Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Administrator/FlyingAce
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- Closed as successful--Lymantria (talk) 10:40, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
RfP scheduled to end after 8 September 2023 23:32 (UTC)
- FlyingAce (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)
I've been doing a lot of anti-vandal work recently and I've often run into this user doing good work. Personally I think we could use more help in this space. They often report vandals on the admin noticeboard and I think it would just be easier and better if they could block the vandals themselves. I think it should be fairly uncontrovserial to let them block vandals and protect commonly vandalized pages. I recognize User:FlyingAce could have more experience in general but I think they have more than enough experience in vandal hunting which is what I'd imagine they'd contribute doing. Remember that edit counts are not generally comparable and that 50 vandal reverts takes a lot more time than 1000 quickstatements. --BrokenSegue (talk) 23:32, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Votes
[edit]- Support as nominator BrokenSegue (talk) 23:32, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Your contributions give the impression that you would be good to have as an admin. Jonathan Groß (talk) 06:09, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Estopedist1 (talk) 06:12, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Sure. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 08:41, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Emu (talk) 09:14, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support, an experienced user. --Wolverène (talk) 10:25, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support ---MisterSynergy (talk) 11:46, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. —Hasley + 12:09, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Ameisenigel (talk) 14:46, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Ruy (talk) 19:00, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 22:13, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Bksm (talk) 23:41, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --Epìdosis 21:13, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak support the number of edits is quite low but it seems to be high value edits, so no objection from me. Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 14:01, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Your edit history shows you're a good contributor. Jack4576 (talk) 15:35, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support --ZebaX2010 (talk) 16:41, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Jianhui67 talk★contribs 17:58, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support-BRP ever 09:00, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Support -- Ajraddatz (talk) 14:56, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
[edit]- Thanks for the vote of confidence! I started editing Wikidata after reading complaints in the English Wikipedia regarding undetected vandalism, and it has now become my most-edited project. Besides patrolling Recent Changes and keeping an eye on my watchlist, lately my focus has been cleaning up old vandalism in Spanish; I find that vandalism to the non-English labels and descriptions tends to go undetected for quite a while. As an admin, I would keep working along the same lines – reverting (and blocking) vandals and protecting items as needed, and would only venture to other maintenance areas cautiously. In addition to Wikidata, I am mostly active in the English and Spanish Wikipedias; I am also a global rollbacker and member of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team. I am fluent in Spanish (my native language) and English. I'll be happy to answer any question you may have. :) –FlyingAce✈hello 02:52, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]