Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/Girdi

+Administrator
Hello, salutations, greetings! My name is Jóhann and I'd like to join the administrator ranks/groups. I have roughly 302 edits, and I have a lot of work ahead of me on this project. My main projects can be found on my userpage, I am mainly into languages as I am a linguist, and I also am a pilot and plan on making aviation related books in the future. Noteable edits I have done are beginning the Chechen and Manx book in a nicely formatted language guide, and reformatting the Icelandic book from a big mess to at least some order for the time being.

Enough about my work, I request sysop status because I also want to get involved more with Wikibooks, and my sysop tools will come in handy especially since I am big into formatting and reformatting say the Icelandic book and in the future any other languages. Also, I'd like to assist in the speedy deletions and such. I can obviously speak efficient English.

I also have experience as a sysop on the Chechen wikipedia and Faroese wikipedia.

Cheers! --Girdi 03:07, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) [[Image:Symbol oppose vote.svg|15px]]  - Mostly copied and pasted from Girdi's talk page: Adminship is for those who need it, and will not abuse it. That means you need a thorough understanding of policy (ie knowing what is a speedy deletion, and what isn't), especially where the admin tools are concerned. You should perhaps become more active in votes for deletion discussions, and help out answering questions in the various Reading Rooms. I hope you'll continue contributing to Wikibooks as you've done in the past. My opposition is not to say that you are not a valued contributor (on the contrary, you are, and I've been noticing your work for some time now), but rather that contributions (only) are not what makes someone a good RFA candidate. Instead, it's the things I mentioned above: a clear need for the tool, and the knowledge of policy regarding how they're to be used. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 15:56, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for taking the time to participate in my request for adminship, but I would like to comment. I was rather offended by the fact you assumed I would abuse the admin rights? I am not here to hurt the Wikibook project, but only better it. If, I was given admin rights, and my contributions were taken as abuse, I would then of course be open to discussion about it rather than through a fit or something.
 * I have indeed read over the admin guides and such related material. I of course whether I get sysop or not, will continue to contribute, of course if I do not get sysop now, it is a rather small disappointment, but hey, that is why I can try again in a later point in time. :) Therefore, though I respect your vote much, Mike.lifeguard, I'd also like you to re-evaluate me, as a vote from you is highly respected as I noticed your great activity here on this great project. Again, I appreciate you taking time to vote for me still. :) Cheers. --Girdi 16:17, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * No, I definitely didn't mean to say that you would abuse the buttons. Rather, I suggested that you may not be ready to use them. I appreciate that you may have read the policies and guidelines, but I'd rather see you apply them. Again, I mentioned two good ways above (comment at WB:VFD and help out with queries at WB:RR), and a third is implicit on my note on your talk page (know what and  are for). I'm sorry it seemed as though I suggested you might abuse the buttons; that was certainly not my intention, and I don't think you would. But that's not enough. Maybe later. – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 16:33, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I saw your comment on my talk page. Sure I understand you, I just didn't want you thinking I was just some vandal or something that just wanted Adminship to be cool or what have you. I'm not like that. Hey, I tried though, just wanted to see where I was at in the community. So I learnt something from this, I will get more involved in the discussions, community, and also continue on working on my projects. ( I actually bought a shirt of Wikibooks a while ago, its great, I suggest them ^^ ). But again, I appreciate you taking time to criticise me and everything. --Girdi 17:12, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Good work recently but I think it would be best if you had more and varied edits before you considered admin tools. You have few edits in the Wikibooks mainspace for example and your interaction with users is limited to "welcomes" so far.  However please do keep up the good work and maybe return to this page in due.  Thanks -- Herby  talk thyme 16:25, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking the time and voting. Cheers. --Girdi 16:29, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I'd be willing to support this application for adminship if you were to wait a few more weeks. You are certainly keen and have a lot of productive edits to language books as well as some contribution to discussions and welcoming new users.  We also should have more multi-lingual admins as interaction between different language projects should be something we do more of.  This vote is more or less in support but I think that most other editors on Wikibooks would prefer you to have a few more edits and a bit more time on the project.  Also thanks for your work on the Manx textbook - I have told people on various Manx forums about this book so hopefully people will check it out soon as a lot of young people are trying to learn the native language at the moment. Xania [[Image:Flag_of_Italy.svg|15px]]talk 18:13, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I support what Xania said above and I'm also inclined to give support in granting you the flag. Even so for all the alterations you need to make the toolset isn't really necessary (It would reduce other people's work some). I'm far more interested in observing more interaction with other Wikibookians and in your participation on general discussion even guidelines or polices (there are several open at this moment)... --Panic 18:26, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your comments. Maybe after 24 hours, I will think of withdrawing from this vote since I do not want a rejection on my record, then re apply after the new year. :) And Xania, I am glad people are showing interest in my Manx book, I halted the project slowly because I didnt really think people would want to learn Manx, but now I have some motivation. Thanks for that (Gura mie ayd!). --Girdi 18:41, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * You do very good work here, from what I have seen. However, like many people have said above, we generally like to see admin candidates who have a longer edit history. We have had problems in the past with newly-promoted admins leaving wikibooks, or becoming disinterested, etc. What we don't want is to promote people who might not be here in a month. Demonstrate that you have long-term intentions to help and participate here, and we will have no problems with giving you the tools. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 22:01, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Sounds like a plan :) --Girdi 22:49, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * While it seems self evident you've done some good work from reading what everyone else has said about you so far, I think you need to demonstrate a need for the tools, a better understanding of the Wikibooks culture and how the tools are suppose to be used, a long term interest in helping the community out and a little more experience. You can demonstrate all of this both by participating in various community discussions and helping in various maintenance tasks as best you can.
 * If you understood Wikibooks' culture more, you would of known that rejection is not something to fear and isn't something that will effect any future decision. At first people said the same thing about me, that is being said now to you. I needed to learn more and have a little more experience with Wikibooks before I was ready. If you demonstrate all these things you are more likely to be accepted next time. Remember also if you don't understand something ask questions, its not a sign of weakness, it shows you are trying to learn. --dark lama  01:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

