Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Shyam Bihari

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[edit] Shyam Bihari

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Shyam Bihari (talk • contribs) – It's my pleasure to nominate Shyam Bihari for adminship who has been a Wikipedian since August 18, 2005. I had the chance to work with him in his admin coaching and I'm absolutely sure that he's ready for the adminship and needs the tools as he likes removing backlog (about more than 8,000 edits in the untagged images project). Shyam is a good editor (some of his contributions are ^[1] and ^[2]), contributor to the Indian politics Project, maintainer of the Government of India Portal and helped Portal:India to get featured status.

He regularly reverts vandalism (^[3], ^[4]), helps out newcomers (^[5] and the reply: ^[6]) He can deal with difficult users and situations (a problematic discussion ^[7]).

Shyam has demonstrated dedication to this project with his featured portal and the ability to co-ordinate, maintain wikiprojects.

He would make a good administrator, that's why I ask for your support.

• Edit count - in excess of 16,000 in which most of them are on untagged images project (about more than 8,000), Indian politics project (about more than 2,500), India Portal (about more than 1,000), Government of India Portal (about 500).
• Time around - About 14.5 months with inactivity of 4 months because of unavailability of internet connection.
• Email enabled? - Yes
• Controversial userpage? - No
• Any blocks? - None
• Stupid signature? - No, he uses simple HTML texts in his signature. i.e. Shyam ^(T/C)
• Edit summaries - He fully supports to summarise the edit. 100% for major edits and 100% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.
• Civil? - Yes
• Personal attacks? - None
• Any edit warring? - None

NCurse _work 20:27, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I gratefully accept the nomination. Thanks for the consideration. Shyam ^(T/C) 21:21, 3 November 2006 (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 voters:

1. What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog and Category:Administrative backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

A: My first priority in sysop chores would be where the requirement is the most to clean up. Wherever there would be a large blacklog I would try to make it clean up. that is why I had done lot of works on untagged image project, which had about three years backlog previously. Sometimes, I would like to work on Images with no copyright tags as I am very familiar with the project. I will work on CAT:CSD, Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons, Category:Images on Wikimedia Commons, Category:Wikipedia protected edit requests also. I will keep my eyes also on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.

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

A: I was one of the major contributors to make Portal:India a featured portal. I am one of the maintainers of India Portal. I am the creator and maintainer of Government of India Portal which is recently created. I would love to make my further contributions on both the portals. I also had contributed in maintainance work for Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive. I also used to update the statistics of all the cricketers. I work the most on Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian politics and I would like to continue my contributions there. As I have mentioned earlier I have made lot of contributions to untagged images, I liked that place also. Sorry, I do not qualify WP:1FA criteria.

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: Yes. When I was working on the Untagged images project, I had to face many conflicts. One of the major conflicts was with PM Poon. It was resolved in a polite response from my side. His conversations on my talk page could be seen here and here also. Another major conflict was with Chrisobyrne. Discussions are available here and here also. But I was unable to convince him and he got satisfactory answers by filing a mediation case. In future I will try to deal with in similar manner which had no no personal attacks. I always try to remain civil, stay cool and try to resolve any conflicts by polite response. I assume good faith in Wikipedia's policy.

4. Review the edit history of User:81.117.200.37 and User:81.117.200.27, and any related article, document or other source. Should this IP/Range have been blocked at any point? When? Should this IP/Range be put under some sort of administrative probation? When, and of what type? Why or why not? Thank you. JBKramer 23:45, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

A: Yes, both of the anonymous users are blocked. According to this User:81.117.200.37 had been blocked by William M. Connolley once for violating WP:3RR for the article Deflation (economics). User:81.117.200.27 had been blocked by William M. Connolley twice and by Naconkantari once for violating three-revert rule thrice for the same article. But I am unable to find where User:81.117.200.37 had violated the three revert rule. Probably the history had been deleted concerning some legal issues. Yes, I beleve in WP:3RR policy of Wikipedia, so they should be blocked any point of time if they are aware of it. If not, once a notice could be left first on their talk pages and if still they are reverting the pages then they should be blocked. For User:81.117.200.37, I do not think there is some need for administrative probation as he had violated WP:3RR once according to block log. But User:81.117.200.27 should need to have some administrative intervention at administrators' noticeboard. Probably both the IPs are using by same user, but until unless it is not confirmed by the contributions' way there is no need to have intervention of an administrator. Probably, that answers the question, still not, then please let me know. Shyam ^(T/C) 11:08, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

General comments

• See Shyam Bihari's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool.

