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with Knowledge there is a HUGE community of users who will almost always reach a reasonable group consensus (as compared with many situations in the real world where a single dictator makes all final decisions regardless of anyone else's input). It may not be the consensus I might hope for in any given situation, but I recognize and respect that the wishes of the community at large outweigh my desires as an individual editor. I'm okay with that and it doesn't bother me. I have enough stress in my regular life; Knowledge provides an outlet and even an escape at times, and if I ever feel stressed I can simply walk away without it taking a toll on me.
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page and its effect on section heading display. Despite being called a moron during the course of the discussion, I feel I kept a reasonably level head and within 12 hours of tossing ideas back and forth we had worked out a resolution with which everyone was satisifed and with no hard feelings. This
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In the interest of fairness, I'm striking an unsigned vote that I am sure came from a newly registered friend. While I deeply appreciate the gesture, it's not fair for anyone to "stuff the ballot box" with new user votes. I have also reformatted a couple early votes to better meet accepted practice.
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With regard to others causing me stress and my dealing with it, I feel that's one of the wonderful things about Knowledge in specific and the Internet in general. Unlike my real-life stressors, with Knowledge I can always get up and walk away if something is bothering me. Also unlike in real life,
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No, not yet. Though you are on the right road, you aren’t there yet. The edit count certainly suggests commitment and availability. Your edits suggest the ability to write readable articles, good temperament, and the ability to work well with others. However, I’d like to see more time to show the
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A. Since joining Knowledge in 2005 I have expanded my involvement from editing a single article to expanding, editing, and reorganizing a number of additional articles. More recently I have become involved with a number of other tasks as well in order to benefit the Knowledge project, including
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Despite the user's inherently kind and easy demeanor, I cannot stand by this. More and more nominations are being input with users that have had too little experience and are performing "burnout" editting habbits within the recent month proceeding the nomination. Please gain more experience.
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Having said all of that, I would like to continue to expand my involvement with Knowledge. I feel that adminship would allow me to more effectively and efficiently contribute to the cause, making thoughtful changes that I must currently ask other admins to do (for example,
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uncomfortable manipulating my own voting page, but I feel it is important in this situation; please note that I did not change the vote tally in my favor in any way, shape, or form and I'm deeply interested in preserving the integrity of this vote.
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to its current condition (obviously with help from others). This project will continue as I work outside of Knowledge with a large group of Nova enthusiasts to gather facts, add information, and document sources for upcoming additions to the
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A. As with virtually any Knowledge editor with more than a dozen edits under his/her belt, I have made edits with which others have disagreed. In no case has the disagreement gone to arbitration, gotten out of hand in an all-out
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is certainly better than I'd have done. I would usually perfer to see more experience in the WP namespace, but if Brossow finds a situation where he doesn't know what to do I'm sure he'll ask before acting.
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A. In addition to the sizable contributions I've made recently to some of the aforementioned projects (hundreds upon hundreds of edits related to image tagging and disambiguation) I've also done a
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Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
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Changing my vote, sorry. I don't see enough community intteraction, and the notice on your talk page that you will delete (rather than archive) old threads is classic newbie.
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is/are in Texas. I've got 2700+ edits and have no reason whatsoever to use a sockpuppet to nominate myself. I truly hope you'll reconsider your vote or at least withdraw it.
71:) – I have known Brossow for a few years now through another internet forum, and I have found him to be of good character. He has a distinguished history of over 2,700 edits 398:
This is patently false, not to mention offensive. Perhaps someone in authority would be so kind as to compare IP addresses. You'll find mine are in Minnesota whereas
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article. While many people may not find it interesting, important, or even worthy of the space on the servers, I believe a quick comparison of the article between
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Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Knowledge in this capacity. Please take the time to answer a few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
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sustainability of your effort and greater breadth of experience to show more of your critical thinking skills, your clarity of thought, and your people skills.
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as per the above, only two months real activity with the majority this month, limited contributions in the project namespace, needs more experience. --
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Most of all, I'm simply proud to be a part of this community and contribute my time and talents to what I feel is an enormously worthwhile project.
551:: Temperament seems a little on the edge in this RFA, but the reason for opposition is inactivity in encyclopedic content and lack of experience. 74:, including many original contributions. He has a strong grasp of the Knowledge Manual of Style and Knowledge's rules and regulations. I feel that 949: 234:. Committed? Yes. Any ethical questions raised? No. Useful editor? Yes. What's the problem with the "too recent" issue is beyond me. -- 757: 798:, looks good. However, like DaGizza said, around 80% of his edits come from this month alone. An admin must have more experience. -- 29: 17: 1064:, or led to long-term hard feelings. An example of where there was some strong disagreement over changes I made can be found in 884:
usage: 100% for major edits and 97% for minor edits. Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.
