Wikivoyage:User rights nominations/Archives/2012

User:Jc8136 (renomination)
Peter was so kind to put trust in me and offered me the janitor job here as well. I'm happy to continue my work here as well in an egregious overestimation ask for reaffirmation of my granted sysop status. Jc8136 (talk) 13:12, 14 September 2012 (CEST)

Renomination suspended due to agreement on Wikivoyage_talk:Administrator_nominations. Jc8136 (talk) 09:06, 19 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support - Contributed a huge amount to the old site and discussions of the new one. JamesA  >talk 14:21, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support  Jan as one of the long-standing WT admins. Atsirlin (talk) 14:53, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support Tsandell (talk) 15:49, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Comment — Let's hold off on any re-nominations until we finish the discussion on the talk page. Personally, I think this will only clog up the archives and make the records more confusing. --Peter Talk 16:27, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. --Globe-trotter (talk) 23:57, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support Didn't realize that you weren't a sysop already! &mdash; Ravikiran r (talk) 07:03, 17 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Jan is a sysop, but was just renominating herself on the new site. JamesA  >talk 15:02, 18 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. (WV-en) Gorilla Jones (talk) 06:18, 18 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support -Shaund (talk) 07:18, 18 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk):

User:LtPowers (for bureaucrat)
Pardon the self-nomination, but I wanted to make this semi-official. With Ryan (Wrh2) tied up with legal issues and Peter going "busy and mostly offline" for the next few weeks, I feel we need at least one active bureaucrat (or bureacraut) on hand. I'm willing to step up and take on these bit-flipping duties, even if it's only on an interim basis. What say ye? LtPowers (talk) 04:25, 12 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support of course. Ravikiran r (talk) 06:19, 12 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support - We'll definitely need some bureacrauts around for the transition. I'd also support it as a permanent role, not just as an interim. JamesA  >talk 06:22, 12 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Aye --Inas (talk) 06:40, 12 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support and, of course, this role should be permanent. Atsirlin (talk) 07:19, 12 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support Thanks for offering the permanent help.Jc8136 (talk) 09:16, 12 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support - I support, thanks for stepping up. Xltel (talk) 12:50, 12 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support – sumone10154 ( talk ) 14:41, 12 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. Even when I get back, I leave in the next week to go buzz polar bears in a helicopter on Hudson Bay.  I'll be pretty unavailable for two months.  --Peter Talk 01:44, 13 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. -Shaund (talk) 07:57, 13 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support Tsandell (talk) 15:45, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. -- Ryan • (talk) • 17:03, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. --Globe-trotter (talk) 23:57, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. (WV-en) Gorilla Jones (talk) 06:18, 18 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 11:35, 18 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. Vidimian (talk) 23:11, 20 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. A deserved promotion (demotion, according to Evan) for the Lieutenant. --W. Franke-mailtalk 19:46, 4 October 2012 (CEST)

Nomination completed. Jc8136 (talk) 14:57, 5 October 2012 (CEST)

User:Pbsouthwood
I have already promoted Peter to sysop status in a clear abuse of bureacraut rights, and he offers the apt name for this as "battlefield promotion." He and Atsirlin below are in the process of an immense janitorial effort in which they are using the extra tools to good effect, and they both understand our policies intimately (in fact, Peter has himself taken the lead in cataloging and organizing all of our policy pages at present). --Peter Talk 21:20, 13 September 2012 (CEST) Just as a reminder, it's not necessary to do a separate nomination on Shared, as admins on language versions automatically get sysop status there (unlike sauerkrauts). --Peter Talk 21:20, 13 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Only the iBobblehead is a bureacraut. Ordinary humans have to settle for bureaucrat. I will try not to let the power go to my head and invade Poland, but I will also be away from early October through mid December, and might not have much internet access as I will be living and working on a boat. &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 11:48, 18 September 2012 (CEST)


 * Support, especially now that I can add and remove his bit at will if he steps out of line. ;)  LtPowers (talk) 01:09, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Gee, just when I support your nomination to Bureaucrat! Beware the corruption of absolute power. :) &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 11:48, 18 September 2012 (CEST)

