Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2006-03/User:Essjay

Essjay
I've noticed over the past months that there are frequently emergency requests late at night (for US timezones, that is) for Wiktionary admins, and that stewards are frequently called upon to create temporary sysops to handle vandal attacks on Wiktionary. (This is the permissions log for just one user who has been made an emergency admin for Wiktionary nearly a dozen times, most within the last three months.) I haven't been a very active contributor to Wiktionary, as I have focused on the English Wikipedia, but I am willing to serve as a sort of "emergency admin," as I tend to be available when the call goes out for admins. I have held adminship on the English Wikipedia for over six months, and have adminship on the English Wikiquote, on Meta, and on Commons. I've held a number of positions of trust within the Wikimedia community, and believe that I can be trusted to hold adminship here for emergency situations.

I understand entirely if the community is not interested in having backup admins; certainly, the vandalism can be cleaned up later, or stewards can create temporary admins as they have been doing. I believe in offering to be of help where I can, and I see this as an opportunity to help in an area where Wiktionary seems to need assistance. I promise that I will hold no hard feelings against anyone who opposes; I understand completely. (My time zone is Eastern Standard Time, my Babel is en-N, fr-1, la-1, and my account was created August 4, 2005.) Essjay 17:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)


 * For:
 * --Connel MacKenzie T C 18:00, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * —Stephen 18:09, 7 March 2006 (UTC) Sounds good to me.
 * Very trustworthy user. FireFox 18:40, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Psy guy 03:01, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Has been great on Wikipedia, is not likely to abuse the mop -- Tawker 07:19, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * &mdash; Vildricianus 10:38, 8 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Against:


 * Comments
 * I'm sure there's some guideline about users with less than fifty edits on a Wikimedia project being given adminship. The thing is though, does this user know about Wiktionary admin protocol? It could seem to the untrained eye that the user is trying to get adminship on as many projects as possible, but maybe that's just me being cynical, :). Plus, I don't recognize the name from Wikipedia, so am not going to vote for. --Dangherous 11:34, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I even recognized the name, while I'm virtually never at Pedia. &mdash; Vildricianus 11:54, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * He's the head of the CVU, I think he owns the anti-vandalism IRC channel and he's the GC who got me a flood exemption for tawkbot2, one to be trusted for sure. -- Tawker 09:57, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * If you don't recognize Essjay from English Wikipedia, then you obvious don't spend much time around WP! :-) But I can see what you are saying about "trying to get adminship on as many projects as possible;" however, it is hard to make that hold water.  Essjay is a very active admin on all projects where he is admined.  He has been an active admin on Wikt several times!  I would encourage you to look at Essjay as a "Meta"-pedian or "Trans"-pedian (I don't now what would be the most appropriate way to say it) rather than just a multi-project user.  I know at this point I sound like either his campaign manager or his #1 Fan, but I have worked with Essjay since I started.  Therefore, I know that he has the best interests of the projects at heart. -- Psy guy 13:22, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I appreciate Psy guy and Vildricianus vouching for me, and will let thier kind words speak for me; I reiterate that my only interest is in doing what I can to help. (For those who are wondering about my work on other projects, please see my userpage on the relevant project and my admin logs; those generally point to where my attention has been focused.) Essjay 10:01, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Decision: