Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Bureaucrat/Cspurrier

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Bureaucrat: User:Cspurrier edit

Since both Ilya and I aren't on the site that often anymore, I'd like to nominate Craig Spurrier to be a bureaucrat, so he can take care of adminships. Craig is balanced and reliable, and I think perfect for the role.--Eloquence 13:24, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, thank you. I accept the nomination. --Cspurrier 15:08, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Support. -- IlyaHaykinson 13:31, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Mega SUPPORT GO CRAIG!!!!!!!!1 --TUFKAAP 23:26, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support :D Bawolff 00:28, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Strongly Support. There is no one that I can think of who would be better suited for this position. --Mrmiscellanious 00:31, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support - Amgine/^talk 00:45, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
Support - Of course Craig would be perfect for this role. --Chiacomo (talk) 02:09, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Deprifry|+T+ 14:49, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Strongly Opposed- Terrible choice! I think he and Mrmiscellanious may be overt or covert U.S. government agents (tagteam) and the loss of Wikinews' audience [[1]]since they became major contributors;imo.censors; shows that this person's pro-western government bias is detrimental to the project. If you need specific links to show how he has selectively sanitized,neutered and censored stories that are not US and UK Government "friendly", just say so and I will provide them; but if you care about this project, you'll take 20 minutes and do the research yourself. Wake up. Neutralizer 19:55, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The person above is not a contributor. Contributors contribute something to this project. As seen by his edits, "Neutralizer" has done nothing but complain about Wikinews and it's policies, and tries to exploit the people who try to enforce them. Wake up call to Neutralizer: we're not changing the project for you. You don't care about this project - you just care about making its editors irritated. Excuse my comments, but I feel as if they are necessary in this poll if the user above continues to make conspiracy theories and attacks on the true members of the project on a community-consensus poll. Neutralizer, you take 20 minutes and look up the policies and rules of this project. --Mrmiscellanious 20:17, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

[User's comment removed as personal attack, see history. - Amgine/^talk 00:37, 3 October 2005 (UTC)]

Temporarily Opposed and Comment Neutralizer sent me an email which he/she said he/she sent to all the administrators. He said that when one clicks on Amgine's name and "talk" links above one is taken off of the wikinews site...that seems to be true. He said that Amgine blocked him and Amgine is not on the administrator list; that seems to be true. He also provided these links to support assertions he makes above. I provide them here ;[[2]][[3]][[4]][[5]][[6]][[7]][[8]][[9]][[10]]

for information purposes and also to make a statement that this is an open site where links to wikinews edits at this location can not be seen as being a "personal attack". I would also suggest that you read the "history" link Amgine has above to see if you feel that information should have been removed as a "personal attack". Also, may I humbly suggest that important discussions like this have a link on the main page so that avid readers-retired contributors like me will know what in the heck is going on. I am going to take up Neutralizer's challenge to review the edits of the two contributors mentioned above before I vote re; this important posting. Hopefully a 1 or 2 day extension will be allowed since there has been so little voting activity thus far,considering this is for the important Bureaucrat position. Again, all the best to everyone. Paulrevere2005 14:12, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thank you for your comments. I have not received any e-mails from Neutralizer, though it is entirely possible that he did not include me in his list of admins to e-mail :). Amgine chose to have his user page and talk page on the project he most active on. This is fairly common on users who are active on multiple projects, it is hard to check a dozen different sites for new messages so users often redirect user pages and talk pages to the project they are most active on. Amgine is not on the administrator list because you removed his name from the list, unless an admin asks a developer to remove the admin status they remain technically an admin. Once a user has been made an admin they do not lose the status unless they request its removal or the status is voted to be removed. Unfortunately only two of the links you posted work, so I am unable to comment on them. If you fix the lins I will be glad to try and explain my reasons for each action. --Cspurrier 16:55, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I as well have not recieved such a message (but, as Craig says above, there may be a similar reason for that :D). --Mrmiscellanious 21:09, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Support, natch. Dan100 (Talk) 15:50, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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