Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Tristan Thomas

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Tristan Thomas (talk · contribs) edit

Tristan Thomas, otherwise known as Dottydotdot, has been an active contributor to Wikinews for the past few months and has racked up about 750 edits. He's helped the project a lot in his time here, and i think he'd be a positive force with the sysop buttons. Tempodivalse [talk] 16:13, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Question Do you accept the nomination? Tempodivalse [talk] 16:13, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
With pleasure, thank you very much. I've made one big mistake, which most will know about; I'm not going to try & hide it-but trust me, that won't happen again! Thank you for the vote of confidence Tempo. Tris 18:50, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If you've only made one big mistake, we might as well speedily promote you..... :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:05, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
;) Big-the rest have been normal! Tris 19:24, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Question Why do you contribute to Wikinews? What do you get out of it? --Brian McNeil / ^talk 20:19, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Answer:I contribute for a few reasons-firstly & most importantly, I enjoy it. Secondly, I believe if we can get it right, it can be the future of journalism. Citizen journalism is on the rise & with more & more people having access to the internet when they are mobile, it can only increase. It may not be Wikinews that grows because of that-it could be iReport or any of the others, but I want to try & help Wikinews be that one & with the base of contributors we have, I think it could be. Thirdly, it is so useful for me-I can spend a bit of time every day that keeps me up to date with current affairs, which otherwise busy life might take away from me. Tris 07:37, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Question Do you think its lame that the wikinews community has ran out of 42 jokes to ask at RFA's? Bawolff ☺☻ 16:13, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Response: Without a shadow of a doubt. Tris 17:16, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Support as nominator. Tempodivalse [talk] 16:13, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support pending acceptance of nom. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:26, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Bawolff ☺☻ 17:31, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, per Tempodivalse (talk · contribs). Cirt (talk) 00:57, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Jcart1534 (talk) 02:12, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Brian McNeil / ^talk 07:47, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Uneasy support - I don't know what your "one big mistake" was, and I'm not going to bother to look, since I'm certain you would make a fine admin. The mistake, whatever it is, makes me uneasy, but I am not going to pressure you to reveal it (whatever it is, I am sure it will not affect my opinion, so there's no point). Dendodge _T\^C (en.wp) 10:11, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I don't mind saying-basically, I didn't check an article for copyvio properly & published it. I know you said it won't affect your opinion, but for anyone else who doesn't know-I'm not pretending it didn't happen, because it taught me a lesson & so served a purpose! Thank you for your support, however uneasy! Tris 15:19, 26 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support — I have no objections. Gopher65_talk 16:05, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 17:03, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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