Smurrayinchester (
talk·contribs) – It has been my pleasure to work with Smurrayinchester in a number of Esperanza projects and discussions. He is very involved in the community, with notable contributions to the various Wikipedia
refernce desks, the
help desk, and
RFA. He also has plenty of experience in the
deletion process, which is obviously an important part of adminship. I was neutral in his
previous request for adminship in January due to editcountitis, but I feel that he has since gained enough experience to be trusted with the mop and bucket. He has now accumulated more than 3300 edits, over 30% of which are in the main namespace. It is an honor to nominate him for adminship. --
TantalumTelluride22:56, 11 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Strong support without reservation. (Hell, he helped reform my user page ;))
NSLE(
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2006-03-12)
Support found him very helpful many a time - the situation he refers to in Q.3 doesn't qualify as a conflict, imo. It is more in the nature of a mis-understanding and as one of the people involved in the matter, I feel that his actions were forthright and aboveboard. --
Gurubrahma10:23, 12 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Support My pleasure! A good user, who is not only active with the community but, whose interactions with the community have been civil and helpful.
KnowledgeOfSelf22:47, 12 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Everything looks good here. I would like to see this month end up near February's edit totals to prove that this soon-to-be-admin didn't experience a wikiburnout. --
ZsinjTalk23:54, 15 March 2006 (UTC)reply
It can. It's disruptive (originally his post read "I'm not compelled to give a reason for opposing your RFA" or something along those lines), and it's not the first RFA he's done this to, without a reason.
NSLE(
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C) at 01:05
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2006-03-15)
Come on people, its illogical (attack on person) to overlook someone's vote because he is known for vandalism. His vote should be considered valid.
Orane(t)(c)(e)04:44, 15 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Trying to disqualify a vote is not the only reason to point out a user's history, and I didn't see any attempt by anyone here to actually have the vote disqualified.
NoSeptembertalk14:49, 16 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Does it really matter whether this vote counts? Unless smurray does something incredibly horrifying within the next few days, this nomination will undoubtedly succeed. --
TantalumTelluride04:58, 15 March 2006 (UTC)reply
I agree with Journalist on this one. Might as well let his vote count. After all, even those blocked for vandalism still have some 'suffrage'. By the way, the exact quote was "It is not mandatory for me to give my reasons for opposing your RfA". smurrayinchester(
User), (
Talk)10:07, 15 March 2006 (UTC)reply
In this case, it doesn't matter; but, vote disqualification is for the b'crat to decide, at his/her discretion.
Xoloz01:36, 16 March 2006 (UTC)reply
Edit summary usage: 100% for major edits and 100% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.
Mathbot10:15, 12 March 2006 (UTC)reply
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:
A. Closure of some the deletion debates (not necessarily
AFD but some of the less used such as
MFD and
RFD), rollback and
protected edit requests (long backlog there), and possibly helping with protected 'Main Page' templates (In the news, On this day, Did you know? etc).
2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
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. I was in a conflict at
Wikipedia talk:Barnstars as to whether the Scouting Barnstar should be an offical Barnstar or a
PUA (I supported PUA status). In the end however, I had to go on holiday and when I got back, the dispute had been resolved. In future, I think the best approach is, except for in cases of blatant vandalism or POV pushing, to find some middle ground compromise (in the case of the barnstar, putting in a prominent location under "WikiProject Barnstars".
A. I've helped out with quite a few of the programs run by
Esperanza, such as the
user page award, which has in turn I hope helped to reduce stress levels with other editors and provided users with a break from editting for a while, which can only be a good thing in the long run.
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either
this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.