Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Candidates/EggRoll97

Nomination

EggRoll97 (talk · contribs · they/them) – Hey everyone! I'm EggRoll97, and I joined in 2018. My activity back then was somewhat sparse, dropping off somewhat due to current world events and simply being busy outside of Wikipedia. I've made something of a comeback since about 2023 or so, and have been gnoming in the background since, finding myself doing a variety of different things, including editing filters here as an edit filter manager since April and helping out with false positives globally with the global version of EFH since a few months ago, and am fairly active in the ACC process as well. I have no alternative accounts, have never edited while logged out, and I have never edited for pay. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 04:59, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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: I'm mainly asking for the mop to view deleted revisions. Within edit filters, some vandalism is in deleted revisions, and being able to access that without needing to ask an administrator to email a copy would be helpful. I also plan to help in the AIV queue and continue doing what I'm already doing as an editor without the mop.

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

A: I would say I'm particularly proud of being able to establish WP:EFM as policy, which of course was always a collaborative effort, but I'm proud to say I took part in it.

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: I would not say I've been in any significant conflict with anyone. On the occasion that I do find myself in opposition with someone else, I've tried to make the best attempt I can to explain myself in a logical manner.

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 Trainsandotherthings

4. Your editing appears to mostly involve edit filters and gnoming, including semi-automated edits. Have you made any edits to create or substantially improve articles?

A: I did create Contraband Police (though it really is overdue for some expansion). Outside of that, no. I've added a few citations here and there, a few typo fixes if I run across them, but the rest of the pages Xtools says I have "created" are as a result of edit filter false positives or moves. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 01:00, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Optional question from Thryduulf

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

A: I wasn't really sure about going for adminship at all, personally. I've considered it a few times, but just never really had the motivation to run the gauntlet. I noticed administrator elections being discussed, and after a day or so of second-guessing myself, decided to put myself up as a candidate. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 01:07, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Optional question from Ganesha811

6. 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: Certainly. The encyclopedia's back-end alone is massive (see Template:Noticeboards, the numerous venues for requesting things like moves, deletions, undeletions, and many more). It would be entirely unrealistic of me to want to jump into areas without at least taking a silent look through what goes on (and more importantly, how the process works) before trying to participate. With the admin tools, it becomes increasingly more dangerous to just jump in, because there's a lot of buttons that admins can press that those without the bit don't have the technical ability to press, and I see it as important to be cognizant of that. I may not have answered the first bit in specifics, but the first place that comes to mind that I would be unfamiliar with is categories for discussion. I looked through it a bit at one point, and while I do have the page mover permission and could therefore feasibly move a category, I can't say I really found myself confident enough to leap in at the time. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 01:48, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Links for EggRoll97: EggRoll97 (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
Edit summary usage for EggRoll97 can be found here.

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

Please do not cast votes or issue any declarations of support/opposition here. This section is for neutral discussion. Voting will take place using SecurePoll from 25 October.

AfD record: 50.00% match rate, n of 18. 5 keep !votes to 14 delete !votes. Mildly subjective comment: Well, it's not terribly subjective to call this a "poor" AfD record. But most of these are from a while ago - the two that were in the last year both matched the result. The candidate also hasn't expressed any interest in deletion processes. So while this AfD record obviously isn't cause to recommend the candidate, it doesn't really seem like a reason for concern either. -- asilvering (talk) 02:15, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]