Wikinews:Requests for permissions/Oversight/Skenmy

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Skenmy (talk · contribs) (Oversight)

As one of your Bureaucrats, Checkusers, and long-term sysop, I feel that I would be suitable to hold the position of Oversight. Some people may call in to question the amount of inactivity I have had over the past few months, and I am not going to try and make excuses - my life has been getting in the way. However, I have stayed abreast of the community, I feel I am up to date with policy and current issues. Even during my apparent inactivity - I am pretty much always pingable on IRC for sysop, bureaucrat, and checkuser tasks.

Having more than 2 users with a priv is always a good idea to prevent corruption and misuse. I would not be particularly comfortable if our number of checkusers dropped below what we currently have, and I would not be comfortable with 2 (and slightly uneasy with 3) Oversighters. Therefore I believe it is in the best interests of the community that I offer my assistance and stand for the position of Oversighter.

I believe I am level headed enough to deal with the tool appropriately, I am not one prone to see red or get involved in slanging matches - I am honest, open, and I hope that I still have enough trust in this community to continue to hold tools bestowed upon me, as well as serve in new ways with new tools. As a CU, I am already identified to the Foundation. --Skenmy ^talk 17:27, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Comment IIRC, you are actually part of your local constabulary. I am very wary of someone in such a position being given such a responsibility. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 19:26, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Without making comment on the accuracy of the statement, why would you be wary? --Skenmy ^talk 15:52, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The risk of outside pressure to inappropriately use the tool. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 19:01, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not even going to dignify that outrageous comment with a response. --Skenmy ^talk 09:54, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So, on the assumption that you're a special constable - or otherwise involved with the police (which you have neither confirmed nor denied), you would resign from that position if a similar situation to the Virgin Killer one came up and you were ordered to remove content from the project by superiors. Really, I do not consider this an unreasonable comment or query. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 10:04, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Such a situation could not arise - paranoia aside, that sort of "ordering" simply doesn't exist outside of a court. --Skenmy ^talk 12:25, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is not paranoia, and you are quite correct such should happen through a court. My concern is based on many years experience with authorities such as the police. The previous Virgin Killer 'incident' was hideously mismanaged, and the mass blocking of people's editing access to Wikimedia projects went ahead without any reference to a court. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 13:06, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That didn't have anything to do with the police though. That happened because the government in the UK handed off the job of watching the internet to a privately run special interest group manned by religious fanatics. You can't blame the police for that. Gopher65_talk 22:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

Support

Support -- Tris 18:03, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Definitely. Level-headed, perfect oversighter material. Tempodivalse [talk] 19:28, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Pi zero (talk) 20:14, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Gopher65_talk 03:46, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Blood Red Sandman ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 11:28, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sure. Pmlineditor ^discuss 12:31, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Δενδοδγε _τ\^c 16:54, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support —fetch·comms 17:23, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support--KTo288 (talk) 18:22, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, Blurpeace 02:42, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Diego Grez ^{return fire} 14:29, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Loves huge tools Killing Vector (talk) 18:14, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 18:42, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support I trust {{#USERNAME}} with this job. Cary Bass (talk) 18:53, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support You can't argue with that last name. Calebrw (talk) 20:21, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Cspurrier (talk) 00:35, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Abstain

Abstain - I've not been on wikinews too long so I can only vote for members whom I've had experience with and since I have not yet met this candidate, I can neither vote yea or nay - but I did feel I should explain why, hence the abstain. Turtlestack (talk) 06:18, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Abstain per above. --Diego Grez ^{return fire} 16:17, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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