Talk:Stewards/Confirm/2024

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Final decisions (by stewards)[edit]

Confirmation discussions will remain open from 29 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) till 7 March 2024, 14:00 (UTC). This may be extended to two weeks for one or more confirmations at the discretion of the Election Committee if the committee believes further input is required before concluding. The Election Committee will close these discussions and implement the outcome (which also means making a decision in non-obvious cases).

This page is for steward discussion only. Please do not comment in this box unless you are a steward.

The summaries below provide a very strict overview of the most relevant confirmation comments.

Stewards: Please leave your comments right below the boxes after reviewing the actual confirmation comments and your understanding of relevant policies. You may summarize the confirmation discussions in individual comments, but no overall summary is given.

Status Candidate Notes
   Confirmed
AmandaNP clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
AntiCompositeNumber clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Base clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Bsadowski1 clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
DerHexer clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Elton clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
HakanIST clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Hasley clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Hoo man clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Jon Kolbert clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
MarcGarver clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Martin Urbanec clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Masti consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Mykola7 clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
RadiX clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Sakretsu clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Schniggendiller clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Sotiale clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Stryn clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Superpes15 clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Tegel clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Teles clear consensus to confirm
   Resigned
Tks4Fish Did not run for reconfirmation
   Confirmed
Vermont clear consensus to confirm
   Removed
Vituzzu clear consensus to remove
   Confirmed
Wim b clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
Xaosflux clear consensus to confirm
   Confirmed
علاء clear consensus to confirm
Results

The confirmations are now closed. Please check the results above.

For the Election Committee, --Martin Urbanec (talk) 14:29, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 129 (good coordination of the steward clerks / good actions / professionalism and responsiveness / activity / cordial and patient / no concerns / no comments)
Remove Remove: 0
Neutral Neutral: 0

Note
You can either choose to leave a comment on every candidate or to confirm/remove all at once. --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 104 (activity / responsiveness / quickness / professionalism / helpful / tech knowledge / no comments)
Remove Remove: 1 (no comments)
Neutral Neutral: 0

Note
You can either choose to leave a comment on every candidate or to confirm/remove all at once. --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 87 (good activity / useful contributions / helpful / no comments)
Remove Remove: 2 (no comments)
Comment Comment: 1 (Unconvincing reconfirmation statement)

Note
You can either choose to leave a comment on every candidate or to confirm/remove all at once. --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 85 (truly committed / no issue / great job / truly committed / active / no comments)
Remove Remove: 1 (Replying "o_o" to an IRC report)
Neutral Neutral: 0

Note
You can either choose to leave a comment on every candidate or to confirm/remove all at once. --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 125 (excellent work / great steward / resolute / helpful communicator with WMF / no comments)
Remove Remove: 0
Neutral Neutral: 0

Note
You can either choose to leave a comment on every candidate or to confirm/remove all at once. --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 60 (good work / no concerns / Thanks for commitment / no comments)
Remove Remove: 0
Neutral Neutral: 0

Note
You can either choose to leave a comment on every candidate or to confirm/remove all at once. --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 68 (increased activity / helpful for SRG backlog / no reason to remove / good steward / no comments)
Remove Remove: 5 (not enough activity / no comments)
Neutral Neutral: 0

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Keep Keep: 77 (good activity / great anti-LTA work / excellent work / no comments)
Remove Remove: 0
Neutral Neutral: 0

Note
You can either choose to leave a comment on every candidate or to confirm/remove all at once. --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 51 (good anti-vandalism work / more activity is needed / good contributions / little help is helpfuf / no comments)
 Weak keep: 4 (more activity would be good)
Remove Remove: 12 (low contributions as steward / pointless steward / too inactive to justify the flag / minimal activity / no comments)
Remove Weak remove: 1 (more activity needed)
Neutral Neutral: 3 (concerns about inactivity / not direct benefit from removing / no comments)

Note
You can either choose to leave a comment on every candidate or to confirm/remove all at once. --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 70 (brilliant with proxies / good work / great at clearing backlogs / no concerns / no comments)
Remove Remove: 1 (no comments)
Neutral Neutral: 0

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Keep Keep: 41 (good activity / more activity would be good / no issue / no comments)
 Weak keep: 3 (more activity would be good)
Remove Remove: 1 (activity has not improved in the last year)
Neutral Neutral: 1 (concerns about inactivity)
Comment Comment: 1 (Unconvincing reconfirmation statement)

Note
You can either choose to leave a comment on every candidate or to confirm/remove all at once. --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 101 (worked with many Vietnamese users / One of the best and the most well-known stewards / talented steward / excellent technical knowledge / vandal fighting skills / no reason to remove after a single incident / helpful / active in every area / good work / valuable steward / no issues / no comments)
Remove Remove: 2 (applying different rules to different users as ElectCom / membership in the chapter board)
Neutral Neutral: 0

Note
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Keep Keep: 64 (good experiences / quick on IRC / good acting steward / isolate incidents / good work at locking LTAs / helps in many areas / strong expertise with LTAs / good job / no reason for removal / no comments)
 Weak keep: 3 (good work and helpful with quick actions on IRC but lack of response is concerning / should be more responsive)
Remove Remove: 20 (no response / needs to be more responsive / no reply to basic accountability questions / accountability is fundamental / non-responsive / no comments)
Neutral Neutral: 11 (productive steward / lack of responses is a bit concerning / communication skills need improvement / should be more responsive / no comments)

Note
You can either choose to leave a comment on every candidate or to confirm/remove all at once. --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 94 (great first year as steward / no concerns / thanks / for sure / no comments)
Remove Remove: 3 (concerns about scrutineering and ElectCom / no comments)
Neutral Neutral: 0

Note
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Keep Keep: 64 (no problems / good work / no concerns / Thanks / no comments)
Remove Remove: 0
Neutral Neutral: 0

Note
You can either choose to leave a comment on every candidate or to confirm/remove all at once. --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 78 (overall good work / great steward / capable of handling complex issues / single incident / no comment)
 Weak keep: 2 (one incident unsufficient to remove)
Remove Remove: 21 (locking Gitz6666 / loss of trust / failing to avoid COI / using steward tools on homewiki / no comment)
Neutral Neutral: 5 (questioning Sakretsu's understanding of "home wiki" provisions in the Stewards policy / no comment)

Note
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Keep Keep: 67 (good anti-vandalism work / no concerns / no comments)
Remove Remove: 0
Neutral Neutral: 1 (no comments)

Note
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Keep Keep: 85 (work on SRCU / helpful / no concerns / great steward / needed / thanks / no comments)
Remove Remove: 0
Neutral Neutral: 0

Note
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Keep Keep: 75 (no concerns / no issues / thanks / no comments)
Remove Remove: 0
Neutral Neutral: 0

Note
You can either choose to leave a comment on every candidate or to confirm/remove all at once. --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 110 (often processing SR(G)P / friendly / has some humour / no comment)
Remove Remove: 0
Neutral Neutral: 1 (unacceptable comment on SRP)

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Keep Keep: 73 (no concerns / hope can improve on communication / diligent and consistent / thanks / no comments)
 Weak keep: 1 (no comments)
Remove Remove: 0
Neutral Neutral: 2 (helpful and active steward but communication really needs improving / non-responsive)

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Keep Keep: 71 (no concerns / good work / no comments)
Remove Remove: 0
Neutral Neutral: 1 (no comments)

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Keep Keep: 96 (valuable / brilliant / very professional attitude / friendly / great steward / no concerns / professionalism and responsiveness to LTA locking / helpful and kind / great communication / skilled / no comments)
Remove Remove: 1 (concerns about a meta-wiki block)
Neutral Neutral: 0
Comment Comment: 2 (concerns about handling of a WMF researchers request / concerns about opening a new RfC)

Note
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Keep Keep: 85 (valuable steward / no loss of trust / overall great work / responsive / no comment)
Keep strong keep: 1 (precious asset to Wikimedia projects)
 Weak keep: 1 (no comment)
Remove Remove: 47 (inappropriate response to critisism / inappropriate comments at Signpost / lost of trust in judgement / no comment)
Remove hard remove: 1 (doxing)
Remove weak remove: 1 (reinforcing a later-overturned global lock)
Neutral Neutral: 3 (no comment)

Note
You can either choose to leave a comment on every candidate or to confirm/remove all at once. --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove, regretfully. Vituzzu's on-wiki comments in response to the Gitz6666 case, both on enwiki and on the confirm page, are not what we expect from stewards. This sentiment was voiced by many established contributors and multiple admins/functs on the confirm page, and my perspective basically aligns with Barkeep49's comment. It's important to remember that the audience of our on-wiki messaging about stewards' cases is as much uninvolved observers as it is the person we're replying to: getting heated in responses reflects poorly on the steward who made them, and stewards as a group. Regards, Vermont (🐿️🏳️‍🌈) 17:09, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove an sufficient consensus to keep has not emerged. — xaosflux Talk 23:25, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove No consensus to re-confirm. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 23:34, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove, with regret. The community has spoken. While confirmations aren't the same as elections, the level of support is not sufficient to confirm. Huge +1 to what Vermont wrote as well. --Martin Urbanec (talk) 09:17, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove due to lack of consensus. ━ Albertoleoncio Who, me? 14:47, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove, with large regret. I've thought about this for a while, and while I would have personally kept Vituzzu, this is the community's decision and we can't ignore that. So, remove, but also a  Weak keep due to Vituzzu's good work throughout the years. EPIC (talk) 16:53, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove Lack of consensus to re-confirm. ~ Yahya (talkcontribs) 17:21, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove – A significant minority of the community feels that Vituzzu's responses in the Wikipedia Signpost discussion and their confirmation discussion were unbecoming of a Steward. — JJMC89(T·C) 21:01, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove with enormous regret. It's really a single issue, and shouldn't be sufficient to out-balance the years of effective work. But the community is the community and the level of support is too low to reconfirm. Sorry. MarcGarver (talk) 11:28, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove regretfully. Thanks for all your work. --❄️Mykola❄️ 22:41, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove with sadness. Even though the issues pointed out are relevant, I believe this is a problem that could have received a better treatment. There must have a remedy that could have solved this whole situation without completely removing Vito from Stewards group. Perhaps it is too late to mention anyway. Perhaps we should be able to choose some third option between keep or remove. In all those years, Vito’s work was important across many wikis and and IMO it surpasses his mistakes. That should be taken in consideration. Community has spoken and we must attest what we can infer from the discussion and there is no consensus to keep.—Teles «Talk ˱C L @ S˲» 23:24, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove per Teles and MarcGarver. I agree that the situation could have gone differently, this didn't necessarily have to lead to removal, but there is no sufficient consensus to keep now. Thanks for your work! --Johannnes89 (talk) 07:33, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Remove Difficult case behind all the comments, but I see no consensus to confirm the user at this time. -- Tegel (Talk) 11:22, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Keep: 78 (no concerns / selfless dedication to projects / no comments)
Remove Remove: 0
Neutral Neutral: 0

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Keep Keep: 88 (working a lot behind the scenes / great first year / positively bureaucratic / activity on VRTS / no comments)
Remove Remove: 0
Neutral Neutral: 0

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Keep Keep: 111 (kind / helpful / highly trusted / very committed / available to provide support for admins / very active / best possible representative for Arab world / thanks / great work / arwiki action was not a steward action / no comments)
 Weak keep: 1 (the arwiki issue is not enough to remove when compared to user's activity and transparency)
Remove Remove: 10 (suspicious activity on Arabic Wikipedia / bizarre behavior / no comments)
Neutral Neutral: 1 (not a good impression on arwiki mass-logout script removal discussion)

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All stewards running for confirmation[edit]

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Should you be decided to drop your comment here, please don't forget to add Confirm all or Remove all to your text. The discussion below applies to all stewards listed in the sections above, except the one commenting. Thanks, --Superpes15 (talk) 11:32, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

* Confirm all. For the case mentioned in Sakretsu/Vituzzu's confirmations, which are the ones standing out the most, I'm not sure entirely what has happened or who is in the wrong, but I'm glad they have been responsive and overall they have been competent and active stewards. As for Masti, I am also satisfied enough with the responses to the concerns addressed too. Overall, if they have learned from their mistakes, I don't think it's worth losing active and competent stewards over this, and thus I will still be leaning to confirm all. EPIC (talk) 14:22, 29 February 2024 (UTC) [reply]

  • OK, I've taken a second look at the Vituzzu case, and I do not like what I am reading. I'm not too convinced by either side though, so for now, I will be neutral for that one. Other than that; confirm all as I do not have anything to say about the other stewards than what has already been said. EPIC (talk) 20:48, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

After some further thought I'm striking this for now as there does not appear to be a consensus to confirm all candidates. EPIC (talk) 14:03, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]