Commons:Administrators/Requests/AleXXw

Non-'crat closure (uncontroversial) as the candidate withdrew his request. Trijnstel_talk 19:52, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

AleXXw

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AleXXw (talk · contributions (views) · deleted user contributions · recent activity (talk · project · deletion requests) · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth)

Scheduled to end: 19:35, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi there, I'd like to request adminrights for myself. I regristed on de.wp back in 2006 and I am active there until now. My first contact with commons was in february 2008, my first edits here was back in october 2008. Over the years I got filemover and OTRS-member. I'd use the special rights at beginning to help existing admins by deleting move-rests and by closing permitted deletion requests. After some experience I'd work in these areas mainly. Another helpful right would be to be able to edit campaigns for the UploadWizzard in the course of Wiki Loves Monuments. Some 'hard facts': over 25500 global edits, no locks globally, ~5800 edits and over 4000 log entries on commons. If you have any questions I would be pleased to answer them. --AleXXw 19:35, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Support --Hubertl (talk) 19:36, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Question Is this a {{Support}} or an {{Oppose}}? Trijnstel_talk 19:39, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thanks for clarifying! Trijnstel_talk 19:42, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support No reason why not. Trijnstel_talk 19:39, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support responsible grown-up knowing what he is doing. --Ailura (talk) 19:41, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support, no worries, -- Cirt (talk) 19:42, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Karsten11 (talk) 19:43, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per first supporter - A.Savin 20:07, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My God, as childlike. Not Hubertl is the candidate, it's AleXXw! The next one writes then, because of A. Savins oppose… --Steindy (talk) 17:29, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Geiserich77 (talk) 21:39, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose You mention you want to help close deletion requests, but you have only contributed to three such requests in all on the Commons since 2008. I remember seeing some crass decisions in that arena from unexperienced new admins so saying you want to gather "some experience" doesn't inspire confidence in me. I suggest you reapply at a later date with more experince in that department. Hekerui (talk) 21:57, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Concerns with limited experience in the administrative areas the candinate has expressed interest in working in -FASTILY ^(TALK) 02:19, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Fastily --Morning Sunshine (talk) 04:43, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support qualified candidate. --Krd 07:29, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per Fastily. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:33, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bwag (talk) 08:39, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --ManfredK (talk) 08:50, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Cirdan (talk) 09:38, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Trusted user, but per Hekerui only Neutral --Leyo 09:39, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Fastily --Sreejith K (talk) 09:49, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pfeifferfranz (talk) 10:53, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ralf Roleček 11:46, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Anton-kurt (talk) 11:50, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Gugerell (talk) 11:52, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support AleXXw ist ein fixer Bestandteil von Wikipedia-Austria. Ohne ihn wären viele Dinge in letzter Zeit nicht möglich gewesen. Manfred Kuzel (talk) 11:58, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -jkb- (talk) 12:03, 19 April 2012 (UTC) experienced user[reply]
Support --Otberg (talk) 12:13, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Häferl (talk) 12:21, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Daniel749 •talk 12:24, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --E.mil.mil (talk) 12:35, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Reimmichl-212 (talk) 13:26, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I have no doubt that you could make a great Admin here. but I suggest you withdraw this and come back after you have more experience in the areas that are important to an Admin. Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 14:06, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support AleXXw has done great work to support the WLM Project with his tools. He has strong ambitions to support the commons project and I'm sure that he will do a good job. There is a lot of work to do here and people like him are rare. I really appreciate this request! --Peter Lauppert (talk) 14:52, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Hans Koberger (talk) 16:03, 19 April 2012 (UTC) BTW: Trollt der A.Savin eigentlich immer und überall?[reply]
Support --Mai-Sachme (talk) 16:17, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Plani (talk) 17:06, 19 April 2012 (UTC) This is not a question of nationality of heritage of AleXXw and his supporters, even though some of the comments below obviously would like to provoke it.[reply]
