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Sam Blacketer ( talk · contribs) - Hi! I'm Sam Blacketer and I'm here to write an encyclopaedia. This is a self-nomination for admin tools to help. I have over 9,500 edits now, and although that total is exaggerated by many of them being categorisation or AWB-assisted maintenance (disambiguation and category work), I have been a contributor of original content. My main interest is supporting the building of a prosopography of the British House of Commons and I have been adding biographical articles of many MPs which were previously red-linked. The better of these have been submitted to Do you know? and I have had 23 entries on the main page.
In addition to maintenance and content writing I have been active in supporting administrative work which has included intervening against vandalism and trying to persuade vandal accounts to desist; where that was unsuccessful I have reported them to Administrator intervention against vandalism. I have tagged inappropriate pages for speedy deletion and also detected some copyright violations. In addition I have monitored new usernames for offensiveness and offered opinions on questioned user names at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/User names. I have also debated some policy and stylistic issues both on the site and on the wikien-l mailing list to which I am a subscriber. I have also written two articles which have been published in the Wikipedia Signpost. (I have a commission for a third this weekend)
I am aware that with four and a half months participation this request may seem somewhat early. However, I hope that I have demonstrated that I have the best interests of the project support at heart, having spent a great deal of time working on it. I also think I can demonstrate familiarity with Wikipedia policy and processes. I will add some links and differences showing how I followed policies in an intelligent way to the talk page of this RfA. (I was also recently described as a " seasoned editor" by another editor who has been here for two years, so I clearly give the impression I know my stuff. Either that or he knows just how old I actually am.) I intend, if promoted, to add myself to Category:Administrators open to recall to remind me to continue to act in the best interests of the project. Sam Blacketer 09:48, 21 April 2007 (UTC) reply
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