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Nomination

Spy-cicle (talk · contribs · they/them) – Hello, I'm Spy-cicle, I joined in December 2018 and have engaged in a range of topics here including video games, biographies, politics, and anything I stumble across. I have also engaged in fair number of AfDs during my time here and formerly served as a delegate for Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates. I have 11k edits and while my editing history over the last year or so has been a bit sporadic due to personal reasons I plan on ramping up my activity once again. I have never been blocked or have ever been paid to edit for Wikipedia. I have created 20 articles (excluding redirects or disambs) and produced 5 GAs and 2 FLs.  Spy-cicle💥  Talk? 23:33, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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. Why are you interested in becoming an administrator?
A: I am interested so I can help out in various areas which are known to have backlogs on occassion. The areas specfically I want to help out at are WP:RPP, WP:AIV, and closing AfDs.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: Across my 5 GAs and 2 FLs my best contributions are recreating the All Ghillied Up article, saving it from a merger and getting it to GA. Also proud of getting Clint Hocking and Johnny Depp filmography up to GA and FL, respectively. I am also proud of overhauling the Media Molecule article from a start class to B-class article (perhaps GA someday) which had intially had about 600 readable prose and 23 references before I overhauled it 2,400 readable prose with over 140 references and six free images.
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: Early on my Wiki 'career' I had a couple of edit conflicts. These arouse due to me not really understanding Wiki guidelines at the time. I remember one of them was because I did not know about MOS:INFOBOXUSE and thought it was standard and required for all biographies to have infoboxes. Fortunately, I am wiser now and have a good grasp of guidelines and policies as well as the importance of WP:CIVIL and WP:AGF.

You may ask optional questions below. There is a limit of two questions per editor. Multi-part questions are disallowed, but you are allowed to ask follow-up questions related to previous questions.

Optional question from Thryduulf

4. Why did you choose to seek adminship via election rather than via a standard RFA?
A: Adminship was not something I seriously considered until somewhat recently. I considered it briefly in the past but quickly realised I definitely did not have enough experience to become one. Reading over RfAs over the years, RfA seems like an incredibly daunting and stress-inducing process but I think the separate discussion and SecurePoll voting phases of Admin elections reduces some of that stress/anxiety. So hearing about Admin elections, recently renewed my consideration for nominating myself to become one; somewhat of a right place (in terms of my current level of experience), right time situation for me.  Spy-cicle💥  Talk? 01:28, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Optional question from Ganesha811

5. Are there any areas of adminship you do not plan to participate in, due to unfamiliarity or lack of technical knowledge? If you later decided you wanted to help in these areas, what would be your plan to become an effective admin in those areas?
A: Areas I do not plan on participating in that immediately come to mind are CSD, SPI, or probably investigating incidents to do with COIN due to both unfamiliarity and lack of applied technical knowledge. If I decided I wanted to help out later, I would first, refresh myself and re-read all the related policies and guidelines. Secondly, if I had any gaps of understanding in interpreting these policies/guidelines I would ask an experienced editor in that area about it. Thirdly, if still need practical examples of applying policy have a look of recent examples of an experienced editor in that area to see how generally deal and handle such issues in that area. Finally, try my best to apply these policies/guidelines and find the most straightforward cases to deal, and avoid borderline/edge cases at least to start with.  Spy-cicle💥  Talk? 19:37, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Optional question from Tamzin

6. You brought the article Zuby to GA in 2021. At the time of passing GA, it said that Zuby, a cisgender man, "stat[ed] he had broken the British women's deadlift record while 'identifying as a woman'"; this was sourced to news articles about the publicity stunt, not to any sources that track British lifting records. When I reworded the article to clarify that this man had not in fact broken any women's sports record, as is standard for when we quote incorrect statements, you reverted me and then argued on talk that it was not necessary to clarify that his statement was false. You later twice reverted [1] [2] Acousmana to restore the words "he believes that only biological females should be allowed to compete [in women's sports]", putting unclear and dated terminology back in wikivoice. That bit, at least, has since been removed; the uncritical reporting of his false claim remains in the article. With that in mind, are you happy with the current state of the article and of how you have stewarded it? -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe) 04:54, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A: Looking back, yes I should have been more receptive to change like including the Outsports coverage which is currently in the article. The issue with the main dispute is that the Sky News and The Times articles do not outright say the Zuby's statement is false they just quote and attribute the claim to himself, which the article does attribute to him. Imo, it would not be correct to cite the Britsh weighlifting source in the article when no secondary RS covering the event did. Regarding the terminology part, yes that was an error on my part I believed at the time the Sky News article used the term but it was actually a quote so that should have been attributed, not in wikivoice.  Spy-cicle💥  Talk? 06:57, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Optional question from Abminor

7. If you get promoted to adminship, what should you do if someone asks you about an area - whether it be a contentious topic or a noticeboard - that you're not comfortable with?
A:

Optional question from Conlinp

8. What are your feelings on the idea of admins being recalled by the community, and would you be willing to undergo recall if the community raised concerns about your conduct as an admin?
A:


Discussion

Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review their contributions before commenting.

AfD record: 84.30% match rate, n of 108. 36 keep !votes to 57 delete !votes. Mildly subjective comment: these are good numbers, but only 6 are from the last year; there is nothing unusual to mention about their participation in the six recent ones. -- asilvering (talk) 00:14, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Personal comment: I don't see any cause for concern here. -- asilvering (talk) 00:14, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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