Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2006-02/User:Tawker

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Tawker

As per users in #wiktionary and #wiktionary-en-vandalism 's requests. I run tawkbot2 (the anti-vandalism IRC bot) and I monitor it however, the lack of admin hinders my ability to stop vandals when the bot catches them. Tawker 03:12, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As I see the timezone on all of the admins, I am located in Vancouver, BC, Canada which is PST or GMT-8.

For:
1. I reckon Tawker'd do a good job, yeah, and we can always do with more vandal hunters. --Wytukaze 03:32, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
2. He monitors several vandal channels as well as running ours. Often busy with stopping 'bot attacks on Wikipedia, he is starting to make some entries on wikt: as well as just vandal-hunting. But he needs a delete button for when sysops are not around or awake on IRC. --Connel MacKenzie T C 04:20, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
3. Jonathan Webley 09:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
4. —Stephen 10:48, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
5. He's very new, but I've supported even newer people in the past. Gerard Foley 03:38, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
6. He looks fine to me despite being very new. Editing Wiktionary is easier than Wikipedia, so his candidacy should not be a big deal.--Jusjih 04:17, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
7. Give 'em hell with that bot. — Vildricianus 10:35, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
8. \Mike 15:25, 19 February 2006 (UTC) I have faith in Tawkerminator ;)[reply]
9. Dvortygirl 20:06, 19 February 2006 (UTC) Arrived recently, but unpacked a bot from Wikipedia experience and went straight to work swatting vandals and removing worthless edits. Many of my deletions since then were things the bot flagged.[reply]
10. Jon Harald Søby 11:40, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
11. GerardM 07:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
12. --Dijan 07:28, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
13. SemperBlotto 08:22, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
14. Psy guy 03:02, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Against:
1. Has had a user account for a week. Should not be made an administrator at the current stage. Ncik 19:42, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't blame you, I am essentially an infant in acount wiki time and you do have some valid concerns. I was going to wait a while before filing this RfA but I was getting tired of hearing "we need to give him a proper rollback botton" followed by multiple bot attacks on Wikipedia and I've heard Wikinews was hit and I was a bit worried Wiktionary would be next. 50 million warning messages on a monitor bot doesn't do Wiktionary any good, the only way to stop is a block and revert after the block. Thanks for voting though, democracy is a great thing! Tawker 05:40, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Decision: No apparent problems; decision deferred until he has been here at least 30 days. Eclecticology 00:52, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was temp sysop'd today Anthere (steward) mostly due to the fact that we had a repeat repeat vandal and nobody else was around to do it. Noting the fact that Stewards shouldn't override bcrats on projects that have bcrats I requested the steward provided promotion be removed pending Eclecticology to do it himself. -- Tawker 01:09, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]