Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/MathXplore 2

MathXplore

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End date: 06:46, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Result - The verdict below is clear, Welcome to the team MathXplore. --Eptalon (talk) 19:37, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

I am nominating this editor because they are very active (which we need), are very familiar with the rules of Wikipedia (they have admin rights on other projects), they are stable and level headed, and I have never seen any issues with their edits. They are great at reverting vandalism and make sure to post on user talk pages to help guide new editors to the correct way to do things. I do not see any reason as to why they should not get the mop. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 07:07, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Co-nomination from Ferien: Hi everyone, I'm here to co-nominate MathXplore for adminship on this wiki. MathXplore has done a lot of work on this wiki, in many different areas, working here since March 2020. A lot of their work involves new page patrol, in which they are probably one of the most active patrollers here. They have nominated over 1400 articles for quick deletion in this patrol in 2024 so far alone, with little to none declined, not only showing high activity but also very good understanding of deletion policy. Their new page patrol work alone already shows a clear need for adminship and understanding of policy, and they are also very active at VIP, with gnomish work, like with categories, and other areas, in which MathXplore would benefit from admin tools too. Combine that with a friendly attitude and not shying away from criticism, and for me, I have no doubt MathXplore would make a brilliant administrator. I hope the community agrees, and wish MathXplore the best of luck in this RfA! --Ferien (talk) 21:10, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

This would also be a good place to point out this is only RfA 2, due to the previous RfA nomination being declined and kept. This is MathXplore's first proper RfA run. --Ferien (talk) 21:15, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Candidate's acceptance:

• Other editors have expressed their interest in (co-) nomination (Special:Diff/9292543, Special:Diff/9294656), please wait for their statements. MathXplore (talk) 07:44, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

  (Note) Talkback sent (special:diff/9490132, special:diff/9490129). MathXplore (talk) 11:23, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

  Accepted, per Special:Diff/9489779. MathXplore (talk) 06:46, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Support

1. Support I have seen them doing an excellent job of preventing vandalism and always being available to assist. I believe they would make a great addition to the SEWP Community as Administrator. DIVINE 07:29, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
2. Support. Even if it is just doing QD items, with the amount they nominate would be a net positive for that work to be done by the nominee. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 07:51, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

   Hey, I stalk QDs :) It's my favourite thing to do and the number nom'd by MathXplore is vast, they can do them thierselves fr33kman 03:08, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

3. Support I have seen their work and their abilities, they are a great addition to the Simple English wiki based on past experiences with them. – Angerxiety^! 17:37, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
4. Support Very good idea fr33kman 19:07, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
5. Support MathXplore is well qualified and a careful editor. Kk.urban (talk) 19:41, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
6. Strong support Looks like I was late to co-nominate you, but you can still have my support. MathXplore is a very active member of the Simple English Wikipedia community and has a history of requesting many admin actions, such as QDs, page moves, and revdels. The tools would be very useful for them.— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 21:06, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
7. Support MathXplore would make a great admin. Also, we only have 17/18 admins now. I am sure that one more admin would help a lot. Our current admins work so much (thank you all btw). Dream Indigo 23:07, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

   I've always been of the opinion that every suitable regular member of the community should be admins. We have a very active and a very trusted community plus we all.pretty much know eachother. Simplewiki is more of a.community than enwiki which is more like Manhattan :) fr33kman 03:05, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

8. Support Have seen this user do a lot of good work in administrative areas, plenty of counter-vandalism experience too. ChrisWx 🌀 (talk - contribs) 23:55, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
9. Support Since MathXplore has been doing a great job at stopping vandalism, I feel that the admin tools would benefit both them and the community. TheWikiCyclone (talk) 18:46, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
10. Support Thorough, patient, excellent vandal fighter, they'll handle the admin role quite well. Ravensfire (talk) 15:38, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

    They already do lots of admin type things, they just need the tool set. fr33kman 03:02, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

11. Support It would be super foolish not to support this nomination. MathXplore does a fantastic job fighting vandalism and is an integral part of this community. Shoot for the Stars (talk) 20:16, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

    Yeah, I'd be shocked to see a single oppose. Excellent candidate for admin. fr33kman 03:00, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

12. Strong support Seeing Maths work on this Wikipedia since day 1 I started editing here. Experienced and already doing a lot of Admin things, the tools would undoubtedly benefit them and the community. Didn't know there was an RFA ongoing or my support would have been on the top. :) – Cyber.Eyes2005^Talk 07:14, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
13. Support LGTM --DannyS712 (talk) 08:43, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
14. Support Long overdue.--BRP ^ever 12:19, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
15. Support I asked why they were not an admin back in August 2023, and they said that they did not see a need for the tools. I am glad that they changed their mind. QuicoleJR (talk) 14:56, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
16. Support MathXplore has been making great contributions to the Simple English Wikipedia. I think that he will positively use the administrator permission to improve this Wikipedia project. 84Swagahh (talk) 18:01, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
17. Support MathXplore is an amazing editor and an equally amazing person. He will be using it to help Wikipedia. LOLHWAT (talk) 12:13, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
18. Support I can't think of any reason to oppose it. This editor has helped this wiki a lot, arguably more than certain admins. Having him on the admin team just makes sense.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 19:47, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
19. Support Excellent idea, experienced user, will do a great job. Wutsje (talk) 01:41, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

