Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Microchip08

Successful (non-crat close) Diego Grez return fire 22:54, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

- Adminship
Hi. Not normal, I know, but I'd like to nominate Microchip08 for administrative duty on Wikinews. He's a very conscientious editor, who seems to be picking up the reins rather well, no major issues that I can see, and frankly, in my opinion, he'd make an excellent administrator. Trusted, works in a methodical manner and would be a major asset. BarkingFish (talk) 22:48, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Candidate: Thank-you for your trust in me, and thank-you to everybody else for a great community. Hopefully, I can help Wikinews a bit more with the extra couple of buttons. For what it's worth, I have edits to every single non-deprecated namespace (bar one, which suprisingly isn't the obvious choice!) To help you in your judgements, there's a list of all the pages I've edited on. I've written 38 articles on Wikinews (same as Dendodge, rather less than Diego, but none are featured, and rightly so, although UK students protest for second time this month is the one I am most proud of. Although my account was created in April 2008, my first real edit was January 2010. I have around a 45% mainspace rate, which has dropped considerably due to various userspace projects. In the last two weeks, I've been the second-top human user by number of edits; and have reviewed (just) 23 articles since February 2010. I've had a few complete failures recently; I apologise unreservedly. Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant. — μ 01:07, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Questions

 * Do you believe in the basic concept of assuming good faith? If elected as an admin, would you be willing to follow and enforce Etiquette? If not, why? Tempodivalse [talk]  15:58, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Support

 * Excellent candidate for the mop and bucket honor. --Pi zero (talk) 01:39, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * — Mike moral  ♪♫  02:00, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Honestly thought you already were one. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:32, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * - Can't forget this, can I??? Will be great for the job. BarkingFish (talk) 04:20, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * ; seems to have a good grasp of the community's dynamics, history working to improve the project, do not expect any issues with this user having the bits. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:20, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * , obviously :-) Δεν δοδγε  t\c 18:30, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Has clue, will be sound with the tools. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 20:01, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Tyrol5 (talk) 16:25, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure, why not. Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 16:59, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Been around a while and has been a good choice to have the mop. --Patrick M (TUFKAAP) (talk) 18:23, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I trust MC8 and I think it is time he got the mop. ~YTT T 23:08, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Oppose

 * Don't ask me why, but I trust more in a stone. Diego Grez return fire 16:29, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Perhaps because a stone doesn't make mistakes on-wiki. But a stone also doesn't admit mistakes and learn from them.  Nor can one expect a stone to be cautious about using the extra bits.  --Pi zero (talk) 17:53, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * This wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that MC8 nominated you for desysop would it? Cause it would be a very bad faith gesture if it turned out that that was the case... BarkingFish (talk) 19:41, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Well... one could argue it was so ill-thought-out as to preclude adminship. I don't, but it isn't necessarily knee-jerk hostility. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 20:00, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * You can argue whatever you want. I just don't trust the guy. And it seems I'm the only one who doesn't :) Diego Grez return fire 20:30, 1 February 2011 (UTC)