Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Bobby122

Closed as unsuccessful by Blood Red Sandman at 15:05, 4 January 2011‎.

Bobby122
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– Hello everyone, I'd like to throw my name into the running for the mop. I've been here at Wikinews for about three months, though there have been a few short spells of inactivity, and have over 40 articles. I think that it would be a good thing for the project if I was granted the tools as I am usually up late into the night, as those in IRC can attest to. This could be an advantage in the event that anything occurred late at night which requires immediate admin intervention. In addition I should be available during the day, especially afternoons. Also, I was granted editor status about one month ago and I assume this means that I am trusted by my fellow users. If granted the mop I would help out with a variety of admin tasks such as archiving, blocking abusive users, deleting spam, blocking those with inappropriate usernames etc.  Bobby122   Contact Me   (C)  03:31, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Notable works

 * Fire kills six in Baltimore, United States
 * Gunman shoots during board meeting in Florida, then kills self
 * Over 900 people dead, 14,000 infected in Haitian cholera outbreak
 * My series of articles on Hurricane Karl, Typhoon Megi and Cyclone Giri
 * Two Santa Clara, Utah teens in critical condition after lightning strike

General comments

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Discussion

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Oppose

 * 1) Are you serious?. No, not yet, my friend. You have been just too few time here with us... and there is no serious lack of administrators on Wikinews (I myself try to help whenever I can, and will try to help more now that I'm in vacations until March!) Sorry, but try again, later. I am sure you would do well as an admin but, as I said, it's just too early. Diego Grez return fire 05:02, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) You made your first edit on Wikinews two and a half months ago. Although the guidelines for the English language version of Wikinews states two months as a lower boundary, I would prefer to see several more before trusting anyone with the permission. Since then, you've made around 500 edits (on around 100 pages): a low amount for an administrator, although I accept that other administrators probably had low counts when they requested adminship as well. I commend you on your three-out-of-four article edits, but I'm not convinced that the 36 deleted edits (that I cannot see) are enough -- I would expect any successful candidate for administrative permissions to demonstrate a need for the extra buttons: what is the point in gaining them if they are not required? As such, I'd want to see several tags on articles: thirty is a low number, and so the backlog isn't decreased by much if you were to receive the flag, although I appreciate that it's pleasing that the count is low enough to not be several failed articles, and I appreciate that numbers aren't everything. You have good credentials on other projects, ignoring the garish userpage; although you do seem like you were after a collection of hats earlier this year. For what it's worth, 45 new articles isn't bad -- but you've only helped out on 22 articles that aren't your own. I accept that this is a very quantitative oppose, and recognise that it isn't everything; but I also do not feel that administrators are required, and therefore do not feel that administrative rights should be requested. — μ 21:37, December 16 2010 (UTC)  *
 * Re the Wikipedia RFA, I'm not even sure why I ever did that, looking back on it now I wouldn't have done it. I think it's just my nature as a person who likes the administrative tasks and maintaining order. Bobby122   Contact Me   (C)  21:46, 16 December 2010 (UTC)