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Fluffernutter

CheckUser candidate pages: 28bytes • AGK • Courcelles • Elockid • HelloAnnyong • Keegan • Kww • Mentifisto • WilliamH

Oversight candidate pages: Courcelles • Fluffernutter • WilliamH

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Nomination statement (250 words max.)

I would like to nominate myself for the position of Oversighter. I’m an experienced Wikipedian of more than 3 years’ tenure. I am a new administrator (I was promoted in August 2011, with unanimous support). I have a history of calm, reasoned actions and good judgment, and have never had any objections to my use or request of revdelete, or had any oversight requests declined.

Standard questions for all candidates

Please describe any relevant on-Wiki experience you have for this role.

A: As I noted in my nomination statement, I am a fairly new admin, so my in-practice experience in actually carrying out revision deletions is more limited than some other candidates' might be. I have 52 logged revision deletions since I became an administrator (according to the latest dump on WP:LOGACTIONS), none of which have, to date, been disputed. I also have placed a fair amount of oversight requests (both before and after being promoted), all of which, to my knowledge, have been acted upon. I regularly use Huggle, which brings me in contact with oversight-able vandalism and new pages fairly often.

Please outline, without breaching your personal privacy, what off-Wiki experience or technical expertise you have for this role.

A: To be truthful, my general answer to “what technical expertise do you have” is “not much”. I’m computer-savvy and have a good intuitive sense of interfaces, but mostly I just have quite a lot of experience being calm and methodical, in general, and learning new tasks quickly. I have (somewhat limited, by virtue of being a new admin) experience with operating revdel, and I believe I’ve used it appropriately. It appears that the oversight tool front-end works very much like the revdel tool, so I believe the learning curve there shouldn’t be too steep.

Do you hold advanced permissions (checkuser, oversight, bureaucrat, steward) on this or other WMF projects? If so, please list them. Also, do you have OTRS permissions? If so, to which queues?

A: I don't hold advanced permissions on any other project. I do have OTRS permissions, with full info-en access.


Questions for this candidate
  • As a relatively new administrator, have you gained any experience in dealing with the type of material that oversight handles, either through revdeleting or requesting oversight yourself. Can you describe said experience (without revealing details of course) and how it has aided you in understanding Wikipedia's privacy policy? Beeblebrox (talk) 16:56, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
A: As I noted in my answer above, I have had experience requesting and carrying out revision deletion, and with requesting oversight. Since my promotion, I've become more comfortable with making final judgments for myself about whether a revision needs to be hidden under the revision deletion criteria, and I actually find the oversight criteria to be more straightforward than the revdel criteria. I suspect this is because oversight is pushing the boundaries of our privacy and history-keeping policies, and the closer you get to the edge, the more confidence you need to have in any action taken that pushes those boundaries. Revision deletion criteria can be a bit fuzzier (whether something is "purely disruptive" or "grossly insulting" is left to the individual admin to determine, essentially), but oversight has firm criteria which set a definite line in the sand.
  • How much Experience would you say you have with the revision delete tools as an admin? (And of course this is an opinion question, more like do you feel fully comfortable using it) -- DQ (t) (e) 19:42, 26 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
A: To regurgitate numbers for you, I have, as of the last database dump, 52 logged revision deletions. A modest number, yes, but I feel my experience is fairly wide in general, when you take into account pre-admin requests, post-admin actions, and issues that I've discussed with other admins and oversighters.
A: Numerically, I'm at a disadvantage, but I've never been a numbers player, quite frankly. I will never be the most active at anything, and I will never rival the astronomical log lengths of some other administrators. I think that my strength lies in my methodical, thoughtful approach to admin actions and my willingness to consult other trusted users on issues that I find to be outside my experience. I don't take hasty actions on the basis of "well, this might be ok"; I think about what I'm doing before I do it. This doesn't mean that I can't or don't act quickly when it's necessary, but it does mean that I strive to not act hastily.
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