Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Paul Benjamin Austin

Paul Benjamin Austin

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) (0/1/2); Scheduled to end 15:03, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Nomination

Paul Benjamin Austin (talk · contribs) – I am an extremely long-serving and dedicated Wikipedian. I have had a registered account for over fourteen years and edited extensively anonymously before this. I was previously an administrator from 2003 until 2005, at which point I resigned my adminship due to stress. I pledge to recuse myself from any matters when asked, if that is a concern

• Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/PMelvilleAustin
• Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/PMA.

Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 14:47, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?

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

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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?

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Additional question from WJBscribe

4. Have you reflected on the comments made at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/PMA? How would you approach being an administrator differently if this request is successful?

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Additional question from Joshualouie711

5. Proper edit summary usage is frequently considered a requisite for adminship. However, for all non-minor mainspace edits, your edit summary usage is only 25%. Could you please explain the reason why you do not typically use edit summaries? Thank you.

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Discussion

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Oppose

You don't meet my criteria. That you failed to transclude this does not bode well. Chris Troutman (talk) 15:17, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

1. Oppose - if it weren't for your impressive tenure I'd think this RFA was trolling. It seems obvious that you did not read Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates. You didn't answer any of the questions before transcluding, and you didn't transclude properly. You're right, the process has changed remarkably from the era in which you were previously a sysop, back in the day when you could basically just email Jimbo and he'd make you an admin. Your nomination commenting that you resigned the bit due to stress seems dishonest, given the fact that you resigned the bit evidently to escape scrutiny while your egregious abuse of the tools was being discussed (per question 4 above) even though that was more than ten years ago. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 15:40, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

   "abuse of the tools" - after i had found several editors *boasting on their talk pages* that they planned to collude to maintain a far left bias in socialism and communism related articles? Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 15:44, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Moving from oppose That you failed to transclude this does not bode well. Chris Troutman (talk) 15:24, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

   What's transclude? the last time i was made an admin was 13 years ago. Completely different system. Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 15:27, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

   This. You can read up about it at Wikipedia:Transclusion. The community is likely to expect you to have familiarised yourself with how Wikipedia has changed over the past 13 years before seeking to be an administrator again. WJBscribe (talk) 15:31, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

2. Neutral A lot has changed in 13 years. While I personally wish the bar to adminship was not so high, it is. And you probably need to bring yourself more up to date on Wikipedia in its present state before running again. Lepricavark (talk) 15:44, 16 December 2016 (UTC)