User talk:GlassCobra/Archive 24

I just wanted to know a couple things. First, how long were you on Wikipedia before you became an admin. how many edits did you have? How long did it take to have your request answered? What kind of edits did you have? Is it seemed more valuable to create articles or fight vandalism? I just wanted to have an idea of what to expect if I wanted to be an administrator. I would appreciate if you could help. Thanks. GandalftheWise : Talk Page 12:28, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

A good place to find most of these answers is GlassCobra's RfA itself: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/GlassCobra. Frank | talk 12:43, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Frank, but the standards have changed quite a lot since I became an admin. When I ran, 4 or 5000 edits was considered okay, and six months was good enough as well. Now, anything less than a year and 10000 edits could be looked upon as insufficient. Glass Cobra 14:42, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

It's maybe not as stringent as all that, but you're right, the community does seem to have changed in this regard. Still...pointing a potential RfA candidate to an RfA seemed a logical thing to do :-) Frank | talk 15:50, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello,

I recently tried to add a page called Teachers Without Borders under the username Twbseattle. It was deleted, I understand, for G11, which could be promotional use of a company. I would just like to elaborate here.

At this link, you will see that Teachers Without Borders is referenced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meedan#Funding_and_Research_Partnerships

I was trying to add a page to this link, so that the article on Meedan would be more complete.

I could understand how you might view the page as promotion, especially as I had not had time to add references or external links. While trying to add references, I came across the note that the page had been "quickly deleted."

I changed my username, reflecting the policy that usernames should not promote individual organizations. Rather, they should represent individuals.

Please let me know if you will reconsider deleting the Teachers Without Borders wikipedia page. If you will not recover the page, just let me know.

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zacharylamel (talk • contribs) 23:04, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't care a lot, but I'm curious why you are reverting edits that don't appear to be vandalism without even giving a reason. 68.123.224.214 (talk) 05:11, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Someone has been coming in for several days now and changing the summary of the events of Bugz's death in direct contradiction to the information already there, which is taken specifically from the source provided, an article from the Rolling Stone . Further, he or she persists on changing the genre of Bugz' music to Rap instead of Hip-hop, without any discussion. Glass Cobra 12:33, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Regarding this comment , Poisoning the well is not a "derogatory term", but is a logical fallacy where adverse information about a target is pre-emptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say. In the article in question, a number of sources are being discredited by characterizing them as "Arab" and "liberal".

Factsontheground (talk) 08:53, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

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Thank you for participating in my "RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (Ceoil, Noroton and Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record.
I recognise that the process itself was unusual, and the format was generally considered questionable - and I accept that I was mistaken in my perception of how it would be received - but I am particularly grateful for those whose opposes and neutrals were based in perceptions of how I was not performing to the standards expected of an administrator. As much as the support I received, those comments are hopefully going to allow me to be a better contributor to the project. Thank you. Very much. LessHeard vanU (talk) 18:46, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

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