User:Lar/sandbox/AdminStatus

Requests for Adminship, in chronological order by nomination, newest at bottom. Successful unless otherwise stated.

Nominated in 2004

(first request appears to be initiated September 8th 2004: Grunt succeeded 19:05, Sep 15)

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===Grunt Ends 19:05, Sep 15===	 

I'm a sysop on w:en who would very much like to see this project get off the ground so that I can start adding things of my own here. I am strongly opposed to vandalism and indeed conflict of any sort, and we could probably use a sysop or two in these early days to help things get off the ground. -- Grunt 19:05, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Support

• Passed the test of realising Commons:Adminstrators was spelt wrong. ;) Also a great sysop on en. Angela 22:13, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Sure why not. Anthony 22:43, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• I believe we need a first admin here, so we have someone to bug ;) Waerth 18:08, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Have fun, this will be a much different job than being a wikipedia administrator! GerardM 21:33, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Rob Hooft 21:53, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Comments

Waerth's comment suggests that we will need a first bureaucrat here, too... -- Grunt 22:21, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

, status removed, no edit since 23 April 2005, 1 edit in the last 12 months (as of 07:38, 30 November 2005)

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===Andre Engels (ends September 16)===	 

I'm a Steward, a sysop on nl: and fy:, and a former sysop (stepped down voluntarily) on en:. I also am a longtime Wikipedia contributor (since March 2001), and one of the initiators of Wikicommons.

Support

• Shizhao
• Already a steward. Anthony 02:02, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• GerardM 05:53, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Waerth 06:04, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC) Jeez you're everywhere :)
• U'r always positive - TeunSpaans 07:22, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Support. I suggest Andre is also made a bureaucrat here. Angela 15:35, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Bemoeial 21:50, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Shin-? T 13:17, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Zeno Gantner 21:44, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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===Oldak Quill Ends 07:00, Sep 17===	 

I am a sysop on en: who has worked hard to get this project off the ground since May. I would hope to better the project and its community.

Support

• Has shown himself willing to be active for WikiCommons. - Andre Engels 08:26, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Waerth 10:03, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Sure. Anthony 23:20, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• It is important to have a en: person here as well !! GerardM 12:36, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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===Yann Ends 20:00, Sep 17===	 

I am an active contributor and sysop on fr: and I would like to help here, doing also maintenance tasks whenever needed.

Support

1. Support. Having worked with Yann on the Mandrake DVD, I know he is well aware of the issues surrounding image licensing etc which would be a great asset to this project. Angela 10:54, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
2. Why not? Anthony 23:20, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
3. Yann helped me a lot checking the pics on french wp, I think he should be sysop on commons Tipiac 06:37, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
4. With such a pedigree, how can I but support ?? GerardM 12:32, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
5. Zeno Gantner 21:44, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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• Ausir - I'm a sysop at Polish Wikipedia, and I want to work on moving Polish free graphics resources here, and translating Commons stuff
  • support
    --tsca 15:41, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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• Ilyanep 00:18, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC) - I'm a sysop and a bureaucrat at the English wiki -- and would like to request bureaucrat (or at least sysop) status at commons so I can help out with the transition to commons.
  • Support -- Chris 73 16:01, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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• tsca - sysop at PL-Wiki, sysop and bureaucrat at PL-Wiktionary. In PL-Wiki I'm very involved in everything concerning images and graphic resources (spotting cpyvios, tagging images, organising 'featured photo' votes, initiating discussions on our © policies, etc). I intend to actively work on collaboration b/PL-Wiki and Commons.
  --tsca 15:41, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC) ** support Ausir 14:36, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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==Chris_73==	 

I am an administrator at the english Wikipedia (see: en:User:Chris 73), and especially active related to images. Hence I currently expand my image related activities to the commons, for which admin rights would be very helpful. Thanks -- Chris 73 04:39, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• I don't know Chris, but he seems like a good candidate. - Andre Engels 11:58, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• I support Chris (based on what he's already done on Commons); one remark: admins should have a local talk page, not a redir. - tsca
  • No problem, Talk page is local again -- Chris 73 22:38, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Good job. Admins are more needed here than on any other projects. villy 15:20, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Good candidate. I thought I had already voted... Nadavspi 19:37, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• --Javier Carro 22:51, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC) He's working very well.
• Support, seems to me also a very good candidate. Greatpatton 19:28, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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==Nadavspi==	 

Since (hopefully) commons will begin to grow at a faster pace, now that it has been activated on all wikis, and I really enjoy doing maintenance work, I figured I'd put up a request. I love the idea behind Commons, and I'm trying to become more involved in the media side, especially with my dad's photography. Nadavspi 01:49, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Support. Good job too. Admins are more needed here than on any other projects. villy 15:20, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

, status removed, no edit since 20 February 2005, 45 edits in the last 12 months (as of 07:38, 30 November 2005)

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==Aurevilly==	 

French. I am indeed interested in being administrator & bureaucrat on this project (because I think sysophood should be given here more easily than in other projects, considering the need, and sometimes the legal need to delete copyrighted material) . I am sysop on Fr and meta, besides being an editor at Foundation web site. Working in the legal area, my main hobby has to do with design and pictures. For instance, I created from scratch the Wikimedia Quarto cover and designed a substantiel part of the newsletter itself. Trying to have this kind of central repository is a very exciting challenge in which I intend to contribute significantly. Thank you. villy 21:31, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Yes, of course. Yann 21:38, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Of course, Villy has been a lot of help to me when tagging pics on french for copyrights questions. Tipiac 21:57, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Yes. Looks like a great candidate. Nadavspi 22:03, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support, good work. -- Chris 73 15:45, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Greatpatton 09:16, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• C'est le meilleur... Anthere 21:33, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC) (obligée de le mettre en français, pour me conserver le féminin).
• --Javier Carro 22:51, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC) A good candidate.
• support Phe 00:16, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• support (bien sûr) Vincent Ramos 22:35, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• support, just because he is who he is ;) [[User:Notafish|notafish }<';>]] 23:03, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

, dismissed his status, see his reason: [1]

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==Greatpatton==	 

I'm mainly active on the french wikipedia where I have the status of administrator. My goal is to focus my particiaption on few specific subjet and among them how to improve illustration/graphic. One of my challenge is to produce free graphics for wikipedia as I think that images can provide as much information as a good text. You can find some exemple of my work on my personal page on fr:. For me, commons is a revolution in the wikipedia world. It will allow quick sharing between project and a better review for each images. I think that administrator are important to make sure that all images respect the guidlines of commons and are reviewed indivually, that why I m proposing my me in the role of administrator on commons to help and to take a share of this workload. Thank you. Greatpatton 08:14, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• support Phe 00:18, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Anthere 01:11, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. villy 06:56, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Admins from other Wikis always welcome -- Chris 73 07:13, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• support Vincent Ramos 22:35, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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==Raymond_de_==	 

I am a german/dutch Wikipedian and sysop in the germanspeaking Wikipedia. My focus is on free pictures and graphics, I have a lot of own pictures uploaded to the germanspeaking WP and hope to make more photos in the future for commons:. I like the idea of commons very well and are a supporter of GFDL. So I want to help to keep commons free of unfree images. --Raymond de 07:57, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Support - I do not know about your bondage stuff on :de, seeing that you've already started to upload those pics here. Franckly it makes me a bit uneasy so that I don't know what to think about your being sysop here. No opposition though. villy 10:12, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC). Your fanclub below is enough to pass from neutral to support. :) villy 18:44, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sure, I have a lot of own (and free) pictures from bondage, but also much more "normal" pictures as seen on my Foto-site. I will upload them all to commons. But it is also importend for me to check new pictures from the community for licenceproblems. --Raymond de 10:28, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Support. Personally I think the images(Bondage and otherwise) are very good, and great illustrations for the topics.-- Chris 73 11:32, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support Vincent Ramos 10:04, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support Raymond is ok. I know him from the German Wikipedia, where he does a good job. --Zenogantner 20:04, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support he is doing a good job in de! -- da didi 22:07, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support knowing him well. 100% trouble-free -- Stahlkocher 17:36, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support see Zeno, da didi and Stahlkocher. -- Southgeist 17:48, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Klar doch. Raymond ist ok. --Anathema 15:53, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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==Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ==	 

Admin on the Icelandic and English wikipedias for ~6 months, will be transferring alot of images from is. and en., would be nice to have admin powers to make cleanups like deleting to move images and such. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:43, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

1. Support. Good user. Nadavspi 22:40, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
2. Support. Very good experience with him on the english wiki. -- Chris 73 11:05, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
3. Support. villy 18:46, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
4. Support. Kaare 16:01, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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== DaB. ==	 

Admin in the german Wikipedia and bureaucrat of the german wiktionary. I haven't upload any picture in commons, but I will help to delete picturs (e.g. URVs). If there is a notice in the german wikipedia or wiktionary, that a user has upload a forbitten picture, I will have the choice of delete it. --DaB. 22:21, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

support user has my full(!) trust -- da didi 22:29, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

support my full trust too --Raymond de 08:40, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

support for sure! -- Stahlkocher 17:38, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

support klar -- Southgeist 16:11, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

support yo --Bdk 19:23, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

support Darkone 00:02, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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== Eloquence ==	 

Wikimedian since late 2001 (bragsheet). I wrote the Wikimedia Commons proposals, organized the logo vote and implemented cross-wiki image transclusion. I'm a sysop on en: and de: and a bureaucrat on en:, and I have full developer access. I'm about to bot-upload some public domain paintings, and sysop access will make it easier for me to fix things if something goes wrong.--Eloquence 13:16, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Support. No question about it. villy 13:20, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• support --tsca
• Support. Absolutely. -- Chris 73 23:10, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. No question. Nadavspi 01:56, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. --Raymond de 08:40, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support -- Stahlkocher 17:39, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Kaare 16:01, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support -- Infrogmation 16:04, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support -- Southgeist 16:10, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC) Keine Frage.
• support yo --Bdk 19:23, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• support Darkone 00:02, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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== Stahlkocher ==	 

I´m a wikipedian since 11/2003. I will upload a lot of pictures and I think it will be useful to have sysop-access in wikimedia commons. I'm one of the sysops in the german wikipedia. -- Stahlkocher 19:18, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

1. Support - sure, no problem --Raymond de 19:59, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
2. support - good work on de.wikipedia --Bdk 15:58, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
3. support - sure, no question Darkone 12:09, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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== ed g2s ==	 

Wikipeidan since 08/2003. Sysop on English wiki, heavily involved in Featured Pictures and other image based activities. Would be nice to have sysop access here so I can clean things up during this period of (hopefully) rapid growth on commons. 02:20, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

1. Support -- Infrogmation 19:01, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
2. Support -- Stahlkocher 18:03, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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== Infrogmation ==	 

I've been contributing to en:Wikipedia since 2002, and have been a sysop there since February of 2003. I believe I have a record of using my admin powers responsibly. I could use admin access to delete a redirect for a page move to clean up links, or whatever else might be needed. -- Infrogmation 18:56, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Support. villy 20:58, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support -- Chris 73 23:44, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• support --Archenzo 11:26, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support Quadell (talk) 20:45, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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I'm admin on the en:Wikipedia, and I've done a lot of work uploading free images and tagging untagged images. (I've tagged between 2,000 and 3,000 images so far.) I keep the Image Deletion Requests page up to date on Wikipedia. It would be useful for me to be able to rename or delete images here, and I would help people who need images removed or renamed. I think I could put a helpful face on the Commons, assist newcomers, and perform general maintenance. Quadell (talk) 20:35, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)	 

• Support. -- Infrogmation 20:51, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support, very much so -- Chris 73 23:45, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support --:Bdk: 03:14, 7 Dez 2004 (UTC)
• Support and good luck! --Simplicius 04:38, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Rafa? Pocztarski 16:26, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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== Morven ==	 

I'm an admin on the en: Wikipedia, and I work quite a lot with images and do a fair deal of housekeeping work. It would be useful to be able to do similar things here. Morven 10:04, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

My commons user page no longer redirects to my en: userpage, in response to the below. I overlooked the difficulty in finding a user contributions list if I did that! Morven 18:52, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Support. Looking through his contributions to the Commons (which were hard to find, by the way) was instructive. Quadell (talk) 18:12, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support. I just don't like very much the use of user's page REDIRECTs to other wikimedia projects, 1° because not everyone has an account everywhere, which cause unintentional anonymous edits... 2° It complicates terribly the access to your Commons contributions. I'd prefer when Commons admins have a specific user and talk page here. villy 20:07, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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== James F. ==

I've been an admin on w:en for nearly 2 years now, and I'd like to help out here with housekeeping on images and so on; if nothing else, to be able to move misnamed uploads to better places and delete the former, &c. James F. (talk) 13:45, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

As I've been asked on en if this is really me, here's a link to show it: [2]. James F. (talk) 00:30, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Support. Trustworthy. Quadell (talk) 18:17, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Oppose. Of course there no precise criterium but I do think that 13 edits on Commons makes this request a bit premature. I do not question the implication on wikimedia projects but just point out the fact that the implication in Commons should be a bit consisting before requesting adminiship here. I'd support this request without problem later on with more implication evidence. villy 20:37, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support as well as objecting to villy's reasoning above (though of course he is entitled to his opinion), people do not in my opinion need some special experiance beyond being admins on another wikimedia project to qualify for admin position here, i myself had <100 edits when i became admin here. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 22:07, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Also doublechecked his identity (see comment by Jdforrester above) -- Chris 73 02:28, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support. ed g2s • talk 17:39, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support strongly. — Dan | Talk 22:23, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support good work :-) --:Bdk: 06:20, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support, since the worst he's likely to do is "nothing" :) -Fennec 07:11, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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==Neutrality==

I've been an admin on the English Wikipedia for awhile now, where I've tagged thousands of U.S. government images by agency. Gaining adminship here will help me do some housekeeping, delete-and-rename, and other such tasks. Neutrality 15:06, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Note: I have confirmed that this is indeed Neutrality from the english wiki, and not an impersonator trying to get admin rights -- Chris 73 23:55, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Support. Hard-working and diligent user. Quadell (talk) 18:07, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Oppose. Of course there no precise criterium but I do think that 5 edits on Commons makes this request a bit premature. I do not question the implication on wikimedia projects but just point out the fact that the implication in Commons should be a bit consisting before requesting adminiship here. I'd support this request without problem later on with more implication evidence. villy 20:31, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support as well as objecting to villy's reasoning above (though of course he is entitled to his opinion), people do not in my opinion need some special experiance beyond being admins on another wikimedia project to qualify for admin position here, i myself had <100 edits when i became admin here. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 22:07, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support, very much so, and looking forward to see the number of edits increase. -- Chris 73 23:42, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support strongly. — Dan | Talk 22:23, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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== Bdk ==

I´m mainly active on german wikipedia. There I especially take care of the Commonspage and connected discussions as well as take care of proper deletion of duplicate images which are newly stored on commons. I also started the german portal and I intend to keep and make the structure of commons easy to use. I will certainly help to delete pictures. By the way I like helping new users :-) --:Bdk: 02:51, 10 Dez 2004 (UTC)

• Support: --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 03:22, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support why? I trust this user! Paddy 03:47, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support known as solid Simplicius 04:46, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support, of course. Darkone 17:28, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support, 100% trouble free. Stahlkocher 08:58, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support, no problem. --Raymond de
• Pro. --DaB. 17:20, 12 Dez 2004 (UTC)
• Support :) --Guenny 04:45, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Pro very active in german WP for supporting commons --Finanzer 04:47, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Pro --APPER 01:28, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Pro -- Duesentrieb 03:25, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Commons:Administrators/Requests and votes/Rafa? Pocztarski status removed, no edits since June 2005.  (as of 12 September 2006)

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== Rdsmith4 ==

I've been an admin at en.wikipedia for a few months and I'd like to serve Commons in a similar capacity, i.e. with maintenance and cleaning. I've added quite a few pictures I've taken to Commons and I intend to keep doing so. — Dan | Talk 22:27, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Support, deffo. James F. (talk)
• Support. ed g2s • talk 01:43, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support --:Bdk: 02:28, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support. villy 10:30, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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==Darkone==

Darkone is a very active user and admin on german wikipedia. He´s known as accessible and reliable. Darkone is doing a lot of good work on images and on clearing up the wikipedia from copyvios. Therefore I nominate him for adminship (he agreed to the proposal). --:Bdk: 01:20, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• support for sure --:Bdk: 01:20, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Pro --APPER 01:28, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• pro -- Simplicius 01:23, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• pro --Finanzer 03:15, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• pro -- Duesentrieb 03:26, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• pro --Raymond de 16:25, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• support -- da didi 16:21, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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==David.Monniaux==

I've uploaded a number of pictures and intend to upload more. I've also moved stuff from existing wikipedias. On some occasions (typos, etc.), being an admin helps (avoids having to ask for external help). I'm an admin on en:. David.Monniaux 12:03, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Support. Trustworthy, experienced (both :en and :fr) and already truly active on Commons. villy 22:01, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support/Pro/PourFoeNyx 22:02, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support Yann 22:04, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support Med 22:06, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support notafish }<';> 22:09, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support T 22:12, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support --Soufron 22:18, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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==Danutz==

I'm highly active in the Romanian pages, I already translated the most important inteface pages like Commons:Babel.ro, Commons:Întrebări frecvente, Commons:Marcaje pentru drepturi de autor, Commons:Imagini excelente and Commons:Candidate pentru imagini excelente. I also "refurnished" the romanian main page, making it more interesting. So I think Romanians should have their own admin too (I'm also an admin on the Romanian Wikipedia since 2003, see [3]).

I could also help in multilingual coordination, since I speak romanian (advanced), german, spanish and english (intermediar), and italian and portuguese (basic) Danutz 10:36, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Support. Some more info from meta and ro.wikipedia: w:ro counts a bit more than 10,000 articles, 965 registered accounts and 3 admins. Danutz appears to be an admin and a bureaucrat there. Contributions to Commons are not numerous, though this fact had not been into account for previous requests, but show a commitment to multilingualism. I'm giving full trust. villy 11:20, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• support - very active and confidential user ... not only because I love his country very much (it´s a pity that the wikimania doesn´t take place in Cluj-Napoca) --:Bdk: 20:12, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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==Golbez==

I'm a loyal admin on en.pedia, and I've started moving my maps (and eventually photos, once I find my camera) over here, and many of them need redos, so I figured, since I'm already an admin on en:, it might be useful just to get admin rather than flood "requests for deletion". :) And I'll find some commons-specific admin tasks to do when I hop over here. Thank you. --Golbez 22:37, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Support: Indeedeledoo. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 19:04, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support. See Ævar's comment. Nadavspi 19:05, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support. villy 21:12, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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==Paddy==

I am infamous on de WP for writing articles, discussing things that are critical, doing things that are crucial and sometimes I just care about the little things. From time to time I work together with Bdk and I would say we make a great team (like we already did on the german CD version). I can not promise to be constantly active on this project since the de WP takes a lot of my spare time. I will try to do my very best though. --Paddy 16:34, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Pro. I think he would be a good sysop. --DaB. 22:03, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Paddy is kind and willing to help other users. I have been helped greatly by him on German project as well as #de.wikipedia. --Aphaia 17:26, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support. villy 07:16, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support sure --:Bdk: 05:15, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support notafish }<';> 10:28, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support -- da didi 12:26, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support. --chris 論 23:26, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support ...Sicherlich 21:12, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support --Dundak 22:17, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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==Gbiten==

I am an administrator in pt.wikipedia. I would like to complete the translation of Special:Allmessages to Portuguese. Gbiten 14:43, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Votes go here Gbiten 14:43, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Support. Gbitten is a user and an administrator in wiki.pt for quite a while. He has shown to be dedicated to the project and he is a joy to work with, always friendly, polite and with an enviable good sense to deal with problems. Any wikimedia project will benefit from his envolvement. muriel@pt 15:17, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Plus, of the list of current commons-sysops, only two declare to know Portuguese with level 1 and 2. Since the wiki.pt is amongst the biggest and fastest growing wikipedias, it would be useful to have here someone fluent on the language. Moreover, almost half (if not more) of the images used in pt are from Commons. muriel@pt 15:28, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Support Jurema Oliveira 06:50, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support --Gaf.arq 21:04, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• A favor. Tenho certeza de que o Gbiten saberá representar-nos bem, mantendo-nos informados das discussões, votações e decisões aqui no commons.
• Support Patrick-br 23:33, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC).
• Support. villy 07:12, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support notafish }<';> 10:22, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support -Diego UFCG 21:11, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Gbitten is a valuable collaborator and administrator of the wiki.pt, and I am sure his contributions to Commons will help the project. Marcelo Schlindwein 11:29, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• support --:Bdk: 01:27, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

(resigned)

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==Zy26==

I am an admin on the zh: wikipedia. I need the privileges to modifiy Special:Allmessages in Chinese. --Zy26 20:36, 7 12月 2004 (UTC)

• Support--Shizhao 07:14, 8 12月 2004 (UTC)
• undecided - Why do you redirect your userpage on commons to the chinese one? Therefore its not easy (or even impossible) to communicate with you :-( I think a proper commons page and also the use of babel templates are recommended for every admin here. --:Bdk: 06:30, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• I'd like a user page on Commons beforehand too. villy 22:04, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• at least chineese is left-right ;) i tried leaving a message to someone on the aribic wikipedia once and entering enlish text was horrible. (i ended up writing it in notepad and copypasteing in the end.) Plugwash 00:40, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC) (failed)

Nominated in 2005

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==Duesentrieb==

Duesentrieb is a very active user and admin on german wikipedia. He´s known as accessible and reliable. In the Commons he´s doing a lot of good work on structuring all the images and categories, compare e.g. his proposal. He has also notion of many software concerns and was very helpful with some syntax problems I had ;-) Therefore I nominate him for adminship (he agreed to the proposal). --:Bdk: 14:59, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• support :Bdk: 14:59, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support. --chris 論 23:27, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support. --Paddy 23:29, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• support. --Boris23 06:45, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• support ...Sicherlich 21:04, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Dafür ;) --Darkone (¿!) 23:24, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support notafish }<';> 09:59, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Genau (support) Quadell (talk) 17:46, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support da didi 11:25, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support. villy 07:22, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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==notafish==

I am an administrator on fr. On Commons I try to promote multilingualism as well as try to structure the legal aspects (see here for a project I am working on in order to make things easier for contributors). I speak a few languages and adminship would allow me to help changing messages, participating in false copyright hunting by deleting pictures etc. Oh, and incidentally, I would be (I think ?) the first woman administrator on Commons ;-) notafish }<';> 10:14, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

PS. So I'm not ;-) sorry for the bragging and wohooooo ! notafish }<';> 11:18, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Support. Sam Hocevar 12:10, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support. David.Monniaux 12:39, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Quadell (talk) 17:51, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Toutes les qualités requises ^^ Greudin 18:44, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support -- Infrogmation 19:06, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support for sure, even if you´re not the first, of course ;-) --:Bdk: 17:32, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support --Paddy 18:12, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support. villy 07:18, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC). Eh oui, deuxième femme seulement :)
• Support - Gbiten 21:18, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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==Conti==

Conti is a conscientious user, and follows the issues on Commons. Conti is also readily available on #commons.wikimedia, helping users with issues as they arise.

Conti has been active on Commons since early September. He has experience and contributions on de. and en., where he is an admin. Amgine 00:51, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I accept the nomination. Although I must say that I'm not too active on de:, I spend most of my time on en: and here in the last few weeks, doing mostly animal related stuff. --Conti|✉ 02:13, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Support --Paddy 07:53, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• support for sure --:Bdk: 00:12, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support CryptoDerk 07:51, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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==Raul654==

I'm an old-hat administrator/bureacrat/arbitrator on en. I've been doing uploading here, but a couple of times I've had to rename something and I need admin powers to remove the old picture. That's why I'm requesting adminship. Raul654 01:40, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Support! Excellent vandal fighter and great admin on the english Wiki. -- Chris 73 04:33, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support' --Paddy 10:01, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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==Mormegil==

I am an admin on cs:, I'd like to be an admin here to be able to translate the interface messages. --Mormegil 10:23, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• support Has been a great help before on that matter. --Paddy 13:00, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• support we could realy use some help with the internationalisation, and with cleaning up. -- Duesentrieb 02:09, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• support good work --:Bdk: 06:26, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
• Support notafish }<';> 09:15, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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==Anthere ==

I am primarily active on fr:wikipedia and meta. But commons is a place I wish to expand my participation to. Hum, and delete my pictures when wrongly uploaded. I wish to work more as well on categories, and being able to delete wrong pages makes it much more easier to take care of organisation. Thanks. Anthere 17:53, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Support David.Monniaux 10:39, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Support Med 10:40, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Support Rama 10:41, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

J'aime ce soutien spontané :-) Pas eu de problème de conflit d'édition au moins ? Merci les gars. Anthere 11:46, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Support. So you wish to expand your participation here. Too. Sheesh. You're lucky I love you. villy 19:06, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Support. MarkSweep 06:05, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• support for sure. --:Bdk: 22:25, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Support Aphaia 19:52, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Support, of course. James F. (talk) 17:51, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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==Borislav==

I am primarily active on Bulgarian projects and my main reason to be an admin on Commons is the ability to translate the interface. --Borislav 00:36, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Support. Borislav is an active meta member + sysop/bureaucrat on :bg. villy 15:19, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Borislav is our reliable bureaucrat on bg: --Glimz 02:45, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

, status removed, no edit since 28. December 2005, 9 edits in the last 12 months, (as of 05. June 2006)

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==Solkoll==

I'm uploading images I create from using maths/computer-graphics, mostly fractals but not allways. Often it is possible to make a better render, (improved algorithms for example). Therefore I, at some times, need to deleate older versions of the images. Typos in titles or wrongly named images or pages that needs deleation are outher reasons. Also, Commons do not have a Swedish op yet =) (I'm already a op at sv: and sv:wikibooks). // Solkoll 14:41, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Support. We ought to have admins representing the various languages being active within Wikimedia Foundation and we should take into account sysop responsabilities in other local projects to give our trust too. villy 08:52, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Support Solkoll is a trustworthy, no-nonsense administrator of the Swedish Wikipedia. Thuresson 05:10, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

, status removed, no edit since 13. July 2005, 4 edits in the last 12 months, (as of 05. June 2006)

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==Maximaximax==

Sometimes I need to delete articles and recreate them, mostly because of a bug with categories in MediaWiki 1.4 beta when articles are listed in a categorie several times. I think it is not a large problem so it looks unnecessary to ask somebody to do it. I also think that we need at least one WikiCommons administrator who could represent its Russian part. I have enough experience to do it, as far as I am bureaucrat in ru: and quite active contributor in en:. Maximaximax 17:11, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Support. We ought to have admins representing the various languages being active within Wikimedia Foundation and we should take into account sysop responsabilities in other local projects to give our trust too. villy 08:52, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Strongly support. Sorry Maximaximax for not seeing this earlier. Regards Gangleri | Th | T 15:09, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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==Walter==

I would like to be able to change text in the MediWiki namespace. Also it is frustration that you can not do things when you are used to have sysop powers. Like when you have made a mistake and you can not fix it yourself. I am sysop on WikipediaNL, WikiQuoteNL and Meta Walter 12:47, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Support. villy 21:28, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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==Richie==

I'm interested in the Commons as being THE place to store most pictures and other (sensible) media files in order to save storage and at the same time provide all Wikipedias with them. However, as the Commons grow, people upload (often identical) files from different Wikipedias and this is going to be a mess. I'd particularly like to be able to delete these duplicate images. As an example, I'm at the moment interested in organising maps on the Commons and there are two identical sets (see User:Richie/TODO) of maps of autonomous communities of Spain around. I started to clean this up, but being an administrator would speed up things considerably. I'm also an active contributer on de: and en:. – Richie 10:54, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Support. ed g2s • talk 12:44, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Support. James F. (talk) 16:18, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Support. villy 10:42, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Gangleri 15:01, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Support. notafish }<';> 21:14, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Support. LoopZilla 15:00, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Solkoll 13:14, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Paddy 22:45, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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==Roger Zenner==

He gets on my nerves with deletion requests on de WP and since he contributes a great deal of pictures he should have these special rights here on commons. I hate people that nag, nag, nag ;-) No, honestly I believe he does great work and he deserves it and we need another hand! --Paddy 15:18, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Comment: Thanks for your confidence in my work, I am learning fast how to categorize in here ;) For more information about me visit my German user page, easy to understand for non-German-speaking people :) --Roger Zenner -!- 00:32, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

1. support. --Leon ¿! | WP WP ¿! 15:21, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
2. Support Paddy 15:21, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
3. Support Get_It • 15:32, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
4. Support, I suppose, under great pressure, damned, I feel crushed. ok, go for it, we *do* need a hand.*sigh notafish }<';> 15:56, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
5. Ok. --DaB. 22:09, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
6. Support. villy 07:37, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

, status removed, no edit since 22. November 2005, 5 edits in the last 12 months, (as of 05. June 2006)

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==GerardM==

I have already uploaded MANY soundfiles for the use within wiktionary and elsewhere (over 1500). All original recordings all edited into nl:wiktionary. Every now and again I make a typo and have to request the deletion of the article as renaming is not possible. As a sysop I will be able to remove my own carbage.

PS I am already sysop on several projects. GerardM 18:06, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

1. support for sure :-) --:Bdk: 02:26, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
2. Support. villy 07:38, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
3. Support. Paddy 09:14, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
4. support--Aphaia 15:26, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
5. Support --BesigedB ^(en|talk) 20:56, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
6. Support notafish }<';> 08:34, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC) ;-)
7. Support Get_It • 15:05, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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==EugeneZelenko==

Hi!

I mostly categorize or add images to their deserved pages on Commons. Sometimes I feel it's useful to have administrator's permissions to remove images uploaded twice mistakenly without disturbing other administrators.

I'm administrator of Belarusian Wikipedia also and would like to make some Belarusian translation of MediaWiki namespace if I'll have time to do that.

Thank you. --EugeneZelenko 04:26, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

1. Support. More language is good. villy 07:39, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
2. Support. Paddy 09:14, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
3. Support notafish }<';> 08:34, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
4. support -- Stahlkocher 11:19, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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==silsor==

I am an experienced administrator on en: and meta:. Having contributed several things to Commons I think this wiki could benefit from some additional help in the "monitoring janitor" department. silsor 07:36, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1. Support. No problem. villy 20:40, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
2. Support - certainly. — Dan | Talk 16:14, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
3. Support. James F. (talk) 13:44, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
4. Support --Paddy 18:51, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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==Breeze==

I'm administrator in de.wikipedia (de:Benutzer:Breeze) since May 2004 and I spend the most of my wiki-time with the images there. I also worked there at de:Wikipedia:Bilder ohne Lizenzangabe (Images without licences). My first edit in commons was in December 2004. I hope that I can support the WikiMedia projects with my work. Breeze 12:09, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1. Support --Paddy 16:53, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

   User:Breeze/Unknown great work I love it! --Paddy 20:31, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

2. Support very active Crux 19:50, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
3. Support -- da didi 20:29, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
4. support for sure --:Bdk: 21:11, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
5. Support. villy 06:30, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
6. Support --Raymond de 12:53, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
7. Support --Steschke 20:11, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
8. Support --Leipnizkeks 20:23, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
9. Support --Jcornelius 13:17, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
10. Support Oh yes. notafish }<';> 10:27, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
11. Support —FoeNyx 10:50, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

, status removed, [[User:Breeze/reason}} & [4] (as of 22:32, 16 December 2005)

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==Thuresson==

I have been an administrator at sv: since May 2004. The last months I have worked hard to tag untagged images and also at the sv: equivalent of Image deletion requests. I am one of the Wikipedia image sleuths and frequently report images to Commons:Deletion requests or Category:Redundant. So far two of my nominations have been Commons:Picture of the day, February 12 and March 27. In my opinion, a Commons administrator is a very complicated tool for house cleaning. Thuresson 16:45, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1. Support //Solkoll 23:05, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) I've been co-working with Thuresson in diffrent wikipedias for a year and a half or so. I can't remember that he ever made an error, he will do a good job - I'm sure.
2. Support. My opinion is based on his contributions on Commons. --EugeneZelenko 03:26, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
3. Support. villy 06:28, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
4. Support. — Richie 08:37, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
5. Support. Den fjättrade ankan 14:38, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
6. Support notafish }<';> 10:32, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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==Kneiphof==

I’m an administrator and bureaucrat on ru: wikipedia. I’m active on Commons since 17 September 2004.I mostly upload transportation-related pictures from Wikipedia, I’ve also uploaded some photos made by myself (see Kaliningrad) and some Soviet pre-1973 (Soviet-PD) images. I would like to work out and maintain categorization of transportation-related topics. I’m also slightly active on nl:wikipedia, ru:wikiquote, and nl:wiktionary Kneiphof 19:23, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1. Support. ??????????? :) villy 19:55, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
2. Support notafish }<';> 10:46, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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==BrokenSegue==

I am an administrator on en: and have been moving images from the NowCommons template to the commons [I made some naming mistakes and for the future I'd like to fix these problems myself]. I worked with User:Neutrality on an extensive US gov tagging sorting project on en which took me far too much time. I feel that I'm worthy of your trust. BrokenSegue 03:27, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1. Thuresson 17:22, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC) (based on his/her en: work)
2. Extreme support. Great user, will undoubtably be as good on Commons as he was on en. Neutrality 04:16, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
3. Support. villy 07:30, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
4. Support notafish }<';> 10:46, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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==UninvitedCompany==

I have been an administrator on en: and meta: for some time. I've started contributing original audio clips of classical keyboard music here, just one so far, but more to come. I'd like adminship mainly to help with coordination issues with en:, particularly those involving vandalism of images and other media featured prominently on en. Of course, I'll probably end up doing some general housekeeping as well. UninvitedCompany 22:25, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1. Oppose, only 6 contributions to the Commons so far. He might be a good admin, but it is too early to promote him in my opinion. Maybe in some months. — Richie 18:05, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
2. Neutral. I'm not opposing because I have consideration for UninvitedCompany commitment to meta and w:en but on the other hand I too find it a bit curt to request adminship with so little edits. I have to add that some people from :w:en became admin in late oct./dec. with a very short record here. villy 08:50, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
3. Oppose notafish }<';> 10:46, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC) Nothing personal, agree with Richie. notafish }<';> 10:46, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
4. Weak support, I know him to be a good administrator from en. silsor 16:08, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC) (failed)

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Commons:Administrators/Requests and votes/???(Searobin)

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==dbenbenn==

Dbenbenn has several qualities that I think would make him a great admin on the Commons. First, he's a workhorse. He's uploaded tons of images, improved the quality of many more, and created an impressive gallery of useful images of his own.[5] He's always very thorough in listing source info, cleaning up after himself, etc., and I wish everyone was as conscientious as he is. Also, he's helpful and courteous with other users, even when they mess up or when he disagrees with them, as his talkpage shows. This is the kind of user we want. Quadell (talk) 13:34, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much, Quadell. I accept the nomination. Dbenbenn 14:24, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1. Support. I nominated him, and I support. Quadell (talk) 13:34, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
2. Support. villy 21:39, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
3. Support. My opinion is based on his contributions on Commons. --EugeneZelenko 01:12, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
4. Support, based on his innumerable contributions at WP:IFD. Thuresson 03:14, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
5. support notafish }<';> 08:07, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
6. support Sanbec 10:29, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
7. Support // Solkoll 01:25, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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==Greudin==

With about < 1000 contribs mainly with self made photographs, fastidious about licensing, my work will mainly to help with vandalism, interaction with francophones wikis like Wikipédia, Wikilivres, fr.wikiquote and maintenance (COM:DEL, Speedy, (c)) Greudin 21:51, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1. Support. Valuable contributor to :fr wikipedia and member of the French ArbCom, Greudin is trustworthy and dedicated to Commons. villy ♦ ✎ 22:59, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
2. Support. notafish }<';> 08:08, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
3. support Sanbec 10:29, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
4. Support // Solkoll 01:24, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
5. Support Manuel González Olaechea 16:55, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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==Sanbec==

I am bibliotecario (administrator) at the Spanish Wikipedia. I'm well known there for my work on images, persistently requiring users to identify source and license. Here I have uploaded some images, categorized some others, and denounced some lacking license information. Recently, I've started collaborating in the flag images normalization campaign. (Thanks to es:Usuario:Angus for the translation of this paragraph)

I promoted there Commons. Sorry for my poor english, but the Commons is multilingual, isn't it? --Sanbec 10:36, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Soy bibliotecario en la wikipedia en español. Allí soy bien conocido por mi labor con las imágenes, solicitando insistentemente a los colaboradores la identificación de su origen y licencia. Aquí he subido unas cuantas imágenes, he categorizado otras y he denunciado algunas carentes de licencia. Últimamente colaboro en la campaña de normalización de banderas.

Votes

1. Support. notafish }<';> 08:28, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
2. Support. Patxi Aguado User Talk:Patxi Aguado 10:42, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
3. Support. Aromera 11:00, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
4. Support. Lourdes 09:15, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
5. Support. villy ♦ ✎ 09:20, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
6. Support. Davidge 09:35, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
7. Support. Dodo 09:35, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
8. Support. --Javier Carro 09:42, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
9. Support. valyag 13:54, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
10. Support. Ascánder 12:22, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
11. Support. JorgeGG 13:30, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
12. Support. Angus 13:32, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) - since we (es:) are gradually switching to use images from Commons, we need Sanbec to be able to do his admin chores here, too.
13. Support. pieter 13:45, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) Just a great Spanish bibliotecario
14. Support. Guillermo Romero 14:32, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
15. Support. rsg (Mensajes/Talk) 16:58, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
16. Support. Ecelan 17:01, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
17. Support. 17:42, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)We need such a good Administrator who can swap between the Spanish Wikipedia and here to deal with images and their problems. (Anna)
18. Support. Haylli 21:09, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) I'm acquainted with the work of Sanbec in the Spanish Wikipedia and I'm sure that he will be a good choice.
19. Support. PACO 22:14, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
20. Support // Solkoll 01:22, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC) I think we need at least one, (or better two, if one is absent for a longer while) sysops from each of the (bigger) languages of Wikipedia.
21. Support Wricardoh 10:25, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC) My support for Sanbec, a great Spanish wikipedian. I'm sure he will be a great administrator in Commons too. He promotes the use of Commons in our wiki since commons begun.
22. Support Manuel González Olaechea 12:56, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC) I think I do not need to copy what Wricardoh said. I agree with him !
23. Support --Dianai 14:29, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
24. Support LadyInGrey 16:21, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
25. Support we have no native spanish speaker admins! especially since I understood his spanish, yay. BrokenSegue 20:34, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
26. Support --Chalisimo5 17:54, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC). Sanbec does a good job. Even when we do not agree in certain intems, I have to recognize it. Congratulations :D.

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==Stan Shebs==

I'm a longtime editor and admin at en: (en:User:Stan Shebs), but have been spending more time with commons lately, and am running into tangled thickets in the plant area (ha ha), where adminly powers would be handy. Stan Shebs 12:45, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

1. Support --EugeneZelenko 01:11, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
2. Support. villy ♦ ✎ 18:20, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
3. Support Dori | Talk 12:41, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
4. Support --Sanbec 13:07, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
5. Support Greudin
6. Support Gsl 07:53, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
7. Support – Kaihsu 09:50, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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==Dori==

I'd like adminship to clean up after myself (duplicate uploads, wrong images, etc). I've been an admin on en (though I'm not editing there anymore, spending more time on sq, and commons) and sq for quite a while. Have a look at my user page for some of the files I've uploaded. Dori | Talk 12:48, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

1. Support Stan Shebs 15:14, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
2. Support Greudin
3. Support – Kaihsu 09:22, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
4. Neutral Sanbec 11:35, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC) to clean up after myself isn't a good reason.
5. Oppose agreed with above, clean up after oneself is definitely not a reason to be an admin. There's a lot of clean up to be done around the place as a whole. I believe admins from other projects should think a bit more about what it actually entails to be an admin on commons altogether, and not just seek here the same ease of use they have elsewhere. notafish }<';> 20:55, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

   As you wish. It just means that someone will also have to do the work that I would have done. As Jimbo has said being an admin should be no big deal, but if you need some speech and false promises, you're not going to get that out of me. I just want to get what work I need done. Dori | Talk 23:56, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

   I don't see why there is supposed to be something special or different about admin status on commons, it's just another wikimedia project, with exactly the same kinds of admin tasks to perform. If there's a "lot of cleanup to be done", it will go faster with more admins, not less. Stan Shebs 01:16, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

6. Oppose I want administrators that clean up after others. Thuresson 09:19, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
7. Support: Dori is an experienced user who will clean up after themselves. Adminship is supposed to be no big deal. Morven 21:00, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
8. Strongly support Gangleri | Th | T 23:07, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) – It maigth be a good idea to have here also administrators with knowledge about languages not represented in this wiki before. I know Dori as very cooperative. See [6] and take a look at "First edit".
9. Support --Mormegil 10:47, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
10. Support (whoops, thought I had already)... James F. (talk) 22:15, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

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==Vipuser==

I'm a wikipedian from chinese wikipedia. Most of the time I stay at the chinese wikipedia. recently I come here to translate the english help pages to chinese. so I want to be an administrator to maintane the chinese interface and community. however, the edit times of mine are not to many, but I do every edit carefully. so support me if you trust me, thanks! Vipuser 16:12, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I just want to fix the bugs of the chinese interface, so after I have finished this work. I can quit the administrator team, so that's my main reason to be an administrator!--Vipuser 13:46, 2005 Apr 24 (UTC)

Votes

1. Neutral since 90% of activity so far during last week. However, thanks for the nice translation work. — Richie 17:32, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
2. Support Sanbec 11:35, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
3. Support. villy ♦ ✎ 15:21, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
4. Support. Morven 21:00, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
5. Support --Mormegil 10:47, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
6. Support - we need administrators who speak different languages to deal with users not speaking english. -- Duesentrieb 12:00, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

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==Kaihsu==

Just need to clean up after myself sometimes. I am an administrator on the English Wikipedia. Cheers. – Kaihsu 17:25, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC) I withdraw my request. It is (y)our loss. – Kaihsu 14:37, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1. Oppose same comment as above, clean up after oneself is definitely not a reason to be an admin. There's a lot of clean up to be done around the place as a whole. I believe admins from other projects should think a bit more about what it actually entails to be an admin on commons altogether, and not just seek here the same ease of use they have elsewhere. notafish }<';> 20:59, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
2. Oppose — agree with notafish. — Richie 21:17, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
3. Support--Chun-hian 06:33, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
4. Oppose I want administrators that clean up after others. Thuresson 09:19, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
5. Neutral Sanbec ✉ 11:45, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) (withdrew)

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==User:Avatar==

I propose to make him an admin here because I am confident he will organise categories, clean up unlicensed images etc. --Paddy 16:50, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks :-). I'm a wikipedian since 2002 (with a long break in 2003), mostly active in wp-de. In my opinion wm-commons is really a great project. Because I'm doing some maintaining work, it will be helpfull to get administrative rights. It will speed up some jobs (sometimes it's a little bit hard to get an admin on IRC). In my opinion especially some categories should be organized another way. I like to discuss this (like here) and then transform/realize it. If you don't know me, you can find a few more infos about me on my user page on commons or even more on my german user page. Alternatively, if you pay the travel expenses, I will come visit you and we can talk together with a cold beer (ok, perhaps chatting in IRC is more realistic...). --Avatar 17:27, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1. Support --Paddy 16:50, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
2. Support Morven 21:00, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
3. Support Dori | Talk 23:08, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
4. Support EugeneZelenko 00:58, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
5. Support --Mormegil 10:47, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
6. Support. James F. (talk) 10:55, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
7. Support -- Duesentrieb 11:37, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
8. Support of course --Jcornelius 14:05, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
9. Support FoeNyx 19:11, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
10. support for sure --:Bdk: 22:43, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

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==CryptoDerk==

I've been around Commons since early January, and I have about 120 edits here. Most of my contributions are uploads of images, though I have done some categorizing and sorting images, have been around the community areas, and have fixed vandalism. I'm more well known over on en where I have over 6000 edits and have been an administrator for about 6 months. I also started a project to assist in free content exchange between w:PlanetMath and Wikipedia. In terms of admin work there I patrol RC and am active on IRC all the time so in many cases I'm a "first responder" to various mass vandalisms. If made an administrator at commons I imagine I'd do much of the same, but I'd also likely assist in image deletions as necessary. CryptoDerk 07:17, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1. Support. James F. (talk) 10:56, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
2. Support, levelheaded. silsor 11:18, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
3. Support - already fighting vandals. -- Duesentrieb 12:56, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
4. Support. Stan Shebs 04:44, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
5. Support. Morven 13:17, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
6. support --:Bdk: 22:46, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
7. Support. villy ♦ ✎ 13:06, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
8. Support. Dbenbenn 15:46, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
9. Support da didi 11:47, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
10. Support Dori | Talk 17:36, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

, status removed, no edit since 7 August 2005, 21 edit in the last 12 months (as of 03:14, 11 March 2006)

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==Fanghong==

I am an editor in zh,en and fr wiki and an administrator in zh. I understood and agreeed with the goals of the Wiki project. I contributed some pics in here and found the titles of Chinese page's pictures untranslated a lot so I did the work in the last few monthes. I would like to be a administrator in here to maintain Chinese interface and translate many interesting pictures into Chinese. Please support me and I would be competent for the job. Thanks!--Fanghong 03:31, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1. Support EugeneZelenko 02:01, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
2. Support. villy ♦ ✎ 13:08, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
3. Support ????!This guy is a good administrator in chinese wikipedia!--Vipuser 09:12, 2005 May 7 (UTC)

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==blankfaze==

Warning : The rules refer to a general agreement. Considering the uncertainty of the community about Blankfaze request (4 pros, 3 cons, 1 neutral) I've decided to give people more time. I'll close the vote on May, 12th and will make Blankfaze an admin in case of a clear 2/3 majority. villy ♦ ✎ 12:53, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Howdy. I've been at en: for just shy of 13 months, and an admin there for just short of 10 months. I'm not overly active here but I am looking to help out more. I have much experience with deleting images/media at en:, much familiarity with deletion procedures, and I have read through the deletion guidelines specific to Commons. Blankfaze 00:55, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1. Support Morven 13:48, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
2. Support Dori | Talk 03:13, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
3. Support --Mormegil 10:47, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
4. Oppose, not levelheaded. Shows a disregard for Wikiquette when it suits him. See the reaction he got when he ran for ArbCom on en: [7].ed g2s • talk 11:40, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

   Wikipedia and related projects used to be friendly, and amiable, and an altogether fun place to be. But now it's increasingly more cutthroat and mean. And that makes me really, really sad. Blankfaze 22:15, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

5. Oppose. Thanks for the remark, Ed. I find especially [8] disqualifies him as an admin. I also think that we should say that being an admin in another Wikimedia project is not sufficient to become admin here. Some people seem to have the attitude "I'm admin in en:, so give me your votes" which I don't like. — Richie 12:34, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
6. Oppose - thanks for that link Richie. Usually I rather abstain than oppose, but vandalizing articles like this does indeed disquallify a user as an admin. -- Duesentrieb 12:52, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
   Neutral - Blankfaze cleared explained this "bad" edit as an act of frustration, which I understand from looking at the history of the relevant article (but should not happen to an admin). I can't tell much about him from his activity here, so I'll abstain. -- Duesentrieb 00:39, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
7. Oppose. I think that blankfaze is a great user, and a brilliant contributor, but I don't think that he's really cut-out for being a sysop here. I was originally merely not going to comment, but after he restored what I could not fail to interpret as a personal attack on someone who merely pointed out that he has had significant arguments beforehand, I felt that it had become necessary. I have, again, removed the personal attack. Sorry, blankfaze, but I don't think that sysopship is right for you. James F. (talk) 01:11, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
8. Support. In the ArbCom nomination, CheeseDreams and her troll buddies voted against BlankFace which to me is a mark of commendation. Thuresson 22:23, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
9. Support. In the ArbCom nomination, Blankfaze was supported by Neutrality, Grunt, Halibutt, Eequor and even Ta Bu Shi Da Yu. This is way enough for trust as far as I'm concerned. Besides, Blankfaze is an admin en w:en, which is another mark of trust from the English project. Now, maybe Blankfaze made some mistakes in the past, but I can't see anything like that here on the Commons, and that's what mainly matters. villy ♦ ✎ 13:03, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
10. Oppose. No user page, no gallery of this user's contributed images. Only 135 edits here. Although being an admin on Wikipedia is a good prerequisite helpful as a qualification, it isn't sufficient reason for adminship here. Dbenbenn 15:54, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

    I prefer to maintain one user page. You can see it at en:User:Blankfaze. Also, you can see my gallery of uploaded images at en:User:Blankfaze/imagelist. All images uploaded to Commons are marked with a Commons logo. Blankfaze 17:34, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

    I'd like to stress that being an admin on Wikipedia is not a prerequisite to become admin here. — Richie 17:38, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

    Yes, I agree. Chose my word poorly. Fixed above. Dbenbenn 16:06, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

11. Support. I'm probably too late, but I know blankfaze to be completely trustworthy. Commons is still relatively underpopulated, so we need as many watchful eyes as possible. -- Hadal 06:14, 14 May 2005 (UTC) – Too late, sorry. — Richie 07:10, 14 May 2005 (UTC) (failed)

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==Aoineko==

I am an editor, administrator and arbitrator on the French Wikipedia and administrator on Meta Wikipedia. I would like to have administrator right here to help on pages maintenance (move, delete, etc.).

Votes

1. Support Rama 14:39, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
2. Support W?Ft 14:00, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
3. Support. villy ♦ ✎ 05:06, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
4. support Greudin
5. Support —FoeNyx 08:38, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
6. Support Sanbec ✉ 07:33, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

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==Nichalp==

I've been an admin in the English wikipedia for around eight months. I like the commons concept and have uploaded quite a few of my images here. I have also asked many wikipedians to upload their images here. I would primarily like to gain adminship to clean up the India related categories (deletion et al) which is in an awful mess. Some tasks which I sometimes undertake here are the touching up of images using Photoshop and creating India related maps. Nichalp 11:56, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Support -- ran English talk|???? 00:57, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
• Support — More Indians please :) Chamaeleon 11:40, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

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==AndreasPraefcke==

Hi, I've been an administrator on de.wikipedia for a couple of months now, and have - while still uploading my own pictures as to be seen here - recently been doing more and more, well, administrative work on commons (mostly in Theatre buildings and related pages). My last passion is categorizing the many paintings from the Yorck project thematically (like in Category:Dance in art). Now and then, I find myself missing the "sysop buttons" for deleting mistyped categories or double entries myself. Some facts: I have about 2,900 edits on commons; around 8000 edits on de.wikipedia and some 450 edits on en.wikipedia. My languages are German (native), English (pretty fluent, I hope), and French (ever struggling). Please don't be upset about the fact that my commons talk page has been blocked - this is just due to the fact that is was constantly spammed by some idiots that also spam my German and English user pages. For questions, please use my German talk page as indicated. --AndreasPraefcke 19:41, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Support --Paddy 20:31, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
• support, for sure --:Bdk: 20:35, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
• Support --Raymond de 20:45, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
• support, Darkone (¿!) 12:39, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Support EugeneZelenko 13:23, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• support of course. --Avatar 22:05, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
• Support -- ran English talk|???? 00:58, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
• Support. villy ♦ ✎ 06:15, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
• Support, seems fine to me. Chamaeleon 11:40, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
• Support -- Get_It • 11:42, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
• support (of course) -- da didi 22:56, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
• Support. James F. (talk) 08:59, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support no doubt --Anathema 13:10, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support--Fanghong 00:24, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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==Ran==

en: I am an admin on the English and Chinese Wikipedias, and I've uploaded some of the China-related images on Commons. I'm also the creator of a series of Chinese administrative maps which have already been translated and are currently in use on the English, Chinese, Spanish, German, Japanese, and French Wikipedias. I plan to help out with translating and maintaining Chinese-language pages here on commons, and organizing China-related media.

zh: ?????????????????,?????????????????????????????????????,????????????????????????????,??????????????????????????,??????????????????,??????????????????????

-- ran English talk|???? 00:57, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Support. Chinese language is a major issue. Ran appears to be fully trustworthy. So here is my vote. villy ♦ ✎ 20:50, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
• Support Ran listens patiently to reason and tries to make his maps as NPOV as possible. Nichalp 09:54, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
• Support — ?????????????! ? Chamaeleon 11:40, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
• Support. James F. (talk) 08:59, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support --Avatar 19:04, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support--Fanghong 00:18, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support -- ?????????????!--Node ue 02:15, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support --AndreasPraefcke 23:51, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Seems reasonable' -- ?????????? !? BrokenSegue 18:10, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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==Väsk==

Väsk is nominated by Thuresson. Väsk has been involved in wikis for a long long time and is administrator all over the place, Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiquote and Wiktionary and bureaucrat at Wikinews. Väsk has been particularly involved in photographing his home town Lund and the many medieval churches in Skåne. Väsk has expressed an interest in improving the user interface, where administratorship would be beneficial. Thuresson 18:28, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I accept the nomination. (I didn't realize that i should accept the nomination here at first, as I hade already done that on Thuresson's talk page, but to make thing clear, I accept here too.) Väsk 15:56, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Votes

+. Support. villy ♦ ✎ 05:38, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Support EugeneZelenko 13:46, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Support Jon Harald Søby 11:52, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Support Alers 11:53, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

+ (Support) --Fred Chess 01:44, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Support Jordgubbe 09:00, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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===TOR===

Request temporary admin access for Polish 1.5 interface translation and tweaking. I have no idea how long this may take. A month should be more than enough, but I'll leave that decision to you. I am not very active on Commons but I do participate in a number other Wikimedia projects (see my user page on Meta). Best, TOR 30 June 2005 22:22 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support, I believe it should be permanent. TOR is a respected user and an admin on two Polish projects, and works a lot with images tagging/moving/removing, etc. / tsca ? 2005-06-30 22:34:16 (UTC)
2.  Support Sanbec ✉ 7 July 2005 09:45 (UTC)
3.  Support Mayhem 8 July 2005 21:28 (UTC)
4.  Oppose --Herrick 10:01, 18 July 2005 (UTC) I´dont understand, why Tor needs the sysop-status [9] for translation?

The MediaWiki messages are protected. Only a sysop can modify they. Sanbec ✉ 14:23, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

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===Joolz===

I've been a contributor to the commons for some months now; I've decided to put myself up for adminship because I want to help out with maintaining the commons, in particular, I've spent a lot of time tagging images which are missing licence information.

According to Kate's tool I've made 2810 edits since joining.

I've also edited the english wikipedia since October 2004, you can see my contributions there.

(Ends 21:43, 11 July 2005 (UTC) -- Joolz 14:36, 11 July 2005 (UTC))

Votes

1.  Support EugeneZelenko 5 July 2005 01:37 (UTC)
2.  Support I thought he already is :-) --Avatar 5 July 2005 09:46 (UTC)
3.  Support. I've seen Joolz around. With 2811 edits, he'll jump to position 8 on the list of administrators by edit count. dbenbenn | talk 5 July 2005 21:22 (UTC)
4.  Support looks good! -- da didi 5 July 2005 23:18 (UTC)
5.  Support Sanbec ✉ 7 July 2005 09:43 (UTC)
6.  Support Thuresson 8 July 2005 12:39 (UTC)
7.  Support Duesentrieb 15:04, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
8.  Support Breezie 14:13, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

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===Aka===

Aka is a very active user and admin in the german wikipedia (better "on" or "at" the wikipedia? never know what is right ;-) where he's doing a lot of good and accurate work. He has made more than 2000 edits here so far, contributed many own images (mostly photos) and cares a bit about the featured pictures candidates. I know him as accessible and reliable. Therefore I nominate him for adminship (he agreed to the proposal) and hope he becomes one of the "busy janitors" for the commons :-) --:Bdk: July 9, 2005 10:56 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support --:Bdk: July 9, 2005 10:56 (UTC)
2.  Support If his admin work will be as excellent as his photographs, we don't need further admins for a long time :-) --Avatar 9 July 2005 11:14 (UTC)
3.  Support — Richie 9 July 2005 16:03 (UTC)
4.  Support for sure --Darkone (¿!) 10:07, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
5.  Support --Franz Xaver 18:25, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
6.  Support Sanbec ✉ 23:34, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
7.  Support, thought Aka was an admin already. dbenbenn | talk 23:52, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
8.  Support --Herrick 09:55, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
9.  Support -- Breezie 14:08, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
10.  Support --Chun-hian 18:30, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

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==Plugwash==

I am a long term contributer and wan't to be able to sort out stuff like copypaste moves myself. Plugwash 22:30, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Support, sure. --Mormegil 08:53, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support, deffo. James F. (talk) 12:48, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support, no problemo. villy ♦ ✎ 18:15, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Good work. --Erin talk 20:48, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support, yup -- Duesentrieb 23:02, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support --EugeneZelenko 01:42, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose for the time being. Does not seem to understand relevant policies well enough. --Mayhem 10:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support - who's Mayhem? Thuresson 04:16, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• support --:Bdk: June 28, 2005 02:56 (UTC)

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==Erin Silversmith==

I've only been on Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia for a few months, but in that time I have made 355 edits to Commons and over 1000 on Wikipedia. I really like working with images, and have uploaded a large number onto Commons which I took myself. You can see them all here. I have recently started working on Commons categories and articles. A couple of examples of my work are: Tours and Paeonia. I edit Wikipedia as Silversmith. I would like to be an admin here so I can more easily work on deleting doubled up images, and in general working towards making this project even better. — Erin talk 20:46, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Support. (Am I allowed to vote?) Seen in several conflicts, Silversmith is actually not half bad. Won't turn into Erinzilla and destroy the wiki at least. 80.126.238.189 20:57, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) / en:User:Kim Bruning
• Support. Conscientious enthusiastic editor. I have no concerns about this one at all.—Theo (Talk) 21:21, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support - and a hint about deleting: always look here first -- Duesentrieb 23:05, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support - and other hint for dealing with duplicates. --EugeneZelenko 01:42, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support Very friendly and obviously commited and active in the project. --fir0002 07:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support -- active in FPC. Nichalp 08:04, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support, nice commitment. villy ♦ ✎ 08:44, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose, genuine understanding of relevant policies not yet in evidence. --Mayhem 10:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• support --PedroPVZ 21:53, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Support Very good work here. Zzyzx11 28 June 2005 03:31 (UTC)

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==Ruiz==

Well, according to editcount I have almost 500 edits in Commons as of August 8, 2005. I've uploaded more than a hundred pics about Mexican history and politics (most of them in the public domain), I've built categories, written copyright info, etc. I would like to clean the Mexican cats since most of them appear written in Spanglish, so being an admin would really easy the load. Ruiz 00:49, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Votes

Comments: Administrators (on my understanding) should enforce consensus decisions made in project (not personal preferences). Why do you not follow Commons talk:Templates for galleries#Voting about language representation? EugeneZelenko 14:13, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, first of all, I am willing to change the language representation in all my contribs if that is required, but the way I got it that the iso code as text is preferred, not something that should be enforced in every single page. Sadly, the vote was held during my summer break so I didn't have a chance to explain our situation. In Spanish, several iso codes such as de (German) or en (English) are actual words and they are somehow "problematic". de: means "of" or "from" and en: means "in", so if you get a picture, say, a company building and they see de: Deutschen Post they tend to think that it was taken from the actual website of the company, and that leads to a bunch of misunderstandings. Not everyone visiting the galleries is familiar with iso codes and not every Mexican casual visitor is used to see pics of his/her country under a foreign tag, so I used the icons to emphasize that it should not be taken literally.

The icons are, in fact, a representation of the same code and the text format used in the text labels is terribly unintituive for them, since is just a word in bold, think of seeing from:, in:, etc. in every single picture. But then again, if that needs to be changed I will do so, although I would preffer to change the color of the text at least. Nobody needs a rainbow, but at least something in drak grey or light blue, etc. Ruiz 17:30, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

• I don't see where the problem is… In Portuguese "de:" also means from. But I never thought it meant "from" wherever I read it... So if they see a foreign flag in a picture of their country and see a weird language in from of the flag, they'll think it is in that country. LOL. That hypothetical guy must be really stupid. The flags also has another problem, some languages are spoken in more than one country. -PedroPVZ 04:51, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Maybe I didn't get your point, but no one has used flags nor is advocating flags. What I used for a while were the icons with the iso-code, such as this one: . I changed them all to text already in the cats I created, and the galleries are gonna be done by the weekend. I still think this is nitpicking when there are bigger priorities in the Mexican cat as a whole.Ruiz 06:33, 13 August 2005 (UTC) (withdrew)

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==Datrio==

First of all, I don't have 100 edits (yet), so if anyone thinks this is a "hard" rule, simply delete my request. In any case, I'm requesting sysop status on Commons mainly to fight vandalism and spam. I'm already a steward, so I gave myself temporary sysop permissions a few times (four) to fight the Ass Puss vandal, who's being mainly active on Commons lately. Overally, I'm not really active on Commons - but you can't say I don't care for this project - I'm overally active in the Foundation (Wikimedia Steward, pl.Wikinews and Meta sysop). My main task would be administration and maintenace of Commons.

I'm still new here and many users probably don't even know me, but still - I'll try pushing my luck ;). Thank you in advance for all the votes, both positive and negative. Datrio 21:05, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support -- Get_It • 21:17, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
2. sure support! -- da didi 15:12, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
3.  Support --Jusjih 06:38, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
4.  Support --Phroziac 22:52, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
5.  Support --Avatar 14:15, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
6.  Support --Ruiz 00:49, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
7.  Support --Magadan  ?! 18:56, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

, status removed, request here (as of 21:09, 15 March 2006)

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==ABCD==

I would like to be an administrator on commons for the sole purpose of protecting images here on commons that are being used on the English Main Page, to prevent vandalism. I am currently an administrator on en:. ABCD 20:06, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Oppose, I'm afraid. I don't think we should be creating admins here unless they care about this project in itself. If your only reason for wanting to be an administrator here is because of stuff you do on some totally separate project (so to speak), that isn't good enough. Nothing personal. By the way, it's easy enough to protect Commons images from EN: simply download the image, and upload it locally to EN. Then delete a day later when it's no longer protected. That's safer too, because you don't have to trust Commons admins to leave the image protected. dbenbenn | talk 21:48, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support ABCD is a well-known and trusted admin from en: UninvitedCompany 14:27, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose see Dbenbenn -- Breezie 17:31, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose same reason Sanbec ✉ 09:23, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --Jusjih 06:38, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support – Sarge Baldy 02:08, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: DBenbenn's argument seems to me contradict to his former opinion to redundancy; he worried to duplication of tiny logos and delete one of it but encourage another editor to upload redundant image(s) which would be larger than those images he deleted. And after deletion, history still occupy a certain space of DB, redundancy will be culmulated in his suggest way. --Aphaia 19:36, 8 August 2005 (UTC) (failed)
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==Solipsist==

I've been running the Picture of the Day on the English Wikipedia for the past six months. Now that POTD is starting to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page, it would be useful to have access to Commons admin tools in order to protect images sourced from Commons and prevent vandalism.

I've also been a contributor to Commons since last November with 530 edits (more than I would have guessed), and an admin on the English Wiki since last December. Solipsist 15:01, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Support. Solipsist is a long time, very trustworthy user on en. Raul654 06:32, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Very good work, and very friendly and nice too :) --Erin (talk) 09:08, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Ridiculous that this editor doesn't have admin powers everywhere. Chamaeleon 09:11, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support of course -- aka 09:16, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
• Support. ed g2s • talk 13:55, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Solipsist is very knowledgable, helpful and friendly. The more admin power the better. David D. 04:08, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 09:26, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
• unconditional support - sorry for being absent for so long. BrokenSegue 22:24, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
• support for sure. --:Bdk: 05:46, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
• support Naturally --fir0002 06:58, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
• support Good Admin, anywhwere -- Chris 73 10:25, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --Jusjih 06:38, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
• Support very much. — Dan | Talk 22:52, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

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pt: Após a renúncia de Gbiten, não há um administrador que seja falante nativo do Português. Contribuo desde novembro de 2004. Trabalho principalmente na adição de sons na Category:Portuguese pronunciation, além de carregar imagens de outros projetos para o Commons. Sou burocrata no Wikcionário em português, e desejo me tornar administrador para ajudar nas tarefas de vigilância no Commons e poder traduzir páginas protegidas para o português. -Diego UFCG 18:28, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

en: After Gbiten's resignation, there isn't a sysop that is native speaker of Portuguese. I've contributed since November of 2004, mainly in the addition of sounds in Category:Portuguese pronunciation , besides uploading images of other projects to Commons. I'm a bureaucrat at Portuguese Wiktionary, and I desire to become an administrator to help in the watch tasks of Commons and be able to translate protected pages for Portuguese. -Diego UFCG 18:28, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support--Gaf.arq 18:58, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support--Angeloleithold 19:13, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --LeonardoG 19:39, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --FML ^hi 20:01, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
  Português:
  Gostaria de estar trabalhando junto do Diego, com certeza faríamos um bom trabalho. Mas, se não querem ajuda, tudo bem. :)
•  Support — Get_It • 22:32, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support -- Gbiten 23:31, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 09:29, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Patrick-br ^msg 11:22, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Paulo Juntas 17:30, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support petrus 18:37, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support I'm very happy to vote for Diego in here. He is one of the best contributors in pt.wiki. Estou muito feliz de votar no Diego aqui. Ele é um dos melhores colaboradores do Wikcionário-Português. Eusbarbosa 19:21, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Diego has my full support as administrator in Commons. Mschlindwein 15:02, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support He is very good contributors in Pt.wiki - educorpo 00:24, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --Jusjih 06:38, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --Avatar 14:13, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support E-roxo 19:55, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --Magadan  ?! 18:59, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

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==Eleassar==

Hi! I have been a contributor here since 25 April 2005. Currently I have made over 720 edits (both as Eleassar777 and with my current username from June 18 onwards). I have contributed several images, done much work at adding translations to Slovenian and have put together the whole Slovenian version (of the project) as it stands now, including running the Slovenian version of the picture of the day for almost all the time. Otherwise I have a sysop status at Slovenian Wikipedija and am among the 1000 most active contributors on English Wikipedia, being active there since the second half of January.

As I have contributed significantly to this project and know it well, but also care very very much about it, I am requesting sysop status to be able to fight vandals should they appear on Slovenian pages of this project (it happened already), to guide Slovenian-speaking users if they needed any help and to allow Slovenian Wikipedija and this community to effectively communicate with each other. I would also like to improve the Slovenian translation of the user interface. --Eleassar my talk 00:09, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support EugeneZelenko 01:12, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
2.  Support --FML ^hi 08:17, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
3.  Support Diego UFCG 11:35, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
4.  Support I don't know him, but he looks good enough. --BrokenSegue, 6 August 2005
5.  Support --Jusjih 06:38, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
6.  Support --Ruiz 00:49, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

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==Rama==

I often find myself searching for administrators; being one would at least avoid the necessity of bothering others to correct my own mistakes, and I might be able to lend some hand. I have now a reasonable (I think) experience in question related to licences; incidentally, I am admin on en: Rama 16:43, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support: Nct 17:14, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
  • that's supposed to be a support-vote, I assume? -- Duesentrieb^(?!) 21:06, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
    • Indeed it is; he is very helpfull :-) Nct 16:00, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support: nice guy -- Duesentrieb^(?!) 21:06, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support: i'm not fluent in english and he's often available on #fr -- Ceridwen^{=^.^=} 16:27, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose. Not somebody I'm trusting. villy ♦ ✎ 06:57, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support NoJhan 14:46, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Greudin 08:48, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

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==Cnyborg==

What makes me request admin status is that I'm becoming steadily more involved in this project, and would really like to make an effort here. I have quite a bit of experience with image licensing questions, anti-vandalism and general cleaning (categorization, moving pages to their proper titles and so on) from the Norwegian Wikipedia (where I'm an administator and have 19,000+ edits). I've been around since Novemeber 2004, and have read most of what there is to read about how Commons works (or is supposed to work…), and have no problem working under those guidelines. Cnyborg 22:13, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm withdrawing the request; thanks to the two who voted for me, and thanks to aka for giving a good reason for his opposing vote. Cnyborg 18:30, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Cnyborg is a valuable (not to say irreplacable) resource on the Norwegian Wikipedia, and surely is/will be here too. Jon Harald Søby\^{no na} 19:30, August 17, 2005 (UTC)
•  Support villy ♦ ✎ 06:56, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose Cnyborg only has about 400 edits here so far. Someone who requests an administrator status in the Commons should have much more experience in this project. You can do most of the things you wrote above without having these additional buttons. Please feel free to come back later. -- aka 07:39, 23 August 2005 (UTC) (withdrew)
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==Dan100==

I want admin privileges for no other reason than for blocking and then cleaning up after ap vandalism, which I'm often alerted to as I see the results of their vandalism on other projects. However, when I come here, I can't do anything but engage in revert wars with him. I was recently elected an admin on Wikipedia unopposed and am also a Wikinews admin. I have about 13,000 edits across Wikimedia. Dan100 07:18, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Dan100 is a very good admin on Wikinews, he just wants to help and combat the vandalism that is taking place on Wikinews and the other projects by this "Ass Pus." If we can't defeat Ass Pus then we lose creditablity and show that our projects are open to vandalism turning away future users and making us laughing to stocks to our "compeitors" (WP = Encarta, WN = Ohmynews and Indymedia). --AutisticPsycho
•  Support. James F. (talk) 19:58, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support, Thuresson 10:17, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support. Joolz 12:28, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support. Avatar 09:22, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support. Today he tried to revert edits by a vandalist. He should become admin to better fight against vandals. --Warden 10:33, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
•  Support, there seem to be hardly any admins around when you need them. Alphax 07:49, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support, the more people available, the better. Evil Monkey 08:01, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Support. ed g2s • talk 18:42, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

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==Evil Monkey==

Every so often I become aware of vandalism on Commons, but am only able to revert. Once I was unable to find any admins to take care of a vandal who was vandalising images that appear on the main page of Wikinews. I am an admin on the English Wikipedia where I have over 10,000 edits. On Commons I have over 250 edits. Evil Monkey 07:58, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support. Alphax 08:00, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support - nice monkey, Thuresson 10:56, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Support. ed g2s • talk 18:42, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose, too evil. support, though begrudgingly. :-) — Dan | Talk 02:38, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Commons desperately needs more vandal-aware admins Dan100 09:10, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support :) -- Joolz 23:28, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 23:26, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Neutral, not enought edits. Petrus 04:57, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

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==Alphax==

Since users across all Wikimedia projects are encouraged to upload images on Commons, but there are very few visible administrators on this project, I thought it might not hurt if there one or two more. Basically, I want to be able to speedy-rollback and delete vandalism, and block cross-project vandals. I have over 3000 edits on the English Wikipedia and over 200 edits on Commons. Alphax 07:59, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Support. ed g2s • talk 18:43, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Evil Monkey 23:13, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Dan100 09:12, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Extreme lesbian support! --Phroziac 14:48, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Neutral Sanbec ✉ 23:33, 8 September 2005 (UTC) No many work here to judge.
•  Neutral, like Sanbec. Petrus 04:58, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
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==Petrusbarbygere==

Français :

, Pour tout vous dire ma principale raison pour soliciter votre confiance est mon confort personel. Je pense être un assez gros contributeur ici [10], et qui dit gros contributeur dit erreurs et donc statut d'adminstrateur car pourquoi laissez faire à d'autre ce que l'on peut faire soi-même ? Le nombre des contributions ne font pas, aujourd'hui un administrateur. Aussi, vu que beaucoup des administrateurs de langue française sont occupés par des tâches "supérieures", je m'engage à être ici, sur commons, comme je le suis wikipédia, un adminsitrateur au service des autres contributeurs. Pour moi wikimedia commons doit être exemplaire dans le sens où les fichiers que nous proposons doivent être absolument "libre" (et si possible en haute définition pour les images). Je n'ai pas d'appareil photo et toutes les images que j'ai uploadé ici sont compatibles avec commons avec une utilisation la plus large possible. Je ne suis pas parano avec les droits d'auteurs. Je ne suis pas juriste, mais je connais un peu le droit de la propriété intellectuelle, le respecte et veux le faire respecter. Mais je souhaite aussi en profiter pleinement et vous en faire profiter lorsque celui-ci m'y autorise.

English:

 : For all to tell you my principal reason for asking your confience is my personel comfort . I think i have made lots of contributions here [11], and when you contribute a lot you make lots of mistakes and why let do with other what one can do yourself? The number of the contributions do not make, today an sysop. Also, considering many the administrators of French language are occupied by "higher" tasks, I engage with being here, on commons, as I am to in wikipédia, a sysop with the service of the other contributors. For me wikimedia commons must be exemplary in the direction where the files which we propose must be absolutely "free" (and if possible into high définition for the images). I do not have a camera and all the images which I upload here are compatible with commons policy with the broadest possible use. I am not parano with the royalties. I am not a lawyer, but I know a little the right of the intellectual property, respects it and want to make it respect. But I also wish to benefit from it fully and to make some to you profit when this one authorizes me there. (P.S. : i make this translation myself, if you want do do it best, please do it !)

Votes

•  Support. Petrus is a well known and nice admin on fr and pretty active (2,610 edits) on Commons since April. villy ♦ ✎ 08:08, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Greudin
•  Neutral for now. I think supporting (like explaining licensing issues, categorization) other users (especially newbies) will be great. But I didn't find many talk on this subject in candidate contributions. May be good idea to start supporting other? --EugeneZelenko 14:58, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --gildemax 19:53, 2005 September 12 (UTC)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 22:10, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Alphax 06:37, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

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==Anna==

For the last couple of weeks I have noticed that this user is asking people to provide a tag or a source to photos they upload. Anna has also been busy trying to give some structure to the category system. I am convinced that this is a trustworthy user who can be given more responsibilities.

Anna is also an administrator of Spanish Wikipedia, es:User:Cookie. So far, WikiCommons has only ony administrator who's native language is Spanish. On a related note, it has long been my impression that WikiCommons has more than its share of Spanish-speaking users who upload photos not published under a free license. Administrators who speak Spanish may be helpful to counter that.
Thuresson 05:05, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Anna has been made an administrator now. - Andre Engels 14:06, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

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Votes

•  Support EugeneZelenko 13:47, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Lourdes 18:55, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --FML ^hi 01:42, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Airunp 11:16, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support.Joseaperez 18:46, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --Phroziac^(talk) 02:47, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Strong support Sanbec ✉ 14:37, 27 September 2005 (UTC) ¡Bien!
•  Strong support Orgullomoore 15:05, 27 September 2005 (UTC) ¡Heck sí!
•  Support Chlewey 16:56, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Strong support --Jsanchezes 17:24, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Strong support --Ecelan 17:26, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Miguel A. Monjas 17:42, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support--Vivero 17:57, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Strong support --Ecemaml 18:11, 27 September 2005 (UTC).

You are asking for explanations and do not expose any? Plese, explain! :).

•  Support--Manuel González Olaechea 18:29, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support----SergiL 18:43, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --Ari 03:27, 28 September 2005 (UTC), ¡A ojos cerrados!.
•  Strong support Davidge 19:13, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose --Viktor 19:25, 27 September 2005 (UTC) Someone who does not follow the policies can not be an administrator. There is a Commons:Language_policy saying that on place's names we must use native name. Look at her contributions. You'll see:

00:42, 20 July 2005 (hist) (diff) m Eivissa (Eivissa moved to Ibiza)

01:41, 21 July 2005 (hist) (diff) Platja de la Barceloneta (Platja de la Barceloneta moved to Playa de la Barceloneta: the introduction is in catalanian and english, therefore the title must be in castillian)

22:54, 23 September 2005 (hist) (diff) A Coruña (redirect to La Coruña)

•  Oppose --Prevert^(talk) 19:48, 27 September 2005 (UTC) Premature nomination. Little knowledge of Commons's policies. Not NPOV in language policy. She must clarify her position in that subject. Someone who does not follow the policies can not be an administrator.

From http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Anna
A Coruña
22:54, 23 September 2005 (hist) (diff) A Coruña (redirect to La Coruña)
Category:A Coruña
22:48, 23 September 2005 (hist) (diff) Category:A Coruña (redirect to category La Coruna (Too many categories for the same place))  
Catalunya
21:58, 21 July 2005 Dbenbenn m (Reverted edits by Anna to last version by Joan)
02:21, 21 July 2005 Anna (delete, redundant)
Platja de la Barceloneta
01:41, 21 July 2005 (hist) (diff) Platja de la Barceloneta (Platja de la Barceloneta moved to Playa de la Barceloneta: the   
introduction is in catalanian and english, therefore the title must be in castillian) 
01:41, 21 July 2005 (hist) (diff) m Playa de la Barceloneta (Platja de la Barceloneta moved to Playa de la Barceloneta)
Eivissa
00:42, 20 July 2005 (hist) (diff) m Eivissa (Eivissa moved to Ibiza)
Ibiza
07:55, 25 September 2005 Joanjoc (Ibiza moved to Eivissa: Prefered name for the city/island, as seen on the oficial website; http://www.eivissa.org/)

NOT NPOV IN LANGUAGE POLICY, ANNA TEXT FROM
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sanbec&diff=prev&oldid=541695
==Nacionalismos==	
Hace unas noches que estuve borrando la categoría Comunidades autónomas de España y la subcategoría Illes Balears, puesto que ya hay una Category:Autonomous communities of Spain llena de comunidades y una Category:Islas Baleares, además de reunir y organizar las imágenes de las islas que estaban desperdigadas. Esta noche, entre un usuario Joan y dos o tres IPs 
(probablemente el  mismo usuario) estaban creadas de nuevo, además de artículos repetidos con los mismos contenidos en Minorca,  
Menorca, Mallorca, Majorca y una Eivissa que he trasladado a Ibiza. He arreglado el desaguisado, enviado lo que sobraba a [[:
Category:Candidates for speedy deletion|speedy deletion]] y dejado un mensaje a User talk:217.124.66.49, pero no sé si servirá 
de algo. Te aviso de todo el lío por si vuelve a las andadas y tú tienes más argumentos que esgrimir. Anna 01:56, 20 
July 2005 (UTC)
Category:Illes Balears
in View deleted pages
01:00, 20 July 2005 . . Anna (delete, there was already a Islas Baleares category, no need for another)
00:07, 13 July 2005 . . Anna (content moved to :Category:Islas Baleares)
Lleida
View deleted pages
Lleida
17:56, 23 April 2005 . . Anna (Lleida moved to Lérida)
Lérida
08:55, 22 June 2005 Mormegil (Lérida moved to Lleida)

--Prevert^(talk) 08:51, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Both of the edits cited date back to July, two months ago. I think it is very possible that she has learned the policies/realized her mistake since then. An absolutely different issue would be if this happened yesterday.--Orgullomoore 20:15, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Also, regarding the Playa de la Barceloneta edit, besides it dating back 2 months, both Spanish and Catalan are official languages of Barcelona, Spain.--Orgullomoore 20:17, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't think that Anna is violating any rule. As you point out, policy states native name. I don't know if native means official (it would support your statement) or name in the official language of the place (that way, Anna would not be violating anything). My personal opinion is that the policy is obscure (and can be interpreted) and your vote can be regarded as biased by your political option. --Ecemaml 10:24, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

• Please assume good faith, avoid bias about my argument and do not distort my point of view. Assume that Commons's policies are different from spanish wikipedia. This a multilingual wiki and native names are preferred. I want to know if Anna it agrees with Common's policies and in her edits avoid her personal opinion. Please explain me if this message is agreed with Commons:Language policy:

Anna´s message from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:217.124.66.49: 
Please, stop duplicating categories, there is already a category:Autonomous communities of Spain with the bulk  of the  
communities in it, no need for another named in Spanish with separated articles. It also existed a  Category:Islas Baleares, so   
Illes Balears is redundant and unnecessary. Eivissa is the vernacular name,  understood in Spain but not outside, therefore it is  
now a redirect to Ibiza and also, no need of having a Majorca,  Mallorca, Minorca and Menorca. Let's be coherent, this is Commons 
and articles must be easy to find and understand  for any foreigners who ignore the different languages in Spain. Anna 
01:14, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

And, please, does not transfer spanish wikipedia's discussions to commons. She could be a good administrator in Spanish Wikipedia and not good for Commons. --Prevert^(talk) 11:53, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

•  Strong support rsg (Mensajes/Talk) 20:09, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Robotico ^{Mensajes aquí} 20:20, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose--Rocastelo^(talk) 20:21, 27 September 2005 (UTC)Someone who does not follow the policies can not be an administrator.
•  Oppose --Antoine 20:44, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

¿Alguna razón, Antoine? ¿O simplemente porque puedes? (Puedes explicarte en español si te conviene más)--Orgullomoore 21:00, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Por ejemplo por Image:Publimetro.jpg --Antoine 03:53, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

•  Strong support --Angustia 20:48, 27 September 2005 (UTC) Not registered as of Sept 24th --Ecemaml 10:38, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Strong support --Angus 21:50, 28 September 2005 (UTC) (recovered old account's password :)
•  Oppose --Xelo2004 21:00, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
• This person does not continue the recommendations of the Real Spanish Academy as for regulation. Alone he tries to impose its private vision, when not of unha Wiki in general in which nunguna person is given a doctorate and Tongue.
•  Strong support Alberto Salguero 21:01, 27 September 2005 (UTC) !Por supesto¡
•  Strong support --Edub 21:03, 27 September 2005 (UTC) Galicia/Catalonia official languages: Galician and Spanish / Spanish and Catalan
  • I don't think you've read the guidelines of the DRAE. It says that even if the official name has been changed, it does not affect the way Spanish-speaking people use tradicional exonyms (quien escribe en castellano puede utilizar con toda libertad la denominación castellana de un topónimo o de su institución o departamento correspondiente). Please, read it more carefully and do not make the poor RAE say things that it does not actually say. Regards --Ecemaml 08:40, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Anyway, I don't think that Anna is violating any rule. As you point out, policy states native name. I don't know if native means official (it would support your statement) or name in the official language of the place (that way, Anna would not be violating anything). My personal opinion is that the policy is obscure (and can be interpreted) and your vote can be regarded as biased by your political option. --Ecemaml 10:24, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

•  Strong support Yrithinnd 21:10, 27 September 2005 (UTC) Of course !
•  Strong support Loco085 21:25, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose --Pau 21:31, 27 September 2005 (UTC) Someone who does not follow the policies can not be an administrator, look at her contributions. Besides, I think she will abuse adm powers as she does in Spanish Wikipedia, look at her contributions there.

No, she doesn't abuse adm powers in Spanish Wikipedia; look at her contributions there --Angustia 22:23, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Pau, your statement is laughable. Aren't you one of the guys that violate wikipetiquette in es.wikipedia whenever appears there? You know perfectly that guidelines in es.wikipedia are using traditional exonyms whenever they exist (BTW, the same rules than in ca.wikipedia). If you say that's abuse.... you probably don't understand what conventions are. --Ecemaml 10:24, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

I agree with the use of 'traditional exonyms', but I think a exonymus is traditional when people really use it, not when it appeared in Franco's documents, even if it appears in Encarta or Google Earth. Besides, Ecemaml also have had some accusation of abusing adm powers and imposing unnatural translations of , haven't he?--62.15.156.164 21:09, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

;-) Sure. People that enforce rules are usually accussed of abusing. It's a pity that the accusers use ca.wikipedia to denounce and not the proper place (es.wikipedia). --Ecemaml 12:48, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

•  Support Porao 21:34, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Alhen 21:35, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support pieter 21:59, 27 September 2005 (UTC) Not registered as of Sept 24th. --Martorell 11:27, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support  Strong support Guillermo Romero ^[@] 22:45, 27 September 2005 (UTC) Ari, masikuna, kay wikiruwaqchanchis askha llank'aq kan. Come on, Commons, let's write {{support}} down here.
•  Support  Strong support Chalisimo5 22:59, 27 September 2005 (UTC) Here, there and anywhere.
•  Oppose--Lmbuga 23:06, 27 September 2005 (UTC) Someone who does not follow the policies can not be an administrator.

I don't think that Anna is violating any policy. Please explain --Ecemaml 10:24, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Explanation:

From http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Anna
A Coruña
22:54, 23 September 2005 (hist) (diff) A Coruña (redirect to La Coruña)
Category:A Coruña
22:48, 23 September 2005 (hist) (diff) Category:A Coruña (redirect to category La Coruna (Too many categories for the same place))  
Catalunya
21:58, 21 July 2005 Dbenbenn m (Reverted edits by Anna to last version by Joan)
02:21, 21 July 2005 Anna (delete, redundant)
Platja de la Barceloneta
01:41, 21 July 2005 (hist) (diff) Platja de la Barceloneta (Platja de la Barceloneta moved to Playa de la Barceloneta: the   
introduction is in catalanian and english, therefore the title must be in castillian) 
01:41, 21 July 2005 (hist) (diff) m Playa de la Barceloneta (Platja de la Barceloneta moved to Playa de la Barceloneta)
Eivissa
00:42, 20 July 2005 (hist) (diff) m Eivissa (Eivissa moved to Ibiza)
Ibiza
07:55, 25 September 2005 Joanjoc (Ibiza moved to Eivissa: Prefered name for the city/island, as seen on the oficial website; http://www.eivissa.org/)

NOT NPOV IN LANGUAGE POLICY, ANNA TEXT FROM
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sanbec&diff=prev&oldid=541695
==Nacionalismos==	
Hace unas noches que estuve borrando la categoría Comunidades autónomas de España y la subcategoría Illes Balears, puesto que ya hay una Category:Autonomous communities of Spain llena de comunidades y una Category:Islas Baleares, además de reunir y organizar las imágenes de las islas que estaban desperdigadas. Esta noche, entre un usuario Joan y dos o tres IPs 
(probablemente el  mismo usuario) estaban creadas de nuevo, además de artículos repetidos con los mismos contenidos en Minorca,  
Menorca, Mallorca, Majorca y una Eivissa que he trasladado a Ibiza. He arreglado el desaguisado, enviado lo que sobraba a [[:
Category:Candidates for speedy deletion|speedy deletion]] y dejado un mensaje a User talk:217.124.66.49, pero no sé si servirá 
de algo. Te aviso de todo el lío por si vuelve a las andadas y tú tienes más argumentos que esgrimir. Anna 01:56, 20 
July 2005 (UTC)
Category:Illes Balears
in View deleted pages
01:00, 20 July 2005 . . Anna (delete, there was already a Islas Baleares category, no need for another)
00:07, 13 July 2005 . . Anna (content moved to :Category:Islas Baleares)
Lleida
View deleted pages
Lleida
17:56, 23 April 2005 . . Anna (Lleida moved to Lérida)
Lérida
08:55, 22 June 2005 Mormegil (Lérida moved to Lleida)

•  Strong support Johnbojaen 23:08, 27 September 2005 (UTC) She's a great administrator at the Spanish Wikipedia, so she will be a great administrator at Commons, I'm sure.
•  Support --Wricardoh 23:22, 27 September 2005 (UTC). I know her at the Spanish wikipedia and any affirmation of her abusing adm powers there can not be sustained. The questions about the naming policies seem exagerated. Many places in Spain have two official names in two different languages and their most common use have changed even in the last five years. If you do not to live there you may be confused with the most right name.

El problema es que SÍ viven en España, concretamente Lmbuga, Xelo2004, Rocastelo y Prevert son gallegos, y Pau y Viktor catalanes, con lo que demuestran que lo único que quieren aquí es imponer su punto de vista sobre algo que ya está hablado y requetehablado, y les importa un pimiento que Anna sea una gran bibliotecaria. Lo de siempre. Johnbojaen 23:41, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

•  Support KRATK 00:02, 28 September 2005 (UTC) Oh, yeah!
•  Support Dani (hablemos) 00:27, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Strong support --Charlitos 00:34, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Strong supportFito hg 00:39, 28 September 2005 (UTC) Those opposing do so just to try and impose their own rules. She's a great administator on es.wiki and she will be so on commons :)
•  Support --Dianai 03:22, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose --ArinArin 06:30, 28 September 2005 (UTC) -> thread for this vote moved to User talk:ArinArin
•  Oppose --Martorell 09:08, 28 September 2005 (UTC) Premature nomination. Altough she is one of the best administrators in Spanish Wikipedia, it seems that she doesn't know yet the policies bias in Wikimedia Commons about the convention of names, where it's recommended specially to use endonyms and not exonyms for places.

Moved comments made by Ecemaml to my user talk page.

•  Oppose --Alyssalover 09:19, 28 September 2005 (UTC) I agree with Prevert and Martorell, she's ignoring te names conventions so, probably, if she became administrator, she will abusse of her powers

I don't think that Anna is ignoring any convention. As you point out, policy states native name. I don't know if native means official (it would support your statement) or name in the official language of the place (that way, Anna would not be violating anything). My personal opinion is that the policy is obscure (and can be interpreted) and your vote can be regarded as biased by your political option. --Ecemaml 10:24, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

•  Oppose Toniher 11:02, 28 September 2005 (UTC) I lament voting against anyone. But naming conventions is a hot topic and I am afraid of higher tension, I would suggest Anna to clarifiy her position about before any decision is adopted.
•  Support I believe Anna to be among the fairest-minded administrators I've ever worked with, and to the best of my knowledge she has no linguistic or political agenda to push. The allegedly broken rule on endonymy is ambiguous, in that both Catalan and Spanish are officially-spoken languages in Catalonia and the Balearic islands, as are Galician and Spanish; this should be clarified in policy before any heated arguments about her fitness for the position is called into question (that being said, I'm for the Catalan and Galician toponyms). Taragüí @ 11:34, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose I'm against what she is doing with the toponyms. If you want to put the official name of a town, you must put both languages and not only in Spanish (Alacant/Alicante, Castelló de la Plana/Castellón de la Plana, Eivissa/Ibiza, and so on), because of bilinguism of these Communities, but there are some towns that have only a Catalan, Galician or Basque toponym (you can see it in the road signs) like Lleida (not Lérida) or Girona (not Gerona) or Sanxenxo (not Sanjenjo). Please, follow the policy states native name.--Pepetps 12:40, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Strong support --La ratica 13:22, 28 September 2005 (UTC), who don't think a two months old incident should disqualify anyone. ¡Cuídate!
•  Support We are talking about spanish places set in spanish languages. That's how the'd be found in almost any spanish map (maybe different in little regional maps) so that's the language it should be written. Moreover, many spanish people wouldn't know what name that place has (i wouldn't have found Ibiza with that name and i'm spanish born). And people would try to find them at first by a guess with the name not duplicated/triplicated names. I don't start doing searches in three or four different names of a places to see if it's in commons or not. I'd assume it is not. Platonides 15:20, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support (de:) Longbow4u 15:23, 28 September 2005 (UTC) I can't believe that a veritable proxy war about languages in Spain is fought. If one steps back and cools down, there is a solution for everyone, as EugeneZelenko pointed out. This is not a vote to change Commons language policy. Anna has contributed constructively to Commons for several months and will be a good admin, too, I am sure.--user talk:Agremon 18:00, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose --user talk:Agremon 18:00, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
• Anna don't participate with mainlines and rules of the entire community in ralation with other Spanish languages. It's possible that in the future, can change and demonstrate this change. So, it's needed almost a time to favourish this change of mind in Anna.
•  Strong support --Taichi 21:30, 28 September 2005 (UTC): A great support for Anna, beacuase she looks all the pictures, and this is full patience.
•  Support --Venex 01:07, 29 September 2005 (UTC) More users who are able to speak spanish will be helpful
•  Support --Juanmak 08:37, 29 September 2005 (UTC) the toponyms war is absurd! cookie is way better than that.
•  Support --Rafaelji 16:46, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --Tony Rotondas 17:27, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose --Auztrel 03:56, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Cinabrium 04:26, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Ejrrjs 09:54, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose Diego UFCG 13:14, 1 October 2005 (UTC) - I have nothing personal against her. However, my vote is preventive because I think that official and native are different concepts. If both Castilian and Galician/Catalan are native, then the toponyms in these languages must coexist. If Spanish is official but not native the endonym is preferred. -Diego UFCG 13:14, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --Oscar . 07:05, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Strong support --Dodo 16:06, 2 October 2005 (UTC) ¡Bravo!
•  Strong support --Alexan (♦♦♦♦) 20:06, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

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==User:Marcela==

Since there are people needed that can delete obvious copivio, logos, etc. and Category:Unknown is growing bigger and bigger and pictures have been in there for months. I suggest this voluntary and great photographer to give us a hand. He always tries to compromise and tries to do his best and I will always support him in his doing if it is a questions, help, or anything else. --Paddy 00:20, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm a photographer and paddy has asked me for help to delete pictures with bad license. sorry for my bad English, I'm German and speak better Spanish or Czech. In the de WP I have more then 600 Pictures, I have uploaded all in de WP, because I did not find categories here and was confused which one to choose. Marcela 00:33, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Speaking for myself I see Ralf as a great contributor and he has found his way to commons. It took some time but he is getting more and more familiar with the place. It took me some time too and nobody is perfect. I am trying my best to start him off with the obvious stuff and we than we will see what is next. He is very willing to learn more and I am sure he will do great work on commons once he knows how to get stuff done as an administrator here, which has been a completely new experience for me too (as a former de sysop). Primarily I think he is a contributor and a great one too but I could use a little hand now and than. --Paddy 01:00, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Lets wait some Time with my Admin-Status here, i load all my new pictures now in the commons and I vote in the german WP for upload all in commons - let me Time to learn all here about the categories, I do my best... Marcela 19:50, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Support --Paddy 00:22, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 08:09, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Support villy ♦ ✎ 20:38, 15 September 2005 (UTC)  Neutral villy ♦ ✎ 15:49, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose This opposing voice is nothing personal. Really. I like the work of Marcela (aka Ralf) in the German Wikipedia and strongly supported his administration request there. He is very active in this Wikipedia. But in the Commons, he has nearly no experience. He did not upload his own about 600 pictures, because of the category problem he mentioned above. And he has only about 100 edits within this project. I know Marcela for quite a long time now and can't imagine that he really would like to be an administrator here. -- aka 19:29, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose agree with aka, I don't have a good feeling too. Darkone (¿!) 19:32, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Neutral, more administrators of Trust we have better it is. I trust Paddy who is a good administrator. But i'm agree with aka, and i need to be sure Marcela to change my vote in support. Petrus 01:54, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
• oppose ack aka. Ralf is pretty good in contributing or e.g. in solving conflicts between users and he is a nice and really friendly person, but afaik he absolutely dislikes sorting, categorising, tagging, (re)organising and (of course, as a photographer) deleting pretty but copyvio images - and that's what adminship in this project is mostly about. --:Bdk: 03:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose --Phroziac^(talk) 02:46, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
• Support --Magadan  ?! 23:22, 2 October 2005 (UTC) Ralf is one of our best image contributors on de.wp. If you are looking for someone who knows about photographing, ask him. English language skills should not be a criterion for adminship, as this is a multilingual, not an english-speaking project.
• Support -- Simplicius 20:00, 4 October 2005 (UTC) An excellent photographer and an expert in image editing.
•  Support - makes a great Job in the german Wiki - he will do here the same. Kenwilliams 20:50, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose ack aka and bdk --Jcornelius 13:13, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
• Neutral - I think, Marcela (known as Ralf) is a very good constibutor and photographer in the german Wikipedia and he is always willing to help anyone with problems about photography and other stuff and - at last but not least - I really like him based on personal contacts. But as aka said he is not really experienced in commons and he has some problems in understanding the english language which is the standard language in this project and in most licenses to read and understand. Greeting -- Necrophorus 09:44, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
• Neutral After more contributions, he will have my support. -- da didi 11:20, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support - is doing a great job in de:Wp --Schlendrian 21:31, 9 October 2005 (UTC) (failed)
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==Taw==

Short info about my involvement in Wikimedia projects: I'm a Wikipedian since August 2001, a sysop on English wikipedia, Polish wikipedia, Kashubian wikipedia and Polish wiktionary, and a bureaucrat on Polish wikipedia. I've been also involved in software development (math mode, some server administration, maps), but not much lately, and I'm operating bots Tawbot (on Polish wikipedia and Polish wiktionary mostly) and Summerbot (RC patrol for Polish wikipedia). For full transparency, the most recent cases were my actions were considered controversial by some:

• Tawbot performed a correction of links to redirects, about 100k edits, on Polish Wikipedia. As a lot more redirects than expected were broken, many people complained about its actions. There was even a vote to stop the bot, but most people voted to let it finish, and clean it later.
• Without any formal authority to do so (there were no procedures for such things on Polish Wikipedia), except for a quick poll, I banned a wikipedia troll Kwiecień (something like a Polish equivalent of Lir) for 2 weeks (later extended because he tried to ignore the ban) for a cooling-down period. Some people protested the way this ban was implemented, but almost nobody protested banning Kwiecień. The ban worked fine, and the temperature on the Polish wikipedia went down. Kwiecień returned after the ban, but his trolling seems to be a lot less effective. There were some attempts at implementing formal conflict resolution procedures on the Polish Wikipedia, but nothing is there yet.

On Commons I'm mostly uploading random photos I make and organizing them.

That should be a good enough reason to trust me not to screw anything here.

Now, why should I be a sysop on Commons.

• I do quite a few edits here and it's useful sometimes. I might have done fewer edits/uploads on Commons than average candidate, but read further :-)
• Quite often I (or my bots) find copyvio images on Polish Wikipedia that are uploaded to Commons. What I usually do is usually informing whichever Commons admin I see on #pl.wikipedia, it would be easier if I could simply delete them.
• I'd like to implement this proposal - Commons:Village_pump#Practical_multilingual_messages to make the Commons more friendly to users of languages other than English.
• I think about operating a bot that would move thousands of images from Polish wikipedia to Commons. Polish wikipedia is no-fair-use, so there's little reason to have anything uploaded there. Of course all images would have to be copyright-tagged, used and verified by someone. Sysop rights would really help with such actions. Taw 22:11, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Anna 21:12, 5 October 2005 (UTC) I like his multilingual proposal and we need more people who watch copyvios.
•  Support There are many Polish user here. As for bot upload, please take care about good categorization, Commons is already have FlickrLickr which is not great from this side... --EugeneZelenko 04:34, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
• Support --Paddy 16:38, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support PioM _EN DE PL 18:19, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
• support i see no problems -- da didi 11:22, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support. villy ♦ ✎ 21:45, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Joanot Martorell ✉ 05:50, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

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==PioM==

I'm participating with commons since 2004-11-02 (since 2004-10-10 I'm user at Polish Wikipedia, since 2005-05-24 I have sysop abilities on Polish Wikipedia), this was when we have gotten information (on Polish Wikipedia), that there was created such project to give possibilities to share images and other multimedia across all MediaWiki projects. Since that time I always place images created myself on commons.

Creating images I take care to prepare them for international use, so there are numbers to mark something (no text descriptions) (i.e. Image:Robal.png).

I have done also special pages, where anyone can order image, here is page for Coat of Arms or here for general diagrams Diagrams.

There was a big problem with vector graphic on MediaWiki, but since last month we can place SVG files, so I'm preparing to replace my PNG formated images on SVG vector images, in this proces there are sometimes problems that wiki doesn't render them correct. So there was many situations in which I have placed SVG image and saw that there is mistake in rendering, because there was some internal "error" in file format, so I had to change image and place it again (sometimes many times till it will look OK, after wiki rendering). That is why I ask you for sysop abilities, to be able to clean by myself after such mistaken uploads. Collection of images I have placed on Commons is quite big, so there can be many situations, when uploaded SVG file will not be correctly rendered and there will be need to upload new one without error making parts and delete that error causing file.

This month I will have my MSc final exam, so now I have some break, after that I will start operation of replacing my artworks (PNG into SVG).

Here some other my works: Benedict XVi CoA,1(images at the top of page),2, 3,4, 5,6,7, and many others.

Also often new user have some problems with uploading images (and co-cases, i.e. right, licensing), I try to present them the idea of commons and I'm giving them advices how to participate in this project, that is also the puropse why sysop abilities would be useful, because sometimes others ask you to help them, by changing something. -PioM _EN DE PL 19:29, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support PioM is a very trustworthy person, and he seems to have enough Commons experience. Taw 04:26, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support P A L L A D I N U S talk 22:51, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support stv ✉ 05:29, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Obviously trustworthy, and we need more multilingual admins (and admins from places other than en.wp in general). Alphax (talk) 00:41, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 14:35, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
•  SupportAnna 03:02, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

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==Duncharris==

I am an admin at w:en:.

I am finding myself over here quite often and it's a pain in the bum when I cock up and then can't delete things and then have to rely on someone else, which I don't like. I'm also doing a lot of organising of collections, and it would be generally really helpful.

You also really do need more admins doing sysop chores because there's not enough of you/us. Porn in CAT:CSD should be swiped asap but it often hangs around. Dunc|☺ 13:53, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Oppose Categorized mostly own images as for now. Ability to delete is important (but not main) admin tool. --EugeneZelenko 14:38, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Er, no. Most are images that I've sourced, or other's that I've sorted, a few I have taken myself. Dunc|☺ 15:46, 6 October 2005 (UTC) (failed)
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== User:Arnomane ==

I'm active within the Wikimedia Commons since 14. Jan. 2005 (first edit; my current number of edits should be also ok ;-) ) and I am involved in:

• Taking photos and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons (but see me within this realm as a amateur; Im by no means a professional), see User:Arnomane/Gallery.
• Asking institutions and individuals for releasing their images under free licenses, see User:Arnomane/Requests and meta:ESA images.
• Checking for proper licensed images, care about our image policy and it's application, see e.g. Template:Information and history of Commons:Licensing.
• Created the first (now outdated) version of Check-Usage, see User:Arnomane/Image usage.

My mother language is German but I do speak English (and poor French) als well. Apart from that you can find more personal info about me and many (but not all) of my "Wikimedia Universe" activities at my german userpage in de.wikipedia at de:Benutzer:Arnomane (in German). I'm also sysop in de.wikipedia.

I have a strong "copyright only" and "free images only" position but I don't want to enforce this against but with all involved people: I am always trying to find solutions for indvidual problems (most times helping creating or finding alternative free content). I'm strictly against restricting Wikimedia Commons images apart it is absolutely required by law (here: other than copyright) and if the image is useful for a Wikimedia project.

I want to be an admin at Wikimedia Commons as I want to help with licensing issues, image deletions and related things as I think we need more helping hands for that job. Arnomane 11:08, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support sure! -- da didi 11:18, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support We worked well and successful together in the past, we will in the future :) --Avatar 11:24, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support -- Duesentrieb^(?!) 11:42, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support — Richie 13:36, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --EugeneZelenko 13:40, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --Anathema 19:30, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Thuresson 15:55, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --Darkone (¿!) 09:21, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
•  Support - For willingness to tackle licensing issues. -- Solipsist 09:27, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
•  Support -- Schusch 09:28, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --W.wolny 10:51, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

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==brian0918==

I'm an admin on EN with over 16,000 edits. I've uploaded 500+ free images to Commons (and EN), 60+ videos, and 5+ audio files. You can see my free images list (and gallery), my free videos list, and my comparatively short free audio list. I also have 23 Featured Pictures on EN, either by me or uploaded by me. My most recent endeavor has been to expand "Geography of" articles for all the countries, and include at least 3 maps/satellite photos on each page. In that respect I've added dozens more free images to Commons (which haven't been added to the lists above). My next goal will probably be to expand every "History of" article into multiple pages, adding free images to all of them.

Thanks for your time. --brian0918 13:28, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support --Joanot Martorell ✉ 02:44, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
2.  Support --Pamri 06:12, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
3.  Support --fir0002 06:45, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
4.  Support --Duk 07:07, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
5.  Neutral Had a difficulties with understanding Commons goals in the past (List of victims of the 1913 Great Lakes storm) --EugeneZelenko 13:55, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
   • Not a difficulty, just a misunderstanding. Commons content should be easily accessible to all languages. That list of mine was not. --Brian0918 01:45, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
6.  Support - an active and sensible user. -- Solipsist 09:25, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
7.  Support Greudin
8.  Support -- Alphax (talk) 09:32, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

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==Saperaud==

My time is limited and I won't be able to clean up systematically. Anyhow I could do some work while completing projects like Element, Mineral, Cloud or weather and geosciences in general. Saperaud 23:48, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Support done great so far AFAIK! We need the help. --Paddy 23:55, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
• Support Why not? --Jcornelius 23:59, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
• Support. --Philipendula 00:15, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Absolutely. --EugeneZelenko 15:20, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Support Romary 11:57, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
• Support. villy ♦ ✎ 12:33, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
• Support Well known user. --Herrick 09:17, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
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==Thryduulf==

I've been a contributor to Wikimedia projects, starting with the English Wikipedia, since 26 December 2005. I have been an administrator there since 2 June 2005 At Commons my first upload was in January 2005 - Image:BridgnorthCliffRailway-looking-down.jpg, I've made over 430 other uploads since then (almost all of them are in category:Photos by Chris McKenna). Recently I've been doing a lot of categorisation work, both of my images and those of others.

If I was an administrator here then I would use it as I use my adminship at en.wp - helping out where I can. For example I would clear out (after checking of course!) the awaiting speedy-deletion category, and close some old deletion debates. I would obviously use it to delete mistakes I make (the name of a file on my hard disk is usually very different to the name that is suitable for here, but occasionally I forget to change it). I would also like to implement non-controversial changes to mediawiki pages that have been made at en and found to be good (for example making the error message displayed when you go to your monobook.js file for the first time friendlier).

Also, I check the village pump regularly and like to be able to help users directly there rather than giving an answer that says that they have to wait even longer. Thryduulf 23:07, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Support Very friendly and helpful Commoner, active on COM:VP, which is exactly what commons admins should be. pfctdayelise 01:10, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support Commons needs more admins, despite the existing elitist bunch not wanting any more. Dunc|☺ 10:12, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support I thought Thryduulf was already member of the elitist bunch. Thuresson 13:55, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support. villy ♦ ✎ 16:10, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• Hah @ Duncharris, anyway, support. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 11:34, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support. --Klemen Kocjancic 13:29, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support. —Theo (Talk) 11:54, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

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==Omegatron==

I've been an admin on en since January 28, 2005 and wikibooks since Summer 2005. I mostly just use it for maintenance, cleaning up vandalism, deleting unused images, etc. — Omegatron 21:42, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Support Romary 12:00, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
• Support Klemen Kocjancic 10:06, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
• Support A good admin at en.wp. Thryduulf 23:14, 3 December 2005 (UTC) (failed)
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==Fastfission==

I've been an admin on en for a few months now, but have been Wiki-ing about here and there for a number of years. My only real goal with being an admin on commons is helping clean up obvious copyvios, speedy deletes, and so forth, which seem to get backed up pretty bad. I've been uploading things to commons for some time, and have been trying to help sort copyright status out whenever I find something amiss. There is more information about me on my page at en, if you are curious. Thank you for your consideration. --Fastfission 06:49, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Votes

• Support. Thryduulf 09:11, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support. villy ♦✎ 14:02, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support. EugeneZelenko 05:09, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support but I don't think you should rdr your Talk page to your user page. Commons users should be able to reach commons admins on commons. pfctdayelise 14:10, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Makes sense, fixed that. --Fastfission 00:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --Joanot Martorell ✉ 21:24, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

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==Jcornelius==

I nominate Jcornelius for adminship. Jcornelius has 4000+ edits on the commons and uploaded 750+ media files. He is also admin in de. In comparison to others (like me, oh my god) he is young in age, but sometimes I wish, others will take an example on his (usefull) productivity. His main work area is subway-related stuff and the city Berlin but he also has other interests. Main reason for nominating him is, that he re-organises categories while transferring lot of de stuff into the commons. So he needs to ask admins constantly to delete stuff. IMHO it will be reasonable to grant him admin rights. I talked to him about this topic and I also emphasized, that we need admins who will do work in the main topics of working on deletion requests and unfree tagged images. He was happy to agree. I notified him of this post. --Avatar 21:18, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support of course. Otherwise I wouldn't have nominated him. --Avatar 21:20, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support - sensible guy, good work, know him personally. --Elya 21:24, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support I just wanted to nominate him right now but Avatar was faster. I'd like to add that he does also a lot of work organizing the Picture of the day. --Mazbln 22:01, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Support on condition he wants adminship (I cannot find anywhere where he has formally accepted the nomination). Thryduulf 23:03, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
  •  Neutral following Paddy's comments below. I have not had any bad experiences with Jcornelius, and I would like to hear his side of the story, but until then I don't feel I can support in good faith. Thryduulf 11:09, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support i support Cornelius for adminship too. I also know him personally and he is really grown-up for his age. I'm sure he will do a good job. --BLueFiSH ?! 01:15, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose I had a conflict with him here on commons and I thought I could forgive and forget. I changed of mind based on the following thoughts. His change that time was utter nonsense! He even forced a move here move there war until I blocked the page. Even after two other people and me gave him many arguments he did not understand. OK that is the past. Next thing is that I see no point to give someone who radically disrespects advice from experienced users like e.g. histograf any sysop status. IMHO a good indicator track down someone who has simply not understood copyright and does not ask for advice but insists on his opinion. All typical pubertal behaviour. I do not oppose younger sysops in general. I worked together with a sysop from de on commons today who is even younger. Good ideas bright mind! But we were a team and there is no "I" in team! Last but not least I do not see his commons experience. Usually if in doubt or if on has a difficult problem the matter must be tackled by asking other people. I do not see this kind of behaviour from him. Furthermore Image:Berlin Naturkundemuseum Brachiosaurus henningsphoto de.jpg does he really know that photos in a non public places are not free? I do not see en:Image:BerlinSchoenefeldAirport.jpg has a free license look at the history! I have no time to find more of these. Sorry all the facts are enough for me right now. No Sir! --Paddy 04:57, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

  I thought we do not accept photos from pixelquelle? More examples? Look in his contributions:

  1. Image:Train station Berlin Alexanderplatz 1999 pixelquelle.jpg
  2. Image:ICC Berlin pixelquelle.jpg
  3. Image:Naturkundemuseum Berlin.jpg permissions from museum?
  4. Image:Central RER network.png I doubt the public domain of the map!
  5. Image:Berlin Philharmonie Modell.jpg GFDL I see! Panoramafreiheit? No definitely not.
  6. Image:Paris Metro Ticket.JPG borderline
  7. Image:Online poker adverts on London Underground.jpg would not a deletion request have been more appropriate? I know it was probably the time of the puss ass guy but still you should not completly stop thinking. Ads are simply not allowed. And this is not even in the context of Panoramafreiheit
  8. Image:MVG Streik Muenchen.jpg cc-by-sa? no way!
  9. Image:Bilbao Metro Map 1.png *LOL*
  10. Image:London Underground Zone1 Anschlaege.png see deleted edit: "Based on Image:London Underground Zone1.png which seems to be stolen from 1, more specifically this large map" Uploader: 2005-07-07 10:59:26 . . Jcornelius ({{English}} * Jcornelius * 2005 * cc-by-sa {{cc-by-sa}}) ... --Paddy 19:59, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Avatar for the nomination. Paddy: I asked in the german IRC channel, there they told me that pixelquelle is allowed. Sorry, if it's not possible. en:Image:BerlinSchoenefeldAirport.jpg: I trust Morwen, because she's an important and trustable person in the English Wikipedia therefore: Why not? Image:Berlin Naturkundemuseum Brachiosaurus henningsphoto de.jpg Yes, I know that (normally) photos at these places are not allowed. But did you know that Lars Hennings, the author of this photo, is a professional photographer? He asked at the museum, so I thought that image would be okay. All other are sophistries, e.g. advertising image. I don't saw that.. pubertal behaviour – no comment --Jcornelius 21:37, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

To remind you: AFAIK Dab., AndreasP and I (all administrators here) have have been telling you in the IRC how naming on commons works. You did not listen to any of us and moved the article according to your needs while the discussion was going on. As I said I would have forgotten. But since you want to know I tell you why I call your behaviour pubertal behaviour. greetings --Paddy 21:51, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Just a quick reminder: from 500 images I had a look at in the special log 12 (2,4% even though not all of the 500 uploads have been "really" new images) are either borderline or clear ©-vio and one of them has been deleted. AFAIK no Image of mine has been deleted so far because of ©-vio. I have been working here for more than one year. greetings --Paddy 22:09, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Strong support. I disagree completely to Paddy, sounds more like self-description... Sansculotte 16:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Support. Concrete examples for the mentioned misbehaviour would be nice. Statements like "All typical pubertal behaviour" are contra-productive. --Crux 16:14, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Joanot Martorell ✉ 15:48, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Strong support I never had any problems with Jcornelius on de-wiki. No clue what Paddys problem is, I never trusted him anyway. --Voyager 10:34, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

• Support. Of course. --AndreasPraefcke 19:24, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

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==Nicholas Shanks==

I am an admin on the English and Latin wikipedias (English RfA, Latin was by personal request), and would like also to be a sysop on Commons, for the basic purpose of helping to maintain a tidy ship. My immediate spur for requesting today however is that I was getting HTTP errors trying to upload a file, and upon it working, I discovered it had worked the previous times too, and I would like to delete those duplicate uploads :-) [12:57, 9 December 2005]

Votes

•  Oppose for now. Small experience on Commons. --EugeneZelenko 15:57, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose for now. Not much experience on commons and not much evidence of admin actions at en.wp. If you had lots of experience of implementing policy at en without much dispute (by en.wp standards at least ;)) then I'd be most likely to vote neutral. Ask again when you've had more experience here and I'll gladly reconsider. Thryduulf 16:12, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose for now. Ditto Thryduulf. villy ♦✎ 13:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC) (failed)
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==Ananda==

I am active on Ja projects especially on wikipedia. I have no adminships on any of wikimedia projects. I would like to be an sysop for helping the commons' projects. I am also afraid of that there are few sysops who are fluent Japanese speakers here.--Ananda 13:56, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support He also speaks th.Searobin 13:58, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support avec plaisir ignis* 14:04, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support , strongly 賛成 he fluently speak ja, en, th and has certain knowledge about japanese copyrights and trademark, AND has good sense of pictures!!--Suisui 14:05, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Kstigarbha 14:11, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Tanadesuka 14:38, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Suguri F 15:17, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Tomomarusan 15:18, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support kahusi (會話) 15:26, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Miya 15:43, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Yosemite 08:46, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support pfctdayelise 12:00, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support - AFIAK, he has a good knowledge of copyright matters and is one of the not-so-many active Japanese users on commons. - Marsian / talk 14:00, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Greudin 15:20, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

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== Yug ==

To vote for others administrator too : Commons:Administrators/Requests and votes.

A good work by french Wikigraphists :

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Hello, I'm an active user of wiki-fr and commons, I ask the adminship on commons because that can be more convenient in my works :

• the Chinese stroke order:Project
• the french Graphic Desktop - a french team of ~10 infographists working to improve Wikipedia.
• the maps than I make.

I will not be really active against vandalism but I need to be able to delete my own files faster to be more efficient. Obviously, if I meet some situation where I will be able to help faster I will do it :] . I'm french, I speak english, and I understand spanish and chinese. < PS: my english is still improving :] > Yug (talk) 16:50, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support. Sympathetic admin of the French Wikipedia. Kate's count gives: on the Commons from April 22th, 2005 (1645 edits, + than 200 images). As to me, that's just fine. villy ♦✎ 20:47, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Dake 16:44, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support : motivé et actif, Commons a besoin de gens comme ça. le Korrigan ^bla 16:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support. Good reasons to give him adminship rights. Poppy 17:43, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Cool guy, mades a nice job on w:fr (: Tvpm 19:31, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support, no problem. Ollamh 21:10, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Romary 23:28, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Greudin
•  Support Med 00:15, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support -- Fabien1309 09:05, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support, actif et de confiance. K!roman 11:43, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support, nice work Jef-Infojef 12:08, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Dr gonzo 12:27, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support, serieux et motivé. Boeb'is 12:34, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support, --Joanot Martorell ✉ 08:06, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Alvaro 23:55, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

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==Zscout370==

Zach has been contributing to the Commons since February, uploading over 500 images, including a lot of SVG flags. In August, he was made an administrator at the English Wikipedia (see w:Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Zscout370). I think Zach will make a good admin here, too. User:dbenbenn 17:14, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I accept this nomination. If this passes, I will not let you down. Zach ^{(Smack Back)} 21:53, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support User:dbenbenn 17:14, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support I trust the summary of dbenbenn :] Yug (talk) 17:20, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Definitely. Very accurate user and great contributor. --EugeneZelenko 18:53, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support. villy ♦✎ 20:54, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support. Zach is a great admin on en and I trust dbenbenn. Thryduulf 23:25, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Good admin, good attention to copyright issues. Fastfission 18:16, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Greudin
•  Support --Joanot Martorell ✉ 08:06, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Romary 08:32, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Porao 10:46, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 16:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Thuresson 06:23, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Patrick-br ^msg 10:56, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Nominated in 2006

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==Martorell==

I think here is necessary not only more admins who talks Spanish (there are only 2 Spanish-speakers today), but also people with a high sense of multilingualism, as Common is. In fact, my mother tongue is Catalan, a European language wich is minorized nowadays. Briefly, I'm contributing here helping to users from Catalan wikipedia when they upload something here and doesn't notice correctly the source and the license of the media file. My personal contribs in Commons, according to Kate's editcounter, are more than 1200 files uploaded, and more than 3500 editings (2500 of them on description section on pages of images), since December 2004. I'm experienced about wiki code, wikimedia world, as I started to be admin on Catalan Wikipedia in January 2005. Joanot Martorell ✉ 10:46, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Votes

 Oppose. Commons does need more admins, particularly ones who can speak languages that are under-represented in the current admin pool. However, an admin does need to understand and work within commons policies. From what I can tell from your talk page (although I cannot speak Spanish or Catalan so I may not have got the whole picture), your actions with regard to languages on Commons have been rather controversial. I also note a request for mediation less than a month ago regarding a dispute related to languages. At this time this does not make me feel like you would make a good admin here. Thryduulf 12:40, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Sure! This request was made by me because of a user who was deleting every text in Catalan on description pages because of political backgrounds. I wouldn't made this mediation request if I didn't know the policies on Commons. My request was made on Village Pump, as everyone can check [12].--Joanot Martorell ✉ 17:12, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

•  Support--user talk:Agremon 21:59, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Rocastelo^(talk) 18:05, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Xelo2004 18:21, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--David Gaya 18:35, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Toniher 18:46, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Llull 19:32, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Vedranell 20:19, 6 January 2006 (UTC) I've seen his user page and I have read he has had discussions with some users by the subject of the language (as Thryduulf has said). I'm sure he is not a vandal (as someone says in his discussion page). Also I belive will be useful it there is here an administrator from catalan wikipedia because thus we can solve here our problems easily and quickly. he is an active user in commons and in w:ca and a good admin.
•  Strong support Yrithinnd 20:24, 6 January 2006 (UTC) Of course !!
•  Support--xcaballe 21:38, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Pepetps 21:28, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Andarella 22:11, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Puigalder 23:05, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Xadaga 00:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Glm 02:14, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Pau 07:32, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

•  Neutral--Javier Carro 09:13, 7 January 2006 (UTC) I'd like to say some things about this candidate. Martorell is a very constant user, active in many Wikimedia projects, he tends to respect other views in discussions, multilinguist and linguistics lover and a significant user in Catalan Wikipedia. All these reasons make me to think he should be a very good candidate for administrator here. However I vote neutral because in several discussions I had the impression that his ideology has been quite influential. I would like to encourage him to make an effort on neutrality if he administrates commons, doesn't matter his ideology, but just to leave it home when he uses the administration powers, then he would have my total support. --Javier Carro 09:13, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Pmmollet 13:11, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Peleguer 17:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Vicentb 20:16, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
  • There is no such user as Vicentb, the above vote is actually from user:83.36.222.6. Thryduulf 21:26, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Prevert^(talk) 12:42, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Lmbuga 12:49, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Alyssalover 20:45, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Joanjoc 22:23, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--SMP 15:07, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Periku 22:48, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Xosé 00:33, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - 54^MHz 01:49, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Friviere 22:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Porao 05:05, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Jordi 11:14, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Aljullu 20:25, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Vicens 20:53, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support One more day for adminship! -- WB 05:30, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Vilallonga 09:52, 15 feb 2006 (UTC)
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==Water Bottle==

A member since May 2005; although not alot, I have about 450 edits as I am writing this. I can contribute few languages: Korean (mother tongue; no admins in Commons speak Korean right now), English, conversational Spanish, and very little French. Although I am not a heavy uploader, I'm am truly interested in helping out doing the admin activities, (i.e. deletion requests, redundant images category, etc.) and I believe I can do well. I also promise to stay active in the project. Go ahead ask any questions either below or on my talk page. Thank you. WB 01:45, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support He seems to be working really hard lately. Good luck! - 54^MHz 01:50, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Thank you. -- WB 01:50, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- has done a lot, strongly support Tawker 01:58, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral {{oppose}} - because of the seesaw with deleting his own/his parents pictures. --BLueFiSH ?! 03:46, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
  • As I told Reisio, Wikipedia:Assume good faith. As bad as that might have seemed, look at the other things he's been doing lately in the deltion requests. Although that case might be a bit strange, I think that's not gonna interfere with the admin abilities. -- Pringles ✈ 05:10, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
    • i changed my vote to neutral. the vfd was very strange to me. furthermore i thought he is something like a "newbie" ;-) --BLueFiSH ?! 18:04, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Diligent contributor. -- Pringles ✈ 05:10, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support pfctdayelise 13:04, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -Thryduulf 09:06, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support －Ananda (阿難陀) ๛ 19:07, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose - I have my doubts after the business with WB's parents' photos. Thuresson 20:00, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Joanot Martorell ✉ 11:44, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - Bastique 00:00, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - Solipsist 19:24, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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==pfctdayelise==

I have had an account on commons since October 2005. I have over 500 total edits, and have uploaded over 50 photos (many of them just this week, to improve our Tennis page) and take part in COM:VP and COM:FPC. I speak English and intermediate Chinese. I really like the commons project ideals and community, and I am interested in helping out with admin-type duties such as copyvio deletion. (I am pretty familiar with copyright basics, and do pretty well on Australia PD issues.) I try to promote commons on en: as well (I wrote most of w:Wikipedia:Commons). I like assisting newbies too. pfctdayelise 04:29, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support — Pixel8 08:20, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -Thryduulf 09:06, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- WB 16:39, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support－Ananda (阿難陀) ๛ 19:14, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. villy ♦✎ 21:19, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support－Bastique 23:59, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support－ Solipsist 19:23, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Shizhao 17:56, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support- --Lumijaguaari 04:43, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
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==Bastique==

I have a total number of edits of 479 and image uploads of 189. While I've got over 4,000 edits at English Wikipedia and 2,235 at Irish language Wikipedia I've no interest in becoming an admin in either place. However, I've come to realize it's time for me to offer myself for more availability. Disputes at Commons seem to be less subjective than on the wikipedia side, given the nature of media. I'm more interested in cleaning up, deleting marked files, replacing image usage on redundant files, etc.; however I would be available for other action if required. I read French and Spanish fluently, and have a modest level of conversation in either language.

Votes

•  Support. Bastique would make a good admin on en, and I see no reason to doubt her (iirc) suitability here Thryduulf
•  Support Good luck! -- WB 03:55, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I think it should be a requirement for all commons admins to have Commons:Babel boxes on their userpage (what is ga:? ...Gaelic?). It is not at the moment, so I'll just say I think it is a very good idea. pfctdayelise 16:50, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I've modified my qualifications and added Commons:Babel box to my own user page. Bastique 18:02, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

•  Supportpfctdayelise 00:07, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. --Lumijaguaari 05:39, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjancic 15:18, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

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==Shizhao==

My ID is 10 in Commons. I is admin in zh wikimedia and wikisource.org ,meta. I also is steward. I have a total number of edits of 3254 and images uploads of 877. I can help check copyright of image and cleanup Deletion requests. I also help Featured picture candidates--Shizhao 17:53, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support－Ananda (阿難陀) ๛ 04:25, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --EugeneZelenko 05:56, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support pfctdayelise 12:30, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. villy ♦✎ 16:12, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Thryduulf 17:57, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose Valepert 18:34, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose Emc2 18:42, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Good luck Bas ^parler _voir 13:08, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjancic 15:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Joanot Martorell ✉ 19:16, 24 January 2006 (UTC) Of course.

