User:Dennis Brown/RfA/Czar

Review of Czar

This is an editor review for admin. Please do not modify it.

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Recommendations

Some of these are just observations, things that might get noticed and you might have to explain at RfA, not necessarily critical but they might stand out a bit and need explaining as a candidate. Some areas may be intentionally blank if there is nothing to add about that area.

CSD

PROD

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NAC AFD

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Sanctions (via [1])

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User talk

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Misc.

(Summaries, userboxes, signature, etc.)

Personal

Questions

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

A: AFD closures, technical moves, and history merges. I'm satisfied between writing articles and my AfD participation, in which I think I've shown sufficient discretion, understanding, and clue, and would like to return the favor for the help I've received. If I were to branch out, I would do so cautiously.

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

A: I'm proudest of my collection of video game assets released as free use and WP advocacy (teaching a WP class at a high school, running edit-a-thons, helping dispel educators' misunderstandings about how WP works) because I think they have the broadest reach. However, I am primarily here to write and I presume the more popular answer would be the number of "recognized" articles I've produced. Though I prefer not to keep stats, I accept that some find counting a reassuring act. For a list of my DYKs and recognized content, please see the talk page.

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: Nothing particularly remarkable or more than to be expected. No disagreements that have flared up into a full-blown "conflict". I prefer to handle situations with a strategy of deescalation. This either means to align and work it out together, or to dispassionately extricate myself by bowing out. For two recent AfD dispute examples, see The First Book of Napoleon and Shemford (1, 2). In any event, I've never gone to war or even to a noticeboard, largely because I'm uninterested in letting it get to that point.

Candidate area

Please list any GAs, FAs, DYK or other contributions. If you speak any foreign languages or have other noteworthy degrees or skills, list those as well. Also add any problems that are likely to be brought up at RfA, such as past blocks, bad disputes, Arb actions, or similar.

I'd put this stuff under the "General comments":

• List of recognized content (DYK/GA/FA/other featured) available on talk page
• Background in art and education, doc student in history and philosophy of education
• This is my only account. I usurped this username (hold your czar puns) in 2012, and I have another account for semi-automated (AWB) edits. I haven't made a non-minor edit as an IP since making this account.
• No blocks, ugly disputes, Arb actions, or otherwise
• To preempt the question about standing for recall, I think a consensus from a well formed and public RFC (RFC/U, if it hasn't been abolished) would be sufficient, and that this goes without any RfA candidate needing to say so.
• Post-April 2014 Twinkle CSD log, PROD log, discussion closure log

czar ♔ 01:12, 11 November 2014 (UTC)