Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Timmeh

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

Timmeh

Final (0/6/0); ended 3:50, 24 December 2007 (UTC) Withdrawn by Singularity, candidate's request ([1])

Timmeh (talk · contribs) - I believe I have edited Wikipedia for long enough to nominate myself of adminship. I've made over a thousand mainspace edits and I've helped out a lot on several articles. I don't see any time that I would abuse the tools or make any bad judgments while I have the mop. ╦ﺇ₥₥€Ԋ(^talk/_contribs) 00:14, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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 admin work do you intend to take part in?

A: If my nomination is successful, my admin work will mostly be blocking persistent vandals. I have already successfully reported at least one persistent vandal who was subsequently blocked. My main admin work will also take place in the area where I mostly edit, where there aren't any admins that watch or routinely edit the over 40 pages that I watch and frequently edit. On these pages, there have been many vandals, most not persistent, but there are some who are persistent enough to get blocked. Usually, in cases that are not completely obvious, I will give a polite message to the vandal before giving them warnings. This does reduce the amount of people that need to be blocked and sometimes gets the right message to the vandal. Recently, I have started working with articles that need to be deleted, or ones that need to be moved to a name that's already in use as a redirect. Being an admin would help me speed up page moving without having to wait for another admin to act. As an admin, many people would also look to me for help and I could lead them in the right direction.

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

A: I mainly do anti-vandalism edits and formatting fixes and such, but the contributions I am most proud of are the ones I did on the Paper Walls article and the Yellowcard article. On Paper Walls, I added a few sections, rewrote much of the article, and moved information to the correct sections. I am still not done with the article, however, as I still need to cite several things and expand some of the new sections. On the Yellowcard article, I completely rewrote most of the sections, fixed all the terrible grammar mistakes, and added a few citations. I still plan to expand the Early History and Ocean Avenue sections of the article.

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 haven't been in any big conflicts recently, but the biggest one that caused me the most stress was probably when the user Hoponpop69 had added citation needed tags to some genres on various band, album, and songs pages that I frequented. Although this was early in my editing career, I had known of the policies concerning it. I removed the citation needed signs for genres in the infoboxes because I believed that the genres did not need to be cited and that citations for genres should be in the main article where the style and genre of the work is discussed. Although I did do one action that could be considered against policy by some editors, and was considered wrong by Hoponpop69, I stood my ground. But I did not back up my arguments and the user eventually put up a request to get me blocked at WP:AIAV. The request did not go through, however, because my edits were in good faith and he did not give me any official warnings. After his block request failed, he basically let it go. I didn't say anything more as I didn't want to start up another argument.

General comments

See Timmeh's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.

Links for Timmeh: Timmeh (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
I'd like to withdraw my nomination. I believe I became too excited at the thought of becoming an admin and I went a little overboard in nominating myself. I'm not sure exactly how to withdraw, but if someone could do it for me, it'd be great. Thanks ╦ﺇ₥₥€Ԋ(^talk/_contribs) 03:29, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Timmeh before commenting.

Discussion

Support

Oppose

Sorry, I think you need more experience.Sumoeagle179 (talk) 02:13, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The discussions on your talk page reveal that you aren't ready yet. Erasing warnings from your talk page is especially telling - don't worry though, it's part of the adjustment process to wiki-collaboration. My advice is to focus on vandalism just as you planned. You don't need admin tools for that initially, and when you are ready for the tools, someone will let you know by nominating you. Good luck. The Transhumanist 02:19, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'd just like to say that the discussions on my talk page in the last couple of months have all ended well and with everyone coming to an agreement, mostly in my favor. The removal of the warnings was several months ago, before I really knew most policies. I know I haven't been editing for a very long time, but I believe I have adjusted very quickly in the past 2 months. All of my recent edits have been good also and they show my experience. ╦ﺇ₥₥€Ԋ(^talk/_contribs) 02:35, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That's good. It shows you are on the right path. If you keep up the good work, you'll be ready for adminship in a few months. I'll be glad to support once you have established a nice track record of civility and admin-like wiki-relations. There are plenty of tools for you to cut your teeth on. Lupin's anti-vandal tool, VP, AWB, etc. Show us what you've got. You can have plenty of fun and can get massive amounts done without the admin tools. The mop will come in time, so don't worry about it. You could take this opportunity to ask your opposers questions - it will provide you with valuable feedback that you can work on for your next RfA. The Transhumanist 02:48, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Again, experience is a little low. Happ y Holi days! Dreamafter ^Talk 02:33, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Also, semi-canvassing. Happ y Holi days! Dreamafter ^Talk 02:40, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It is not canvassing at all. I did not ask anyone to vote in my favor. I asked them to put in some input by either supporting or opposing. ╦ﺇ₥₥€Ԋ(^talk/_contribs) 02:49, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Which is why I put semi-canvassing. Happ y Holi days! Dreamafter ^Talk 02:50, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I don't mean to be rude, but how is it semi-canvassing? I see nothing wrong with notifying other users of my RfA and asking them to provide some input. ╦ﺇ₥₥€Ԋ(^talk/_contribs) 02:55, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, that is not canvassing. It is even advisable that a notice like that is placed on the user page. John Vandenberg (talk) 03:36, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No. Need more experience. Please come back later. Thanks, -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 02:37, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Experience concerns. Get experience and try again in a few months when you're ready and I will support you. NHRHS2010 Happy Holidays 03:09, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose — I view self-noms as prima facie evidence of power hunger. Kurt Weber (Go Colts!) 03:40, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral

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