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==W.wolny==

My primary domain are pictures from WW1 & WW2 and I have a a total Edit-Count of 1.895 edits since 2005-01-23; uploaded pictures: 1.670. As a member of the german wikipedia since 2004-05-17 my total Edit-count there ist 6.622 (→ de). For categorization, cleanup and licensing in historical pictures about the area of the world wars it will be helpful to be a commons-admin. --W.wolny 18:44, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Votes

• Support. He is uploading many good pictures and maps and i think he is able to work as an administrator. -- John N. (@ me) 18:50, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Support - My first such vote (support or otherwise) on the Commons :-) His work here has impressed me, and I'm sure he'll make a fine admin. SoLando (Talk) 19:41, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- WB 06:54, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - -- Tobnu 11:27, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Darkone 23:40, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support aka 08:34, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Bas ^parler _voir 13:09, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjancic 15:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

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==Spangineer==

I've had an account here for about a year now, and have around 200 edits. I've been adding images sporadically ever since I opened the account, but over the last few weeks I've taken to working on categorization and cleanup, and there's alot of it to be done. Special:Uncategorized categories has tons of empty categories in it that should be deleted, and I think I can help out with that. I've been an admin on the English wikipedia for about 6 months, and I'm a frequent editor on the Spanish wikipedia. --Spangineer^en es (háblame) 02:02, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Bastique 00:00, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Good luck! -- WB 01:45, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjancic 15:18, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Porao 12:47, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

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==Radomil==

I have over 2000 editions on Commons with over 1300 graphics uploaded, I'm admin of pl:wiki. When I'm sending photos on commons I often find a mess in articles or categories. I'm usualy trying to fix problem, but without admin's tools it is not always possible. It would also makes easier to me to help users from pl:wiki who ask me sometimes to do something with their problems in here. And last reason - when I'm uploading potos, as a human, I sometimes makes mistakes. It would give me chance to fix them on my own without asking other admins Radomil talk 23:08, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Votes

• PRO --WarX 23:12, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
• support / tsca ✉ 23:13, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Darkone 23:40, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support pfctdayelise 14:50, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• support Ajsmen91 15:15, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• This is very good user on pl wiki.  Support Pietras1988 15:22, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Bas ^parler _voir 13:10, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjancic 15:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Taw 13:36, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Reytan 13:39, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Joymaster 13:51, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Przykuta 13:58, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Szumyk 14:05, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

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==Lumijaguaari==

Hello all commoners. I've had an account here since the end of June 2005 and have 700+ edits. I've uploaded close to 200 pictures, maybe 60-70% of which are self-shot photographs, rest mainly photos and paintings found elsewhere. In addition to uploading, I've worked with categorizing - areas like Helsinki ('twas a mess), opera and classical music and sports-related categories. So far a bulk of my wikitime has been spent at the fi-wiki, where I've had an account since Sep 2004 - I have about 10,000 edits there. I'd also like to think that I've learned from past errors like uploading an old pic with unclear age-related copyright and now know the ropes well enough. I can help with cleanup, categorization and reorganizing. Commons is great and I want to help it become even smoother and better instead of it just getting bigger and bigger. hope to hear from U, . Lumijaguaari 06:36, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Votes

 Support Lumijaguaari seems like he would make a good administrator. Bas ^parler _voir 13:11, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

•  Support --Klemen Kocjancic 15:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support pfctdayelise 13:11, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Besednjak 22:02, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
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==Fred Chess==

Hi, I'd like to become an admin. I'm a trusted member, having been here since May 2005, during which time I have uploaded lots of media files (some self-taken, some from other wikipedias; for a selection see user:Fred chessplayer/gallery), creating a category structures at category:Sweden and helping out at Deletion Requests and commons:Village pump. / Fred Chess 20:20, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support - I know its the standard cliché, but I did think you were one already. Thryduulf 12:37, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --EugeneZelenko 15:49, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 20:28, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support good work. --Lumijaguaari 05:52, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• comment I think Fred Chess has contributed a great deal to wikipedia. However, I want assurances that he will strictly adhere to guidelines regarding deletion policy before I affirm my vote. Bas ^parler _voir 14:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Have you read my response on my discussion page? / Fred Chess 18:22, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- I believe that in spite of his response to me Fred Chess will use good judgment Bas ^parler _voir 14:54, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Besednjak 22:06, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
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==Klemen Kocjancic==

I'm already bureacrat on sl.wikibooks, and admin on sl.wikipedia and sl.wikiquote. My main reason for asking to be admin is, that I want to clean-up Commons of all empty pages or with nonsense material. Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 09:34, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Zach ^{(Smack Back)} 07:50, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Radomil talk 12:58, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Missmarple 16:09, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• comment Oftentimes, new administrators become clean happy and delete files that do not merit deletion in accordance with policy. I would like assurances that this will not happen. Bas ^parler _voir 14:56, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

• I would delete only pages, that: a) have clear case of vandalizem or b) is empty (all according to Commons:Deletion guidelines). I would stay away of deletion of files. Regards, --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 16:39, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

•  Support Reytan 07:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Bas ^parler _voir 14:54, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
• gathering support through the system of sympathy votes is unethical. That is the only reason I withhold my support strongly. Besednjak 22:12, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose --Janeznovak 07:28, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Andrejj 12:43, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Ziga 13:55, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
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==Dijxtra==

I've been here for few months now (see my stats) and had absolutely no disputes whatsoever. I mostly do moving images from en to commons, recategorising in subcategories of Category:Croatia, requesting deletions, etc. I don't remember any category I requested to be deleted got the {{delete}} tag removed. On the other hand, my talk page's empty (is that really a bad thing?), I uploaded quite a small number of images (as I said, I mostly mess with categories), and I'm not an admin on en (I was nominated, but I refused the nomination because I didn't feel ready for it; now I do feel ready for it but I will not do a self-nom as I don't miss the admin tools that bad). On the other other hand, there's no Commons admin speaking hr or sr (the sh tag I have on my user page means I'm fluent in both hr and sr), and the stuff I do on Commons is realy the admin stuff so I'd realy benefit from those tools. If I get elected to adminship, I'll broaden my field of action to Category:Serbia and Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina (note that I didn't have major disputes on en, a Serb nominiated me for an admin there). --Dijxtra 22:14, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Votes

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==Reytan==

My edits: [13] on Commons, I'm admin of pl:wiki and bureaucrat of pl:Wikibooks. When I'm sending photos on commons I often find a mess in articles or categories. I'm usualy trying to fix problem, but without admin's tools is not always possible. It would also makes easier to me to help users from pl:wiki who ask me sometimes to do something with their problems in here. And last reason - when I'm uploading potos, as a human, I sometimes make mistakes. It would give me chance to fix them on my own without asking other admins Reytan 13:43, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Reytan is trustworthy and seems to be doing a bit of work on Commons. Taw 13:47, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Since I know him very good from the Polish wiki, and know he's doing some good work on Commons, support. Datrio 13:50, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Joymaster 13:52, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Radomil talk 13:52, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Przykuta 13:58, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Szumyk 14:07, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 04:22, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Polimerek 11:11, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Kalium 11:19, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Bartrust 12:53, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --WarX 09:21, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
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==Joymaster==

My edits: [14] on Commons, I'm admin of pl:wiki. When I'm sending photos on commons I often find a mess in articles or categories. I'm usualy trying to fix problem, but without admin's tools is not always possible. It would also makes easier to me to help users from pl:wiki who ask me sometimes to do something with their problems in here. And last reason - when I'm uploading photos, as a human, I sometimes make mistakes. It would give me chance to fix them on my own without asking other admins Joymaster 00:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

FOR

• Polimerek 08:10, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
• Reytan 11:43, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
• --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 13:32, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
• Radomil talk 19:57, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Taw 20:06, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Ausir 23:14, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
• support / tsca ✉ 22:36, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Datrio 22:39, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Szwedzki 22:40, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support PioM _EN DE PL 22:52, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

1.  Support aegis maelstrom δ 18:14, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

AGAINST

DISCUSSION

• Joymaster has been made an administrator. - Andre Engels 23:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

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==grm_wnr==

Hi, I'm grm_wnr, mainly active on en, and have been an admin there for about eight months, without controversy. I've used Commons for about a year, but did not become really active here until about two months ago, with a spike in contributions this month, when I cleaned up most of the pages surrounding Apple Macintosh. I've also started to regularily check out community processes like COM:DEL and COM:VP. That objective is nearing completion now, but I decided I quite like it here on Commons and would like to keep contributing heavily. As an admin, I would attend to some of the "dangerous" cleanup categories like {{Copyvio}} and {{Unknown}}. More importantly, I plan to move images with bad, wrong and misleading names to better ones a lot. Of course, I will be happy to respond to your questions and comments. ^grm_wnr 09:46, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support. Alphax (talk) 07:50, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Spangineer^en es (háblame) 05:43, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Aranda56 04:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 22:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jacopo86 17:46, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

• Grm_wnr has been made an administrator. - Andre Engels 23:08, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

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==Fir0002==

Hi! My name is Peter, or User:Fir0002, and I'd like to humbly put myself up for adminship. One of the main reason I am requesting adminship is so that I can delete images such as Image:MG 7005.jpg which I've uploaded so that it can be identified by people experienced in the relevant field. I feel I have made quite a lot of valuable contributions and I think I'm trustworthy enough to be intrusted with Adminship. fir0002 04:40, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Votes

FOR

1.  Supportmayooresan
2.  Support EugeneZelenko 16:01, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support --Brian0918 04:57, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support --Spangineer^en es (háblame) 05:43, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support Fred Chess 05:49, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 22:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support Jon Harald Søby 10:01, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support--Shizhao 13:38, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

AGAINST

DISCUSSION

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==Essjay==

I'm a fairly active user on Commons; I'm here nearly every day, even if I don't actually make an edit (looking for images, etc.) I'm also an admin on en.wikipedia, en.wikiquote, and Meta. My basic reason for requesting adminship is to help out with some of the deletion backlog; I frequently run into images that are tagged for speedy deletion (for instance, the .png images that have been replaced with .svg and are no longer used on any projects). I don't anticipate becoming one of the "power admins" here, but I would like to be able to help out by taking care of things as I see them. Additionally, I'm usually in the Commons IRC channel, and would be available to the users who frequently come into the channel looking for a Commons admin. Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 07:10, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Votes

FOR

1.  Support--Shanel 07:18, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support--Dakota ~ 07:39, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support--RED DEVIL 666 07:39, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support--Thryduulf 09:46, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support Jon Harald Søby 10:01, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support --^grm_wnr 14:34, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support --FireFox 18:07, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support --Aranda56 03:26, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support -- Psy guy 15:11, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support Guanaco 02:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support Siva1979 09:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support Ausir 23:16, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support Taw 23:37, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
14. super  Support Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 12:33, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support --Cspurrier 16:05, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support --Helios89 17:11, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
17.  Support Datrio 22:38, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support Szwedzki 22:41, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
19.  Support PioM _EN DE PL 22:53, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
20.  Support aegis maelstrom δ 22:58, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
21.  Support Chick Bowen 04:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
22. support --M7 11:37, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
23.  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 22:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
24.  Support Celestianpower 09:28, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
25.  Support --Snowdog 00:18, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

AGAINST

DISCUSSION

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==Red devil 666 (Roman pride)==

I am an Italian user. At the moment there are no Italian admins on Commons. I would like to have adminship to better link Italian projects with Commons, and of course also to help with maintenance work on Commons. I am frequently on the Commons IRC channel and could help the users who often look for admins there. --RED DEVIL 666 13:06, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

My Edit count

Votes

FOR

1.  Support-Mayooresan
2.  Support Finally! Ausir 13:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 13:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support of course --Kal-El☺^{qui post!} 13:18, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support --Valepert 13:23, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support --Ggonnell 13:27, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support --SCDBob 13:50, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support --Rosco 14:02, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support --εΔω 14:30, 11 February 2006 (UTC) You proved patient in explaining licences and policies in it.wiki, you deserve nothing less than this. (I'd nevere thought I'd promote a devil in all my life!) Per la pazienza e l'impegno nel sorbirti le nostre richieste di spiegazioni, per l'esperienza indiscussa nel campo! Go go go!
10.  Support --Zinn 15:00, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support --Helios89 15:01, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support He's creating a few interesting templates both here and on it.wiki. Trust this guy. --Cruccone 15:11, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support--Archenzo 15:14, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support --[TWICE28.0^TM] / [αω'^':-)] 15:38, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support Frieda 15:46, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 15:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
17.  Support --Lbreda 15:57, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support --Moroboshi 16:06, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
19.  Support --Fabexplosive 16:11, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
20.  Support --Horatius 16:56, 11 February 2006 (UTC)Trust this Devil, he'll warm you up!
21.  Support WinstonSmith 17:02, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
22.  Support strong yes! Datrio 17:06, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
23.  Support --Urby2004 17:46, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
24.  Support --Jacopo86 17:47, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
25.  Support-- Hellisp 18:05, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
26.  Support --Salvatore Ingala 18:13, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
27.  Support --Cryptex 18:31, 11 February 2006 (UTC) Dopo averti rotto in IRC è il minimo che io possa fare ^_^
28.  Support —The Doc 18:44, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
29.  Support --Qualc1 18:48, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
30.  Support —Nuovoastro 18:50, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
31.  Support --Biopresto 19:01, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
32.  Support --Gatto Nero 19:30, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
33.  Support Taw 22:37, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
34.  Support Szwedzki 22:41, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
35.  Support aegis maelstrom δ 23:03, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
36.  Support MarcoB (msg ) 23:14, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
37.  Support --Paginazero 23:28, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
38.  Support IPork 23:58, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
39.  Support :-) --Civvi 00:05, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
40.  Support --Senza nome.txt 01:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
41.  Support --Raymond de 07:49, 12 February 2006 (UTC) I know him from IRC and his works are fine
42.  Support MM 08:12, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
43.  Support--Senpaiottolo 09:15, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
44.  Support --Starlight 10:01, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
45.  Support Nick1915 10:10, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
46.  Support —Lalupa 10:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
47.  Support --Lucha 10:33, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
48.  Support --Gvf 11:15, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
49.  Support --M7 11:32, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
50.  Support --Leoman3000 14:36, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
51.  Support --SkY` 15:31, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
52. support notafish }<';> 16:05, 12 February 2006 (UTC) and whoever changes my support for this terrible template will hear from me ;-)
53.  Support --piero tasso 17:41, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
54.  Support --Dread83 18:34, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
55.  Support only seen excellent stuff from this user --^grm_wnr 19:01, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
56.  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 22:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
57.  Support --Wanblee 00:09, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
58.  Support —Ab1 13:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
59.  Support --Searobin 21:57, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
60.  Support --Snowdog 00:19, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
61.  Support -- nice and friendly dude. villy ♦✎ 21:14, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
62.  Support --Prevert^(talk) 11:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
63.  Support --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 23:34, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
64.  Support as our only it-N admin (I think?) pfctdayelise (translate?) 04:18, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

AGAINST

1.  Oppose --RED DEVIL 666 11:39, 19 February 2006 (UTC) I dislike this user. He is an idiot.

DISCUSSION

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==ABach==

My edits: [15] on Commons, I'm an admin of pl:wiki. I often work there on categories tree. Now I want to give a helping hand here. I also want to turn off local uploads on pl.wiki. ABach 22:29, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Votes

FOR

1.  Support Ausir 22:30, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
2. support / tsca ✉ 22:34, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support Szwedzki 22:36, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support Datrio 22:37, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support Taw 22:37, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support PioM _EN DE PL 22:52, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support --WarX 23:02, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support Let him work. :) aegis maelstrom δ 18:16, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 22:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support Catz 21:57, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

#  Support --WarX 22:38, 17 February 2006 (UTC) I'm blind :P --WarX 22:39, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

1.  Support --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 23:34, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
2. Nemo5576 14:41, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
3. Maire 16:09, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

AGAINST

DISCUSSION

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==Aranda56==

I would like to become a administrator in this site, I've been in commons since December but I havent been active until recently, I have around 200 edits and 20 image uploads [16] my exact edit count. I participated in Deletion Requests and I normally tag no source images for speedy deletion and remove them from other wikis. I want to run for adminship mainly to help out in the backlog we have with nosource and copyright images, and to help out with newusers and to help out with Deletion Requests. I have more than 7,500 edits in the english wikipedia [17], in which I'm not a adminstrator and not really that interested in it. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 02:36, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I withdraw --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 00:23, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Votes

FOR

1.  Support--Shanel 02:43, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support — Aranda56 has been very helpful in the Commons projects Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 12:53, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support.SoothingR 20:05, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

AGAINST

1.  Oppose Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 19:40, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
2.  Oppose--Mac9 15:12, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
3.  Oppose Thuresson 17:12, 19 February 2006 (UTC), wait 6 months
4.  Oppose Arnomane 23:56, 20 February 2006 (UTC), A little bit more experience is needed.

NEUTRAL

1.  Neutral Well, with 200 edits and 20 image uploads it seems you are hardly any active on Commons. Some people do more in one evening :-). Do you really need sysop rights for something ? Taw 22:04, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

• Mostly to clear out the backlog with nosource images and empty categorys, thats mostly I'm going to do here Thanks --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 04:14, 16 February 2006 (UTC) (withdrawn)
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==WarX==

My edits: [18] on Commons, I'm editor from pl.wiki. I'm working there with templates, running a bot (WarXboT) and writing mostly technical things. In december I've changed all flags used on pl.wiki to SVG format and now my target is to completly change all possible graphics to SVG format (dreams). Now I'm working on commons - I'm drawing SVG versions of Coats of Arms of Polish cities and in the same time I'm unlinking old versions of COAs. I want sysop rights because it will be a little bit faster if I can delete unused graphics of changed COAs.

Votes

FOR

1. Ausir 21:53, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
2. Wulfstan 21:57, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support Catz 21:59, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support Taw 22:05, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
5. tsca ✉ 07:29, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
6. Szwedzki 19:06, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
7. aegis maelstrom δ 21:40, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support Lestat 22:16, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
9. support Antares [[w:pl:Dyskusja Wikipedysty:Antares|(talk)]] 23:53, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
10. support Zirland 07:30, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support Drozdp 20:09, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
12. Nejmlez 20:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
13. Radomil talk 22:28, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
14. A_Bach 22:32, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 23:35, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
16. Panterka 07:33, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
17. Nemo5576 14:39, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
18. Maire 16:08, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
19. Radouch 23:25, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
20. Polimerek 11:15, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
21. --LUCPOL 16:57, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
22. Yes, certainly. Pietras1988 18:36, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
23.  Support A.J. 21:38, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
24.  Support Nux 11:23, 22 February 2006 (UTC) (just remember to check and double check)

AGAINST

1. Wlos 08:10, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

DISCUSSION

1.  Comment Please be aware that deletion on Commons is more complicated process then in Polish wiki. You must be sure that image is not used in any project, especially when you replacing it with different one. Please always use meta:User:Duesentrieb/CheckUsage. --EugeneZelenko 15:29, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
   • I always check it - please ask Ausir/tsca/Radomil/taw - they are making deletions for me. Now I can tell you, that COAs of Polish cities are mostly on pl, de, nl wikis and sometimes en, ru. I have accounts on these wikis (not all) just for unlinking images. Hope my answer is satisfactory :) --WarX 18:59, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
2.  Comment With the recent heated complaints from local users, I wouldn't be in a hurry to delete "improved" images. Just something to keep in mind. pfctdayelise (translate?) 06:34, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
   • I have all orginals on my hard disk - I know that it is possible, that those graphics may be needed, so I want not to delete them. There is one reason for my fast action: I think that the project is very very big (more than 640 wikis ?) and lot of users is lazy so if we won't delete unlinked, redundant images in short period they will propagate back into wikis. I have a sample of this - I nearly completely unlinked redundant flags in PNG format using SVG versions, but they are propagating back. And the last thing: lots of this COAs which I work with are simple copied from first page in the network found by google and signed PD-Polishsymbol and personally I do not agree which such politics :P --WarX 08:31, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
3. Reasons given by WarX in support of his candidature are not convincing. His activity on Commons is of a recent date, (Nov. '05), and doesn't seem to differ from the normal user contribution. Everyone would like to work ”a little faster”. Wlos 08:10, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
   • But I work hard - drawing COAs on quite slow machine (PIII) is very absorbing :P --WarX 08:31, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
     • You don't need admin privileges, especially a privilege to delete pages from Commons, to draw anything on any kind of machine. Wlos 10:42, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
       • Please read my two earlier answers :P--WarX 10:46, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
         • They have nothing to do with my objections. Wlos 12:24, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
         • Wlos is just a troll, please disregard him. ;-) Taw 20:29, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
           • What could I say? This is just a personal invective, not an argument in WarX's case. Wlos 12:24, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

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==User:Crux==

I want to propose User:Crux (see also de:Benutzer:Crux) for adminship on Wikimedia Commons as he will be a huge help working up the large amount of wrongly licensed images in Wikimedia Commons. He is admin in http://de.wikipedia.org for ages and is a tireless worker at the copyvio front in de.wikipedia.org beside lots of article work (see e.g. [19]) and knows the subject very well. His image clean ups in de.wikipedia were one of the key reasons that made the German Wikipedia on DVD possible and some people that were influenced by Crux' hard work are now admins in Wikimedia Commons (e.g. me) and tried Crux to convince from time to time candidating for adminship in Commons. ;-) In the past he did also work in Commons when it was related to his clean up work in de.wikipedia and does know Commons internals. Crux did not have any objections to my proposal. Arnomane 00:39, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your proposal, Arnomane. I think there's nothing to add. --Crux 01:35, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Votes

FOR

1. pro --Finanzer 00:40, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
2. pro --Arnomane 01:19, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
3. pro --BLueFiSH ?! 07:05, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
4. support -- da didi 16:08, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
5. pro --Leon ¿! | WP WP ¿! 16:11, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
6. pro --Raymond de 20:02, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
7. pro --Jusjih 08:44, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
8. --Darkone 14:55, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
9. pro Of course --Jcornelius 23:14, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
10. --AndreasPraefcke 23:41, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

AGAINST

1. --kogo 19:41, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

NEUTRAL

1. neutral --kogo 23:24, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

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==Pietras1988==

My edits: [20] on Commons, I'm user from pl wiki. In December I've changed with WarX all flags used on pl wiki to SVG format and now my target is to completly change all possible graphics to SVG format (dreams). Pietras1988 18:49, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Votes

FOR

AGAINST

1.  Oppose Arnomane 18:59, 21 February 2006 (UTC), This guy is not mature enough for adminship. I know him from his rantings (quote: "F*** XYZ") in #wikipedia-de and he is banned there. After asking several pl-wikipedians they confirmed me that he is a childish and selfish boy that is unable to moderate discussions. Note: For further details please ask people from pl.wikipedia for first hand info.

Fuck you. Pietras1988 19:01, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Footnote: this guy saying "f**k" has been blocked so many times at Polish Wikipedia.--Jusjih 08:42, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, here are my blocks: [21]. Pietras1988 15:51, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

1. Radomil talk 19:13, 21 February 2006 (UTC) I know him from pl: wikipedia. His usually on edge of beeing troll, and often crosses this thin line.
2.  Oppose When he's not troling - he do realy good job. But now it's oppose. And only 63 edits ABach 19:22, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
3. Strong  Oppose. Just a little troll. This is too a form of trolling. Wulfstan 19:40, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
4.  Oppose. Rude on my meta user talk page. You first learn to be courteous. villy ♦✎ 21:04, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
5. Oppose Hehehe, he's a funny little troll. --Boivie 18:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
6. Oppose Pietras asked so nicely to vote on irc, I can't refuse him a vote :) Phe 18:56, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
7.  Oppose --Valepert 19:12, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
8.  Oppose Frieda 19:13, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
9.  Oppose Troll, immature, unpredictable. --Derbeth 19:17, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
10.  Oppose --Crux 00:52, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
11.  Oppose Insufficient edits.--Jusjih 08:42, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
12. Thuresson 10:55, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
13. strong oppose 64 Edits? --Jcornelius 23:15, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

    Pietras is also known of opposing sysop candidates on pl: that have "only" 1500 edits or so :) A.J. 09:28, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

DISCUSSION

• Pietras put links to his two failed requests for adminship on Polish Wikipedia with Trolling on Wikipedia note on his own user page, along with one RFC. That explains a lot about his attitude. I suppose he wants to extend his collection. A.J. 21:28, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

  See there: [22]. A.J. 21:47, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Replying to criticism with "f**k you" (diff) is the only argument needed to vote against. Thuresson 10:55, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Do not feed by voting /Grön 08:08, 27 February 2006 (UTC) (failed)

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==Jossifresco==

I am an admin in the English Wikipedia (w:User:Jossi) (14,000 edits), very active in RC patrol. Many a times I see myself clearing up vandalism and speedy deletions, but cannot do much about images in common that are in violation of policy. Would like to help in Commons as well, mainly fighting vandalism, tagging images, categorizing, as well as color correcting images, rotating, border removal, etc. (I have expertise in this area). Interiot's edit report on commons --Jossifresco 00:16, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Votes

FOR

1.  Support Looks fine to me--Jusjih 08:38, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support. villy ♦✎ 06:13, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support - He's very good, I think Joy
4.  Support --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 23:35, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
5. Fred Chess 11:49, 3 March 2006 (UTC) - why not? Knows hebrew too, good.

AGAINST

Neutral

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==Omegatron==

I applied once before, but it seems to have failed merely for lack of attention.

I've been an admin on en since January 28, 2005 and wikibooks since Summer 2005. I've been contributing to Commons since March 2005. I have:

• 15728 edits on en
• 1295 edits on commons
• 802 edits on wikibooks

I mostly just use adminship for janitorial maintenance; cleaning up vandalism, deleting unused images, tweaking UI messages, modifying sitewide CSS, etc. I'd really like to fix MediaWiki:Edittools, for instance (it breaks edit page XML validation), but I have to ask other admins to change it for me, which is slow and not working very smoothly. I could also delete redundant images, etc. — Omegatron 14:38, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support Jossifresco 18:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support Fastfission 21:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support Thryduulf 13:27, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 23:36, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support --Lumijaguaari (моє обговорення) 10:21, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support--Jusjih 06:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
7.  Neutral -- Tell me a little about what you do on Commons, and I also don't find it appropriate you don't use your talk page here. / Fred Chess 11:46, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
   • I upload images, of course. Mostly electronics schematics. I've done some categorizing, reorganizing, and tagging of duplicates and stuff, too, and have started exploring SVG replacements for PNG diagrams. I've enabled my talk page. — Omegatron 14:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
     • Thanks. It seems you've been granted admin privileges by now. Congratulations! Fred Chess 15:58, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

(2)

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==Cool Cat==

1. I write articles that make heavy use of commons files such as en:Ranks and insignia of NATO armies officers (an article already translated to 3 other languages, more to come)
2. I have alergies towards vandalism, I actualy have a "vandal bot" that detects vandalism on commons though I have to admit I wasnt paying too much attention to it however some people were using it for me on #wikimedia-commons-vandalism on freenode.

Cool Cat^Talk|@ 14:33, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I am not a fan of editcountism but I'll provide statistics anyways... 223 Meta, 1041 commons, 21324 en.wikipedia, 69 tr.wikipedia, etc...

Votes (6/9)

•  Support --RED DEVIL 666 14:35, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
• Support Yeah... now stop harrasing me.  :) Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 22:26, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

In light of recent revelations. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 19:04, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

•  Support :)--Shanel 23:11, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 23:37, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support as our only Turkish-speaking admin! (tr-2) But with some caveats: Cool Cat, would you be able to move your language Babel boxes higher up on your userpage? Because they're actually useful here. And the vast majority of your uploads are "orphans", ie not in in any category or on any gallery page. This is something we're trying to discourage. pfctdayelise (translate?) 02:09, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
  •  Oppose in light of Rob Church's diff below. Admins must be sympathetic to local projects and accept their rules. pfctdayelise (translate?) 13:17, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

  Oh they are used in en wiki :) I'll fix that sometime soon though ;). *Also* moving language userboxes. :) --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 13:10, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

•  Support Jossifresco 18:02, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose per his exchanges with Anthere regarding some interlanguage issues, I can't in good faith state that this user is able to handle a role in a language intersection. Seems to want to tell communities how they should do things, and is rude and abusive to those who (sensibly) step in. Rob Church (talk) 23:25, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
  • This is turning into a ruckus. I did not dictate any projects. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 23:23, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --WarX 01:25, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Jusjih 06:41, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Rob Church. Wsiegmund 18:41, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
• Don't want to  Oppose, but checking the link RobChurch gave above, I feel I have to, at least for now. Sorry Cool Cat, don't take this personally. --^grm_wnr (^home_wiki) 18:50, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose in view of Cool Cat's two failed admin requests on English Wikipedia and the issues there raised -- [23] and [24] Fred Chess 11:35, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Rob Church. -- Igiveup 13:17, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Fred Chess. Jonathunder 18:18, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Oh? what a ruckus... --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 21:34, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Rob Church. villy ♦✎ 22:19, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose--Hipi Zhdripi 21:10, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Fred Chess. –Kjetil r 22:43, 5 March 2006 (UTC) (failed)
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==User:Franz Xaver==

I'd like to propose User:Franz Xaver for adminship on Wikimedia Commons. He is very active in sorting plant pictures, building categories and gallery pages, finding misidentified plant pictures (!) and is broadly spoken one of the top experts we have in this field. Recently he asked why it often take ages before an image in the commons gets deleted after he insertes a deletion request. Sometimes we really have a large queue here. He is willing to help - and I think he should get the permission to do this.

Franz is very experienced. He did more than 7000 edits in the commons since 12/2004 and more than 11000 edits in the German Wikipedia since 05/2003. -- aka

Thanks to aka for proposing me. Apart from uploading my own photos, my activity will concentrate on improving arrangement of plant stuff. Up to now, I checked Category:Malvales and Category:Fabales and much of Category:Asterales (still under construction). Successively I will extend my activity to other groups of plants: checking ID and license, rotating images, arranging the stuff in a consistent order. In my opinion, images are easier to find, if there is as little redundancy as possible, and if the principles of order are obvious. In this course, sometimes something has to be deleted. Eventually this happens anyway, but it often needs quite a long time, even in cases, where rules for speedy deletion apply. So I think that commons does not have enough administrators. Thanks --Franz Xaver 09:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Votes

FOR

1. pro -- aka 07:46, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support very sensible user —Gabbe 08:10, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
3. --Darkone 14:15, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support EugeneZelenko 15:36, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support Catz 18:35, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support --Tigerente 18:42, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support --Olei 18:51, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support--Jusjih 06:42, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support Expert, intelligent, works well with others. Wsiegmund 18:14, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support --Chb 19:19, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support -- Vic Fontaine 20:30, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support---Dakota ~ 02:45, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support , agree we need more admins like these Fred Chess 11:33, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support --Kulac 20:44, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
15. pro of course --:Bdk: 20:56, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support--Jusjih 03:14, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
17.  Support: good knowledge of botany -- Tintazul 11:37, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support I have a feeling Commons will much benefit from an enthusiastic botanist with administrator powers. --Lumijaguaari (моє обговорення) 17:05, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
19.  Support one of the best admins I can imagine --Denisoliver 17:29, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
20.  Support --Factumquintus 14:51, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

AGAINST

NEUTRAL

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==Fb78==

I've been active on Wikimedia Commons for a couple of months, creating categories and galleries and contributing my own photos and scans wherever I can (see my user page). I'm an administrator on de.wikipedia (de:Benutzer:Fb78), where I keep myself busy with deleting pictures that have been moved to commons. I'm familiar with copyright issues and license tags, and I've translated Commons:Licensing into German. Being an administrator would certainly make my work on commons a little easier. If you have any questions, feel free to speak to me here. Fb78 17:30, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support --EugeneZelenko 15:34, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support why not -- Fred Chess 23:05, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support I like people who translate. pfctdayelise (translate?) 23:22, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- skINMATE 10:41, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Jusjih 14:27, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

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==Tomomarusan==

I nominate Tomomarusan as sysop candidate on Wikimedia Commons. He is one of regular uploaders on Commons, always caring of proper licensing. On Japanese projects he has been making effort to organize FIotD on Japanese Wikipedia and proved himself as a right stuff on administration. Now he shows motivation to enforce Commons localisation for Japanese, and that is my strong motivation to hereby nominate him as sysop candidate, however his promotion will be benefical not only for Japanese users but also for the entire Commons expectedly. --Aphaia 08:21, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Accept.I promise to do as hard as I can in commons.--Tomomarusan 13:18, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Votes

• Support --Aphaia 08:21, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Support --Toki-ho 10:08, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Miya 11:59, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Searobin 12:13, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Kstigarbha 13:51, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Suguri F 14:19, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Support--hyolee2(Talk)16:07, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--snty-tact (Talk) 00:39, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--absolutely dependable. Yosemite 02:28, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Nnh 16:11, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Mikaduki 22:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support pfctdayelise (translate?) 12:16, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- skINMATE 10:42, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Jusjih 14:28, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Tietew 05:22, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --端くれの錬金術師 14:46, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

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==Skinmate==

I am nominating skINMATE for adminship. He has over 1500 edits and has been here for around 10 months. I noticed he was doing a lot of cleanup with the category system, and we need all the users like this that we can get. pfctdayelise (translate?) 00:10, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

• Edit count

Thank you for the nomination, will accept it. Many to do at the category system, lets going on. -- skINMATE 06:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support as nominator. pfctdayelise (translate?) 00:10, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Fred Chess 23:54, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --NickKnatterton 22:02, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Schlendrian 22:20, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Roger McLassus 10:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Flominator 17:12, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 03:27, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

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== User:Dbenbenn for bureaucrat ==

Alas, User:Aurevilly is resigning his bureaucratship [25]. I hope he comes back soon, but until then, I'd like to volunteer to replace Villy as bureaucrat. I've been an admin here since April (nom), and I've been quite active, with 13000 edits. As a bureaucrat, I'd have two extra jobs: making users admins based on the nominations on this page, and processing the requests at Commons:Changing username. User:dbenbenn 20:40, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support -- aka 20:53, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Denniss 21:10, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Sanbec ✉ 22:51, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support but a couple more couldn't hurt as well, I think -- especially those who speak languages other than English. pfctdayelise (translate?) 00:25, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. Korg 01:08, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --EugeneZelenko 04:28, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support — Richie 09:35, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support — Teofilo 15:05, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support and echo pfctdayelise's comment. Thryduulf 17:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - Fred Chess 20:58, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - Arnomane 21:45, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral --RED DEVIL 666 21:51, 25 March 2006 (UTC) a very good user, but imho is better a multilenguage user for it.
•  Support --Avatar 11:06, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- skINMATE 14:43, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. villy ♦✎ 17:40, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Darkone 07:56, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support —Nightstallion (?) 20:34, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Wsiegmund 00:27, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Ausir 19:23, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Tarawneh 20:36, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Pumbaa 17:19, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support feydey 00:18, 31 March 2006 (UTC) (bureaucrat)
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== Arnomane for bureaucrat ==

In order to support Dbennben I'd like to volunteer as well becoming a bureaucrat. I am an admin in Wikimedia Commons and am admin in de.wikipedia as well and am curently mainly involved with the rewrite (and translation into German) of our help and maintenance pages, see Commons:Help page maintenance. I speak German (native), English (en-2) and poor french. Arnomane 21:59, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support --RED DEVIL 666 22:05, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support Ausir 22:59, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support Very trustworthy and friendly user, very active on the Commons, and always interested in the 'greater good' of the Commons project. pfctdayelise (translate?) 23:13, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support --EugeneZelenko 02:59, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support--Jusjih 03:29, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support --Darkone 10:08, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support --Avatar 11:04, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support -- skINMATE 14:42, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support. villy ♦✎ 17:39, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support Sanbec ✉ 11:54, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support --Qualc1 17:48, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support Thryduulf 18:37, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support --Teofilo 11:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC) (bureaucrat)

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==Ausir for bureaucrat==

I'm a Commons, Polish Wikipedia and English Wikipedia sysop and a steward. There are some other candidates, but I think it won't hurt to have four active bureaucrats, since Commons is getting bigger and bigger. I'm pl-N, en-4, de-1 and ru-1. Ausir 22:58, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support --RED DEVIL 666 22:59, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
• support. tsca @ 23:08, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Ajsmen91 23:13, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --WarX 23:15, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Nejmlez 23:25, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Arnomane 12:39, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- skINMATE 14:40, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. villy ♦✎ 17:39, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --The Boss 17:46, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Qualc1 17:50, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Berto 17:55, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Thryduulf 18:36, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Shizhao 01:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral --Teofilo 11:08, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 09:57, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support ABach 18:59, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Vindicator 19:13, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Datrio 19:16, 29 March 2006 (UTC) (bureaucrat)
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==Red devil 666 for bureaucrat==

I spend a lot of time on Commons. I am now admin, and for me it isn't a problem make bureaucrat logs. In a lot of Wikiprojects there are 5 or 6 bureaucrats, and now on Commons we have only Andre that isn't very active. I think that I could help Andre, Dbenbenn and Arnomane. I am it-N, en-2 and es-1. --RED DEVIL 666 22:13, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support -- Arnomane 22:25, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support Ausir 22:59, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
3.  Oppose. Red is an excellent user and admin here, very active and very agreeable, but has only been an admin here for 2 months. Also current user page [26] is really too confronting for a bureaucrat to have. So for now, sorry Red, I oppose. pfctdayelise (translate?) 23:52, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I interrupt my RfB. I put this because is an emergency moment, but I see that there are 3 very good candidate, and my RfB isn't need more. Thanks to Arnomane and Ausir for support, and thanks to Pfctdayelise for sincerity. I try to improve my self and maybe I'll put a RfB in future. Good luck to Arnomane, Dbenbenn and Ausir. :-) --RED DEVIL 666 07:40, 26 March 2006 (UTC) (bureaucrat - withdrawn)

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==JeremyA==

I've been editing here since the beginning of January—in the first place moving my own pictures from en.wikipedia, but I have since spent a lot of time cleaning up some categories. I have been editing at en for over a year, and I have been an admin there since last June. Being an admin here would allow me to contribute more to the sorting of images and other janitorial tasks. JeremyA 02:14, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support--Jusjih 03:30, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --EugeneZelenko 15:49, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support, but note that many "janitorial tasks" here don't require admin tools (ie. ability to delete images). There are many ways people can help without ever being an admin. pfctdayelise (translate?) 03:28, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Teofilo 11:10, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support —UED77 19:58, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

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==UED77==

Hello. I've been an active contributor to the Commons since 2005-12-04. My babel is hu, en-4, de-1. Aside from frequenting the Pump, translating Picture/Media of the Day captions and uploading pictures, my specialization is thorough organization (ie. neat-freak) and Hungarian translation. Being an admin would enable me to complete the Hungarian translation of the Commons (including MediaWiki messages, for example) and serve as the first Hungarian-speaking admin, as well as pursuing a gradual restructuring of the Commons to make it a leaner, meaner image-storing database. —UED77 04:48, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Votes

• Strong  Support, an active and helpful user. Also more language diversity = ++good. pfctdayelise (translate?) 10:37, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - we need all the languages we can get. Thryduulf 18:35, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - Teofilo 11:11, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. villy ♦✎ 18:30, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - it is good to have a Hungarian-speaking admin, I think language is very important --Tarawneh 23:41, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 10:39, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

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==Slomox==

I'm Commons User since 2004 and became more and more active here. I am also admin on German and Low Saxon wikipedia. Therefore I am trying to push language diversity on technical basis and with providing some Low Saxon text. The concrete reason for my request here was that I tagged one of my uploads for speedy deletion four days ago cause of being redundant with my new upload in SVG format and still waiting for execution. There aren't enough admins, it seems ;-) --::Slomox:: >< 19:44, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support--Jusjih 16:48, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support — although in defense of us poor admins, speedy != easy. I have went twice on a deletion spree in my two short days, and I focus on copyvios, since redundants are comparatively benign :) —UED77 23:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. villy ♦✎ 20:36, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --rogerd 03:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --HardDisk 09:58, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

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==Jusjih==

I started editing here on 6 August 2005 after finding that this site would collect free images and files usable at other Wiki sites. I have edited more than 150 times. (My edit count may not update immediately. See also my contributions.) As a native Chinese speaker using both traditional (native) and simplified Chinese (advenced but not native), I have added Template:PD-PRC-exempt, Template:PD-MacaoGov, Template:PD-ROC-exempt, Template:PD-ROC-Traffic Indicating Lines, and Template:PD-ROC-Traffic Signs, i.e. Chinese, Macanese, and Taiwanese public domain tags based on the tags used at Wikisource.

After learning how to upload images, I am adding images to Category:Diagrams of road signs of the Republic of China tagged Template:PD-ROC-Traffic Signs. This major project is in connection to my work in the page s:zh:道路交通標誌標線號誌設置規則 (Regulations on Establishing Traffic Signs and Indicating Lines) at Chinese Wikisource. I have finished uploading Warning Signs and I am continuing on more images.

I am also an administrator at Chinese Wikipedia, Chinese Wiktionary, Chinese Wikisource (bureaucrat), English Wikisource, and multilingual Wikisource (five Wiki sites). I would like to apply for adminship here to serve the community better based on my experience as an admin at these sites. I will continue my good works as well.

My language Babel is: zh-TW, zh-CN-3, en-3, fr-1.Jusjih 17:05, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Comment I asked several Chinese speaking admins to comment or vote on this request. I hope this is not seen as vote gathering, because it's not intended to be - just awareness gathering. It is hard to vote on someone you've had no interaction with due to language differences, but it is easier to trust the opinion of a user you already trust. pfctdayelise (translate?) 03:22, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support He is an administrator in zh wiki. We need in here to join simplified and traditional Chinese characters which in zh wiki already done. So the person who know both is needed.--Fanghong 04:50, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support good guy!--vipuser(talk) <admin> 08:35, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support multilingualism. --Prevert^(talk) 09:12, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support I don't think you can become an admin at five projects without being a good user! pfctdayelise (translate?) 14:34, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Shizhao 04:47, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 04:23, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Shibo77 15:41, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Xelo2004 12:20, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support / Fred Chess 19:20, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Lmbuga 09:36, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

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==Lmbuga==

I nominate Lmbuga as sysop candidate on the Commons. He is a very active contributor to the Commons -over 2100 editions (1250+ image uploads)- since 2005-09-03. Lmbuga is a bureaucrat at the Galician wikibooks (he started the project and has demonstrated to be a valuable administrator). In the Galician wikipedia he has been involved in everything concerning images and graphic resources. Babel: gl-N, es-N, pt-3, en-1. Multilingualism: at the moment there are no Galician admins on Commons and he would serve as the first Galician-speaking admin. Lmbuga has been particularly involved in photographing Galicia, nature, landscape,... I believe Lmbuga can be a good sysop for Commons. --Prevert^(talk) 07:22, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support --Prevert^(talk) 07:22, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support / Fred Chess 08:04, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Joanot Martorell ✉ 08:59, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Xosé 11:28, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Xelo2004 12:34, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Agremon. I consider that Lmbuga has experience in wikimedia projects and has shown an adequate trajectorie in his work in these projects.--user talk:Agremon 12:48, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 14:31, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support-- --Rocastelo^(talk) 17:13, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Pmmollet ^talk  07:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support language diversity, and it's especially important to have admins representing as many projects as possible, to encourage and help editors at those projects to use the Commons. pfctdayelise (translate?) 03:25, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Fanghong 04:47, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 15:21, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Orgullomoore 19:53, 16 April 2006 (UTC) Just to make a note, though, regarding the multilingual benefits: I don't think there are many people who speak only Galician. They tend to speak Spanish or Portuguese as well, and Portuguese, Galician, and Spanish are very mutually understandable. That isn't at all a demerit, though, he seems to have great potential.--Orgullomoore 19:53, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Alyssalover 18:57, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
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== User:dbenbenn for CheckUser ==

User:Ausir has suggested that I should apply for CheckUser ability. Okay, I do what I'm told. If I'm given this ability, I don't forsee using it very often. Usually, a person's uploads speak for themselves. Sockpuppetry isn't much of an issue here. Anyway, as Ausir points out below, the m:CheckUser Policy is that there should be two CheckUsers, so that they can "mutually control their activity" (each one can see what Users the other has been Checking). User:dbenbenn 18:51, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Ausir 19:06, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- skINMATE 19:28, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Arnomane 19:58, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support —Nightstallion (?) 20:34, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Wsiegmund 00:20, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Trustworthy user, but I also doubt there is much need for it here. Hm, Commons is growing up! pfctdayelise (translate?) 03:53, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --EugeneZelenko 06:00, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose -- There is no need for a Checkuser appointee. Commons has been able to live happily until now without one. There is no reason why this should change.Teofilo 10:11, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

   Comment I saw one case recently when CheckUser could help (there are several users who uploaded copyvios from http://www.airliners.net and claimed authorship). --EugeneZelenko 15:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

•  Support. Please take notice that, according to CheckUser_Policy#Access, we are talking here about a 70/80 % consensus with 25-30 editors approval. So that the 7 days shouldn't/couldn't apply. villy ♦✎ 18:57, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support ABach 19:07, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Check user should be standered for all admins ;-). Just kiding, dbenbenn is really active, and I think he needs it --Tarawneh 20:33, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
  • That's funny, considering that he doesn't ;P pfctdayelise (translate?) 23:39, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 10:43, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 22:40, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support — Dbenbenn is very trustworthy and active. He would make an excellent admin with CheckUser rights. —UED77 19:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support as per pfctdayelise and UED77. Thryduulf 21:29, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Lmbuga 07:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Fanghong 04:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 15:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Xelo2004 12:23, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support This is really needed especially to avoid problems like the airliners.net copyvios (I hope we catched them all) --Denniss 17:31, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 05:51, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Crux 21:46, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- James F. (talk) 22:29, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- ed g2s • talk 22:32, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Pietras1988 15:52, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose - Amgine 16:01, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support A.J. 20:20, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - Joanot Martorell ✉ 07:25, 21 April 2006 (UTC) (CU)
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== User:Arnomane for CheckUser ==

As User:Ausir pointed out that there is need for more than one checkuser and asked me if I would volunteer [27] additionally to my request for becoming a bureaucrat I decided doing so after carefully reading meta:CheckUser. Of course I hope that I will not need this tool and hope that we can keep the numbers of serious sock puppet problems in Commons low by other means -in a general atmosphere of collaboration. However as there was quite some time ago an incident with evil sock puppets of a user coming from de.wikipedia (luckily up to now this would have been the only case out of my limited perspective where Checkuser would have been adequate) I decided to candidate. However please carfully decide on your own upon my request. Arnomane 19:14, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Vote

•  Support -- skINMATE 19:28, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. Arnomane is a trustworthy contributor. User:dbenbenn 19:30, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Ausir 19:33, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support as for dbenbenn. pfctdayelise (translate?) 03:59, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --EugeneZelenko 06:01, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose -- There is no need for a Checkuser appointee. Commons has been able to live happily until now without one. There is no reason why this should change. Teofilo 10:08, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

   Comment I saw one case recently when CheckUser could help (there are several users who uploaded copyvios from http://www.airliners.net and claimed authorship). --EugeneZelenko 15:11, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

   Comment Arnomane disobeys the rules and therefore I have reservations against his candidacy. See : this section at the village pump. Teofilo 11:38, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

•  Support Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 09:55, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support (hope there won't be any other request ... 3 CheckUser should do for the moment). Please take notice that, according to CheckUser_Policy#Access, we are talking here about a 70/80 % consensus with 25-30 editors approval. So that the 7 days shouldn't/couldn't apply. villy ♦✎ 18:56, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support ABach 19:07, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 10:43, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 22:40, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support — Arnomane is an excellent user whom I would gladly entrust with CheckUser privileges. —UED77 19:25, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - I agree with UED77. Thryduulf
•  Support - --Lmbuga 07:38, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Kjetil r 23:22, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --HardDisk 09:58, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Prevert^(talk) 09:13, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• Wholeheartedly  Support Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 15:19, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Xelo2004 12:23, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Lmbuga 09:36, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• pro --Crux 15:09, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Denniss 01:46, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- James F. (talk) 22:29, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- ed g2s • talk 22:32, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
•  SupportAnna 22:39, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Pietras1988 15:53, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - Amgine 16:00, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support A.J. 20:21, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong  Support, If I have it, on arabic wiki ;-D, then he should have it. --89.48.206.36 11:53, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

-89.48.206.36 is User:Tarawneh; that is I. So some times we need check user . My vote up counts :-D. --Tarawneh 12:01, 21 April 2006 (UTC) (CU)

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==Ausir for CheckUser==

Same description as above :). There is no user with CheckUser rights at Commons (well, I already have global CheckUser rights because I am a steward, but it's best to have local community approval as well). I already have CheckUser rights at Polish Wikipedia as well. According to the CheckUser policy, I have to get at least 25-30 editors approval. There also have to be at least 2 CheckUsers on each wiki. Ausir 17:40, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support--RED DEVIL 666 17:41, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Ajsmen91 17:43, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --The Boss 17:46, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Qualc1 17:52, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Thryduulf 18:33, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support User:dbenbenn 18:36, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- skINMATE 19:21, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Arnomane 19:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support, but the meta policy is not really appropriate for Commons. (30 votes? pff.) I'd say unanimous support would be enough, but I think bureaucrats can use their own sound judgement. :) pfctdayelise (translate?) 03:30, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose -- There is no need for a Checkuser appointee. Commons has been able to live happily until now without one. There is no reason why this should change. Teofilo 10:07, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

   Comment I saw one case recently when CheckUser could help (there are several users who uploaded copyvios from http://www.airliners.net and claimed authorship). --EugeneZelenko 15:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

   Comment few days ago someone have spotted a psycho from pl.wiki on commons - we need CU to hunt down such users --WarX 16:49, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

•  Support Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 09:56, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --WarX 16:49, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. Please take notice that, according to CheckUser_Policy#Access, we are talking here about a 70/80 % consensus with 25-30 editors approval. So that the 7 days shouldn't/couldn't apply. villy ♦✎ 18:58, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support ABach 19:00, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Vindicator 19:12, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Datrio 19:15, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 10:41, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support feydey 00:17, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 22:40, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support — Ausir is a great user who would use CheckUser responsibly. —UED77 19:31, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Lmbuga 07:34, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Prevert^(talk) 09:13, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 15:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Xelo2004 12:23, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- James F. (talk) 22:29, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- ed g2s • talk 22:32, 19 April 2006 (UTC) (CU)
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==Kaveh==

I am mostly active on w:fa:User:Kaveh and the sole bureaucrat on b:fa:Special:Listadmins and s:fa:Special:Listadmins. As it happens, we often run across articles about Iranian/Persian related subjects with deleted images, so it would help if someone more intimate with the area helped in tagging/recovering them. In addition, I can assist with Persian speaking users and act as a contact with the related projects. Kaveh 16:03, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Commons edits [28]

Votes

• Strong  Support First Persian-speaking admin. Active, friendly and helpful user. pfctdayelise (translate?) 16:34, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Xelo2004 12:22, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. Welcome!--Jusjih 13:45, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- He will be of great help given the fact that we currently only have real contact to european language and and south east asian language wiki projects in Commons and he also seems to be a very reasonable person. And of course he speaks several languages which helps us reducing the language barrier. Arnomane 15:39, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- I have seen him on arabic wiki a few times, even gave him a visit to Persian wiki. He is active, and we need the language. --Tarawneh 01:52, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support per pfctdayelise Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 22:53, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Gryffindor 08:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Prevert^(talk) 11:14, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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== Requests for bot authorization ==

I add this section here because according to Commons:Bots, this is where said topic is to be debated.--Orgullomoore 11:32, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Orgullobot

This message is a duplicate of the one in the Village Pump

Hello all. Orgullobot is a bot based on the pywikipedia framework. It can do interwikis, category moves, disambiguations, and all that other stuff that isn't useful to Commons ;), plus whatever I program it to do. I'm interested in fulfilling the Commoners' bot needs, and I've hinted at bot status before, but have never made a formal request. I've run es:User:Orgullobot on es: for nearly a year now, and the community seems to like it there. Any complaints I've had have been dealt with. Therefore, I venture to ask, is there anyone here who opposes my requesting a flag on Meta? And additionally, what are some bot tasks (in other words, repetitive and tedious) that you would like to see automized on Commons? Some things the bot has done in the past include:

• Periodically resetting the Spanish sandbox
• Detected all of the Images on es: that shared a filename with Commons which were then renamed and reuploaded or deleted if they were a duplicate.
• Detected all the wiki page that had a fruitless image link (the ones that give something like )
• Worked some on the little featured article stars
• Tons of category moves
• Tons of interwiki work
• Etc. :-D

Thank you--Orgullomoore 11:32, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Votes

• Strong  Support friendly and co-operative user, and WE NEED IT! Especially for categories, they're the biggest pain. pfctdayelise (translate?) 15:08, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support, as I am quite impressed by the fact that his bot can be used via a wiki page batch in a collaborative way from many people for daily tasks withouth needing to care about the bot itself. That way we can get most out of the bot and avoid ending up with everyone driving his own bot. Arnomane 15:28, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. I missed User:RCBot... But how we could submit jobs on Commons (preferably in English :-)? --EugeneZelenko 15:58, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

• On Commons:Bots, or a special Orgullobot requests page, I guess. Regards, David Kernow 23:55, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

See User:Orgullobot/commands Platonides 21:08, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

•  Support the more the merrier :) --WarX 18:17, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong  Support Anna 01:46, 16 April 2006 (UTC) It will help a lot in tedious tasks.
• Strong  Support --Edub 08:56, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong  Support --Colegota 12:14, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support : a fair few miscapitalized category names for starters... Thanks, Orgullomore! David Kernow 23:55, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Jusjih 13:46, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• Super-strong  Support Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 14:24, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Yakoo 23:27, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support El bot del gringo es bueno, a pesar de su amo ;-) Sanbec ✉ 09:07, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Oscar . 00:04, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Gryffindor 14:21, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Ypacaraí 21:57, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Platonides 21:08, 28 April 2006 (UTC) Many-people friendly bots are good. And i think this is the first with that automatically command-read system.
•  Support aka 13:02, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support HardDisk 17:28, 29 April 2006 (UTC) (bot)
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==Gryffindor==

Reasons why you think you should be an admin.

