Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Lights

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Lights

Ends on 12/23/2007 at 5:41PM (CST)

This user has been a model Wikipedian and has helped out in many areas of this Wikipedia. This user has, in my opinion, been of great service to this site and has also helped me out whenever I needed help. He has done an awesome job with many of his edits and has helped revert vandalism whenever the need was there. I think that this user will make a good admin because of these facts and also these facts: He (I am assuming that it is a he) has created many pages (all of them helping to increase the helpfulness of this site), he has a kind of good-humored personality (meaning he is incredibly friendly), and he is overall a nice guy. I know it says that it is preferred that a user has 3 months of experience, but the key word there is preferred. Preferred doesn't mean that you have to be a member for exactly 3 months to be able to become an admin, and I think that this user is definitely someone that you should make an exception for because I believe that this user will use the administration tools to help out this website and not as a way to get power over other users. Razorflame (contributions) Talk 23:45, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate's acceptance: I accept. Cheers, Lights talk 00:56, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support

Support, Great user. --Yegoyan 23:48, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lights is a valued contributor to the encyclopedia, and he has demonstrated that he can be trusted with the tools. Nishkid64 (talk) 23:57, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Just in case it isn't clear that I am in support for him. -Razorflame (contributions) Talk 00:19, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - There has been a lot of discussion about this, namely, that we have too many admins. 70% of our active editors are admins. But honestly, what's so bad about that? It shows that we trust our editors and it encourages them to edit more! Plus, you just have to see the green and orange explosion of barnstars on Lights' userpage to know that he is admin material. Gwib^-(talk)- 00:23, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: The number of barnstars doesn't really mean anything. I am the one who gave him like 4 barnstars. They don't necessarily meant that the user is a good user. Just a little while ago, someone vandalized using Barnstars... (just as an example). -Razorflame (contributions) Talk 00:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - They do mean something. To have received a proper barnstar (eg. one given genuinely) then you must have worked at least vaguely constructively at something. Gwib^-(talk)- 00:29, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
WTF How dare you!! support - I was going to nominate him.. (makes angry faces) ...--Comet styles 00:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support... A couple of days ago I blocked a vandal that was vandalizing this user's page and I think he/she deserves admin tools to be able to better protect this beloved project! --M7 00:32, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: Does having vandals attack your userpage actually mean that that user should become an admin though? -Razorflame (contributions) Talk 00:34, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Razorflame Not necessarily. This user correctly followed the recommended procedures adding a note to the Vandalism in progress page. I'm convinced that he/she will still follow the community guidelines if and when elected as admin. Please note that user pages of those who place correct warnings are often vandal targets, so my note is not completely unrelated and also means that the candidate is inclined to RC patrolling.— Preceding unsigned comment added by M7 (talk • contribs)
    - I see. Thanks for clearing that up! -Razorflame (contributions) Talk 00:44, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Indeed!! Trevor "Tinkleheimer" Haworth 00:41, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - seems to have earned the community's trust with his/her hard work! Blockinblox - talk 02:12, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I'd be crazy not to support - this user's hard work and consistent dedication has immensely helped this Wikipedia. Now he can delete his own pages. ;) --Isis §^(talk) 14:40, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I believe him having the tools would definitely be to the community's benefit. Archer7 - talk 16:26, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - People have already said all the good reasons I could write here for supporting Light's adminship. - Huji ^reply 19:07, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oysterguitarist 22:51, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support --§ Snake311 _{(T + C)} 22:58, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above. --Werdan7^{T @} 22:06, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support 'nuff said -- Barliner talk 22:24, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Great user Jet Lover ^Bam! 04:26, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - great user. jj137 (Talk) 21:15, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Things may not be what they seem to be - do I have a choice? - Yes, of course. --Eptalon 21:44, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
support support support strong support? :))))))))) --vector ^_^ (talk) 20:14, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

1. Oppose due to being another person who got adminship on the wasy way by being a english-wikipedia-copy-paster who does nothing else but sit around with his/her "rvv" button all the time. Is that an automaton that does the "rvv"? --Liberate (བོད་) 20:12, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Does this vote still count now that it's been blocked? Oysterguitarist 21:34, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, votes from banned users are disqualified. Archer7 - talk 21:53, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Question - He hasn't even accepted this yet, shouldn't this be held off until accepted? Trevor "Tinkleheimer" Haworth 00:44, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Doesn't really matter, according to Yegoyan. -Razorflame (contributions) Talk 00:45, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where did Yegoyan say that? And I am just saying because what if in case Lights, doesn't want to be an admin, then this is all for nothing and is just wasted.Trevor "Tinkleheimer" Haworth 00:57, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yegoyan said that in reply to my question. View my talk page to view it. -Razorflame (contributions) Talk 01:00, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He signed. :) Trevor "Tinkleheimer" Haworth 01:01, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Many nominators ask the candidate first. I was successful on my third attempt, but I never even knew I had been nominated the second time. -- Barliner talk 22:21, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted --vector ^_^ (talk) 08:30, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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