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The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful administrator election candidacy. Please do not modify it.

Final (306/101/209); See official results (non-admin closure) – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:20, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination

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SD0001 (talk · contribs · he/him) – Colleagues, it is my pleasure to present SD0001 for your consideration. SD0001 is a very talented technical editor. As the most active maintainer of Twinkle when I first started working on it, SD0001 is one of my technical mentors on Wikipedia, and his quick attention to my Twinkle patches is the reason I stayed active with Twinkle. SD0001 is the 2024 Tech Contributor of the Year, the creator of the GitHub organization wikimedia-gadgets, and a trusted MediaWiki developer. With all his work on gadgets, this is someone who can instantly make good use of permissions such as interface administrator. In addition to his excellent technical contributions, he also has around 15,000 edits, 10 years of tenure, and has helped to promote the good article Dairy in India. Finally, this editor was a pleasure to interact with and write patches with at various conferences. I hope you will join me in supporting SD0001's candidacy. Thank you. –Novem Linguae (talk) 05:00, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Co-nomination statement

I'm honoured to be able to nominate SD0001, a force multiplier whose contributions touch on so many areas of Wikipedia. So many of us have benefited from his work in ways we aren't even aware of. As a member of New Pages Patrol, I can personally say that SD0001 has improved my ability to contribute there and at Articles for Creation, thanks to the gadgets, scripts, and reports he's created and contributed to that make life easier for reviewers. Both NPP and AfC would be much worse off and far more backlogged without his efforts.

In addition to the impressive work mentioned above, SD0001 is also a member of the Bot Approvals Group (since 2020), the operator of SDZeroBot, which won the 2020 Coolest Tool Award in the newcomer category, was recently named Editor of the Week, and has been "a prolific contributor to MediaWiki core infrastructure".

The butterfly effect of SD0001's contributions cannot be overstated. He has the temperament, communication skills, and knowledge that we look for in admins. I'm a big fan of putting the tools in the hands of capable individuals, and there are few more capable than SD0001, so I hope you will join me in supporting him. Hey man im josh (talk) 19:42, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept the nomination. I have never edited for pay, except for a grant from WMF for localizing Twinkle. Other accounts through which I've edited are SDZeroBot, and DL9C many years back. – SD0001 (talk) 16:08, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Questions for the candidate

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Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. Why are you interested in becoming an administrator?
A: I am requesting adminship as there are many instances where the tools could be of use to me – in editing protected templates and modules, updating gadgets that I maintain, and responding to edit requests. I would love to help out by operating adminbots. I would also like to help with history merges, and backlogged areas where my help is sought. However, I do not intend to deviate much from my primary focus of technical edits, as that’s really all I'm inclined towards. If elected, it is very unlikely you would ever see me closing a contentious AfD or blocking an unblockable. That isn't my thing.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: The article Dairy in India is among my best contributions as it enabled me to embrace the process of writing a quality article.
Among my more visible contributions are the AfC submit wizard through which around 6000 drafts are submitted monthly, and the wizard through which DYK nominations are created. I also wrote the original dark mode toggling script which came to be most-used gadget on the project with 89500 users, a humbling statistic.
I am also proud of my work on Twinkle - in which my most significant contributions include adding search functionality in the tagging and user warning screens, adding support for removal of maintenance tags, and for deletion sorting of AfDs.
Through my MediaWiki contributions in key areas like Scribunto and ResourceLoader, I have enabled the community to build more capable modules and gadgets by introducing new abilities like putting JSON files in gadgets and enabling Lua to query page categories, as well as improved site performance.
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 have been in several conflicts throughout my editing journey. In these situations, I try to express my thoughts as clearly as possible and avoid engaging in too much of back-and-forth conversations, since the intent is to convince other readers of the thread rather than specific editors I am replying to. Much of the effort in a collaborative project lies not in coming up with new ideas, but in building consensus for them. When things don’t go my way, I remind myself that most things we discuss here are not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. Taking some time off and focusing on other parts of the project really helps.
I also tend to be careful in writing talk page comments to avoid the meaning from being misconstrued. I consider every comment from the readers' perspective before saving.

You may ask optional questions below. There is a limit of two questions per editor. Multi-part questions are disallowed, but you are allowed to ask follow-up questions related to previous questions.

Optional question from Thryduulf

4. Why did you choose to seek adminship via election rather than via a standard RFA?
A: I feel that not being able to see the !votes makes the elections a more pleasant experience than RfA. There are pros and cons to both - the benefit with RfA is that it allows candidates to stand at a time of their choosing and be mentally prepared, whereas in the elections, the timing is non-negotiable and could interfere with real life. On the other hand, RfA allows candidates to artificially spruce up their profile ahead of time, whereas the elections make it more likely that the community sees unfiltered versions of candidates, which is good for both the community as well for the candidates who can skip the tedious pre-RfA preparation.
Also, I personally am drawn to the election as it is a nascent process where the expectations and best practises are still to be realised or worked out, creating a fairer playing field where candidates don't have to worry about conforming with established norms, and can instead be judged solely on their work.

Optional question from Ganesha811

5. Are there any areas of adminship you do not plan to participate in, due to unfamiliarity or lack of technical knowledge? If you later decided you wanted to help in these areas, what would be your plan to become an effective admin in those areas?
A: There are plenty of areas I don't plan to participate in. To name a few: arbitration enforcement, sockpuppet investigations, and CCI. There are also areas like edit filter management where I lack the technical familiarity. If I wish to take on any new area - the approach would be to participate in that area in an editorial capacity first, and slowly transition to an admin role, keeping in contact with the regulars to maintain a feedback loop. For instance, if I were to be an effective AfD admin, I would first spend more time !voting in discussions and move on to relisting, before I would consider closing them.

Optional question from Bugghost

6. Could you tell us about your requested self-block and the alternate account that you used during the time that block was active?
A: In 2015, I needed to stay off Wikipedia for some time to focus on real life. This turned out to be difficult for me back then as a teenager, despite requesting a two-year self-block. Editing through an IP was less compulsive (as IPs can’t receive pings or notifications), so I did that for a while. However, a few gnomning tasks like creating MfDs required an account. The account DL9C was created shortly before the self-block when I tried to introduce Wikipedia editing to a family member. They didn't catch on and the account was unused except for a couple of sandbox edits, so I ended up using it myself. A CheckUser found out and kindly blocked the alt account on the basis of my original self-block request.
The association of that account to my main account was not required by policy as there was no overlap of editing history. Nevertheless, it did go against the spirit of a self-block, which I regret evading. Subsequently, I did not edit through any account for over two years.


Discussion

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Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review his contributions before commenting.

AfD record: 85.70% match rate, n of 63. 34 keep !votes to 42 delete !votes. Mildly subjective comment: a good record, especially for someone who says they're not interested in deletion-related areas; only one in the last year. -- asilvering (talk) 03:13, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Just wanted to say that I'm satisfied with SD0001's answer to my question about the self block request - it was a long time ago and wanting to take time off wikipedia to focus on other things is a very reasonable thing to do. Bypassing a self-block in order to put some stuff through MFD isn't a problem in my view, as it wasn't a "real" block anyway. BugGhost🦗👻 07:48, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Declined speedies

Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:32, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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