Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Porchcrop 2
- The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a request for adminship that did not succeed. Please do not modify it.
Final: (0/11/0) Non-crat closure per WP:SNOW. \ Backslash Forwardslash / {talk} 13:44, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Nomination
[edit]Porchcrop (talk · contribs) – I am an all-round editor. My tasks on Wikipedia are like cleaning up vandalism, welcoming newcomers, helping editors in these pages, reporting to administrators, fulfilling semi-protected page's edit requests, correcting spelling, etc. I am also an adopter. -Porchcrop (talk|contributions) 08:32, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
Questions for the candidate
[edit]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?
- 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
- A: All said above
- 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: No. I have never had stress
General comments
[edit]- Links for Porchcrop: Porchcrop (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
- Edit summary usage for Porchcrop can be found here.
Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Porchcrop before commenting.
Discussion
[edit]Support
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Oppose
[edit]- According to Soxred's tool, you have a grand total of 261 edits to the article space. Your most edited article is List of characters in SpongeBob SquarePants, with 7 edits, and your next-most is a tie between SpongeBob SquarePants (season 5) and Characters of Crash Bandicoot with five edits each.
While adminship should not be an award for prolific content creators, some experience with content creation is necessary in order to resolve content disputes. I simply cannot see such evidence.—S Marshall Talk/Cont 09:02, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Per said above and directly below.Abce2|Aww nuts!Wribbit!(Sign here) 09:04, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- You have insufficent experience as shown by your edit count, and the answers to the questions are far to sparse for me. WP:NOTNOW. M♠ssing Ace 09:51, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Please try again later .As per WP:NOTNOWGood Luck Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 10:06, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Not enough experience. (WP:SNOW?) Frehley 10:15, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Needs more and varied experience (WP:NOTNOW). Shinerunner (talk) 11:18, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Oppose This is too recent, and your answer to q1 is too broad - I'd hope to specific examples of where you would use the tools and relevant experience in those areas. ϢereSpielChequers 11:24, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- 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.
- Generally, It has been my experience that it takes 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.
- 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.
- Adminship inevitably leads one to 1) need to explain clearly the reasons for one's decisions, 2) need to review one's decisions and change one's mind when it is reasonable to do so, 3) need to review one's decisions and stand firm when it is reasonable to do so, 4) need to 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.
- My suggestion would be to withdraw and try again in another 3 months and 3000 edits. Many nominees have found it helpful to obtain 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. iMatthew talk at 11:31, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Generally, It has been my experience that it takes 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.
- per ϢereSpielChequers. See the advice and links that iMatthew gives, and continue to work on learning policies and guidelines. The tools that admins have are not usually given out until an editor has demonstrated their abilities over a longer period of time. Usually a minimum of 6-8 months and 4,000 - 6.000 edits. Please continue to contribute, and stop back when you have a little bit more experience. — Ched : ? 13:10, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Per answer to Q3, if you've had no stress you haven't been around long enough.--Giants27 (c|s) 13:13, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong oppose and request for closure. Not ready yet. per maturity issues noted on talk page, inability to distinguish between vandalism and good faith lack of understanding edits of others, overall lack of experience in admin areas. Dlohcierekim 13:25, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral
[edit]- 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.