Meta:Requests for adminship/Daniel

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a closed Meta-Wiki request. Please do not modify it.

28 Support, 0 Oppose, 0 Neutral = 100% = clear consensus → promoted — VasilievV ² 04:53, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel

Hi all, my name is "Daniel". I have the SUL username across Wikimedia, with the exceptions listed here. I use the nicks "DanielB" and "IKnowNothing" on IRC.

I am currently a temporary administrator on Meta to make my life easier in co-ordinating the board elections. However, while I have been a temporary sysop I have come across half a dozen incidents of vandalism/repeated nonsense page creation/etc., but unfortunately due to the scope of my temporary adminship I was unable to do anything. I idle in #wikimedia also, and there's been another dozen or so times where people have had routine tasks requiring admin tools (author requests deletion, move page over top of history and history merge, etc.), but I was similarily unable to help them out.

If the Meta community would be happy to allow me to assist them with the administrator-like tasks noted above, I'd be honoured and happy to help out. I have over 300 edits to this Wiki and a handful of sysop actions, which I hope have proven I'm not batshit insane :) As for experience with other projects as an administrator, I am a sysop on English Wikipedia (active), OTRS Wiki (active), and Wikinews (semi-active). I confess that I will not be much use with the spam blacklist or similar, but I feel that I could be of use with the more day-to-day anti-vandalism and routine cleanup/housekeeping stuff, if you are happy for that to happen :)

Although this is far down the line and with many hurdles in between, I can confirm (per a question posed to me privately) that I would not seek automatic bureaucrat tools. Although I think it's a great idea for a project like Meta (kudos to all, especially Majorly, for managing to implement what was a "radical idea"), I would prefer to deal with tasks that I outlined above, pending the community's wishes in this discussion, and defer to others when the infrequent renames and promotions are required.

Cheers, Daniel (talk) 04:56, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(My temporary adminship runs until the end of the election window, so if this RfA is successful I would suggest that all that happens is my name gets moved from "temporary sysop" to "normal sysop" and the stewards won't -sysop this account as they would have otherwise. If this is unsuccessful, I would simply be -sysoped at the end of the election as would have happened had I not filed this RfA.)

Support I see no reason why not. --Thogo (talk) 05:30, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
+1 --.snoopy.  05:32, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think Daniel's got a pretty clear track record of not doing stupid things with his admit tools (something all the more important if global blocking is implemented), and his case presented here is rather reasonable. EVula // talk // ☯ // 05:32, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Kiensvay 06:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support, --_~Innv^s: 09:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - should do the job well. --Anonymous Dissident^Talk 09:36, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support sure!--Nick1915 -^{all you want} 09:40, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support the regular adminship. Adambro 11:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cbrown1023 talk 13:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support seems insane enough to want to help out, sane enough not to blow things up, and has a deft touch... ++Lar: t/c 17:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He's been clerking some of the steward request pages like mad. Very helpful. Hope that's not just a scheme to win us over :) ++Lar: t/c 16:23, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think I made a grand total of four edits steward pages adding helpful notes :) Daniel (talk) 16:28, 1 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support :) --Az1568 22:59, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Always bugging me to do stuff, certainly trustworthy, why not? :) Majorly ^talk 23:15, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Definitely. - Rjd0060 23:18, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support - you haz no sense of humour and "UKnowNothing", I don't trust a person who like Aussie rules footy ..State on your userpage that you like Rugby or I won't support you !!! ..--Comet styles 23:40, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Know him (as a public figure) from en.wp, would make good use of the mop. However, this is my first edit ever on Meta, so if my vote is invalid, go ahead and strike it through. GlobeGores 01:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

you have an active account on enwiki, so you qualify :) ...--Comet styles 03:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support. WjBscribe 02:53, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Cometsyles! giggy _(:O) 10:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

are you on drugs?..and its Cometstyles b..:P ...--Comet styles 10:20, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Drugs? I hope not! giggy _(:O) 12:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support — VasilievV ² 14:08, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support — like he's gonna run amok? Cheers, User:Jack Merridew a.k.a. David 14:18, 28 May 2008 (UTC)_{who doesn't do drug anymore}[reply]
Support for sure Huji 20:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support he's trustworthy. Acalamari 23:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sure. guillom 07:46, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oh yeah. SQL ^{Query me!} 03:34, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Trustworthy user in multiple varied capacities. Cirt 11:49, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Tacaíocht - well, of course! Highly trusted and respected editor on a number of wikis. Worked on restarting gawikti with me last year, too - Alison ^❤ 07:23, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ahonc 14:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Fabexplosive The archive man 17:09, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Marbot 21:44, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]