Meta:Requests for adminship/Improv

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a closed Meta-Wiki request. Please do not modify it.

Improv

I'm Pat Gunn, an administrator on the english Wikipedia. On Meta, I presently maintain the LSS summary of the foundation-l mailing list, and primarily want adminship here to be able to easily be able to delete/maintain pages relating to that project. I'm willing to take part in housekeeping on Meta as well, as needed, and have considerable experience doing so in the years that I've been active on EN. My link verifying my identity on EN is visible as the link from my userpage there to my userpage on meta - if more is needed along these lines let me know. --Improv 06:11, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Korg + ⁺ 15:56, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Familiar name on EN wiki. Good record. Zephyr2k 16:29, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Marbot 17:59, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support thoroughly. — Dan | talk 22:47, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Naconkantari 00:23, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
~~Abstain~~ As a Wikiquotes admin, I cannot support people seem not to be aware Wikipedia is not the sole project of Wikimedia Foundation as meta admin candidate. There is no good reason for English Wikipedia to monopoly its language cord as its abbraviation. Since Meta is the place for coordination of every Wikipedia project, meta admins are highly required to notice what is Wikimedia project; consumation of different interests rather than multilingual Encyclopedia. --Aphaia 06:39, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I was of the understanding that the interwiki name for wikis was the common way to refer to them in abbreviation across the Wikimedia projects. My apologies if this led to a misunderstanding - while my editing interests primarily lie with the encyclopedia projects, they're not exclusively there (as I'm on meta and I'm interested, thanks to a good conversation with GerardM, in ways to make commons more useful to non-English speakers). Is the interwiki name not a safe bet? Should I say ENWiki instead? --Improv 13:01, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thank you for your comment, however I still cannot understand you think "wiki" is the best abbraviation for a certain project; is there any project amoung us which isn't powered by MediaWiki? --Aphaia 10:29, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - I don't think it's necessarily the best, simply that it's what people call it. I don't think that calling Linux Linux means that I necessarily disrespect Richard Stallman's work in not calling it GNU/Linux - it's just a name, it's the most commonly used one, and anything else is a mouthful. I don't mean any disrespect to any other project by phrasing it that way. --Improv 15:13, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      - I believe it is just a bad habbit, using just EN, or even sometime people call the whole project as Wikipedia. I guess, it comes from because enwp is the first project of WMF. But of course we (insiders) should be carefull. Anyways, I believe, Improv, as an old member of this community, also clearly knows what WMF and Meta is and it represents a lot of projects in various languages. I would call this mistake just as a fast typing. But I also believe that, what Aphaia is doing is very important. We should point this problem everytime we see and clean the wrong habbits: EN=Wikimedia or Wikipedia=Wikimedia :) --Dbl2010 16:46, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
        Thanks Dbl2010. I would add that - not considering English Wikipedia but here on meta - it is not our habit to call English Wikipedia as simply En. En is rather abbraviation of English language mainly for cooridination purposes. And as Wikiquoter I need to say his attitude is very discouraging and even hostile. I would like to add at conferences I heard from some small projects' editors "I hate people who says Wikipedia, Wikipedia. And always they mean only English Wikipedia." I am really dissapointed. If he is stick to his habit, I feel I need to change my previous vote. --Aphaia 02:38, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
        I will do my best to correct it. Hopefully EN-WP is appropriate - feel free to remind me if I slip up. No offense or slight is meant. Take care. --Improv 03:15, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your understanding ;-) Then support. --Aphaia 07:14, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. — Timi chal 11:12, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Utcursch 12:16, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lets improve. --Dbl2010 16:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Oppose --Harleywood 02:39, 16 October 2006 (UTC) Invalid vote, see Special:Contributions/Harleywood. guillom 15:50, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sysop rights granted.: --M/ 22:59, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]