Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/CGorman

CGorman
(341 edits since 17 NOV 04) AS OF: 22:00, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I registered an account with Wikinews back in November - but did'nt do much for quite a while as I was working on getting a few articles on Wikipedia up to featured article status (Economy of the Republic of Ireland, Celtic Tiger and Ryanair). I have since returned to work on the Economy and business section of Wikinews. I've made over 2000 edits to the Wikipedia and earnt 1 barnstar. I was never involved in a revert war or flame war on Wikipedia (or anywhere else!) Here at Wikinews i've written many articles, and worked as a sort of "editor" of the Economy and Business section for the past number of weeks. I admitably had a brief disagreement with Ronline about Romanian bias, but we sorted things out quickly to cater for all audiences. If given Admin status I will continue to work hard in the Economy and Business section, and hopefully help restructure other sections in need of attention. CGorman 15:12, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * PS. I've decided to take the Sports section as my second area of work on Wikinews - I hope to inject a bit of life into it like the Business section. CGorman 16:20, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment : CGorman's work which I've seen has been of excellent quality, and if he can bring the sports section to life I will be very pleased! A few more edits/familiarity for full support. - Amgine 17:58, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Time continues to tell... - Amgine 23:49, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Support, CGorman has clearly put a lot of thought into why he wants adminship and how he'll use the privileges. Dan100 (Talk) 13:01, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Support IlyaHaykinson 23:26, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'd like to know a little more about why CGorman wants adminship and what he wants to do with it: Q1). What admin chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with?

A2) My main regular tasks on Wikinews involve (and will continue to involve) keeping the Sports, Economy and business and perhaps Europe pages up to date and well presented. I hope to also participate fully in policy discussions and changes. I have also recently joined the Welcommitte - hopefully I can help new users settle in to the Wikinews way of doing things. Althought I can do all of the above without Admin status, Admin status would be a boost if I ever participate as a ref or independent third party in POV disputes among other users. Admin staus would of course also give me the ability to block vandals and protect pages in the case of consistant damage from such vandals, althought I hope never to have to use these powers, they would be a valuable tool for me in my stewardship of the Sports, Economy and business and Europe pages.

Q2) Of your articles or contributions to Wikinews, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A2) I've concentrated mostly on page restructure so far, but yes there is a story im particularly pleased with. I was so happy with it I posted a note on the discussion page of economy & business under the title Personal Triumph!, the text of that post was as follows:


 * This morning after an RTE (the national tv station) story and a press release about Yahoo's investment in Dublin, I wrote Yahoo chooses Dublin as location of new European Headquarters - at the time the article went live on Wikinews - only 3 other places on the net carried the story - two being press releases, the other RTE. This evening there are literally dozens of stories about the move - in Australia, the UK, the US, on reuters, all over the place - it feels great to actually be first - to break the story! CGorman 23:20, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I noticed that too. Good scoop! Dan100 (Talk) 13:01, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Q3) Do you have any particular plans if you gain adminship?

A3) As stated above I hope to keep the Sports, Economy and business and Europe pages up to date. I also wish to do a once off aesthetic update of all topic pages and region pages to reflect the sort of changes i've made to the afore-mentioned pages. I also hope to - eventually - build sub pages into the Europe section for UK & Ireland, Germany, France (and possibly Romania) - these are the countries with the most news on the Europe page. I hope to similierly add sub pages for football and other major sports to the sports page as soon as article volumes and frequency increase to a reasonable level (at least one new story a day/2 days). CGorman 22:13, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

CGorman is free to decline to answer these basic questions. They are in no way part of the selection process, I'd just like to know the answers before voting. Dan100 (Talk) 21:28, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)