User:Danaman5/Workshop/RFA

Danaman5

Voice your opinion (talk page) (0/0/0); Scheduled to end 23:11, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Danaman5 (talk · contribs) - Hi, everyone, I'm Danaman5. I've been a Wikipedian since November of 2004 officially, and began editing actively at the end of January, 2006. I tend to be a Wikignome of sorts, and I've done a lot of different things on Wikipedia. I've done some article writing, mostly on topics related to China (see question 2 below for specifics). I've participated in some WP:XFD debates as well. I've done other things at various times, including article categorization and tagging for WP:CHINA. I've also done a little bit of vandal fighting and new pages patrol. I also want to say a quick word about my edit rate. I seem to always land at about 150-200 edits per month, except in months when my count was inflated by the aforementioned article tagging, or I was on a break. This used to bother me, and I would try to think of ways to edit more. However, nothing seemed to have any effect, and eventually I resolved to disregard edit rate in favor of simply making quality edits. I'm on track to make the same number of edits this month, and it doesn't matter to me, because I believe that I have helped the encyclopedia. With all of these things said, thanks for stopping by and I look forward to your comments. Danaman5 23:11, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. It is recommended that you answer these optional questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?

A: I intend to start out slowly in undertaking admin tasks. I have a pretty good understanding of what is a valid CSD candidate and what isn't, so I would delete articles that fit that criteria. My ability to revert vandalism and deal with vandalism-only accounts would also be improved. Also, I have long believed in the importance of referencing contributions, especially when it comes to sensitive topics, and I would gladly help to enforce the Biographies of Living Persons policy. Outside of these areas, I would slowly move into other areas where administrators are needed, e.g. WP:RFPP, and WP:AN and its related pages. I won't be the administrator who is taking the most admin actions right away, but I will be motivated to move into areas that need help from admins.

2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?

A: I improved the article Beijing opera to FA status earlier this year. Recently, I have been working on Jin Shengtan. I have also created articles like Jian Bozan and Macartney Embassy. Outside of the mainspace, I am proud of my contributions to WP:CHINA, where I revived article assessment, participated in policy discussions, and have made some changes to Template:WPCHINA. There are lots of other little things that I am proud of.

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: About 9 months ago, I foolishly moved the page Unequal Treaties to a new title without seeking consensus first. It was a dumb thing to do, and I quickly reverted the move and fixed all redirects. I have also mediated a dispute or two, once on the page South Tibet, and a little bit unofficially when the dispute between User:Ideogram and User:Certified.Gangsta was going on. In general, I believe in the utmost civility on Wikipedia. We're all volunteers here, and if you are uncivil to others, they are just going to leave, and we will have lost a valuable contributor. I like to drop thank-you notes to contributors who have helped something I am working on in some way. I also tried for a long time to welcome five new users every day to prevent the loss of contributors through lack of attention to them. Things that happen on Wikipedia don't usually stress me out, but if they do, I just get away from the computer for a little while. In the future, I will always try to release tension during conflicts through dialogue, rather than just slapping a block on someone.

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