Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Killing Vector

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

Killing Vector (talk · contribs)

For my next administrator nomination, I would like to present user:Killing Vector. He's been here for several months, and during that time has written many outstanding articles, become an accredited reporter, and racked up close to a thousand edits. I think Vector would help the project well with the extra bits. Tempodivalse [talk] 14:44, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Questions & comments

Question Do you accept this nomination? Tempodivalse [talk] 14:44, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Sure, why not? I'm honored that given my few months of activity I'm being nominated. Full disclosure: I am active in some non-mainstream political movements. I think I've been good at writing objectively while still writing about what interests me so far. I think I have a good handle on when to be involved and when to write, as well. --Killing Vector (talk) 14:57, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - A brief random sampling of your edits show no problems to me. Calebrw (talk) 20:49, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Question How do you explain this edit, which was done without consensus? (Perhaps ironic that I would ask a consensus question.) However, I have no problem with the edit's content as it makes perfect sense to avoid the use of the Indian numbering system. Calebrw (talk) 20:49, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- It's something that should have been there, I had a general sense that there was consensus (informal discussions on IRC backed this up), and it was relevant to an article I was editing at the time. Furthermore, the use of "crore" is intrinsically ambiguous (it means different things in Iran and India) and we had no explicit position in our style guide; it is better to have a consistent position which can be discussed than to have no position. Short answer: we had no position, we needed one, the discussion on WP about how they arrived at theirs was useless, so I established one. --Killing Vector (talk) 22:34, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Question What do you hope to achieve as an admin that you would not normally be able to do so as a user/accredited reporter/reviewer? Calebrw (talk) 20:49, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Cleanup. I already spend a lot of time going "that's an editorial" or "that's stale" or "that's not in the right place"; I'd be able to fully accomplish maintenance tasks rather than poking admins to do them. --Killing Vector (talk) 22:34, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

Support as nom. Tempodivalse [talk] 14:44, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Always admin-ey things needing doing, user has my trust to be responsible with the tools. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 15:07, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose due to the run ins I've had with this user. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 16:27, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
What run-ins? Could you be a little more specific? Tempodivalse [talk] 18:18, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 19:21, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. good contributor. As a minor point- I think the user (actually both parties) could of had a more cool approach to the debate over Wikizine - Year: 2009 Week: 7-22 Number: 106 however no one is perfect. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:57, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, great interactions and knows policy. Mike Halterman (talk) 01:01, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support seems fine and I really don't see anything wrong over the Wikizine thing. A little matter of fact but not rude. Computerjoe (talk) 21:23, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support I have had no problems. --SVTCobra 00:16, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Seems quite thoughtful with answers and doesn't demonstrate any problems. Calebrw (talk) 15:59, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Trustworthy and capable user Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 19:26, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support I checked through some edits and I have no doubt that extra permissions would help this newsie a lot. (→Zachary) 08:03, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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