Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Ironiridis 3

User:Ironiridis, for the third time
I, ironiridis, hereby nominate myself for adminship once again. I do this while reflecting on the frustration and difficulty that ended my previous position as an admin. For those of you who aren't aware, I was nominated (twice, actually) and "elected" into this position over a year ago. Due to continuous bickering and eventually all-out wheel wars, I elected to have myself blocked for 30 days, and eventually to have my sysop flag removed from my account.

I'm choosing, grudgingly, to attempt to return to the position for one reason: I wish only to have the power to fight vandalism without asking for assistance. Deleting articles. Issuing short, temporary blocks. Eliminating copyright violations from history logs.

Having learned well from the Neutralizer debacle, and having learned a thing or two about maintaining civility in the time since, I feel I am ready and willing to become a janitor once again. I am opting, if I am chosen by the community to return to my previous post, to place this template at the top of my user page.

In light of being informed that I might be able to simply be "re-instated", I'd like to indicate that I'd prefer a vote on this. I want to have the support of the community on this. As such, please put this to a vote.


 * (And, as a formality, I accept my self-nomination.) irid:t 03:13, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Questions

 * 1) What is the meaning of life? Thunderhead - (talk) 04:27, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Are you a janitor open to recall? --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:39, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Answers

 * 1) The acquisition of knowledge, the observance of beauty, and the extollence of the virtues of love, honesty, and dedication. irid:t 04:33, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Without a doubt, I am. I voluntarily listed myself for de-admin the last time around because I felt I wasn't doing my job; I am more than happy to be held to community scrutiny at any time. irid:t 20:41, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Votes

 * Support He has certainly calmed down, to be honest, I never knew he existed and was a prior admin. --TUFKAAP 04:17, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Active IRC user too :-) Thunderhead - (talk) 04:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support –Doldrums(talk) 14:07, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Always very helpful & supportive! Herb 14:24, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Based on what I've seen of him, he's perfectly trustworthy enough for the role. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:49, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Jacques Divol 17:04, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support --Jcart1534 03:09, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:37, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Support It was very crazy times back them, hell most the users involved are no longer involved here. Ironiridis was never involved in the warring, instead, he chose (unwisely in hindsight) to intervene to try and stop the situation getting worst. Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 21:37, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support This user should never have left the admin "corps", I am glad that we have not seen disruption like then since and think we now have a team that could avoid those problems. Irid would make a good addition to that team (again). --Brian McNeil / talk 22:00, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support I'm new here, but I've got a few thousand edits in at en.wiki so I know what's up. Constructive, helpful and friendly editor. Lara  ♥ Love 02:10, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 05:33, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 00:37, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support A fantastic user, no issues. Plenty of experience. TheFearow 02:26, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support ~  Wi ki her mit  03:01, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support —Zach<b style="color:#0e448d">a</b><b style="color:#1c55b5">ry</b> talk 03:09, 29 August 2007 (UTC)