Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/NickGorton

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

NickGorton

Alright, I am really really annoyed. The Ebonics comment was bad enough, but a spate of vandalism that made me actually put (albeit stubbed) content in Pokemon and Homer Simpson because they were newly made by a vandal is too much. I even had to look up Pokemon on en.

So despite the fact that:

• I actually said (today in fact) 'why the <expletive deleted> would Phroziac actually want to have to do icky administrative things?'
• Several years ago after a year in Dante's Inferno as an administrative chief resident I promised myself that I would never ever have the A-word (well at least not that A-word) after my name,

So despite that, whenever I've been her long enough and written enough, I would like to be an admin to stop that when in progress.

In the interest of full disclosure: on the negative side: I must admit though that I am not exceptionally computer savvy. But I have a live-in consultant/boyfriend who is. And I may not be the best luck as an admin. The last time I was an administrator of anything I was the ER admin on call in one of NYC's trauma centers on both days when flight 587 fell out of the sky over Brooklyn and the WTC was destroyed. Though I am certain that nothing will happen to this Wiki... It was coincidence. Really. And I don't wear that shirt anymore. NickGorton 11:16, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

• Support - A friendly wikiholic. --Phroziac

• Oppose - Sorry, I can't support this nomination; you haven't edited for long enough on this Wikipedia. I will support you however, if in a few months you have shown yourself to be a good editor. (You can check your number of edits at En:WP:KATE) --Marknew 13:32, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

• Support Undecided - Yeah I don't have an account created yet (but I've been doing a lot of work here on cleaning up articles, reverting vandalism, etc), and in that time I've been here I've seen that NickGorton is very conscientious in taking care of the wikipedia. For that reason I support this nomination (and maybe I should create an account, eh?). 65.31.115.145 22:03, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
  • I am changing my vote to undecided due to recent events. 65.31.115.145 01:24, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose - In addition to the excellent points made by Marknew and Ricky, I would like to add that Nick throws around accusations of NPOV against other people, when his own neutrality could itself be called into question with regards to certain topics. In fact, as a result of NickGortons attitude toward me over a simple misunderstanding, I will no longer be contributing to Simple (even though I had edited many many articles and tried very hard to make Simple a better place.) Do we really want an administrator that drives people away from wiki? I don't think so. 65.31.115.145 04:45, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

• Oppose. Unfortunately, I have to agree with Marknew. You simply haven't edited here long enough. I will support you in a few months if you continue to be a good editor. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 03:46, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

• Its like that quote from Rebecca West about feminism: “I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.”

I am obviously a radical queer who is pushing the homosexual agenda if I say that being gay is about more than just sex or that its bad and wrong to criminalize LGBT people.

But then I imagine I am also going to burn in the fires of hell because I did a big re-write of birth control in which I (gasp) mentioned near the end that the Catholic Church's stand on condoms is increasing the spread of AIDS in Africa. (Of course the fact that this is well supported by epidemiological study after study is no excuse. Since when did research science tell us what is actually happening in our world? Why just the other day I was talking with a nurse as she applied leeches to the patient I had just bled to release his excess of black bile when.... oh never mind.)

But then as I said to Ricky previously, I am no longer interested as this seems really more about a popularity contest than anything else. Which is a like the proverbial red rag to a bull for me. Eeeew. Thanks but no. Since I started here (about a week after Ricky) I have produced just a little more than 1% of the articles on simple and I've expanded quite a few more. Moreover, I was being quite honest about my feelings about administrative activities, and have been amply reminded of exactly why I felt that way during this discussion.

So I am going to do what I do best anyway and I'm rescinding my request.-NickGorton 07:04, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

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