Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2013-09/User:Equinox for admin

User:Equinox for admin

 * Nomination: I hereby nominate as a local English Wiktionary Administrator. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 00:42, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Vote starts: as soon as the nomination is accepted
 * Vote ends: 23:59, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Acceptance:
 * Languages: en, fr-1
 * Timezone: UTC/GMT (UK time)
 * Thanks. I accept. Because there has been some controversy about me, I am going to bore everyone with a recap of my history here. I discovered the site in mid-2008. I was originally nominated for admin by a Wonderfool sockpuppet, which failed; shortly afterwards I was nominated by User:msh210, which passed: . I continued to do a lot of work on Wiktionary for about three years, including quite intensive vandal-zapping. In mid-2012 there was a huge amount of damaging vandalism by a guy called Luciferwildcat (and various other names), and nobody was dealing with it, even after being alerted, and it made me crazy and I drunkenly deleted the main page and caused some other trouble; this naturally got me de-adminned (but not blocked, impressively). In the subsequent year I have continued with my normal creating, editing, and fixing. I am definitely a jerk sometimes, but probably no more than everyone else, and I do genuinely love Wiktionary and want to make it better, and I have a pretty compelling history of adding some thousands (or 10,000s) of missing English words, sometimes developing specialist software to do this. Also SemperBlotto may kindly vouch for me as a good vandal-patroller. Okay I'm gonna shut up now. Thanks for reading this huge paragraph, and thanks for your honest vote in whichever direction. Equinox ◑ 01:08, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support and thanks for the links of historical interest. I find it funny that the community trolled you more than the real WF sock(s). —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 01:17, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Wait a sec, I just realised that I'm supporting my own vote, which I've been called out for previously. Please interpret this instead as a proxy vote for WF, who is not allowed to vote any more but has expressed his clear wish for Equinox's readminification. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 01:19, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I think it's quite fine to support your own vote; many editors either prefer not to, or else prefer to be explicit about it (by writing "Support (as nom)" or whatnot), but I don't think there's a rule about it. By contrast, I think there really is a rule against voting by permabanned users, so if you'd really like your vote interpreted that way, please &lt;s&gt; it out. :-P  —Ruakh TALK 21:53, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * To be specific, it's a symbolic gesture to please RF & Co. Not like it makes any difference to the outcome of this vote, of course. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 23:44, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Very strong support. Damn LWC caused us to lose one year of Equinox’s great admin work. — Ungoliant (Falai) 02:42, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 2) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support. I find it unfair that I kept my admin powers after all my shenanigans and this awesome user lost them for deleting that useless mainpage :) --Vahag (talk) 09:28, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 3) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support I'm continually impressed by the steady quality contributions on Special:Recent changes.--Haplology (talk) 13:34, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 4) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support. —Ruakh TALK 14:23, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 5) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support I was going to put a statement here, but I couldn't think of one that would fit well here, so just have my emphatic yes. -- Liliana • 14:42, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 6) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support --Anatoli (обсудить/вклад) 00:17, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 7) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support Incredibly hard-working, reliable contributor. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 03:56, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 8) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support &mdash; Saltmarshαπάντηση 06:24, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 9) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support. Absolutely. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:04, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 10) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|20px]] Support. Btw, you complain that you weren't blocked for deleting the main page, but I note with amusement that the person who deleted the main page over on the 'pedia didn't even get desysoped, AFAICT. :b - -sche (discuss) 05:27, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|20px]] Oppose . Because he's already a rollbacker and I think that's enough, given he once deleted the main page. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:40, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Decision

 * Passed. Made it so. SemperBlotto (talk) 10:57, 17 September 2013 (UTC)