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Hello, I'd like to apply here for Mhhossein to the status of administrator. I often crossed this user in tasks related to maintenance, and I'm sure that he would be a good addition to our team. With the huge backlogs that we have in deletion requests a goodwill more, is welcome. The user, is an OTRS member, has Licence Review rights, is experimented in Wikimedia Commons, is active, and has a sufficient knowledge in copyright relative topics to provide meaningful help. He is able to contribute in several languages, and is always correct and polite. I am happy to nominate him and support this nomination. Christian Ferrer (talk) 12:25, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Christian Ferrer for the RFA and for the nice words. --Mhhossein talk 12:32, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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99of9: Hi. This is my first upload belonging to 4 years ago. I took the photograph and removed the details on the cover and added mine, so that I thought it was below COM:TOO. So, it's a derivative which I think is below TOO. Regards. --Mhhossein talk 13:21, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question Briefly looking at your contribution stats, they seem low for a Commons administrator. In the 4 years of your account, you have uploaded 43 images, though the number of original uploads is less as several are overwrites. What are your thoughts on the logically best route of improving OTRS to accept and push for more Commons Administrators to become OTRS volunteers? Secondly, are we building up community issues by accepting far less experienced OTRS volunteers as Commons Administrators, pretty much because they are OTRS volunteers who are interested in the Commons permissions queue and might find it convenient to have Commons sysop rights, rather than consulting with current Commons administrators, and who will be expected to advise on Commons policies, more abstruse areas of copyright compliance, and provide pragmatic support to correspondents to OTRS on how to get things done on Commons such as undeletion of files without having the same level of experience? -- (talk) 14:29, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
: Well, I thought there would not be any minimum number of edits as a requirement for the future admins, though I admit that I had uploaded few files during these years. Needless to say that regardless of the outcome of this discussion, I'll be keeping up with the maintenance acts as before and I'm not going to increase the number of my uploads only for the sake of increasing the contribution stats. Though I'll upload works which I deem are useful for the project, just as I did before.
An OTRS agent with access to the permission queue is mostly expected to recognize licenses suitable for the Commons, while an admin's duty are far more different and heavier than an OTRS agent. As for the first question, although I believe an OTRS agent does not necessarily need to be a well experienced admin, I agree that having admins as OTRS agents is an ideal situation, for plenty of reasons among them their experience and their access to the deleted files. But if you're asking about how to approach this ideal situation, unfortunately I have no special idea in mind at the moment. Moreover, considering the amount of the incoming emails to the queues, I don't think restricting the access to the OTRS interface be a good idea. So, just be careful when you select the agents and provide the situation for them to get consults when needed. In response to your second question, if I've understood it correctly; yes it makes issues because, as I said, admin tasks are much broader than what an OTRS agent is expected to do. However, while it's not a good idea to accept an admin only because he's an OTRS agent, an experienced OTRS agent who have dealt with various copyright situations can probably make a good sysop. --Mhhossein talk 17:52, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Up to my experience far more than half of the open OTRS tickets can be processed without being technically an admin anywhere. --Krd 17:56, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
With a pure statistical view, reviewing OTRS correspondence and adding tickets to images is a tiny backlog compared to handling copyvios, closing deletion requests and responding to undeletion requests. The statistics also indicate the reason the OTRS backlog has increased over the last few years is a lack of OTRS volunteers who are Commons contributors having access to the Commons queue, not because OTRS volunteers are not administrators.
"An experienced OTRS agent who have dealt with various copyright situations can probably make a good sysop", maybe, but RFA is not conditional and despite many community discussions around breaking up sysop rights, the community has always preferred to keep the role of administrator a fully rounded one, intended to be a trusted user that meets our understanding of Administrators. As your nomination is on the basis of "a good addition to our team", this is the nature of your commitment being considered by the community. -- (talk) 18:34, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No, just this one. --Mhhossein talk 19:19, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question (3 questions):

1) What would you say about previous warnings concerning you having strong POV and being particularly hard of hearing?
2) You also seem to have been involved in numerous reports at ANI: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]). Lots of these seem to be about disagreements on particular edits; would you say that reporting editors that disagree with you has been an issue in the past?
3) Would you say that making statements such as "Don't cram your words in the Wikipedia's mouth" for including a quote backed up by RS is a civil way to discuss an edit with a fellow Wikipedian? Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 21:30, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]