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The following discussion is preserved as an archive of an administrator election candidacy that did not succeed. Please do not modify it.

Final (89/265/262); See official results (non-admin closure) – DreamRimmer Alt (talk) 17:07, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination

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Leonidlednev (talk · contribs · he/him) – Hello, I am Leonidlednev. I have created this account in 2017, becoming active in 2021. I mostly fight vandalism across WMF projects and do minor edits to fix typos/dead links on pages. I have been granted Global Rollbacker in November last year to help with cleaning up cross-wiki vandalism. So far, I have not had anyone ask me to write an article about themselves, nor was I ever paid for my edits to any WMF project. This is my only account so far, but I may create bot accounts for maintenance later. Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 03:04, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Questions for the candidate

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

1. Why are you interested in becoming an administrator?
A: I am interested in becoming an administrator to help with the occasional backlogs on AIV and UAA, close XfDs that have overwhelming consensus to delete, and delete pages that clearly fall under G3 or G11.
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
A: I feel that my best contributions are the edits I did while fighting vandalism on pages that were vandalized, as they make up the majority of my edits.
3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or have other users caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
A: In the past, I have repeatedly reverted a vandal's edits while they weren't blocked, resulting in a messed up page history. I now know that it is better to wait for the vandal to get blocked first, before reverting their edits.

You may ask optional questions below. There is a limit of two questions per editor. Multi-part questions are disallowed, but you are allowed to ask follow-up questions related to previous questions.

Optional question from Thryduulf

4. Why did you choose to seek adminship via election rather than via a standard RFA?
A: I chose to seek adminship via ADE instead of RfA since I felt more confident in this process. There was a decline in accepted RfAs over the years, so I didn't feel confident submitting one. --Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 01:21, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Optional question from Ganesha811

5. Are there any areas of adminship you do not plan to participate in, due to unfamiliarity or lack of technical knowledge? If you later decided you wanted to help in these areas, what would be your plan to become an effective admin in those areas?
A: I currently do not plan to participate in disputed XfDs at the moment, due to unfamiliarity. I may become more active in that area, as I gain experience related to XfDs. --Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 01:33, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Optional question from Toadspike

6. What are your best contributions towards improving article content?
A: So far, the majority of my edits are focused on minor improvements such as vandalism reverts, typo fixes, warnings, reports, and most recently rcat additions. --Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 15:11, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Optional questions from BeanieFan11

7. You haven't written any articles. What are your thoughts on whether or not it is important for an administrator to have experience in content creation?
A: I think it depends on what duties the administrator is participating in. For example, if the administrator isn't interested in participating in NPP and only wishes to fight vandalism, content creation shouldn't be an issue. Experience on content creation can also be gained while being an administrator. --Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 20:03, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
8. You express an interest in closing some XfDs. Do you think it is appropriate for someone who has done no content work themself to be able to delete others' work? Why or why not?
A: I think that it is not appropriate to delete others' work in general, but there are some cases when it is, such as when the content has been on XfD for a while, an there is overwhelming consensus to delete it. --Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 20:03, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Optional question from Ternera

9. Thank you for your interest in helping out! I see you do a lot of anti-vandalism work on small wikis. If you become an administrator, how do plan to balance your time between working on small wikis and doing tasks here?
A: I plan to do the majority of my edits on here, and sometimes balance those edits out with edits to smaller wikis. --Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 20:47, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Optional question from AirshipJungleman29

10. Thanks for running! Could you give more details on the incident described in your answer to question 3?
A: There was a time before I applied for GRB when I would just revert a vandal's edits non-stop. This lead to page histories being messed up, as some users pointed out in my GRB application. I have since toned down the number of reverts I do while the vandal isn't blocked. --Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 01:58, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Discussion

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

AfD record: no experience with AfD whatsoever; his only edits to AfD pages are reverts of vandalism. He maintains CSD logs, here and here, which I have not investigated. -- asilvering (talk) 02:19, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GAN & FAC notes. No activity at GAN or FAC. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:57, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Declined speedies

Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:00, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.
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