Support trusted --Inkowik 17:27, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Sozi (talk) 17:34, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support – The candidate is in the german Wikipedia an extremely friendly and competent user. Without him and his work it would not have been possible that WLM progressed so far. I am absolutely sure me that he will always considered use his rights. --Steindy (talk) 17:43, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Yes!--Allander (talk) 17:55, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Good guy for this job GuentherZ 20:25, 19. April 2012 (UTC)
Oppose - Per Jim and Fastily.--Kiran Gopi (Talk to me..) 03:42, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per Jim. --PierreSelim (talk) 09:56, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Achim Raschka (talk) 16:12, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Herzi Pinki (talk) 19:17, 20 April 2012 (UTC) I know him personally (from the Vienna Stammtisch, from WLM). He is one of the main faciliators of the WLM project, not only in Austria. He does his work in a precise and calm way, always helpful. So anybody who complained about small number of edits on commons for some of the supporters, should also count mine.[reply]
Support -- trusted User. Marcus Cyron (talk) 21:14, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - per Hekerui, Fastily, et al. But also, even with much allowance for English not being first language, the statement does not seem to be crafted with sort of care I would expect; I don't even know what "help existing admins by deleting move-rests" means. I don't know to what extent this is down to English level being only en-2, but I'd expect a good admin candidate with low levels of English to be able to organise some translation assistance, or at least be self-aware enough to say something about language and perhaps post in other languages as well as English. (Es gibt übrigens ziehmlich viele auf Commons, die deutsch sprechen.) So, echoing Jim, I trust the support from German colleagues means you are a trusted and valued user and could be a good Commons admin one day, but it doesn't mean that you're ready now. PS I would add that you can get the Commons:Upload Wizard campaign editors userright separately. Rd232 (talk) 21:25, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
(In german: Wie würdest du Verschieberest übersetzen? Ich habe lange gesucht ;) ) With my sentence I meant: If I move a file there will remain a redirect-page. This page is often unused, so I could immediately delete it. Greets --AleXXw 22:05, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Verschieberest = redirect left behind after a move (wenn du nicht sicher bist mit ner Übersetzung, ist eine Beschreibung besser als ein erfundenes Wort). But that just raises more questions about your experience; I don't think deleting redirects left behind after a move is a big task on Commons - they're normally left in place, as far as I know. Rd232 (talk) 09:36, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support I can see no danger of abuse of admin rights --Tsui (talk) 02:52, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - per A.Savin - Zeitgeisterfahrer (talk) 07:35, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Jim, Fastily and Rd32. Béria Lima ^msg 03:56, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Böhringer (talk) 06:12, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Canvassing/advertising is an error of judgement IMO, it is generally disapproved of in this community. I'm glad you have the support of the German Wikipedia community, now earn the support of the Commons community. Also I'm nonplussed about the plan to delete lots of redirects after a file move, that breaks incoming links and external citations. --99of9 (talk) 14:01, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the way how this candidate is courting for his adminship here is disgusting and a violation of basic Wikimedia community rules. Besides, the candidate has minor experience in Commons and was never involved in any DR and is obviously not willing to do so in future - as he states on his self-promotion on his talk page on de:wiki. There is no need for another non-active "admin". --High Contrast (talk) 14:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Regiomontanus (talk) 21:27, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Not so sure about it anymore. Please gain a bit more experience on this project before applying again. Trijnstel_talk 23:01, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Jim Udufruduhu (talk) 07:50, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Please enable the Special:EmailUser function in Special:Preferences. Trijnstel_talk 19:42, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
OK Don't know why it was off, but now it's enabled again ;) Greets --AleXXw 20:01, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I get the feeling this request is being canvast in the German community, with lots votes of German people who aren't active here (anymore). The most extreme examples are these two: Otberg only has 85 edits and last editted in January 2012 and for Reimmichl-212 his vote was his first one on this project! Trijnstel_talk 15:23, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Now there's a bit surprise - some things never change --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:31, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not only a feeling, but a fact. Most of the supporters are members of Vienna Stammtisch, as well as the candidate. - A.Savin 15:34, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

