User talk:Redrose64/admin

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

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When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 19:50, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

• replies on my talk page, but this little template says it better than I can :) Courcelles (talk) 19:51, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Humm, I already got this, granted by User:NuclearWarfare at 11:48 yesterday. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:32, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

• I didn't flag you, I just left the template because it explains what this flag is better than I can- not that anyone really knows what to expect until this actually gets turned on. Courcelles (talk) 20:42, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Future admin?

You always seem to give very insightful and helpful comments around here and I think you would make a great admin (so long as you don't have any dark skeletons in the closet). Let me know if you ever consider throwing your name in at WP:RFA and I would be happy to potentially be a nominator or co-nominator. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 02:17, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the confidence; my block log is clean (never even been templated above level 1), and I have admitted all socking on my user page. However, I have seen (without contributing to) some of the interrogations that go on at WP:RFA and I don't think I could give satisfactory answers. For example, they seem to be keen for potential admins to have edited in Portal space. I have made exactly one edit there - and that was a dab. I have also seen the abuse that admins receive on their talk pages when they have dealt with vandalism. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:31, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Oh, if you want to boost your count in Portal space, just go to something like Portal:London Transport/Vote (most portals have an equivalent page) and work your way through commenting on each item. Anyone who opposes on grounds like that will be ignored by the 'crats anyway; the only "editcount" opposes that are taken seriously are those based on policy concerns ("no experience with deletion discussions", and the like). I concur that you'd probably make quite a good admin, you seem to have more common sense than most and a willingness to listen to others but not to be pushed around. – iridescent 14:08, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Ah yes, WP:AFD and the related WP:CFD/WP:MFD/WP:TFD/etc. I think I've contributed to a few (but no more than about ten in total, spread across those), but my experiences of counter-comments were not encouraging. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:37, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

My only Portal-space edit just got zapped! --Redrose64 (talk) 20:33, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

One year on, and I was wondering if you had given any further thought to this? (Oh, and perhaps you think about archiving your talk page as well!) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:01, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Poke. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:14, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'm still considering this. If I do submit a self-RfA, it needs to get transcluded at the start of a 7-day period when I'm reasonably certain of being available for at least a couple of hours every day; the next that I see coming up is 3-10 October 2011. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:32, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Yes, picking a relatively quiet 7 day period is definitely a good idea. And 3rd October sounds just fine! Self-nom is one option, although I'm sure we could persuade someone to write a nomination if you prefer (e.g. Spork or me). What about the archiving? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:20, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

I would co-nom, without hesitation. And really stuff like portal-space edits - forget it. Research shows that although Wikipedians say they want non-mainspace edits, in fact the more non-mainspace edits you have the worse your chance - presumably because you will have been in contact with the type of folk who hang around RFA, who don't all seem very helpful. Rich Farmbrough, 21:58, 23 September 2011 (UTC).

OK, do you think that one of you could start up an RFA for me, with the others as co-noms? If you transclude it to WP:RFAcomplete it by 12:00 UTC on 3 October 2011, I'll sign it as accepted the same day, transclude it to WP:RFA and get the ball rolling. Early start at work tomorrow, so I'm off to bed now, to try to clear my head - having (just) refrained from violating WP:3RR here. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:11, 26 September 2011 (UTC) amended Redrose64 (talk) 19:06, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Go for it. And you didn't violate 3RR - I've sorted that out. I think that having a few admin buttons would really make others a better user. I was considering going for adminship, but being a prefect is just as hard I think. Jaguar (talk) 15:42, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

So we are supposed to fight it out among ourselves?? Redrose, I suggest you approach the editor you think knows you best and ask them to nominate you. And personally I wouldn't bother with conominations unless you work in disjoint areas, which one editor alone would not be able to cover. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:30, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

