Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/InfantGorilla

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

Promoted. Tempodivalse [talk] 14:15, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

InfantGorilla (talk · contribs)

I have been back six weeks. Is my combined experience enough to show I can be trusted with the tools? I have a habit of littering the place with uncontroversial editprotected tags that I would like to deal with myself. I will be glad to assist with admin backlogs when I can. --InfantGorilla (talk) 08:34, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

A few statistics for the edit-counters: 1,768 edits, of which 108 are deleted; 528 different pages (averaging three edits a page), and 40% mainspace edits. Joined in November 2006; user has not opted into detailed statistics. Approximately 280 edits since the UK General Election. Before May 2010, the user was last active in February. — μ 10:49, June 24 2010 (UTC)

A quick perusal of InfantGorilla's last hundred Talk: contributions shows up 15 {{editprotected}} requests (based purely on edit summaries), spread evenly between today and the 17 May (but none in between). The current EP backlog is nine. One of them is a different user, and the other eight are InfantGorilla's, which are requests to add the same category to each. I'm not too sure if the categories are warranted. — μ 10:57, June 24 2010 (UTC)

Comment I am of the opinion that, having flagged revisions, the backlog is less of an issue than as-laid out above. The project desperately needs more extremely proficient users of the English language. We do not need more janitors; we need people serving their 10,000-hour apprenticeships and becoming masters of the written word. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 09:33, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I suspect that at my age my English skills will not improve much. With regular practice writing and copy editing here and elsewhere, I hope I can maintain them where they are.
In any case, I would like to volunteer as a janitor, not because wikignoming is a big issue, but because I enjoy it.

--InfantGorilla (talk) 09:15, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

Support I've not had a lot of interaction with InfantGorilla, but from what I've seen he seems quite level-headed and rational, and I trust him to use the tools appropriately. Tempodivalse [talk] 15:32, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Cspurrier (talk) 17:19, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support After some consideration. Gorilla seems to know xyr way around. Trustworthy Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 19:24, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Seems rational and user knows what he does. --Diego Grez ^{return fire} 02:25, 25 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support because IG downplays his ability to learn. I was probably on the Internet before many project contributors were even in kindergarten. My English has, through application and constructive critique, improved considerably over the last five or so years. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 23:38, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My English has improved through writing online for pleasure, but probably, it has merely been a restoration of the capability I had when I took GCE O Levels all those years back. I am glad to hear of the possibility that if I persist, I can improve beyond that level. --InfantGorilla (talk)

Support Clueful individual. —fetch·comms 23:53, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support No problems that I can see; seems unlikely to screw anything up. C628 (talk) 00:25, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support No reason to oppose. —Mike moral ♪♫ 03:45, 1 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support I also have no reason to oppose --Александр Дмитрий (Alexandr Dmitri) (talk) 13:00, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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