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Fluffernutter

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Nomination

Fluffernutter (talk · contribs) – Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce Fluffernutter, formerly known as Chaoticfluffy, for your consideration as an administrator. Her record in her few years here is a user who has grown, and whose abilities and knowledge of policy have developed over the years. I first ran into her in the early part of this year, and I have seen her work, on-wiki, and as an OTRS agent, where I have seen her handle BLP subject's communications with a deft touch. Her content work is good, with two GA's, one she essentially rebuilt foundationally, one that she created. She has become adept at the unseen work around here, anti-vandalism, gnoming away small mistakes that creep into so many articles in ref formatting, keeping an eye on incoming spam and potential BLP issues. After watching her work for a few months, giving advice and guidance where I can, I'm confident she can be trusted with access to the sysop's tool kit. I hope you'll agree. Courcelles 03:34, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: I accept this nomination, and hope the community will see fit to allow me to start swabbing the decks. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 15:58, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

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

1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?

A: I am, and probably always will be, a gnome at heart. I enjoy those small tasks that have to get done but don't get done with any fanfare, and I enjoy being able to work on the sidelines providing support that keeps things spinning along smoothly. As a function of this, if I become an admin you'll probably find me working in the trenches on WP:AIV and Category:Misplaced Pages protected edit requests, as well as cleaning up redirects left after the file moves I and others do for areas like Misplaced Pages:Database reports/Largely duplicative file names. I would also expect to use my tools in the course of my OTRS work, which would call for occasional revision deleting, page protection, and blockings of problematic users.

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

A: I am, unsurprisingly, quite proud of my two GAs, Kaycee Nicole (re-written from the ground up) and Beefsteak (banquet) (which I created). However, I also take quite a bit of pride in my more gnomish tasks, such as the work I do in keeping Category:Pages with missing references list under control and the pages I've pulled from Special:longpages and split into more manageable articles.

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 don't tend to be a conflict-prone person, but no one can operate on Misplaced Pages for any length of time without finding themselves in the middle of conflict whether they like it or not. The two events that stick out in my mind with regard to conflict are the recent kerfuffle on Talk:Harold Covington, in which I disagreed with another user's decision to blank most of a BLP, even portions which I believed to be sourced and neutrally-phrased; and the time I was accused of sockpuppetry. The latter is, I will say, the closest I've ever come to losing my cool on Misplaced Pages, but I think I managed to maintain my calm. In general, my strategy toward conflict is to state my case as clearly as I can and then back away while the other person tries to do the same; I believe that disengaging, at least for a while, is often the best solution to anything that has people's backs up, because in the heat of the moment positions become entrenched and any hope of compromise or understanding becomes minimized.

Additional question from Keepscases

4. Misplaced Pages implements a feature in which every time you make an edit, you face a 1 in 10,000 chance of exploding. This only applies to you, and no one else will ever know about it. How often do you edit Misplaced Pages going forward?

A: Well, given how hard the Foundation is working to retain editors, that would certainly be an unfortunate feature to implement, and I'd probably start an RfC on the issue, and then bump it up to the Foundation/developers if the community failed to reach a consensus. On the other hand, at least my choice would only hurt me. Even so, however, as much as I love Misplaced Pages, I do tend to love being alive more, so I would unfortunately have to stop editing and find a new pastime if such a feature (though surely it's better labelled a "bug" if it kills people!) were implemented and my appeals landed on deaf ears.

Additional question from jorgenev

5. How does the notability guideline serve the five pillars of Misplaced Pages?

A: Our notability standard really feeds into multiple pillars. The first pillar, that Misplaced Pages is an encyclopedia, means that we're not a soapbox or an advertising venue, and we're not an indiscriminate collection of information. Including a topic which isn't notable would weaken this pillar, leaving us as a collection of not-necessarily-notable-or-important information, not an encyclopedia. In addition, the second pillar calls for Misplaced Pages to be neutral. Neutrality in the context of an encyclopedia calls for third-party sources on which to base our coverage; without reliable sourcing available to verify information, we cannot be assured of neutrality, and the concept of notability is important as a feeder into verifiability, because a topic that's non-notable is likely to be extremely difficult to verify. A topic which isn't notable isn't likely to be verifiable, and any coverage we give to a topic which isn't verifiable cannot be relied upon to be neutral.

5.1 Do you think that WP:NOT#NEWS serves the five pillars?

A: Misplaced Pages is not a newspaper, the first pillar tells us that. We don't exist to report on the wide range of one-off topics that newspapers and news agencies often cover, because many such events would fail our notability guidelines. Reporting news events may also run afoul of the second pillar, in that breaking news is often difficult to represent neutrally due to the piecemeal fashion in which it comes out.

