Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Wikibofh

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Wikibofh

final (17/0/0) ending 21:01 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikibofh (talk · contribs) – Wikibofh has been a Wikipedian since March. He has substantial contributions mostly consisting of article work, but spread out nicely. I first encountered him at this RfAr, where he seemed quite reasonable and civil, and have since been impressed by his persistence as a wikignome. Give him the LART, I say! ~~ N (t/c) 21:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I accept. Thank you very much. Wikibofh 21:32, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Support

As nominator. ~~ N (t/c) 21:08, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support Plenty of contributions, courteous. Would be a good admin. Dlyons493 Talk 22:15, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sure, does a lot of editing to articles, so I support. Private Butcher 22:15, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Merovingian (t) (c) 22:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support CambridgeBayWeather 22:55, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Rob e rt 00:27, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Kirill Lokshin 01:20, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Rogerd 02:56, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Andre (talk) 04:49, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Extreme BOFH support. — JIP | Talk 08:07, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support seems reasonable candidate for the mop. Alf ^melmac 15:14, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support I met user here, [1], from what I've seen Wikibofh seems to be a conscientious user. --Kewp (t) 07:06, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Good admin material. android 79 17:24, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support!!! BD2412 ^talk 21:21, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Cool. --JuntungWu 07:16, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support, nice editor. --MissingLinks 14:44, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support. El_C 03:28, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Neutral

Comments

Number of edits may be misleading. It takes me many attempts to write correctly as I am new to editing, though have been reading the stuff a lot. Therefore, I feel overall impression of the person is more important. --MissingLinks 14:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)

A. My style of editing means that I tend to work on different things and cycle around. I expect I would work on AfD closure, monitor Vandalism Intervention and as well as other sort of "admin only areas" I haven't accessed yet. My watchlist is roughly 600 items, and I would continue to monitor that. I would also hope to prudently use short term blocks to lower the overhead of the pass through vandals that we spend a lot of time with.

2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A. I'm not particularly good and creating large articles from scratch, so don't expect to see a lot in the way of FAC work. I do have a few favorites though. As documented on my userpage I'm pretty much solely responsible for the Monster trucks category. I'm also happy with the status of Gas lighting which was a cut-n-paste of a PD text from Project Gutenberg. I went through it all, and although the language and organization aren't great, it's much better than the original.

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

A. I generally don't get wikistress. I can come back if it's bothering me. I have had a few conflicts that I'll try to detail:

Taipei American School: One of the first real controversies. An anon insisted on trying to add POV and unverifiable information. The details are in talk, in particular here and here.
Power violence: Anon claiming it wasn't a recognized genre on talk and my talk.
Mexico: This is the most embarrassing, but I think it's illustrative. I was monitoring my watchlist and accidentally started reverting to the vandalized version. It's covered on my talk. I made sure I apologized.
Reformed_Government_of_the_Republic_of_China : The only one that every really irritated me is when a user accused me of bad faith on a VfD after having this conversation on my talk page.

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