User:Jeff G./Admin coaching
Phase I: Getting to know you[edit]
Editor statistics[edit]
- Links for Jeff G.: Jeff G. (talk · contribs · deleted · count · AfD · logs · block log · lu · rfar · spi)
- Soxred's analysis of Jeff G.'s edits
- Edit summary usage for Jeff G. can be found here.
Why do you want to be an admin?[edit]
Q: So why do you want to be an admin?
A: There are multiple areas in which I feel I could be helpful, including backlogs at AIV and CSD, sometimes there are not enough admins online, and Jimbo himself wrote that adminship was not a big deal. I have past experience as being one of the admins of a network of 300+ servers that served 10,000+ users, but my first attempt at being a Commons admin failed. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 16:50, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
What do you expect from the admin coaching process?[edit]
Q: How can I help you prepare for an RFA?
A: I want to make sure that I am grounded enough in policies and procedures to be an admin here, have learned sufficiently from my mistakes, and would be well received at RfA. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 16:50, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Standard (mandatory) RFA questions[edit]
Answer these questions:
1. What administrative work do you intend to take part in?
- A: There are multiple areas in which I feel I could be helpful, including backlogs at AIV and CSD. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
2. What are your best contributions to Wikipedia, and why?
- A: Writing (and improving) Daniel Terdiman and helping interventions against many vandals. I think both improved the project. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:50, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
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: I misinvoked WP:EVULA (felt that I was right) in continuing to revert what I felt was vandalism, and got blocked for it without notice. I was overzealous in crusading for edit summaries and in keeping discussions where they started. I have learned from my mistakes. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:50, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
Phase II: Wikipedia experience[edit]
Some questions about things that you have done
Editing Experience[edit]
Have you ever:
- Written a DYK?
- Yes, see this notice. — Jeff G. ツ 22:13, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
- Written a good article?
- Created any featured content?
- uploaded an image?
- used automated tools/.js tools such as Twinkle, AWB, or Huggle?
- joined a Wikipedia project?
- warned an editor for violating a Wikipedia policy or guideline?
Project experience[edit]
Have you ever:
- contributed to an XFD? been involved in an extended discussion on one?
- !voted in an RFA? been involved in an extended discussion on an RFA?
- contributed to WT:RFA?
- requested and received/been denied for Rollback?
Dispute resolution[edit]
Have you ever:
- responded to an WP:3O or a content WP:RFC? been involved in an extended discussion on one?
- opened an WP:RFC for user conduct?
- Yes, I started a discussion there, but had to back off. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 15:11, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
- requested a page to be protected at WP:RfPP?
- been named as a party to a request for mediation?
- Yes, Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-04-29/Serboi (since deleted). — Jeff G. ツ 21:05, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
- participated in a WP:MEDCOM or WP:MEDCAB mediation?
- mediated or otherwise acted as a neutral party in a dispute?
- participated in an extended discussion on WP:AN or WP:ANI?
Conflict and misconduct[edit]
Have you ever:
- been blocked?
- been named as a party to a request for arbitration?
- been the subject of an WP:RFC for user conduct?
Other questions[edit]
Have you ever:
- taken a look at meta philosophies? I'm interested in knowing what philosophies you believe you adhere to.
- helped out on the Account Creation Toolserver Interface?
- answered a question at the help desk?
Phase III: Administrator's reading list[edit]
Review the pages in the Administrator's reading list. Put a 
Done next to each document that you have read. Put any questions you have on User talk:Jeff G./Admin coaching.
Admins are expected to have an intimate understanding of Wikipedia policy. They are also expected to consistently demonstrate comprehension of these policies. This is especially paramount regarding the use of abilities entrusted to admins which are unavailable to regular users and editors of Wikipedia.
The following items are considered highly recommended reading material. These pages detail prerequisite knowledge required by an admin:
Should already know[edit]
Done: Five pillars of Wikipedia- Done: Community foundation issues: Core principles guiding all Wikimedia projects.
General[edit]
- Done: Administrators
- Done: Admins' how-to guide
- Done: Admins' noticeboard for general discussion of admin issues
- Done: New admin school
Security[edit]
- Done: Security
Content policies[edit]
- Done: Biographies of living persons
- Done: Neutral point of view
- Done: No original research
- Done: Verifiability
Copyright[edit]
- Done: Copyrights
Blocking[edit]
- Done: Bans and blocks
- Done: Banning policy
- Done: Blocking IP addresses
- Done: Blocking policy
Page protection[edit]
- Done: Protection policy
Deletion[edit]
- Done: Criteria for speedy deletion
- Done: Deletion guidelines for administrators
- Done: Deletion policy
- Done: Deletion process
- Done: Undeletion policy
Requests[edit]
- Done: Backlogged processes requiring attention
- Done: Changes related to Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention
- Done:Enforcement of arbitration rulings
Vandalism[edit]
- Done: Dealing with vandalism
- Done: Vandalbot
Controversy[edit]
- Done: List of controversial issues
- Done: NPOV dispute
- Done: Wheel war
Miscellaneous[edit]
- Done: Advice for new Administrators
- Done: Editing the main page
- Done: Goals of the Adminship process
- Done: How to fix cut and paste moves
- Done: Image use policy
- Done: MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
- Done: Office Actions
- Done: Open Proxies
- Done: What Adminship is not
New for 2010[edit]
I am currently: a member of groups Autoconfirmed users, Autopatrolled, Reviewers, Rollbackers, and Users here on English Wikipedia; a Bureaucrat and Administrator on WiccaPedia, on The Test Wiki, and on the Admin Tools Wiki; and an Administrator on Test Wikipedia, on the English Wikimedia Labs Wiki, on the Wikimedia Labs Flagged Revisions Test Wiki, and on the Wikimedia Labs LiquidThreads Test Wiki. — Jeff G. ツ 21:11, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
I have also read everything on Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list and Template:New admin school. — Jeff G. ツ 23:36, 24 November 2010 (UTC)