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Curtis23

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Final (1/10/1); ended 17:30, 28 July 2011 (UTC) per WP:SNOW 28bytes (talk) 17:30, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination

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Curtis23 (talk · contribs) – Hello Wikipedia. I am Curtis23 and I am nominating myself for adminship. I have been on Wikipedia for over 2 years now and I have made over 3,000 edits overall with 1,000 of them coming in the last 2 months. I am a member of the Adopt-A-User program and am part of many WikiProject including WP:TROP, WP:PW, WP:HOCKEY, WP:DISNEY and WP:NICK. I would love to be an admin so I can help make Wikipedia a better place for everyone who reads and edits it. Curtis23 talk to me 09:02, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Questions for the candidate

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Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?
A: I intend to take part in many project such as WP:AFD, stopping vandalism, help to clean up wikipedia, and help resolve edit wars through consensus and if needed be resaonable when giving out blocks. These are not the only things that I intend to do I intend to participate and many other smalls things as I go along. I will do anything to help make Wikipedia better.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: I think my best works have been my edits to tropical cyclone article making their ACE pages and updating their information. A close second would have to be how I've been stopping vandalism with huggle lately to keep Wikipedia a good place with verifiable information so that people who use Wikipedia for reference very often are not mislead by information that is not factual.
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: I have been in a few conflicts in the past but not any recently. If I ever get in a conflict in the future what I will do is I will try to get a consensus so that everyone can have a say in the issue. If the conflict gets out of hand I may have to give out blocks if necessary but I will only use that as a last ditch effort to stop the conflict.
Additional question from Brookie
4. Do you think that it is it sensible to be having this RFA so soon after the last SNOW failed application in June?
A: I think it is sensible. I think that I have improved a lot in the last month and a half. I've done a lot of vandalism reverting, I've contributed to many WP:TROP article and have amassed 1,000 edit in that time. So I think I'm now ready to be an admin.
Additional question from Brookie
5. Your reversion on Esperanza High School reinserted some nonsense (i.e: Michael Taylor, renown school genius) - was this sensible?
A: That was a simple Huggle error. I was trying to revert the previous revision which was vandalism. I must have clicked it a couple seconds after the person before me reverted it so I accidentally reverted that edit.

General comments

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RfAs for this user:

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review their contributions before commenting.

Discussion

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Support
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  1. Per experiance. Over two years. Good luck. –BuickCenturyDriver 10:06, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]


Oppose
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  1. Your last RfA was SNOW closed just last month and nothing has changed since then. Just because you've made a lot of recent edits, it doesn't mean you have enough experience to be an Admin yet. BigDom 11:39, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  2. per reasoning last month. One month of rampant Huggle reversions and associated talk page notices after next to nothing in the last 8 months does not provide enough for one to assess your temperament, policy knowledge and civility. Proliferation of RfAs starts to look like badge collecting.--ClubOranjeT 12:19, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Oppose - too soon after last attempt - not a good sign that this failed SNOW and it is just too early at this stage. Keep at it though. Brookie :) - he's in the building somewhere! (Whisper...) 12:32, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Oppose You still cite your experience with adopt a user; however, this user was very unhappy with the adoption you provided. He even begged you for help here and you failed to respond. I would not hold this against you if you did not continue to try to use it to support your adminship. I also saw very little effort with your adoption with User:Theoneinblue. You state again that you would like to participate in AFD, yet you haven't participated in a single AFD discussion since your last request was closed. I haven't seen any improvement in admin related areas since your last request. Continue reverting vandalism, that can be done without the admin bit. Ryan Vesey Review me! 13:23, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Oppose Sorry! Your multiple Rfas over a short period of time show that you are possible power hungry and are not ready for the tools. Puffin Let's talk! 13:47, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Oppose. Your Huggle reversions are appreciated. However, one month of activity is not enough. I would suggest waiting 5 or 6 months before your next RFA and use this time to get more experience in admin-related areas.--EdwardZhao (talk) 15:14, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Oppose - Block showing for edit warring. This is the fourth try for the tool bucket, a self-nomination coming on the heels of a failed effort. Time to give it a break for a year or two... Carrite (talk) 15:48, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Regretful oppose, but with the strongest moral support possible. Don't nominate yourself right after you fail; rather, wait a substantial amount of time and then come back. I would recommend you avoid self-nominations from now on; either wait for someone to nominate you or find someone to nominate you. Waiting is the better option IMO, but I leave the decision up to you. The UtahraptorTalk/Contribs 17:17, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Strong oppose. This is just a repeat of what you did 18 months ago: requests adminship, community says no. Wait a few weeks, make an near-identical request for adminship. Such disregard for consensus is a trait I do not like to see in somebody who wishes to be an administrator. Some people just shouldn't be administrators, and sorry Curtis, but I think you're one of them. Forget about adminship and just focus on being a Wikipedian. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:25, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Oppose Concerns with experience, maturity, judgement, and block log. -FASTILY (TALK) 17:29, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral
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  1. I am neutral regarding this RfA because there simply is not enough new information to evaluate the candidate since the last RfA. I am inclined to see it closed as WP:SNOW and for the candidate to allow enough time (perhaps six months) for contributions to show the concerns of the last attempts have been addressed. My76Strat (talk) 16:14, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.
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