Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Hawkeye7

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

Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) — adminship edit

Been on Wikinews for eight months now and have produced over 70 articles, including original reporting, interviews and news, oparticularly relating to sports and the Paralympic Games in London. Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:33, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Questions and comments edit

Question You've addressed your qualifications for adminship. For perspective, though, what is your reason for requesting adminship? What do you have in mind to do with it? --Pi zero (talk) 12:16, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Mainly to assist in the creation of news articles without having to ask for admin assistance. Protect and unprotect pages. I will also assist with minor maintenance tasks. Hawkeye7 (talk) 12:35, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As I've remarked elsewhere, there are only a few points were admin access helps with article production. Adding categories to fully protected articles is facilitated (one doesn't have to ask an admin to do it). Renaming unpublished articles without leaving a redirect is a luxury (renaming published articles must always leave a redirect, of course, and renaming fully protected articles is almost unheard of). Undeleting articles is unusual too. But certainly being able to do those things directly, rather than enumerating the request and waiting for someone else to process the request, means less work for everyone. --Pi zero (talk) 16:45, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Question Do you think Wikinews needs more help with reviewing, or with administrative tasks? --Gryllida 07:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Wikinews can never have enough reviewers!!! Many admin tasks can remain undone for months on end, but news must be timely! When I am working on WikiNews full time, I can generate a great deal of material in a short time and swamp the review process, and for that I must apologise. The best I can do is try to arrange for reviewer support beforehand, try and make the articles as easy to review as possible, and thank the reviewers for a job well done afterwards. I have the highest regard for our reviewers. They are worth their weight in gold bullion. Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:33, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Question Did you think of nominating yourself to become a reviewer? Thanks, Gryllida 07:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- No, never. I requested adminship in order to facilitate article creation. I am more than willing to pitch in with minor maintenance tasks, but my focus is on article creation. If, in the opinion of the WikiNews editors, I have reached the point where my understanding of policies and standards is sufficiently advanced that I could be a reviewer, then they will nominate me; but I will not nominate myself. Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:33, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Question What do you envision the "facilitate article creation" task involves (other than archiving and editing protected articles)? --Gryllida 11:54, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Mostly adding categories to fully protected articles. Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:20, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Question

- Do you think there is a need for a timely response to a request to an edit to a protected article, or can it wait several hours without any serious harm? How timely should such responses you think should ideally be? Gryllida 11:58, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

- Do you think the current response times to protected article edits requests are close to the ideal? Thanks! --Gryllida 11:54, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's always unwise to compare against an ideal, for surely the ideal must be immediately. It is very rare that such a rapid response is required; but we are talking about news. Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:20, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Thanks for your kind, detailed replies to all the questions. They brought light to an activity I was entirely unaware of: adding categories to archived articles. I appreciate that you volunteered to help with this task. Gryllida 12:20, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Votes edit

Support No worries. --Pi zero (talk) 16:45, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Gryllida 12:03, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 13:41, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support --LauraHale (talk) 16:43, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Don't see why not. —Tom Morris (talk) 14:20, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Excellent candidate. -- CalF (talk) 23:13, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support, agree with CalF (talk · contribs), above. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 20:58, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bidgee (talk) 14:08, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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