Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/DaL33T

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a request for adminship that did not succeed. Please do not modify it.

DaL33T

Final (0/4/0); Withdrawn by candidate 13:04, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Nomination

DaL33T (talk · contribs) – I am dedicated to fighting vandalism, and have found many frequent vandal IPs which have deserved blocks from time to time. DaL33T (talk) 18:17, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: Blocking vandals.

2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?

A: Fighting vandalism, because the bulk of my edits have been towards cleaning up vandalism.

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 never had any edit conflicts and the only users who cause me stress are Bobby Boulders/Willy on Wheels, and people who seem to vandalize for kicks, rather than to express their opinion on something. Fortunately, I have good self-control and only respond with notice/warnings, rather than with cuss words. That's being a vandal yourself!

General comments

• Links for DaL33T: DaL33T (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for DaL33T can be found here.

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Discussion

Oppose

2. Thank you for submitting your RFA. While I applaud enthusiasm, I'm afraid you do not yet possess sufficient knowledge and experience for the community to have confidence in your readiness to become an admin. But that does not mean that we will never have confidence in you.

   For the most part, it requires at least 3,000 edits in a variety of areas to learn policy and guidelines well enough to attempt adminship. Nominees need to show the ability to contribute a number of significant edits to build the encyclopedia.

   However, if you work on vandalism patrol, most people would like a few thousand more.

   The Admin tools allow the user to block and unblock other editors, delete and undelete pages and protect and unprotect pages. Nominees will therefore do well to gain experience and familiarity with such areas as WP:AIV, WP:AFD, WP:CSD, Wikipedia:Protection policy, and WP:BLOCK to learn when to do these things.

   As an admin, you will inevitably have to...

   1. Explain clearly the reasons for one's decisions.
   2. Review one's decisions and change one's mind when it is reasonable to do so.
   3. Review one's decisions and stand firm when it is reasonable to do so
   4. Negotiate a compromise.

   Admins need a familiarity with dispute resolution. The ability to communicate clearly is essential.

   Article building is the raison d'être of Wikipedia. I recommend significant participation in WP:GA or WP:FA as the surest way to gain article building experience.

   If you are not the type of person who likes to write content, there's plenty of other article work you can do (WikiGnomeing for start).

   My suggestion would be to withdraw and try again in another 3 months and 3,000 edits. Many nominees have found it helpful to submit an Editor Review or to receive Admin coaching before submitting their RfA and after passing that benchmark. Hope this helps. Good luck and happy editing. Giants27 (c|s)

3. Oppose. WP:NOTNOW - not enough activity yet to accurately determine readiness for administrator privileges. Thank you for your good work around the project. Happy editing, Vicenarian ^{(Said · Done)} 18:40, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
4. Oppose. Per WP:NOTNOW. Great vandal work though and with a few more edits and work, we may be seeing you again in a few months. I also would like to propose an early close per WP:SNOW. AtheWeatherman 18:54, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
5. Oppose per WP:NOTNOW. -WarthogDemon 18:56, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Neutral

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