    Support I'm from the English Wikipedia, and though I'm not very familiar with the Simple Wikipedia, I see no issues with having MathXplore is an administrator. They seem humble. Cleo Cooper (talk) 05:36, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

     Bureaucrat note: Cleo Cooper, thank you for your vote, however you cannot vote as your account was created here after the RfA had started. --Ferien (talk) 18:59, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

20. Support - Tenure looks fine as does participation at AFD etc, My only concern is them knowing authority control at account creation which I find very strange however they've done nothing that screams SOCK so I'm taking their word (Question 3) and placing myself here, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 16:53, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
21. Support I see no problems. Him being an administrator would make the current administrators' work easier, along with his own work. JustarandomamericanALT (talk) 17:01, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Initial statements from the candidate

I would like to use this subsection for statements before RFA acceptance. MathXplore (talk) 02:39, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done MathXplore (talk) 08:35, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

About me

Dear community, as introduced by Ferien and PDL, I'm an editor since 2020. I was allowed to join the rollbacker user group in January 2022 per local anti-vandalism efforts (special:redirect/logid/2122903). I also used to be in the patroller user group, but since I didn't understand the patrol feature in Wikimedia projects (in technical meanings) I was removed from the user group. I have re-negotiated about previous cases and agreed with the involved admins to move forward RFA, please see special:permalink/9491679#Transitions_between_RFRR_and_RFP for this discussion. Today, I have restored auto-patrol via global rollback, and I have local patroller permissions at Commons, English Wikibooks (as reviewer), English Wikiversity (as custodian since March 2024), Simple English Wiktionary (as sysop since January 2024), Japanese Wiktionary, etc., but hitting the patrol button or collecting such buttons are not the main part of my activities. Actually, I check users and edits rather than specific pages, so "patroller" is not absolutely needed for me. If I just wanted to restore patroller permissions I would just go back to the same RFP venue, but we have this RFA for different objectives beyond "patroller" (I mean things that cannot be done by "patroller"). I will give a full description of such objectives in the following "plans" section. MathXplore (talk) 02:31, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Plans

As mentioned in Special:Diff/9479316, the works of our admins include WP:VIP, WP:RFD, CAT:QD and WP:AN in the main part. I plan to prioritize WP:VIP, CAT:QD and WP:AN, etc., because these can be emergencies while RFDs are not (in general, emergencies in RFDs may need QD or WP:OS when applicable). However, I don't think this is enough, and I would like to provide further description. MathXplore (talk) 02:38, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

(Non-English) anti-derogatory/vandalism efforts

Since m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Simple English Wikipedia (3), it is believed that spam and vandalism are handled in a reasonable way. I generally agree to this statement, but I believe that I might be able to provide further assistance in some complicated cases, such as non-English cases.

It is needless to remind that we are a simple English project. However, we have editors from all over the world, including those we cannot accept. We also get derogatory content from various languages, including those that I can understand. You can see special:permalink/9483065#About_your_recent_VIP_reports_(special:diff/9431290) and Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Archive21#JA/ZH-originated_fake_doppelganger_accounts for one of my recent alerts about such cases. For the most recent violent incidents, I assume the involvement of ja:LTA:GNSN or ja:LTA:LMG, etc. Previously, we had more editors with proficiency higher than ja/zh-3, so it was easier to detect such issues, but today I do not recognize enough substitutes in this area. I believe that language barriers and time zone differences may have delayed the community's response.

The full record of my activities in this area can be found from my VIP log, AN report log, and SRG log for LTAs or gloabl username issues. Some cases involve deleted revisions, you can send questions to our admins about such cases. By joining the admin team I look forward to expanding the linguistic and time zone coverage of our anti-derogatory/vandalism efforts. Please note that m:stewards may be able to handle global username issues when applicable, but other issues (such as edit summaries, revisions, etc.) must be handled by our local admins.

(Non-English) anti-spam efforts

m:Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Simple English Wikipedia (3) says that our community is handling spam and vandalism in a reasonable way. However, I believe it is still hard to detect and revert non-English spams, and I believe that is why smaller projects like us are being targeted.

