Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Monkbel

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[edit] Monkbel

Vote here (3/5/2) ended 09:24 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Monkbel (talk • contribs) – Active user, more than half a year on Wikipedias. Too many times reverted vandals "manually" and would like to have a tool to do it. I'm interested in most topics, being more active on pages under Category:Belarus. I have a bunch of pages that are not watched by any current administrator on my Watchlist, so vandalism can stay there for long. I use edit summary almost always. I'm slightly involved in MediaWiki development (language files). Monkbel 07:14, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Accept, self nomination. --Monkbel 07:36, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for all your votes and comments, I cancel my self nomination. May be I'll try later in a few moths, being more experienced in community questions. --Monkbel 17:15, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Support

1. Merovingian (t) (c) 08:17, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
2. Support. Molotov (talk) 01:07, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3. Support Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 02:42, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Weak Oppose I'm a little bothered by your user-interaction, specifically the lack of it (see [1], [2] and of course, kate). You seem like a really good user, and with some more community contribution, I will certainly support in the future (a few months or so). gkhan 15:23, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
2. Oppose Only 19 wikipedia namespace and 19 user talk edits and less than 1000 overall u look like a good user but probaly in a few months I will support, but not now --JAranda | yeah 16:50, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
3. Oppose Per reasons given above. Private Butcher 18:46, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
4. Oppose Lucks good communication skills (as from my experience in Belarusian Wikipedia). Sometimes pushes POV. Makes policy decision without discussing with other contributors (Byelorussia/Belarus, Belarusian łacinca articles names). Doesn’t understand image copyrights issues well enough. --EugeneZelenko 00:53, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
5. Oppose- too inexperienced Astrotrain 17:48, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
6. The vote thing. Andre (talk) 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
7. Oppose per above. freestylefrappe 23:10, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Neutral

1. Yesterday at WP:RM you claimed "vote has been held and there is general approval" [3] for a move you requested (Daugava → Western Dvina). But I checked this and found a 2-2 tie [4]. Can you clarify this? -- Curps 07:52, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

   No problem. I have counted Weak oppose (as one is there) as 0,5, so there should be 2-1,5 (it is not like 62 to 61,5 situation, you see). Vote has been up for two weeks and there were no additional votes; I have fixed page text to reflect that Western Dvina should be mentioned first and nobody opposed. I thought it was enough to state there was general approval (not unanimous, though). And, moreover, soon after I have set up vote again one supporting voice was added. --Monkbel 08:07, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

2. I worked with Monkebl on a few Belarusian articles before, but I am going to sit on this one. Zach (Sound Off) 02:44, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Comments

• A chart showing this user's edits along with a total # of edits line and average edits per day line is available here: Image:Monkbel-edits.png. I offer this not as a more refined version of editcountitis, but as just one tool to help evaluate an admin nominee with a somewhat low edit count on Wikipedia. --Durin 14:15, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
• Use of edit summaries 97%, 97% over last 300 edits. Average edits per day at 4. --Durin 14:15, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

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. First of all, reverting vandalism (with blocking of anonymous vandals). Second, merging histories of the pages, that were "moved" using "cut and paste". And some other admin abilities if there will be clear necessity.

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

A. I'm kind of "fix-here-and-there" wikipedian, so I mostly fix, wikify, categorize and so on. But I'm writing short articles too, mostly on Belarusian football topic - such as Vitali Kutuzov, Sergei Gurenko, Belarus national football team; they may look more like expanded stubs, though.

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 have been in edit conflicts few times, mostly about spelling. One example is 1st Belorussian Front, with User:Philip Baird Shearer and User:Adam Carr, who insist on using deprecated spelling; wrong club name on Lokomotiv Moscow, where I have convinced my opponent. But I've never been involved in edit war - I just leave things as they are if there is no consensus for a change, since almost no things like these can't really cause me stress.

In the future, I prefer to set up vote counters and try to reach consensus for one version or another, if I feel there should be the change, but I don't see myself being among the clear majority. If I see the change is needed badly, I take time to construct considerable response to my opponents.

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