Commons:Administrators/Requests/DarwIn

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 Support = 22;  Oppose = 0;  Neutral = 1 - 96% Result. EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:47, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DarwIn

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Scheduled to end: 15:25, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Hello. I'm Portuguese and a user of Commons since February 2009. I'm a trusted user in the pt-wiki (rollbacker, "eliminator" (delete content and view rights)), though I've not been much active there in the last times, due to shift of activity to Commons. I also operate a maintenance bot, DarwinBot, though it has been mostly inactive in the last few months. In Commons I am a patroller and have AWB clearance. I can write in Portuguese and English with reasonable fluency, and French and Spanish to a less extent. I can read those languages, plus Italian, Galician and Ladino, and to a less extent Occitan, Catalan and some of the other Latin based languages. I believe I've been around enough time to understand more than the basics of this project, though I'm full aware that I've yet much to learn. I believe I'm able to expand my contributions in this project into administrator activities, and give an hand to the busy crew already at work, as well as help the other Portuguese speaking admins (fortunately we have some) with matters relating to the Portuguese-speaking community. I must say, however, that my primary intentions here are related to organization and incrementation of content, both in quality and quantity, so do not expect me to be an all-time super-admin, but you can be assured that in what I do, I give my best. Darwin Ahoy! 15:25, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I never thought about that, frankly, but I would be glad to help in what I can, though I'm somewhat afraid of having such a responsibility in the beginning. I don't even know what I have to do to be OTRS reviewer, though I know that I have to send my real identity (which would not be a problem).-- Darwin Ahoy! 02:01, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support OTRS reviewer for the Portuguese queue. – Adrignola talk 03:15, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I too think he'd be helpful there. But I'm afraid commenting here further doesn't really do anything. He should first follow the procedures and file a request here. Rehman 07:52, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I just filled my candidature there. I had no idea that the Portuguese OTRS queue was so severely delayed.-- Darwin Ahoy! 23:10, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry, but there are no delay in pt-queue. Currentelly there are 0 request there, and had been like that for the past 10 days at least. Thought I imagine Darwin can help us, that idea that there are a delay there is a lie. Béria Lima msg 10:15, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I do, though if I well recall in Portugal we do have a legal definition that do not mix the two terms (after 14 is a teen, IIWR). In any case, my use of "teen" there was referring to high school or after, somewhere between 16 and 20 something, which is what that puppet looks to me.
A small "rant" to put things in context: I understand that moral values vary wildly, at the same culture in different points of time, and between different cultures at some point in time. Until the 1990s the Portuguese law was that girls attained sexual majority at the age of 14, and boys at 16. The reasoning for this was that there were so many girls of 14 getting pregnant and marrying at that age that it would be impractical to make it unlawful. At the time I was involved in a campaign that called for equity between girls and boys at the age of 16, which was successful, and the law was effectively amended at the parliament. This episode shows how cultural and moral values can differ between cultures, especially compared to the United States, which seem to have a vision more puritan than many countries in Europe. It may be those cultural differences, but it do seems somewhat forced to me to deem as "sexual" a drawing of a girl in her late teens in a bath suit. It will undoubtedly be sexual to dirty old men and masonry workers (and my former colleagues from the Computer department) who whistle and drool at wathever has a skirt and passes nearby (even if it happens to be a gothic in drag, real case), but frankly, I have to do some mind twisting to see the sexual innuendo in there. In any case, I do not want to impose my cultural values over others, though I do prefer if dispassionate and academic debate takes place, instead of a mob hurling such a drawing as "paedophilia", which I do think is a very inappropriate and charged word to describe it.-- Darwin Ahoy! 15:43, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question 2 If that file were a photograph of a 16 year old, in a public location, otherwise identical to the cartoon but without the wiki symbols, what is your opinion on whether it should be deleted (with reasoning)? --99of9 (talk) 11:39, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Frankly, it would depend from the picture and it's context. A photo from one of the Disney Channel series actors at stage in a beach, frightened by a wave coming in or whatever would cause that expression, would hardly be controversial, I believe. If the subject is not remarkable (ordinary person in a beach), almost certainly it would be out of scope, even if no sexual innuendos could be inferred from it. -- Darwin Ahoy! 15:43, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

 Support. I didn't add a vote because regrettably I only now became aware of his rfa, well after voting closure. Sorry. --Túrelio (talk) 05:54, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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