Shyam Bihari's editcount summary stats as of 21:42, November 3 2006, using Interiot's wannabe Kate's tool. (aeropagitica) 22:44, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

Support

1. Strong Support prolific editor. Rama's arrow 21:34, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
2. Would I be frowned upon if I supported him to free up coaches? ;) Good luck, Highway ^{Grammar Enforcer!} 22:10, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
3. Support, looks like a good mop & bucket candidate to me. ♠PMC♠ 22:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
4. Support More than meets my standards. No evidence of incivilty despite provacation. You probable need a "Defender of the Wiki" Barnstar in your collection for your work with images. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 22:26, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
5. Strong Support Terrific editor that definitely deserves to have the tools. Hello32020 22:34, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
6. Strong Support per nom. Prolific contributor to the Indian politics related articles. -- Ganeshk (talk) 22:43, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
7. Support Seems like a good admin candidate. (aeropagitica) 22:45, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
8. Support Looks like a great candidate. -- Kicking222 23:15, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
9. Support Exceptional candidate. Very impressive contributions -- Samir धर्म 00:15, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
10. Support One of the tireless editors at WP:INDIA. A pleasure to support him. Cheers. -- Chez ^{(Discuss / Email)} • 01:33, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
11. Support looks okay to me.-- danntm ^T _C 04:36, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
12. Mike | Happy Thanksgiving 04:45, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
13. Strong Support of course!! -- Lost^(talk) 05:14, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
14. Strong support sounds like a great candidate, and the backlogs he's offered to help with certainly need more people working on them. riana_dzasta 05:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
15. Strong support - His work at Politics of India project left me amazed! Extremely dedicated. Will do great work as an admin. - Aksi_great (talk) 07:21, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
16. Strong support - as nominator. :) NCurse _work 07:26, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
17. Support Sure. KrakatoaKatie 07:34, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
18. Support per nom. Kavadi carrier 07:50, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
19. Support per well.....everything above. --Srikeit ^{(Talk | Email)} 09:37, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
20. Support per all above reasons. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 10:46, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
21. Support per nomination, good contribution and representing a different culture which gives different POV,richness to wiki. Mustafa Akalp^TC 14:14, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
22. Support. - Mailer Diablo 14:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
23. Strong Support - Great editor. Very strong candidate for the post.--thunderboltz^(Deepu) 14:21, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
24. Support user has shown a tremendous dedication to Wikipedia, I've no reservations about trustworthiness, and I like his ability to work well with users as per Q3. hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 15:59, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
25. Support Good work on Indian politics.--Ageo020 (Talk • Contribs) 16:16, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
26. Support - A great editor that has a high edit count and definitely has the priorities of an admin. Acs4b 16:48, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
27. Support - A good editor with a well spread edit history. Would make a good admin I believe.-Localzuk^(talk) 17:17, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
28. Support - because of his work on Guna (Lok Sabha constituency)and practically every other Lok Sabha page. Always willing to help out.Bakaman _Bakatalk 17:45, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
29. Indian Support Great editor who has spread himself around all aspects of Wikipedia. Looking forward to seeing him with the tools within the week. Nishkid64 17:47, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
30. Support Would make a very good admin. --The Great Llama ^talk 17:50, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
31. Support per nom. Michael 19:08, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
32. Support - limited experience, but over 4000 image space edits --T-rex 19:35, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
33. Strong Support He'd be a great mop. Sharkface217 20:20, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
34. Strong Support per nom and excellent contribs related to Politics of India - KNM ^Talk 22:12, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
35. Support An Outstanding editor.Very helpful Shyamsunder 13:47, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
36. Support. Do I have to explain why? --¿¡Exir Kamalabadi!? 01:00, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
37. Support. Surely a good editor, and certainly would be a fine administrator. --Bhadani 01:37, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
38. Support. Good contributions, esp. the Lok Sabha-related ones. utcursch | talk 10:18, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
39. Support per good nom, answers, comments above. No issues here, enjoy the mop. Newyorkbrad 20:57, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
40. Support, well-versed user. >Radiant< 23:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
41. Strong Support Of course. Nobleeagle ^[TALK] [C] 03:41, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
42. Support as above. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 07:16, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
43. Strong support and looks like my plans to nominate were deprecated yet again. Anyway, his dedication to the thousands of image tagging is a great sign for the image deletion backlog, and as well as that, he is the resident statistician and scorekeeper for WP:CRIC.Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:50, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
44. Support 'coz nothing in his record to deny the mop. And I like it if someone is working for a major part of the time on important but overlooked parts of WP such as image space. --Gurubrahma 10:36, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
45. Support Tintin (talk) 11:55, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
46. Support Great candidate, very good job on the Indian articles! ↔ ANAS - Talk 13:07, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
47. Support per nom  Doctor Bruno  17:04, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
48. Support a good candidate --Steve 01:56, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
49. Support --Terence Ong _{(C | R)} 03:08, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
50. Support - Hard working editor. Asterion^talk 19:22, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
51. Merovingian ※ Talk 00:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
52. Support. Bucketsofg 19:26, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
53. Support Seems like he'll make a great admin. Dionyseus 02:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
54. Support. Yes please. The editor will be an asset for the project and help with the backlogs. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 08:22, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
55. Support, per Ambuj. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 08:23, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
56. El_C 10:10, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
57. Support. Zaxem 10:56, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
58. Support semper fi — Moe 17:12, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
59. Support. See no issues, seems hard-working. Jayjg ^(talk) 17:34, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
60. Support Great editor, has done a lot of work on India related articles.--TBCΦtalk? 19:58, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

