Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Mrmewe

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a request for adminship that did not succeed. Please do not modify it.

Mrmewe

FINAL (0/1/0); closed per WP:NOTNOW by EVula at 21:15, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Nomination

Mrmewe (talk · contribs) – I am a budding political strategist, politician, and overall consensus builder and I believe that I could be a great fit for the Wikipedia administrative community. I enjoy analyzing, interpreting, and following laws and policies (especially in terms of parliamentary procedure) and think this could be a good contribution to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has many strict policies and I believe that it is very important to follow them to the letter. In addition, I successfully proceeded with and argued for the deletion of articles, based on Wikipedia guidelines for biographical entries. I am very diplomatic, and as a leader I think I can help maintain that Wikipedia remains a place for constructive, collaborative dialogue. mrmewe (talk) 20:57, 30 December 2009 (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 administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: I am very interested in the deletion side of things on Wikipedia, especially when it comes to biographical information. I hope to moderate and pursue issues that violate the biographical policy on Wikipedia. I understand that it is important to remain neutral in these issues, but understand and know that one must pursue these policies vigorously.

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

A: On an average day, I enjoy going through articles and pursuing grammatical and stylistic edits to make sure that Wikipedia maintains some level of professionalism. In addition, there was an article that was the target of a lot of vandalism that I became involved with. I noticed that the article didn't follow Wikipedia's policies on biographical information. I pursued a request for deletion and cited numerous Wikipedia policies and was successful.

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: None that I can think of, but in the daily course of editing articles I have come in contact with users whose cultural and political views interfere with the mission of Wikipedia. In these cases, I cite the importance of keeping neutral on these issues since Wikipedia is a user-generated encyclopedia.

General comments

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

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Discussion

Oppose

2. Thank you for submitting your RFA. While I applaud enthusiasm, I'm afraid you do not yet possess sufficient knowledge and experience for the community to have confidence in your readiness to become an admin. But that does not mean that we will never have confidence in you.

   For the most part, it requires at least 3,000 edits in a variety of areas to learn policy and guidelines well enough to attempt adminship. Nominees need to show the ability to contribute a number of significant edits to build the encyclopedia.

   However, if you work on vandalism patrol, most people would like a few thousand more.

   The Admin tools allow the user to block and unblock other editors, delete and undelete pages and protect and unprotect pages. Nominees will therefore do well to gain experience and familiarity with such areas as WP:AIV, WP:AFD, WP:CSD, Wikipedia:Protection policy, and WP:BLOCK to learn when to do these things.

   As an admin, you will inevitably have to...

   1. Explain clearly the reasons for one's decisions.
   2. Review one's decisions and change one's mind when it is reasonable to do so.
   3. Review one's decisions and stand firm when it is reasonable to do so
   4. Negotiate a compromise.

   Admins need a familiarity with dispute resolution. The ability to communicate clearly is essential.

   Article building is the raison d'être of Wikipedia. I recommend significant participation in WP:GA or WP:FA as the surest way to gain article building experience.

   If you are not the type of person who likes to write content, there's plenty of other article work you can do (WikiGnomeing for start).

   My suggestion would be to withdraw and try again in another 3 months and 3,000 edits. Many nominees have found it helpful to submit an Editor Review or to receive Admin coaching before submitting their RfA and after passing that benchmark. Hope this helps. Good luck and happy editing. iMatthew ^talk at 21:09, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Neutral

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