Meta:Requests for adminship/EPIC

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EPIC

EPIC (talk • contribs • deleted user contributions • logs • block log • abuse log • CentralAuth • stalktoy) Bureaucrats: user rights management.

Not ending before 31 March 2024 19:05 (UTC)

After some consideration, as I have seen an increasing amount of use cases for local admin actions, as well as encouragements from some of my steward colleagues, I'd like to throw my hat in the ring and offer to help out as an administrator here on Meta.

As you may know, I'm a steward who was elected in this year's election. I've been quite active in Meta work and at the time of this RfA I have made 3,500+ steward actions. As a steward I'm already allowed to make some admin actions here in accordance with MSR (which I already do to this day), but I frequently find that there are useful admin actions which I can't make as a steward, mainly page protections but also some deletions of pages which are not pure vandalism or spam as well as other routine work. As such, I've already been tagging pages for speedy deletion in more cloudy cases and have requested admin actions from other admins, mostly through IRC and also through RfH.

In short; most of my local admin stuff here on Meta-Wiki will still be on the anti-abuse side, although I'm of course open and willing to help out with other administrative stuff. If this is successful I mostly plan on helping out at RfH and through #wikimedia-meta^connect, and as I am a night owl who has HexChat/IRC and Discord open throughout most of the day, I'm able to quickly act when needed.

As usual, since I'm not a bot I am of course prone to making mistakes, but I am always open to, and thankful for, feedback, and I always want to learn from my faults. I have admin experience, as I am a sysop on two large wikis, namely the Swedish Wikipedia and Wikidata. Lastly, in case of any questions here, just feel free to ask! Thanks and regards, EPIC (talk) 19:05, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support Thanks for your work! --TenWhile6 (talk | SWMT) 19:12, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Pols12 (talk) 22:51, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support Very active and competent candidate. Why not? — Elton (talk) 23:00, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:06, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate your work, but I recommend to slow down a little. I already left a similar comment at your steward nomination, where I was neutral, but I'm even more convinced about this now, so at this point I will Oppose. Sorry. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 01:29, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support No reason to oppose. --Stïnger （会話） 01:31, 25 March 2024 (UTC).[reply]
As I've privately said to you, I think your action rate is problematic. You end up making a lot of mistakes, and honestly with how many actions you do it's hard for the rest of us to provide any oversight. I won't oppose this as I doubt you'll misuse the tools... but I also don't really want to endorse this. – Ajraddatz (talk) 01:56, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well, thank you for your feedback Ajraddatz. I have of course made some rookie mistakes some time after I began my tenure, but luckily I think I've generally been able to avoid mistakes by avoiding the stuff that makes me prone to them, and learning from the ones I make. But absolutely, I do agree with you and I plan to take it slow, and take breaks when I need them. Main reason I have been quite active here for the past while is because I rarely have anything else to do, but that will probably change in some time as I have some schedules in real life I need to take care of. So, yes, some activity decreases will come. EPIC (talk) 06:34, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support: very active, no concerns. --Mtarch11 (talk) 02:16, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ameisenigel (talk) 10:21, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 10:38, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I think you should gain more experience as a steward, observe the processes, MSR and so on.. There's no rush.--BRP^ever 13:08, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yes, you've made mistakes. But from what I've seen, you've been quick to acknowledge them when pointed out, showed no sign of rudeness or otherwise concerning behaviour, and making mistakes in general is OK. In fact EPIC mentions MSR... and some users here have been rather stubborn in ensuring that stewards do very little using MSR rights. As a result, I find myself with no choice but to support, because you kind of need Meta access for what you're doing (which is entirely reasonable as a steward). I'd also encourage the MSR policy to be less open to conservative interpretation by users (and to be more open in general), but that isn't your problem. Leaderboard (talk) 13:58, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Chqaz (talk) 15:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Absolutely - FlightTime (open channel) 15:54, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Net positive, especially since they're open to the feedback above, I have no concerns. --KonstantinaG07 (talk) 16:11, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support Trusted user; Wikimedia stewards. ~~ αvírαm|(tαlk) 16:17, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support I understand the concerns brought up by the opposers above, but overall I think this will be a net positive as EPIC is clear on what he is doing and what he wants to do. I think EPIC is quite active, especially on IRC, and is very responsive to queries/requests. Hence, I think having him in the admin team will help to keep vandalism and LTA attacks on guard. With that being said, @EPIC: please take breaks when necessary as no one expects you to be the most active steward/admin. It is better to be correct than to be fast. Health is more important than anything, so don't get burnt out! Jianhui67^{talk★contribs} 16:44, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Per Leaderboard --Charitwo (talk) 17:57, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Icodense (talk) 01:19, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, but do take it easy to avoid unpleasant situations pretty please, I can tell from my own experience. - XXBlackburnXx (talk) 06:07, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support --M/ (talk) 07:05, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support I don't see why not. JustarandomamericanALT (talk) 15:38, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support--☠︎Quinlan83☠︎^{(𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖐𝖎𝖓' 𝖙𝖔 𝖒𝖊?)} 15:39, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support, no issues here. Codename Noreste 🤔 talk 00:04, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support -Fastily 05:24, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Why not? They've done a great job and are very proactive. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 09:25, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support fully trust.-Manchiu (talk) 16:30, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. ----M/ (talk) 19:07, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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