Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Tristan Thomas

Tristan Thomas, otherwise known as Dottydotdot, has been an active contributor to Wikinews for the past few months and has racked up about 750 edits. He's helped the project a lot in his time here, and i think he'd be a positive force with the sysop buttons. Tempodivalse [talk]  16:13, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Comments and questions

 * Do you accept the nomination? Tempodivalse [talk]  16:13, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * With pleasure, thank you very much. I've made one big mistake, which most will know about; I'm not going to try & hide it-but trust me, that won't happen again!  Thank you for the vote of confidence Tempo.     Tris   18:50, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * If you've only made one big mistake, we might as well speedily promote you..... :) – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 19:05, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * ;) Big-the rest have been normal!    Tris   19:24, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Why do you contribute to Wikinews? What do you get out of it? --Brian McNeil / talk 20:19, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Answer:I contribute for a few reasons-firstly & most importantly, I enjoy it. Secondly, I believe if we can get it right, it can be the future of journalism.  Citizen journalism is on the rise & with more & more people having access to the internet when they are mobile, it can only increase.  It may not be Wikinews that grows because of that-it could be iReport or any of the others, but I want to try & help Wikinews be that one & with the base of contributors we have, I think it could be.  Thirdly, it is so useful for me-I can spend a bit of time every day that keeps me up to date with current affairs, which otherwise busy life might take away from me.     Tris   07:37, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Do you think its lame that the wikinews community has ran out of 42 jokes to ask at RFA's? Bawolff ☺☻ 16:13, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Response: Without a shadow of a doubt.    Tris   17:16, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Votes

 * as nominator. Tempodivalse [talk]  16:13, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * pending acceptance of nom. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:26, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * . Bawolff ☺☻ 17:31, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * , per . Cirt (talk) 00:57, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * --Jcart1534 (talk) 02:12, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * --Brian McNeil / talk 07:47, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * - I don't know what your "one big mistake" was, and I'm not going to bother to look, since I'm certain you would make a fine admin. The mistake, whatever it is, makes me uneasy, but I am not going to pressure you to reveal it (whatever it is, I am sure it will not affect my opinion, so there's no point). Den dodge  T\C (en.wp) 10:11, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't mind saying-basically, I didn't check an article for copyvio properly & published it. I know you said it won't affect your opinion, but for anyone else who doesn't know-I'm not pretending it didn't happen, because it taught me a lesson & so served a purpose!  Thank you for your support, however uneasy!  <i style="position:absolute;z-index:-1;bottom:0;width:2.8em;height:8px;background:#eee;"> </i>  Tris   15:19, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * &mdash; I have no objections. Gopher65talk 16:05, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 17:03, 28 September 2009 (UTC)