Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Andre Engels

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There is consensus for handing out the admin flag.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:39, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

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Andre Engels

Vote

RfP scheduled to end after 20 June 2014 10:38 (UTC)

• Andre Engels (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)

It's been suggested I nominate for adminship to help reduce the backlog that sometimes exists in deletion requests of empty Items, which come into being through merges where not rarely I am myself (through the Game) responsible. I would be happy to take such a task upon me every now and again, and therefore now ask for such permission. --Andre Engels (talk) 10:10, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support high edit count and length of service, plenty of rfd work. Obviously trustworthy because he was a steward up until last year. --Jakob (talk) 10:38, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
2.  Support --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 12:34, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
3.  Support of course! Ajraddatz (talk) 12:50, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
4.  Support Trusted, was (one of) the first steward(s) in Wikimedia.--GZWDer (talk) 12:51, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
5.  Support--Çalak _talk 13:30, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
6.  Support Yes please! Jianhui67 ^{talk★contribs} 13:42, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
7.  Support The growing number of requests for administrator rights is a good side effect of the game! Lymantria (talk) 15:02, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
8.  Support. Ralgis (talk) 18:31, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
9.  Support - Trusted user (since 2001), active. - Taketa (talk) 19:16, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
10.  Support --DangSunM (talk) 02:19, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
11.  Support I hope he will definitely be a good sysop. Who's next? :-) Matěj Suchánek (talk) 09:25, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
12.  Support The name sounds familiar. I don't remember why, but I can trust this user.--Jasper Deng (talk) 06:52, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

    Probably because Andre has been a steward from the time of creation of the steward group on until last year (with pauses) and you used to be involved very much in tasks closely related to steward work. Vogone (talk) 14:08, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

13.  Support IW 17:21, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
14.  Oppose: My impression is: you are a careless merger. --Succu (talk) 20:18, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

    Would you mind giving some evidence (diffs) for this, please?--Jasper Deng (talk) 21:08, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

15.  Support, trusted user. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 21:42, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
16.  Support, sure - Hoo man (talk) 11:56, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
17.  Support gangLeri לערי ריינהארט (talk) 15:53, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
18.  Support Again, to err every so often is human. TCN7JM 08:56, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
19.  Support -- Advanced user... Wagino 20100516 (talk) 10:21, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
20.  Support but please be aware that there is an activity requirement for this role. --Rschen7754 18:59, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Comments

• It may be nice if you created a userpage before the sysop access is possibly granted. Regards, Vogone (talk) 19:17, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
  • @Andre Engels: Also, would you mind opting in to the edit counter tool? --Jakob (talk) 19:21, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
    • I wouldn't mind, but where's the tool?
      • @Andre Engels: Just create User:Andre Engels/EditCounterOptIn.js with any content you want. --Jakob (talk) 08:31, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
• Can you explain this? Rzuwig^► 20:14, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
  • As far as I see all of these blocks are self-blocks set in order to either cool down or for self-punishment(?). Vogone (talk) 21:31, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

I don't know but I don't trust Google Translate's translation, one of the times he was blocked (in early 2013) it displays the reason as: "because he's a loser". :p --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 22:01, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

The self-block is indeed with the comment that he is a fool, and the unblock the same day with the comment that he is lovely.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:07, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Yes, 'fool' is a better translation than 'loser'. - Andre Engels (talk) 22:01, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Yes, all blocks are by myself, with the exception of one case where MoiraMoira changed a self-block of 1 day into a block of 15 minutes. - Andre Engels (talk) 22:01, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

• • I do admit sometimes overreacting severely and getting angry, and one of the things I sometimes do in those cases is indeed blocking myself. - Andre Engels (talk) 22:01, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
• You need to be careful next time. Q14947384 and Q135762 are different genus of plants. Jianhui67 ^{talk★contribs} 07:29, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
  • Both English and Spanish Wikipedia claim that Pherosphaera is a synonym of Microstrobos. - Andre Engels (talk) 22:01, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
    • Given how prevalent errors in merging are, unless there are lots of examples I'd hardly hold a few bad merges against a candidate. Ajraddatz (talk) 07:02, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

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