Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/Kernigh

+Administrator
I'm surprised he isn't one already. Throughout all the pages I watch, he seems to be one of the most active users around. Comments are well thought out and the benefits of sysop status seem like they would be quite useful with all this action around Wikibooks. -Matt 00:51, 3 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Accepted nomination - Actually, I was planning to request adminship here soon. The two sysop abilities that I am most interested in are the ability to delete pages, and the ability to view the edit histories of recently-deleted pages. (The latter was available to all users until the devs turned it off.) I am aware that sysops have other abilities, like page protection and one-click reverts, and possibly others which I forgot. At Wikibooks, I tend to encounter useless garbage pages which I would like to be able to delete.


 * I do not have sysop status at any MediaWiki except for Lollerpedia, which contains the former Wikibooks Jokebook. However, because it is a small wiki, I have used that status only to delete two redirects after I reverted my own misspelled page move.


 * In the past, I sometimes used delete too aggressively. In particular, I would have already deleted Overcoming Procrastination, which as of now is marked vfd, and I would have deleted subpages of Introduction to Sociology that only require cleanup. Regardless of whether I become sysop here, I expect to start using tactics that other sysops use, such as marking pages vfd or contacting the user that made the page. However, if I become sysop then I will delete both garbage and transwikied pages. --Kernigh 17:59, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Votes


 * --Dragontamer
 * support --Derbeth talk 08:37, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Support You are doing an excellent job with the cleanup crew as it is. I think this is a reasonable request, and I think he will "mature" with some experience to be reasonable.  --Rob Horning 15:01, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. No big deal, and this is a trusted user. -- LV (Dark Mark) 06:46, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Support --Krischik T 13:34, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Oops, I forgot I hadnt' voted to support this yet.  --JMRyan 18:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. --Cspurrier 18:02, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Made a sysop --Derbeth talk 02:21, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Discussion
 * Kernigh has done tremendous job for Wikibooks cleanup and I even suggested him to apply for adminship few days ago. Normally I would be the first to vote for him, but his eagerness in deleting pages can be dangerous. We don't have to hurry with deleting pages as servers have lots of space, and sysops should be careful not to remove useful pages. From my own experience I know that many orphaned pages that can be thought "garbage" can become useful if, instead of deleting them, you check author's contributions and try to match the page to existing book. You could easily delete unused images when actually they might be useful at Commons. Similarly, if you delete NowCommons images or transwikied pages it may occur that copies don't have information about original authors.
 * Before I add my vote for Kernigh, I would like to hear that he will use delete function with consideration and responsibility. --Derbeth talk 22:24, 3 February 2006 (UTC)


 * The pages that I am eager to delete are garbage pages with no meaningful content that cannot be reverted to a useful version. I am not eager to delete any images, because those deletions are permanent. I am aware about the need for to leave edit histories on transwikied pages - see for example MetaWikipedia:Talk:Transwiki:Wikimania05/Index. (I made an exception for at Wikisource:Talk:The Elements of Style; the text was public domain so I credited the Wikibookian who wikified it but I did not copy the edit histories.)


 * As recently as January 2006, I interpreted WB:DP and WB:WIW together to allow for speedy deletion of copies of Wikipedia articles, and I was eager to delete such articles. I am now less eager to delete those because their deletion requires more "consideration and responsibility", and because other users have removed my delete tags from them. I now prefer to be "marking pages vfd or contacting the user that made the page" or otherwise starting a discussion in such case. --Kernigh 02:56, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

-Administrator
The below administrators 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 8 Oct 2007 and a consensus decision is not needed; this section is serving to inform the community of their de-adminship and no discussion of current policy should occur here and instead at Wikibooks talk:Administrators. 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 01:06, 8 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Request made today. -within focus 18:40, 8 October 2007 (UTC)


 * ✅ See here for the completed request. This should be archived in a few days. -within focus 17:20, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Last non-outlying edit 20 June 2006. This user has publicly announced their leaving all Wikimedia projects.