Commons:Administrators/Requests/Amire80

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful request for adminship.

This is a bit of an unusual decision, so let me explain. There is not currently consensus to promote the candidate to permanent adminship, so in a normal RfA I would therefore close it as unsuccessful. However, there is consensus that the candidate is sufficiently trustworthy to be granted temporary adminship; indeed, quite a few of the opposes encourage the candidate to apply for temp sysop rights. Only two of the opposes don't mention this. To save what I view to be an unnecessary and redundant request for temp adminship, I'm closing this as successful for a period of three months, which the candidate agreed to. Once three months have elapsed, the candidate may either allow the rights to be revoked or reapply for permanent adminship through a standard RfA. –Juliancolton | Talk 15:51, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Update: Temp. adminship has expired. –Juliancolton | Talk 22:42, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Amire80

Vote

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Scheduled to end: 16:07, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Amir is an admin in both Hebrew and English Wikipedias, he speaks Hebrew, English and Russian fluently, and he helped a lot in the Commons. --Yuval Y § Chat § 16:07, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

  • I accept the nomination. Thank you. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 16:23, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
  • Adminship will be particularly useful to me, because i am in the middle of a big process of renovating Commons' Hebrew support, in order to make it more welcoming to Hebrew speakers, who often prefer to upload images to the Hebrew Wikipedia. There are many system messages and protected templates that need to be translated and using {{Editprotected}} is not just slow, but also very hard for administrators who aren't experienced with right-to-left languages like Hebrew. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:51, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
  • On editcount: True, my editcount on Commons is low. If editcount is important to you, consider that i have over 21,000 in he.wikipedia, over 12,000 in en.wikipedia and over 4,000 in en.wikisource and ru.wikipedia (each). So i know the general policies of Wikimedia projects. I also understand well the strict copyright policies of Commons - no unfree, no fair use, no CC-NC, no CC-ND, no {{PD-Italy}}, public domain in US and country of origin, etc. Also, as an admin, I deleted many images copyvio images in both en.wikipedia and he.wikipedia. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:41, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
  • On restricted and temporary adminship: Several people suggested that I apply for temporary adminship and focus on translation. I agree to that, but I didn't find any other proper way to apply for temporary adminship, so I'll just declare this:
    • I agree to restrict my usage of admin rights to editing protected messages and templates in a way that improves translation to Hebrew and to notify the community when I'll finish this work.
    • I agree not to delete any file or block any account.
    • I agree to have my adminship rights revoked after a period of time that will be decided by the community. (I suggest three months.) --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:23, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Votes

  •  Oppose Please consider applying for temp adminship for your work in template namespace. Total count of 214 edits give reasonable doubts as to the understanding of different policies and guidelines --Justass (talk) 18:28, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
  •  Oppose for now since last 500 edits take us to 2007. I think admins should be more involved for longer time. On the other hand I am fully supportive of improving Commons' for Hebrew (or Russian) speakers and agree that that is a good reason for access to the admin tools. --Jarekt (talk) 18:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
    See above for the editcount issue. Currently Commons is quite inaccessible for many Hebrew speakers. I want to change that and the admin tools will help me a lot. If you think that it is a good reason, please consider supporting. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:41, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
I do think it is a good reason, but I also would like to see enough experience on Commons to know local rules and customs. It sounds like chicken or the egg dilemma but I do not by the implied argument that you need tools to be more active. --Jarekt (talk) 13:03, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
  •  Support I know Amir from the Hebrew wikipedia, where he's very active in the purpose of getting more users to use Commons. For example, he has recently renovated the help page about Commons, and the ways of using it - w:he:עזרה:ויקישיתוף. I'm sure he'll make Commons a more welcoming place for the Hebrew community. Dolev (talk) 22:23, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
  •  Oppose - I agree with Justass. I think temp adminship would better suit you at this time. Tiptoety talk 23:27, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
  •  Oppose (for perm admin) Temp adminship works just fine.  Support for temp admin. Pmlineditor discuss 08:04, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Comment More than happy with temp admin rights - it would be great if you could help out in the way you suggest :) After that it may well be appropriate to seek full rights, thanks --Herby talk thyme 08:16, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
  • Per Herby, please consider asking for temp admin, if this does not succeed. ++Lar: t/c 10:34, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Support --The Evil IP address (talk) 17:24, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Oppose --Polarlys (talk) 00:11, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Oppose around 600 edits too less. --High Contrast (talk) 09:55, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Support giving temporary adminship as proposed by Amire80 above. NW (Talk) 00:08, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Support דוד שי (talk) 10:58, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Support Trusted user on He-Wiki, we need more Hebrew speaking admins in the commons. MathKnight 13:36, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Support - trusted user, knows many languages, friendly. Deror avi (talk) 14:53, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Support ישראל קרול (talk) 17:25, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Support I kmow him from the He wiki. גוונא (talk) 18:50, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Support temp adminship per proposal given.  fetchcomms☛ 21:08, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Support - A world leader in making wiki's more accessible to more language-speakers. Leads several initiatives for cross-language cooperation. Trusted and consulted-with, on several language-wikis (not only those mentioned above). Proved good judgment with regulations and procedures on wiki sites. TaBaZzz (talk) 23:24, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Support Why not? -FASTILYsock(TALK) 06:06, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Per Jarekt. SV1XV (talk) 07:30, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Comments

  •  Comment: I think the real problem here is that localization can't really be done without administrator rights, something that I also encountered when I as a everyman user. It might be an idea to create something like rollback for editing protected pages. However, as long as such a right doesn't exist yet, I'm fine with giving this user the administrator buttons for this purpose. --The Evil IP address (talk) 17:24, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
  •  Comment The Israeli Wiki Community is quite large, and I can't do everything alone. Another permanent admin would be very helpful. --Yuval Y § Chat § 10:08, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
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