Commons:Bureaucrats/Requests/Cecil

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Clear consensus, Cecil is now a Commons bureaucrat. Giggy (talk) 22:53, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cecil

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I am proud to present: Cecil!

Dear Commons-Community!
Today I'd like to present you Cecil as a new candidate for beaurocrat. Cecil is one of the most acitve Administrators on commons. Her native language is german, and thats one of the Points. We have got a really big group of german users but only one german 'crate. And this german 'crate, Arnomane, might loose his tools because of inactivity in a few weeks. Cecil, who is a verry friendly person would be a great user as POC for all the german users. Cecil is also one of the sysops with the best knowledge in copyright-issues. At all I'd like to say there could be no better user for this job than her. She has accepted via Mail and I am shure she will confirm it here in a few seconds. abf /talk to me/ 17:17, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 Comment I'm wondering, do you own a bot, or do you have any experience with any bots at all? Thanks, --Kanonkas(talk) 18:17, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, I don't have a bot, I had plans to look into the code sometime in the future to maybe create one, but until now it never happened. I sometimes use the CommonsDelinker-Bot for replacements (of dupes) and have a understanding how it works (especially since I once had to block it because I had entered a very wrong command) being a .NET-programmer in RL, but no details. -- Cecil (talk) 19:02, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
ABF stated that in the presentation. The German Wikipedia is the second-largest WP-project. Many of them also contribute here, making the German speaking users a very large group in this project too. Many of them do not speak English or only the most basic school english. Rocket does not speak German as does none of the other 'active' bureaucrats (Lar is probably the best with de-1). When SUL got active, I had to ursup a few unused accounts in projects where I don't speak the language (one where I'm not even able to read the letters). I was lucky enough to have knowledge of a language where I could expect that one of the responsible ones can understand my request. Still I felt a little bit helpless back then, when I had to decide to which bureaucrat I should go to with my request. From the whole workload here on Commons I don't think a new bureaucrat is needed, there are not that many admin and bot votings. And also for the renamings there are enough crats available. So the only reason for this election is the language. I would not have a problem with not getting bureaucrat, if enough people think that the German users don't need a crat who speaks their language, or if you know another German speaking user who you trust more and who would be willing to do it instead of me. -- Cecil (talk) 23:20, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I wanted to know what you thought. I wonder if any other language minorities need representation among the bureaucrats - do we have anyone who speaks Middle Eastern languages? Asian languages? Should we decide who gets +bureaucrat on the basis of language? These are questions I am considering because I am not familiar with your work. I don't expect anyone to answer them; they are simply to illustrate my thought process in considering this nomination.  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 03:03, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
There is one bureaucrat for Chinese language and one for Russian, but none for Arabian languages (I think that are the most common languages with non-Latin letters, maybe Japanese, Greek and Hebrew, depending on how many users there are). To my work: my main-admin-activity is with the speedy-deletions and the Unknown-Category. That's mainly because those can be parted in small bites and thus can be done e.g. while waiting for the debugger to start (at work). The regular deletion requests I just look into when I know I have enough time to spend more then ten minutes on one request without disruption (not all need that amount of time but some do, and there is nothing more annoying then starting to think about something and then have to interrupt it for RL-work). My image contributions are mostly concert pictures (mainly metal-bands) and scans of old books for German Wikisource. In the last few month I started to take pictures of whereever I travel around in Finland, but most of those are not yet uploaded (sorting through large amounts of pictures to sort out the best is not as much fun as making them). -- Cecil (talk) 03:30, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have you ever nominated anyone for adminship?  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 14:00, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No. There was Codeispoetry, who is my main confidant at all WP related topics, but then my nominator Polarlys did that nomination. I still have plans to nominate Kolossos who is quite an active contributor. He was willing too, but at that time the whole image re-licensing quarrel at German WP was at a height and since he was one of those who had detected it, he would probably have gotten a lot of contras just to despise him, and that would have been unfair considering his good work and that he was only acting to the best of his knowledge. So I'm still waiting for the legal expertise to nominate him. -- Cecil (talk) 14:56, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have you closed any contentious deletion requests?  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 01:35, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Contentious in the sence of that there was a lot of quarrel during the discussion or only afterwards because somebody didn't like my decision? I had experienced both. E.g. there was Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Reichstag flag.jpg. The discussion had a lot of spamming from both sides (meaning, just a vote without argument), but four people where really into it and managed to let the discussion grow to over 60KB. I spend nearly a day just reading the arguments and all the linked documents. But most of the deletion requests I closed where such where I just had to give a more detailed explanation to the uploader because (s)he did not understand my decision. All in all I probably openend more of conentious deletion requests (e.g. the FOP in France-DRs) than I have closed over the last year. -- Cecil (talk) 06:36, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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