Meta:Requests for adminship/Kaldari

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Kaldari

Kaldari (talk • contribs • count • logs • page moves • block log • CA • email)

Hello, I'd like to request adminship on meta largely due to my role as a member of the fundraising team and as an active developer and user of CentralNotice. I do have a staff account under Ryan Kaldari, but since my mediawiki coder account is Kaldari and I'm typically logged into CentralAuth as Kaldari, it's a pain to have to switch to my staff account in order to use CentralNotice (sometimes several times a day). I would prefer to reserve my staff account for "office action" type edits rather than daily use as I have a long history under the account Kaldari and am generally recognized within the community under that name. I'm currently an administrator on en.wiki and commons, a member of the OTRS team, and have global editinterface rights. Kaldari 18:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support Ryan is trustworthy and does a lot of stuff on Meta-Wiki (related to CentralNotice mostly), a local sysop flag would help that. Cbrown1023 talk 19:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - I'm going for oppose, mainly because 56 edits this year doesn't really show that he needs the tools, he has a staff account when he needs the tools so I don't see the need to flag this account also. Huib talk ^Abigor 19:19, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Most of my use of CentalNotice doesn't show up as edits. Unfortunately, I haven't written the CentralNotice logger yet, so I don't have any way of showing my volume of use :P Kaldari 19:46, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - If you only need the tools for Fundraiser, wouldn't it be enough to get temp adminship? -Barras 20:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - I'll be doing development and testing of CentralNotice year-round, but yes, I mainly need it during the fundraiser time period. If consensus is against regular adminship, I may try temp instead. Kaldari 20:33, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - Our use of the word "temporary", at least the last I checked, was atrocious: Instead of it meaning "limited time" we defined it as being "limited" in general. Meta-wikians should probably consider renaming the position sometime. In your case, it might well be long term, but limited in use to CentralNotice and related functions. Alternatively, you could simply request internally that a "WMF Staff Sysop" permission (either a global group, possibly restricted in wikiset to Meta, or an actual local group) be created on Meta to handle these sorts of requests. Kylu 21:05, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support - trusted. PeterSymonds 16:42, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose for regular adminship. He may need the tool and could know functions and could do well, but giving local regular adminship of a certain goes beyond that. At this moment I am not sure he respects meta community policy and procedure for regular sysop action. Besides the general concern on fewer editing people, who tend to follow their home wiki policies, not meta own, I have one particular concern. If I recall correctly, an anon asked for an account of foundation website under his name, which we rejected due to necessity to confirm their identification. I asked Cary to ask him on my behalf to confirm the request through his own account. My request seems to be ignored. Generally I don't support someone who don't respect local policies and procedures of a certain wiki without a good reason. For temp sysop limited to CentralNotice I'm however abstain. --Aphaia 21:32, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Trusted, which is all that matters. Guido den Broeder 23:08, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support No problems for temporary sysopship, Kaldari is a trusted user -- Quentinv57 12:47, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose regular adminship for now. I have nothing against Kaldari and I agree that he's a trusted user & knows how the tools works. However he states that he will be needing the tools mainly during the 2010 Fundraising campaign due to CentralNotice and other stuff. Requesting sysop access for that reason is understandable so I support temporary adminship during the 2010 Fundraising campaign for his work. --dferg ^{☎ talk} 13:19, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Only for regular adminship. –BruTe ^talk 19:23, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment He already recieved a staff account for centralnotice stuff (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ryan_Kaldari) I don't see any good reason to give this account also temp adminship... Why should he need his rights double? Huib talk ^Abigor 19:35, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
See above: it's a pain to have to switch to my staff account in order to use CentralNotice (sometimes several times a day) Guido den Broeder 20:22, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
They have staff accounts so the work on wikipedia en work on staff are separated, this will get mixed when he starts using this account. Huib talk ^Abigor 20:47, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Already has a staff account. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 01:03, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Why not? --minhhuy*= 10:05, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Firm, objective requirements for adminship:

Be an administrator, bureaucrat, or checkuser on a local Wikipedia or related project. Passes
Have a user page on Meta, with links to the user pages on other participated projects. This can state that SUL is activated or be provided via a Wiki matrix if that is not possible. Passes
Have a valid contact address (either a confirmed email address in preferences, or a valid email address on the user page). Fails at this time. Easy enough requirement to meet, though! Kylu 02:07, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I have to close this request as not successful. It's 6 supports to 4 opposes. This is a rationale of 66.67% in support, but our policy states the the candidate must be approved by a consensus of at least 75% in support. Furthermore, the user currently fails one of the mentioned criteria below by Kylu. it might be better to request temporary adminrights for the duration of the fundraiser. Thanks for understanding. -Barras 21:18, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]