Nomination completed. Jc8136 (talk) 14:57, 5 October 2012 (CEST)
 * Support so much work already done and i can't wait to see what he is up next for! Jc8136 (talk) 13:05, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support the colleague and coworker. Atsirlin (talk) 13:32, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support - has proven himself trustworthy and putting in a lot of effort lately. JamesA  >talk 14:21, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support Tsandell (talk) 15:49, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. -- Ryan • (talk) • 17:03, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support – sumone10154 ( talk ) 21:38, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. --Globe-trotter (talk) 23:57, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support &mdash; Ravikiran r (talk) 07:02, 17 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. (WV-en) Gorilla Jones (talk) 06:18, 18 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support -Shaund (talk) 07:18, 18 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. That was already way overdue. Vidimian (talk) 23:11, 20 September 2012 (CEST)

User:Atsirlin
Absolutely everything I just wrote about Pbsouthwood applies verbatim to Alexander, plus he already has experience as an admin on :ru. I can't imagine a reason not to give him sysop status, and have already done so... Please rubber stamp, community? --Peter Talk 21:20, 13 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support; absolutely yeoman's work with the maps. Fabulosity.  LtPowers (talk) 01:09, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support Alex does a super job in cleaning and that's alone the reason to put the longterm trust in him! Jc8136 (talk) 13:07, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support - Has made a lot of useful maintenance contributions; both in the long-term, and very recently! JamesA  >talk 14:21, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support - Alex seems to do lots of good cleaning right about the same time that I do the same, so it will good to have someone else to hold the fort during that shift! Tsandell (talk) 15:48, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. -- Ryan • (talk) • 17:03, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support – sumone10154 ( talk ) 21:38, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. --Globe-trotter (talk) 23:57, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. Alex likes writing guides in en more than in ru. :-) He will be good interface for communications and coordination en and ru versions. Digr (talk) 07:20, 15 September 2012 (CEST)
 * 'Support &mdash;Ravikiran r (talk) 07:02, 17 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. (WV-en) Gorilla Jones (talk) 06:18, 18 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support -Shaund (talk) 07:18, 18 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 11:52, 18 September 2012 (CEST)

Nomination completed. Jc8136 (talk) 14:57, 5 October 2012 (CEST)

User:Hansm (sysop und bureaucrat)
I would not use this privileges to intervene into daily wiki live, but sometimes, I will need them to do some technical work or tests. I have granted bureaucrat privileges to myself during the installation process of the wiki, but I would like to be re-confirmed by the community. -- Hansm (talk) 15:48, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support Thank you for our new home! Jc8136 (talk) 16:20, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support, naturally. --Peter Talk 16:27, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. Your help was immense, and your devotion to this project is beyond any doubts. Atsirlin (talk) 16:37, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. Thanks for the amazing work in helping to migrate and setup everything! -- Ryan • (talk) • 17:03, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support – sumone10154 ( talk ) 21:38, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. --Globe-trotter (talk) 23:57, 14 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support &mdash; Ravikiran r (talk) 07:04, 17 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support. (WV-en) Gorilla Jones (talk) 06:18, 18 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support -Shaund (talk) 07:18, 18 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support - Definitely worthy of the tools after all the hard work! JamesA  >talk 07:44, 18 September 2012 (CEST)
 * Support • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 11:56, 18 September 2012 (CEST)

Nomination completed. Jc8136 (talk) 14:57, 5 October 2012 (CEST)

