Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Vikrant Phadkay

Vikrant Phadkay

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Vikrant Phadkay (talk · contribs) - Self-nomination Vikrant 20:32, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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: Editing protected pages and protecting those which need to be. I have also fought vandalism whenever it has been noticed and participated in recent deletion procedures. I would like to get involved more actively in these.

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

A: Two featured articles: Casino Royale (2006 film) and The World Is Not Enough (song). I have also helped achieve good articles such as Octopussy, GoldenEye 007, A View to a Kill, Die Another Day, The Living Daylights, Halle Berry, Daniel Craig and Madonna (entertainer).

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. If such incidents happen in future, I would resolve them through discussions.

Optional questions by Keeper Thanks for your nomination. Two questions, feel free to answer or not, they are optional.

4. Your block log shows that you've been blocked twice in the past (although not since June of 2007). In your opinion, why were you blocked, do you feel it was appropriate, and what have you done differently (if anything) since those blocks to avoid being blocked since?

A. The first block was due to a dispute over whether or not to merge 493 article about each Pokemon. I was feeling frustrated since I had made many contributions to individual pages and expressed this on the merged pages. I regretted doing so, but the second time I was blocked was due to lack of an edit summary- I was removing a game guide list from Pokemon Puzzle Challenge and also told this to the user who requested blocking. Since then, I have utilised most edit summaries and been civil.

5. What is the difference between a block and a ban?

A.Block is temporary and is intented to prevent damage to an article. A ban is usually permanent and for sock-puppetry.

General comments

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

• Links for Vikrant Phadkay: Vikrant Phadkay (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)

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

Discussion

Oppose

1. Oppose User does not know what a block really is. RuneWiki⁷⁷⁷ 21:19, 17 January 2008 (UTC)