User:Go Phightins!/sandbox/Paul

Fellow Wikipedians, it is my pleasure to bring forth User:Paulmcdonald for your consideration as an admin candidate. I first interacted with Paul when I was a clueless newbie in my first 10 days or so of editing when I was ticked off that he supported deletion of an article that I was reading. I vented at him a little bit, and he stayed calm and tried to explain relevant policy, though it undoubtedly fell on deaf ears. In any case, Paul was the victim of my constant questioning throughout my first few months of editing, and he was always patient, kind, and helpful. In addition to his helpfulness to me, he has all of the characteristics we as a community could possibly want:

• He has a ton of experience at articles for deletion.

• In the last 250 AFDs in which he has participated, his !votes have been in consensus or there has been no consensus nearly 85% of the time.
• His comments always indicate that he has thoughtfully weighed relevant policy and rarely are "per so and so" !votes, which brings me to my next point.

• He is extremely well-versed in our policies.

• Look at these three AFDs just from the last few days, and you will see that in each he not only linked a policy, but explained how it applied to the given situation. Being articulate is an important trait in an admin, and one that Paul undoubtedly embodies.
• In addition to his knowledge of our policies, he has written numerous essays which are displayed on his user page.

• He maintains a calm demeanor.

• Even in this dispute, Paul remained calm throughout despite comments being made about his off-wiki activities. It shows he has a thick skin and can handle whatever may be thrown at him when he has the admin tools.

• He is a content creator.

• Paul has created 100 articles in his time at Wikipedia and has made over 16,000 edits, more than 55% of his total edits, to article space.
• He keeps an archive of deleted articles so he can work to improve them and reintroduce them to article space.

• He has a clean block log, is well-respected within the projects he works, and is steadily active and has made at least 100 edits in 34 of the last 39 months. Though he doesn't rack up thousands of edits per month, he is more than able to be a significant positive during what time he does volunteer with us.

For the aforementioned reasons, I think Paul is a terrific candidate for adminship and would urge my fellow Wikipedians to support his admin candidacy. Thank you very much. Respectfully, Go Phightins! 03:58, 27 April 2013 (UTC)