Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Messedrocker

Messedrocker
I'm not sure if this requires the full seven days, but in any case I would like to re-apply for the following reasons: If that is good enough, please reconsider re-instating my adminship. MessedRocker (talk) 11:56, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * To revert large scale vandalism. I've seen two large scale vandalism episodes recently which took a while to stop because no admins were around to block the IPs, even though I was online and of no help unfortunately. When I was an admin, I was typically able to end pagemove vandalism and the like rather quickly, and I'd like to be able to do that again.
 * To maintain WN:CV, especially during the migration to the system I proposed (if it gets approved)
 * Support. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 15:19, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support --Brian McNeil / talk 15:21, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Not even sure why you don't have it now. Nyarlathotep 15:35, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Because I resigned and this is my way of getting it back. MessedRocker (talk) 17:19, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Welcome back :) DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 15:38, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support I appreciate the point that Messedrocker makes about the frustration of seeing vandalism ongoing and not being able to stop it as this is a point I made in accepting my nomination, although I think, based upon the history, it is appropriate to leave this to run for the full seven days. I've looked at the context in which you stepped down and I am in some ways disappointed that you did that and then returned, in some ways I feel your resignation could appear to be an unnecessarily disruptive way of making a point. I am supporting you on the understanding that you have thought carefully about this and would think very carefully before resigning any privileges in the future. I think the community would be much less tolerant of any future problems. Despite these concerns, I've not seen any problems in your contributions and so support your request. Adambro 15:38, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Here is the pretext: at the time of my resignation, Wikinews had been a boring experience for the last several months, so I decided that I would eventually resign. The image controversy was mainly what provoked me to make that moment sooner, but really it's an inaccuracy to say that I resigned to make a scene or that I was embroiled in controversy. MessedRocker (talk) 17:19, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support - -- Cometstyles 15:47, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * $support++ —Zachary talk 17:08, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Absolute Support but I don't think you need the full seven days since you willingly resigned your admin status, and there was no controversy. Thunderhead - (talk) 19:14, 15 August 2007 (UTC)