Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Dark Squall

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User:Dark Squall

Our cadre of sports contributors is starting to run up against limits like our archiving policy. Dark Squall was the first to sign up on the Sports contributors page and has nearly 1,000 edits. I think he'd be a good addition to the ~~Cabal~~ admin team. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 10:09, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

of course i will accept! thank you for the consideration. I look forward to hearing your votes/opinions.—Dark_Squall 20:31, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Questions

I see that this is normally commonplace on RFA's, so if anyone one has any i would be happy to oblidge. —Dark_Squall 04:30, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are you going to be open to recall?--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 15:29, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Definately, from what i understand this is in case other editors in good standing believe i am not doing a good job as an administrator, and it would only be fair to be open to this. —Dark_Squall 13:56, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

As a note, this RFA has closed. Do not add any more votes.

Support - if user accepts. How can I say no, one good user. Brian | (Talk) | ^{New Zealand Portal} 10:13, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - In my opinion, we have enough administators, but many are still inactive. My apologies for opposing in the beginning. Thunderhead ► 19:14, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support as nominator now candidate has accepted. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 20:33, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I haven't been here very long, but Dark Squall left me feedback on my first few articles, helped me improve them, and got me involved in the community. He's got my support. :) —Zachary ^talk 11:07, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Yup very good sports writer and think he would also make a good admin. --MarkTalk 20:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Seems like a good user. We are not in chronic shortage of admins but I think he could use the tools well. --Skenmy^{(t•c•w•i)} 21:27, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I see that Dark Squall is all around a good user, but I need to oppose for now. I'd like to see this user edit more main space and show more edits on community discussion pages. Like other users have said, we are not really lacking admins. I would probably support in the future though. —Fellow Wiki Newsie 22:50, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why Oppose? Wikinews has never set a high bar for admission to the admin club. Sure, we jest about there being a Cabal, but being open to new administrators dispels that myth. Those of us already "in the club" have an interest in more mainstream news which keeps you editing in main namespace. Sports is different, there's lots of tables and statistics involved. Keeping the sports portal relevant involves what you might see as wikignome work, but so is putting up infoboxes for every country on the planet. I'd rather see the user challenged to answer some questions if you're concerned about his political views or the length of his edit history. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 23:29, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well Said Brian. Brian | (Talk) | ^{New Zealand Portal} 05:22, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support - a note to the side; I was supported fully in my RfA and I all I was doing was NZ articles. --Nzgabriel | Talk 00:07, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support DragonFire1024 06:55, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support I hope the system of statistical organization brought by sports people (thinking Zachary) can be applied here to other news categories. -Edbrown05 10:53, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Depends on what needs to be done, Edbrown. I could essentially write a script to do anything (except walk the dog ;)). —Zachary ^talk 11:27, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think we have anything automated creating the various day articles, I'll try and figure out a list of menial tasks on the water cooler, which once set up should perhaps be moved to the toolserver. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 11:49, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

support Bawolff ☺☻ 19:30, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Cspurrier 15:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I'll tell you what, I've only been here a few months, but Dark Squall's coverage of the Cricket World Cup is pretty good, for how many games there are. Squall's always doing good in the Sports section. I'll support Squall's nomination for administrator. --wjmoore 15:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I really appreciate the support, but i do not do cricket, in fact, i've only been reading the cricket articles in order to learn how the game works. I'm the football (soccer) guy, i hope this does not alter your feelings, but if it does, so be it. I believe it is Shyam who works diligently on the cricket, and he does an amazing job.—Dark_Squall 02:41, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, my bad. I got that mixed up. Soccer/football is what I meant. I get them mixed up because there are always a ton of new articles from each in the sports portal. Still, my vote remains the same. --wjmoore 03:12, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 15:29, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support in the nick of time. –Doldrums(talk) 20:59, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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