General comments

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

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

Discussion

• Stats are now on the talk page. Logan _Talk 16:05, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Support

1. Support Shows hard work and dedication to the community (OTRS volunteering, attending Wikimania, being an IRC op), great content work, would absolutely trust Fluffernutter with the tools. —Tom Morris (talk) 16:06, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
2. Support Obviously. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 16:25, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
3. Support No reason to think they'll misuse the tools. FeydHuxtable (talk) 16:37, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
4. Support Keepscases (talk) 16:38, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
5. Support Her résumé speaks for itself. Although the nom from Courcelles certainly doesn't hurt. --Alan the Roving Ambassador (User:N5iln) (talk) 17:04, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
6. Support Most definitely! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 17:04, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
7. Strong support - (Default for OTRS agents. ;] ) Reaper Eternal (talk) 17:10, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
8. Support - I see no problems. James500 (talk) 17:24, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
9. Suppport Happily. /Julle (talk) 17:26, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
10. Support - Fluffernutters are tasty sandwiches. And Fluffernutter would make a great admin. Her experience is very diverse, she has great content contributions, fantastic communication skills, and I've seen her make reasoned policy decisions in noticeboard discussions. -- Atama頭 17:43, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
11. Enthusiastic Support Not only is Fluffernutter the best gnome I've personally seen on Misplaced Pages, she has a rare knack for breaking down Special:LongPages into more manageable daughter articles, and has been a (much needed) calming voice of sanity in the en.wikipedia IRC channel for years. I couldn't think of a more qualified candidate for adminship than Fluffernutter! —NickDupree (talk) 17:46, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
12. Support. Very well-qualified. Good luck!--EdwardZhao (talk) 17:47, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
13. Support No concerns Jebus989 17:50, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
14. Support - Everything looks good to me. The Utahraptor/_Contribs 17:51, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
15. Support as nom. Courcelles 17:56, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
16. Support Why not? -FASTILY 17:59, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
17. Strong support - Having known Fluff for several months now, mostly off-wiki, I am confident that she will make a fine administrator. I trust her with a lot of my own personal information, as she is someone I feel comfortable confiding in about personal matters, so I have no doubt she can be trusted with both the tools and sensitive information (also shown by OTRS access) that comes with adminship. Also, she invested a great amount of money and time to travel from the US to Israel for Wikimania (for which she was a speaker), which indicates to me how seriously she views the project and her work within it. Lara 18:07, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
18. Support Puffin 18:24, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
19. Support - Fully qualified. Swarm 18:31, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
20. Support: I can think of no one more qualified for the tools. Topher385 (talk) 18:48, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
21. Support per my observation of work at OTRS and per a short review of randomly selected contributions. I'm sure that both within and outside of OTRS requests, she will make constructive use of the tools. --joe decker 19:04, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
22. Strong support no brainer. PumpkinSky talk 19:45, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
23. Strong support - An excellent candidate for a mop. Panyd 20:13, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
24. Support. Hey! You forgot to tell me you were up for Admin! Harumph. Well, I'm crashing your party anyway to support. – Quadell 20:23, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

    lol, I'm sorry, I've been so het up about just getting my feet under me on this that I forgot to send up the bat signal! A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 20:36, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

25. Support sure. ThemFromSpace 20:44, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
26. Support in January, Fluffernutter helped resolve a slightly heated (if extremely minor) conflict at St. Bernard (dog); the assistance was hugely helpful, and looking through the last several months of contributions this seems to be a pattern. Wholehearted support. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 22:14, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
27. Om nom nom delirious & lost ☯ 22:37, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
28. About bloody time! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:06, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
29. Support. Fluffernutter has my support here, and I apologise for any problems my question may have caused. In hindsight, it was inappropriate, although I meant no harm from it. The Cavalry (Message me) 23:32, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
30. Support Absolutely, get a new mop ready.  Ronhjones  23:53, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
31. Sure, happy to support. Steven Zhang 00:00, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
32. How could anyone not support? Pile on support Egg Centric 00:02, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
33. Support well-rounded, well-qualified--Hokeman (talk) 00:05, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
34. support in no wat dimmed by any query from my fellow tool...er Arb Elen of the Roads (talk) 00:07, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
35. Support, particularly in thanks to the opportunity to confirm that even a pigs bladder on a stick can get elected to ArbCom. Ironholds (talk) 00:11, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral