Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Candidates/SWinxy

Nomination

SWinxy (talk · contribs · he/him) – Hi, I'm SWinxy (/swi:ŋksi:/), an editor who got into this at the start of the COVID lockdowns, joining in May 2020. I've written articles such as Steve (Minecraft), Catturd, and Keffals. I'm also a press photographer for Wikimedia Commons—one of my photos is in the 2023 collage image!—and member of WP:WMNYC. Being a user on this site has made me better equipped to do research, and gave me my life's mindset. I feel beholden to discussions, which I liken to talking with colleagues. I've never edited for pay, and I have a zero-edit bot account called User:SWinxyTheBot. SWinxy (talk) 04:35, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

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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: The tools I desire out of the admin toolbox are to protect and unprotect pages, view and restore deleted pages, and editing fully-protected articles. Modifying protection levels would be nice to have, as I edit in contentious topic areas where alterations may need to be made. Viewing deleted pages would assist me greatly in writing and deletion discussions. (Are there useful sources in a deleted page I missed? Is there context to an old deletion discussion I need?) While I don't think I've ever made a fully-protected edit request, I've often wanted to make tiny changes to articles temporarily under full protection, brought to my attention because they were fully protected. I don't really want to have the mop so I have the ability to block users or delete pages—that's not my thing, but maybe later as the site's needs change? I've been encouraged by User:Rhododendrites to cast my hat into the ring, and here I am. Backdropping this is the concern about shedding administrators over time. I want to become an admin to stem the outflow of great people with me in their stead.

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

A: I think by best contributions are around the prosecution of Donald Trump in New York. I created the page, originally as the indictment, and moved up to being member of the press on the scene. (I even went into the courtroom one day!) While I was stationed there for ~six weeks, I took a ton of photos, and added photos to reporters who never have had any photo added to their articles (there were so many). I'm very proud of it all!

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: Oh, yes (namely cricketer AfDs). But I don't think in the past year I've been in any highly-stressful or uncivil conflicts. I try to lay out my view as I would to a colleague, and hope consensus is in my favor. If it's not, well, that's OK. From past conflicts, I've changed how I approach them. Briefly mentioned in my opener, AGF is my prevailing, core attitude to pretty much everything in my life. We're all here, of course, with a purpose.

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Discussion

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