Again, we are a simple English project, but we get weblinks from all over the world, including those we cannot accept. We also get spams from various languages, including those that I can understand. You can see User talk:Justarandomamerican/Archives/2023/April and special:diff/9454809 (both are w:ja:LTA:GRIMM cases) for my efforts in this area. In general, they look like adding references, but they are just adding their favorite blogs, etc. Cross-wiki cases or LTAs can be handled by stewards, but otherwise they have to be handled locally. By joining the admin team I look forward to expanding the linguistic coverage of our anti-spam efforts.

The full record of my anti-spam/vandalism activites our included in my rollback log, undo log, ENWV logs (delete, protect, blocks) and more samples can be seen at m:User:MathXplore#Reverts_at_EN_and_multilingual_projects (please note that I have global rollback, I can use rollback outside this project). MathXplore (talk) 06:27, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

(Non-English) anti-LTA efforts

Some of these cases may overlap with above, but not all of them can be easily declared as spam or vandalism. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Current_issues_and_requests_archive_63#Request_for_Protection_of_User_talk:RadiX, Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Current_issues_and_requests_archive_66#Request_for_Protection_for_User_talk:郊外生活, Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Current_issues_and_requests_archive_74#ja:LTA:HEATHROW_targeting_User_talk:郊外生活_again, and Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Archive20#ja:LTA:HEATHROW for such cases. As well as above, I hope I can expand the linguistic coverage of our anti-LTA actions. MathXplore (talk) 06:27, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Interwiki collaborations between simplewiki and simplewikt

We are one of the 2 simple English projects, and I believe that collaborations with the other side can help the entire simple English movement. Since I started helping Simple English Wiktionary as their admin since January 2024, I have been working in this area. Please see wikt:special:permalink/520832#Please_wait_deletion_of_Hilary_of_Poitiers, wikt:special:permalink/520832#Please_wait_for_domino_theory, and wikt:special:permalink/520832#w:Wikipedia:Requests_for_deletion/Requests/2024/Oops for examples. As Simple English Wiktionary admin I can import simplewiki dicdefs. Having advanced permissions here can allow me to work on the opposite side, and I don't have to do things like User_talk:Auntof6/Archives/2024#Wikipedia:Requests_for_deletion/Requests/2024/Oops. MathXplore (talk) 06:27, 19 April 2024 (UTC) (Added signature, I noticed that I forgot to add my signature here when added this with the subsections above, MathXplore (talk) 03:36, 22 April 2024 (UTC))

Yeah, we should act more like a sorta single project really. Before Global Sysops simplewiki admins could just ask to be a Wiktionary admin automatically. fr33kman 03:31, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Comments from others

 Question: Do you believe that your adminship on the Simple English Wiktionary or the English Wikiverisity might distract you a little from here/adminship here may distract you from them a little?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Simpleist (talk • contribs)

I don't believe such distractions. I never felt that I was distracted by Simple English Wiktionary adminship or English Wikiversity custodianship. I already cleared the minimal activity requirements in both of them (More than one action in a year for Simple English Wiktionary, more than 5 edits and 5 admin actions in a year for English Wikiversity). For this project, I have cleared the minimal activity requirements since 2020 (100 edits or admin actions in one calendar year, Wikipedia:Inactive_administrators#De-adminship). In my opinion, adminship means you have to use time differently. For example, non-admins have to tag pages and report users to WP:VIP if needed. Admins don't have to do this, instead, they click the delete/block button for applicable cases. Distractions from off-wiki factors (factors outside Wikimedia) may exist. If I'm going to be inactive here, then I would be inactive in other places. MathXplore (talk) 13:47, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

I think they amount of do here shows you've got time to spend here. fr33kman 03:33, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

 Question: How do you generally deal with disagreements or conflicts that emerge during editing? Have you ever dealt with it before? DIVINE 00:22, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

For edits that are not vandalism, not done by block evasions, I usually undo once (or add maintenance tags) with explanations in the edit summary (or no reverts), and send applicable messages via Wikipedia:Twinkle. I also use the page's talk page for further discussion, or bring it to WP:ST/WP:AN if wider attention is needed. My AN report log includes my records of such activities. I usually do this for disputed QDs (pages in which QD tags are repeatedly removed), I think this is better than repeating reverts (I was previously advised by Ferien to use WP:AN for such cases). Similarly, I use admin noticeboards for such cases in all projects that I'm active. MathXplore (talk) 02:00, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

 Question: - Have you had an account or edited here prior to the creation of MathXplore? and how did you know about {{authority control}} ? ([1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]),

I'll be honest I find it strange that you knew what authority control was and how it's supposed to be used when most newbies here get off to a rocky start, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 17:15, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

No, I have no accounts/edits here before creating this account. MathXplore (talk) 01:30, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

(About authority control) I think I learned about it in en/jawiki. I think there was a bot to add {{authority control}} in jawiki (I forgot which bot), and that may have given hints to me. Many years have passed since then, and I don't accurately remember how I learned it. MathXplore (talk) 01:35, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Okay many thanks for answering this, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 16:45, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

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