Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/MSTCrow
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{{subst:RfA|User=MSTCrow|Ending=January 8th, 2006|Description=I am nominating myself for the position of Wikipedia Administrator. I am not someone who has written volumes of entries for Wikipedia, nor am I someone that has an enormous amount of edits to my credit. I am not a bureaucrat, and I have no interest in telling others what to do. I am nominating myself because more and more, I see Wikipedia contributors and Admins who seek to create their own rules for others to follow, to limit what others may post regardless of factual accuracy, and mold Wikipedia into a vehicle that fits their own ideologies, with room for none others. What I seek is for Wikipedia to return to its roots. While even if never fully achieved, Wikipedia's founding purpose, as I understand it, was to be a collaborative work where various people of different walks of life added factual data they were aware of for the benefit of themselves and others, with the occassional error, intentional or not, removed. Wikipedia is no longer a truly free forum for collecting knowledge. It has become authoritarian, distrustful of its users, and controlling. This is due in large part, I believe, to the elevation of many users to Admin status, users who do not share Wikipedian principles. I wish to be an Admin not to serve the Admins, whether good or bad, or to propound my own viewpoints on different subjects, but to work to restore Wikipedia to its founding heritage, and to serve the users, many who feel increasingly disenfranchised. It's probably not smart to take jabs at much of the Wikipedia ruling class (I don't believe there should be one), but I stand on principle, and whether confirmed or not, I shall continue to serve Wikipedia's founding principles, and work to protect users from arbitrary misuse of power.~~~~}}
