Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Aarktica

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aarktica

Ended (1/6/3); Originally scheduled to end 02:38, 30 July 2007 (UTC). Nomination withdrawn.

~~aarktica (talk · contribs) - EAR stalwart and COPYVIO sleuth. --Aarktica 02:38, 23 July 2007 (UTC)~~ Nomination withdrawn. --Aarktica 06:17, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. You may wish to answer the following optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?

A: The tools would come in handy in my effort to WIKIFY articles; I run into blatant copyright violations while working on the backlogs. Also, there are instances where an article needs to be moved to a target occupied by a redirect. As a regular RFD (and to a lesser extent, AFD) participant, I will work to help whittle down the backlog there as well.

2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?

A: Copyediting efforts which have led others to express appreciation on my talk page. Offering assistance to editors and informing them of policies and providing guidance in line with dispute resolution recommendations.

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: Not really. As an EA participant, I have to be on my best behavior at all times; WP:AGF and WP:COOL are rather invaluable in this regard.

Optional questions from O (talk)

4: When would you use admin rollback? When would you not?

A: Rollbacks would be applied to instances of unambiguous vandalism; of course, WP:IDONTLIKEIT arguments are unacceptable. Of course, I will be on the lookout for possible WP:3RR incidents.

5. At what time would you ignore a rule? When would you use common sense when you are following the policies and guidelines?

A: Although the admin request is primarily to facilitate deletion of copyright violations and XfD decisions, my primariy focus is to improve content while being considerate of others. However, if WP:CREEP is apparent, or if following "the letter of the law" makes it difficult to work with others, then I will ignore the rule in question. Of course, I will do my best to avoid violating the spirit of the law (after all, it is in my interest to make a case which will withstand WP:DRV for any article I delete.).

General comments

See aarktica's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.

Links for aarktica: Aarktica (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)

Please keep criticism constructive and polite. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/aarktica before commenting.

Discussion

Support

Weak Support-If you're interested in deleted copyvios, go for it. There's no reason you shouldn't be granted the tools. Just because you don't want to do the other stuff is not a valid reason to oppose. There is plenty of admin backlog. Copyvios is one of them. An extra person helping with that never hurts. You could do that and do nothing else. It doesn't matter. It's still another person helping. I would really like to see you here a little long and a little more edit count (oh no...I mentioned edit count!), but I'll still support.--(Review Me) R ^ParlateContribs_@ (Let's Go Yankees!) 03:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the kind note. A few months ago, WjBscribe saw me spinning my wheels over at WP:IFD and suggested I look around. Well, I'm still exploring ;) Hopefully, I'll be more than a "one-trick pony." --Aarktica 04:26, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Weak oppose due to the response in question one. You don't need the admin tools to wikify articles. Miranda 03:19, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed. The tools isn't for linking articles; I meant that this is how I run into copyright violations which are often subject to deletion. --Aarktica 03:27, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This reading material may be in handy. Miranda 03:30, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Great editor, however I don't see how the tools are needed besides deleting copyvios. (→O - R L Y?) 03:33, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Q1, and because your nomination statement shows that you aren't really ready. J-stan ^Talk 03:35, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per all the concerns above. Try again after a few months. --S iva1979^{Talk to me} 03:39, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This shows that the admin tools aren't always necessary to deal with copyvio problems. (aeropagitica) 04:44, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That was unique. In fact, there is some correspondence on my talk page regarding that case. However, there are several other cases where that isn't an option... --Aarktica 04:56, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Per Miranda and O. Daniel 04:49, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral

Neutral To avoid a snow Rfa. Keep up the good editing skills, and try again in the future. Jmlk 1 7 03:42, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest withdrawl. No point in piling on, but read WP:ADMIN to see what else you can do. Giggy _U^CP 04:05, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
How about one day? Here's hoping that the condition improves. I agree, there is no WP:POINT in eating the WP:SNOW... --Aarktica 05:15, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral and suggest withdrawl per JMlk17 and Giggy. I'm guessing several more users will oppose, and no offense but withdraw for now and after a few months, try again. Good luck next time! --H irohisat ^Talk 05:29, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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