User:Thehelpfulone (for temporary admin)
Thehelpfulone is a very helpful user, who has served the Wikipedia and especially Meta-Wiki's community for many years. He has been active on the proposed Sister Projects Committee and is an observer of the Language committee. He serves as one of Meta-Wiki's admins (in fact, the most active one if I'm not mistaken) and bureaucrats and is thoroughly dedicated to our Wikimedia's projects thru his activity on Meta. I would recommend that the English Wikivoyage community elect him as a temporary admin to help with the transition process, as he is a very dedicated wikimedians who's clueful about the more obscure parts of the mediawiki interface from the various intricacies of the Mediawiki namespace to the centralnotice features and I can wholly agree with Eloquence's [//en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=Wikivoyage:Travellers%27_pub&diff=1994128&oldid=1994126 words] and hope both that he accepts this nomination and that the English Wikivoyage community elects him. Snowolf How can I help? 23:22, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your nomination Snowolf, I gracefully accept and hope to be able to share my knowledge and help out where I can, both during this transition process and in the future. Just to give the community here a bit more of my background, I've been around on the English Wikipedia since November 2007, and an administrator there since November 2008. I'm also an OTRS agent, which is essentially "Customer Service for Wikipedia/Wikimedia" and run a bot, Thehelpfulbot on the English Wikipedia which does a bunch of helpful tasks, some of which may also be useful here both as regular maintenance once and the one-off "a bot would make this so much easier" tasks. :-) The  helpful  one  23:35, 11 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Support. Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:25, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support for temporary admin (and, honestly, I don't see why we need this voting procedure for temporary admin status). Permanent admins would be a different story. --Atsirlin (talk) 07:01, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The bureaucrat I have contacted told me that he wanted a community procedure for even temporary admins. <font color = "darkmagenta">Snowolf <font color = "darkmagenta">How can I help? 07:48, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * As we bureaucrats are just "soulless functionaries", we can only implement community consensus. In extraordinary circumstances, we can bend the rules, I suppose, but in this case I'm only going to do so to waive the 14-day requirement for discussion.  I'd also appreciate some community input on how long this temporary administratorship ought to last.  LtPowers (talk) 14:43, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * In my opinion, "temporary" means until the end of the beta period. --Atsirlin (talk) 15:01, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support/Comment - There is no doubt that Thehelpfulone will be a great help to our burgeoning project. However, I hope he is able to have a thorough read of our important policies and have some understanding of what differs between here and Wikipedia. Already there's been an example of how different our policies regarding template creation are. Don't worry, I got caught out by that as well! <font color="#4682b4">JamesA  <font color="#191970">>talk 07:51, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi James, thanks for your support and comments. I certainly will be reading the policies, I believe I saw a page yesterday that explained the differences between Wikipedia policy and Wikivoyage policy, I'll find that again and be sure to read it - that will definitely provide some useful information!  The  helpful  one  12:32, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Great! There's no doubt that you'll use the tools wisely and efficiently. That page might have been Welcome, Wikipedians. ;) <font color="#4682b4">JamesA  <font color="#191970">>talk 11:38, 13 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Support/Comment - I think "temporary" should last however long it takes to cleanup the transition. At least until the end of the beta period and longer if needed (do we think everything will be cleaned up before the beta ends?). -Shaund (talk) 18:36, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Comment: Since there don't seem to be any objections, and since there is a valid reason for giving this user admin rights during the cleanup process, I've updated the admin bits. -- Ryan • (talk) • 18:51, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I was going to wait at least 24 hours, and maybe 48, for objections. At any rate, can we agree that if any substantive objections are raised, that the bit will be removed pending further discussion?  LtPowers (talk) 22:01, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

User:Snowolf (self-nomination for temporary admin)
Hi, I'm Snowolf and I'd like to request temporary sysop rights to assist with the transition process. I currently serve the global Wikimedia community as one of its Wikimedia stewards and the English Wikipedia as one of its admins (for almost 5 years now) and oversighters. I've generally focused my activities on counter-vandalism and bot-related issues, serving on the English Wikipedia's Bot Approval Group among other things. Some of you might have already seen me around here wikignoming or might have seen my bot, my main interest here is bringing up to date the documentation side of things to reflect the updates coming with the move to Wikimedia and clean up a bit of these red links, one clear example of where the tools would be helpful is when my bot runs into protected pages where substitution are needed. <font color = "darkmagenta">Snowolf <font color = "darkmagenta">How can I help? 21:33, 12 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Support. -Shaund (talk) 21:44, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support and thank you for your help! --Atsirlin (talk) 22:16, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. What Atsirlin said! Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:25, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support - The fact you're a WM steward means we can most certainly trust you to use the tools well! <font color="#4682b4">JamesA  <font color="#191970">>talk 11:39, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Promoted, on a temporary and provisional basis. If any substantive objections are raised, the status may be revoked.  LtPowers (talk) 23:43, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