I am a very dedicated user to the Commons and have contributed over hundreds and hundreds of self-made images to the Commons (last count almost 3000 images), all releasing them into the public domain. I intend to contribute much more over the course of time. Apart from that I am busy cleaning up categories and putting images into the right categories or articles. I would love to help out more with replacing redundant images and also in helping with deleting images that have been tagged for deletion. I notice that there is a considerable backlog with the "deletion" and the "redudant" category and I would love to help out there. I also search images that are missing a source or do not seem up to code, something that I am already doing as well on the English-language Wikipedia, where I am a sysop. I am also a member of the image team there, therefore I have knowledge about copyright tags and the rules concerning images. Therefore I kindly request administratorship in order to help out more and make the Commons more efficient. I also try to interlink Commons images into the normal Wikipedia articles as much as possible, in order to make most efficient use of memory space. Feel free to ask me anything, thank you. Gryffindor 00:59, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Commons edits

[29]

Votes

•  Support But please read Commons:Deletion guidelines (and other Commons: namespace pages) carefully, deletion tasks are often not straightforward. Obviously you have done some great work with uploads, and categorisation as well I think, despite a few orphans. :) pfctdayelise (translate?) 11:55, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --EugeneZelenko 03:38, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 14:07, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 21:14, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. —Nightstallion (?) 09:52, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support HardDisk 17:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Responses

Thank you for pointing that out, yes of course I would not go on a deletion spree and I know one has to be careful, but whatever backlogs exist I will help out. Orphaned images? I thought I had none, odd.... the last time I checked those that were orphaned were all tagged as redundant by me, so I don't know if someone finally took care of those. For example I would also help out with replacing redundant images, which I have been doing as well. Gryffindor 08:46, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

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==Flominator==

I want to propose User:Flominator for adminship on Wikimedia Commons. He is a hard-working Administrator on German Wikipedia since Aug 2005. He has more than 24000 Edits and cleaned up the unused images among others [30]. He also started transferring lots of de: images to Commons, so he also has experience with Commons [31]. As there's still a lot of work to do on Commons and he is willing to help cleaning up, I think he is a good candidate. Flominator did not have any objections to my proposal. --Crux 18:54, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Since dbenbenn requested it: I hereby accept the nomination --Flominator 07:54, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support --Crux 18:54, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Tolanor 19:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
• definetly  Support - he does a very good job! Kenwilliams 19:40, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --EugeneZelenko 03:35, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Gryffindor 08:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Ikiwaner 18:07, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Steschke 21:18, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Schaengel89 18:03, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 10:49, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support make him a bureaucrat...HardDisk 17:47, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Right! Kenwilliams 10:33, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

•  Support - LERK (Talk / Contributions) 16:08, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

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==Ejdzej==

I'm a sysop on Polish Wikipedia since July 15, 2005. Apart from usual fighting with vandalism I take care of local Images for deletion and recently I joined image cleanup project - that's why I got more interested in handling similar problems here. With admin status I'll be able to quickly handle files uploaded from pl: with incorrect license. Because I'm also a stock.xchng member I promise to put special attention on guarding COM:SXC policy. A.J. 17:48, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Commons edits

[32]

Votes

•  Support best graphic cleaner on pl.wiki :) --WarX 19:40, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

   Comment I disagree: pl:User:Vindicator is the best :) A.J. 09:11, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

•  Support si, hai and yes. ABach 20:11, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support very good job Szwedzki 21:29, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. But please watch Commons:Bar - it's hard to get help from Polish speaking admins sometimes. --EugeneZelenko 03:34, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

   Comment I put it in my watchlist a while ago and tried to contact some problematic users. A.J. 10:26, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

•  Support Maire 10:40, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Nemo5576 16:50, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support full support! Vindicator 08:38, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support tsca @ 11:19, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 10:48, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - LERK (Talk / Contributions) 16:01, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support HardDisk 17:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

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==LERK==

I stand for a administrator on Wikimedia Commons. My first contribution on Wikimedia Commons was in April 23rd, 2005.

There is not many admins who understand Japanese or/and Korean languages, so I want to help admins to understand Japanese and Korean languages, and Japanese or Korean language users join to Commons.

Recently I translate templates on Commons into Japanese and/or Korean languages in order to promote polyglot of Wikimedia Commons.

If you have a question, please give me it without reserve on English or Japanese or Korean. Thank you. LERK (Talk / Contributions) 15:29, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Hard-working contributor. pfctdayelise (translate?) 01:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --EugeneZelenko 03:26, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support HardDisk 17:25, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. Welcome! It is good to have a new admin who knows Korean with hanja.--Jusjih 14:59, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- skINMATE 16:32, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --W.wolny 10:36, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
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==Kjetil r==

Edits: 1354
Uploads: 387

User:Duffman has asked me to apply for adminship at the Commons (1). I am currently an admin at no.wikipedia, where I promote Commons heavily. I am also moving lots of images from no.wikipedia to Commons, hoping that some day no.wikipedia will be without any locally stored images.

I am from Norway, and I do not think there are any Commons administrators whom speak Norwegian. A Norwegian Commons admin has been wanted at no.wikipedia, for the purpose of guiding Norwegian newbies and to improve the somewhat dodgy impression some of the Norwegian contributers have of Commons.

I speak Norwegian natively, and English quite well. I read Esperanto (the international language) decently, and I also read German ok (even though there has been som years since I learnt it at the Gymnasium). Kjetil r 20:49, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Btw, I almost daily check Special:Newimages, and often spot clear copyvios I want to delete speedily. Kjetil r 22:05, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support --Duffman 20:51, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support — John Erling Blad (no) 20:53, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support --ZorroIII 20:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support Wintermute 20:58, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support ---Nina- 20:59, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support --Jóna Þórunn 21:12, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support Zerblatt 21:13, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support Stianbh 21:21, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support Noorse 21:27, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support Verdlanco 21:29, 2 May 2006 (UTC) I was toying with the idea of running for admin here myself, but if Kjetil'll do it, that's great!
11.  Support Andreashjortland 21:38, 2 May 2006 (UTC) I'm not sure if I am allowed to vote, but Kjetil does a great job on no.wikipedia anyway
12.  Support /Wegge 21:41, 2 May 2006 (UTC) As admin on the very close neighbour, dawiki, I can fully support this adminship.
13.  Support -- SLB 21:42, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support --Leifern 21:50, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support Haros 21:55, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support oscar 22:07, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
17.  Support Røed 22:15, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support BjørnN 22:20, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
19.  Support Henna 22:38, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
20.  Support NielsF 22:43, 2 May 2006 (UTC) more admins for smaller languages!!!
21.  Support --Prevert^(talk) 23:25, 2 May 2006 (UTC) support multilingualism from gl.wiki
22.  Support --Lmbuga 00:29, 3 May 2006 (UTC)support multilingualism from gl.wiki
23.  Support --FinBjo 01:15, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
24.  Support I also encourage multiple Norwegian-speakers to consider becoming administrators here, the more the merrier --pfctdayelise (translate?) 02:24, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
25.  Support—It is not possible to be too thin, too rich or to have too many Norwegians as administrators. Williamborg 02:46, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
26.  Support Opus 05:22, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
27.  Support meco 06:56, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
28.  Support Saluton, Verdlanco kaj Kjetil r!— Leif Arne Storset 08:25, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
29.  Support Beagle84 09:02, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
30.  Support Greudin 09:21, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
31.  Support Jon Harald Søby 12:02, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
32.  Support Harald Hansen 12:56, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
33.  Support Helga 18:59, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
34.  Support (Wow, where did all these Norwegian come from?) 2nd time, Edit conflict Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 19:00, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
35.  Support Cnyborg 19:18, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
36.  Support Soulkeeper 20:59, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
37.  Support Dolledre 22:01, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
38.  Support--Jusjih 17:03, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
39.  Support — How could you say no to a no? :D —UED77 18:08, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
40.  Support - Guaca 19:26, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
41.  Support - --Lipothymia 20:27, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
42.  Support --Torstein 21:58, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
43.  Support --Tarawneh 23:29, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
44.  Support --Anders 14:46, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
45.  Support --Bep 17:57, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
46.  Support Wolfram 19:17, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
47.  Support KRISTAGA^α-ω 19:57, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
48.  Support But please add Babel info on your user page, so other users will know how to speak to you. --EugeneZelenko 14:08, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
    • I have Babel info in my user_talk. I think it is more important to have the Babel boxes there. Kjetil r 14:53, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
49.  Support --Mak 21:51, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
50.  Support support for an admin for an important lenguage (like my RfA for Italian), but you are beatting my record of 64 support ;-) --RED DEVIL 666 17:21, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
51.  Support --Gunnernett 11:43, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
52.  Support --NorwegianMarcus 17:58, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
53.  Support --Rocastelo^(talk) 18:10, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
54.  Support --Ekko 07:15, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
55.  Support --Eirik Haugen 15:40, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
56.  Support --Frodet 14:40, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
57.  Support ----Jarvin 19:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
58.  Support --TBjornstad 14:23, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

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==Anathema==

I want to nominate Anathema for an administrator. I think that he would be good as an admin. He said me he wants to make some order works like deletion the copy-vios or removing and renaming the Category:Military (People). As there's still a lot of work to do on Commons and he is willing to help cleaning up, I think he is a good candidate. Best wishes --Jcornelius 12:43, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Mr President, I accept the nomination. Thanks to Jcornelius and all supporters. --Anathema 06:21, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

• Support --Jcornelius 12:43, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support HardDisk 17:24, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - LERK (Talk / Contributions) 18:22, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Would be great. ;) -- John N. (@ me) 10:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 15:03, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--W.wolny 17:07, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose -- I don't see the immediate need for more German native Commons users. I'm sure Anathema would be a good admin though. / Fred Chess 09:28, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support – A user's native language shouldn't stop somebody from becoming an able admin. Good luck! — Richie 14:16, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Kenwilliams 10:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support. We had some quarrels on de.wikipedia, but I think he’ll do a good job. -- Carbidfischer 18:53, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support of course, always and anywhere --AndreasPraefcke 19:00, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Mak 21:44, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral, needs to be around more --Tarawneh 07:28, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Darkone 10:01, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

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==Pietras1988==

My edits: [33] on Commons, I'm user from pl wiki. In December I've changed with WarX all flags used on pl wiki to SVG format and now my target is to completly change all possible graphics to SVG format (dreams). My first vote here is here but I was stupid. Please for accept. Pietras1988 08:58, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

FOR

• Kondzio1990 15:28, 2 May 2006 (UTC) Pietras1988 soll einen Administrator sein.

AGAINST

• Fred Chess 09:32, 1 May 2006 (UTC) -- Regardless of whether he is suitable or not, the tasks he intends to perform do not require any admin privileges.
• It doesn't help if you make a repeated vote within short time. Please work a little bit more in Commons not silently but together with others until we can trust you that you have changed your mind towards a minimum of self-control. Arnomane 18:43, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

He's been blocked 23 times on the Polish Wikipedia. --81.169.174.124 19:03, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

• Too soon to bring back up. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 19:00, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
• Even though Pietras does a lot of good work, he is also a major troll at pl:. Ausir 14:02, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose needs to work more --Tarawneh 07:31, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose Pietras1988 is currently blocked on pl (for trollig). I think that is impossible to merge trolling and sysoping. Andrzej19 18:10, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

• Andrzej19 is a troll... Pietras1988 19:49, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Slanders are anothers of Pietras faults. But on pl we have got used to it, but it's annoying everyone :/ Andrzej19 20:32, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

DISCUSSION

• Pietras1988 wrote on his very own Wikipage pl:Wikipedysta:Pietras1988 Bycie jednym z największych trolli na wiki (Being one of biggest troll on wiki) - voting here is just feeding his trollish ego, let it starve. A.J. 18:36, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
  • But I can't change because I'm blocked and admins secured site. Pietras1988 20:45, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Yes. But I suppose They should know for what you are currently blocked. I would like to say that it is not the first your block. Everyone before vote has to see it. Blocks for vulgarism, blackmails, threats and many others reasons. It is hard and time-consuming to read whole this page!. Andrzej19 18:19, 7 May 2006 (UTC) 2nd try (failed)
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==AYArktos==

I have 483 edits of which 204 are uploads.

I would like to be an admin because I am an admin on English Wikipedia and have been doing some updating there of Template:Did you know. Part of the procedures when updating the template are to preotect images and frequently these images are uploaded to commons. For further information see w:Wikipedia:Did you know/Guide#Pictures. I would find it more streamlined if I had admin access here too so as I could protect and unprotect images appearing on the main page of en:wikipedia.

I would be happy to use admin tools (if granted) to help with clearing up copyvios and have done some copyvio work on en:wikipedia.

I agree to follow relevant policies and respect consensus of the Commons' users. AYArktos 09:52, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

• Further to my comments above on copyvios above and to clarify, on en:wikipedia, among other admin tasks, I have contributed to clearing speedy deletions. I note that here on Commons that there is a significant speedy deletion backlog at CAT:CSD and would be happy to help out with clearing that backlog.--AYArktos 08:59, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support - LERK (Talk / Contributions) 02:47, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support Gsl 03:13, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support Although EN is well represented, I feel there are more than enough admin tasks (mostly COM:DR and CAT:CSD) that any extra helping hands are welcome, whatever language. AYArktos is a reliable and trustworthy contributor at en.wp in my experience --pfctdayelise (translate?) 06:53, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support but I have to make a minor change to the link to your edit counts as it just led to the wrong username. It is correct now.--Jusjih 12:47, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
5.  Oppose one female Aussie is enough :) But seriously,  Support This user has been a responsible admin at en and I trust her to be a reliable contributor at Commons Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 15:56, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

User "AYArktos" is now a sysop. User:dbenbenn 21:00, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

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==Svdmolen==

For over a year now I've been admin on the Dutch wikipedia. It sometime is frustrating that I can't undo some uploads under temporary names here. I would like to be able to do that myself and not have to let someone else take care of it. I will not be a very active admin, but will help now and then clean up some mess. I agree to the relevant policies and respect consensus of the Commons' users.Svdmolen 18:07, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Good to have admins who are knowledgable about species/biology stuff. Being a Dutch speaker doesn't hurt either :) pfctdayelise (translate?) 06:43, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - LERK (Talk / Contributions) 07:32, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 12:49, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support— could use more active Nederlanders... Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 19:15, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - Effeietsanders 19:17, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 15:53, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Svdmolen is now a sysop. User:dbenbenn 21:15, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

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==Szwedzki==

I'm a sysop on Polish Wikipedia since November 2, 2005 and checkuser since February 26, 2006. I'm active member of image cleanup project. With admin status I'll be able to quickly handle files uploaded from pl.wikipedia with incorrect license. I agree to follow relevant policies and respect consensus of the Commons' users. Szwedzki 19:07, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

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Votes

1.  Support --WarX 19:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support Maire 19:23, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
3. support / tsca @ 19:39, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support He made a big work with the image cleanup project at pl. I trust him. odder 19:49, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support He's one of the few watching recent changes on pl.wiki at 4 a.m. Shaqspeare 20:19, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support --Ajsmen91 07:25, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support Alx 21:47, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support --The Boss 12:40, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support Radomil talk 11:55, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support - LERK (Talk / Contributions) 16:01, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support - one of most active Wikipedians. A.J. 09:11, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support — Active contributor, determined to make a difference —UED77 23:50, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

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==Shaqspeare==

There will be more and more graphics uploaded wrongfully (wrong file name etc.) - e.G. when copied from Wikipedias with wrong special character encoding. As one of the initiators of German Towns Project on Polish Wiki I would need a little more strenght to deal with such cases. Lately I learnt some more about licence policies on Commons. I've been an admin on pl.wiki for about 5 months. I speak Polish, German, more or less English and understand some Dutch. Shaqspeare 13:44, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

• support / tsca @ 13:49, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Szwedzki 14:08, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --WarX 14:15, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Has been a very reliable editor on the Polish Wikipedia. Taw 14:18, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Vindicator 16:47, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support I know him. He will be good sysop here. ABach 17:17, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Maire 19:23, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support He will be good sysop here :) Shaq is a very peaceful admin on pl. (hope :P) odder 19:46, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support, active on COM:DR lately which is great to see - we need more admins paying attention there. pfctdayelise (translate?) 00:57, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Ajsmen91 07:24, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Derbeth 21:28, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Alx 21:46, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• support definitly yes. you won't get anyone better. --Nina 23:53, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Radomil talk 17:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

• Strong oppose abusive admin 83.5.214.52 10:28, 16 May 2006 (UTC) Please log in to vote, or otherwise just leave a comment. pfctdayelise (translate?) 11:24, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - LERK (Talk / Contributions) 16:01, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support A.J. 09:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support — Active and useful contributor, firmly believe would make a great admin —UED77 23:48, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

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==Arniep==

I have been a commons user since October 2005, with over 500 edits. I think I have a good idea of the rules and policies here, and hope to be able to help out with some of the backlog of images that are tagged no source and speedy delete and with other admin tasks. Arniep 13:54, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

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Comment: One doesn't start off well with an RFA if one immediately reverts an admin. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 23:12, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

That image is British Crown Copyright and as far as I am aware we cannot use these on Commons (the user who placed the license falsely tagged many other images). Arniep 23:31, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, Bas, what's your point? You didn't exactly provide a rationale for your action yourself. To me it looked like Arniep's speedy-tag was in order - the photo has been here since Oct 2005 and is still without a source. Keep in mind that Administrator access is not meant to imply editorial authority on the project.. cheers, --Lumijaguaari (моє обговорення) 23:38, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

I did explain my action, on Arniep's talk page. Furthermore, we're trying to establish trustworthiness among the projects and this is not going to happen if we start deleting images and leaving redlines on Wikipedia pages. There's more work required in removing images than just clicking delete, and anyone that wants to run for Admin at Commons needs to understand this. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 02:09, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I did say that I intended to replace the image on all the projects. A problem with removing images before they are deleted is that other users will often restore the image creating much more trouble than there would be if it was clear that the image had been deleted. Arniep 09:53, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

When you are removing the image, you should of course give an explanation and giving a link to your Commons userpage is a good idea if you don't have an account in that project. You can use my translations for edit summaries. They state quite clearly what the problem is. If a local user is foolish enough to put an image back in, when we delete the image, then they will get a redlink. That's fine, that's their problem. But we can't leave redlinks in the first place. pfctdayelise (translate?) 00:26, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks that's a useful page. Arniep 01:06, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Well I feel very sad that I don't seem to be getting any support here, merely because I restored a speedy delete notice for an image that should have been deleted long ago. There are currently over 1400 images excluding articles in the speedy deletion category, many of which have been there a considerable amount of time. Unless the speedy delete category is dealt with in a much more effective way then people will continue to abuse the system as many users believe if an image is on Commons then it must be free and users will continue to upload violations in the knowledge that the image may be there a considerable amount of time before it is deleted when they will come back and upload it again knowing it will again take a long time to be deleted. Arniep 15:10, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

•  Support I see nothing wrong with his above actions. Images should be tagged as nsd, regardless of whether they are in use or not. But that debate is beside the point here. ed g2s • talk 15:46, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

It was actually a speedy delete as all copy vios can be tagged as such. Arniep 16:10, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

•  Support British crown copyright can't be used on Commons. I find User:Bastique's rationale for the contrary distinctly unconvincing, since it's an awfully minor issue; isn't it the responsibility of the deleting admin to check for links from other projects?

  Anyway, for the record, I'm mainly active on en:w, not Commons, and have very few edits here. Just chipping in my opinion, discount if you like. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 04:49, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I have checked Template:Speedydelete and it states "consider checking usage of this file on all Wikimedia projects before deleting.".

As only admins can delete, the template does seem to indicate presently that only admins should check before deleting, not that non admins must check before tagging as Bastique stated. So I feel, really, that Bastique's criticism was rather unjustified. Arniep 10:21, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

•  Support Seems willing to take criticism on board, is happy to follow the right procedure. Therefore I am confident any misunderstandings with this user will be resolved quickly and this is exactly the type of behaviour an admin should have. Also eagerness to delete speedies = ++good. (But please put Commons:Babel boxes on your user or usertalk page.) pfctdayelise (translate?) 10:25, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

•  Support — Per pfctdayelise. We need more people like this. —UED77 23:44, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support — Kjetil r 16:10, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

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==Denniss==

I want to nominate Denniss to administrator position. This user is long term contributor whose hall of fame includes organizing Category:Aircraft and detecting many copyvios from http://www.airliners.net. Indeed, I could miss something :-) --EugeneZelenko 16:07, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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If I get the honour of becoming an admin I will focus on deleting copyvios and I will try to check and clean out the images tagged as unknown license/source for a long time. There's a lot of work to be done there. --Denniss 21:51, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support as nominator. --EugeneZelenko 16:07, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral -- I don't see the immediate need for more German speaking admins. As a person though, I have the impression that Denniss is a serious and reliable person who would use the admin privileges for good purposes. / Fred Chess 18:38, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose --Strongly Oppose. I refer folks to an instance of his practices evidenced on this topic where a half dozen users have been forced to engage in reversion wars with him-User_talk:Denniss/Archive_1#Removing_images_from_categories. DennisS is a valuable member of Commons and has made significant contributions. It is good for folks like DennisS to champion a POV, even when it is at odds with even a majority of others. However the method he deals with disputes is ill suited for those in the position of an admin. For example, he is at odds with the majority of Commons contributors on the contentious issue of whether an image should be a member of ANY category if the image is also part of a gallery article. There is no concensus on a policy but a 2 to 1 majority favors some role for categories on image pages. Here is the link to the discussion on this issue. Ok fine- taking a particular position does not disqualify anyone from being an admin. What is pertinent is whether we want folks that conduct themselves on issues this way to have Admin powers. Despite the fact the categories vs. articles conversation resulted in a live and let live outcome, he has sought to impose his own POV. He has stripped images of all of their categories, then nominated the now emptied categories for speedydelete since they were empty. With adminstrator powers, he could and I suspect would- simply delete them. He has done this not just with my contributions but those of many others. Particularly alarming, in response to my many calls for dialog, as well as those of others, he responds simply with further mass reversions. I strongly oppose his nomination for adminstratorship until such time as he demonstrates a respect for the opinions of others, and a willingness to enter into dialog, and evidence of good faith to seek compromise with those he disagrees. -Mak 19:14, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
  • What a surprise, another personal attack from this category fanatic, his sole work in the Commons is dupliating article content into categories without keeping them both synchronized. I only reverted those changes duplicating articles into categories though I should have stayed away from this stupid editwar. It is also a common rule in all wikis if an Admin is involved in a conflict he should not use his powers to fight the other side. --Denniss 21:51, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

As I said, I have a great deal of respect for you DennisS, and I am indebted to you for the work you have contributed here. I apologize if you took it as a personal attack. I am opposed not because of your personality, or your positions. I would oppose even if you were a friend and held the same POV as myself. I think your conduct with the multiple users who complained of your tactics on your talk page about your category blanking (see reference above) provides ample evidence of the areas of growth needed before you are entrusted with administrative powers. -Mak 22:53, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

•  Neutral Denniss has obviously done a lot of excellent work here, including helping newcomers, tagging speedies (HEAPS) and copyvios, and has uploaded over 1000 files which is quite amazing. But he has never taken part in policy or community discussion, even when invited, and this is relevant to the article/category debate and the PNG/SVG replacement/deletion debate. And yet, Category:Unknown certainly needs all the help we can give it. I would like to see a commitment to: 1) notifying uploaders when tagging their images and 2) Abiding by community consensus, or lack of it, meaning no emptying of categories to make articles instead and no deletion of PNGs without clear consensus on COM:DEL. pfctdayelise (translate?) 04:42, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support HardDisk 17:25, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral until the dispute with Mak is settled.--Jusjih 14:55, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support – Kjetil r 23:49, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support His work is excellent, he is around --Tarawneh 07:25, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose Weak oppose. Candidate's response above ("What a surprise, another personal attack from this category fanatic") is off-putting. Jkelly 18:01, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
• Weak  Oppose, like Jkelly, above. Attacking people who oppose you is never good form. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 15:40, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose It's obvious that an admin cannot go against the grain, so to speak, in issues like the one Mak presented us. --Lumijaguaari (моє обговорення) 23:32, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 15:52, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose An attitude like his does definitely not qualify Deniss for admin - Quistnix 10:08, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose --gildemax 19:35, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose Granted several pics on de: a license by random (example: history of [34].) After I tried to reach him on his talk page, he continued, so I had to block him for several minutes. As the 5 minutes block expired, he countinued again, so I had to block him for 2 hours. In that time an dynamic IP address went on with this dubios work. No good gut feeling. --Dundak 12:30, 25 May 2006 (UTC) (failed)
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==CommonismNow for bot==

I request bot status for CN because of an request of an wikisource admin. It is dealing around 20.000 images from the ADB, which are in public domain. Expected upload size is around 2000mb.

As you can see on the bot's userpage, the bot serves also for another purpose: for the semi-automatic moving of images to commons. The errors in it which were at the time of first bot request are fixed now completely; when an operator forgets to enter license/categories you can easily find ot the operators name. --HardDisk 17:53, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Flominator 17:56, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Timo Müller Diskussion 19:18, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Alphax (talk) 09:07, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose why bot status for uploading images? this can be done without. no thanks. --BLueFiSH ✉ 23:24, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
  • 20 thousand images? :o I wouldn't like to do that by hand. At any rate, the idea of the bot flag is so that iit doesn't crowd out Special:Recentchanges. pfctdayelise (translate?) 05:08, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support pfctdayelise (translate?) 05:08, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Kenwilliams 10:41, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose no real change since last vote. I'm still very unsure that the main user behind the bot (HardDisk – does his own vote count?) is not doing "nonsense" any more. However, the information provided for each single image within Category:ADB (the project the bot is mainly working on at the moment) were not matching the minimum information requirements for Commons uploads until my change. The bot edits by someone who apparently doesn't know, that specific information on source and age clearly have to be stated directly on the image page, instead of only being reachable with several more clicks (as it was before), shouldn't be hidden on Recentchanges – they definitely need (more) control by other users. --:Bdk: 07:07, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  •  Comment: Please blame Timo for the template,not me. I am not the one responsible for it, I only operate the bot. HardDisk 15:04, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
    • sorry, but i have to say this: Please blame my officier for the instruction, not me. I am not the one responsible for it, I only fired the rifle. --BLueFiSH ✉ 16:18, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

lol. very amazing joke. your comments were once better.HardDisk 20:17, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

•  Oppose Every one is uploading images, that is the idea in commons. We are supposed to see the uploading. I use an application to upload images to commons, some times a 100 a time, that is a bot. It does not mean I must have bot status. Bot status is for some thing no one cares to see, at least that is what I belive --Tarawneh 00:46, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose - feeding 20.000 text scans into commons sounds not like a good idea to me. Commons was made as a deposit for media and picture files, not for mirroring already existing online-encyclopedias. --Anathema 08:34, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose - The bot was used in a way I can't trust it will be used thoughtfully in future. Arnomane 09:09, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

   Comment what do you mean with this? explain, please.HardDisk 18:36, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

  With Uploadin more than 1000 gif files with poor image description and so forth was simply the wrong way. 5 Images would have been enough for a first demo and feedback and then if people have made some suggests as well you would have been able uploading the rest. Arnomane 18:21, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

•  Support Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 15:51, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose--Factumquintus 02:27, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose--Darkone 08:23, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose--Crux 07:26, 23 May 2006 (UTC) 2 (bot, failed)
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==Zirland==

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I'm active on czech Wikipedia since May 15, 2005, admin there since November 21, 2005. I do lot of maintainance related to pictures, replacing images with Commons, handling redundant etc. On Commons I am active since January 22, 2006. I decided to ask for the rights when I found out, that the image I marked for deletion six weeks ago is still here. I will willingly take care of this part of maintainance. I am familiar with Commons:Deletion guidelines. Zirland 06:07, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support good cooperation. A.J. 09:09, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Comment Please put Commons:Babel boxes on your user or usertalk page. pfctdayelise (translate?) 10:35, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

  Babel done. I think I should write more information on the user page... I'll think about the content. --Zirland 17:50, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

•  Neutral Little experience on Commons. --EugeneZelenko 13:52, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Szwedzki 01:04, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --WarX 08:35, 21 May 2006 (UTC) Good guy from Czech Republic :)
•  Support --Aktron 22:12, 21 May 2006 (UTC) I do not know only one reason, why not. He is good admin on cs.wiki.
•  Neutral By now. Slade ^[pics] 22:53, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Multilinguality --pfctdayelise (translate?) 01:34, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 07:00, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support, but more experience here would be much better--Jusjih 14:09, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Vindicator 09:42, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose Not enough prior involvement Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 17:18, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Zirland is now a sysop. User:dbenbenn 22:04, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

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==Howcheng==

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I've been an active admin on English Wikipedia since December 2005 and have been using Commons since February 2006. On en-wiki, I concentrate on deleting unlicensed/unsourced images and will do the same here. I've also done lots of categorization of images on Commons. If I'm not familiar with any Commons-specific policies, you can be sure I'll learn them before I implement any of them. Thanks. Howcheng 20:11, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support --EugeneZelenko 13:50, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - LERK (Talk / Contributions) 14:01, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support I was the one who nominated Howcheng for adminship in en, good guy Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 03:39, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 07:00, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support A.J. 09:44, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 14:11, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --tomf688 (talk - email) 13:59, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Howcheng is now a sysop. User:dbenbenn 22:34, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

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==Angr==

I've been active at Commons since January, and an admin at English Wikipedia since September 2005. I'd really like to help clear the backlog of unsourced and/or improperly licensed images that need to be deleted. Angr 00:02, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

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•  Support -- Good user, and there is a cleanup backlog. Jkelly 00:08, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Comment Please put Commons:Babel boxes on your user or user talk page. pfctdayelise (translate?) 01:58, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Done! Angr 12:44, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - Angr is a nice fellow Kjetil r 11:09, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--AYArktos 08:46, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --gildemax 19:30, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - LERK (Talk / Contributions) 14:01, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 03:40, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 07:00, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 14:13, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support change to  Comment because of my new standards on voting. I think Angr will make a great admin (and considering the vote count, it will be true), however, I cannot support him given the edit count and present low community involvement. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 20:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- I know Angr from en-wiki and I trust him as an admin there. Howcheng 00:04, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - Szwedzki 11:04, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support, extensive contributions to en:wiki. --tomf688 (talk - email) 14:03, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Angr is now a sysop. Arnomane 00:22, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

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==Barcex==

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I'm an Spanish Wikipedia user since mid 2004, very active since mid 2005 and administrator since May 2006. I have uploaded many pictures to Commons, and always tried to fill in all its details and categorize them properly. I know quite well the details of copyright law and commons licensing rules since I advocate for no fair use at the Spanish Wikipedia.

Being a commons user I noted that sometimes administrative requests such as the speedy deletion of flagrant copyright violation images takes much time. So I guess the current administrators are very busy and need additional manpower. That's why I'm offering my help.

Being designated admin here would be a honor for me. If you like to ask me further questions please feel free to contact me. Sorry for my poor English. Barcex 20:54, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support --Kjetil_r 21:07, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support --Ecelan 21:38, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support --Kordas 23:54, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support --A.J. 09:45, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support --Wesisnay 13:05, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support --Jusjih 14:14, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support --Javier Carro 14:47, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support --Roblespepe 22:22, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support --Dodo 08:09, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support --ALE! 08:28, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support --Sanbec ✉ 08:59, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
12. A favor --Taragüí @
    15:28, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support--Orgullomoore 18:46, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support Anna 02:02, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support Axxgreazz (talk) 02:27, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support --Alexquendi 19:14, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
17.  Support Gizmo II 08:07, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support --Oscar . 21:06, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
19.  Support --Colegota 08:04, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
20.  Support --Taichi 10:10, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
21.  Support, Ok! --Jorgechp 15:03, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
22.  Comment I would like to support this candidate, but he still needs more involvement with the community. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 17:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
23.  Support, good contributions. --tomf688 (talk - email) 14:03, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
24.  Support --Alhen .::··¨ 20:38, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Barcex is now sysop. Arnomane 00:40, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

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===ALE!===

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See his contributions and his activity at Template:Deletion_requests

Por si fuera poco, ¡se puede hablar con él en español! ;-)

Sanbec ✉ 14:19, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support --Sanbec ✉ 14:19, 26 May 2006 (UTC) as nominator.
•  Support --EugeneZelenko 14:29, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Very active and diligent. Has done great work for a long time on COM:DEL. pfctdayelise (translate?) 15:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Barcex 21:08, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Anna 02:04, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Oscar . 21:08, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support,  Support --Jorgechp 15:02, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- active involvement and great history. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 17:01, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support, extensive contributions. --tomf688 (talk - email) 14:06, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support FellowWikipedian 02:23, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Fred Chess 09:21, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Wsiegmund 05:29, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Rüdiger Wölk 12:48, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Taichi 09:27, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support,  Support Scotty jasper2000 20:51, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Jollyroger 19:29, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 07:13, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - LERK (Talk / Contributions) 13:01, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

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===Tomf688===

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I have been editing the Commons since March 2005 and have uploaded over 500 images, but I would like to contribute moreso as an administrator. I've noticed the speedy deletion page and other similar pages have a backlog and I would look forward to being able to help clean those up (checkusage, making sure the deletion requests are valid, etc.). I have also been an administrator on en:wiki since October 2005, so I have experience being an admin. Thanks for your time. --tomf688 (talk - email) 21:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Comment You have 15 orphans. My {{Support}} will come when you fix them. Kjetil_r 00:54, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Fixed. --tomf688 (talk - email) 02:04, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Kjetil_r 11:39, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose Commendable image base yet no involvement in the community at Commons..only 2 edits on Commons namespace. There are so many ways to be involved as an ordinary user. I'd love to encourage those Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 16:59, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
  • NB. the template namespace (DR) is nearly as important as the Commons namespace (VP), just something to keep in mind. pfctdayelise (translate?) 01:39, 1 June 2006 (UTC) (failed)
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===NielsF===

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I am nominating NielsF for adminship. He is a very active member of nl.wp, where he is an admin, and speaks another four languages besides (including it-3). He has shown great patience and willingness to work with the Commons community in order to improve inter-project communication, and for this reason I consider he will be a great asset to the Commons.

I accept the nomination. As a Commons admin my first interest would be in trying to improve coöperation and collaboration between nl.wikipedia and Commons. I'm not completely up to speed of Commons procedures and policies but I will of course first acquaint myself with them before using admin "powers". Speaking of these "powers", I would use them for (amongst others): streamlining the Dutch-language user interface (MediaWiki texts), which at the moment are somehow slightly different from all other Dutch-language projects (which is confusing sometimes), helping to clear the backlog of images to be deleted, and other maintenance work. NielsF 14:10, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support as nominator pfctdayelise (translate?) 01:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 12:08, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Communication situation with Dutch Wikipedia should be improved. However more Commons experience will be big plus. I hope, candidate knows from Dutch Wikipedia experience which actions must be avoided :-). --EugeneZelenko 14:35, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Comment I would like to see a great deal more edits before supporting this candidate, although I'm pleased to see substantial involvement in the community. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 17:03, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

  Ok, I'll work on this. Not being appointed as administrator is not an extremely big deal, however I think as one I could help out on a lot of issues. NielsF 06:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

•  Support, good contributions here and on other wikis. --tomf688 (talk - email) 14:04, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
  •  Oppose, wait a minute, only 128 edits, and not very high activity. --tomf688 (talk - email) 14:56, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Fred Chess 09:23, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support (User:Pfctdayelise nomicated the candidate but forgot the signature.)--Jusjih 15:48, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Siebrand 18:06, 3 June 2006 (UTC) If Niels wants to go for it, I'm sure he's up to it.
•  Oppose I'm new here, but active on en.wikipedia, and I don't get how a user with only 127 edits can become an admin, only because he's active on another wikiproject in another language. Then, can I become an admin, because I've got nearly 5000 edits on en.wp and I'm an admin.--Shreshth91 09:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Note that COM:A#What_is_expected_from_an_administrator.3F explicitly states what is officially required. Individuals may of course have their own standards and expectations. pfctdayelise (translate?) 11:13, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Agree I agree with Bastique and Shreshth91 that 127 edits are very few edits, but in this case I believe he can make a good job and he may be a good administrator. --Prevert^(talk) 17:38, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 07:13, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

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===Lennert B===

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At the risk of this being an unpopular suggestion I kindly would like to ask you to consider me for adminship. I am an active user on the German Wikipedia since February 2004 and I recently was elected admin there. The main reason I would like the "buttons" is my constant frustration of the chaos present in the department of biochemistry/medicine here on Commons. Users from Wikipedias all over realize they need a chemical formula, create it and upload it without checking if another version exists. Results can be seen for example in the Category:Catecholamines. There are 5 versions of the same molecule. It is situations like this where I believe the extended rights could come in handy. Thank you for your consideration, Lennert B 00:07, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support When you mean... ;-) -- Carbidfischer 15:37, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Tolanor 16:19, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Comment Are you saying you plan to just delete the similar images? I don't think that is a good approach. pfctdayelise (translate?) 00:22, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

After replacing them on all the Wikis using them so that in the end all Wikis use only one version of an image (for chemical structures or alike, where different versions don't contain different information). I just don't see the point in having 5 different versions of e.g. the molecular structure of Epinephrine. That just makes it harder to find what you are looking for. Lennert B 00:39, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

•  Oppose Not opposed to this user individually, but I now believe we need greater involvement from regular users and higher standards for sysop (500 edits as user and involvement in Commons community.) Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 16:52, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral, several long stretches of inactivity. --tomf688 (talk - email) 14:08, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support HardDisk 19:02, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - he is one of the Good Guys(tm) --Uwe 19:02, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral - would support with another couple months of sustained activity. Wsiegmund 05:26, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Siebrand 12:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Scotty jasper2000 13:56, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 07:13, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
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===Helix84===

I would like to translate the interface into Slovak. At this time I don't intend to participate in other admin activities.

