Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Blood Red Sandman

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful request for adminship. Please do not modify it.

Blood Red Sandman

I've often seen it said around here that we do not have enough admins here on Wikinews; particularly for tasks like archiving. As I have been around here for a while, and feel I have picked up all the policies etc here, I would like to offer my services with a mop. Please see my successful RfA on Wikipedia, in October, for evidence that I am trusted with the tools. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 22:23, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Questions

Will you put yourself into Category:Admins open to recall?
What is your greatest strength and your greatest weakness as an admin?
Is it difficult for you to divide your time between Wikipedia and Wikinews? What are your thoughts on how the two projects should relate?
Is there anything you would change about the Wikinews policies?

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 09:29, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What is the meaning of life? Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 23:09, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Responses

Yes, I will add myself to Category:Admins open to recall. It is important not just to gain the community's support, but to ensure one maintains it.
My greatest strength: Probably high tolerance both to boring, menial, repetitive tasks and to vandalism that would deeply offend others. My greatest weakness: Poor ablity to spot my own mistakes; normally just typos, etc, but I would benefit from more rechecks of things before commiting them to apear for eternity.
- Your greatest flaw is typos? You are pretty fantastic then! But I was trying to find out more about your personality and such... --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:29, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Well, no, my greatest flaw usualy only manifests itself in the form of a large number of typos compared to others. But it's worth considering that I am known to misread things etc before giving me the ability tocause a whole lot of damage. One Wikipedia admin recently misread something another had posted, and mistakenly arranged for the latter to be desysoped. Ouch. Personality-wise, although as yet I think I've kept a level head on-wiki, I do tend to have an ability to quite fiercely defend my point of view in the real world, which, whilst ok in itself, does not bode well for a position in which I need to listen to criticisms carefuly before rejecting it. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 19:55, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, dividing my time is more awkward than I thought it would be. In all honesty, I probably should try and spend a bit more time over there, as I ave projects in mind to complete there, too. As to interproject relations, that's quite topical right now. I do think greater co-operatio would be good, to ensure info on both agrees where it is repeated, and that all relevant info from each project finds it's way accross to the other.
- Do you understand how the GFDL versus the Creative Commons license hinders cross-project cooperation with Wikipedia? What would you do if an admin from Wikipedia came here and copied a news-style article that was erroneously posted on Wikipedia? --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:29, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes, I am all too familiar with this issue. My response would be to first mark it as a copyvio as with any other such article, then inform the admin of his mistake, and then ask the original author if they would mind relicensing their contributions. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 19:55, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think there's anything majorly wrong with the policies here. As with aything else on a wiki, they just require twiddled and amended as time goes on, and that's how it should be. They do their job just fine as is. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 13:13, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe you will find that the meaning of life is 42. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 23:28, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- If you had looked through the archives, you would know that that is the meaning of life, the universe and everything. But hey, close enough. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:29, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

Support Trustful, knows what he's doing, I always thought he should've became an admin. —FellowWiki Newsie 22:48, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tons of great articles and knows his way around. I'm going to hold you to the offer of archiving! --Jcart1534 22:57, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bawolff ☺☻ 04:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Well we need more regular admins. If the inactive policy is upheld, then we may lost quite a few. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 04:31, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Trustworthy and capable with great contributions. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 09:29, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Template:Support/th Absolutley. He knows what he's doing with the tools. Besides, the Adminmobile is gathering dust Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 23:10, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jacques Divol 09:45, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Adambro 19:46, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Greeves ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Could you enable email on your account so users can contact you off wiki. Also, could you consider creating a userpage to tell other users a little bit about yourself or detail other WMF projects where you are active. Adambro 22:26, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: note that neither of the two are required, but are encouraged. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 22:40, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have sorted both. Apologies about the email problem - I thought I had enabled it! In reality, I had only done so on my Wikipedia account. Ah, well. Done now, anyway. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 22:45, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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