+Reviewer
Hello Wikibooks community! I have been a member since, oh gosh, around 2007-2008ish. I have taken about a year break but now I am slowly getting back into the groove of Wikibooks. I have finally and intensively completed my BA degree in linguistics and humanities so that is the main area I'd like to help review (eg. language books, linguistic books, literature books, so on).

I can also help out in correcting spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes as well, although that is just a typical Wikibook contributor task but still, my exposure to more Wikibook titles will give me that opportunity. I know I haven't made many edits in the past year, but I feel this is a great way to get back into the Wikibook game. I can donate much time and cooperate with other reviewers. Thank you all for your time and hope I can contribute as a reviewer. :) --Girdi (discuss • contribs) 23:36, 4 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Welcome back! What would you say to those concerned that you might need time to refamiliarize yourself with the Wikibooks community after having been gone since around early 2009?  I see you found WikiProject Languages and hopefully you'll soon take a look at the assessment page as well.  Do you expect that edits you make will be too sporadic to have the software automatically promote you? – Adrignola discuss 23:56, 4 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Adrignola, for the rewelcoming. Great to be back. Just got my hot tea and preparing for some edits like the good ol' days! :) Yes, I am suprised I hadn't taken part in the Wikiproject page before. I did infact take a look at the assessment page, and I saw there was one spot where I could request the review tools. Is this a bit different than actually becoming a reviewer, like a trial period or something similar? But sure, if the community would feel better with me reprooving myself as an active Wikibookian and letting the bot automatically upgrade me, then of course I have no problem with doing that. Just thought maybe if the community needed some extra hands and fingers in the reviews earlier I could help out. :) --Girdi (discuss • contribs) 00:05, 5 February 2011 (UTC)


 * This seems an interesting test of the automatic promotion criteria. The only reason I can think of why you haven't already been automatically promoted, from activity in the last few days, would be that perhaps the system only checks against the criteria every once in a while.  I have no idea how often the system checks against the criteria.  (Am I missing something?)  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:50, 5 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I can think of two criteria Girdi may not have satisfied yet for auto promotion. Girdi may not have set and confirmed their email address. A check of their edit history also shows Girdi rarely uses edit summaries which may also be preventing auto promotion. --dark lama  15:24, 5 February 2011 (UTC)


 * You know, I just registered my e-mail address last night. So that could be correct by Darklama.. --Girdi (discuss • contribs) 16:55, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Done, I got reviewer tools! Thanks guys! :) Great to be back. --Girdi (discuss • contribs) 01:34, 7 February 2011 (UTC)