1. Oppose Did not read question 4 before answering. JBKramer 14:24, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

   May I know what I did not cover in the answer and what were you looking for in the answer? Shyam ^(T/C) 14:38, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

   I asked you to review the edit history of the two accounts and tell me when and why they should have been subject to adminstrative sanction. You instead read the block log of the two accounts and told me when they were subject to adminstrative sanction. If your full answer to my question was "they violated 3rr, so they were rightly blocked," then my oppose would better read "does not take harassment of editors seriously." Additionly, you err far too far on the side of caution regarding the two IPs being seperate individuals - they are obviously the same. JBKramer 18:19, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

   Perhaps the answer lies on the user page of JBKramer and his declaration, "I urge everyone to avoid using Wikipedia for anything more than an interesting trivia and internet politics arguing site." I am sure that Kramer is frustrated and so I urge Shyam Bihari to be symapthetic towards JBKramer. I am sure that a time shall come when JBKramer shall again become a happy wikipedian. --Bhadani 14:49, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

   I urge to JBKramer to stay cool and assume good faith. I have seen the two arbitration case in which you have made statements, you may be quite correct but please assume good faith on other editors as well and please enjoy wikipedia editing. Perhaps, this should not be the page for it, but as Bhadani mentioned this issue here, I am leaving the message here. I would again say...enjoy editing wikipedia!!!. Shyam ^(T/C) 17:49, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

   Oppose User is banned by ArbCom from editing Boxer shorts for tendentious editing, has a history of spamming articles with porn site links, and is generally incivil. --Phaedriel 11:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

   Could you tell me when it did happen. May be I do not remember? Shyam ^(T/C) 11:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

   Apologies. We're having a bit of a troll attack tonight. Disregard that one. Luna Santin 11:50, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Neutral

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