Meta:Requests for adminship/EdBever

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User:EdBever[edit]

My name is EdBever. I am an administrator on nl: wikipedia (my home-wiki) since two years, I have Global Rollback status since november last year. I have been active on 65 wikis, my SUL account has to-date been registered on 111 wikis. The biggest part of my work on meta and most other wikis is fighting spam and vandalism. I hereby request adminship in order to be able to perform those tasks more effectively and ease the burden on the other spamfighters who do have access to the spam blacklist. EdBever 11:46, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support Ed has been active in fighting spam and being an administrator helps a lot in doing so. --Erwin(85) 14:25, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You've only been active really since a few days ago. I'm not sure I can support you just yet. Majorly ^talk 15:21, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- My first edit on meta was on june 14, 2008. To-date I have made 473 edits. Compared to others here that's not much, but I do put in some work here. EdBever 19:05, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Not much recently. Coming out of inactivity for an RFA doesn't sit well with me. Majorly ^talk 20:17, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - We got a baby recently and I got a promotion at work, which explains my lack of activity over the past two months. I did definitely not become active just for this RFA. After picking up the spambusting again I decided to put in this request to be able to help out more. EdBever 21:01, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Most of your work to date has been COIBot reports & helping us sift through those. On a few occasions, even recently, I recall seeing (small) errors in judgement. I'm quite certain you're not going to blacklist .*, but I do have a few reservations. That said, I think it'd be better for the projects if you're an administrator, and if the rest of those working on the blacklist help you along as needed. — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 17:09, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- That's how I feel too. I still need to learn to find the finesses of spambusting and other tasks here, but I am pretty sure I haven't broken anything yet ;). EdBever 21:01, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
CommentI'm affraid that I will oppose because I see no activety patrolling the recent changes your activety is only the blacklist for some time now. But now a small quistion: will you be more active on the recent changes when you get admin tools? Abigor talk 17:15, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Simple answer: Yes. I looked at the recent changes several times and each time I found an unproductive edit that edit had already been reverted. I thought the people at meta had their bases covered and I didn't really bother to check again. To give you an idea, the last time I looked I had roughly 16K edits marked as patrolled on my home-wiki. EdBever 19:05, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Support yes I checked your home wiki. You have my support. Abigor talk 19:15, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - Thanks! EdBever 09:59, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

( Support No glaring problems here. Definite support. Razorflame 20:23, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support seems trusted where it counts and where he's been active, so I don't see why not. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 08:26, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support (though I hope you will be a bit careful in the beginning, indeed, bit low activity lately, but I don't see many mistakes in the last edits). All help is welcome, and we certainly need more people active on the anti-spam work. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} (en: U, T) 11:43, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support A user I trust who works in an area that always needs help (cross wiki link placement). It would be good to see more activity but quite a few folk have gained adminship & been less useful. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 18:11, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Question: I'm just curious, how familiar are you with regex in general (not simply using existing blacklist entries as examples)? Kylu 18:49, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- To be honest I have only basic understanding of regex. I intend to (in order of difficulty) 1)use the link provided by Coibot, 2)Learn from existing expressions, 3)ask the others in the event a simple regex would not be enough. I know that I should really watch out with custom regexes because I can shut out more than I bargained for. EdBever 19:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Support Glad to hear it. Regex is interesting, you should see some of the things that can be done... Kylu 19:59, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support per Herby. --Meno25 01:05, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
support --Thogo (talk) 13:00, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Mardetanha ^talk 15:36, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sure, no reason not to. Cheers, Razorflame 06:42, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted; fairly clear cut here, I think. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 11:48, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you all for your trust! EdBever 16:39, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]