Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Candidates/SilverLocust

Nomination

SilverLocust (talk · contribs · he/him) – I'm very happy to commend to you SilverLocust, who's stood out to me as an unusually capable editor for quite some time. Partly that's because of his work in the requested move process, which is striking both for its quantity (more than 1000 edits to WP:RM/TR; over 300 RM closures) and for its consistently high quality. Partly it's because of his content creation involving American law: a GA (which I can vouch for firsthand), nine new articles on the Supreme Court and its cases, and many other solid contributions large and small. And partly it's because of his efforts in all the other areas where he's involved. But no matter where on Wikipedia SilverLocust is working, the qualities he displays are the same: good judgment, a calm and friendly disposition, and above all a real diligence in how he goes about making a difference on this site. These traits will make him a great asset to the sysop corps, and that's why he'll have my vote—and hopefully yours too—in this first admin election. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 07:17, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Co-nomination statement

I am so excited to co-nominate SilverLocust for the inaugural WP:EFA. Since this June, SilverLocust and I have been serving as trainee clerks for the Arbitration Committee. Much of the clerking coordination is off-wiki, and I can attest that he approaches it with the same level of care, attention to detail, willingness and ability to respectfully disagree, and simple hard work he does with on-wiki matters. Since we are the two newest people to the job, I have the honor and privilege of working frequently with SilverLocust to divvy up the clerk tasks. Since his appointment, he has gone above and beyond the normal clerical tasks. For instance, he create two Lua modules to automatically count arbitrators' votes. (It was 2024 and we were still manually updating these notes every time an arb cast a vote.) Beyond ArbCom, I would be remiss if I did not mention his work on Module:Request for permission links, which gives admins working at WP:PERM the ability to see what other permissions a given user is requesting. Content-wise, Lisa Blatt is a very pleasant read. I am more than thrilled to support SilverLocust in this election. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 16:21, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I am pleased to accept the very kind nominations of Extraordinary Writ and HouseBlaster, each of whom I greatly admire. (I have never edited Wikipedia for pay, and the only other account I have used is SilverLocust+.) SilverLocust 💬 18:30, 10 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 often run into situations where the admin tools would be helpful, and (like many editors) am concerned about the shrinking number of administrators. I like to help out with the requested moves process and technical move requests. Administrators can more cleanly moves pages over redirects with minor page history compared to the slightly clunky swapping method that extendedmovers use, and I'd like to help with the relatively small portion of requests that require an admin (usually due to page protection or a need for a history merge). I also help out with clerking for the arbitration process, which occasionally calls for use of admin tools or the help of an admin clerk (or arbitrator).

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

A: For some article content, see Lisa Blatt (), Department of State v. Muñoz (), Grupo Mexicano de Desarrollo, S.A. v. Alliance Bond Fund, Inc. ( pending), Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

For some template improvement, there's WP:RM/TR's Template:RMassist/core (which I edited it to flag blacklisted titles, to note clearly whether a redirect is targeted to a different page than the one to be moved, and to include a visible anchor like this in the permalink in edit summaries for technical moves), Template:Request for permission links (which I converted into a module that adds cross-references when a user is requesting multiple permissions and that shows the same links on the main permissions page that were previously visible only on the subpages for each specific permission), Template:R from move/Cross-namespace (which I created to track cross-namespace move redirects from mainspace, prevent their indexing in search results, and show a notice suggesting that they be nominated for speedy deletion).

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: I don't recall significant stress or editing conflict, but I'll offer few points.

• To avoid over-investment in discussions (in my case mostly requested moves), I generally prefer to take a succinct position in a comment or two and then move on, even if a participant in the discussion later says something Wrong™ that I might like to address.
• To avoid edit warring, I generally adhere to a one-revert rule (or more specifically a "don't re-revert" rule).
• When I offer criticism, I think it's helpful to be slightly stressed about how the the criticism will be taken and whether it is given constructively. I find it less stressful to receive criticism than to offer it. (To quote Epictetus's Enchiridion, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.")

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Discussion

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