Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Candidates/Zippybonzo

Nomination

Zippybonzo (talk · contribs · they/them) – Heya, I’m Zippybonzo. I’ve been around for the best part of 3 years. My areas of focus are NPP, anti-vandalism and copyright to an extent. I recently looked again at the CCI backlog which I intend to focus my efforts on. I’m not expecting to get the backlog empty, but handling more recent cases is something that needs attention. I have never edited articles for pay, however I did participate in the Wikibench validation study, and received compensation for my time. I’ll be available for questions here throughout the remainder of the admin elections, so drop as many questions as you want below, and I’ll answer them to the best of my ability. There’s no such thing as a stupid question. Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 06:36, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

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’m primarily interested because I don’t do a lot of content work, so really I want to be handling background tasks, and leave the editors who are good at content to improve articles, instead of performing maintenance tasks. I initially intend to focus on CSDs, PRODs, AIV and UAA, and branch out once I get better at copyright, to help in copyright problems and contributor copyright investigations.

2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?

A: I’ll split this into content and behind the scenes because my content contributions are limited and they’re not my best contributions. Content wise, a while ago I noticed GoHenry up for deletion, and I knew that it was notable, so I decided to bring it up to Start class. Behind the scenes wise, I coordinated 3 NPP backlog drives, from July 2022 through May 2023. This involved quite a bit of planning, and then a fair bit of execution.

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: Last year, around this time, I was encouraged to leave the NPP coordination team, because of how I was coordinating drives in a way that made others feel like I was barking orders. In hindsight I should've taken that as my hint that I was doing it wrong, but I didn't. Eventually I did remove myself although it was never discussed onwiki. I was honestly a little annoyed because I didn't and still don't like criticism, though nobody really does. Then, what I should've done was take a week off and reflect upon it, and looked at what I'd done, but instead I left comment. After which my activity dwindled down, until over the last few weeks I've been trying to get more active. Moral of the story I learned: If people are telling you you're doing something wrong, they're most likely right and you should take a look at yourself.

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