User:Jeff G./Admin coaching

Phase I: Getting to know you

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Why do you want to be an admin?

Q: So why do you want to be an admin?

A: There are multiple areas in which I feel I could be helpful, including backlogs at AIV and CSD, sometimes there are not enough admins online, and Jimbo himself wrote that adminship was not a big deal. I have past experience as being one of the admins of a network of 300+ servers that served 10,000+ users, but my first attempt at being a Commons admin failed.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 16:50, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

What do you expect from the admin coaching process?

Q: How can I help you prepare for an RFA?

A: I want to make sure that I am grounded enough in policies and procedures to be an admin here, have learned sufficiently from my mistakes, and would be well received at RfA.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 16:50, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Standard (mandatory) RFA questions

Answer these questions:

1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: There are multiple areas in which I feel I could be helpful, including backlogs at AIV and CSD.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?

A: Writing (and improving) Daniel Terdiman and helping interventions against many vandals. I think both improved the project.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:50, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

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

A: I misinvoked WP:EVULA (felt that I was right) in continuing to revert what I felt was vandalism, and got blocked for it without notice. I was overzealous in crusading for edit summaries and in keeping discussions where they started. I have learned from my mistakes.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:50, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Phase II: Wikipedia experience

Some questions about things that you have done

Editing Experience

Have you ever:

• Written a DYK?
  • Yes, see this notice.   — Jeff G. ツ 22:13, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
• Written a good article?
  • Not that I can recall.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• Created any featured content?
  • Not that I can recall.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• uploaded an image?
  • Yes, multiple times.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• used automated tools/.js tools such as Twinkle, AWB, or Huggle?
  • Yes, all three.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• joined a Wikipedia project?
  • Yes, WP:REHAB.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• warned an editor for violating a Wikipedia policy or guideline?
  • Yes, multiple times.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Project experience

Have you ever:

• contributed to an XFD? been involved in an extended discussion on one?
  • Yes, multiple times.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• !voted in an RFA? been involved in an extended discussion on an RFA?
  • Yes and no, respectively.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 12:49, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
• contributed to WT:RFA?
  • Yes.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 12:49, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
• requested and received/been denied for Rollback?
  • Yes, received Rollback.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Dispute resolution

Have you ever:

• responded to an WP:3O or a content WP:RFC? been involved in an extended discussion on one?
  • Not that I can recall.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• opened an WP:RFC for user conduct?
  • Yes, I started a discussion there, but had to back off.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• requested a page to be protected at WP:RfPP?
  • Yes, multiple times.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• been named as a party to a request for mediation?
  • Yes, Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-04-29/Serboi (since deleted).   — Jeff G. ツ 21:05, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
• participated in a WP:MEDCOM or WP:MEDCAB mediation?
  • Not that I can recall.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• mediated or otherwise acted as a neutral party in a dispute?
  • Not that I can recall.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• participated in an extended discussion on WP:AN or WP:ANI?
  • Yes.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Conflict and misconduct

Have you ever:

• been blocked?
  • Yes, I misinvoked WP:EVULA (felt that I was right) in continuing to revert what I felt was vandalism, and got blocked for it without notice.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• been named as a party to a request for arbitration?
  • Not that I can recall.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• been the subject of an WP:RFC for user conduct?
  • Not that I can recall.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Other questions

Have you ever:

• taken a look at meta philosophies? I'm interested in knowing what philosophies you believe you adhere to.
  • I consider myself to be a moderate immediatist and a moderate statusquoist.   — Jeff G. ツ 22:29, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
• helped out on the Account Creation Toolserver Interface?
  • Yes.   — Jeff G. ツ 22:29, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
• answered a question at the help desk?
  • Yes.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 05:24, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Phase III: Administrator's reading list

Review the pages in the Administrator's reading list. Put a  Done next to each document that you have read. Put any questions you have on User talk:Jeff G./Admin coaching.

Admins are expected to have an intimate understanding of Wikipedia policy. They are also expected to consistently demonstrate comprehension of these policies. This is especially paramount regarding the use of abilities entrusted to admins which are unavailable to regular users and editors of Wikipedia.

The following items are considered highly recommended reading material. These pages detail prerequisite knowledge required by an admin:

Should already know

•  Done: Five pillars of Wikipedia
•  Done: Community foundation issues: Core principles guiding all Wikimedia projects.

General

•  Done: Administrators
•  Done: Admins' how-to guide
•  Done: Admins' noticeboard for general discussion of admin issues
  •  Done: Admins' noticeboard where 3RR violations are reported
  •  Done: Admins' noticeboard where incidents are reported
  •  Done: Wikipedia:List of policies
•  Done: New admin school

Security

•  Done: Security

Content policies

•  Done: Biographies of living persons
•  Done: Neutral point of view
•  Done: No original research
•  Done: Verifiability

Copyright

•  Done: Copyrights

Blocking

•  Done: Bans and blocks
•  Done: Banning policy
•  Done: Blocking IP addresses
•  Done: Blocking policy

Page protection

•  Done: Protection policy

Deletion

•  Done: Criteria for speedy deletion
•  Done: Deletion guidelines for administrators
•  Done: Deletion policy
•  Done: Deletion process
•  Done: Undeletion policy

Requests

•  Done: Backlogged processes requiring attention
•  Done: Changes related to Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention
•  Done:Enforcement of arbitration rulings

Vandalism

•  Done: Dealing with vandalism
•  Done: Vandalbot

Controversy

•  Done: List of controversial issues
•  Done: NPOV dispute
•  Done: Wheel war

Miscellaneous

•  Done: Advice for new Administrators
•  Done: Editing the main page
•  Done: Goals of the Adminship process
•  Done: How to fix cut and paste moves
•  Done: Image use policy
•  Done: MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
•  Done: Office Actions
•  Done: Open Proxies
•  Done: What Adminship is not

New for 2010

I am currently: a member of groups Autoconfirmed users, Autopatrolled, Reviewers, Rollbackers, and Users here on English Wikipedia; a Bureaucrat and Administrator on WiccaPedia, on The Test Wiki, and on the Admin Tools Wiki; and an Administrator on Test Wikipedia, on the English Wikimedia Labs Wiki, on the Wikimedia Labs Flagged Revisions Test Wiki, and on the Wikimedia Labs LiquidThreads Test Wiki.   — Jeff G.  ツ 21:11, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

I have also read everything on Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list and Template:New admin school.   — Jeff G.  ツ 23:36, 24 November 2010 (UTC)