impressed by this user's answers. Also, anyone who has the patience to produce, and then go through, the Featured Pictures process, is already showing several of the characterostics we look for in good admins. Talk edits are not a concern for me, of the 70 or so article I have written, I think about 20 still don't even have a talk page. If a user is not involved in controversial topics, than talk edits don't tend to be as important. Also, I don't think that user talk edits are that important either, I archive my talk page at 30kb, and even when I'm active, it only gets archived once a month or so... RyanGerbil10(C-Town) 22:12, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support - I do not believe this user will abuse the tools, and support the adminship of qualified candidates from unlikely corners of the 'pedia. - Philippe | Talk 22:14, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support OK, I have re-read the answers to the questions and they are good. I've decided it's unfair to neutral based on edit count so I'll change to support. GDonato (talk) 22:17, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support per Philippe. Rlevse 22:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  8. –sebi 22:19, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Weak Support This editor is right on that line between too new and experienced enough, but they're a fairly active contributor, and I'm sure they can help with the backlogs given their style of editing. As long as he agrees to take admin tasks slowly at first until he's got the experience, and he doesn't get an inflated ego from it, I'm sure he'll be fine --lucid 22:22, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support looks like a prolific Wikipedian. Majorly (talk) 22:32, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support - You have a well rounded set of contribs. I would like to see you have been a little more active overall, but you have shown some good contribs. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (tαlk) 22:46, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support - reviewed the contributions and the editor's time here, combined with the effort involved in the individual edits negates any concerns regarding edit count. The edits themselves show a solid understanding of how Wikipedia works, and I see nothing to keep me from having faith WikipedianProlific will make a fine sysop. Hiberniantears 23:28, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Strong Support It is perhaps a divine hand that led me to discover this RfA. My history aside, I express my full support for WikipedianProfilic. I deeply admire his commitment to Wikipedia (he is not a photographer, but someone who has to draw meticulous and "perfect" diagrams, which is a distinct and highly skilled and valued profession by itself). This place should be grateful that he even bothered to give his remarkable contributions. He was so sincere in becoming an all-round Wikipedian, with full knowledge of policy and ability to help out in any kind of chore, including those outside his interests, that I cannot praise him enough. This is the first time I have regretted my retirement, and the first time I will come out of it to give my most sincere support. His only flaw is to overstate my role in helping him (which I sadly, could not complete). I hope you will forgive me my friend. Rama's arrow (just a sexy boy)

Oppose

Neutral

Neutral Seems like a good editor with good mainspace work but an overall low count combined with a lack of WP and user talk work means I can't support. Keep up the great article work, though. GDonato (talk) 22:09, 25 August 2007 (UTC) [reply]
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