I've been an admin on sk:wikipedia since 9/2005. Besides other activities, I keep on updating slovak interface translation there. I recently joined betawiki to help translating LanguageSk.php. I already translated some commons pages into Slovak (it was some time ago) and some Picture of the Day Slovak titles. ~~helix84 20:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Robo 20:08, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Bebenko 21:29, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Atomique 21:38, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose What about participating first at the Commons:Help page maintenance? Slovak is much underepresented there and translating pages first is much more important than some interface strings (you need some slovak content which you want to link in the interface). You don't need to be an admin in order to give your language a great favour there. I'd be really happy if you can join there. Arnomane 01:08, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Adrian.benko 03:36, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose That is the single only thing you're interested in? We can easily install the translation, you don't need admin status for that alone. We need admins who will do dirty work and work with their language community as well. ACK Arnomane. pfctdayelise (translate?) 04:55, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Well, my interests lie with sk:wikipedia and that's pretty much all I would have time to do. I'm just being honest with you. I'm of course already taking care of introducing people from sk: to commons and helping them with it. That I don't need an account to translate pages I know, but I'd do this month what I neglected so far and want to have access to MediaWiki: namespace. ~~helix84 09:41, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
    • It's good that you're being honest, but really -- you can just post the translations on my talk page or the village pump. They will get updated straight away. id.wp just did this today, it doesn't need an admin for the translation itself. pfctdayelise (translate?) 13:29, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Well you can support people from sk.wp best if you translate Commons:First steps into slovak now. This is what we need not a slovak interface pointing into english articles, which doesn't help anybody. Interface strings are just a very very minor aspect wich can be done with a short request as Pfctdayelise did suggest it to you. Arnomane 17:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --AtonX 11:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Bubamara 18:43, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose I agree to Arnomane --Crux 19:28, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Agree to what? I'm translating help pages already and I'm well aware that I don't need to be an admin to submit interface tranlations. But I want to do it because of the long compile-run-test cycle in case I'm not. ~~helix84 21:55, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Long compile-run-test cycles? For interface strings? Surely not. I just did some Indonesian ones last week and it is very straightforward. pfctdayelise (translate?) 08:04, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
    • 1-2 days, as for my last experience with updating Belarusian translation. --EugeneZelenko 15:01, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sanbec ✉ 15:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Stefi 15:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Agree --Slade ^[pics] 22:44, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Rádiológ 19:43, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Maros 18:07, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

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I give up cadidacy as I accomplished most of interface translation with help of Arnomane on IRC. Thank you for your votes. ~~helix84 12:33, 10 June 2006 (UTC) (withdrawn)

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=== BounceY2K ===

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I am an italian user (i work also for the italian Wikipedia) and I've been working on Wikimedia Commons for about 6 months. I am here to ask your attention to my adminiship request. Till now the commons community has got only one italian administrator and I would like to espress myself as better as possible as another representative of the italian community being in W.Commons. I am often active in the IRC Commons Chat-Room and ready to help everyone who needs information about uploading or licensing problems. When I "walk along" Commons I like to check latest uploaded files and notify copyviol or files without license; I'd like to do that also as administrator to help delete bad pictures as well. Thanks for your attention. --ßøuñçêY2K 13:15, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Votes

Support

•  Support --Loox 13:27, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --RED DEVIL 666 14:40, 7 June 2006 (UTC) I have not a lot of time to spend on Commons. A second admin It-N would be better. I trust in Bounce.
•  Support --Deh 15:47, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support yes! --Jacopo86 19:25, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Sure! --Leoman3000 19:26, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support go bouncey go! --Jollyroger 19:26, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Paginazero 19:27, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Kal-El ^{post here!} 19:31, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --tomf688 (talk - email) 19:51, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 07:13, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support per Red pfctdayelise (translate?) 08:02, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - LERK (Talk / Contributions)
•  Support Sanbec ✉ 15:09, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --DarkRaven 21:52, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Rüdiger Wölk 09:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --timendum 20:43, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Agree --Prevert^(talk) 23:23, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Agree --Lmbuga ^{gl, pt, es: fala comigo} 17:18, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support - εΔω 17:34, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Pro --Slade ^[pics] 18:51, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Tomia 19:22, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Matt314 16:16, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Ettore Timi 18:59, 14 June 2006 (UTC) Viva Fiorenza!!!
•  Support --Zapping 09:24, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Sannita 09:33, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Giorces 22:23, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Sailko 15:48, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Paulatz 15:13, 30 July 2006 (UTC) I suppose I voted far too late... Paulatz 07:50, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

•  Oppose --Sublime Negativo 15:27, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

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===Samulili===

After reading that there is a shortage of (active) admins, I decided to request adminship. I'm user and admin fi-wikipedia, fi-wiktionary and fi-wikibooks and a user in fr-wikipedia, sv-wikipedia and en-wikipedia. I have about 35 000 edits in other projects and 1090 in Commons. I've been doing things like categorizing (chemical compounds, yeah blame me) and overwriting duplicate and orphaned images. I have also replaced redundant images used by other projects. I check Commons on a daily basis. Sometimes I'm ill-tempered. Samulili 05:34, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Grön 21:02, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
•  SupportComment How ill-tempered? Jkelly 02:45, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

  Sometimes crabby, never personal attacks. -Samulili 12:05, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

•  Support for multilingualism, cleaning efforts. However more participating in community will be good idea. --EugeneZelenko 13:47, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Agree --Slade ^[pics] 22:44, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support; active contributor. --tomf688 (talk - email) 00:22, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Helpful, multilingual pfctdayelise (translate?) 00:24, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Tomia 19:21, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 19:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support // Have not seen that ill-tempered bit but thinks Samulili is overall a decent guy Habj 19:22, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

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===Grön===

I did read on mailing list that we have problems with a lot of images that needs to be deleted in some ways. Myself I'm very active with such things on the swedish Wikipedia (where I'm an admin and chekuser) and I think I got the knowledge and judgemental skills to help out on commons to. I'm very willing to participate in the Commons but doesn't have to opportunity to add media. Grön 20:53, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Jkelly 02:46, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Likes to do grunt work! That's all being an admin is here, grunt work. You'll fit right in. Can I suggest you start to read Template:Deletion requests for a feel of what issues are important, what are straightforward, etc. pfctdayelise (translate?) 04:13, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral for now. Little experience on Commons. Will be good idea to start grant work from reviewing User:Orgullobot/Welcome log, Special:Unusedimages, participating in community discussions. --EugeneZelenko 13:43, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral --Slade ^[pics] 22:45, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Grön is a trustworthy admin from se, never had any problems or fuss with him. Thuresson 23:59, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose; very little activity. --tomf688 (talk - email) 00:21, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. I appreciate Grön's nomination and I know that Grön has good intentions. However, I don't support the idea that Commons needs more admins. IMO, Commons need better guidelines on how to proceed with image deletions. / Fred Chess 18:02, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support I know Grön from the Swedish Wikipedia where he is a very ambitious and good administrator. Boivie 07:09, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 19:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Jon Harald Søby 19:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. Indeed, a trusted user. Mats Halldin 19:12, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support RaSten 19:16, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Grön is a good guy // Habj 19:25, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose 160 edits are not enough. --ßøuñçêY2K 21:05, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Fred Chess 12:31, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

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===Orgullomoore===

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He's sysop at es: See his contributions here

Sanbec ✉ 14:19, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Sanbec ✉ 08:59, 15 June 2006 (UTC) as nominator
•  Support--Javier Carro 09:54, 15 June 2006 (UTC) A great contributor. What would we do without his bots? And he is a very good administrator in Spanish Wikipedia :OD
•  Support good job with his bot, I think Orgullomoore will be a good admin. --Matt314 10:22, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support but does he accept? I almost hope not, since he is so useful at the moment. Very approachable and agreeable. pfctdayelise (translate?) 10:43, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

  Yes he accepted via IRC Sanbec ✉ 12:06, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

  Indeed--Orgullomoore 17:41, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

•  Strong support Very active user and always on irc channels helping new users Yrithinnd 12:05, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. Absolutely. --EugeneZelenko 14:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. Fully. Siebrand 17:57, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support No doubt. Barcex 20:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Agree --Prevert^(talk) 20:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Edub 21:52, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Alexquendi 22:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Tomia 22:31, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Agree--Lmbuga ^{gl, pt, es: contacta comigo} 00:50, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support —Gizmo II 01:11, 16 June 2006 (UTC) Un grande.
• Pro. I like your bot. --Slade ^[pics] 01:57, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Beto29 02:13, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. Er Komandante 02:18, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Oscar . 03:41, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Alhen .::··¨ 04:32, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Tomatejc 05:24, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support, no reservations. Titoxd^(?!?) 05:59, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support! Mortadelo2005 10:57, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 17:17, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Jon Harald Søby 19:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --tomf688 (talk - email) 18:28, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Agree--Rocastelo^(talk) 22:00, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Strong support --Broc 13:19, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Wsiegmund 17:11, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Agree --Alyssalover 18:22, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Agree --Xelo2004 21:39, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Davidge 21:40, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Taichi 06:45, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Lin linao 07:37, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Tony Rotondas 22:24, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --B1mbo 18:49, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

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===Jon Harald Søby===

I saw on the mailing list that Commons was in need of admins to do some dirty work (e.g. deleting "unknown"-tagged images and such), and I love doing that kind of stuff (yes, I'm a psycho). I'm a steward, and bureaucrat/admin on the Norwegian Wikipedia and Norwegian Wikinews, and admin in the Norwegian Wiktionary and English Wiktionary. I also help out with language localisation on Betawiki, and am part of the newly created languages subcommittee, and an OTRS member. Anyways, I'm requesting adminship on Commons to help with the deletion of problematic images, as well as any other admin tasks that are necessary. Oh, I also have an account on every Wikipedia there is (I was bored one Saturday a couple of months ago), which could come in handy when removing images that are to be deleted. Jon Harald Søby 19:07, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support. Of course. Mats Halldin 19:11, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. RaSten 19:13, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Snillet 19:16, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Jhs knows the wiki way to do things Habj 19:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Siebrand 21:51, 16 June 2006 (UTC) Always supporting a fellow psycho.
•  Support Cnyborg 01:09, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support Fred Chess 12:19, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Korg 14:02, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support; positive contributor. --tomf688 (talk - email) 18:28, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Kjetil Svenheim 22:52, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support---Nina- 22:53, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support But are you sure you have time for this? ZorroIII 22:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral I don't feel voting against, because this guy is very active. But i've read his userpage and my only thought is "Jack of all trades, master of none"... --ßøuñçêY2K 19:44, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Grön 11:55, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
• Very Strong  Support --Connel MacKenzie 01:02, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Wsiegmund 17:11, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- Rüdiger Wölk 15:25, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support I hope to be here by Labor Day GangstaEB (W) 16:34, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 17:42, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Agree--Rocastelo^(talk) 18:29, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Agree --Prevert^(talk) 13:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Cspurrier 14:56, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support – hvorfor er han ikke admin allerede? Kjetil_r 22:07, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Jada! --Boivie 09:26, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

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I withdrawing my own nomination!

 Comment I am sure you don't need me here anyway. Sorry for the time you wasted... Christer Johansson 04:32, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Christer Johansson

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Votes

1. Mannen av börd 19:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC) - support
2.  Support god at copyright issues.
3.  Comment so why do you want to be admin, and why should we vote for you? / Fred Chess 20:00, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Answer: To help in all the work that comes with all upploads of not approved pictures and illustrations. Besides that, support allmoust all questions about copyrights.

1.  Oppose none the less. With 120 edits and of those only 4 in the Commons: namespace, the user does not have enough experience with Commons, and I don't believe he has enough knowledge about matters of copyright. Sorry. / Fred Chess 20:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
2.  Oppose few edit. --ßøuñçêY2K 20:42, 28 June 2006 (UTC) (withdrawn)

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===Piotrus===

Let me start with my cons :) As my contributions will show I am not the most active member of this project, and I will not make false promises it will change. On the other hand I make some edits every months, and I have even created one template. What I often do on Commons, besides uploading images, is fixing tags, categories and adding sources to Poland-related images in need. It is here that admin access would prove useful for me, as currently when I am notified there is a problem with an image and it has already been deleted I cannot view the history to see what was missing, or restore the image if I could fix it easily - I have to hunt the image via Google Images, and reinvent the description page (or ask an admin to restore it for me). Today when I was faced with the issue of restoring an image for which the source page is now offline (and no other copy of the image seems to be preserved in Google Images) I thought that 'enough is enough' and that I should apply for access to the Commons 'mop and bucket' :) On the ending note let me state that people at w:Portal:Poland/Poland-related_Wikipedia_notice_board are always happy to address any problems with Poland-related images IF we are notified such problems exist. PS. I am also an admin of en-wiki.Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 18:53, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Neutral. I would like to see candidates more dedicated to project. Unfortunately, there are many Polish admins on Commons who doesn't appear very active. Nothing personal. --EugeneZelenko 20:06, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Comment currently when I am notified there is a problem with an image and it has already been deleted I cannot view the history to see what was missing -- well, this is a fact of every non-admin. Actually I think it is stupid, and all registered users should be able to view deleted edits, but they changed the software some months ago. Ah well. Also note that images can be undeleted now so you don't have to find them elsewhere if they were deleted after June 16th. And any admin can undelete an image for you. Maybe the PL-users here need to work together a bit more? pfctdayelise (translate?) 05:57, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
  • That's certainly a possibility. On a sidenote, I actually represent a faction of Polish (or Poland-interested) wikipedians involved in English Wiki, and I think that most of the Commons Polish users (and Commons Polish admins) are from pl wiki.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 20:41, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
    • He is true - most of us are from pl.wiki :) --WarX 07:15, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose mildly, but still. I think that the said goal can be achieved by actively keeping an eye on the CommonsTicker - which is extremely valuable and appreciated. -Samulili 18:16, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose --Bouncey2k 22:46, 29 June 2006 (UTC) (failed)
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===Cool Cat===

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I am nominating Cool Cat once more for admin. I believe he has done an incredible job at Commons with a tremendous amount of edits. He has not lately been involved in any major disputes, and I sincerely believe that he will be an asset to Commons as a sysop.

I believe this user has worked hard enough in the trenches here at Commons and has earned the position. He has taken the advice from the last RFA and acted without reproach in the months since.

I know from personal experience that users involved in heated disputes can go on and mend their ways and become valued contributors and editors, and administrators. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 00:07, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

• Cool Cat, do you accept? — Bastique
  • Yes, Evet, はい (Hai). --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 00:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Votes

 Support as nom Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 00:14, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 Neutral When you only make 85 edits in 3 months, it's pretty easy to "act without reproach". Would like to see more community activity, such as helping out on the Welcome log or comments at Template:Deletion requests and/or Commons:Village pump. pfctdayelise (translate?) 01:40, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

I frequently assisted in dealing with people who did not know english. I also aranged translation of various copy vio notices to Turkish. I wasn't idleing. My edit count will likely skyrocket if I were to be adminised.--Cool Cat^Talk|@ 17:37, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support Cool Cat helped me with the turkih tranlations of licenses, which allowed me to remove hundreds of copyvios at en: Drini 00:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

I fail to see how that makes him suitable to wield power, something he has shown himself repeatedly to be utterly incapable of doing. James F. (talk) 16:23, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

That is an excelent point. Since I was never an admin, I couldn't have ever abused "power" as I never had any. I also object the referance of "power" when talking about admin privilages which is a mop not a warp engine. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 17:26, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Taichi 05:31, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose --Broc 11:13, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support --WarX 18:34, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Valepert 21:13, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support -- and my apologizes for my bad tone in the section below, but it was on purpose to test your temper. / Fred Chess 09:24, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support--Shanel 17:41, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support. A couple of stretches of inactivity, but overall extensive contributions. --tomf688 (talk - email) 19:37, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support - I voted against last time, but you will get my {{Support}} now. Btw, there is no need to thank the users voting by putting a large “thank you-template” in their talk pages! ;-) Kjetil_r 19:39, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support Sanbec ✉ 17:51, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose - Cool Cat is an attention whore, a privilege seeker, and a highly disruptive individual; he should not be trusted with any privilege anywhere in Wikimedia. Kelly Martin 12:52, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I dont recall seeking attention... --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 14:35, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Are you implying that that would be Cool Cat's profession, or are you just being useless rude? Effeietsanders 14:46, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Cool Cat has a long history of seeking acceptance and validation through seeking status, all across Wikimedia. This is just the latest chapter in that process. (An example of this status-seeking was when he requested adminship on all small Wikipedia projects. See Meta:Requests for permissions/Archive 2006/June#Cool_Cat.) He is subject to substantial conduct restrictions on en.wiki (although these may have expired by now) and was very nearly banned from enwiki by the Arbitration Committee, in a case where I acted as his advocate (it is probably the case that my intervention in that case prevented him from being banned entirely; he was a very difficult client to work with). He is currently banned from the Wikipedia IRC channel as well as several other Wikipedia-related channels. In the few cases where he has obtained status, he has proven unsuitable to continue holding it. He was ousted from the Counter Vandalism Unit on enwiki, an organization which he founded, because he was not able to work cooperatively with the other members. He also has a history of wikistalking people who he thinks are stalking him, even going so far as to request CheckUsers of people who he fantasizes are sockpuppets of his nemeses. He is profoundly biased on Turkish topics, but refuses to acknowledge that bias (which is why he is banned for life from editing topics related to Turkey or Armenia on enwiki). I have no faith that he is competent to exercise any authority in an fair and unbiased way; it would be a grave mistake for Commons to grant him administrator status, and one which Commons would eventually regret. At least Brion has made it possible to undelete images, since if you make him one you will almost certainly have to undelete all your images related to Kurds or the Armenian Genocide (topics which Cool Cat feels passionately and is unable to remain objective about). Kelly Martin 16:13, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

You say this just days I declined to get involved with the Armenian Genocide article, quoting that very arbitration hearing which by the way only restricts me for a year (not a lifetime) and does not actualy ban me from editing the topics. However, I haven't edited the actual Armenian Genocide article for perhaps months now. I also declined to even comment on an article related to kurdistan pointing out that I wasn't completely impartial. I acknowlege my bias openly, and frequently and make an effort to keep it under check. You are welcome to cite any evidence suggesting otherwise.

Furtheremore, all of your reasoning has nothing to do with commons. A commons administrators dutiy is primarily to delete images that are in violation of copyrights and to block users vandalising or uploading copyrighted images (regardless of warnings) which I intend to do if I were to be promoted. Given the backlog, a capable helping hand should be welcomed.

I have no intention of mass-deleting every image related to the kurds or armenians. Why on earth would I do such a thing? What gave you that idea?

--Cool Cat^Talk|@ 17:18, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Also an interesting point, why would I "seek attention" by requesting adminship on wikis with less than ten articles (wikis with noone around). There is no one there to give me their attention... --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 19:18, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm, you don't give really an answer here, but I guess it's the second option. Maybe Cool Cat shouldn't be admin here, but I just wonder why people can't tell that in a civil way :S Effeietsanders 22:06, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose. Sorry, but Cool Cat has had far, far too many run-ins and difficulties with, well, everyone, to be anything like a good sysop. James F. (talk) 13:12, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

In addendum, I really think that there should be a veto to be exercised in situations such as this. James F. (talk) 16:19, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I do not particularly see a situation that prompts a veto, can you elaborate what exactly is you have in mind? --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 17:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support a friendly uncontroversial editor ;) Computerjoe 14:46, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support FireFox 14:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support--Orgullomoore 20:14, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Connel MacKenzie 03:16, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

•  Comment Since at the moment this RfA appears it will succeed, and yet given the strong opposition registered above, perhaps a bureaucrat could consider offering an abridged version of adminship, such as a 2 week term subject to review, with immediate revoking of rights at any sign of intentional harmful behaviour. Just an idea. --pfctdayelise (translate?) 12:26, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

  I'd prefer to be treated the same as others. I do not believe I have done anything requiring special treatment. having said that, I feel any inaproporate behavior by any admin is subject to a immidiate revoke, pending review. Also, Kelly's comment(s) were hadly civil. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 13:02, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Slade ^[pics] 23:07, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose — per Kelly and James; not an appropriate person for adminship. See en.wiki for many issues. —Moby 05:11, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 Comment User currently has an arb-com case in the en.wikipedia in which Cool Cat is involved Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 05:51, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Comment In which he is being accused of stalking me as per w:WP:HA... I think this will be additional evidence. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 12:48, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 05:51, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Angus 11:32, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose History of attention seeking behavior and POV pushing. Explicitly stated on the commons IRC channel that he was interested in commons adminship to improve his chances of passing adminship on enwiki. Took down his antivandalism bot after throwing a fit because Freenode policy would not allow him exclusive control of an IRC channel, although he claimed that he took it down because it would take weeks of work to entirely reprogram it to simply use another channel name. --Gmaxwell 19:43, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

My IRC life has nothing to do with my commons adminship which includes my vandal detection bot. Contrary to your claim, my bot has been active for months now and is still active.

I do seek comons adminship to help my future en.wiki adminship but not the way you put it. I intend to use my commons performance as a reference to en.wiki. I have to have a flawless performace in order to use commons adminship as such a referance. I cannot afford to screw up basicaly. adminship is no big deal so please do not make it a big deal.

There is no basis for this "attention seeking" claim. On the countrary, I complain about attention from Moby Dick which can be viewed on this very page.

--Cool Cat^Talk|@ 20:22, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Dbl2010 21:12, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose. Not only per Kelly Martin and Gmaxwell (and who would have thought I'd be agreeing with either of them!) but also because his recent comments at w:Wikipedia talk:Fair use/Fair use images in lists#Pointless debate... indicate he either doesn't understand or doesn't care about the reasoning behind Wikipedia's policy on fair use images. Angr 09:52, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Fun. Fair-use images are not welcome on commons. All implications of fair-use does not apply to commons. By voting you should know that. Fair-use is a necesariy evil on en.wiki and I only feel in that debate that they are the necesariy evil. I prefer free images when they are avalible. Check my commons contributions. You will see over a thousand pd images. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 10:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Fair-use images are actually an unnecessary evil on en.wiki and I'm not convinced that if you're given the power to delete copyvios from Commons you will actually do so responsibly. Angr 10:51, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I as a user gotten many "fair-use" images deleted from commons such as TV station logos as well as google earth images. Are you suggesting I would keep copyrighted images if I were adminised? Kelly suggests I would go on a deletion spree. How can I do both? --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 11:14, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Guillom 10:45, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose. Someone who is a 'good' editor does not necessarily make a good admin. Admin is as much about working co-operatively with others as it is about the project content. I see evidence that this user will not work co-operatively. --AlisonW 11:22, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I have been working cooperatively with Bastique as well as drini against images violating copyrights. I'd like to see this evidence of me not cooperating in commons. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 14:30, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

The Wikimedia projects are more than just Commons, more than just Wikipedia (en: or otherwise), etc. It is incumbent upon everyone considering making someone an Admin to consider that candidate's track record across all our projects where such activities exist. --AlisonW 18:33, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... But I am already cooperating here on this wiki, why is that being ignored? What incident exactly are you refering to on which wiki? --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 20:31, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose. Per JamesF. ed g2s • talk 12:08, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose per JamesF, AlisonW and Gmaxwell. Alphax (talk) 14:58, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Yrithinnd 16:26, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 Neutral -- (per concerns raised to me) Tawker 18:06, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose I'll be able to write up my objections in a few hours when I get off from work -- Ned Scott 20:26, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Funny how frequently I run into you. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 20:33, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I was alerted to your RfA by another user on en.wiki. -- Ned Scott 19:14, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

My experience with Cool Cat on en.wiki has not been pleasant. He often makes comments and even states that he is not interested in working with other editors and feels that concepts such as consensus should not apply to him. See en:Talk:List of Air episodes. I totally agree with the above comments that suggest that Cool Cat seeks acceptance via status. He also seems to lack basic knowledge of copyright law and policy for en.wiki. From en:Wikipedia talk:Fair use/Fair use images in lists#Pointless debate...:

"Wikipedias requirements regarding copyrights are in accordance with the law. The only reason fair-use is allowed on wikipedia is because US law allows it. And wikipeida's fair-use guidelines exist only and only to meet the law. I am unaware of reasons beyond the law."

Now I know this is commons.. but can you really make him an admin when he doesn't even know this much? A small issue, but a major red flag. -- Ned Scott 19:31, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

We have a en:WP:STACK for stuff like that and that comment verifies just that.

That entier debate has nothing to do with commons. Fair use images (whatever the kind) are not welcome here. I would delete any and all on sight. Many existing commons admins from non en wikis have no understanding of fair-use as it isnt necesary.

--Cool Cat^Talk|@ 09:47, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Granted, but I still feel it's a bit of a red flag when you don't know such a basic policy on a wiki you spend so much time on. Even without that, my other comments still stand. -- Ned Scott 04:09, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Cool Cat is a good editor and a good bot maintainer. I don't see any reason why wouldn't he also be a good Commons admin. Taw 23:24, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Raymond ^Disc. 15:21, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose per editors above who know this user at en: -- I don't see a compelling reason to promote when those who know this user best seem to be so uncomfortable with it. Jkelly 16:12, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

I do not believe any of those users know me best. I had no interaction with kelly at all for about a year plus aside from random irc comments from time to time, all very very brief. Something simmilar goes for others (I challenge anyone to cite evidence otherwise). Users I closely work with such as drini supported my rfa. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 17:54, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Jon Harald Søby 10:05, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support great man! HardDisk 15:59, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose Per JamesF -- Igiveup 17:36, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose Nope as per Kelly Martin. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return fire)} 00:41, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Questions

So, before I vote, I want to hassle you with a couple of questions. That shouldn't be a problem for you, should it? I mean, you are used to answering questions on your admin requests? Fred Chess 20:47, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

A: Not long ago, you added lots of images to the deletion request that lacked source. In my opinion, images that lack source should be tagged with the {{Nsd}} template. But what is your opinion?

• All of those images were uploaded by a banned user (per arbcom hearing) and I felt that all of the users users should be looked over due to users lack of understanging of copyrights. User preferd to use random tags even for copyrighted images such as one being a TV stations logo. I believe all of the images he uploaded were fished off of random websites. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 20:57, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

B: Can you give some explaining of your previous provocative and unreasonable behaviour, or do you feel that it was you who was wrongly accused all along?

• My issue with Anthere (I assume thats what this is reffering to) was an upleasant one, not just for me and her. I am guilty for my incivility as there is no excuse for that. It was however a very minor issue as far as I am concerned. I am not sure what the accusation is asside from that. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 20:57, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• I think Cool Cat did not choose a very good name. He is often hot on issues, and what happened that day is that he got hot. That happens. That's not pleasant but that is not either the end of the world either. As far as I am concerned, I long forgave him and I chat now and then with him on irc. Anthere

Ok I think it was good answers so far. Now, I have one final question.

C: I'd like your opinion about your previous admin requests , both here and on English Wikipedia. What did you think about those procedures, the issues raised there, and the way you acted in response to those stated issues. / Fred Chess 21:42, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

• I try to improve myself per personal policy, and I use the negative feedback on the rfas to this end. I personaly find en.wiki rfa procedure to be broken. En RFA is more about how popular you are rather that what kind of an asset you are to wikipedia. That of course doesnt apply to ever vote but to an important number. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 22:02, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

True indeed! --Kjetil_r 19:35, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

@all: I want to remind everybody that Wikimedia Commons is a project with its own community. So please if you share experience out of other projects here (which is is naturally an integral part of Wikimedia Commons as the community of communities) consider if it is relevant to Wikimedia Commons. The fundamental question that needs to be answered is: Will Coolcat be an active admin that benefits Wikimedia Commons? It is up to you on which points you base your vote but try to avoid "per user" votes and take the time doing own investigations. Arnomane 19:09, 5 July 2006 (UTC) (failed)

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Dodo

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Dodo is the contributor #1 at es: He's sysop there. See his contributions here

Votes

 Support Sanbec ✉ 15:09, 27 June 2006 (UTC) as nominator

 Support --Ecelan 18:24, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Kordas 18:55, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Alhen .::··¨ 21:24, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose --Emijrp 21:25, 27 June 2006 (UTC) Ligeramente parcial y provocativo, aunque gran colaborador.

 Support --Taichi 05:32, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

 Neutral --Joanot Martorell ✉ 18:48, 28 June 2006 (UTC) He's very good about licenses and copyright, so I have no matter that he would be admin. However, IMHO based about his work done as admin in Wikipedia in Spanish, his attitude is lacking a bit about diplomacy (also rowdy sometimes even), but as Commons isn't an ecyclopaedia project, here aren't too many about to discuss for him.

 Support Airunp 19:14, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support --J 19:32, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support --tomf688 (talk - email) 19:35, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support Hispa 19:38, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support Cinabrium 20:48, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Tony Rotondas 20:48, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support B1mbo 21:41, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose Why do you want to become admin? I will probably change my vote after answering. --Bouncey2k 22:49, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose Bombadil 22:54, 29 June 2006 (UTC) I change my vote because of his slanted behavior with the user Darz Mol, it stinks...

 Support Gizmo II 01:10, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Oscar . 07:09, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

 Strong support Yrithinnd 10:47, 30 June 2006 (UTC) He's one of our best man fighting against image copy violations, no sourceing, no licensing, really constant, and he's always explaining why use licenses free licenses, etc. Now w:es only allow upload files to commons and we need our best image-man can do maintenance here. edits on w:es - edits on commons

 Support Tomatejc 10:53, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Siabef 10:55, 30 June 2006 (UTC) Dodo se lo merece: Es un muy buen bibliotecario, trabaja muchísimo contra la ilegalidad en Wikipedia y contesta a todas las dudas de una manera magnífica Not registered as of Jun 27th. --Prevert^(talk) 18:33, 3 July 2006 (UTC) -- Restored vote, as the account creation clearly predates the vote start. Up to now there was no edit minimum required thatfor the vote counts. We will probably change the vote requirement in future though. Arnomane 22:58, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Siabef's registration was on February the 5th (log here). ¿Should the vote be restored? I haven't restored it because I don't know the rules here. Er Komandante 08:30, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Those user's votes who register after the voting has already begun are not taken into account. Registration begins to count from the day of the first edition. Obviously, if it counted from the moment that someone reserves their username, then a very large number of users who have never even collaborated in Commons could participate in the voting, which would not be correct. Siabef's first collaboration was on the 30th of June, precisely in this poll. This is standard procedure to prevent username hijacking and ballot stuffing. --Prevert^(talk) 11:01, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

I haven't found the policy you mention in order to delete the vote of User:Siabef. Could you please indicate where I can find it? Thanks. Ecelan 19:31, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

In Village pump, 28 September 2005:

I take for granted that WikiCommons users who registered after September 24, 05:05, when I nominated Anna can not vote and their votes will be ignored. This is standard procedure to prevent username hijacking and ballot stuffing. Thuresson 07:58, 28 September 2005 (UTC) --Prevert^(talk) 20:17, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for answering, I hadn't found that text. I read ...WikiCommons users who registered after .... Siabef registered on the 5th February. Your reasoning says then a very large number of users who have never even collaborated in Commons could participate in the voting, which would not be correct. Could you provide a valid policy for it? --Ecelan 06:05, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Tano4595 13:33, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

 Support Lourdes 18:41, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

 SupportTrabaja mucho y muy bien para detener la avalancha de imágenes sin licencia. --Lin linao 20:51, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

 Strong support Anna 21:19, 30 June 2006 (UTC) One of our best and dedicated administrators in es:wiki. Now we need him here.

User_talk:Bombadil --> Would you look for all my history if I had supported Dodo? You are right in the licenses, but I think you wouldn't Bombadil 15:13, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Alopezme 11:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Fballesteros 12:39, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose --Darz Mol 14:51, 1 July 2006 (UTC) Posiblemente bueno haciendo su trabajo, pero pésimo en las relaciones con los demás usuarios.

 Support --Rodriguillo 15:37, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Er Komandante 19:00, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose --Prevert^(talk) 13:15, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

• On the top section of this page, it states that, along with the proposal, the "Reasons why you think you should be an admin" should be included. In this case, the only reason mentioned is that "Dodo is the contributor #1 at es: he's sysop there." This is a very inadequate reason on which to base the proposal. If the candidate is chosen for this reason, then all users who frequently collaborate on any of the Wikimedia projects should be chosen Commons administrator.

• The collaborations in Commons during the last three months have been scarce for someone who aspires to be an administrator here: 22 in April, 76 in May, 59 in June (before being proposed). Of the 24 contributions in Commons made on the 1st and 2nd of July, 16 of these are about Darz Mol, a user whose negative vote was received at 14:51 on the 1st of July, and whose discussion page became full of messages from the candidate on that same day after 16:26. This type of persecution does not seem appropriate for a future Commons administrator.

• Unfortunately, many of the Commons users have difficulty understanding the rules and regulations of this wiki. Commons needs administrators who, apart from erasing, tagging, checking the origins and licenses of the images, must also relate to the users and help them work in Commons. Dodo is a user who is always involved in conflicts and has difficulty relating with many collaborators.

• Some days ago, Bouncey2k asked the candidate: "Why do you want to become admin?" and the candidate avoided responding. This is not a very respectful attitude towards Commons collaborators. We do not know if the user is aware of Commons politics, if the user is going to respect these regulations, or how the user is going to act. Furthermore, we do not know the reasons why the user wants to become Commons administrator.

• In my opinion, this user does not qualify to become an administrator here. It is not enough to simply come from a popular Wikipedia with many users in order to be chosen. The user should comply with the requirements of the Commons, and he has not done so. --Prevert^(talk) 13:15, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

• For those of you who didn't take the time to investigate properly, you can see the messages Dodo letf user Darz Mol here and decide for yourself. --Ecelan 17:54, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

...and decide whether such notices may be qualified as a "persecution". If rightly leaving messages about violations of commons policies is a persecution, I think that Prevert should explain whether if it's he the one pursuing in a "persecution" against Dodo. It seems quite foul play. --Ecemaml 00:42, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

I had not seen this message, that is why I did not respond before. If the candidate concentrates his activity during two days on a user who had recently voted against him (when only two votes against him had been received), if he targets this user leaving messages and warnings over and over again, no one doubts that this cannot be considered normal behaviour in Commons. It is common sense that one should abstain from any type of harassment or intimidation regarding the collaborators who are taking part in the voting process. For example, transmitting messages that if anyone dares to vote against the candidate, he will be subject to some kind of dissection. This may seem fine to you, but not to me. As far as your insinuations are concerned, I have already mentioned below that the debate should be centred around arguments, not insults. The main point is that until now, the candidate has hardly said anything, and to concentrate on jeopardising the position of those who are against him by using personal attacks is against the rules and unacceptable.--Prevert^(talk) 18:04, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Personal attacks? Which personal attacks? Are you referring to comments like this one? --Dodo 06:27, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

You have misinterpreted the text. --Prevert^(talk) 09:25, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

So when you wrote that I was concentrating "on jeopardising the position of those who are against him [me] by using personal attacks is against the rules and unacceptable" I misinterpreted that you were accussing me of doing personal attacks against User:Darz Mol. What were you meaning instead of that? --Dodo 15:34, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

The message is very clear, it's about Ecemaml and you. (See below). --Prevert^(talk) 16:17, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Not for me. Could you please explain it further? Please provide a diff of those "personal attacks" if possible... --Dodo 16:27, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

As far as I am concerned this is over, there has been time enough since 27th of June for debating, I can't see the point of any extra time. My arguments and everything I have provided in order to uphold these are shown on this page. I have answered all the messages and all the questions I have been asked (I remind you I am not the candidate). I understand you may be hurt for not having reached enough support, but don't try to go over and over the same thing. I wish you the very best. Kind regards.--Prevert^(talk) 20:17, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

As far as I am concerned this is not over. You have accused me of using "personal attacks" and refuse to provide a proof of it. The voting could be over, but I just don't accept a "game over" answer to my request of clarification: that kind of behaviour is just "unacceptable". If you cannot provide a diff that supports your accusations of using personal attacks and breaking the rules, we'll know who was the one using personal attacks here. --Dodo 20:33, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

This is my last message, like I say to Ecemaml: "Try to refute the arguments, not create confusion and build a smoke screen". In old messages are all the statements. --Prevert^(talk) 20:42, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok. Your argument: you said I used personal attacks. My refutation: that's a false accusation, please provide a diff or retract yourself. Your answer: this is over, I have nothing more to say, you're building a smoke screen. --Dodo 05:15, 6 July 2006 (UTC) PS. I remind you that I explained the Darz Mol affair at your talk page several days ago. You ignored it and followed your harassment here. Please explain your game rules next time.

 Support --Kokoo 14:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support --81.202.191.212 14:51, 3 July 2006 (UTC) User not registered. --Prevert^(talk) 18:33, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose I agree with other users that voted oppose. --Lmbuga ^{gl, pt, es: contacta comigo} 16:42, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Dedicated, experienced, knows how to do things, understands copyright laws.--Orgullomoore 18:40, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Unf 18:44, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose Why Dodo wants to become Commons administrator? I'm oppose.--Albert galiza 19:09, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support INMHO Dodo will be an excellent administrator here, like is in es:. Knows, understands and ever have respected and defended Commons politics. --Petronas 20:50, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose Controversial user. He does not have the necessary qualities to be Commons administrator.--Rocastelo^(talk) 21:15, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose --Xelo2004 22:09, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 22:32, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Ecemaml 00:37, 4 July 2006 (UTC). How curious that all the votes against Dodo comes from a wikipedia in which Dodo doesn't work. Is there an ongoing campaing against him such as that against Anna some time ago? Such kind of wikipedia-biased vote doesn't seem to be fair.

 Comment Please Ecemaml, try to refute the arguments, not create confusion and build a smoke screen. For now, the candidate has answered none of the questions that have been asked and the voting is about to end. Do you think this is admissible? You state: "How curious that all the votes against Dodo come from a wikipedia in which Dodo doesn't work." Where is Emijrp from? Where is Bouncey2k from? Where is Bombabil from? Where is Darz Mol from? Where is Martorell from? And from where are all the rest of those who have voted? May I remind you that all of them have accounts in the Spanish Wikipedia, except Bouncey2k. So, your statement does not seem to be correct. You state: "Such kind of wikipedia-biased vote doesn't seem to be fair." This statement is also quite risky because you do not base it on facts. I wonder if the voting process is not free, if each user can place their vote without any kind of pressure, without being personally attacked, here and in other Wikipedias. May I remind you that Anna's vote has nothing to do with this one, and that she, after a while, accepted the arguments of those who were opposed. But I don't want to get into that issue because it will not help solve the problem at hand and it draws attention away from the main issue: is Dodo an ideal candidate? I would also like to remind you that there have been other polls in Commons for the election of administrators whose main activity is in the Spanish Wikipedia: Barcex and Orgullomoore. I can't see that this supposedly destructive group has carried on any kind of malicious activity. Again, I ask you to attempt to refute the arguments and not simply make speculations. Finally, I would like to say that the voting process cannot be simply "you are either with me, or against me." You should be able to provide reasons and be prepared to debate them. --Prevert^(talk) 10:58, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose Great contributor, but user too much coarse --Alyssalover 07:30, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose --SMP (talk page) 09:13, 4 July 2006 (UTC) The request is incomplete. In addition, he is not very diplomatic and this is something impportant here in commons.

 Support --Angus 11:28, 4 July 2006 (UTC). "No reasons", "Incomplete request", "Non diplomatic"... nonsense. With all the clueless users of es.wiki uploading images here now, you want to have Dodo in the admin staff.

 Support Cucaracha 12:52, 4 July 2006 (UTC) Not just the most prolific editor of es:wiki, but one of the pillars that sustain the whole project. Thorough, extremely dedicated - as Angus says, Commons wants to have him sysop.

 Oppose. Slade ^[pics] 16:43, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support--Ganon 16:46, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Zuirdj 17:16, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Maldoror 21:12, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Drini 16:24, 5 July 2006 (UTC) Out of time?

 Support--Gaeddal 16:53, 5 July 2006 (UTC) He usually bites stupid people and trolls, but that isn´t a bad thing. He´s another qualities that are more important.

 Support--Chabacano 21:29, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support--Raymond ^Disc. 15:19, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support--Sgt.Hartman 17:40, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support --Jukumari 18:53, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support In spite his general posture with new users and his less than a bit diplomacy I think he's a necessary evil element in commons. --Porao 22:57, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Superzerocool 04:47, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose --user talk:Agremon 07:42, 7 July 2006 (UTC) Lo creo parcial en temas claves para parte de la comunidad (en la que me incluyo), aunque sea un buen colaborador en otros.

 Support Edub 14:18, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Zanaq 14:30, 9 July 2006 (UTC) Temo que él no triunfará cuándo me abstengo votar.

 Support --Octavio L 14:55, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Comments

I don't know if Commons users are aware of the recent voting held at es:. As you can read here (Spanish), since July 20th the uploading of images and multimedia files has been forbidden in favor of Commons. All the users wishing to upload files in order to use them at es: must (are obligued to) now upload them here, following the Commons policies and guidelines.

So my daily work of maintaining image sources and copyright tags at es: is over now. User:Sanbec told me that it would be a good idea to spend that daily time here, doing the same maintenance work, so he proposed me for admin. And that's all. --Dodo 14:16, 4 July 2006 (UTC) PS. I don't like the attitude of "tell me why do you want to be an admin and I'll change my vote"... regardless of your work and skills? That's why I didn't answer before, but if User:Prevert makes a whole point of this "silence", well... now you know.

Your answer is a bit late, at the seventh day of voting. I am under the impression that, under the circumstances, your answer seems strained. You state: "Sanbec told me..." but he forgot to tell us the reasons to elect you. On the top section of this page says: "Dodo is the contributor #1 at es: he's sysop there" only. 'Administrators requests and votes' is here, not in any other place. Just because the uploading of images has been deactivated on es.wp is not reason enough for Dodo to be elected administrator here. This is the typical "create the problem and offer the solution" rhetoric. The issue is still unresolved. There are more questions in my first message: "We do not know if the user is aware of Commons politics, if the user is going to respect these regulations, or how the user is going to act." Furthermore, how you going to relate to the Commons users. Darz Mol's affair is a bad beginning.--Prevert^(talk) 18:09, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry: I didn't understand that your previous comments were questions and that you were expecting answers for them. As you say, now is a bit late. I didn't know either that I had to make an electoral campaign. Again, sorry for the inconvenience. --Dodo 18:35, 4 July 2006 (UTC) PS. I think you missed the point. It's not "create the problem and offer the solution" (by the way, why do you think the decision taken at es: is a "problem"?), but instead "now I have free time and I would like to spend it helping here". --Dodo 21:30, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

What we expected from your administrator request? We expect you explain -like all admin's candidates- the proposal. Is this an "electoral campaign"? No, it is not. We expect you should be able to provide reasons and be prepared to debate them. Is this too much? --Prevert^(talk) 20:24, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Mira Prevert, déjate de rollos de una vez. Tu votaste a favor de Orgullomoore donde la única razón dada por mí fue «He's sysop at es:», así que no vengas ahora con estas menudencias. Pienso que las razones que exponga un candidato o su padrino son absolutamente irrelevantes, yo nunca las hice caso. A los candidatos hay que juzgarles por lo que hacen (sus contribuciones) no por lo que dicen. Poner las razones del candidato no es una exigencia de las políticas de Commons, sólo aparece, como ayuda, en el modelo para crear una votación. Sanbec ✉ 21:22, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Dodo knows Commons policy much better than many of us. He's been doing a wonderful work along with Sanbec for years in es:wiki. You all know that tagging not permitted images, warning users and facing with them when they insist on uploading copyvios, fair use or any other illegal material trying to ignore the rules isn't an easy job nor a rewarding one, but it has to be done and he did it. That work isn't necessary in es:wiki now so we need another good sysop here, and the benefits of having him won't be only for es:wiki but for Commons in general. Spanish-speaking uploaders increase daily and we are still lack of Spanish-speaking people who can deal with them. These are good enough reasons to have one more trusty sysop on board, the rest is nonsense. Anna 23:35, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Reply to revision as of 23:35, 4 July 2006; Anna.

