User:Tom Morris/RfA

Tom Morris

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Nomination

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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?

A: My primary use for administrative tools would be to help with the deletion process, primarily at AfD (where I'm a fairly regular participant), but also at CSD and PROD. I answer questions on OTRS and would benefit in being able to see deleted contributions to understand exactly why pages were deleted. I'd also be interested in helping out at AIV and RFPP if they get backlogged.

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

A: My best contributions are probably the wide variety of wikignome tasks including lots of sister project links (to Wikinews, Commons and Wikisource), adding categories, WikiProject tagging of new articles (as part of new page patrolling), recent changes patrolling with Huggle and so on. I also do some copyediting and wikification.

I've also made quite a few contributions to the Signpost from February through to October. From my work for Signpost, I think the best report I've done is the Wikimania report.

I've had three articles at DYK: Timothy E. Quill, Help Me Anthea, I'm Infested and Black Bear Ranch. I've also created a few other articles which I chose not to submit to DYK: Society for Old Age Rational Suicide, Maurice Généreux, Walter Gale (schoolmaster), Religious epistemology, Skeptical theism and Sweet v Parsley. I have also expanded Dignity in Dying, specifically the 'History' and the 'Practicalities' sections. When I have time, I'd like to fix this up to be a GA.

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 don't think I've ever been in any conflicts. I've had one or two situations where I've done something silly that I very quickly came to regret, but I very quickly apologise, learn from it and move on. I've had a few exchanges with problematic, now banned, users–but nothing that rises to the level of "stress". Generally, I take everything with a bit of humour and always try to remember that Wikipedia is not compulsory.

General comments

RfAs for this user:

• Requests for adminship/Tom Morris

• Links for Tom Morris: Tom Morris (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for Tom Morris can be found here.

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