User:JavaTenor/Admin coaching

Are you ready to wield the mop?

Standard RFA questions

Here are the standard RFA questions. Remember that questions are optional, but answering is recommended because it gives !voters a good reflection of your ability.

1. What admin areas do you intend to work in?

   I've spent a fair amount of time around various deletion processes, both through [WP:NPP|new page patrolling]] and through the dead-end pages project, which often contains a number of pages meriting proposed or speedy deletion. I think I'd be helpful in clearing out the speedy deletion backlog and closing AFDs, as I believe I have a good grasp of community consensus on deletion-related issues. I've also spent enough time dealing with vandalism that I think I could make myself useful at AIV when necessary. My weakest area is probably image-related policy; I've had little experience in that sphere, so I'd wait to gain more before dealing with any image issues.

2. What do you believe are your best contributions?

   I don't have any featured articles under my belt, but I think I have done a decent job of improving a number of articles from "unacceptable" to "acceptable stub" level, and I generally attempt to perform some due diligence to find sources for articles which have none listed. A few article improvement examples (with before/after diffs) might include Laura Chenel[1], Crispin Porter + Bogusky[2], Barrington Irving (was initially speedied), among various others. I've also done a fair amount of general wikification through the dead-end pages project, and created a few articles when I notice that a subject I'm interested in has no coverage.

3. Have you been in any situation or conflict that's given you stress? How have you handled them?

   There's a particular IP editor (at least, I assume it's the same person, has used multiple IPs) who has an axe to grind against a particular Bay Area sports personality, and really, really, doesn't appreciate my attempts to keep the article compliant with our biographies of living persons and |neutral point of view policies. Pretty standard online flamewar stuff, I suppose, and I just handled it through normal channels and didn't lose my cool (it eventually got annoying reverting my talk page waiting for a block, though). Otherwise, I have certainly engaged in discussion in some wikipolitical spaces which have gotten pretty heated, but I generally attempt to be a voice of reason and calm whenever possible, and I will disengage if I feel the discussion's reached a counterproductive level of rancor.