Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Guanaco 3

Guanaco

Vote here (11/1/0) ending 22:33, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

It's been three months since Guanaco lost his admin status in what was, quite frankly, a misguided debacle masquerading as a referendum. In those three months, Guanaco has avoided edit wars and generally acted like a model user. I think it's time to offer him his mop and his bucket back, as I think he's learned his lesson. Snowspinner 22:33, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

I (once again) gratefully accept this nomination. I hope the community will forgive my past mistakes. Guanaco 23:05, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Support

1. Snowspinner 22:34, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
2. Welcome back! Neutrality^talk 22:38, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
3. Shanes 23:02, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
4. gadfium 23:08, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
5. Everyking 23:14, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
6. 'bout time. Grutness|^hello? 23:46, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
7. Of course. -- Netoholic @ 00:42, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
8. Yep. Nadavspi | talk 00:51, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
9. Refdoc 00:51, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
10. Supported then, still support now. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 01:45, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
11. I retain my support of him. ugen64 04:18, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
12. --Millosh 05:48, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC) Guanaco is very reliable person. (I am cooperating with him at another project.) I don't see any reason why not to give him admin privileges. (And my English is not so good :) )

Oppose

1. A.D.H. (t&m) 00:56, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC) In an RFA vote, the key (and to some, the only) question is "is this user likely to misuse an elevated privilege level?" Usually, a pristine history of "normal" edits is enough to assure voters that he is not. In this particular case, however, Guanaco was an administrator, the only one to ever have that privilege forcibly revoked, and three months of keeping one's nose clean during normal editing just isn't enough to put my mind at ease.

Neutral

Comments

• Could we have a link to the proceedings where he lost his adminship? -- Chris 73 Talk 23:06, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

  Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Cantus vs. Guanaco and Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Guanaco. Guanaco 23:26, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)

A. I plan on helping with Wikipedia:Media for deletion, Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images and Wikipedia:Copyright problems. I'll help clear out vandal and test pages and help to quickly deal with the page move vandal attacks. I don't intend to do much 3RR or arbitration enforcement, unless something extreme comes up (e.g. a revertbot). I'll shy away from the more controversial pages like Wikipedia:Protected page that tend to generate more heat than light. Guanaco

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

A. I proposed Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images back in September 2004, and it blossomed into what is now Wikipedia's way of fixing many of its copyright problems. I have deleted and marked for deletion quite a few junk pages that might have otherwise slipped through Special:Newpages. Recently, I've been contributing original articles and correcting errors. Guanaco

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and will deal with it in the future?

A. Obviously, I must have had some sort of conflict or this nomination wouldn't exist. ;) I was part of several arbitration cases as an admin, and some requests for comment on my actions were posted. In the past, I tended to treat these things as I might a lawsuit and became stressed, but I now realize that they really are "no big deal". I hope to avoid highly controversial actions and situations, but if I am ever again part of anything more than a minor dispute, I will be more open and willing to discuss it. Guanaco