Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Vishnava

Vishnava

Voice your opinion (talk page) (0/0/0); Scheduled to end 02:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Vishnava (talk · contribs) - I present myself, Vishnava, to you to request adminship. After 6 months on Wikipedia, 4.5 months of active work and 10,600 edits, I am ready for the additional responsibility. I want to become an administrator because I find it important to add to the ranks of the +1,600 administrators who watch the backs of +8 million full-time editors and safeguard the quality of more than 2 million articles and other content. I pride myself for my integrity, resolve, open-mindedness and productivity. The purpose of this statement is to let you know exactly why I am qualified and prepared. I know I have limitations but I will work hard and never hesitate to ask advice or seek help if I find myself lacking in some regard.

I love working on DYKs and my chief contribution is authoring 59 DYKs (and 5 pending nominations) in the area of international relations and South Asia-related topics. I love working on DYKs and have actively helped out on maintaining the DYK template and cross-checking nominations. I pride myself on personally letting the nominators know immediately of any concern on their article and help keeping the updates on time (and felt frustration at not being able to do so myself). I plan to diversify over time and hopefully write a featured article soon.

I am an avid and active RC patroller and "Huggler" - I travel fast and wide tirelessly, and as a result, have at least 8,000 anti-vandalism reverts to my credit. I have been moderately active at AfDs - one example worth noting is when I nominated "Mecca Time", an article I had created as there were some serious concerns about its noteworthiness. I chose to go to AfD because I wanted the community to have a proper discussion and decide what should be done. I always backed my work on the article but I was conscious of my responsibility to keep out articles that violate policy and I respected the views of others and knew the limitations to my own knowledge in those early months.

I have worked well with others to resolve any issues with my work - [1], [2], [3]. I have respected criticism and have worked to address it without hesitation. I have never hesitated to ask questions or simply advice on improving my performance - [4], [5]. My only disappointment is the few times I have mistakenly reverted a legitimate edit (mainly while pressing the revert button 1 sec after someone else has removed vandalism). While these mistakes are few and infrequent, I make it a point to apologize to the person, registered users and IPs and promptly restore their edit - [6], [7]. I have also immediately retracted warnings and encouraged editors who demonstrate a positive attitude.

I have not hesitated to give my thoughts during policy discussions - I am pleased that one suggestion of mine was near to what another editor recently proposed in order to reform RfA and is being tested by others - [8]. I also tried to shoot some ideas to solve the issue of timely updates to DYK and I hope that did some good - [9]. I have studied policy, discussions at ANI and other forums and observed the work and views of more experienced editors, so I believe that I will be ready to tackle any kind of problem.

I would like to thank PeterSymonds and Royalbroil and for being terrific mentors and role-models. There are several other people like Johnbod, D.Trebbien, J.delanoy and SchfiftyThree, who have given valuable advice and support during my time here. I would like you to note that I had initially joined Wikipedia as User:V i s n a v a in December 2007 and authored 1 DYK but was forced to leave Wikipedia at the time due to some real-life commitments.

Thank you for considering me - to anybody to feels I am not yet ready, I request you to let me know precisely what your concern is and how I can improve. Vishnava_talk 02:58, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I am ready. Vishnava_talk 03:06, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: I would like to regularly help maintain and update T:DYK and fight vandals both via WP:AIV and during RC patrols. I will also actively work on CSD backlogs, attend to requests for page protection,protected edit requests and WP:3RR. I will also keep watch on WP:ANI and WP:PNB and help out there. Importantly, I would like to be in a position to help any other editor who may need an admin's assistance.

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

A: I am very proud of all my contributions. My record speaks of how fond I am of writing DYKs - it is a simple yet skilled task that enables one to quickly and substantially learn a particular subject and produce quality work that benefits others. It has often taken me only 5-10 minutes to write a properly composed, summary article from scratch, with all references and citations given. In addition, helping to cross-check articles and maintain DYK in general has been very rewarding. I am also proud of being an alert, effective and responsible RC patroller.

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 am proud to say that I have not had any stressful encounters or conflicts with anyone. I am always open to criticism and frank but respectful in expressing my views - I don't expect others to agree and I don't like to argue and fire off ripostes too much. When tempers get noticeably high, I don't have a problem walking away. I want to enjoy working here and I choose to reserve my energy and time for real-life battles of importance. Taking a route I don't agree with is better than stopping the train by arguing too much; if I am proven wrong, I will happily learn from it; if I am proven correct and the route taken is flawed, I will help correct it.

Optional questions from Editorofthewiki

# Will your mainspace (such as DYKs, not including huggling) contributions be hindered by the granting of the tools?

A: Absolutely not. I love writing DYKs and I actually hope to write a FA soon. Adminship is being able to help out a bit more, but it cannot change my raison d'etre, which is to help build an encyclopedia and learn a bit.

General comments

See Vishnava's edit summary usage with mathbot's tool. For the edit count, see the talk page.

Links for Vishnava: Vishnava (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review Special:Contributions/Vishnava before commenting.

Discussion

Support

Support Pleased to be first, per excellent and persuasive self-nom. Excellent work with Did You Know articles. I do believe his mainspace edit count does not reflect the work he does. Well qualified in other areas - thought he was one! Best wishes, -- how do you turn this on 03:25, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support I've had several interactions with the candidate, and they have been nothing but positive. I've always looked up to how you wrote so many DYKs in such short a time--and on thirld world countries to boot! While I'm not a fan of massive huggling, you are certainly a qualified candidate. Good luck on that FA! (P.S. Your answer to my qustion was awesome). ~one of many editorofthewikis ^{(talk/contribs/editor review)}~ 03:40, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Oppose - Most edits to the mainspace are mechanical reversions - no evidence of experience in 3RR or RFPP, or the other noticeboards that you indicate you will monitor. Wisdom89 _{(_T / ^C)} 03:22, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Also, no collaborative effort as per your talk page contributions. Wisdom89 _{(_T / ^C)} 03:23, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

With respect, I don't understand 2 things - (1) I have written 59 DYKs, so why are mainspace contributions in question? (2) I have worked extensively at T:DYK in evaluating, promoting noms and maintaining the template and I've provided some diffs on how I've worked with others on article problems, the AfDs and policy discussions. All that is collaborative in nature. Vishnava_talk 03:30, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that you have work with DYK, which is pretty good, but I've never been impressed with that area of Wikipedia alone (just a personal opinion of mine). I've examined your template DYK contributions, and the last time you worked on it (from what I can see) was back in late June..yet you claim to love it. AFD participation was short-lived and back in April. It seems that huggling has become your forte/primary focus, and I'm just not comfortable with that. Besides, you simply do not possess/have not demonstrated the necessary experience in the other areas where you wish to work. Wisdom89 _{(_T / ^C)} 03:47, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was travelling abroad from July to September, which is why I stopped contributing pretty much during that period. Since I have returned, I have authored 3 DYKs (+ 5 pending noms). Vishnava_talk 03:50, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]