- If that is the case, would it not be be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people and elected another? --Hubertl (talk) 15:35, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - I only count the really "new" guys, though there are more suspicious votes. So one more: Allander has only 39 edits here. Trijnstel_talk 20:03, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And some of that Austrian guys simply cannot say something without personal offenses. For instance Hans Koberger in his voting comment: Trollt der A.Savin eigentlich immer und überall? which means: "Does this A.Savin actually troll always and everywhere?" Perhaps Mr. Koberger should take a look at my contributions here on Commons and compare them to his own ones, otherwise it is to assume that we have a heavy trolling in this candidature by Mr. Koberger himself. - A.Savin 16:12, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Yes I was going to ask what that said - maybe folk should be aware that we would consider blocking for such comments here I guess. I'm sure the closing 'crat will take into account the minimal contributions of some of those voting as I would expect to happen if I voted on a de RfA. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:16, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Based on this your vote would be striked out. --Leyo 17:51, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

@Savin, the "personal offenses" started exactly in... in... your vote! What a surprise... -- Hans Koberger (talk) 18:13, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In my vote, I cannot read any personal attacks, but in yours; what a surprise. And my username is not Savin, in case you still don't know... - A.Savin 18:28, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I can. --Ailura (talk) 05:35, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Surely A.Savin will also see no attack in this edit and the edit summary of today... -- Hans Koberger (talk) 17:48, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Info Good evening! I just came home, so only some short words... I'm personally sorry that my candidacy triggers such strong conflicts. The cause of the many nice (thanks folks!) voices was probably my announcement on de.wp. The text there simply means something like "advertise for myself" followed by a link to this site. @A.Savin: I am sorry that you take your apparent dispute with Hubertl out on me, I don't think we ever met before. Needless to say I accept your decision and I am not hostile to you now ;) Good night & Greets --AleXXw 22:40, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Without this really impressive stammtisch show including personal offenses and slandering by some of the loudest comrades, I even had nothing against you as admin. - A.Savin 23:36, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So why did you oppose the day before? --Ailura (talk) 16:04, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The only person who attacks someone personally, without the slightest reason to Alexx, is you, S1 aka A.Savin. The only one who slanders, is You. I just remember, for what reason you have finished beeing administrator and at the same time changing your username, trying to hide yourself. And again, no one has to admit it, to be insulted as a Troll, neither here nor in de:WP! I told you already at your discussion page: If you have personal problems, try to resolve it outside, not inside this entire project. --Hubertl (talk) 00:57, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question AleXXw, as you have an interwiki to :pt on your userpage, do you also speak somewhat Portuguese? A superficial scan through your edit history in 2012 did not show any participation in DR discussions/decisions, which is among the important admin activities on Commons. I would therefore recommend you to consider whether it might be better to first acquire some experience in this topic (by participating in such discussions) and then re-open your RfA — just my opinion. An additional admin with OTRS-access/experience would be surely welcome. --Túrelio (talk) 21:00, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Túrelio! I speak very little Portuguese, I learnd it half a year back in the nineties at school. To my experience: I added a permission-notice to a DR last month. Unfortunately nothing happened to this unambiguous request since then. That was one of the key reasons for my candidacy. I am sure I could immediately make such clear decisions and of course I would start slowly before I would make tough decisions. Greets --AleXXw 21:59, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question What do you mean with "by closing permitted deletion requests"? -- Docu at 08:34, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

By that I meant: If I get a permission for a file by OTRS I could close the DR immediately, like this one. Greets --AleXXw 09:49, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You are free to do that already. You don't need to request adminship for that. -- Docu at 19:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question Why have you never made a request for deletion? -- Docu at 08:34, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Though he has filed none, he has discussed in some DRs: [1], [2], [3]. --Túrelio (talk) 09:10, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If "some" is three, that's correct. It doesn't answer my question though. -- Docu at 19:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question Do you know the status of FOP in the different countries which participate to WLM ? --PierreSelim (talk) 08:45, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Most of them, yes. I know the status of FOP in most european countries and in US, for other countries I would have to take a look on the page you linked. Greets --AleXXw 09:49, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question What do you think of the pictures of the Category:Eiffel Tower at night ? --PierreSelim (talk) 08:45, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hard task since there are a few dissenting views. There are some clearly free pictures like Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower - NOAA.jpg and Eiffel Tower at night cph 3b24446.jpg (PD-old). For newer photos there is the problem of missing FOP in France. Some are of the opinion that the illuminations are copyrighted by the artist and/or SETE. Others are of the opinion that ordinary light is not protectable (ie here), at least in some cases. I couldn't find any consensus and I don't speak enough french to read the original laws and court decisions. So I would not decide such cases. Greets --AleXXw 09:49, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

On the one hand, I don't like canvassing; on the other hand you are willing to do voluntary work and to learn. If this should fail, I hope you'll address most of the concerns and retry. Thanks! -- RE rillke questions? 14:10, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I hereby withdraw this now. I'd like to thank most of you, either for your support or your fair opposes, I know there is much I have to learn. For those who think I'm disgusting or something similar, there was no sort of evil intent behind my self-advertising. I wanted to inform my fellows on a fast track, neither more nor less. And I'm pretty sure AGF is still one of our basic Wikimedia community rules ;-) Greets --AleXXw 14:18, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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