User:EWS23/Admin coaching

Note about Admin Coaching

While TitoXD is on Wikibreak, I have temporarily taken over some of the coordinator duties for the Esperanza admin coaching program. Although I was near the top of the list to be coached, I wouldn't feel right assigning a coach to myself, especially when there are so many eager users waiting on the requests list. If other users volunteer to coach me or TitoXD assigns coaches to me, I would gladly accept, but I will not be assigning myself a coach. Thanks for your support of the program! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 05:05, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I will step up, but tell me, what do you expect of a coaching? ;) -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 18:06, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Note to everyone: TitoXD and pschemp have volunteered to coach me! :o) Everyone else is still very welcome to help out (including drini, of course). However, since all of the immediately interested parties are on IRC, I imagine much of the program will take place there, so this page might be inactive for long periods of time. Still, feel free to submit whatever questions/comments you have on this page, and I'll be sure to look them over and/or respond to them. Thanks! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 19:41, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Outline

Here's an outline of what I'd like to do, for my future coach(es) reference:

1. Status Check. If I were to have an RfA today, what would be my chances of passing? How do my contributions look, how are my answers to RfA questions, etc.
2. Suggestions. Based off #1, what do I need to do better? What do I need to do more of?
3. Policy. Regardless of the outcome of 1 and 2, I'd like to double-check that I'm up to par in my knowledge of policy. Obviously this will be largely in my hands, as far as reading, browsing, experiencing, etc. However, I would also like my coach(es) to submit theoretical (or previously experienced) situations to me, so that I can describe how I would handle it, and to see if I did "the right thing."
4. Coaches suggestions. Perhaps this should be number 1. If my coach(es) have things that they would like to do to coach me, I would love to impliment any suggestions they might have.

EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 19:04, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Well I don't have a proposal who would coach with me, but given I'll be a over in a week, maybe you got time for that ;) -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 19:11, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Status check

As part of my status check, I figured I would answer the default RfA questions. Feel free to add more questions. Also, as with all sections of this page, anyone and everyone is free to comment (please, please do!).

1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? Please check out Category:Wikipedia backlog, and read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.

• Vandalism: Combatting it, not committing it, of course. Obviously rollback will be a plus, as will the ability to block vandals. I'll also keep a close eye on WP:AIV in an attempt to make sure listings stay on there as little time as possible, and keep track of things at WP:RFI and anti-vandalism channels such as #vandalism-en-wp.
• Deletion: Mostly through WP:PROD and CAT:CSD, helping make sure that backlogs don't build up there, but I could also imagine myself venturing into AfD territory as well.
• Miscellaneous: Obviously there's a lot of other stuff that can be taken care of. Protecting and unprotecting pages, mostly through Wikipedia:Requests for page protection, blocking inappropriate usernames, fulfilling various admin requests on IRC channels, and keeping track of things at WP:AN and WP:AN/I. Also, I certainly don't mind (and often enjoy) various other janitorial work, as hopefully my participation at Wikipedia:Duplicated sections and Wikipedia:Disambiguation link repair has shown. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 17:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

I know this will sound corny or clichéd, but I'm really much more proud of the achievements of the Wikipedia project as a whole than I am with my own personal work. However, if you insist, probably getting pictures onto all of the Sumner-class destroyers (see {{Allen M. Sumner class destroyer}}), and my work on articles Block (meteorology) (will have pictures very soon!), Eleanor Estes, and Eric Carle. I'm also happy with coordinating the effort and doing the major edits in making List of sex positions have inclusive language. In addition, I'm equally pleased with various other work such as welcoming/helping newcomers and disambiguation link repair. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 17:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

Depending on how severely you define it, I think every single person who has edited Wikipedia has been in some sort of editing conflict. However, I've been fortunate enough to avoid any really serious ones. I've never been apart of any kind of edit war or anything of that sort. I think the key to all content disputes is keeping your cool and sticking to the subject. When conversations start to move away from the subject of the article and more towards opinion and personal beliefs, that's when incivility and personal attacks are most likely to rear their ugly heads. I've always been a logical, scientific-type person, and thankfully I'm able to separate factual content debates from strong emotions. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 17:23, 10 April 2006 (UTC)