It is so lucky to have someone speak for your, that way you don't even have to open your mouth (or strike the keys on the keyboard, which is the same thing). Anna, with all due respect, I think I understand now, the argument is "Watch out for the Commons colleagues. A legion of users from es.wp is going to upload copyvios, non-source images, non-licensed images, fake licenses, etc. We better have Dodo with us." I don't know, but this doesn't convince me. Another point that is not clear to me is why Dodo can't help without being administrator. Let us confirm that Dodo's help is worth the trust we place in the hands of the administrators. Let us also confirm that Dodo's know and respect all Commons policies. Let us also confirm that Dodo's communication with other users does not lead to conflicts. Or is it absolutely necessary that we give Dodo administrator status in order for him to collaborate? I am somewhat disappointed in you when you disqualify the arguments expounded by those who do not share your point of view as being "nonsense." I notice a tinge of deprecation in that word and I hope it was not your intention to use it in that way. --Prevert^(talk) 09:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Reply to revision as of 21:30, 4 July 2006; Dodo

Dodo states: "I think you missed the point. It's not "create the problem and offer the solution" (by the way, why do you think the decision taken at es: is a "problem"?)" Lovely argument, too bad it is a sophism.

He also adds: "Now I have free time and I would like to spend it helping here." You are very lucky to be able to enjoy free time, and we as collaborators in Commons are lucky to have your help, because your contributions will soon be superior to those of the last three months. Even in the case that you are not elected, there are many tasks in Commons that do not require administrator status and it is good to know we can count on you. --Prevert^(talk) 09:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

English translation of Sanbec's message (revision as of 21:22, 4 July 2006):

Look Prevert, cut the crap for once and for all. You voted in favour of Orgullomoore where the only reason given by me was «He's sysop at es:», so stop with this pettiness. I think the reasons given by a candidate or his sponsor are absolutely irrelevant, I never pay attention to them. The candidates should be judged by what they do (their contributions) and not by what they say. Stating the candidate's reasons is not a requirement of Commons politics, but only an aid in the voting process. Sanbec ✉ 21:22, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Reply to revision as of 21:22, 4 July 2006; Sanbec

Thank you Sanbec, you have made my day. It is very satisfying to me that you realise I am right so clearly.

You state that the debate is a mere formality, literally: "I think the reasons given by a candidate or his sponsor are completely irrelevant, I never pay attention to them." I don't know what the others in Commons think, but I can tell you what I think: I know debating is wearisome, you have to think about, elaborate and present arguments. After all this, another person may refute them in an instant. Why risk it and why go through the trouble of all the hard work? I understand your annoyance, it is far easier to reach an agreement amongst a few people and consider the issue resolved. But the Commons collaborators have the right to want that their opinion should count.

You believe there is a contradiction in my vote in favour of Orgullomoore. In the first place, comparing Dodo to Orgullomoore is like comparing night and day. Orgullomoore is a well-known user in Commons. Through time, I have dealt with him on various occasions and have reached the conclusion that he is the type of person one can trust. But the main point is that you have not correctly conducted your investigation, because if you had, you would have noticed that I ask Orgullomoore various questions about his election and he responds in another message. Consequently, your argument is not valid. You add: "The candidates must be judged by their actions (their contributions) and not by what they say." I agree, although it is much better to judge them by what they do, don't do, say and don't say. In any case, Dodo has not said much, and so this is the issue we are dealing with now. What he does and doesn't do, for now, do not leave him in good standing. --Prevert^(talk) 09:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

About results

IMHO the requests for adminship is closed. More than seven days, you don't get 75% of votes: failed. Results: Support: 35 (72,91%), Oppose: 12 (25%), Neutral: 1 (2,08%). Believe me, I don’t want to rub it in, but the debate has clearly proved that you have not sufficiently proven the reasons to accept your candidature. And if you cannot defend your position, even with the help of other users, what are you going to do when you have to debate with and explain to Commons users that certain images are not acceptable in this project, in the event that it is not an obvious case? You may be great tagging images, but that is not enough to become Commons administrator. --Prevert^(talk) 16:17, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Pues EMHO no, la política dice «Nominations usually remain for seven days». Esta votación de usual ha tenido muy poco. Un votante en contra por simple venganza (Darz Mol), y otros muchos, de la misma Wikipedia de origen (gl:) arrastrados posiblemente por viejas rencillas toponímicas y por unos comentarios falsos de alguien que ha quedado en evidencia y ha querido salvar los muebles. Por cierto, tú que acusaste a Dodo de dedicar un día en exclusiva a acosar a Darz Mol (algo falso, se puede ver que ni le acosó y que hizo alguna otra cosa) ¿sabes a qué te has dedicado tú en exclusiva más de dos días? A boicotear la elección de Dodo: Special:Contributions/Prevert

Por cierto, no domino el inglés pero un pajarito me ha dicho que «cut the crap» es mucho más grosero que «déjate de rollos» Da vergüenza ver cómo se usa Commons para organizar «vendettas» Sanbec ✉ 16:49, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

What Sanbec used is spanish slang meaning "stop chatting too much", maybe "jibber jabber" would be understood better, but at all ofensive as Prevert has translated. Anna 22:10, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

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Ahora miro tu discusión y resulta que pones un rotulo que dice:

English: The user talk page is not the appropriate place to discuss about your nomination. Greetings. --Prevert(talk) 18:28, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Para Orgullomoore, los mensajes privados eran válido, pero para Dodo no. Esto ya no necesita comentarse más. Lo peor es que parece que nos vamos a quedar sin saber la verdadera razón de tu campaña en contra de la elección de Dodo. Sanbec ✉ 16:57, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I have said everything I had to say. If you think that the translation is not correct, provide an alternative translation. Regarding your accusation, it dies a natural death. And if you consider that answering all the messages, questions and accusations you have presented doesn't take time you are completely wrong. Thinking of it and writing it take their time. My intervention in the debate has finished, if you feel like continuing that accusing way, imagining intrigues, making insinuations and spreading untruth, that is your responsibility. I have been respectful for all of you and I have built upon facts. If you feel happy prolonging the poll until Dodo can reach votes enough, it's up to you. I would like you to understand what all this has been about as well as to think thoughtfully about what has happened. Even though you have insulted me I don't bear you any grudge. Good luck. --Prevert^(talk) 20:17, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

@all: Please see my comments regarding Coolcat here as well. They are equally valid here.

@Prevert: A bureaucrat closes the vote. As long as we haven't closed it it is open. In the past some votes did last longer out of various reasons: The one reason was busy/not available bureaucrats, the other one was waiting on purpose for some further days in order to get some further input on narrow votes like that one. This is due to the fact that we bureaucrats need to get an own impression of people we often don't know very well. Arnomane 19:25, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, but a poll with an open date of end does not seem to be correct. --Prevert^(talk) 20:17, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

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===~Pyb===

edits on w:fr - edits on commons

I'm in the same situation as User:Dodo. I'm a french sysop doing a lof of work on pictures. Being a sysop on Commons will help me in the treatment of copyvios uploaded by french on fr: and Commons. It's common to find same pictures on both wikis and for the moment I can only delete on one wiki. I need to ask to a sysop to delete pictures on Commons. fr: needs more sysops on Commons. ~Pyb 16:18, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Votes

 Comment I also think fr: needs more sysops here but I am concerned about your knowledge of policy... Image:Agnès Bihl1.jpg why is this {{Copyrightedfreeuse}}? only just over 200 edits... I think maybe you need a bit more experience here first. pfctdayelise (translate?) 03:03, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

"Les photos sont libres de droit, mais signées Flavie Girbal" [35]. So it's more an {{attribution}} licence and we have an email on OTRS. ~Pyb 10:42, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

If it's on OTRS the ticket should be linked to that image with {{PermissionOTRS}}. I couldn't find the ticket. pfctdayelise (translate?) 12:11, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

yep, it's may be not on OTRS, I try to clarify this case. ~Pyb 16:35, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Pyb is the most efficient sysop on fr: in fighting copyright violations on pictures. I'm sure he'll comply with the Commons policy. Guillom 10:40, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 Neutral Sanbec ✉ 12:08, 2 July 2006 (UTC) Tiene pocas contribuciones en Commons. Necesita más experiencia aquí.

You're right. That's why I will start slowly. ~Pyb 16:39, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support An admin on fr: and Commons: myself, I know Pyb to be a reliable and efficient sysop. Rama 16:30, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Very efficient and reliable on fr:- inisheer 16:33, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Pyb is a devoted sysop on fr: and I do not doubt he will use the tools of Commons' sysop carefully. Bradipus 17:47, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

 Neutral Más experiencia por favor. More experience please. --Taichi 21:43, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 Oppose. Very active on the French Wikipedia, but not very much so here. Only ~200 edits over a period of 1.5 years. --tomf688 (talk - email) 20:05, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support very serious admin on fr: ;D I think it's a good thing to have people admins on both commons and local wps. Alvaro 15:38, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support he's efficient, reliable and trained to fight cpvio --FoeNyx 15:54, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support extremely active in classifying and cleaning up images on fr: --Gribeco 00:49, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

 Support Bienvenue ! --Jusjih 03:39, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

• Support. Korg 15:14, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

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===Siebrand===

I'd like to request adminship on Wikimedia Commons. I've been active for a few months and have made about 2,200 edits on commons in uploads, categorisation, vadal fighting and welcoming users. My RFA is mainly because I'd like to assist in general maintenance, focused on deleting policy violations. I comply with expectations of a commons administrator.

My wiki experience comes from over 22,000 edits on nl.wikipedia, where I have an admin status, being one of the maintainers of the Dutch localisation of MediaWiki and, being a system administrator of a corporate installation of a MediaWiki. Siebrand 18:49, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

I hereby withdraw my candidacy for undisclosed reasons. Thank you for voting. Please contact me by email from a trustworthy address in case you'd like additional information. Siebrand 22:07, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support Good and clear motives. There are few users whose name one gets to know on Commons, and Siebrand is one of them. -Samulili 19:15, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support --EugeneZelenko 19:39, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support ACK per Samulili --Matt314 19:53, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support but, only on monday do you edit? lol --Broc 11:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

   There's a big spike in the edit count for Monday because I've recategorised Dutch maps on that day, I think. Those were 600-or-so edits. Siebrand 13:11, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

5.  Support nl speaker, and... seem [really] good. Yug (talk) 22:27, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
6.  Neutral -- i am in doubt here... nothing personal, i have no personal complaints about siebrand in fact, but honesty compels me to mention this deadmin request on nl.wikipedia. his way of handling criticizm is one of the reasons this takes place. i fail to understand siebrand why you speak about your admin status on nl, not mentioning that serious complaints are being discussed there since a couple of days, in fact since just prior to your request here? oscar 13:08, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
   1. for your information: the deadmin request on nl has now been abandoned. oscar 02:13, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support. Although Oscar has a point, the deadmin request on nl: is according to it's proponent for lack of a more subtle manner to deal with the issue. I also think that because of the cultural and structural differences between nl: and Commons: the actions that led to the request would have been less of a problem here, so I see no reason to oppose. Siebrand's methodical approach would be very welcome here. NielsF 15:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support per NielsF pfctdayelise (translate?) 03:50, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support per NielsF --Lmbuga ^{gl, pt, es: contacta comigo} 15:00, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

   {{contra}} people devastating foreign discussion pages, should not be admin. I would like to attach a questionmark on Siebrands character fitness. Viewschub 15:13, 17 July 2006 (UTC) (A likely sock puppet. -Samulili 09:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC))

   Excuse me? You are pointing to a user talk page of a known sockpuppeteer. What exactly are you trying to achieve? How do you think reverting something like that is a reason to question my character fitness? Siebrand 17:48, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

10.  Oppose Strongly oppose. A history of too many conflicts on nl.wikipedia, where Siebrand deleted images that should not have been deleted. Might be desysopped on nl.wikipedia for deleting and replacing many files without following procedures. Definitely a person I don't want to see as an admin on Commons - Quistnix 18:25, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

    You are providing incorrect information, Quistnix. As Oscar has already indicated above, Andre Engels has dropped the deadmin procedure. Siebrand 19:04, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

    sorry - I forgot to mention your attitude as one of my reasons for voting against you. I am not going to argue with you on this page. - Quistnix 19:13, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

    This is obviously something personal. Too bad you're making this a personal attack. Siebrand 19:17, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

    I think it is NPOV to say you are not qualified for a sysop. You are constantly seeking confrontation, you always want to have the final word in a discussion, and you never admit your own mistakes. - Quistnix 19:21, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

    P.S.: when looking at your response to Noorse: I forgot to mention that you are constantly dragging others into your arguments with other users - Quistnix 19:50, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

11.  Support Why not? Adnergje 18:34, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
12.  Oppose Strongly oppose(changed by Noorse 19:39, 17 July 2006 (UTC)). Too much of a soloist to be an administrator. Examples are starting of major cleanup without following through / notifying uploaders / following proceures and leaving most of the work to others, unprotecting all protected pages and deleting pages without following the procedures. See also remarks from Oscar and Quistnix. Noorse 19:02, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

    Noorse, you are providing FUD. Please be precise in the information that you are providing if you are making this type of accusations. Currently they are so vague I cannot even defend myself against them. Siebrand 19:06, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

    (en:FUD) NP, I didn't want to drag all dirty laundry here. You nominated 3-400 images for deletion and started deleting them, even after repeatedly being asked to stop doing this. The nominations were made without notifying the uploaders, and reasons given ranged from unused to no license given - even when licensing was stated in writing and other users easily could incorporate the images in articles. When asked about this, you shifted the responsibility over to another user. Procedure would have included notifying uploaders and also when given the license in writing, placing the right license template. Unprotecting all protected pages is self-explanatory, if you don't understand this.... Deleting pages without following procedures, except for the images mentioned above, includes the speedy deletion of hundreds of mediawiki pages in dutch without consulting others. These pages were later restored by you (under protest) together with others. This, and your tendency to always want the last word makes it impossible for me to vote for you. Noorse 19:28, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

    Noorse, I did nominate unused images. About 500 of them. All of these images had desccriptions indicating a freely available source ouside nl.wikipedia. Mostly other wikis or US Gov sites. I did not start deleting the images as you claim. Hence, I also was not asked to stop deleting. After nominating the images, some users jumped on my back and jumped some more when I started to explain further why I thought unused images that were not original work on nl.wikipedia should be deleted and why unused images that were sourced from nl.wikipedia should be moved and categorised on Commons. Because my back was about to break, I quit image maintenance on nl.wikipedia. Effeietsanders chose to handle the image nominations. He could also have chosen to have a vote on having the nominations dropped dropped. He did not. Is was his /choice/ to handle them.

    Unprotecting all pages is a false accusation. As other nl.wikipedia administrators have done since then, some pages are unblocked 4-6 weeks after having been blocked. IIRC I did this for 11 pages. This triggered Quistnix into completely blowing up. When Quistnix blew up, I had already, after carefully wachting the unblocked pages, blocked one page again. Quistnix threatended leaving the wiki because of a bucket flowing over and this was not an issue I wanted to persist in. I reprotected the other 10 pages. In fact there were many more protected pages at that time.

    As for the deletion of MediaWiki messages to make room for almost equal default MessagesNl.php messages: This has all been dealt with and it has been restored. So far the nl.wikipedia community has not been able to take further action on this issue, despite a lot of effort from NielsF (w:nl:Wikipedia:MediaWiki-berichten).

    As stated on nl.wikipedia: I am not without error. I correct when asked. I cannot defend myself against those posing opinion as fact. Siebrand 19:42, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

    This is a page for voting. I have cast my vote. Noorse 20:07, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

13.  Oppose - People who work alone without listening to others are no good for sysops. we need to work as a team Røed 20:10, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
14.  Oppose --gildemax 21:19, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support --Denniss 21:32, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
16.  Neutral Is the adminship necessary for the user to do usefull work at Commons? It seems like the user is somewhat disputed. — John Erling Blad (no) 23:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
17.  Oppose - I am not convinced and vote on behalf of these accusations/questions raised above from Siebrands fellow nl-users Noorse and Quistnix on whether he is fit for adminship, and his replies to those a/q. beagle84 22:39, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support Szwedzki 01:38, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
19.  Support Strong support due to the vandal-smell of "Quistnix" and "Noorse" posts above, that first accused him of dragging others into disputes (which is precisely what one should do) then accusing him of acting out on his own in a maverik fashion. User:Siebrand seems much more reasonable on IRC, than their wayward allegations suggest. --Connel MacKenzie 09:28, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
    • • Quistnix and Noorse might be upset but they are not vandals. Let's try and comment on the candidate, not the other voters, please. pfctdayelise (translate?) 05:43, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
20. Quistnix and Noorse are vandals? Funny, I have not noticed that. The issues they have raised convince me to vote  Oppose. Kjetil_r 20:36, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
21.  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 09:11, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Tally

Valid votes case: 21

• 13  Support
• 2  Neutral
• 6  Oppose (withdrawn)
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Votes

1. Support. MaxiMaxiMax 03:41, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support Kajk ✉ 17:01, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support Wsiegmund 05:45, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support --Kjetil_r 20:44, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 09:11, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support Fred Chess 09:40, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support Jkelly 17:33, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support NielsF 01:07, 26 July 2006 (UTC) Please give the guy a botbit, RC is useless this way. NielsF 01:07, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support Lokal Profil 11:56, 26 July 2006 (UTC) I see little else in my RC list.
10.  Support Anna 01:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support Joanot Martorell ✉ 19:46, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Coments

I don't understand some changes like this. Why did he move interwikis above categories? I have always done a category move with replace.py module, and the re-order of the page is unnecessary. --Emijrp 16:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Standard Pywikipedia behavior. You may log a bug or send mail to the Pywikipedia Bot list if you wish. -Mak 17:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC) (bot)

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===Panther===

Hello! I wish to ask adminship on Wikimedia Commons.

In general I'm working on Commons and Wikipedia about 1,5 years and have made more than 3800 edits on RuWiki and near 200 manual edits and uploads here (not including bot uploading). Some pictures have been drawn (or shot) by me, and two of them were selected as POD. You can see the full list of my pictures here (sorry, the text comments are in Russian).

From April till July of this year I have prepared and uploaded about 2500 vector-images.com images of the coats of arms and flags of the Russian cities using the special program created by me. Preliminary having discussed this question, I used names in conformity with the standard conventions. During this work I have found many duplicates with other images loaded earlier by other users. This images was uploaded using the different name conventions, some of them do not have correct license information and so on. And now I wish to reorder all of this images, delete duplicates and make some other expected tasks.

In additition, when this work will be done, I'm planning to replace my own images with their vector versions and further to continue work of the administrator where it is required. Maybe I do not have valuable contributions to Commons maintenance pages as requred at the top of this page, but I do such tasks on RuWiki very often ([36], [37] and many other). In case of the positive decision, I'm ready to study all the rules concerning new administartive tools before using them and observe this rules very accurately.

--Panther 13:32, 11 July 2006 (UTC) (also ru:User:Panther)

Votes

1.  Support good job in ru-wiki --Nesusvet 14:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support. Panther made much image work in ru-wiki, he will help making Commons more structured picture base. LoKi 15:14, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support --Morpheios Melas 05:54, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
4.  Comment It really is true that if you use the admin tools much, your active productivity will very much decrease. So since you don't plan to do much maintenance I'm not too clear how you require admin tools? Deleting duplicates is not that much... they can be tagged {{Superseded}} or {{Duplicate}} or {{Badname}}. I'm sure you're a trustworhthy user... but I think maybe we need more admins who are more actively connected to the community rather than looking after their own pet projects. We also need people to look after their own pet projects, I'm just not sure we need those people to be admins. --pfctdayelise (translate?) 03:58, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

   Using of tags is too slowly here... :) --Morpheios Melas 05:54, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

   Thank you for your comment, it was wery important for me. I have tried to put a picture on removal, but this process is too long here (from requestig to the fact of the real deletion). I'm ready to do the admin work and I have some ideas to make the Commons better besides my pet projects. My "pet" project is a beginning which I must finish at the first time. I'm doing such maintenance work on RuWiki, but the main obstacle for me here was uncertainty in my English which I trying to overcome now. --Panther 06:18, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

   I urge you not to speedy delete your own images but have someone else do that for you. You have donated images to Commons and it is not your personal choice to remove them. Siebrand 14:57, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

   I'm planning to speedy delete only the absolutely identical images having non-standart or incorrect names (example). It has occured because other users had made ealier uploads from the vector-images site not using the today naming recommendations. The second is a changed filenaming by vector-images since the last uploading (see this and this). I'm planning only this task inside of my "pet" project, not more. And this is not the only reason of my request, this is only the first step I should make to finish the work had begun by me. As was written in my previous messages, further I'm planning to do the other expected maintenance tasks using my ruwiki experience. The sysop rights are not a fetish for me, but the essential tool now (and, of course, the great responsibility), and if I shall understand, that during any moment it had turned to a useless decoration, I shall necessarily ask to remove it. --Panther 07:51, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

   Thank you for your clarification. Siebrand 14:36, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

5.  Support From this request it seems like Panther will not abuse the tools at all and can potentially be very helpful. We have only 3 Russian-speaking admins so another definitely will be good. Although I don't share the obsessive need for correct spelling and capitalisation in image titles, it is a harmless trait. :) --pfctdayelise (translate?) 11:29, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support However overlook over users activity who came from RU:WP (especially newbies) will be big plus. Unfortunately understanding of copyright law is not a strongest side of people from ex-USSR. --EugeneZelenko 14:52, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support --Lmbuga ^{gl, pt, es: contacta comigo} 14:58, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support; I have met Panter's images and cathegories though I'm not too active particularly at Commons. I have a good impression on his works. Considering his contributions in ru-wiki, it seems he could be a good admin here. Drbug 15:04, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
9. Support. Panther is very hard involved in work with pictures in ru_wiki and Russia-related stuff in Commons. Sysop status for him will help all of us a lot. I hope he will become a very useful member of Commons community as well. MaxiMaxiMax 15:06, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
10. Support per MaxiMaxiMaxi Alex Bakharev 14:12, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support very trustworthy user --Alma Pater 14:21, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support Siebrand 14:36, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support per MaxiMaxiMax --Kaganer 15:55, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support --Batareikin 22:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support --Zserghei 10:38, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support -- Esp rus 11:36, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
17.  Support good job in ru-wiki Vlad2000Plus 13:27, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support Adnergje 13:40, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
19. да - Support notafish }<';> 16:34, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
20.  Support - agree with MaxiMaxiMax. S.L. 17:59, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
21.  Support Szwedzki 01:35, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
22.  Support --Boleslav1 16:44, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
23.  Support -- Wulfson 04:22, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
24.  Support I agree with all the ru-wiki comments above. --ru:user:ACrush 08:44, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
25.  Support --ru:user:Serebr 08:44, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
26.  Support Good work on helping us get free photos of the flags of the Russian regions. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return fire)} 05:00, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
27.  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 09:11, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
28.  Support Fred Chess 09:41, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
29.  Support A.J. 08:56, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
30.  Support --ALE! 22:41, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

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===Jkelly===

Hi. I made my first edit at Commons September 26 2005, when uploading this image. Since then I have become increasingly active at Commons. Last year a lot of my activity here was following copyvios from en (where I am an admin) that had made their way to Commons, but this year I have been doing a lot of work here independently. I've uploaded a large number of images, many of which have been about Canadian history or photographs of musicians tagged as CC-BY-SA at Flickr (which FlickrLickr doesn't currently sort, to my knowledge), and I have done a lot of work in the Category namespace. I'm also active at Template:Deletion requests (edit count). I've been thinking about requesting adminship since an incident a few months ago when I found someone uploading album covers and screenshots by looking at recent changes and could not find an admin on IRC. I feel quite comfortable with Commons:Policy, although I have made a mistake or two, and I would like to be able to help clean up copyvios and improperly sourced images. My email is enabled and I am subscribed to commons-l. Jkelly 01:12, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Votes

• Strong Support one of the best users against copyvios in the english wiki Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 02:07, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Even handed. Not tribal. Thinks before typing. The wikis sorely need more admins like this chap. -Mak 02:27, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Siebrand 10:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Kjetil_r 10:59, 29 July 2006 (UTC) — but please opt in for the extra edit count information.

• Done, thanks. Jkelly 19:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

•  Support --EugeneZelenko 14:14, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
• Strong  Support Very excellent worker around the Commons. Will undoubtedly be an excellent admin. pfctdayelise (translate?) 23:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
•  Support, per above. --tomf688 (talk - email) 15:21, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. Good stuff. ed g2s • talk 01:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
•  Support, per above and user contribs. --Panther 09:07, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Klemen Kocjančič (Pogovor - Quick response) 06:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Joanot Martorell ✉ 19:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
• Support --Durin-en 20:05, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

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===Fred chessplayer for Bureaucrat===

Fred is a highly trusted Commons member and has been around since May 2005. During this time he has selflessly and tirelessly worked on deletion Requests and other thankless and unglamorous tasks. He has done so with a professional and impartial attitude which is necessary for those in a bureacrat position. Fred has agreed to multiple requests from his peers to agree to this proposal. Please join me in voting for Fred for Bureaucrat. -Mak 17:37, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes I already confirmed on my talk page that I accept to run for Bureaucrat. I'm honoured that Mak and others has this confidence in me. / Fred Chess 08:19, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I will make a personal statement too. If I get elected I will (a) take greater care to avoid conflicts as I believe that Bureaucrats need to be even more trustworthy than other administrators. I will take greater care in expressing myself unambiguously and carefully to avoid misunderstandings. (b) will get thorough understanding of the purpose of Commons so that I can both make sure it follows its guidelines as well as allowing it to change as necessary. / Fred Chess 08:27, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes for

1.  Support Good man for the job. We need two active bureaucrats. Now, we have zero active. Panther should have been added weeks ago. -Mak 17:41, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support Joanot Martorell ✉ 19:44, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support Mr. Chessplayer is a trusted user. --Kjetil_r 19:53, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support Siebrand 00:19, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support Sensible user pfctdayelise (translate?) 05:34, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support Arnomane 14:04, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support EugeneZelenko 14:36, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support --gildemax 15:16, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support --Panther 16:13, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support --Longbow4u 20:37, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support NielsF 01:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support Jastrow 11:46, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support LERK (Talk / Contributions) 03:39, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support this time unquestionable. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 02:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 06:57, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support Lycaon 08:00, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
17.  Support Definitely YES --Tarawneh 02:39, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support --ALE! ¿…? 09:29, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes against

Discussion

• I recall that b'crats tend to need about 25 support votes and very little oppposition. I added this to COM:B. If anyone disagrees, we can discuss it. So this request should stay quite a long time to get the necessary eyeballs. pfctdayelise (translate?) 06:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

• • Why did you add that to COM:B? I thought a b'crat was needed ASAP. / Fred Chess 09:41, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

• • • Because I thought this was the same requirement that User:Arnomane, User:Dbenbenn and User:Ausir had to pass. But I checked and I was wrong, it's actually CheckUser that has that requirement. Our Bureaucrats survived on as little as 13 support votes, no opposition, so I will revert my change... --pfctdayelise (translate?) 01:41, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Done

- Andre Engels 18:39, 13 August 2006 (UTC) (bureaucrat)

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=== EugeneZelenko for bureaucrat ===

Hi!

Its looks like Commons doesn't have available bureaucrats for 3 weeks (see this page and Commons:Changing username). So I decided to run for this position after blessing of pfctdayelise and Panther.

I'm with Commons since November 2004, on admin position since March 2005. I add some useful content to Commons: mostly related to Belarus, Soviet Union and Russia, and provide Commons maintenance.

This is not run for more power, just for taking more responsibility. I hope I'll not make big mistakes and will continue to be with Commons :-)

Edit count

Thank you.

EugeneZelenko 15:40, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes for

1. Strongly  Support! Eugene was the first who has helped me at the long time ago and all that time I saw his great activity to help novices and make the Commons much better. --Panther 17:06, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support, we need a new bureaucrat, and Mr. Zelenko will be a good one. --Kjetil_r 17:07, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
3. Strong  Support Extremely active and trustworthy, what else can you ask for? pfctdayelise (translate?) 02:28, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
4. My full  Support A.J. 08:55, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support Joanot Martorell ✉ 19:44, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support Siebrand 00:19, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support Arnomane 13:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC) Sadly all current bureaucrats including seemed to be in holidays the same time... Appologies for being offline for so long.
8.  Support --gildemax 15:15, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support NielsF 01:24, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support LERK (Talk / Contributions) 03:39, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support My first friend at Commons Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 02:30, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 06:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support odder 11:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support --Tarawneh 02:44, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support--Lmbuga ^{gl, pt, es: contacta comigo} 19:33, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes against

Discussion

• I recall that b'crats tend to need about 25 support votes and very little oppposition. I added this to COM:B. If anyone disagrees, we can discuss it. So this request should stay quite a long time to get the necessary eyeballs. pfctdayelise (translate?) 06:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC) I was wrong, that is a CheckUser requirement. Sorry. pfctdayelise (translate?) 01:54, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Done

- Andre Engels 18:39, 13 August 2006 (UTC) (bureaucrat)

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===AlNo for Administrator (closed) ===

This vote is closed as it appears to be an invalid RfA, please consider my request as cancelled. -- AlNo (talk) 08:59, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Although I'm not editing very frequently on Commons, I'd like to more some time here for hunting old speedy deletion requests and perform other maintenance task related to copyright issues.
I am also admin on fr: so I now have some experience of what the admin status means :)
I do speak French (native), English (babel-2), Spanish (babel-1) and roughly understand Portuguese.
-- AlNo (talk) 16:17, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes for

1.  Support Good activity on fr. Plyd 22:28, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support Ok. Sebcaen 06:10, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

    Support ~Pyb 09:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC) sorry less than 200 edits ~Pyb 09:42, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

3.  Support. experimented enough :) ♦ Pabix ^ℹ 09:20, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support Ok. Valérie75 12:41, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes against

1. pfctdayelise (translate?) 10:17, 9 August 2006 (UTC) Less than 200 edits? Please spend some more time here familiarising yourself with Commons. There are some ideas for administrative tasks that don't require admin status on the talk page. pfctdayelise (translate?) 10:17, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
2. Agree with pfctdayelise. --EugeneZelenko 14:09, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
3. NielsF 22:13, 9 August 2006 (UTC). This RfA should be closed ASAP because the candidate doesn't meet the requirements as stated on COM:ADMIN#What_is_expected_from_an_administrator.3F and this RfA is therefore not valid.
4. As above. Why are we voting in the first place? An admin should close this vote. --Tarawneh 02:31, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
5.  Oppose, 11 Template edits and 4 Commons edits is not enough. --Kjetil_r 08:53, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

(withdrawn)

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===Lestath===

I'm active editor from pl.wiki. I often send on commons my own photos and photos/scans which obtained from other people or institutions (e.g. Katowice City Hall). When I'm browsing commons I often find evidently unlegal photos (without any licence or which were downloaded from web pages). This materials faze me and I want do something with it, but without admin's tools it isn't possible. Additionaly, I sometimes make mistakes and I would like fix them on my own without asking other admins :-). Lestat 21:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes

For

1.  Support --WarX 21:13, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support stv ✉ 21:41, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support odder 11:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support MesserWoland 13:42, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support Gardomir 19:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support DingirXul 19:55, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support Szczepan1990 19:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support Herr Kriss 22:23, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
9. ToAr 17:45, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support LUCPOL 20:24, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support kb 01:20, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
12. Szwedzki 02:48, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Against  Oppose first edit on commons at 2. August 2006 , less than 2 months, request for adminship valid? --kogo 13:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC) - sorry, problem with transposed digits (08. February 2006), vote revoked --kogo 16:13, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Questions

1. MonteChristof 21:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC) : Got an question for candidate. What will you do (what kind of stepps would you make) if you see any graphic, copied from other site:
   1. Graphic is made by US army?

   If that graphic has informations about source I'll add suitable template ({{PD-USGov-Military}}). Whereas if I cannot find that informations I'll add template about missing source info and inform uploader about it. Lestat 19:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

   1. Photo is taken by unknow person?

   Could you write more precisely? Lestat 19:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

   1. Photo was taken by anonym, and its wery old photo of the painting?

   I give him licence {{PD-old}}. Lestat 19:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

   1. Uploader tells - that he's the autor of the drawing on the site

   I add template {{OwnWork}} and in uploader discusion add template {{OwnWorkBoilerPlate}}. Lestat 19:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your answers... MonteChristof 21:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

• Can you please put Babel boxes on your user/talk page? pfctdayelise (translate?) 06:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

  OK. Lestat 19:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Talk

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===Cnyborg===

Edits: 1484
Uploads: 604

Commons needs more administrators. Cnyborg will be a nice administrator here. He is already an admin and a bureaucrat at no.wikipedia, where he one of the most respected users. He is also handling press relations for Wikipedia in Norway.

Here at Commons is he participating in translating help pages into Norwegian. He is also participating in deletion discussions, where he shows good knowledge of Norwegian copyright law.

Cnyborg has accepted the nomination in an e-mail to me. He writes that he will help out deleting the backlog of old copyvios. –Kjetil_r 22:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Kjetil. I'd just like to confirm that I've accepted the nomination, and that I also feel it is important to have more Scandinavian-language users here now, and particulary Norwegian-speaking ones, as no: is currently pushing hard to move all image uploads to Commons. I've worked a lot with images there, and feel that when we push all the problems over to Commons, it's only fair that some of us also take on the responsibility for following up. Cnyborg 22:52, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support –Kjetil_r 22:13, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support Profoss 22:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support --81.15.36.125 22:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC) --Jóna Þórunn 22:17, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support NielsF 22:21, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support Atluxity 22:21, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support ---Nina- 22:22, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support --Stigmj 22:23, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support — John Erling Blad (no) 22:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support Shauni 23:05, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support Floyd (Norway) 02:03, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support --Duffman 05:00, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support --Panther 06:26, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support ZorroIII 08:08, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support — --Jarvin 10:49, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
15. Unconditional  Support Jon Harald Søby 11:10, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support Opus 12:25, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
17.  Support Røed 14:00, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support EugeneZelenko 14:27, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
19.  Support --Finn Bjorklid 21:21, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
20.  Support Noorse 01:05, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
21.  Support --Verdlanco 09:15, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
22.  Support --Gunnernett 09:52, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
23.  Support Mathias-S 18:09, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
24.  Support Zerblatt 22:35, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
25.  Support --Lmbuga ^{gl, pt, es: contacta comigo} 19:31, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
26. Szwedzki 02:51, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
27.  Support EIRIK\^talk 09:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
28.  Support --Eddi 17:59, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
29.  Support Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 20:14, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
30.  Support --tomf688 (talk - email) 23:16, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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===Odder===

Edits: 209 (202 when this vote has started)

I'm an active user at polish Wikipedia (first edit at 27th November 2005). I have been a sysop there from 6th March to 7th August, but I have resigned (now there is my second RfA, could be seen here). I have been active in image cleanup project and, with WarX and VindicatoR (both admins on pl) in our image tagging project (the results of our work can be seen here). I also contribute from time to time to german and english Wikipedia (with no account on en:, I mainly add interwikis). I can speak a little German and English (and Polish, of course). Sysop flag on commons will help me in deleting files (e.g. uploaded from pl wiki), blocking permament vandals, and, if needed, in fixing my own faults. odder 20:43, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

And, my biggest dream on commons: to clean up all this mess :) Impossible is nothing :) odder 20:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes

For

1. --WarX 20:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC) good image cleaner :)
2. Szczepan1990 20:47, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
3. DingirXul 20:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
4. Herr Kriss 22:22, 9 August 2006 (UTC) good boy ;)
5. Lestat 22:23, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
6. Gardomir 07:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
7. ToAr 17:45, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
8. MesserWoland 11:55, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
9. LUCPOL 21:00, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
10. Kb 23:58, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
11. Szwedzki 02:51, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Against

1. too little activity on commons --kogo 13:46, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Questions

Talk

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=== Bastique for bureaucrat ===

I know we've had a few issues with finding bureaucrats lately. I've been an active sysop of Commons since December of 2005 and have a substantial amount of edits. (see Edit count). I'm also regularly available via IRC, even when I'm not actively on site.

I believe I've proven my reliability as an administrator of this project.

Thank you for your consideration.

Votes for

1.  Support odder 17:07, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support Jkelly 20:04, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support Cnyborg 20:46, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support Fred Chess 21:05, 18 August 2006 (UTC) although I don't know if anyones are currently needed, the vacation is over for most people. / Fred Chess 21:05, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support Kjetil_r 02:13, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 05:32, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support EugeneZelenko 14:05, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support YEP!! :) --ßøuñçêY2K 14:34, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support Can be trusted to promote users according to policy, and rename as well. pfctdayelise (translate?) 16:42, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support. Next! --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 13:53, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support --Cyde 16:46, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support Gmaxwell 17:24, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support Utterly. James F. (talk) 17:24, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support --Prevert^(talk) 18:31, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support --Taichi 09:17, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support --Alhen .::··¨ 12:45, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
17.  Support Kordas 14:02, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support Yrithinnd 22:42, 23 August 2006 (UTC) he alwais is helping on irc chan
19.  Agree --Lmbuga ^{gl, pt, es: contacta comigo} 22:52, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
20.  Support Of course!. --Joanot Martorell ✉ 10:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
21.  Support --B1mbo
22. Angus 10:56, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
23.  Support Drini 14:31, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
24.  Support--Shanel 18:33, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes against

# --ALE! ¿…? 16:25, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Abstentions

1. --ALE! ¿…? 11:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC) ok, I won't be that hard, to err is human (Arguments see below)

Discussion

Arguments: He uploaded a copyrighted stamp of the Falklands instead of a German stamp in order to replace the image Image:Vollschiff Preussen.jpg. This should not happen being a future bureaucrat. --ALE! ¿…? 16:30, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Please see your talk page. It was the image that was linked on the deletion requests. Also, all bureaucrats are human. Therefore we make mistakes. This is certainly not a reason for voting against me. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 16:33, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Also, anyone reading this should note, I uploaded the image I saw on the link that ALE! him/herself provided, in an attempt to close a debate. ALE! could have uploaded the correct image himself. I trusted that ALE!'s information was accurate in uploaded the information as ALE! is an active and established editor. It was a short-term lack of judgment. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 16:42, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

You should read the discussion and think an instant before you do something. I was talking about a German stamp being a good replacement for the photo. Not a Falkland Stamp. Besides you did not correct the description page of the image. And no, you are not helping me to close the discussion if you produce double work cross checking yours. --ALE! ¿…? 22:52, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Let me say that all this is quite absurd.. --ßøuñçêY2K 13:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I am inclined to agree. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 18:43, 25 August 2006 (UTC) (bureaucrat)

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===Platonides (closed)===

editcount

Platonides is admin at es: and a very active user at commons. See his contributions here. Sanbec

Note:  Support = 22;  Oppose = 0. This vote has succeeded. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 14:03, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes

For

1.  Support Sanbec ✉ 12:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC) as nominator
2. Strong  Support - very active user! pfctdayelise (translate?) 12:30, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
3. Angus 12:48, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support Gaeddal 13:31, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support Kordas 13:59, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support --Taichi 15:20, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support --Ecelan 17:33, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support Yrithinnd 17:50, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support Platonides seems like a good user. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 18:15, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support Gizmo II 22:07, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
11. Cinabrium 22:30, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
12.  Agree--Lmbuga ^{gl, pt, es: contacta comigo} 22:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support--Beto29 23:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support --B1mbo
15.  Support Tomatejc 07:30, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support Dodo 13:03, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
17.  Support Airunp 15:11, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
18.  Agree --Prevert^(talk) 16:24, 24 August 2006 (UTC) He is a good candidate but the text of the proposal is so concise that it does not enumerate any of his qualities.
19.  Support Fred Chess 10:49, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
20.  Support Ecemaml 18:39, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
21.  Support --Yakoo 22:38, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
22.  Support Titoxd^(?!?) 20:00, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Against

Discussion

None of the nominees have yet made any statements themselves. I want to point out that there is no point in appointing administrators if they don't intend to do anything.... / Fred Chess 07:53, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I was asked if i agreed on being nominated. I didn't even knew if i was at last proposed or not, until came to COM:RFA now. I was kindly surprised on seeing so much support in so little time. :) Is anything i should state apart from Thank for your support, i'll try to do my best ? I think the nominee can't vote for himself so there's little to say... Platonides 11:12, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

If you want to add a statement, you can do that at the top of this nomination right below Sanbec's text.

It is important you know why there is a need for Spanish speaking admins. You guys need to verify many images uploaded by Spanish speakers who add incorrect license tags, and add the right tags to them (for example {{Nsd}} and {{Nld}} and {{Delete}}) and speedy delete images that are obvious copyright violations. WarX pointed out how many Spanish users are lying about the licenses because they don't understand them. You would need to make it clear to uploaders what licenses are OK, which you should do on Spanish Wikipedia, and also by contacting them on Commons.

You should also know how copyrights work, so that you can help those users who want to know. So it is nice if you read through Commons:Sobre las licencias.

Monitor special:Recentchanges and look for copyright violations uploaded by people who speak Spanish (often you can tell, for example a screenshot from Spanish television, or a logo of a Spanish corporation or club), then you tell them on their talk page that Commons does not allow this. Check if they have uploaded more images. Also, look through category:Unknown and if you see something you know was uploaded by a Spanish speaker, notify them. Often users upload image after image without understanding they are acting incorrectly, so look through the rest of their contributions too.

Some other things that should be done is to translate more help pages and templates. For example, Template:Anonymous work need a Spanish translation. And some system messages too -- look at MediaWiki:Uploadtext/es, this should be written to look like MediaWiki:Uploadtext.

Now, this is what I want from the administrators.... because many of us don't speak Spanish, and Sanbec and Anna can't do everything  ;-)

Fred Chess 16:49, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, i read the WarX mail. I don't know if you noticed that i answered him the same day (5 days ago), and translated the Template:Copyrighted free use he mentions. However, i'm still waiting for someone to include {{/lang}} in it.

However i'd also bet most uploaders even doesn't read them, so really difficult they understand anything. At es: i designed a new MediaWiki:Uploadtext trying to improve our old pieced upload form and trying to give them answers to the most common errors. I still had to tell them things that were on the list (not even counting the endless no-source no-license).

What i don't agree with you is in the statement that the work is to verify images uploaded by Spanish speakers. Unless someone can give me a list of Spanish speakers uploads, it's not possible. You verify images.

I use to give the english warnings, as it's really difficult to say if a user is spanish speaker or not. One-time © violators don't use to have babel templates. I can only deduce it from their usernames, but most are language-neutral. Sometimes you can also say it from a Spanish description but yesterday i had problems to determine if a user spoke spanish or not, as it seemed spanish, but a word wasn't (i found out it was in catalan).

It would be nice if on register users had some like a wizard to set their userboxes properly. The unique login should give a way to know it.

Template:Anonymous work/es done, but you should better say it at the Spanish Village Pump: Commons:Café.

