User:Samwalton9/RfA/Amortias

Amortias (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)

Samwalton9's nomination

I'm very happy to be co-nominating Amortias for adminship. Amortias is a level-headed and productive editor who I think could do a lot of good work if given access to the administrator toolset.

Amortias' anti-vandalism work, Arbcom clerking, and Account Creation tool activity is all of great value to the community, and I found him to be nothing but sensible when working in these areas. He also has an extensive and very red CSD log.

Amortias' primary interests don't lie in content creation or at AfD, and yet I found his contributions in these areas to be more than adequate. He has created and contributed to a number of articles, and his AfD votes are sensible (though per his question answers, his nominations are sometimes less so because of nominations via OTRS). I am not concerned about the presence of an 'admin someday' userbox, as it's clear that Amortias isn't attempting to 'hat collect', but rather is eager to provide help where it is needed - as evidenced by his recent work clearing out the Account Creation backlog - and I see no problem with putting this enthusiasm to work in the admin areas.

I think Amortias is absolutely trustworthy enough to be given the administrator right, and could be an even greater asset with the extra tools.

Samtar's nomination

Amortias (talk · contribs · count) - It's with great pleasure I am able to present Amortias for your consideration for adminship. Amortias has been around for two years or so and through that time has made over 26000 edits to the project.

In amongst those edits are a decent number of well thought through and actioned AIV reports (330 to be exact!). These reports show a real need for the tools, as Amortias primarily focuses on anti-vandalism. Some other supporting statistics include 133 requests for page protection and 71 actioned reports to UAA.

Even though Amortias is a caretaker at heart, they've also created a number of articles such as St Mary and St Peter's Church, Barham and contributed heavily to improving pre-existing pages.

Amortias has also been active recently on the Account Creation tool and OTRS. I hope you can join me today in supporting a fine candidate -- Samtar ^{talk · contribs} 15:09, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

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

A: I intend to mostly deal with anti-vandalism work and issues around new page patrolling and creation as well as helping out with backlogs where required such as AIV and UAA.

Alongside this I envisage dealing with requests for page protection when dealing with vandalism or edit warring alongside rev-dels for copyright violations and other things that meet the criteria for removal and if required use of the block/unblock functionality.

I have experience of IP networking and would be willing to use this in relation to calculating or performing rangeblocks if required.

I have been closing sections at AN, ANI and recently started closing RFC's so would continue in these areas but with the ability to close and action those that require admin intervention, merges/splits and the likes.

Being able to access deleted revisions would also be helpful when working in the en-help IRC channel and OTRS as there are often requests for help with things that have been deleted for various reasons that so far I have been willing but unable to deal with. Sometimes there isn't an admin readily available who can help with these requests.

As an arbcom clerk there are times when actions requiring the admin toolkit are required such as protecting case pages. Due to the possible perception of COI with arbcom work and enforcing decisions I would plan to steer clear of AE however.

I don't intend to have much involvement with regards to AFD, this isn't an area I find interests me as much as the others areas mentioned above. Most of my work here (to the best of my recollection) is things I've found either through OTRS when we did afd by request or where I have found things during NPP and I don't imagine this would change regardless of the outcome of the RFA.

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

A: My best contributions in my opinion would be the anti-vandalism work. Ensuring (as best as we can) that the encyclopaedia is free of errors, abuse or attack pages and other information not relevant or appropriate to the aim of the project as a whole is the majority of my work directly on site. Alongside this I work on both OTRS ACC and in the en-help channel on IRC. I much prefer helping others to learn and become more confident in doing things. By assisting with these processes I hope that I'm not just giving my time to the project but assisting others in understanding how it works and enabling them to become productive editors as well.

With regards to article content my creation is somewhat limited, I have recently been advised that there is a distinct lack of articles on Suffolk Churches (an area I am familiar with geographically and ecumenically through volunteer work) and have started on a mini-spree of creation, my favourite article would have to be St Mary and St Peter's Church, Barham as my first article, my best article (so far) in terms of level of content and detail would be my most recent(at point of writing) St Andrew's Church, Westhall. There is a list of planned content that I am working on with another contributor in my subpage here. Do I see myself having a long list of GA's or FA's on my user page, probably not, but content creation is creeping up on me and I feel confident in my knowledge of policy and options behind creation.

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: I have had various conflicts over my tenure on site, fairly early on I managed to become a target for a prolific sockmaster who created various attack pages about myself and other users. I enjoy dealing with conflict like this as there is a clear line in the sand of this is right this is wrong, I dealt with it as it was; it was someone who had decided to attempt to negatively impact the project and I dealt with it as I would do now. Tag the pages for deletion, report them to an appropriate channel such as ANI/AIV or SPI and continued with what I was doing before. Even if given the bit I would still want oversight of actions where I have become the target so as to reduce the risk of being or running the risk of being considered involved I would however still delete obvious attack pages or material that should be swiftly removed but I would ask for a second set of eyes be it AN or IRC.

I had a brief issue where I received a warning for edit warring early on due to a misinterpretation of the policy on BLP and removal of unsourced content which is probably the biggest conflict I consider myself to have been involved in. I have had run-ins with IPs and other people who have been misusing the site, but they tend to either be not here to contribute or agreement is reached after discussion. I have on occasion decided that the issues being discussed doesn't require continued input from myself at which point I've removed myself from the situation.

I don't tend to get stressed by other users, but if I do find that something is bothering me its either urgent and someone else should be drafted in to help resolve as if I'm not working with a clear head bad decisions can be made, or its not important, I'll take a break come back after I've done something else and re-engage.