Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Zanimum

User:Zanimum
I would like to nominate Nicholas Moreau,, for adminship. I thought he already was one, and I feel this is an overall level-headed, well-established and respected user.

Zanimum is an accredited reporter with experience as a local journalist who has written 72 105 articles according to his user page (making him a staff lead reporter), mainly since August 2005 and somehow linked to Category:Culture and entertainment (he has an interest in art). His contributions are both original, based on press releases and compiled from news articles. Recently he was appreciated for his interviews on the Regional Council elections in Canada with a trophy and barnstar. His edit count tells us he has over 1200 edits in main, and edits across all namespaces totalling near 2000 edits (when I wrote this). He discusses the project and proposes new ideas, such as Scheduled attendance for Wikinews or Commons. His usage of edit summary seems low but I'm sure this could be improved in the future.

Reading his talk page, I get the impression he is a well appreciated community member who collaborates nicely and never had troubles with anyone.

He's an admin on the English Wikipedia and a member of the Wikimedia Foundation's Communications Committee. He's been active on Wiki's since 2004. For some more impressive facts about Zanimum on pedia, see w:User:Zanimum/archive.


 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept. --  Zanimum 21:40, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate
 * 1) Have you ran into any conflicts with other users before? How was the problem resolved? One user has scheduled to do original reporting on an event of national significance to Canada. The event was televised, and could be reported on from home, provided the user had cable or (legal) satellite service. What was ultimately needed was a photographer. I only found out they were going to event, after emailing the organizers asking to attend as a photographer. The user didn't even end up going in the end. As a result, I've created the "Scheduled attendance for Wikinews or Commons" page on Meta.
 * 2) What sysop chores would you like to do? Deleting spam, retro-adding categories to archived articles.
 * 3) What are your strong sides and your pitfalls here on Wikinews? I am a professional copyrighter for a website, as of last Monday, so I am actively brushing up on my literary ability. My article sometimes are too focused in interest, like ad industry and feminists, prairie newsjunkies, and talk show viewers.
 * 4) If you become a sysop, do you plan to use your admin powers often as you edit, or not as often? Why? Well, as often as I see spam come along, or I create a category that seems to be warranted due to a volume of articles. (recently I have created the category "World record" and the subcat "Elections in Canada".

Votes and Comments
 * 1) Support as nom.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 17:59, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support --Cspurrier 18:32, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support  &mdash; Doldrums(talk) 18:35, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support, assuming candidate accepts. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:51, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Support, Not able to fully comprehend the answers to the questions but seems like a good user. --Skenmy(t•c•w•i) 18:55, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) support Definitly should be an admin. Bawolff ☺☻ 20:59, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Looks like I gotta Support! Man, everyone is RFAing! Thunderhead (talk) (Check out my RFA test) 21:46, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Support. -- IlyaHaykinson 22:26, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) Support Jacques Divol 09:18, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 10) Support, a well-established user on wikinews. Shyam  ( T / C ) 09:26, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 11) Support Thought he was one already. Zeest(Talk)(Newpages) [[Image:Flag_of_India.svg|25px]] 10:29, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 12) Support per PVJ. — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  17:56, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 13) Support Crimson 01:25, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 14) Support --Nzgabriel | Talk 00:52, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'm running for adminship after this one is done. Thunderhead (talk) (Check out my RFA test) 00:59, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) --Nearly Headless Nick 11:54, 17 November 2006 (UTC)