Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Coren
Voice your opinion (1/1/0); Scheduled to end 03:03, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Coren (talk · contribs) - Despite my relatively low edit count, I think I can hold the mop with success. In fact, over the past several years, my irregular interaction with article space have allowed me to find a better niche than article editor per se.
I found my best contribution to the 'pedia to date is new page patrol (how's that for boring, repetitive tasks?). I have a fairly good crap detector, and I think my hit/miss ratio speaks for itself. I'm not perfect, but I acknowledge and correct mistakes when I make them.
I sometimes contribute in article space, and I think I have never(?) made a controversial edit there, but my strength has always been to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to terminate the chaff with extreme prejudice. I also use the opportunity to give a little push to budding articles, if only with tags to encourage correcting the weaker points.
The reason I'm asking for adminship is simply so I can contribute to Wikipedia in the way I am most able to: quality control. Coren 02:46, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Oh, and technically, my edit count should be higher, but it seems edits to page that are deleted don't count. I guess CSD success isn't good for the blind stats. :-) Coren 03:01, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Questions for the candidate
Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. You may wish to answer the following optional questions to provide guidance for participants:
- 1. What admin work, if any, do you intend to take part in?
- A: Concentrate where my strengths are: new page patrol, XfD, and AiV. I'm always willing to give a hand wherever there's a backlog, but I'm pretty sure that's where I'd be most useful. I'm going to keep editing when I feel I can contribute something useful, though.
- I'm probably never going to be speedy deleting articles outright, though. I feel deleting only articles tagged by other editors keeps a very useful double check to a fairly opaque process. Once every so often, I have made overzealous tags that were then caught by an admin (much to my relief). So I'll only speedy tagged articles, or tag but not delete myself.
- 2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
- A: I don't think anything I did to date shines especially. I pride myself on being consistent, and keeping within my sphere. But I also think I never did anything that particularly stunk. I'll leave the brilliant prose to those more able than I, and concentrate on the gruntwork.
- 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
- A: Not especially. Doing new page patrol gets me a regular dose of flak, but I've never lost my temper over it. I think I can state outright that I've always remained civil. I've begun implicating myself in the mediation cabal, with (I feel) some success. I plan on continuing that activity in the future.
- 4. Why did you take a break from April of last year to April of this year?
- A: Simply put: work. My job will occasionally require me to do crunches several months long involving a lot of international travel, and Wikipedia simply got the backburner. (That reminds me, I have a few very nice pictures I took in Algeria. I need to see if any of those could be useful here).
General comments
- See Coren's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.
Please keep criticism constructive and polite. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Coren before commenting.
Discussion
Support
- Support - A year in WP, no controversy, hard worker. Sure. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 03:09, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Oppose
- Oppose, sorry. Your enthusiasm is most welcome but more experience is needed in all areas, especially admin-oriented ones. Keep up the good work and try again in a few months.--Húsönd 03:22, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Neutral