Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Katharineamy

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Katharineamy

Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page) Final (2/2/0); ended 01:04, 8 May 2011 (UTC) - Withdrawn by candidate. - HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:04, 8 May 2011 (UTC) Originally scheduled to end 23:16, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Nomination

Katharineamy (talk · contribs) – This user needs no introduction. She has an extensive edit count of 85,000+ and can be described as a WikiGnome. Surprisingly, her first edit: [1] was her wikifying and article.Maucho laughs to himself She has been trusted with reviewer and rollback permissions which she has used most usefully. She has been majorly contributing sine 2006. Katherine is not that much of prolific article creator, but come to think of it A number of admins don't make that many article. Katherineamy mostly contributes in cleanup work and wikifying articles, Her doing this shows her knowledge of policy. mauchoeagle _(c) 23:04, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Accepted! Withdrawn. The objections below are reasonable. Katharineamy (talk) 01:00, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

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: I'd continue doing the cleanup work I enjoy at the moment, plus the additional duty of going through the speedy deletion noms and expired prods to delete the articles in question. Also, I'll help out closing deletion debates as appropriate.

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

A: Solid work with linking and cleaning up articles, rather than creation or substantial edits. I prefer to do the small jobs in bulk.

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: Occasionally people have questioned my editing methods. Generally I try to take that on board and amend the way I do things if I feel the criticism is fair.

Additional question from Mtking

4. When judging the notability of a subject, what is your view of the primacy of the WP:GNG over other WP:SNG?

A:

Additional question from Thryduulf (talk)

5. Why do you want to work on speedy deletion when you have so little experience of regular deletions? Thryduulf (talk) 00:15, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

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Additional questions from 43?9enter

6. If you were engaged in a long content dispute with another editor, and they started cursing suddenly, what would you do?

A:

7. Can vandals be completely rehabilitated? Or is it "Once blocked, always watched"?

A:

General comments

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

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Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review their contributions before commenting.

Discussion

Support

1. Definitely. Great user with great contribs, no problem trusting them with a mop. Ajraddatz (Talk) 23:24, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
2. Support No reason not to at this point. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 23:48, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose I am deeply concerned by the candidate's interest in doing speedy deletion work. Reviewing their recent contributions, I found a number of troubling CSD nominations. Example 1, the db tag had two reasons, 1) "disambiguates two or fewer extant Wikipedia pages and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic)" 2) disambiguates no (zero) extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title. Asserted to be non-controversial maintenance. See CSD G6." This was a list of two locations with the same name, it did not end in (disambiguation), and this had useful information that was not duplicated elsewhere, while perhaps eligible for deletion under an alternative process, it was clearly not a good candidate for G6. Another list with the same tag, this one had substantial content. List of highways being CSDed as a disambiguation page. Then there is this A3 CSD of a town complete with infobox, clearly not a good A3 candidate, and I think it would even survive an AfD. CSD A3 on a vandalized page that had a good version in history. And finally, this A7 CSD on an article that even in that version cleary indicates why the person was important, namely "He is the author of Gnanamrutham". CSD is a process that should only be used carefully, and is designed for urgent or patently obvious and uncontroversial deletions. Clearly the candidate does not understand the proper application, which scares me in light of the interest in handling them. Also, a minor issue, but the candidate failed to follow the instructions and improperly transcluded this RFA at the end of the list instead of the top. (striking, transclusion was by nominator, not candidate) Monty₈₄₅ 00:01, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
2. (edit conflict) Oppose. While it's clear she does good work with dead-end links and minor cleanup, I'd like to see a more rounded contribution profile before supporting. I'm not denigrating the work she does - they are tasks that need doing, but she has less than 20 Wikipedia: namespace edits to her name since 2008, which doesn't lead me to have confidence that she understands all that is required of an administrator. Someone wanting to work with speedy deletion needs to have a vastly greater experience of deletion discussions before wielding the mop - speedy deletion is only for things that will always be deleted at XfD, and you need to have experienced lots of XfD's before you can truly understand what this means. Thryduulf (talk) 00:09, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Neutral

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