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The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful administrator election candidacy. Please do not modify it.

Final (270/107/239); See official results (non-admin closure) – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:24, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination

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Peaceray (talk · contribs · he/him) – I have been editing for nearly fifteen years. I identify primarily as a WP:GNOME who also does citation cleanup, but I also do a lot of welcoming & anti-vandalism work.

My work flow is generally this. Peaceray (talk) 22:08, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Go through my watchlist
  2. Look for edits from editors who have a redlinked talk page or any edit that is color-coded by ORES when it is working for me.
    • For newly registered editors
      1. Check the quality of the edit(s)
      2. Thank the edit (or one of the edits) if it is really good
      3. If it is a bad edit, revert, typically using RedWarn but undoing an individual edit if possible or manually reverting a portion of an edit.
      4. Include an intelligent or educational edit summary if I am not using an entirely canned edit. Usually I will link to the specific polic[y|ies] or guideline(s) via the short cut(s)
      5. Welcome the editors using {{wm}}. Yes, I know that can be a lot of links to throw at someone, but I want new editors have a handy reference to go look something up.
      6. If I have reverted the editor, then warn that editor, employing policy & guideline links & specific {{tq}} snippet from them if warranted.
    • For IP editors, I go through much the same process, except that I use Twinkle for welcoming.

If I see something suspicious to me about the edits, I may go check the editor's contributions. If I see something concerning there, I will go check if those edits need to be reverted or if the editor needs to be warned about edits reverted by others. If I encounter someone who has been warned four times that month or has resumed disruptive behavior after a block has expired, I will use Twinkle on the the appropriate notice board (typically WP:AIV & WP:ANI, sometimes WP:AN3, WP:SPI, or WP:RFP.

If I see something that divulges personal information or that is blatantly offensive, I have been emailing the Oversight team for edit or edit summary suppression.

As I go along, if I notice anything that can be improved about the page, I will try to attend of that. This often might be improving or fixing citations, fixing grammar, fixing MOS:APPENDIX issues. Sometimes this requires opening discussions on article talk pages to let folks know what I am doing.

I consider welcoming first, then education of new or less experienced editors to be important, which is why I link to policies & guidelines in edit summaries, user warnings, & talk page discussions.

My editing is hardly limited to the above. Really, I would be most happy simply improving articles, but that is where I start my session unless I am specifically working on something. Please check https://xtools.wmcloud.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Peaceray & my edits in the User talk, Talk, & Wikipedia namespaces to see what would most directly relate to my work should I become an administrator.

Peaceray (talk) 22:08, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Since I am self-nominating, I accept that.

Please disclose whether you have ever edited Wikipedia for pay. Never. I have turned down editing for pay once.

Questions for the candidate

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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: So I can help with the workload! I feel helpless when I spot a vandal or disruptive editor who is on a rampage & there is a backlog on the noticeboard. I also sometimes come across obvious & persistent vandals who need to be blocked immediately. In that regard, my default would be to wait for the first disruptive edit after four or the final warnings, then block for 31 hours. That seems to be the norm among administrators.
I also know that there are a myriad of admin tasks that do not involve blocking & protecting. I know several administrators whose focus is elsewhere.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: I will answer with more my favorite contributions, as I believe these are indicative.
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: Yes. Often this gets handled on talk or user talk pages. Usually we hash it out after, even after vigorous discussion. I try to stay cordial.
I have asked for a third opinion a couple of times.
I have never been blocked on any Wikimedia project except for en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org where I was autoblocked for trying to paste a citation that was legit in enwiki that was apparently blacklisted at the test site.

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: It was timely. I had just returned from WCNA 2024 where I heard Clovermoss give a keynote speech & was inspired by her. I had been thinking about becoming an admin & kept seeing the banner notifying me about trying this election process. It seemed like a shorter path, although if I should not be chosen with this round, I would probably try again after a appropriate wait time & taking into account whatever feedback that I have received here.

