Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/German Men92

+Administrator
Since I have been at Wikibooks I have helped many language books grow, and not just German, even though it is my strong point. I have helped the Russian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Greek, Dutch, and Wikijuniors' Language Wikibooks. Whenever I see or notice vandalism, I always revert it. I believe I am very trustworthy. It might seem I'm one-minded (I only edit language books), but that is one of my strongest points, and something I'm interested in. I have very much experice with wiki, near 1,000 edits in Wikibook and 600 edits in Wikipedia. I'm also good with creating layouts or new website designs. Even though I've had some trouble with images, I have learned my problems and now, for the most part, only use images from Wikicommons. Thank for your votes, good or bad.

Discussion
 * I've looked over German Men92's contribs pretty closely, comparing dozens of diffs. They're highly concentrated in the German Wikibook and the German entry for Wikijunior Languages, with a few light edits to other pages, mostly their cover pages. Regarding his interest in admin-type tasks thus far, I counted only two vandalism reverts, no vandalism in progress reportings, no VfD, not much discussion of Wikibooks policies. I disagree with his choice to make new and graphically intensive cover pages rather than linking directly to Contents pages, but to his credit his edits have been very consistent since his first one in December. I'm holding off voting for now, but wanted to add to the discussion.  -- Everlong 01:16, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * My guess is that German Men92 would revert more vandalism if other users like myself did not catch it quicker. --Kernigh 04:41, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Talking about that, I think the IRC channel should get a little more publicity. It is kinda hard for me to find it at times... (yeah, I should bookmark it or something but I dunno much IRC) --Dragontamer 17:41, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Why do you want administrative tools? It's great that you are enthusiastic about writing content, but I don't see that you're hindered by not having the tools. You've only made a handful of revisions and you can make those with three mouse-clicks anyway. Do you even need any of the other tools? You've only mentioned revisions and that can be done easily without the tools. I would support this if I saw that you were trying to help and were being held back or limited in any way, but you're essentially not doing anything now besides write content. This sort of looks like a trophy for an active editor. -Matt 01:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I want administrative tools, becuase I can help wikibooks grow and become more popular. I've restained from really helping, becuase the errors and things that notice, that I could help with sysop rights. And I also even't reverted many pages with vandalism, becuase I only see little times. Even thought I'm not going to stop expanding German, I'm getting tired of it, and now I want to help Wikibooks itself, not just the books in it. --German Men92 20:04, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I appreciate your eagerness, but I think that every candidate should pass a "tryout" period first, when he or she does the same tasks as normal administrator. You don't need to have specials permissios to do most of things mentioned in Wikibooks maintenance (you don't neccessarily have to fight vandalism) and discuss some project-wide issues. Also, if you could show cases when you helped organising a book (for example, by taking part in discussion about a book), this would be a plus for you. It's easier to support somebody's request if you know how this person acts not only as a book author, but also as a "manager" and "cleaner". I think you made this request a bit too early. --Derbeth talk 20:36, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

It has been a week, and now I'm just waiting for Derbeth to make it 100% offical now. --German Men92 00:13, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Votes
 * Support Having reviewed German Men92's contributions, he looks like a trustworthy Wikibookian, I'm sure he'll use the mop sensibly, Jguk 22:44, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support I agree with Jguk, --Kernigh 04:41, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support We can always use some additional help with administrator tasks. Accepting the administrator privileges does not require an obligation of using them all of the time, and often you can deal with vandalism just in the course of looking at your watch list or whatever page you happen to be editing at the time.  Adminship is not supposed to be that big of a deal, and mainly if you can be trusted not to abuse the extra options like page deletion or abusing protected pages, helping out on occasion as time permits.  Participation in policy pages is not a prerequisite.  --Rob Horning 16:32, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Same reasons as Robert, except imagine that I said it better than he did :-) --Dragontamer 17:39, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support --Everlong 05:50, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral German Men92 has done a wonderful job in German book, but I think it's time to get a bit more interested in community issues when you are requesting for adminship. I don't see any activity of German Men92 in Wikibooks: namespace, except BOTM vote. I'm not sure if he knows our policies well and he still has problems with images licenses. --Derbeth talk 16:14, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support He wants to help, he has nothing bad on his record...I can't really think of any other qualification that is needed. His scope might be a little myopic, but I would rather have administrators and contributers who make a big difference on a small project, then make an almost unnoticable difference across the whole project. --Whiteknight (talk) (current) 22:09, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose - His response to my question above pretty much locked it for me. If he were actually hindered this may be acceptable but he doesn't have a need for the tools right now. He should come back later once he's actually tried the long way and would like to be more efficient. -Matt 14:47, 12 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Made sysop --Derbeth talk 20:39, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

-Administrator
The below administrators / bureaucrats have been inactive for one year or longer besides a few spare edits. These users have been contacted on their talk page as well as e-mailed if possible to inform them of this process. All users listed below will have their sysop rights removed on 21 Dec 2006 and a consensus decision is not needed; this section is serving to inform the community of their de-adminship. Should a nominated admin come back and contest the nomination, some discussion may occur and the once-admin will be able to re-apply for adminship at a later date. -within focus 03:03, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * User:TUF-KAT has already been alerted, and has stated he accepts this on my talk page. I have sent messages to User:Aya on his wikipedia and meta account pages during the last de-adminship, and have not yet heard a response (i think he is MIA). I thought I had sent messages to the others as well, but I can't seem to find record of that so I will send them again. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 03:14, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * A request for de-adminship for these users has been made at Meta. -within focus 18:06, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The below users have had their rights removed. This will be archived shortly. -within focus 16:10, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

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