Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Administrator/JoshuaZ

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JoshuaZ

I would like to nominate JoshuaZ for adminship. He has a decent list of well-written articles, has been actively editing here for more than a year and has a solid grasp on the policies and workings of Wikinews. I was impressed with his edits and comments on this article. He offered patient and level-headed suggestions in what was a fairly contentious debate. In addition, there are times when he could have helped out with vandalism, if he had "the buttons". Jcart1534 23:26, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

JoshuaZ, do you accept the nomination? Yes. Thank you very much. JoshuaZ 23:47, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Questions

Would you be an admin open to recall?

Yes. JoshuaZ 13:50, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What do you plan to do as an admin?

Four activities: 1) Dealing with vandals. It has been somewhat frustrating when we have a page-move or other vandal running around and I'm stuck reverting his changes but can stop the vandal itself. 2) Speedy deletions (I've lost track of how many times I've had to nominate something for speedy rather than do it myself) 3) Correct categories, MOS and spelling/grammar for archived articles. I've had to make a lot of {{editprotected}} requests and this should be simplify that. 4) Possibly helping out archiving. JoshuaZ 13:50, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What would be your biggest strength and your biggest weakness as an admin?

I'm not sure. People on Wikipedia who think I'm a good admin there say that I keep a cool head during drama and don't get angry when insulted. Thankfully, Wikinews is a much nicer place all around and so those qualities won't matter as much. So I guess the next biggest strength is that I'm often online so will be paying attention to help out with needed admin tasks. Biggest weakness is easy- I've spent much more time on Wikipedia than I have on Wikinews, and we do many things very differently here. I suspect that every now and again I'll end up running into an issue where I might take a more Wikipedian rather than a more Wikinewsian approach. I hope that if that occurs, people will kindly revert whatever I did and let me know what I did incorrectly. JoshuaZ 13:50, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 12:52, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

Support as nominator. --Jcart1534 23:26, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, he's also an admin on WP apparently.Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 12:52, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, obvious. --David Shankbone 13:59, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support --SVTCobra 03:17, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jacques Divol 08:38, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support I've had to speedy a few this user has tagged, so he's running into the limits where he starts to need the buttons. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 08:58, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support per interaction on other Wikimedia projects and also the good work he's done here. Daniel 10:07, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support I've never really interacted with JoshuaZ that much, but I have seen him around the various projects where he and I are both active. I think he'd be a good admin here. EVula // talk // 19:18, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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