Wikiquote:Requests for adminship/Archives/2020

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The result was: Successful application. There is a clear consensus in support of this proposed grant of rights. BD2412 T 22:04, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GreenMeansGo (talk · contributions)

I appreciate all of the work from all our users and existing admins and crats. We're all volunteers, we all volunteer to the greatest extent of our available time, and many of us are active across multiple projects. But we seem to have issues closing things in a timely manner as a community. This includes RfAs. As seldom as they need closed, there are recent examples like this RfA that went on for five months before it was closed.

As far as I am aware, I have been among our most active admins since getting the bit, and I'm usually around on a daily basis in one form or another. I think it may be beneficial for our project to have another active crat. If I'm not the person for the job, and anyone else would like to volunteer, then I would happily withdraw this self-nom and support any other active admin instead. I would like to recruit more admins, and would love the opportunity for myself or anyone else to close many more RfAs as successful, because I think it benefits the value that we give to the public in building what we all build together. Thank you for your time and consideration. GMG ^talk 17:35, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Vote ends: 07 December 2019

Support per this discussion, which makes it patently clear that this guy is the only one running tings around here, pace his ever-present-in-spirit colleagues. ——SerialNumber54129 17:56, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support per (self) nom and Serial Number 54129 --DannyS712 (talk) 20:29, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Serial #54129. GMG is quite active, and in my opinion the most active (sorry to offend anyone) admin since getting the mop, and this seems appropriate. GMG has demonstrated time and again on various projects that he can be trusted with advanced permissions. I have no concerns that he will use these rights appropriately. I am concerned, though, of the lack of commentary on this request; this reflects on the activity of the current admin force. ~riley (talk) 02:04, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support--Savonhelmi (talk) 11:04, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Spinoziano (talk) 10:07, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

@BD2412, UDScott: The voting period of 14 days has been met (by five months) and there appears to be consensus to promote. Care to close? ~riley (talk) 21:30, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Y Done BD2412 T 22:04, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was: Successful application. There is a clear consensus in support of this proposed grant of rights. BD2412 T 16:21, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DannyS712 (talk · contributions)

Hey there! Though I'm not very publicly active here, I'd like to nominate Danny for sysop. I'm a steward, and, as such, need to deal with oversighting edits here. Normally when that is needed, Danny is the one to report. He's fairly active on IRC and crosswiki, while also being a global rollbacker. Considering this, I think him being a sysop would be really good to curb disruption here on the project. Best regards, —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 20:30, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate's acceptance: Thank you for those kind words. I accept the nomination. If I become an admin, I intend to be active in countervandalism and speedy deletion, cleaning up pages that are inappropriate for this project (eg Special:Contributions/173.2.194.178) and blocking ltas while waiting for stewards to lock globally. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 20:32, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Vote ends: 4 July 2020 20:30 (UTC)

Support

Support Diligent worker, competent with the tools, would do well to assist here. Operator873 (talk) 20:44, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support I have seen Danny around on many WMF wikis and he is always very helpful. On other projects, I would be inclined to say, "Wait six months and make constructive edits in the meantime" but this wiki is a small community and is pretty lax when it comes to user rights, etc. I'd be happy to work with him if he's willing to put in the time. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:42, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
If approved, I'll be sure to reach out if I have any questions and well tread cautiously in admin areas outside of ltas and speedy deletion --DannyS712 (talk) 08:47, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support - While I haven't had many direct interactions with this user, it does appear that he is well equipped and willing to help here (and we definitely need it). ~ UDScott (talk) 15:35, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

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The result was: Successful application. There is a clear consensus in support of this proposed grant of rights. BD2412 T 01:38, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

~riley (talk · contributions)

Hello,

I am going to be bold, recognizing this community only has 4 active administrators, and nominate myself for administrator permissions to help the community grow.

Some of you may only know me by the nonstop vandal attacks that occur on my talk page, others may have seen my category work, anti-vandalism efforts, archiving of our discussion pages or the improvements I have made locally to templates or noticeboards. I have about 4,500 edits here and my favourite project so far is the upgrade of the requested entries page.

Outside of Wikiquote, I am an administrator on Wikimedia Commons where I specialize in copyright licensing and also have an anti-vandalism background as a global administrator across most Wikimedia projects. I have a technical background and am good with templates, MediaWiki pages, and scripting - my work as a global interface admin also brings me here occasionally to work on improving your wiki interface.

If successful in this request, I would improve response time on Wikiquote:Vandalism in progress where there are many unanswered requests and help out at Wikiquote:Votes for deletion where there is also an admin backlog. As a regular user, I plan to continue verifying quotes added by new users and continue with my category work.

Thank you for your consideration,

~riley (talk) 20:05, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Note: As an addition to my original request, I would like to additionally request interface admin rights locally on this project to avoid use of global interface administrator permissions. As stated below by GMG, we currently only have one interface admin. ~riley (talk) 21:04, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Vote ends: 15 April 2020 20:05 UTC

Support - I've worked with Riley quite a bit in the past. Obviously both of us are administrators on Commons. We need more active admins here, but specifically, we desperately need more active administrators who are tech savvy. No strike against our current cadre, but myself included, we are not all exactly the type of people you really want to go to if you need some troubleshooting on a complex template, much less the kinds of people who know the first thing about something as complex as edit filters or MediaWiki...stuff. As I speak, we have exactly one interface administrator on the entire project, and none of us who could request the right seem to have enough confidence in our competence to put it to good use. That's a pretty big problem, and it's a disservice to the project when I have to look up users like Riley on IRC to try to get them to explain to me how to do the simplest thing technology-wise to try to combat some of our most persistent and troublesome problems.

At the end of the day, Riley is committed, trustworthy, and competent with the toolkit across multiple projects. I wish we had a hundred more like him lining up to volunteer. GMG ^talk 13:54, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I have faith that this user will be a great asset for this project and help combat vandalism and other issues. I also echo GreenMeansGo's concerns in that we lack many tech-savvy admins (I for one am certainly not). ~ UDScott (talk) 13:57, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support per the above. He is a competent and highly trusted user. We have also worked together in the past and I do believe that he would be of help to this project as an administrator. --TheSandDoctor (talk) 15:18, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support He will be an asset to the project as a whole. We worked in meta and I enjoy his collaborative style of work. They are also sound in judgement and willing to take hard decisions for the good of the project. All good traits of an admin. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 16:27, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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