User:Acalamari/Admin coaching/Lindsey8417

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Coaching

First 12 questions

• The following three questions are from RfA itself:

1. What admin work do you intend to take part in?

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At first, I would most likely continue working in the same way that I currently do: improving articles and taking special note of vandalism. I find myself patrolling the Recent Changes and other articles on my Watchlist, often sending those who vandalize to WP:AIV after proper warning. So, acting to keep WP:AIV out of backlog would be an extension of my current work. Continuing to keep Wikipedia free of vandalism, I'd also make it a point to give attention to WP:RFP and WP:UFA. In addition to vandalism, I often find articles that do not meet WP:Notability and either request a speedy deletion or bring it to WP:AFD. As an administrator, I would help in closing WP:AFD as well as WP:MFD, and deleting whatever appropriate at WP:SD. Also, because of the I knew little about the licensing of unfree images at the beginning of my Wikipedia career, and the various unfree images I uploaded because of that, I would help out at WP:PUI to sort of make my peace with the issue.

2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?

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Well, as I have explained, I take a special note towards vandalism. I believe I'm quite strict about it as well; I don't take well to vandalism at all. My work towards warning vandals and reverting it as well is something I'm proud of. I constantly find myself copy editing other articles of my interest and doing total re-writes of articles that I see are poor (Paramore diff and Underoath diff). Although I have yet to bring an article to WP:FA status, I have however, brought six others to WP:GA status (Sienna Guillory, Jaime King, Milla Jovovich, Scout Taylor-Compton, From Autumn to Ashes, and Kristen Bell), and have one currently pending for GA. I always make sure that all articles I write are encyclopedic in tone and professionalism (as many articles tend to waver into "fansite" territory) and use proper citations.

As can be seen here, I upload many personal images for use on Wikipedia. I also check Flickr often for images as well. I believe the images better improve the identification aspect of articles.

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

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I often edit articles about musical bands, and that usually brings tension when discussion of genre is taken into account. Many users will feel the band is one genre, while another will feel, they are another. I tend to stay out of these discussions outright, instead using cited sources from notable reviewers to state the genre. Because of that, I have little stress in that department. However, because of my active part in dealing with vandalism, I have gotten some stress. My user page has been vandalized a few times by those I warn for their vandalism and I have also dealt with a few users in particular that caused me too much stress than they deserved. This one instance occurred when one user insisted on putting fansite like information on an article. I removed it and this exchange between two other users occurred; afterward there was some user page vandalism, and I stumbled upon [this on one of the editor's talk pages. Needless to say, it left me with some distaste towards them, however, I think I'm far too busy with school work and other things to let that sort of stress ruin my time here.

• The following questions are ones that I picked up from various RfAs, or ones that I came up with. Some may be tricky or seem not relevant to adminship, but they are designed to test the judgment and knowledge of the person answering them:

4. What is your understanding of Wikipedia:Ignore all rules?

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I think it goes hand in hand with being bold. One shouldn't mindlessly follow the rules, and instead see how the edit affects the article. Edits should reflect the user's good judgment and if one goes by that, they will usually be in the right. However, this does not mean that everyone's wrong actions are justifiable. Someone that breaks a rule must be able to show how breaking that rule has improved the article, if it has not, there was no reason to break this rule in the first place. "Ignore all rules" is not an answer to breaking a rule.

5. What is your understanding of Wikipedia:Snowball clause?

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It is an interpretation of Wikipedia:Ignore all rules that comes from the idea that in Wikipedia, rules are not the purpose of the community, and that users instead use their common sense. It is not a policy, but serves to make sure that editors don't use various guidelines and policies to draw out discussions. If an issue has a very predictable outcome (or doesn't have "a snowball's chance in hell of getting an unexpected outcome"), then there isn't a need to put it through whatever process.

6. What is the difference between a ban and a block?

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7. An article you edit frequently and have improved significantly receives vandalism to the point where it needs protecting. Do you semi-protect the page yourself, or do you request protection instead?

A.

8. Under what circumstances, if any, would you block a vandal if they had received level 1, 2 and 3 warnings, but not a level 4 one?

A.

9. Under what circumstances, if any, would you block a user without any warnings?

A.

10. An administrator has blocked an editor and you disagree with the block. What is the policy about unblocking and do you intend to adhere to it?

A.

11. If another administrator removes material from an article and cites a WP:BLP concern as the reason - but you believe the material does not violate BLP policy and should be included- what do you do?

A.

12. What type of edits should "rollback" be used to revert only?

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