Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Candidates/DoubleGrazing

Nomination

DoubleGrazing (talk · contribs · they/them) – Hi All, I'm DoubleGrazing. I registered my account 18 years ago, but only did occasional edits until about 5 years ago when I started getting increasingly active, and now a significant chunk of my spare time is spent here on Wikipedia.

I've created over 200 articles, although these days mainly spend my time at AfC, with a bit of NPP on the side, which then inevitably leads me also to AfD, SPI, dealing with copyvios and vandalism, etc. From all that, I send a lot of work to our already-overworked admins, and that's the reason I'm putting myself forward for the mop, so that I can start hopefully reducing the work load in those areas rather than just always adding to them.

I think I have a reasonably good understanding of most areas of policy and practice. One relative weakness is 'short-termism', in the sense that although my account is fairly old, I've only really been active for a few years, so lack the long view and depth of experience of behind-the-scenes work that more established editors have. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 16:26, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Self-nom... so yeah. :)

Please disclose whether you have ever edited Wikipedia for pay. Never have done, never will.

Questions for the candidate

Dear candidate, thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia as an administrator. Please answer these questions to provide guidance for participants:

1. Why are you interested in becoming an administrator?

A: Admin backlogs are a perennial problem, and because of what I mostly do, I'm conscious that I'm constantly contributing to them, so I thought I should stop being part of the problem and become part of the solution – pick up a mop and bucket, and roll up my sleeves, in other words! I would start slowly, in the areas I'm already familiar with, as I like to know what I'm doing and not rush into things. And I would naturally welcome feedback and corrections, and ultimately be open to recall, if folks didn't feel I was doing it right.

2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?

A: I don't know about best, but I'm maybe most pleased about the fact that approx ⅓ of the articles I've created have been women's biographies, as part of the WikiProject Women in Red. I've not even tried to pursue GA/FA status for the articles I've created, and consequently only have one GA to my name, 1987 Viking Sally murder; I guess that must also therefore count among my 'best contributions' in some ways.

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

A: In AfC/NPP reviewing, one inevitably comes into contact with editors who are less than happy about their draft being declined or new article moved to drafts etc., but I try to explain what I've done, and more importantly why, and this usually helps avoid conflicts (although I expect admins experience much more such interactions, and this is something I've considered before nomming myself). I haven't got into edit wars and similar conflicts; I usually try to follow the WP:BRD approach. Occasionally I've had to resort to ANI on behavioural issues, but luckily such instances have been few and far between. So no, I've not been in any major conflicts. IRL, I cope with stress pretty well, and would like to think I can handle any stress that adminship brings, also.

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You may ask optional questions below. There is a limit of two questions per editor. Multi-part questions are disallowed, but you are allowed to ask follow-up questions related to previous questions.

Optional question from Thryduulf

4. Why did you choose to seek adminship via election rather than via a standard RFA?

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Optional question from Ganesha811

5. Are there any areas of adminship you do not plan to participate in, due to unfamiliarity or lack of technical knowledge? If you later decided you wanted to help in these areas, what would be your plan to become an effective admin in those areas?

A:

Optional question from Asilvering

6. What got you into AfC and what do you enjoy the most about it?

A:

Discussion

• Links for DoubleGrazing: DoubleGrazing (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for DoubleGrazing can be found here.

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Please keep discussion constructive and civil. If you are unfamiliar with the nominee, please thoroughly review their contributions before commenting.

• As a fellow AfC reviewer, DoubleGrazing is a name I see often. In their reviews, they tend to post informative comments for the submitters. Ca ^{talk to me!} 00:21, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
• I frequently find pages tagged G11 by the candidate that can be salvaged by removing a paragraph or section or two. Draft:Velur Service Co-operative Bank Ltd (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) is a recent example I happen to remember. —Cryptic 01:01, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

  I've noticed the same (I declined that one, after all), but I think that's a function of volume to at least some extent: User:DoubleGrazing/CSD log. A lot of their G11 tags even result in blocks for the submitting editors. I can also say I've had the experience of declining and cleaning up something that they CSD'd, only for the original editor to return and make everything even worse. (I recall getting a wry "asilvering, you sure about that?" ping. Point for DoubleGrazing.) -- asilvering (talk) 02:48, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

AfD record: 89.50% match rate, n of 447. 14 keep !votes to 431 delete !votes. Mildly subjective comment: only one result hasn't gone their way in 2024, and it was a "draftify" instead of the voted-for "delete"; many of these deletes (226!) are nominations from doing NPP work; this is a very good AfD record. -- asilvering (talk) 02:36, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Personal comment: the delete % is extremely high, even if the nominations are removed, but they're extremely accurate delete !votes and I'm not worried about this; I have to go back a full year to find the first AfD where the candidate !voted delete and the outcome was keep. -- asilvering (talk) 02:36, 22 October 2024 (UTC)