Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/AlexandrDmitri

Unanimous support after one week, closed as pass. Congrats Tempodivalse [talk]  21:28, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring and offer myself up to the lions for adminship. I've been around for just over two months when I wrote my first article. Since then, I've gone on to write a further 38 and since receiving Editor status, have reviewed a number of articles for the community. Why am I offering my soul services? Because sometimes I don't have the time to write a full-blown article, but I think I'd be pretty handy with the dustpan and brush helping out with administorial duties, such as archiving, making edits to protected articles and any other admin duties you care to throw at me, such as looking after friendly trolls who pop up with interesting usernames. I'm not a nerd computer whizz-kid, but I generally learn quickly. With the hopeful increase in production around here when the writing competition starts, I would be available to help out with the less glamorous stuff that goes on behind the scenes, but is essential to keep any house in order. Any questions, and I'll be more than happy to answer them. --Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 19:34, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Comments and questions

 * You are an accredited reporter. Could you please give us an example of your best OR work? Benny the mascot (talk) 19:54, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Work as an accredited reporter is hardly relevant to an application for admin privileges. --Brian McNeil / talk 00:41, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Correct, but his request for acccreditation was granted three weeks ago, yet he has submitted no OR articles that I could find. If he won't use his accreditation that much, then why should I believe that he will use his adminship abilities frequently and effectively? Benny the mascot (talk) 01:06, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Original reporting can be something that takes time to get into. Admin tasks can be a second or two's work from a look at Recent Changes. I've made very irregular use of my OR credentials – the same applies to several others. --Brian McNeil / talk 01:35, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 * As long as AlexandrDmitri can give a good, thoughtful statement on his OR work, then I will consider that when I vote. OR work isn't an absolute requirement in my mind. Benny the mascot (talk) 01:54, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Fair enough question concerning original reporting as an accredited reporter. OR requires a significant amount of time, as well as&mdash;as far I am personally concerned&mdash;a strong desire to report on the topic. A couple of ideas for articles have been floating around in my mind since I received accreditation, but only one so far has got off the starting blocks. That, alas, failed to come to fruition as the press officer did not reply to my email, the subject was quickly 'old news' and above all, a decent article was written by someone else, based on reports filed on other sites. I'm working on a couple of ideas in my head, but I need a little more time before my first OR piece will be published. It should also be noted that I live in Morocco, and that local OR is harder because of the language barrier (interviews would have to be in French, making my notes less comprehensible for reviewers), and that I planned to do most of my OR by email. This is an extension of how I have reported as a journalist since I joined the site; out of all of the articles written, only one has been about Morocco, as I prefer to write international news. Finally, I believe that admin duties and accredited reporter writing are two different ways that I can contribute to the site and that it is important to disassociate the two: the former will allow me to contribute when I have half an hour to spare which is every day and is a housekeeping job; the latter is a more important investment of time, will happen less frequently and is a way to enter into different realms of journalism. --Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 08:39, 23 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Which Admin tasks would you use the mop and bucket for? --Brian McNeil / talk 01:35, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The areas I see myself working in are the housekeeping duties such as archiving, protecting articles, making edits to protected pages where necessary (such as adding new categories, changes requested via the template), deleting pages per policy (either standard or speedy), checking recent changes for vandalism and creation of inappropriate usernames, blocking where appropriate and assigning the Editor flag if consensus is clear to do so. --Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 08:39, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Votes

 * No concerns at all. A very trustowrthy user. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 19:56, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * , well worthy. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 19:57, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Intelligent and valuable contributor who seems to have good grasp of policies. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:11, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * —I'm pretty sure this user can be trusted. Den dodge  T\C 20:28, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Was considering nominating you for adminship, but you beat me to it. :-) Very competent user who caught on to key project policies quickly, plus he writes real news articles (not that entertainment fluff! :-P). I'm sure he'll do well with the sysop bits. Tempodivalse [talk]  21:26, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Certainly. the wub "?!"  22:23, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Good user, will make a good admin. --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 04:03, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Bawolff ☺☻ 08:49, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 * --Thunderhead 10:38, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Very thoughtful responses to our questions. Very intelligent and active user. Benny the mascot (talk) 14:56, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Well...it's pretty much safe to say that I'll enjoy working with you. --James Pain (talk) 14:01, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure. Cary Bass (talk) 06:09, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
 * , no worries. Cirt (talk) 17:17, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Good candidate to me. --Patrick M (TUFKAAP) (talk) 01:54, 29 December 2009 (UTC)