I am of the opinion that a nomination (for whatever post) normally comes over better if not raised by the nominee. Martin, I think that I have had more discussions/interaction with yourself than with either Plastik or Rich, so will you please nominate me? --Redrose64 (talk) 19:06, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea. I will watchlist the RFA page and comment there. Best of luck! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 03:00, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

It will be a pleasure to nominate you. I will spend some time looking at your contributions in detail, but please let me know if there is anything in particular I should be highlighting. I am familiar with some of your work in the template space, but not sure about any other areas. I will aim for a October 3 transclusion. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:50, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

I would say that the assistance I give on template talk pages, at WP:VPT and some WikiProject talk pages (occasionally at WP:HD but much less often), is worthy of mention. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:02, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Yep without you WikiProject Wiltshire would not exist. That would be worthy of a mention? Jaguar (talk) 08:30, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

I have added a co-nom as I offered above. I would of course not be offended if you prefer to remove it. Rich Farmbrough, 21:31, 6 October 2011 (UTC).

Thank you I am presently considering the three standard qs. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:33, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

You will also need to transclude the Rfa when you are done. BTW I noticed that you have edits in hiWiki without an account and there are a few wikis whereyou have edits but no userpage (not a requirement of course but it would be consistant with your other projects) A lot of other wikis attribute articles when tranlating by importing - so your edits from here show up duplicated there. Agathoclea (talk) 07:49, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I want to get my three answers right before I transclude. The wikis where I have created a userpage are:

• all those where I've made a conscious edit (such as last night when I fixed up a heap of H:ILLs which were pointing at the wrong en.wiki page);
• those which have sent me an unexplained email;
• a few which I visited to check something else (or just out of curiousity) and which automatically created a User talk: page the very next moment.

The Hindi Wikipedia was none of the above, but I am aware that admins have the ability to Special:Export from one wiki and Special:Import into another, and preserve the edit history. I've not really felt the need to chase around after all those, but I've now visited hi: and it immediately sent me a User talk:, so I've created hi:सदस्य:Redrose64 in response. That should have killed the pink background on Luxo's contribs tool. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:30, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

And we are now live. Hope you enjoy the experience. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:40, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

Hello, this is just to let you know that I have granted you the "autopatrolled" permission. This won't affect your editing, it just automatically marks any page you create as patrolled, benefiting new page patrollers. Please remember:

• This permission does not give you any special status or authority
• Submission of inappropriate material may lead to its removal
• You may wish to display the {{Autopatrolled}} top icon and/or the {{User wikipedia/autopatrolled}} userbox on your user page
• If, for any reason, you decide you do not want the permission, let me know and I can remove it

If you have any questions about the permission, don't hesitate to ask. Otherwise, happy editing! Acalamari 11:41, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Wow, thanks! --Redrose64 (talk) 11:57, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Why aren't you an admin??

Thanks for the help on Template:Non-free logo. Now, we just need you to be an admin to get the job done quickly!!! --Funandtrvl (talk) 19:56, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

• Thanks. But see #Future admin? above (although I've significantly improved my level of activity at WP:XFD); besides which, I've seen the kind of verbal abuse that Favonian (talk · contribs), Mjroots (talk · contribs) and other admins have to put up with. I've recently copped some myself, just for blabbing to F about a sock. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:03, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Everyone has strengths in one or more areas, and may not be interested in certain things that WP admins are supposed to be doing. That's too bad, because it seems that they want admins that are all-around generalists, instead of choosing admins for their specific strengths. Also, I can't say I disagree with you about the verbal abuse, one doesn't have to be an admin to find out that problem!! I have my user page protected (at least until August) because when I use Huggle, some of the users (mostly IPs) seem to like to vandalize my user page. Oh well! --Funandtrvl (talk) 20:11, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Well, after all that, you're now an admin!! Congrats!! At least, the most simple decision that you may ever have to make is that of: toilet paper orientation; but for the rest, get going!! (ha-ha) --Funandtrvl (talk) 15:27, 14 October 2011 (UTC)