Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Candidates/Zippybonzo

Nomination

Zippybonzo (talk · contribs · they/them) – Heya, I’m Zippybonzo. I’ve been around for the best part of 3 years. My areas of focus are NPP, anti-vandalism and copyright to an extent. I recently looked again at the CCI backlog which I intend to focus my efforts on. I’m not expecting to get the backlog empty, but handling more recent cases is something that needs attention. I have never edited articles for pay, however I did participate in the Wikibench validation study, and received compensation for my time. I’ll be available for questions here throughout the remainder of the admin elections, so drop as many questions as you want below, and I’ll answer them to the best of my ability. There’s no such thing as a stupid question. Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 06:36, 8 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: I’m primarily interested because I don’t do a lot of content work, so really I want to be handling background tasks, and leave the editors who are good at content to improve articles, instead of performing maintenance tasks. I initially intend to focus on CSDs, PRODs, AIV and UAA, and branch out once I get better at copyright, to help in copyright problems and contributor copyright investigations.

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

A: I’ll split this into content and behind the scenes because my content contributions are limited and they’re not my best contributions. Content wise, a while ago I noticed GoHenry up for deletion, and I knew that it was notable, so I decided to bring it up to Start class. Behind the scenes wise, I coordinated 3 NPP backlog drives, from July 2022 through May 2023. This involved quite a bit of planning, and then a fair bit of execution.

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: Last year, around this time, I was encouraged to leave the NPP coordination team, because of how I was coordinating drives in a way that made others feel like I was barking orders. In hindsight I should've taken that as my hint that I was doing it wrong, but I didn't. Eventually I did remove myself although it was never discussed onwiki. I was honestly a little annoyed because I didn't and still don't like criticism, though nobody really does. Then, what I should've done was take a week off and reflect upon it, and looked at what I'd done, but instead I left comment. After which my activity dwindled down, until over the last few weeks I've been trying to get more active. Moral of the story I learned: If people are telling you you're doing something wrong, they're most likely right and you should take a look at yourself.

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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 Giraffer

4. Last year, you opposed 0xDeadbeef at RfA for "lack of content creation", when they had brought an article to GA status. Your (self-described) best content work is a start-class article to which you made six edits and currently have 1.9% authorship of. Given your respective content records, why do you believe you should be made an admin, but (at the time) believed 0xDeadbeef should not?

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Optional question from Trainsandotherthings

5. You have expressed interest in focusing on CCI. You were recently asked to be more careful in your work in this area. How have you been taking this on board?

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Optional question from Novem Linguae

6. Can you talk a bit about your 30 minute block in 2021? It was reversed by the same admin that placed it with the message "AGF", so it appears it might have been erroneous?

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Optional question from Thryduulf

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

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Optional question from Ganesha811

8. 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?

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Discussion

• Links for Zippybonzo: Zippybonzo (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
• Edit summary usage for Zippybonzo 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.

• For Q4, Zippybonzo's work with NPP means that they know good (and bad) content where they see it. I'm not sure if 0xdeadbeef had similar activity in processes so closely tied to content. (t · c) buidhe 00:50, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

  @Buidhe, in 2024, Zippybonzo has seemingly patrolled 34 pages. Of those pages, only five were in article space. (Of the remaining 29, 25 were redirects, and 4 were in user, draft, and project space.) Looking at all their 303 patrols, and that ratio seems remarkably consistent. I'm not analysing that, however, because they're not running on their content knowledge- but I don't think saying that they're heavily involved in processes involving content based on the fact that they've reviewed five articles in this past year is going to be persuasive. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 03:03, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

AfD record: 80.00% match rate, n of 25. 3 keep !votes to 24 delete !votes. Mildly subjective comment: they have only participated in 3 AfDs in the past year, but they express an interest in deletion process (CSD and PROD). -- asilvering (talk) 01:59, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Personal comment: I'm concerned about a candidate who expresses interest in deletion processes but has so little experience in them. These two recent AfDs [1], [2], which are 2/3 of the AfDs they've !voted in in the past year, don't inspire confidence. Their PROD log only has four items, but may have been turned off? (Nothing wrong with not keeping a log.) Their CSD log has not been turned off, but there are only ten items in the last year. -- asilvering (talk) 01:59, 22 October 2024 (UTC)