User:Ktr101/temp1

I accept this nomination from User: and User:.

Over the past 21 months, I have been able to experience all the things that Wikipedia has to offer. I've started my edits by originally creating pages that were simple stubs, and have gone from there to get 102nd Intelligence Wing nominated to Good Article status.

Originally I was one of the many plagarizers of the site, and looking back at it, I never should have plagarized. On the plus side of that action, I have become better at citations. I am also one who backs up all that I write. Because of this, I have never intentionally written in anything that could be taken the wrong way or is false, as I know that that is never looked highly upon here.

I would like to finish up by stating that I will be willing to discuss things on the talk page of this nomination.

Question 1 Answer:

As an administrator, I intend to take part in tasks that come up. I don’t want to state that I will specifically do x, y, and z, because then it takes the fun out of editing. As an administrator, I want to help speed things up around here, as well as continuing what I am currently doing. This comes out of me noticing that speedy deletions aren’t always that speedy. This is necessarily a bad thing, but that’s what happens when there are 1,600 administrators here for over 10 million users.

I have a few ideas that I would like to implement should I become an administrator. One of these is maybe having an administrator urgent notice board. I know that there is an adminstrator noticeboard, but there are some situations where urgent attention is needed. For example, if a user is vandalizing a page and some user wants to stop this, they have to either post it on the board or find an active administrator who will swiftly deal with the situation. There is also no guarantee that there will be an active administrator when the probability of them being online is figured out. I believe that if we had a "bells and whistles" urgent notice, like the kind that pops up when there is a new message, then there might be a bit less backup on this site and this could raise the public image of administrators throughout the project. I think that that would be a great addition to the site, and I would enjoy being an active participant in it.

Question 2 Answer:

This is a hard question. Having made many edits on this site, I really cannot decide my best edit. In past RFAs, I had said that I had taken pride in my Air National Guard pages, but the truth is, I really am proud of all of them. This is because I passionately edit the site through good health and bad (try editing with a fever), and I have only regretted the edits that I made within the first few weeks here, when I pretty much plagarized things off the web. As those times are long past, I am looking into the future realizing that I have many more edits to go here. I will always love my work, because otherwise I would've stopped working on this site months ago. In the end, my best work is that with which I have done careful research for, and which has provided the base for many great articles.

Question 3 Answer:

Edit conflicts are a pain, but they are also a learning experience. I rarely encounter these conflicts, as I edit fairly stable pages. The most recent one that I encountered was when I was trying to add information on Michael Jackson's death, and a combination of the site crashing because of the traffic and the multitude of editors with information made this rather stressful. Because I am normally a laid back person, I was able to just sigh when I learned that all of my edits were erased, and I began to rewrite what was just lost.

About a year ago, I was tinkering around with the Air National Guard by state template when I noticed that there was a dead link to that of New York. When I clicked on the link, I was directed to New York State Air National Guard. Apparently, one editor thought that it would be a great idea to move the state of New York page to New York State. Although I was never part of the discussion on the talk page for the move, I objected to the move and I even notified an administrator about the controversy. The administrator eventually reverted the edit in question, and all became well.

I believe that conflicts can be avoided by good communication between well-meaning users, and this can help to keep the site sane. Otherwise, there is the potential for chaos to be born.