Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/PatrickFlaherty

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PatrickFlaherty

PatrickFlaherty (talk · contribs) has been a steadfast positive contributor for the last four months now, and became an accredited reporter on 12 October 2008. He has written (14) solid articles on topics relating to finance, and also helps out with reviews. I believe he would continue to contribute positively to the project in his role as administrator. Cirt (talk) 18:40, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Questions

Do you accept this nomination? Cirt (talk) 18:40, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you for the nomination and I do accept. --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 18:44, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you successfully become an Admin, will you help out with admin tasks such as archiving articles older than seven days and Proposed deletions? Cirt (talk) 18:40, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes. I think I would do more archiving then deletions since it seems that deletions tend to be done quickly by other admins. But if I see a page that has been voted to be deleted, then I do just that. --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 18:48, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Being an admin is supposed to be no big deal. Where do you see the extra privileges being most useful to you? --Brian McNeil / ^talk 22:50, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I think the biggest use is the ability to block vandals that go on a vandalism spree with multiple edits per minute. Occasionally we run into the problem and there was a case about a month ago that it took about 15 minutes for admin to block the vandals. Thinking about other uses, I would say the ability to edit full protected pages would be useful such as adding articles to newly created categories. Oh also to delete the main page would be really cool. Just joking about the last part, of course. --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 00:54, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Votes

Support per nom. Cirt (talk) 18:46, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support I have come to trust PatrickFlaherty and have had excellent interaction with this user. PatrickFlaherty seems to have a firm grasp of what Wikinews is about. --SVTCobra 01:17, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks ready for the bit. Durova (talk) 10:46, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Has proven himself trustworthy and reliable. Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 12:58, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Brian McNeil / ^talk 14:04, 31 October 2008 (UTC)----[reply]

Closed as Passed --Brian McNeil / ^talk 09:51, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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