Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Bureaucrat/Brianmc

Brianmc (Bureaucrat)
Brianmc has been an active user on Wikinews for just over three years and in that time has racked up over 19000 edits. He is an admin, accredited user with oversight, check user and a member of the Arb Com. He has also shown utter dedication to the project with many hours spent around the project, on IRC, going to places to represent wn and also wikinewsie.org. he also never seems to sleep and therefore is pretty much around all the time but really all this doesn't matter, Brian doesn't need this rubbish intro, he talks for himself :-)
 * Accepting nomination, there's little B'Crat-specific work although finishing cleaning out the de-admin would be nice. If people ask me to close off things like Admin votes I'll get to them as soon as I can. Despite Markie's checking in IRC and alleging I'm a robot almost good enough to pass the Turing test I think my warped sense of humour proves that wrong.
 * If I had to say what I thought was the worst Admin action I've taken in the last six months-year it would be blocking our Scientologist friend Misou who any admin without WN:CU privs can probably guess with reasonable certainty edited from axiom28.scientology.net without being logged in. Google "Axiom 28" and you'll see it is their propoganda wing. I regret this because (a) The Clams will hide and (b) There was a &*@% of a lot more troll-baiting mileage in that user. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:43, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Votes

 * Support per nom, this is long deserved and i hope to see you around still in the future as a b'crat :-)--Mark Talk to me 17:33, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * from me - perfect candidate for b'crat. --Skenmy(t•c•w•i) 17:35, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * not sure we need another, but Brianmc is a good choice regardless. --Cspurrier 17:42, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Couldn't think of a better candidate for B'crat —Zachary talk 17:48, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Great user who has recognised in his statement my only concern about his judgement and as such I'm sure he'll learn from the experience. Adambro 18:29, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * . --Jcart1534 18:38, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 *  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 20:11, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:38, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 21:43, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * - No doubt! Greeves (talk • contribs) 04:34, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Bawolff ☺☻ 05:01, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Wilhelm 10:09, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * --David Shankbone 15:26, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * ? ? You can't handle the ! Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 20:57, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
 * McNeil is like a Bureaucrat already --SVTCobra 00:01, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * - Cometstyles 00:03, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Very good candidate. TheCustomOfLife 00:42, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Jacques Divol 10:23, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I think Brian should be "editor-in-chief", honorary that is, he does so much for the community. --TUFKAAP 07:28, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't need more, but seems fine anyway. :)  Btw, bureaucrats can not de-admin people, afaik.  Nyarlathotep 13:59, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Even if they could I wouldn't de-admin without community consensus and we don't seem to be reaching that on the vote I started about Eloquence. --Brian McNeil / talk 14:41, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree we don't need another one, but handy to have all the same. Couldn't have a better condidate, either. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 18:06, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Comments
I'm not going anywhere soon, unless I vanish off the face of the planet totally. :-) I'm almost embarrassed at the support this has garnered - and nobody has grilled me on it. I am open to questions in this section - I think we can do better than presidential debates and learn more about candidates for positions. --Brian McNeil / talk 00:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'll toss one across the plate for you. If you had to choose between Sheik Yerbouti and Joe's Garage, which would it be and why? --Jcart1534 00:44, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * That is probably the hardest question I'll get thrown at me... I'd chose the Joe's Garage option because I have more chance of convincing aspiring musicians to try it. --Brian McNeil / talk 00:56, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I got a really hard question that is way better than any of the presidential debate questions, well here it is: What is the answer to life?  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 00:42, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * There is no answer to life, there is an answer to "life the universe and everything" - which is 42. Pretty pointless if you don't know more of the specifics about the question. --Brian McNeil / talk 00:56, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * What no more questions? --Brian McNeil / talk 18:10, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Allright, you know 'the answer' is 42. Perhaps you can tell us something else, then. What is the question? Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 18:08, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm Brianmc, not Deep Thought --Brian McNeil / talk 22:31, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Worth a try... Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 07:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)