Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Candidates/FOARP

Nomination

FOARP (talk · contribs) – Hi, I'm FOARP (short for Fear Of A Red Planet, a handle I chose during my days living in China based on the colour of the Chinese flag and the famous Public Enemy album, and with no meaning beyond that). I've been on Wiki since 2007 but first got really interested in editing Wikipedia back in 2013 or so when I came across the Shark Island concentration camp article and saw that it was in need of a heavy edit. I pottered away on bits and bobs, mostly in the history area, up until about 2018 when I became interested in the policy area and AFD, and from then on I've been contributing regularly here.

The thing I like best about Wikipedia is writing and improving (and then reading!) informative articles together with other people who share that interest. Wikipedia is a powerful tool for educating and informing people across the world from a neutral point of view.

To cover off the formalities: I have never edited Wikipedia for pay, I’d also be open to a recall vote though AFAIK typically Admins-gone-rogue are just desysoped via ARBCOM and this route is almost never used. FOARP (talk) 08:45, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. Why are you interested in becoming an administrator?

A: I've been interested in becoming an administrator for a long time because I'd like to do more to help clear backlogs, particularly in closing RM discussions and AFDs. In my work on the RM backlog I think I've shown reasonable competence at reading consensuses, but there are some RM discussions that really require the mop to be able to handle correctly, without the "RMNAC" tag at the end of the close sparking doubts in the minds of the community as to the challengeability of the close. I'd also like to do more to contribute at AFD, where I have a reasonably good record for nomination/voting but closing AFD contentious discussions is difficult as a non-admin. Similarly, I'd like to do more to help with the backlog in RFCs eventually when I have a bit more experience of making admin closes at RM/AFD.

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

A: The successful GAs I did together with Hog Farm/Haukurth/GhostRiver are, in terms of content and the process of production, my favourite work on here because it really was good to do a deep dive in to these topics collaboratively with other editors who knew the topic area and sources, and produce something that was informative to the reader and a contribution to the project. I also enjoyed the mini-project I did for a while making articles about female authors from Sweden, which I really should pick up again. In terms of sheer numbers of articles, the work I did together with other editors to long to list in full (Hog Farm, BilledMammals, Shahram, Dlthewave, Reywas92 and many others certainly more prominent than myself) may have had more effect on the project, particular in (relatively) obscure corners like Iranian village articles. I've also done my best to contribute to policy discussions around mass creation of PAG-failing articles, a field that continues to develop in Wikipedia.

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?

A: Yes. I think the important thing is always to stay calm and assume good faith: nearly all the time, if someone looks like they're having a bad day, that's exactly what's happened. It's also worth remembering that this encyclopaedia is built on consensus, and that won't always go your way and it is never the end of the world if it doesn't. Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy, but there is a thread of consensus that your should try to interpret and follow here, and you can't go far wrong, most of the time, by doing so.

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Discussion

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