Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Candidates/Pbritti

Nomination

Pbritti (talk · contribs · he/him) – Hi, I'm Pbritti! I've been editing since 2018 and have generally focused on material related to Colorado, Virginia, and Christianity. Most of my contributions have been to mainspace content, particularly within the over 60 articles I've created. I firmly believe in Wikipedia's mission to freely distribute accurate and encyclopedic information on every notable subject and credit this mission with my decision to become a schoolteacher for my career. ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:46, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Self-nomination. ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:47, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Please disclose whether you have ever edited Wikipedia for pay.

I have never and will never edit Wikipedia for financial/material compensation. ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:46, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

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: Multiple editors have reached out to me off-project about considering adminship, generally due to my experience in content creation and non-admin administrative tasks. I've declined in the past. This was initially due to my own concerns about my level of experience and maturity, while more recently it has been due to off-project commitments. However, personal developments have made me more confident and comfortable moving forward with this. As an admin, I would want to focus on addressing vandalism, page protections, and (once I have enough experience) unblock requests. I would also consider helping with AfD/PROD closing/page deletion.

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

A: My first major contribution was Colorado Coalfield War. It failed GA twice, but it taught me that I need to cooperate with other editors, even when I'm the primary editor on a particular article. Since then, I've done my best to embrace the best of Wikipedia's content policies in Book of Common Prayer (Unitarian) (one of the eight GAs I've work on) and Free and Candid Disquisitions (my only FA), as well as my articles on architecture. A more complete (if somewhat dated!) account of my content work is visible here. My work untangling a few messy piles of sockpuppets also remains a point of pride.

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: Definitely. Perhaps the most frustrating was this one from June 2023. I was newly granted NPP permissions and made poorly considered draftifications. Instead of acknowledging the guidance of more experienced editors, I pushed back and got burned (I deserved that!). It took me a longer than it should have to learn that my ego should not get in the way of Wikipedia's mission. Since then, I have become increasingly willing to defer binary disputes to broader resolution processes and accept early suggestions of compromises. A recent dispute that !voters might want to review can be found here.

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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?

A: A mixture of timing and encouragement. An admin reached out to me about three months ago about contemplating a standard RfA and I deferred at that point due to some (very positive!) developments in my private life. At the outset of the self-nom stage in the election process, multiple other editors who had asked me to consider adminship in the past encouraged me to try the election process. Upon reading the procedure for the election system, looking at my calendar, and considering concern about a lack of admins to counter abusive editing, I decided this was as good a time as any to place myself before my peers as a possible mop-wielder. ~ Pbritti (talk) 01:30, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

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: I'm no computer whiz and still occasionally flub when I'm supposed to use a substituted template, so the more code-intensive side of the project just isn't for me. If I did become involved, it would probably take the shape of gradual improvement to my familiarity without the use of any admin tools until I could find a mentor or get some oversight, and even then it would be limited. Great question. ~ Pbritti (talk) 01:42, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Discussion

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

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