Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Candidates/Peaceray

Nomination

Peaceray (talk · contribs · he/him) – I have been editing for nearly fifteen years. I identify primarily as a WP:GNOME who also does citation cleanup, but I also do a lot of welcoming & anti-vandalism work.

My work flow is generally this. Peaceray (talk) 22:08, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

1. Go through my watchlist
2. Look for edits from editors who have a redlinked talk page or any edit that is color-coded by ORES when it is working for me.
   • For newly registered editors
     1. Check the quality of the edit(s)
     2. Thank the edit (or one of the edits) if it is really good
     3. If it is a bad edit, revert, typically using RedWarn but undoing an individual edit if possible or manually reverting a portion of an edit.
     4. Include an intelligent or educational edit summary if I am not using an entirely canned edit. Usually I will link to the specific polic[y|ies] or guideline(s) via the short cut(s)
     5. Welcome the editors using {{wm}}. Yes, I know that can be a lot of links to throw at someone, but I want new editors have a handy reference to go look something up.
     6. If I have reverted the editor, then warn that editor, employing policy & guideline links & specific {{tq}} snippet from them if warranted.
   • For IP editors, I go through much the same process, except that I use Twinkle for welcoming.

If I see something suspicious to me about the edits, I may go check the editor's contributions. If I see something concerning there, I will go check if those edits need to be reverted or if the editor needs to be warned about edits reverted by others. If I encounter someone who has been warned four times that month or has resumed disruptive behavior after a block has expired, I will use Twinkle on the the appropriate notice board (typically WP:AIV & WP:ANI, sometimes WP:AN3, WP:SPI, or WP:RFP.

If I see something that divulges personal information or that is blatantly offensive, I have been emailing the Oversight team for edit or edit summary suppression.

As I go along, if I notice anything that can be improved about the page, I will try to attend of that. This often might be improving or fixing citations, fixing grammar, fixing MOS:APPENDIX issues. Sometimes this requires opening discussions on article talk pages to let folks know what I am doing.

I consider welcoming first, then education of new or less experienced editors to be important, which is why I link to policies & guidelines in edit summaries, user warnings, & talk page discussions.

My editing is hardly limited to the above. Really, I would be most happy simply improving articles, but that is where I start my session unless I am specifically working on something. Please check https://xtools.wmcloud.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Peaceray & my edits in the User talk, Talk, & Wikipedia namespaces to see what would most directly relate to my work should I become an administrator.

Peaceray (talk) 22:08, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Since I am self-nominating, I accept that.

Please disclose whether you have ever edited Wikipedia for pay. Never. I have turned down editing for pay once.

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: So I can help with the workload! I feel helpless when I spot a vandal or disruptive editor who is on a rampage & there is a backlog on the noticeboard. I also sometimes come across obvious & persistent vandals who need to be blocked immediately. In that regard, my default would be to wait for the first disruptive edit after four or the final warnings, then block for 31 hours. That seems to be the norm among administrators.

I also know that there are a myriad of admin tasks that do not involve blocking & protecting. I know several administrators whose focus is elsewhere.

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

A: I will answer with more my favorite contributions, as I believe these are indicative.

• Going to IRC to ask for something, & having one of the admins recognize me as the one who welcomed them.
• Bringing Elizabeth Siddal to GA status (also DYK), & creating Max C. Starkloff & getting it on DYK at the start of the COVID pandemic.
• Content translation like Sofía Otero (also DYK), Rose Beuret, Marita Camacho Quirós, Shaka King, Frede (cabaret manager), Sideways (2009 film), Giovanni III Visconti, Gondola (film), Àma Gloria, & Basilio Cascella.
• Beyond the many redirects & occasional moves, articles that I have created.
• Finding a PD image of Nicholas Christofilos, cropping & uploading it to commons so we could display it in enwiki, attaching the image to the Nicholas Christofilos (Q382535), & noticing it was then displayed in seven other language Wikipedias.
• Going to & presenting at WikiConference North America
• Assisting at edit-a-thons with SMEs who know what they want to put into Wikipedia, but who do not know the nuances of how.

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. Often this gets handled on talk or user talk pages. Usually we hash it out after, even after vigorous discussion. I try to stay cordial.

I have asked for a third opinion a couple of times.

I have never been blocked on any Wikimedia project except for en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org where I was autoblocked for trying to paste a citation that was legit in enwiki that was apparently blacklisted at the test site.

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Discussion

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