User:Ikan Kekek (self-nomination for admin)
Hi, everyone. I was an admin on Wikitravel and Wikivoyage. Most of what I did there was patrolling. I would like to once again be able to help out that way, for example by deleting the spam articles that are starting to crop up here. Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:18, 13 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Support. Your help with patrolling was invaluable, and I wonder why your admin rights were not automatically transferred to Wikivoyage. --Atsirlin (talk) 11:27, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support - I have to support the person who first welcomed me to this great place! I thought we were working on a process where former WT admins could request administrator privileges and be provided them without a repeated RfA process. <font color="#4682b4">JamesA  <font color="#191970">>talk 11:41, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support, the user was an admin on the old English Wikivoyage and merely had issues transfering his account but has since confirmed his identity. As his old account still retains the sysop flag on this very wiki, I do not think a full nomination procedure should be necessary to merely transfer the flag between two account demonstrably owned by the same person. <font color = "darkmagenta">Snowolf <font color = "darkmagenta">How can I help? 12:21, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Promoted. Ikan Kekek's accounts are verified as matching; see here.  LtPowers (talk) 12:38, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

User:Yann (nomination for admin)
Existing longtime admin on fr: (contributions: en, fr,  en.wp,  fr.wp) - not sure when he was nominated on fr: but deletion logs indicate he had the tools there as far back as 2010. As there are no huge policy or structural differences between the two Canadian-language Wikivoyage projects, if he's done well there he should do fine here. K7L (talk) 22:13, 13 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Support Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:03, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Not yet. Only a handful of edits between 2004 and last month, mostly interwiki links and Docent tagging.  If he sticks around for a while and encounters a need for the admin tools, we can re-evaluate in a few months.  LtPowers (talk) 23:41, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks to K7L for the nomination. I have already checked more 1,000 images moved from WikiVoyage to Commons. I hope it counts. Yann (talk) 20:23, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Has done a significant amount for work on the Commons image transfer and +63,000 contributions to Commons overall (thanks, I'm no good at it), not many edits on the site, but should be an Administrator and willing to help. - Xltel (talk) 20:39, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Not yet. Obviously, Yann has been of huge help with the migration. But the admin tools aren't considered a reward (they're generally considered a demotion from editor to janitor). They are rather given out to users who have demonstrated both that a) they are very familiar with all our policies, and that b) they would make good use of the janitorial tools (i.e., they have been doing a lot of patrolling over a sustained period). Since Yann hasn't been active here in a long time, he might need more time to familiarize himself with all the policy developments that happened during the interim period, and he has not fulfilled criterion b. --Peter Talk 16:46, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

User:Sumone10154 (self-nom for admin)
Hello, I would like to nominate myself for adminship. I have been on Wikitravel/Wikivoyage for almost 2 years, making over 2000 contributions (WT and WV combined). I would like to help with the cleanup and patrolling here, and I think the tools would be very helpful. I am also an admin on fr and shared, helping with the cleanup there, and it would be great if I could do the same here on the English Wikivoyage :) – sumone10154 ( talk ) 00:29, 14 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Support. You've done a great job. Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:18, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support - Done fantastic work and would definitely help with the cleanup. <font color="#4682b4">JamesA  <font color="#191970">>talk 12:50, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. If you want to do some mop-work, we welcome the help.  LtPowers (talk) 15:43, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support: an asset to the community and a knowledgeable coder -- <font color="#0000DD">A <font color="#0066FF">l <font color="#0099FF">i <font color="#00CCFF">c <font color="#00EEFF">e <font color="#FF3333">✉ 08:42, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. Definitely. --Peter Talk 17:28, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. -Shaundd (talk) 19:02, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. -- Massive number of edits and assistance, very strong support (thanks for all the work) - Xltel (talk) 19:16, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. --Globe-trotter (talk) 20:06, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 06:36, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. A great helper. Another WTS gnome aka This, that and the other (talk) 10:28, 19 December 2012 (UTC)