Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Comics

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• I figured this would be raised, and there are always some who will look at edit counts more than anything. While I have not made the thousands of edits that many being considered for adminship have, I ask that you try and look past the numbers and rather at the work that I have done, am doing, and what I have pledged to do. --Comics 22:06, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

:1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)

::The majority of my work on Wikipedia to date has actually been more in the line of administrative duties than in the creation of new articles. I am actively involved in preventing and reverting vandalism and would like to continue even more in this area with the added help of the rollback feature.

::Furthermore, I am interested in getting involved in VfD and the arbitration process for NPOV disuputes.

:2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

::One of the articles that I am most proud of and was one of my first major contributions is List of atheists. At the time, many people wanted the page to either be merged with another or be deleted. It was a very loose page with almost no criteria on which to base the list. I began a movement to change that. Along with the help of another user, we established a criteria for inclusion and divided the list into numerous categories based on consensus. The page is now a much better ressource than it previously was and it is much clearer to determine is a person should be included on the list.

::I was also pleased with this article because the Talk page has almost become a voting page where people discuss the merits of an inclusion on the list and also people who are being fact-checked before inclusion.

::I am currently working on the Gentle Giant article, which is one of my favourite bands as well as their related discography and biographies of the band members. It is a work in progress, but already it has become a much better ressource than it was.

:3. 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?

::No, I have not been involved in any conflicts to speak of. Generally if I feel an edit is inappropriate but debatable, I will always resort to using the Talk page in order to get comments from others or use user pages to discuss the reasoning behind an edit. In my experience, I have found that if you approach the topic in the right manner, a consensus can generally be found.

:The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page. No further edits should be made to this page.