Meta:Requests for adminship/Thunderhead

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Thunderhead[edit]

I haven't been active on Meta for long, but I am a trusted administrator on the English Wikinews, I've been helping to deal with vandalism on Meta for a while, and I believe that admin tools will help me in this task. I've also requested (and recieved) admin status on several other projects to help deal with vandalisim through the Requests for permissions page, and have cleaned up the vandalism there. I am on IRC often, and can generally be reached either through email, IRC, or my talk page within a day. I would like admin status to help deal with the innumerable amount of administrative tasks that seem to end up at Meta's doorstep every day, and to be able to serve the Wikimedia community in a greater capacity. Thunderhead 09:39, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As a note, instead of posting to individual talk pages, I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me, and who gave me constructive critisism. Rest assured that I won't go and kill Meta in your sleep :-) Thunderhead 21:37, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Personally I don't feel it was canvassing, but considering multiple people have expressed concern over this matter, I've removed the the text from the water cooler. Note that in the original statement, I said "if you have a Meta account". I was drawing attention to the vote for those who an account on Meta, and I did not intend for anyone inactive on Meta (or without an account on Meta) to vote. I do not believe that this was the case with any of the votes. Nevertheless, I have indeed removed the statement. Thunderhead 05:23, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There is at least an account created after the vote had started, and edited only his user page and one another page. I have no clue for your reason such vote is not "the case". --Aphaia 09:46, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
My apologies, after a quick look over the list, no relativley new names stood out to me. It was certainly not my intention to get users to register here and immediatly vote on my request. It was my intention to bring users attention to my request if and only if they have had an account on Meta, and they do not check it as often as they would check Wikinews, which is the case with at least 1 voter. I sincerly apologize for that, and I admit I could have been clearer, but it was certainly not my intention to have voters registering five minuites before they vote, so again, my sincere apologies for that. I do not believe that that hampered the final outcome of the vote, however. Thunderhead 11:18, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for answering in sincerity: I think it wouldn't hampered the final result, but those questionable votes could have been removed before the vote closed. Also I note some votes are also questionable if they are "from the community". Having an account on the project is not equal to be a community member in my opinion. I think admin votes should be a meta community issue, not the global Wikimedia one, like steward election, even if some of meta admin actions affect other projects too. To avoid further similar cases, I think we need to have a set of voters' criteria as well as current candidate criteria. --Aphaia 11:29, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I can certainly agree with that, and I will be happy to help draw up parts of the criteria. For example, perhaps users with at least 100 good edits on the project, and having a valid account on another Wikimedia project with, also, 100 good edits. And again, my apologies for any confusion or worries this may have caused. Thunderhead 11:35, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Closed
Thunderhead is now a sysop. Majorly (talk) 09:18, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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