Wiki143:Requests for adminship/Brighterorange

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Brighterorange

final (39/0/0) ending 22:41 13 October, 2005

– brighterorange is a fine editor who has collected over 3200 edits since he signed up in March of 2005. In addition to being a regular AfD participant, he has contributed a great deal to Wikipedia:WikiProject Punctuation, putting in countless edits for the thankless but important task of making sure our periods and commas are in the right place - and believe me, I've seen him pop up on my watchlist plenty of times for this purpose. He has also participated in a number of policy discussions, offering his thoughts towards making Wikipedia a better place overall. I therefore heartily endorse brighterorange for an adminship.  BD2412 ^talk 01:51, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

• I am honored to accept! — brighterorange (talk) 22:54, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Support

1. Support CambridgeBayWeather 22:57, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
2. S'port -Ahh, I wanted to be first - --Doc (?) 23:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
3. Support See him around Afd a lot where he shows good judgement. Dlyons493 Talk 23:04, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
4. Bright Support Good User also see her alot in AFD --JAranda | yeah 23:05, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
5. Late-breaking nominator support.  BD2412 ^talk 23:09, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
6. Support from a Kick Ass User. Private Butcher 23:22, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
7. Support. Robert 00:26, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
8. Support -Greg Asche (talk) 00:48, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
9. EXTREME ORANGE SUPPORT WITH EXTRA PEELS!! dedicated contributer. Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 01:17, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
10. Support. Kirill Lokshin 01:19, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
11. Support. A good editor with a cool head who knows how things work. -Splash^talk 02:54, 8 October 2005 (UTC) (I missed my sig the first time)
12. Support Good editor --Rogerd 02:55, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
13. Old Fashioned Support  ALKIVAR™File:Radioactive.svg 03:13, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
14. Andre (talk) 04:49, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
15. support: Good contributor. Ombudsman 04:52, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
16. Merovingian (t) (c) 06:13, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
17. Support - seen this user lots. --Celestianpower ^hablamé 07:37, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
18. Extreme lesbian support and damn the controversy! Brighterorange is very active on AfD. — JIP | Talk 07:55, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

    The controversy about extreme lesbian support, I mean.

19. Support Amren ^(talk) 13:55, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
20. Orange Furry Alien Support have seen plenty of edits on my watchlist and in AfD participation, should be good admin. Alf ^melmac 14:51, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
21. Orange mustache support. One that knowns were to put a semicolon and were to put a comma, and willing to spend time fixing these, gets my vote. ≈ jossi fresco ≈ 19:15, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
22. Support Grutness...wha? 22:28, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
23. Support - seen lots of him on AfD. — ceejayoz ^★ 04:25, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
24. Support see him around quite a bit now, a good editor who could make good use of the mop and bucket. Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 04:26, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
25. Yes. encephalon 10:27, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
26. Support. Several good contributions in a variety of places. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:43, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
27. Extreme [INSERT WITTY COMMENT HERE] support!. [ +t, +c, +m ] 11:29, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
28. Support Very active on AFD and other places. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 22:36, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
29. Support --Allen3 ^talk 23:47, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
30. Lesbian support of the most extreme variety! Seen this user around a bit, always seems responsible enough. --fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 17:24, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
31. Support. I have pleasantly encountered this color on several occasions. >: Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist• E@} 21:26, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
32. Support. His leadership in the Punctuation Project is noted and appreciated. Jonathunder 01:13, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
33. Support. Amazing job in Punctuation project. By the way, it's ok for a non-admin cast a vote here right? -- WB 04:29, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

    yes, any user in good standing (aka no anonymous votes/no banned users...) is allowed to vote here.  ALKIVAR™File:Radioactive.svg 04:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

34. "Yeah Fool. Better recognize -- Check Yo Self" Support w/X-treme Predjudice Clarence Thomas 01:13, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
35. Cool. --JuntungWu 07:16, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
36. Support. Friday (talk) 15:52, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
37. Yes --ZappaZ File:Yin yang.svg 04:18, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
38. Support. No reason to think admin powers will be abused. Jayjg ^(talk) 16:13, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
39. It hurts my eyes, somehow! El_C 03:28, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Comments

Questions for the candidate
A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)

A. Actually, I already do a lot of chores. ;) I'm pretty active on AfD, and I would like to help with closing discussions there. Also, new pages patrol would be a whole lot more efficient with the ability to speedy pages instead of tagging them and waiting for others to do it. Of course I expect that, as time goes on, I'll discover other fun tasks to help me avoid working on my thesis.

2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

A. All of my major contributions are listed on my user page. Other than a few articles about type theory, my area of expertise, the contributions I'm most proud of are as follows. First, I've taken a lot of photographs, often improving the quality of existing ones (for instance from this to this at Highwayman's hitch) or adding totally new ones. The biggest, though, is my project "Project Punctuation", which has made 1¼ passes over the entire article namespace to correct typographical errors. We've also bagged and tagged or fixed loads of other problematic articles that passed RC/NP patrol in the process. Though these small edits account for a large fraction of my article namespace edits, on the other hand they're supported by a real lot of work behind the scenes to write and run the software that produces the dumps.

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

A. Not much. My editing has not been particularly contentious, and years of dealing with troublemakers on my own websites has given me a pretty thick skin, so I am not the kind of person to get in heated arguments. I know some people on RfA see conflict resolution as an important test before adminship, so how about the argument over repeated copyvios at Talk:Bloodsport (film) (where I am called a poopoo head (heh), attacked variously, and threatened with e-mail bombs) on my birthday. The page was eventually vprotected after I asked for help, and I got a copy of the movie so I can watch it again and rewrite the summary (hopefully) to everyone's satisfaction soon. — brighterorange (talk) 22:46, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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