Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Drmaik

drmaik

Voice your opinion (0/3/0); Scheduled to end 08:24, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

drmaik (talk · contribs) - I've been on wikipedia since December 2005, mainly editing language-related articles, in particular related to Arabic. Drmaik 08:24, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I hereby accept this self nomination! Drmaik 09:06, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog and Category:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A: I do a reasonable amount of reverting, and being an administrator should help with this, as well as being able to block vandals and protect (or more likely semi protect) pages suffering a lot of vandalism/ edit warring.

2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A: I've significantly expanded Tunisian Arabic (there's still lots to do), added a couple of sections to Arabic language, and have recently started Ethnologue list of most spoken languages, as a consistently referenced alternative to the very messy and unstable List of languages by number of native speakers. I've also added a few references to some linguistics pages, which I believe to be important.

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: Yes, there have been some conflicts, most recently in Ethnologue list of most spoken languages and List of languages by number of native speakers. I have been challenging some unreferenced edits, and trying to gain consensus on the talk page (e.g. concerning whether to count Arabic as one or several languages) rather than always reverting when I don't agree. I attempt to be clear and polite to those I disagree with, and make the reason for the disagreement the point of discussion. I have never been drawn into making personal insults (at least on the screen!)

General comments

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

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Please keep criticism constructive and polite.

Discussion

Support

Oppose

1. Oppose based on use of popups to revert my reversion of your at-the-time-nonexistant RFA. Furthermore, you only have, at this time, including edits to this RFA, 16 Wikipedia-space edits, which is not enough for me to believe you have enough knowledge of policy to handle the tools. – Chacor 09:04, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

   Just to say I reverted as the simplest way to link correctly to the admin request which had a capitalisation inconsistency, and which did work. Drmaik 09:29, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

2. Oppose- 16 Wikipedia space edits? Get more and I'll support, but not now. Jorcoga ^(Hi!/Review)09:51, Thursday, February 1 '07
3. Oppose - low activity, almost no Wikipedia space edits, no need for the tools yet. Sorry, try again in six months with a bunch more WP edits. The Rambling Man 10:18, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Neutral