Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Joebengo

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[edit] Joebengo

Voice your opinion (3/1/3); Scheduled to end 01:49, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Joebengo (talk • contribs) - I feel sort of odd nominating myself for adminship but since I find myself wishing I were an admin at times I thought I would give it a shot. I like to consider myself a low-key editor who just wants what is best for Wikipedia, I started editing about a year ago without a user name and started editing with this user name in October of 2006. My edit countis a little over 3,000 with over 1,500 mainspace edits, (though I contribute some of my edit count to AWB). Since joining Wikipedia I have stuck to editing U.S. Navy and Basque related articles, I am especially proud of the work I did on the United States Naval Academy article in order to get it to WP:GA status, BUT that is not the only thing I have done (a rough idea of what I have done can be found here). I have also, in my spare time, contributed to reverting vandalism and I have nominated a fair share of AfD while surfing the "Random article" link. I understand that some of you will want to know my position on Wikipedia's Guidelines and Policies, and or other issues and I will gladly take any questions. If nominated I would work to make Wikipedia a better place and with the sysop tools I believe that I will be able to achieve that goal. Joebengo 01:49, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Yes.--Joebengo 02:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with?

A: First off I would like to work on WP:CSD because I find articles that are tagged for a speedy deletion need to be take care of ASAP and those articles are disruptive to the integrity of Wikipedia, secondly I would like to help the WP:AFD. I also want to be an Admin that is approachable and able to help other users who don't have sysop tools and are in need of Admin assistance.

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

A: I have three articles that I am very happy with, the first being the United States Naval Academy article, which I took a keen intrest in since I applied for it this past summer, the USNA article was very choppy and was missing a lot of history and inline citations which I spent almost three months editing. It was nominated for GA last week and within a day it was approved for GA status. The second article I am most proud of would be the Basque-American article, which was also my first big project, I added much of the information on the page and created the map and the list of notables. I'll try to speed things up, my third article that I am particularly pleased with is the List of Basques, after a lot of discussion on the talk page about seperating Basques from dispora Basques I took it upon myself to place flagicons before every name (which took a VERY LONG time) and I also spiced the article up with pictures of Basque people who were born Basque and not just dispora Basque.

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 really haven't been in any conflicts over editing that werent resolved or taken care of civily. Of course I have run into other users with different POV and instead of creating conflict I have just gotten a consensus from the community on the talk page where there may be a difference and taken care of things that way.

General comments

• See Joebengo's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.
• I just want everyone to know that all I want for Wikipedia is for it to be a better place and with the tools of an administrator I believe that I will be a better asset to Wikipedia as a whole. Feel free to ask any questions.

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Please keep criticism constructive and polite.

Discussion

Support

1. Support--U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. (talk • contribs) 02:26, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
2. Support Good candidate, no reason to oppose from his records. Wooyi^{Talk, Editor review} 02:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
3. Support, no reason to think he'll misuse or abuse the tools. --Rory096 04:25, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
4. Support with mild reservations. Most speedy deletions are not urgent, with the notable exceptions of CSD G1, G3, G10 and T1. They can wait a day or two without harming anyone. Generally you want to focus your CSD work on the longest backlogs - generally G11, G12, A7, and some of the image categories. If this RFA passes, I'd encourage you to process a few dozen CSDs before you close AFDs, but I'm willing to give you the chance. YechielMan 06:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Oppose

1. No. sorry. Very few CFDs and not much project space. Basically, needs more time sorry. WikiMan53 (talk) (click here) 02:59, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

   CFDs? What the hell? Even I don't have CFDs, and I have 25,000 edits. How does that disqualify someone from adminship, especially when they didn't say ANYTHING about CFDs in their first question? --Rory096 04:25, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

   Read the below comment, Rory. And a reminder to remain civil --KZ^{Talk• Contribs} 05:17, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Neutral good user, however doesn't meet the general criteria for adminship; you have low participation in the project-space, you say in your answer to Q1 that you would like to help in CfD when you have very few edits in there, and there is a lack of user communication, which is quite crucial for an admin. I would definitely support if you have worked on these areas and renominated yourself. —Anas ^talk? 02:40, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

   I understand your concern, part of the reason for wanting to become an admin is so that I can work on AfD (note I accidentally put CfD when I was responding in my question) more and be more involved in that field, I also understand the lack of user communication but I would partially attribute that to the fact that I have worked in fields where there are little or no other users who are active such as the Basque Portal and Wikiproject where I am a maintainer and rarely come in contact with other users.--Joebengo 02:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

2. Neutral Too little project edits. I'll be happy to support once you contribute more to that. --KZ^{Talk• Contribs} 03:56, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
3. Neutral - Sorry, insufficient project space experience, recommend withdraw as it is unlikely to pass. --WinHunter ^(talk) 03:59, 8 April 2007 (UTC)