Platonides 09:30, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

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===Tano4595 (closed)===

 Support = 9;  Oppose = 4. This vote does not meet the 75% requirement and therefore fails. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 14:01, 30 August 2006 (UTC) editcount

Tano4595 is admin at es: and a very active user at commons. See his contributions here. Sanbec

Votes

For

1.  Support Sanbec ✉ 09:12, 23 August 2006 (UTC) As nominator
2.  Support --Taichi 09:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support Yrithinnd 09:18, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support Gaeddal 13:31, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support Kordas 13:58, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support --Beto29 23:28, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support Tomatejc 07:31, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support Dodo 13:03, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support Ecemaml 18:39, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Against

1.  Oppose No edits in the commons: namespace, and only 8 in the template namespace. --Kjetil_r 11:44, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
2. Angus 12:48, 23 August 2006 (UTC) I still think it was an error to elect him in eswiki, and that he is not up to the admin position. (I don't say anything about his contributions to this project, maybe he is the perfect admin here, for what I know. I didn't check any of his contributions here.)
3. --Yakoo 22:36, 26 August 2006 (UTC) Only modifies categories...
4.  Oppose -- Slade ^[pics] 16:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Diskussion

None of the nominees have yet made any statements themselves. I want to point out that there is no point in appointing administrators if they don't intend to do anything.... / Fred Chess 07:53, 24 August 2006 (UTC) (failed)

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===Drini===

This vote is now closed.  Support=16  Oppose=0, passed, user is now a sysop. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 03:59, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm nominating Drini for admin for several reasons. He's a native Spanish speaker and with es.wikipedia using Commons for all of its images, we need a more Spanish speaking admins. Also, he's an active admin at en, and I'm familiar with him. He has a substantial edit count at Commons, and he's proven himself capable. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 21:21, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes for

1.  Support Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 21:21, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support--Beto29 23:20, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support Sanbec ✉ 23:40, 23 August 2006 (UTC) Me gustaría verle más por es: ;-)

   Gracias. Me casé el mes pasado, pro eso he estado ausente ;) Drini 23:45, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

4.  Support Yrithinnd 23:50, 23 August 2006 (UTC) yeah
5. Angus 04:50, 24 August 2006 (UTC) Felicidades :)
6.  Support Tomatejc 07:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support Dodo 13:02, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support --WarX 18:35, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support Gizmo II 23:13, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 23:21, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support --Taichi 05:01, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support Good admin on en:, experienced with copyright, and replacing less-free content with more-free content. Xaosflux 12:23, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
13. Perfect admin on enwiki. Support. NSLE-Chacor 12:40, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support Jkelly 19:02, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support Cnyborg 15:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support Titoxd^(?!?) 19:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes against

Questions

None of the nominees have yet made any statements themselves. I want to point out that there is no point in appointing administrators if they don't intend to do anything.... / Fred Chess 07:53, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

• Well, then I guess I'll do one now :) I?ve been involved at wikimedia related projects for over a year and half, I?ve uploaded a fair share of mathematical images to improve articles at sister projects and a few other pictures. I'm very well known on en: where I have been an admin for about a year and help on a random array of chores, of which cleaning up copyright violations and removing the so-called "fair uses" when I can are the most relevant now. I'm quite aware that commons: is not en:, commons being international and making more emphasis on free content, and I'm very willing to help and lend my assistance on the areas it's needed. Drini 13:25, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Please add Babel on your user page. --EugeneZelenko 14:09, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

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===Nilfanion===

I'm in the process of developing a tropical cyclone category scheme on Commons. I am also migrating the images from the various projects to here, as they are typically PD-USGov. I am also promoting the use of Commons within the en.wp tropical cyclone wikiproject, which I'm actively involved in. Having the admin tools will implementing the scheme easier for me, and also help with Progressive jpegs, which have problems displaying correctly and seem to occur frequently in this particular subject area. And of course, having the tools will let me correct my own mistakes :)

In addition to this, I hate copyvios and would like to able to help with the backlogs in the various maintenance categories. In particular, I'd help with Category:Unknown. However, I would be generally reluctant to delete images from that category, and would try and keep the image in preference to deleting it.Nilfanion 12:38, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support Interested in the community, good attitude suited to an admin. pfctdayelise (translate?) 16:07, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
•  Support I always wondered where all those Hurricane picture tracks came from. (Can you make more of them not hit Florida?) Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 19:51, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. Excellent work maintaining the cyclone category trees. Titoxd^(?!?) 19:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
•  Support, though try and keep them away from the U.S. in the future ;) Hurricanehink 15:49, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
• Yes. NSLE-Chacor 04:33, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. Alphax (talk) 10:19, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Comments

• false, comic oppose - Tropical Storm Ernesto seems to be heading right for me. You're already getting on my bad side. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 11:22, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

• Well I can only do so much, I've stopped it from hitting New Orleans as a hurricane just over a year after Katrina :P--Nilfanion 11:41, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

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===Nux===

I'm on wikis since 2005-09 and pretty active since 2006-02. I'm a sysop on Polish Wikipedia since 2006-05-07. Since just now I'm on commons-l mailing list.

Basically I need sysop rights here to be able to translate some parts of Commons interface to Polish (without bothering other sysops). Maybe sometimes I will change some picture name to be more descriptive when I notice one. If it will be needed I may work on interface of Commons to enhance it with some JS, or fix it if there will be need to do so.

Nux (talk) 02:11, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Neutral To only fix the interface? No. Simply post translations on the Village pump or COM:AN. It is not a bother for admins to do this at all. Your Polish-speaking brethren could always use your help, as an admin. But if you're doing to update six messages and then be virtually absent, that is not helpful. pfctdayelise (translate?) 05:47, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral, per above and for other reasons. The fact that Nux is a sysop on the Polish Wikipedia indicates responsibility, but low edit count here indicates that Nux may not really need powers because he/she is not active enough (although last months edits were quite high... but it's only a one month sample). --tomf688 (talk - email) 21:38, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral, same as pfctdayelise. I posted 100's of wikimedia translations on the Village pump, and the admins fixed them in minutes, not a reason to ask for adminship. --Tarawneh 11:47, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

Comment for Pfctdayelise vote. I didn't say I will do nothing but translating. This is my main need (as it is much easier that way), but I may also do other things if I will have time. When I'm viewing Commons I'm usually fixing some descriptions, and sometimes could use the ability to change the name of the picture (file). Currently there are many images in deletion requests and I could also look into that from time to time.

I'm also a JavaScript professional and I if I will get sysop rights I will be able to polish it a bit, to make it faster and more readable (I already did something like that on pl.wiki).

I hope you will reconsider, thank you in advance Nux (talk) 12:54, 1 September 2006 (UTC).

You know there's more to renaming an image than "moving" it, right? "Renamed" images have to be reuploaded under the new name, all uses replaced to the new image, and then the old image marked for speedy deletion. You can do this already. For JS, you can post suggestions on the talk pages and admins will update it if appropriate. My point is, you don't have to wait until you have admin rights until you start making useful contributions. There are tons of things that can be done already by anyone. (See Commons talk:Administrators.) It's nothing personal against you. I just don't think it's good for the project to have a steady stream of people who seem to try out adminship for a month or so, then move on. Ghost admins. pfctdayelise (translate?) 07:31, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

From things you just said I could conclude that you only need one admin here on commons, which would do all that ;P. I simply cannot always ask someone to fix things and I like to work in my hours...

But anyway I will be going on some wikivacation for a month or two and might come back to this later. Feel free to remove this adminship request from the queue --Nux (talk) 18:52, 4 September 2006 (UTC) (failed)

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=== Mdd4696 ===

I'm going to be pragmatic about this. I'm an administrator on enwiki, and I've begun to edit more on Commons. I think my edits here demonstrate that I'm serious about the project and that I've made some worthwhile contributions.

I've been discussing various topics on the Village Pump and working on a few new projects (namely a guide to layout and file series template). I've looked over the requests for deletion page and commented on a few.

It's annoying not being able to delete spam pages, edit protected pages, etc. (all within policy of course). It would be nice to be able to do that kind of work here as well. ~MDD4696 02:16, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support trustworthy admin in the english wiki Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 02:09, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support per Jaranda. --tomf688 (talk - email) 00:13, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Good wikipedian. --Tarawneh 11:42, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Sensible edits. --Juiced lemon 21:34, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support -- pragmatically, we need more admins, and his experience is very solid, I think knows what he's supposed to do. Fred Chess 21:46, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
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===Yonidebest===

Hi, I am an admin on He-Wikipedia. I'd like to help with translations, problematic POV images and descriptions. I have received some requests from our local He-Wikipedia and felt I will be useful as an admin. Yonidebest 15:15, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Votes - Nomination canceld - user has less than 200 edits

•  Support Yellow up 15:36, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support David Shay 16:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Amit A. 17:16, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Ido israel 18:39, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Deror avi 20:43, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose This user has no edits here, all the votes here come from users on he.wiki that this user told them to vote here for him. Don't let him abuse COMMONS. I also consider blocking him. --Haham hanuka 20:50, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Oppose as user does not meet formal requirements. — Richie 22:24, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Psychomelodic 09:13, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Comments

Only 21 edits on Commons at time of nomination; that's quite far below the minimum of 200. Cnyborg 17:23, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't see the minimum requirement mentioned anywhere... Yellow up 17:47, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Please see Commons:Administrators#What is expected from an administrator?. – rotemliss – Talk 17:48, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I see, I guess this nomination has to be canceled. Yellow up 17:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

It's pretty easy to make the guess that this nomination came as a result of the NPOV dispute. While adminship might not be the best route to take to solve that (anyone can re-upload images and propose deletion of the badly named one, and admins can just delete at will), I looked through the list of admins, and found only one identified as a Hebrew-speaker, and that at level 2 (intermediate level). Getting an admin with Hebrew as his/her first language would be a good idea for several reasons; on a multilingual projects, we need admins with a wide variety of linguistic backgrounds and of course there is the issue of trust between Commons and Hebrew Wikipedia. Either finding someone who fulfills the requirements, or contributing to Commons with a focus on clean-up work and assisiting other users (i.e. typical admin tasks) so that the requirements are met, would probably lead to a successful nomination. Cnyborg 18:12, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. This is the correct way to solve the NPOV dispute. Drork tried to remove the POV descriptions by changing them to a tern acceptable by the work community. One of the administrators reverted his contributions, protected the page and called him a vandalist. He also left anti Semitic remarks about Israel on several occasions. This is why I think I can contribute with fair and NPOV opinions and remove such offensive content from a Wikimedia foundation project.

I think that in this case, an exception should be taken in order to assure that anti Semitic image names and descriptions will not be handled as it is being handled up to now. My 21 edit will increase later on this month as I am quiting my job. Yonidebest 18:50, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

There are clear policies about sysoping. You can't just ask to be a sysop, as exception of the policites, to do something which anybody else can do. The correct way to solve this NPOV dispute is re-uploading the images in another name (saying the name of the original uploader), and marking them as {{Duplicate}} – then some administrator will delete them. If you don't want to do it, don't complain that no one does it. – rotemliss – Talk 20:04, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Did you read my last comment? Drork tried to fix the descriptions but his efforts were reverted by an anti Semitic admin. I rather have someone who does not qualify, than have an anti Semitic admin raging around. Yonidebest 21:01, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

As someone who is fluent in Hebrew and is familiar with Hebrew Wikipedia, I decided I should pass on some relevant information to people here at Wiki Commons about user Yonidebest:

• Since the user offered to help with POV issues, it should be pointed out that he recently proposed a change in policy on Hebrew Wikipedia that was criticized by others as violating NPOV. In particular, the user initiated a vote in the Hebrew Wikipedia Parliament that any member of the Lebanese Hezbollah mentioned in a Hebrew Wiki article be referred to as a terrorist. The user further insisted that this was fully compliant with NPOV. After a prolonged discussion and amendments to the exact proposal, the vote was suspended and heavily criticized as a farce by other Wikipedians. The purpose in bringing this to your attention is not to play up a failed vote, but to bring forth relevant information about the way this user interprets NPOV policy. The discussion and vote are available here here, although be forwarned that it is in Hebrew.
• This user has been a polarizing figure in Hebrew Wiki. Evidence of his polarizing nature can be seen in the results of his proposed candidacy for CheckUser on Hebrew Wikipedia. The vote, which was conducted in English, can be seen here. What is noteworthy is the unusually large number of negative votes this user received compared to the remaining five candidates, suggesting he has generated an exceptional degree of animosity among Hebrew Wiki users. The small number of votes in his favor is itself not informative; the rules of the vote allowed each person to vote in favor of only three candidates but against an unlimited number of candidates. The low number of votes in favor most likely reflects that other candidates were more popular rather than a lack of support among many Wikipedians.

Sincerely, Hebrewman 03:04, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Warning

Please be aware: This user who just failed to be an admin because he has less than 200 edits - abusing this community by "sending" many friends who does not really contribute here [38] of him to vote, now tries to exploit Wikimedia Commons. To prvoe my point look here ([39])": He wrote that he wants to make 200 edit by uploading images of another user to meet with the minumum requestment and then to became an admin in the same way. --Haham hanuka 19:31, 9 September 2006 (UTC) (failed)

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===Traroth===

 Support = 8;  Oppose = 4;  Neutral = 2;. This vote does not meet the 75% requirement and therefore fails. Cary "Bastique" Bass

I'm a wikipedian since 2003, a bureaucrat on wp:fr and admin on wikibooks:fr and wikinews:fr. I'm participating to Commons since it exists and I'm very interested in copyright policies in different countries. As a french, I speak also german and english.

In my opinion, my background could be useful to improve respect for copyright laws and to get a legaly sure picture, movie and sound repository, so I hope you will vote for me. (Voting commenced 12:48 (UTC), 27 August 2006)

Votes for

1. ~Pyb 14:42, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support User is qualified, willing, and able to do the job. I recommend we support him. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 14:43, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support, our French admins seem strangely absent sometimes. pfctdayelise (translate?) 05:48, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support; enough participation and is a sysop in several other places, proving that the user is trusted by many other communities. --tomf688 (talk - email) 21:35, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support. Alphax (talk) 03:34, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support, clearly a suitable candidate. That said, I would hope to see some activity on Commons...--Nilfanion 15:45, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support, Ok, Fine with me --Tarawneh 23:19, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support, but I don't know if I have the right to vote.. --Erasoft24 11:38, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Votes against

1. A candidate should try to answer important questions that are asked. -Samulili 08:56, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
2. --Wiggum 15:12, 4 September 2006 (UTC) nearly inactive on commons
3. --Juiced lemon 21:50, 7 September 2006 (UTC) I agree with Samulili and Wiggum.
4. Hégésippe | ±Θ± 02:45, 10 September 2006 (UTC) – He has requested and got sysop status on French Wikinews and has no more admin activity there. His bureaucrat activity on French Wikipedia is also very low: [40], [41] and [42]. Would he add something on Commons as a sysop?

   ...and of course, this vote has no link with a personal conflict between us. As you can see here, wn:fr needs very low sysop activity (and the delete log is the biggest...). HC, tu es vraiment minable. Traroth 22:54, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Neutral

• Fred Chess 20:18, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral, Questions should be answered --Tarawneh 11:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Neutral I don't sure that Commons needs inactive admins. --EugeneZelenko 14:44, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

I would like to know what kind of maintenance jobs you have done so far and what kind of things you will do if you get admin rights. -Samulili 12:54, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I would like this too. I also think you are not very active, in the last 2 months, you made about 20 edits. Comments? / Fred Chess 20:18, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

First of all, Commons is not the project where I'm the most active. But I'm also not so active for the moment on the other places where I'm used to contribute. Fact is I have currently much work in my professionnal life, but I know situation will improve soon. To subject maintenance : I made mainly proposals for deletion for copyright reasons, for example the pictures of the Louvre pyramid, but I'm making also some categorization (but is this really maintenance, on Commons ?). Traroth 23:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC) (failed)

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Gmaxwell

 Support = 16;  Oppose = 2; . This vote meets the 75% requirement and therefore passes. User:Gmaxwell is now a sysop. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 21:35, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm nominating Gmaxwell for admin, simply because he's one of the most knowledgeable editors we've got, very active at the Commons and I respect his opinion, and believe he'll make an exceptional admin.

And it's time. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 21:22, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Acceptance

I accept. I'd enjoy the ability to take a more active role in the janitorial tasks on commons. I am only skilled with English, but I am always willing to try to accommodate others and I hope my ability to speak computer languages will compensate somewhat for this shortcoming. --Gmaxwell 21:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Votes

Support

1.  Support as nom. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 21:22, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support No doubt in my mind he's knowledgeable about the important issues at commons. Drini 21:52, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support Very knowledgable, and a very good photographer!--Shanel 21:55, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support Proud to be the first person I support here. ++Lar: t/c 22:02, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support. Dunno if this will count, because I'm not very active here (and don't do much image stuff)... but maybe my 11,000+ edits on en.wp will make up for it? :) --SB 22:03, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support. Finally someone I feel proper supporting. Kelly Martin 23:09, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support   but he has 10 orphans... --Kjetil_r 03:33, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
   • Correction: I have nine images only used on enwikipedia and one orphan. :) Thank you for pointing that out. --Gmaxwell 12:18, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
     • Well, you should get thine images into Galleries! Else they not be orphaned :) You rock. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 13:42, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support, absolutely and utterly. James F. (talk) 18:22, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support--Jusjih 13:18, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support per above. --tomf688 (talk - email) 16:17, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support rather uncontroversial / Fred Chess 15:28, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support Gladly--Tarawneh 23:16, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support Clueful. Alphax (talk) 01:07, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support --Absar 12:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support Jon Harald Søby 12:44, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support of course. Jkelly 21:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

1.  Oppose Sanbec ✉ 17:24, 9 September 2006 (UTC) I'm sorry, I want multilingual admins :/

    Comment That's rather discriminatory, don't you think? Alphax (talk) 01:07, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

2.  Oppose regretably, too combative (cf. SXC part 2 "...I will have you immediately desysoped and blocked..."[43], [44][45]) Kotepho 10:32, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

    Comment With all due respect, Kotepho, I doubt that any project member has been immune from the occasional outburst. I've certainly had my share of incivil conversation from time to time. The Stock Xchange template was a rather heated discussion to begin with. As far as I know, all turned out well without anyone being blocked. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 13:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Neutral

Comments

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GeorgHH

 Support = 8;  Oppose = 0; . This vote meets the 75% requirement and therefore passes. User:GeorgHH is now a sysop. GeorgHH has done a lot of maintenanse work, such as tagging empty articles and copyvios for speedy deletion, checking categories and so on. Much of the work he's doing could be speeded up with admin rights. He has also been very helpful and polite to those who have approahced him on his talk page. He's a native German speaker, and writes very good English. He has accepted the nomination here, and fulfils the formal requirements. Cnyborg 14:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support Cnyborg 14:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support, due to very high activity. --tomf688 (talk - email) 19:20, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support. But please don't forget to mark images with license tag only with {{subst:nsd}}. --EugeneZelenko 14:24, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support --Absar 12:21, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support Per Cnyborg and Tomf688. Cary "Bastique" Bass ^parler _voir 15:29, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support - I've cleared up enough nonsense articles he tagged to think he is the only one doing that. GeorgHH: Don't always delete a category on sight when it is empty - check if a {{Category redirect}} is more appropriate first.--Nilfanion 18:17, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

    CommentAll right, i´ll pay attention to this.--GeorgHH 21:36, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

7.  Support--Jusjih 10:29, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support pfctdayelise (translate?) 12:42, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

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===Lmbuga for bureaucrat===

I want to propose Lmbuga for bureaucrat. Lmbuga is one gl.wp admin and an active Commons administrator. Because of the Galicia special location Lmbuga is related with three linguistic communities: Spanish speakers, Portuguese speakers and Galician speakers. From April, 2006 -when he was elected admin here-, his work has been helpful with new users who speak portuguese language, spanish language and galician language. He is involved doing lots of work to explain how is Commons, which licenses are valid and why must be deleted some files . At the moment there aren´t any bureaucrat in these three languages. I believe Lmbuga's contribution as bureaucrat can be very useful for Commons users. --Prevert^(talk) 20:36, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

He accept in this message. --Prevert^(talk) 20:36, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Votes

•  Support as nominator. --Prevert^(talk) 20:36, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. No doubt. --Joanot Martorell ✉ 23:25, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Jusjih 03:47, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --EugeneZelenko 14:09, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 16:31, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Bertrand GRONDIN 20:05, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Xosé 00:02, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Xelo2004 15:45, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support. No doubt. --user talk:Agremon 19:09, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Yeah! --Slade 23:06, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support pfctdayelise (translate?) 12:42, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Alphax (talk) 13:11, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support per above. --tomf688 (talk - email) 23:29, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Strong oppose This user has made serious personal attacks against me. See my note on the administrators noticeboard. --Abu badali 02:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support He's a good friend and a good worker.--Norrin strange 12:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Fred Chess 05:41, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Comment I don't believe personal problems should affect this vote, Abu badali. However, I understand your position.--Dannycas 15:03, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Alyssalover 13:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC) (bureaucrat)
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=== 3247's Image Wizard ===

Hallo,
I'd like to request a bot flag for this account. I'm using some scripts to mass-create or convert images and uploading them. The main purpose of this account is to upload and manage these images. The bot uses wikimedia_upload.pl and scripts individually created for each tasks (using and serving as a testbed for WWW::MediaWikiOO). The next tasks I'd like it to do are:

• upload new versions (created from official vector data) of images in diagrams of road signs of Germanym change descriptions and submit unsused images in Category:road signs of Germany for deletion (i.e. add tags and notify uploader if it wasn't me).
• update the descriptions in Category:Autobahn numbers and Category:Bundesstraßen numbers (see Image:Bundesstraße_7a_number.svg for an example)

Of course, the bot won't run unattended and each script will be tested before is is unleashed. -- 3247 18:33, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

•  Support On my experience, owner is trustful and willing to help person. --EugeneZelenko 14:08, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support based on a quick review of the bot's contribs so far. Alphax (talk) 14:04, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support helpfull, so I give my OK -- Rüdiger Wölk 04:11, 22 September 2006 (UTC) (bot)
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===Jusjih for bureaucrat ===

I'm nominating Jusjih for bureaucrat. He has been a worthwhile administrator at the Commons since April, is a bureaucrat at Chinese Wikisource as well as an admin at a number of other projects including Chinese Wikipedia. Also, we need an Asian Language bureaucrat. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 21:12, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Acceptance

Jusjih accepted here. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 21:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Votes

Support

•  Support as nom. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 21:12, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Jon Harald Søby 22:26, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Alphax (talk) 01:24, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Lmbuga ^{gl, pt, es: contacta comigo} 09:58, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Bertrand GRONDIN 20:06, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Prevert^(talk) 23:36, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support pfctdayelise (translate?) 12:43, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support per nominator. --tomf688 (talk - email) 23:30, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support --Shizhao 07:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Xelo2004 23:06, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support--Tarawneh 00:48, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support with comment: I'd prefer the candidate to be a bit more active here. Hopefully he hears me :-). Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 14:06, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Thank you for your comment. I try to be sufficiently active here, but I do have other things in my life, including administering six other Wiki sites. My primary task here includes deleting copyvios while there are too many. Once I pass this nomination, I will try to allocate a little more time here.--Jusjih 15:21, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support Arnomane 21:09, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
•  Support good to have a b'crat in each language probably. Fred Chess 21:56, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Questions, Comments

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===Set checkuser for Alphax===

 Support = 28;  Oppose = 0. Alphax is now a Check User, see [46].--Nilfanion 15:56, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

With Ausir and dbenbenn being missing, we are required to have 2 check users. Alphax has been a contributor and admin in good standing at Commons for a considerable amount of time, and is a well respected member of the community. Alphax is also in a different part of the world than our present checkuser, Arnomane, giving more worldwide access. Also, having a non-bureaucrat as checkuser will allow us to divide the more sensitive labor. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 00:56, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Acceptance

I humbly accept this nomination and promise to act with the utmost caution if this is granted. Alphax (talk) 01:07, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Votes

Support

1.  Support as nom. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 00:56, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support seems a good egg to me. ++Lar: t/c 02:18, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support --Bertrand GRONDIN 20:07, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support ГорныйСинийАллах 14:40, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support trustworthy user. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 15:17, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
6. support definitely. — Dan | Talk 18:24, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support --Kjetil_r 20:24, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support --Lmbuga ^{gl, pt, es: contacta comigo} 00:53, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support Jon Harald Søby 15:45, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support --Nilfanion 16:23, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support per comments above. --tomf688 (talk - email) 11:36, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support--Xelo2004 23:03, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support--Tarawneh 00:47, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support --Orgullomoore 16:58, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support   ––odder 18:48, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support --Coredesat talk | en 20:01, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
17.  Agree --Prevert^(talk) 21:03, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support Arnomane 21:10, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
19.  Support not a complete rotten egg Fred Chess 21:50, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
20.  Support - can't see why not. Very trusted user. Titoxd^(?!?) 00:20, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
21.  Support--Jusjih 04:46, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
22.  Support--Raymond ^Disc. 18:19, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
23.  Support I grabbed Alphax in IRC and I quizzed him and his answers satisfied me. --Gmaxwell 18:20, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
24.  Support Hurricanehink 18:22, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
25.  Support Naconkantari 01:55, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
26.  Support Kylu 01:59, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
27.  Support I trust him to use his privileges responsibly; he's been trustworthy on OTRS. Mindspillage 02:09, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
28.  Support Sanbec ✉ 09:08, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

====Questions==== (CU)

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Pietras1988

 Support = 0;  Oppose = 3; . This vote had no support and fails. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 16:36, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

My edits: [47] on Commons, I was user from pl wiki, pl wikt and I had edits on other project. In December I've changed with WarX all flags used on pl wiki to SVG format and now my target is to completly change all possible graphics to SVG format (dreams). Please for accept. Pietras1988 16:50, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

What kind of maintenance work have you done and what kind of maintenance work do you intend to do if you are elected an admin? Why do you want admin privileges? -Samulili 17:01, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

I change a lot of flags from JPG & PNG on SVG on pl wiki, I made ca. 20 images and I give permission on use 50 photos about Kurów from blogs. I have on Stratchpad Wikia 5 my images, which aren't yet on commons. I like look at Recentchanges. Pietras1988 17:33, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

• This is Pietras' third nomination. Please see 1, 2. It has been about six months since the second nomination so the issues in those nominations are maybe not relevant anymore. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 08:53, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Votes for

Votes against

1.  Oppose - User is still blocked on Polish Wikipedia. User still has unresolved civility issues. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 18:01, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
2. jftr, see preceding comment --Wiggum 12:27, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
3.  Oppose; besides civility issues mentioned above, user is not really that active here. --tomf688 (talk - email) 19:50, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

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Historiograf

 Support = 36;  Oppose = 17;  Neutral = 2. This vote had only 67.9% support and therefore fails. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 16:39, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

I hereby nominate Historiograf for adminship at Commons. At German Wikipedia he is one of our ultimate experts for copyright and licensing. He would be able handle copyvios much more efficiently. Histo is kind of our image pope, so we're definately going to need him as an admin if Commons wants to be taken serious. --Flominator 14:51, 26 September 2006 (UTC) PS: The nomiation was accepted on my talk page.

Votes

Support

1.  Support --Flominator 14:51, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
   
2.  Support --Steschke 16:32, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support --Lennert B 19:31, 26 September 2006 (UTC) So what if he's not a people-person. We want him to keep Commons free of copyvios, not hug the Newbies.
4. pro --Wiggum 07:50, 27 September 2006 (UTC) His expertise in copyright exceeds that of the most others here. Who else if not Historiograf?
5.  Support -- Marcela 10:30, 27 September 2006 (UTC) wer, wenn nicht Histo?
6.  Support did already do a fine job on de.wikisource. Schaengel89 16:12, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support -- Based on his response to my question, and the fact that I know that people can become more civil when bestowed with sysop powers. Although it looks like I've divided the Oberhexen vote. Oh well... TINC (There is no coven!) Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 17:27, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support --the guy ist absolutly terrible in German, has to try hard to be more polite for years already (see below). It can only get better with the right kind of job for him. ;-) Jesusfreund 20:25, 27 September 2006 (UTC) Note: User has only 1 edit, other than this one, as of 16:41, 28 September 2006 (UTC) But 41119 edits [48] and 3 featured article s on deWP --Steschke 18:54, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support --Tilman 20:44, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
10. A fully confident  Support. Deeply needed. At the same time, please let's block some 1000 users and some dozens admins. --AndreasPraefcke 20:49, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support -- kh80 22:21, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support --Revvar 08:23, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support Sanbec ✉ 09:05, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support --Matt314 10:15, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support --Hei ber 19:58, 28 September 2006 (UTC) He knows about copyright. He gives direct, practical statements. Not sure if I'm allowed to vote yet
16.  Support --Flo89 21:07, 28 September 2006 (UTC) 21:06, 28 September 2006 (UTC) maybe his behavior is not in all cases perfect (I know i'm understating), but as far as I know, commons does need admins with this big knowledge of copyright.
17. jo  Support --Xarax 21:36, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support I did oppose the de:WP-adminship (and probably still would), but this is precisely the type of task where I expect him to excel. --Rivi 21:48, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
19. Hmmmm, yes:  Support Denisoliver 22:02, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
20.  Support - see Hei Ber, Flo89 et al. --Rdb 00:36, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
21.  Support --Fb78 00:46, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
22.  Support --Janneman 04:36, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
23.  Support --High on a tree 06:05, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
24.  Support --gunny ^Talk! 09:32, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
25.  Support --Chrislb 09:34, 29 September 2006 (UTC) His behaviour can be accepted in the battle for saving commons from copyright violations.
26.  Support --Bertrand GRONDIN 20:00, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
27.  Support --Voyager 22:54, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
28. --Leipnizkeks 23:14, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
29.  Support --RoswithaC 08:09, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
30.  Support --Zefram 10:46, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
31.  Support Chaddy 21:16, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
32.  Support -- Wmeinhart 09:10, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
33.  Support --Paulis 12:01, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
34.  Support --Bubo bubo 15:22, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
35.  Support - I could swear, I gave my pro already... Kenwilliams 16:25, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
36.  Support — true, he may be abrasive at times, but I guess he won't be in the "welcoming newcomers" business anyway, and more experienced users should have grown themselves some hide. (Heck, he gets on my nerves sometimes, too; but we still can work together and talk to each other reasonably.) Histo, just take the advice I (and others) have given you already repeatedly: tone down the polemics. He has shown at de.wikisource that he can act responsibly as an admin. I trust him not to make major goofs, and if he's willing to help, all the better. Lupo 08:14, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Oppose

1.  Oppose, because of comments like these. --Kjetil_r 15:07, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
2.  Oppose, same reason as the bypassed wp-de adminship-nomination: IMHO way to short-tempered for adminship. Not suitable for off-wikipedia contacts or newbies. to clarify that: I really think his law acknowledgment is professional - but this can't be the sole point in an admin election. --Avatar 20:11, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
3.  Oppose Commons needs people who follow policies. I can not imagine that having Historiograf as an admin would be a benefit. But thanks for trying. / Fred Chess 20:25, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
4. Contra -- Histo has undoubtly knowledge and experience on copyright and gave important input but his barking style without differentiasation caused me way to much headaches with crowds that couldn't separate me and him apart just because we share the same nationality. So please show that you can conduct two major debates with calm and strength at the same time and I will happily support you. Arnomane 23:03, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
5.  Oppose I`m a bit unsure because I like him very much and he always promise to be more friendly and I am sure he really tries to be like that... but my experiences at the German Wikisource Project and the German Wikipedia... No Anneke Wolf 19:52, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
6. nö -  Oppose -- Necrophorus 08:06, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
7.  Oppose for now per Kjetil. Person should learn how to behave politely before becoming admin. --EugeneZelenko 14:43, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
8.  Oppose -- Sven-steffen arndt 20:14, 28 September 2006 (UTC) reason: see here
9.  Oppose lacks the tact and patience necessary for this sort of responsibility. Being right is no excuse not to be courteous and humble. Sebmol 20:28, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
10.  Oppose Both his lack of patience and his tendency to go ballistic don’t exactly qualify Historiograf for an adminship. —mnh·∇· 21:25, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
11.  Oppose --Prevert^(talk) 11:14, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
12.  Oppose with my experiences at German Wikipedia i must say no. User is sometimes impolite. --Hhp4 13:02, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
13.  Oppose No comments from me about Histo's behavior in the German Wikipedia --Markus Schweiss 09:03, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
14.  Oppose Historiograf is certainly knowledgeable in many areas, but he tends to insult other people, even high profile contributors. So his adminship would be disadvantageous for Commons.[49] [50] --Longbow4u 07:23, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
15.  Oppose Historiograf is certainly knowledgeable on German copyright but he has applied German rules to issues where they are an irrelevancy [51]. Commons is not de.wiki so German copyright isn't the only law that matters. If all he is going to provide is a knowledge of copyright, he can participate (civilly please!) in debates as a non-admin, the closing admin is supposed to read the debate and reason on the laws. If he can demonstrate a good attitude then I will support at a future date.--Nilfanion 12:14, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
16.  Oppose --Alkibiades 19:31, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
17.  Oppose -- Rüdiger Wölk 05:23, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Neutral

1.  Neutral -- Simplicius 21:11, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
2. That's very hard. Histo. is a specialist for copyright-questions and for this, an adminship of him would be great. But he can be very undiplomaticaly and in these times, he as admin would be hell. --DaB. 00:32, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Questions

•  Question While I do value your legal opinion on copyright matters, you have an extensive history of rather terse comments. Would you be willing to be more diplomatic--and what use would you make of the admin tools? Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 17:45, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the question. I will try to be more diplomatic. I have followed in de Wikipedia the policy of picture use and would like to act here in consensus with users like Lupo. I would use the admin tools in a quite uncontroversial way (like Wikisource.de where I am admin since months without de-admin procedures) e.g. removing vandalism, speedy deletions, deleting clear copyvios ... --Historiograf 21:55, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

I will try to be more diplomatic. - you said this so many times already ... -- aka 06:04, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Would you try it, if people reject you anyway? --Flominator 08:01, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

The reason for the nomination given by Flominator makes me worried:

Historiograf would be able handle copyvios much more efficiently. Histo is kind of our image pope, so we're definately going to need him as an admin if Commons wants to be taken serious.

This implies that current Commons administrators are insufficient, and that Historiograf would improve the situation. If Historiograf wants to improve the Commons:Project scope then he doesn't have to be an admin. If he wants to improve the Commons:Copyright tags or the Commons:Licensing then he doesn't have to be an admin. If, on the other hand, Historiograf arbitrarily wants to delete images that shouldn't be deleted according to our current policies, then he definitely should not be an admin. / Fred Chess 17:49, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

We need some new administrators with deeper legal knowledge. I have asked Lupo if he wants to be an administrator because I am admiring his broad knowledge of international copyright implications. If we agree that he would the better admin than I - could we conclude that I would be a bad admin? --Historiograf 22:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Do we need admins with legal knowledge? Is this considered a requirement? To me, no. Admins don't decide by themselves, the legal interpretation of any law. An active user has as much sway in a copyright discussion as an admin, IMO. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 14:00, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

I wonder how an admin without profound own knowledge about copyright should be able to consider and balance reasons i.e. for deletion. --Wiggum 14:23, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

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===MesserWoland===

I'm an active user and sysop on Polish Wikipedia. I have over 1300 edits on Commons with over 500 graphics (mainly in SVG format) uploaded. I hunt copyvios, images with missing or wrong licenses or sources. Sysop flag on commons will help me in deleting files (e.g. copied from other sites without permission), blocking and unblocking vandals and fix problems (e.g. with bad names) without asking other administrators. MesserWoland Dyskusja 15:01, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Votes

1.  Support --WarX 15:03, 30 September 2006 (UTC) :)
2.  Support Radomil talk 15:06, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support he asks often on IRC about commons sysop, so really he hunts cv Herr Kriss 15:08, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support at last :) Szczepan1990 15:10, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
5.  Support good luck DingirXul 17:33, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support Jakubhal 17:48, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support Fred Chess 19:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
8.  Support Roman 92 ^talk 19:26, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support; high activity and user is trusted with sysop on other wikis. --tomf688 (talk - email) 19:51, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support Krzysiu Jarzyna ☎ 20:14, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support Szwedzki 20:18, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support He always asks me for deleting files from Commons. Now he will do it by himself -_-.   ––odder 20:56, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support Maire 22:57, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support Michał P. 15:21, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support Lestat 18:25, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support (of course) Antares [[w:pl:Dyskusja Wikipedysty:Antares|(talk)]] 20:04, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
17.  Support Przykuta 23:45, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support -- Rüdiger Wölk 05:13, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
19.  Support--Bertrand GRONDIN 20:54, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
20.  Support --EugeneZelenko 14:52, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
21.  Support We need more admins and this user seems responsible. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 17:09, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
22.  Support We need more admins to hint copyvios.--Jusjih 12:25, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

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Lar

 Support = 20;  Oppose = 1;. This vote had 95.2% support and therefore passes. Lar is now an administrator. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 02:31, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to nominate user Lar for admin on Commons. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 21:12, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Candidate statement

I am Larry Pieniazek. I have had an account on Commons since 6 February 2006, and have been an adminstrator on the English Wikipedia since 8 May 2006. My RfA there. My record on en:wp: Lar (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves)

I think my experience with many communities over the last 25 years, and on en:wp specifically, will stand me in good stead here. I really like it here at Commons... the project, the goals, and the people who hang here. One of the things that really attracts me to Commons is that there is lots to do and less bureaucracy to get in the way of getting it done. I'm interested in process and in working with templates, and in generally just helping out, and I am also interested in fostering interproject cooperation. I've committed to getting commons-ticker running on en:wp once the db lag issue is resolved. I'm maybe a bit verbose at it, but I like writing instructions and help texts too. My most major contribution so far other than images has been to do a number of the talk page templates that were needed as outlined at Commons:Message templates. ++Lar: t/c 21:22, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Votes

Support:

1.  Support as nom. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 21:45, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
2.  Support --Kjetil_r 21:54, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
3.  Support --tomf688 (talk - email) 22:37, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
4.  Support with a comment. You may want to tone down the language a little, I know you don't mean it seriously, but a user who isn't a native English speaker may not realise that.--Nilfanion 22:43, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

   Good point, thanks for the tip. It's easy to forget that this is a very multilingual project. But I blame Bastique for vandalising my sandbox page while I was in the middle of testing something! :) ++Lar: t/c 01:07, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

5.  Support Trustworthy user keen to help out, therefore the perfect admin candidate. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 23:28, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
6.  Support --Tarawneh 02:21, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
7.  Support. Alphax (talk) 03:08, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
8. I like to  Support people who I know have done good things. -Samulili 06:53, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
9.  Support --Matt314 09:15, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
10.  Support per nom. Jkelly 20:32, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
11.  Support with enthusiasm! I work with Lar on enwp and wholeheartedly endorse! ~Kylu (u|t) 01:09, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
12.  Support Of course.   ––odder 11:28, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
13.  Support Cnyborg 03:27, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
14.  Support The borg are coming! The borg are coming! Seriously though he would make a fine admin. --Cat out 18:06, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
15.  Support Without question GIen 02:04, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
16.  Support -- Alastor Moody _(talk) 03:01, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
17.  Support; good admin from en. --Spangineer^en ws (háblame) 02:24, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
18.  Support - Lar knows his way around wikiland. He is smart, helpful, and talented. DVD R W 23:47, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
19.  Support - Lar knows what he is doing he gets it -- Tawker 23:47, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
20.  Support NHC. Drini 23:54, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Oppose:

1.  Oppose Keine erkennbaren Kenntnisse in Urheberrechtsfragen. Seine englische Administratorenschaft spricht daher auch dagegen. Tut mir leid. --Steschke 16:21, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

   1) Lar had very little opposition at enwiki, so you can't mean his adminship RFA there. 2) If you are voting against him by virtue of his being a sysop at enwiki, then I seriously question your judgement. 3) I don't know where you're getting your information from about his level of expertise, but regardless, copyright knowledge is *not* a requirement for adminship at Commons. Copyright knowledge requires that you be able to mark a copyright violation for deletion; not that you be the one to delete it. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 18:12, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Commons krankt gerade daran, dass es hier eine Vielzahl Administratoren gibt, die nicht wissen, was sie tun, da sie keine ausreichenden Kenntnisse des Urheberrechts haben. Gerade wegen der hier oftmals zu Tage tretenden Inkompetenz einzelner Admins, und ich will hier gerne Fred nennnen, stellt commons inzwischen eine Gefahr für das Ziel dar, freies Wissen zu vermitteln. Wir sollten uns daher bei den Wahlen auch von der Kompetenz in den zentralen Fragen des Systems leiten lassen, um commons nicht weiter verkommen zu lassen. Im Übrigen müssen meine Maßstäbe für diese Abstimmung nicht deine sein, was du mir sicher zugestehen wirst. --Steschke 07:03, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

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=== User:LifeBot ===

Hello. I would like to request the flag for User:LifeBot (based on pywikipedia) which would help maintenance of plants and animals pictures. The bot is started manually and, after that, is restricted to one of the 380 subcategories of Category:Plantae by family at the moment, with the animals a possible target later. For technical information, background discussion (gallery vs category etc), algorithm, and source please see the bot page. Most importantly, the bot is doing what maintainers (of the Tree of Life project) are doing now, there is no new policy introduced by the bot itself. I'm sorry to not have applied for the flag earlier. OTOH, from the runs one can say that the bot is stable. Can I help with further info? -- Ayacop 16:44, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Comments

• No objection. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 16:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Let's roll. Zirland 17:27, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• Good by me. Stan Shebs 20:31, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
• No objection.--Jusjih 12:23, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
• Strong object. Ayacop is obviously a highly competent bot administrator, as the bot runs perfectly. Unfortunately, he has been using the bot to roll out a novel approach to categorisation that has not been widely discussed, and I do not believe will be supported by the wider community. His assertion above that "there is no new policy introduced by the bot itself" is difficult to reconcile with the facts that his initial proposal for the bot opened with "Please read User:LifeBot. It includes a slight change in policy for the Tree of Life Project",[1] and Ayacop subsequently changed the Tree of Life documentation to reflect that change. Ayacop's statement that "the bot is doing what maintainers (of the Tree of Life project) are doing now" may also be disingenuous, as I'm not aware of any Tree of Life participants that have been using categories in the novel way that Ayacop and his bot are. The fact is, the bot has been and will be used to roll out an approach to categorisation that is a major departure from previous policy and modus operandi; I ask that the bot flag be withheld until he has obtained community support for what the bot will be doing. Snottygobble 00:28, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
• object for now. Per Snottygobble... the categorization scheme changes need discussion and consensus first. The idea of a bot that can make categorization better is hugely attractive though! Please try again later... ++Lar: t/c 12:30, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Snottygobble still choses to misrepresent what I'm doing. There is one addition of a category, no categorization scheme change. I'm disappointed people are swayed by strawman arguments so easily. -- Ayacop 16:06, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

•  Oppose for now. It's always good idea to discuss mass changes before making them. Especially in non obvious situations. --EugeneZelenko 14:37, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree it's a nontrivial matter. Here are explanations with examples. -- Ayacop 16:27, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

OK thankyou for making that. I put my comment there. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 13:39, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

•  Oppose Siebrand 06:28, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
•  Comment I'd like to close this request as failed and reexamine it in the near future, once the issues have been resolved, as there are substantial objections. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass ^demandez 13:33, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
•  Comment I agree. It is quite possible I'll return soon with a somewhat different proposal, as there were some ideas recently. -- Ayacop 14:14, 13 October 2006 (UTC) (bot) unsuccessful