Wikipedia:Editor review/Caknuck

Caknuck

Caknuck (talk · contribs) I've been active here for almost a year, although I had been lurking for a long time prior. I have contributed over 7000 edits thusfar, over half of those within the namespace. I'm active in several projects/aspects of Wikipedia, most notably through vandal fighting, with WP:WPBB and at WP:AFD and (most recently) WP:AFC. As part of my work with WP:WPBB, I've been drafting a proposal to establish naming conventions for baseball players (see here).

I'm considering offering up my services as an admin, but want to make sure that my proverbial ducks are in a row before accepting a nomination or self-nominating. I'm open to any criticism/questions/advice/pleas for sanity. Cheers, Caknuck 16:19, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Reviews

This will be one of my shorter editor reviews. I was already impressed by your drafting of the baseball naming conventions and by your AFD participation. Now I see that you help new users at Articles for Creation, and you have experience dealing with sock puppet vandals. Wikipedia needs more editors like you.

If you need someone to nominate you for adminship, I will be happy to do it. You are more than ready for it, and you should pass without a hitch. Good luck. Shalom ^Hello 20:22, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

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Questions

1. Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

   I'm largely a gnome, so my contributions have been spread out over thousands of articles. Unfortunately, I can't offer up an article that I've nursed from stubhood to FA status. I'm pleased with my overall contributions to Wikiproject Baseball, including drafting the proposed naming conventions I mentioned above, improving some of the infoboxes used by the project and generally trying to be a voice of reason.

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?

   I've had a few editing conflicts that deserve mention. A few months ago, I had a dispute with the indefinitely-blocked user Tecmobowl about their misuse of CSD nominations to prove a point. I confronted the editor in question, advising that their actions were contrary to both the letter and spirit of WP's notability and deletion policies. The discussion accomplished, sadly, very little. Little did I know that others' issues with this editor were spiralling out of control, leading to 3RR blocks, a mediation cabal case and ultimately a community ban on Tecmo. During the later discussions surrounding the issues, I made an effort to focus on content and not the contributor, even siding with Tecmo on certain issues. Aftershocks from these disputes still are echoing around, but largely I'm staying away.

   
   

   More recently, while vandal patrolling I had a run-in with indefinitely-blocked editor Mariam83 (editing as an IP sock), who was doing some POV-pushing on several articles related to African and Arab culture and history. I reverted the editors edits, added to the ongoing discussion on the user at WP:ANI and filed a request at WP:RPP. Despite the user trying to bait me with edit summaries and talk messages accusing me of being a vandal and a fascist, I tried to keep my cool and not lower myself to their level. (Because of the delays getting my request at WP:RPP fulfilled, I decided to consider adminship sooner rather than later.)

   
   

   (Diffs for incidents both can be provided on request.) Cheers, Caknuck 16:39, 19 July 2007 (UTC)