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: There are things that I am unfamiliar with, that I would like to learn more about.
  • History merging is something that I am not yet familiar.
  • I have seen deletion in action but am not familiar with the mechanisms.
    • I have seen instances that beg for mass deletion. In a recent situation, we had a editor who registered last May who then was warned about harassing other editors. Several days ago, this same editor went on a rampage reverting IP editors' edits then giving them final vandalism warning, often repeatedly, regardless of the quality of the edits. This editor is now blocked, & I replaced a good many of the warning with welcomes, but it would have been more efficient to nuke those new IP editor talk pages that this editor created.
  • I am curious whether I could contribute in the maintenance of edit filters. I have about 25 years experience of working in UNIX/Linux up until seven years ago, so I have worked quite a bit with regex.
  • I do not know how partial blocks are implemented.
  • I do not yet understand the criteria for granting and revoking user rights.
Things I will probably shy away from
  • Speedy deletions that are not blatant advertising, COI, copyvios or flagrant non-notables – I would tend to move those into the Draft namespace if warranted.

Optional question from Bugghost

6. In your answer to Q1, you said "I also know that there are a myriad of admin tasks that do not involve blocking & protecting" - could you clarify what you meant? I initially read this as you considering entering other areas of admin work if elected, but I may be misunderstanding.
A:
  • Mediating edit warring
  • speedy deletion in cases of blatant advertising, COI, or copyright violation
  • adding to the spamlist for compromised websites
  • learning the admin tools
  • cleaning backlogs: I probably would peruse the backlogs to get to know my way around what needs to be done.
I think that there is probably a lot to be learned by hanging out in the #wikipedia-en & #wikipedia-en-admins IRC channels. I have visited the former upon occasion, but only when in great need (as in the time we were running an edit-a-thon & a article-banned editor started editing that very page & an admin blocked the IP address of the library from where we were editing. I was able to contact the very admin on IRC who responded: Gee, I never blocked an entire edit-a-thon before.)

Optional question from Conlinp

7. 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: To the latter, an emphatic yes. To the former, I do believe in recall & that admins should voluntarily submit to the process. I think that there are instances where admins have overstepped their bounds. Since admins serve unlimited terms, there needs to be some means of accountability. Currently in the absence of a voluntary recall, it is left to ARBCOM to review & remove adminships.


Discussion

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

AfD record: 88.20% match rate, n of 17. 15 keep !votes to 4 delete !votes. Mildly subjective comment: these numbers go all the way back to 2011 and there are none from the past year, so they're of limited value for assessing the candidate, who in any case has not expressed an interest in deletion processes. -- asilvering (talk) 00:17, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • i don't know too much about Peaceray but they were the person who welcomed me when i made my account nearly 5 years ago. welcoming new users is very valuable! ... sawyer * he/they * talk 14:38, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • A best contribution: "Going to IRC to ask for something". SerialNumber54129 17:26, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • GAN and FAC notes: One GAN nomination which was promoted after extensive review. One review which he promoted (and subsequently commented on the FAC nomination for the same article). No other FAC activity. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · contribs · email) 02:37, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am pleased to see this user has put himself up for adminship. We haven't agreed on everything in the past (the first interaction I can remember having with this user was a disagreement on who should be categorized as an alumn. In retrospect, Peaceray was correct, of course!) but I can say without a doubt that this user is a major net positive to the project. In addition to his great content work (which I am mostly familiar with through the Hawaii Wikiproject), he definitely has the temperament to make a great administrator. There have been several times where I saw Peaceray respond to well-intentioned, but misguided, edits in a compassionate and respectful, though firm, way. I try my best to emulate Peaceray's approach, as I believe such an approach is key to improving editor retention. I think he can definitely be trusted with the tools and would be a great admin. Aoi (青い) (talk) 09:40, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Although he and I don't interact on-wiki, Aoi's description of who Peaceray is (and his approach to the nomination) matches up with the one time I have met him in person. ❤HistoryTheorist❤ 02:01, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • I just want to say that I can vouch for this user personally, as in "have met him at various wikievents". In fact, we wound up sharing a room during Wikimania 2016, and he, I and Rosiestep had a nice dinner together in Toronto at WCNA last year. I knew he wasn't an admin, but I am glad that he has decided it is time, and stepped forward. Daniel Case (talk) 03:50, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • I know this candidate to be a reasonable, professional, respectful, mature person. I have zero qualms about Peaceray's candidacy. (And, yes, Daniel Case, that was a nice dinner.) --Rosiestep (talk) 13:12, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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