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No second thoughts in supporting this nom. Brossow is supportive of others, level-headed and stays on point and trustworthy.
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In terms of completely original contributions, I'm rather proud of the short but thorough article I contributed about
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and the current version will reveal a noticeable improvement in the article (despite its all-around trouncing in its
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Of your articles or contributions to Knowledge, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either
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Great user, but around 80% of his edits coming only from this month. Needs more time really.
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issues in a couple of recent interactions surrounding a discussion of copyrights relating to
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If someone disagrees with these actions, please let me know and/or revert my edits. I'm
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I don't like his car, but his Knowledge activities are adequate enough for adminship!
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Talk:Apple Macintosh#Images: preventing weird formatting vs. keeping things lively
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What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out
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to regain Featured Article status). I've also begun a major overhaul of the
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barely met for "decent activity throughout". Seems a good one, though, so,
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Just because the nominator has no user page doesn't mean it's an alias. --
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of this year, including the changes I made and the compromise we reached.
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He's a great contributor, but he simply has not been here long enough.
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or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion.
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and notifying the respective uploaders, and most recently helping
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Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
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The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a
210:- I can't help it, I trust him (recent developments). -- 1020: 1008: 377:, but may not be, sockpuppetry on his own nomination. 563:on grounds of inexperience. Give it a few months. 435:not now... if I get to know him then maybe later. 275:A great user who would not abuse admin tools. -- 582:above. A lot of edits, but not enough time. -- 54:Final (14/16/8) ended 20:16, 3 March 2006 (UTC) 296:Would be a valuable asset to the admin team. 8: 246:, his response to the issues raised on the 1073:article subsequently went on to become a 897:'s edit count and contribution tree with 865:, lack of Knowledge namespace edits. 7: 308:. Adminship should be no big deal. 1120:Unsuccessful requests for adminship 853:. Give it a little more time :(. -- 24: 185: 180: 18:Knowledge:Requests for adminship 1075:Featured Article on February 10 1005:All your base are belong to us 640:Better have more experience.-- 615:All your base are belong to us 122:14:26, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 1: 924:16:44, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 889:17:00, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 870:23:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC) 858:07:04, 26 February 2006 (UTC) 846:03:39, 26 February 2006 (UTC) 814:17:34, 25 February 2006 (UTC) 791:06:30, 25 February 2006 (UTC) 765:03:25, 25 February 2006 (UTC) 689:23:14, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 589:22:52, 26 February 2006 (UTC) 571:14:15, 26 February 2006 (UTC) 556:13:51, 26 February 2006 (UTC) 544:03:56, 26 February 2006 (UTC) 521:01:10, 26 February 2006 (UTC) 509:21:28, 25 February 2006 (UTC) 495:02:43, 25 February 2006 (UTC) 468:21:03, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 443:20:19, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 416:21:21, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 394:20:40, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 382:20:15, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 363:17:20, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 316:19:31, 28 February 2006 (UTC) 301:05:58, 26 February 2006 (UTC) 289:14:50, 25 February 2006 (UTC) 268:08:50, 25 February 2006 (UTC) 256:01:42, 25 February 2006 (UTC) 239:00:44, 25 February 2006 (UTC) 227:00:15, 25 February 2006 (UTC) 215:22:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 203:20:06, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 191:19:47, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 167:. I like the cut of his jib. 160:17:33, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 145:17:04, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 129:17:06, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 124:Fifth contrib by the user. -- 83:03:18, 24 February 2006 (UTC) 1009:my first involvement with it 950:administrators' reading list 698:neutral leaning weak support 930:Questions for the candidate 1136: 944:, and read the page about 942:Category:Knowledge backlog 1021:my first edit of the page 663:21:22, 3 March 2006 (UTC) 645:00:52, 2 March 2006 (UTC) 633:07:12, 1 March 2006 (UTC) 623:00:24, 1 March 2006 (UTC) 602:07:33, 2 March 2006 (UTC) 450:per all the above votes. 340:07:28, 3 March 2006 (UTC) 1098:Please do not modify it. 578:for the same reasons as 39:Please do not modify it. 960:for vandalism, tagging 1019:page, taking it from 30:request for adminship 821:. Needs more time. 421:discussion moved to 371:obvious sockpuppetry 966:disambiguate links 609:- Some borderline 323:, looks OK to me. 198:. 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Knowledge:Requests for adminship
request for adminship
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