Battlestar Wiki:Requests for adminship/Spencerian

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Spencerian

Battlestar_Wiki:Requests_for_adminship/Spencerian|action=edit}} Vote here (6/0/0) ending 18:32 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Spencerian (talk • contribs) – Nominated by Ricimer 18:32, 16 December 2005 (EST)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Thanks. I accept this nomination. See my comments to the admin questions below. --Spencerian 10:44, 24 December 2005 (EST)

Support

1. If it weren't for Spencerian's incredible devotion to the (unfortunately named) Citation Jihad, this place would have fallen apart within a matter of minutes. His knowledge in all matters is much appreciated. "With his help, we have achieved more in the past six months, than we have in the past six years..." --Ricimer 18:32, 16 December 2005 (EST)
2. Seconding, although we should probably wait for Joe to finish importing the relevant templates from Wikipedia. --April Arcus 21:29, 16 December 2005 (EST)
3. Spencerian was the first name I thought of as well (followed closely by the other two who have already posted here). I was going to wait until all the templates got fleshed out though, as this still appears to be something of a work in progress. But what isn't? --Steelviper 11:45, 17 December 2005 (EST)
4. Can I just vote or do I have to give reasons? I think Spence would be a good admin. I'd be more than happy to direct complaints and hassle his direction. Heh. --Day 14:07, 21 December 2005 (EST)
5. Hope you're getting over the shock, Spencerian. I'm betting you just got volunteered for a heck of a lot of work. Next time, step backward with everybody else! --Watcher 05:17, 23 December 2005 (EST)
6. I also think he should. I can't add much more that hasn't been said already. --Talos 21:17, 28 December 2005 (EST)

Oppose

Neutral

Comments

Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What duties, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Project Pages for a list of projects.

A. I've aided in the Citation Jihad, which attempts in keeping all information with a reasonable deduced or factual source, and essentially aided in "enforcing" the standards and policies that we've agreed to by consensus. I hope to be a greater aid to the Original Series Development Project as well, and I watch carefully for our new visitors and "greet." Basically, a wiki admin is a good referee, it seems, keeping things balanced or alerting all to changes in their interest.

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

A. My very first article: Case Orange. It just came to me when I was visiting Wikipedia one day (with the Miniseries DVD playing on my computer), and I thought, "I wonder if there's a Battlestar wiki around somewhere." From that, what, 5 minute scene I noticed a great deal, of late, how badly the Colonials must have been brought to defeat in the first war for them to have such an emergency plan. After that, I love the Computers page since I again pulled data from where it was scattered about to give insight on a bit of technical workings.

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. Ricimer can tell you about his problems with a fellow contributor that was really behaving badly, and how several other contributors (myself included) tried to mediate before sterner measures had to be done to the offending contributor. This place is a community of opinions; even we disagree, we enjoy the debate necessary to decide the best course of action, and typically solve it without any personal attacks. Mediation is normally the best way to handle what few ad hominem attacks appear on the wiki; generally these are very rare. In any case, I would take my administrative cues from Joe. You have to be a genuine ass to be banned, temporarily or permanently--and it would be an offense that threatens (and is noticed by) the community of the wiki. Admins must never be overlords (although I, for one, would hope you'd welcome me as one should that status change...:). For the most part, aside from the additional housekeeping asked of me by Joe and by the wiki, I hope no one really notices the admin status. I'm too busy having fun contributing to be "bossy."

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