Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/Swift

+Administrator
I would like to nominate User:Swift for adminship. He has been an active and helpful member of the community for a few months now. He only has (by my count) about 400 edits in the span of 3 months, but there is no hard and fast rule that says an admin should have any more then that. Also, User:Swift has been primarily active in the Wikibooks: namespace, helping to discuss policy proposals. He has recently finished a project to standardize the policy/guideline templates and categories, to help keep things more organized. It is my opinion that he would make a good admin here. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 17:21, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the sign of confidence. I appreciate and accept the nomination. I don't have a great deal of admin tasks that I'm dying to dive into, but for the tasks that I've been involved in it could be an asset. Furthermore, I'd be glad to lighten a little of load on the current admin staff.
 * I recognise the problem of admins silently disappearing and though I like Wikibooks, haven't really found a niche to commit myself to (I've mostly been tinkering around though I've got a couple of things I'm contemplating). I'm happy to do so for now and don't see myself leaving anytime soon. If I do end up leaving, I'll be sure to indicate my inactivity. --Swift 02:26, 13 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Support -- he also has over 1,500 edits on wikipedia, a bot on wikipedia, and an account on meta. He's definitely got a head for project structure and organization. -- SB_Johnny | talk 17:26, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose - For now; I think he can get it in a few months. Starting at the very end of July, he hasn't been around here very long. Many admins have been active for a couple months, gotten adminship, then disappeared after losing interest in the project. I'll definitely support this after he's made a longer stay. Inactivity is a big problem here. -within focus 20:52, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Didn't we already take care of that? If he disappears, he'll be quietly desysopped a year later. (I wouldn't "strongly oppose opposing" for this reason, but a lot of our longer-term contributors have declined adminship, and I think we really could use some more help, especially if we end up having to delete a considerable portion of those 3,000+ unlicenced images (*shudder*)... that's a lot to ask of the 4 or 5 "regulars"). -- SB_Johnny | talk 21:01, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I would tend to agree with SBJohnny: we are lacking in active admins at this point, and swift has shown an interest in the boring parts of the site: the administration, etc. Especially when the de-sysopping below occurs next month, i think you will see that our lists of admins here will be pathetically small. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 21:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I figured we could both stop the possibility of admins falling into this as well as removing old ones. If he wants to help out now though, fair enough. Support. -within focus 01:40, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I certainly do understand your previous objections, and I didnt make this nomination lightly. I do agree that we can help to prevent admin disappearance by only nominating admins who show a propensity to remain active here. However, we can't seal off the doors to new admins entirely, and we do need to nominate future generations of them, lest wikibooks be left admin-less in the future. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 22:56, 15 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Support - We do need some additional people who are willing to take up the banner of being an administrator on this project, and under the policy of it "not being a big deal" and that I consider this user to be a generally trusted user and contientious contributor to Wikibooks, I would like to see him come join our fun in tackling some of the huge outstanding issues on Wikibooks, many of which unfortunately do need the use of administrator tools. --Rob Horning 21:07, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Swift has been made sysop. --Derbeth talk 14:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

-Administrator
Per policy on inactivity, Swift has no edits in [ six months] and no use of the sysop bit in a year. I have emailed Swift and posted on his talk page. Swift is a trusted and respected administrator so there is no criticism implied by this removal proposal, it is purely policy driven. Normal practice is to leave this removal request here for a month. If there's no response in that time a request will be raised at meta to remove the sysop bit. Hopefully Swift will confirm he intends to return. QU TalkQu 20:53, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Pending at meta QU TalkQu 07:24, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes_check.svg Done. – Adrignola discuss 15:23, 4 April 2012 (UTC)